Nirmala Sitharaman addressed the IAF commanders in New Delhi on Thursday
By Ajai Shukla
Business Standard, 12th April 19
Without directly acknowledging that cancelling the tender for building 126 fighters in India, and instead buying 36 fully-built Rafale fighters, was a missed opportunity, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged the Indian Air Force (IAF) to lead the way in indigenous manufacture.
Addressing a meeting of top IAF commanders in Delhi on Thursday, Sitharaman said the IAF would “play a vital role in enhancing the defence manufacturing capabilities of the nation through its acquisitions in the form of strategic partnership (SP) model.”
The SP model of procurement, which was promulgated in outline in May 2017, envisages Indian companies manufacturing four categories of weaponry – fighters, helicopters, submarines and armoured vehicles – from design blueprints provided by selected foreign vendors.
However, there is little movement on the IAF’s only SP model procurement: to buy-and-build 114 multi-role fighter aircraft in India. Last April, the IAF issued a request for information (RFI), and seven fighter manufacturers expressed interest. A year later, with the ministry of defence (MoD) still fine-tuning the SP model, vendors are still awaiting an IAF tender.
For shortlisting and selecting SPs, the MoD must promulgate “implementation guidelines” for each of the four equipment categories. But while the broad policy framework has been formalised and retrospectively incorporated into the Defence Procurement Procedure of 2016, implementation guidelines have been drawn up only for naval helicopters.
Without implementation guidelines for choosing an SP for building aircraft, the MoD cannot issue a formal tender – also termed request for proposals (RFP) – for the 114-fighter procurement.
Meanwhile, seven international fighter manufacturers have responded to the RFI. Twosingle-engine fighters have been offered: Lockheed Martin’s F-16 Block 70 (which it has renamed F-21) and Saab’s Gripen E.
In addition, five vendors have offered twin-engine fighters: Dassault’s Rafale; Eurofighter’s Typhoon; Boeing’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and two Russian fighters: Sukhoi-35 and MiG-35.
Like the 126-fighter tender issued in 2007 and eventually abandoned in 2015, this 114-fighter procurement expects to galvanize the domestic aerospace industry.
Proceeding in parallel, with the same aim, is the so-called “Avro replacement project”. This envisages a private sector Indian manufacturer – Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) has been chosen – partnering Airbus to build the C295 medium transport aircraft in India to replace the obsolescent HS-748 Avro.
The tender permits Airbus deliver up to 16 aircraft in flyaway condition, and build at least 40 in India. The MoD and Airbus are currently negotiating prices.
At the Aero India 2019 expo in February, both Sitharaman and the air chief, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa, mentioned the C295 as a “transformative” project.
While both the 114-fighter and C295 projects involve manufacturing in India to foreign blueprints, Sitharaman also “asked the IAF to look at the future with the latest technologies available across the world and those that can be developed within India, in order to meet its needs”, according to the MoD.
This would require shifting emphasis from licensed manufacture to indigenous aircraft development, such as the Defence R&D Organisation’s Tejas fighter and the futuristic advanced medium combat aircraft (AMCA).
Technology development and absorption are also achievable through co-design and development such as the Indo-Russian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft project and the Future Generation Tempest project in the UK. However, the MoD has backed away from the former and not yet responded to the latter.
According to the MoD, Sitharaman also “praised the IAF for its flawless execution of the Balakot strikes and subsequent thwarting of the Pakistani response.”
Rafale is NEEDED post balakot. WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY To shoot the F16.
ReplyDeleteRussian planes via china will land up in Pakistan. Chinese stealth technology will reach Pakistan anyhow.
Indigenous tech will take time going online via tejas mark II.
GRIPEN has good viability unless USA PROVIDES US F35
Indigenous manufacture from design blue-prints implies a spectrum of possibilities from an assembly guide to a do-it-yourself including the metallurgy and propulsion.
ReplyDeleteThe IAF may not have an overarching role, other than coming up with capability targets and expectations over a 10/20 year period.
The MMRCA project must not be confused with the larger make in India perspective. The latter is a luxury when we are at full strength, and have long term budget and clarity.
MMRCA is more of a 'should've had it yesterday' project, already running a decade behind schedule.
But it could be a good lead-in to a future 5th gen. project which ideally should be the Make In India priority (it's still a decade away, and permits time for domestic tech/R&D capability/capacity enhancement. The MMRCA could provide vital insights for the same.
However, if India can offer 'tech/capital/market access' in return, or be okay with enhanced costs (which an indigenous manufacture will entail), a viable alternative that fits between both narratives could be on the lines of the Mitsubishi F2 development by Japan. (can be accessed on Wikipedia, et. al.). Major points include:
1. Local manufacture and tech transfer
2. Capability enhancement of local firms (integrators and sub-contractors) beyond Mitsubishi - critical for future projects.
3. Inclusion of India-specific requirements- F2 came with an AESA radar comparable to the F22, in some terms. It also had better thrust/weight ratio, thanks to indigenously developed composites.
4. Referring to the last part above, India should also be willing to share the fruits of its domestic labour with foreign partners - reverse tech transfer, incentivising intl partnerships with aerospace companies.
5. A great lesson from the Japanese experience relate to the costs involved in such 'indigenisation' projects. Mass production reduces this cost. BUT, export-orientation can bite into the big players' share, and will be unwieldy to handle - compromising India's core needs in favour of reducing costs. The production line should sustain with or without any export orders. For which, it needs to address India's needs for the foreseeable future.
Tejas may be fairly advanced in the evolution process to get foreign designers interested, but some offsets catering to its teething issues can also be addressed through a govt-govt MoU of the US-Japan kind.
Finally, there are 10s to 100s of firms who will need to develop capacities going forward, each contributing to a small, but critical aspect. Let the narrative build accordingly, identifying firms and the capacities in which they will coalesce. This will also provide a furture roadmap for our talent pool, which will have to be nurtured carefully.
It's so much bigger than the IAF or the 114 aircraft, really. Models are available.
We don't need to re-invent the wheel but choose the best option and start rolling with it.
"Without directly acknowledging that cancelling the tender for building 126 fighters in India, and instead buying 36 fully-built Rafale fighters, was a missed opportunity" do not understand how a senior analyst like you would think assembling few jets will gain us any knowledge... building something without an instruction manual will need more skill and that is what we need to develop.. anyone can assemble a jet given the manuals..
ReplyDeleteDefence procurements in India are so mired in corruption and charges of corruption that they never see light of day easily. Regardless of whichever government is in power, the all pervading stench of corruption is difficult to hide. We will still be discussing IAF procurement of fighters 10-20-30 years from now, assuming off course that all of us stay alive after the Chinese Invasion which will surely happen by 2035 at the latest.
ReplyDeleteIt is very difficult to build high end fighter aircraft and lot easier to build civilian aircraft and what is the progress. Where was China and Brazil 25 years ago and where are they now. The government has to develop infrastructure to develop civilian aircraft and its necessary infrastructure if India as a nation wants to succeed as aircraft manufacturer. What is the progress on Tejas engine in last few years and did they Evan think of developing the flying bed. I feel the need of the hour is develop engine manufacturing , and make reliable engines for civilian use so that a 40-50 seater plane can be developed , try it with HTFE 25 engine so that progress can be started. Give single crystal blade and develop 40 KN dry thrust , and it is necessary to develop the protective coating technology for the blades so that they last longer. Develop a 80 - 100 seater plane with dual kaveri engine and then try to develop larger engines for medium haul routes so that massive number of aircrafts be built.
ReplyDeleteThen as a byproduct start developing military technology. Start with high end engines and , develop the Tejas MK 1A quickly , at least two prototypes be developed on a new assembly line and India really needs it as AESA radar is needed and range of A2A missiles be increased. Imagine the scenario if SU 30 would not have been able to dodge the AIM 120 C missiles then 4-5 SU 30 would have been shot down. The Astra MK 2 has to quickly be inducted integrate meteor with upgraded mirages. The ground to air defense has to be be developed like an inter lapping grid. QRSAM needs to be inducted in numbers. The engine HTFE fall out with 40 KN dry thrust would be made to fit jaguar and at least four squadrons be built. The AL 31 engine has to be made more reliable and RD 93 engines be replaced with kaveri engines. Try to develop Ganga and it should develop 130-140 KN of thrust. I feel HAL cannot do this and private players must do this work and HAL must do the final integration. How quickly F 16 got engines upgrades. All the effort must be coordinated but unless you develop commercially viable civil aviation production infrastructure military aircraft is extremely difficult job and that pain you are feeling in building Tejas in sufficient numbers.
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EVERY BODY ON BOARD AND EDITOR PLEASE NOTE AND DON'T THINK IT AS A GOSSIP AT ALL. 3+5=8 HIGH END SINGLE CRYSTAL BLADES MUCH MUCH BETTER THAN PRATT AND WHITNEY F-35 ENGINE SAY 5-10 TIMES BETTER THRUST GIVEN TO INDIAN GTRE FOR KAVERI ENGINE ALONG WITH 2+1 VERY HIGH END COATING =3 HIGH END COATINGS GIVEN AND PUMP MATERIAL AND MINOR DESIGN CHANGE AND SPOOL CHANGE TOLD FOR MUCH BETTER RESULTS AND ONE SABOTAGE BY ERSTWHILE TEAM TOLD HOW TO RECTIFY FOR SIMPLE SUPPRESSED 95KN BUT WITH NEW BLADES AND PUMP AND SPOOL MODIFICATION ENORMOUS THRUST AS TOLD ABOVE SAY IT CAN GO AS HIGH AS 1330KN MEANS ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY KILO NEWTON. GAGAN SHAKTI EXERCISE SAW LCA FYLING WITH OLD 78.6 KN THRUST GE-F-404 ENGINES MATCHING SUKHOI BIT BY BIT AND WAR READY AS TOLD BY IAF CHIEF HAS MY SINGLE CRYSTAL BLADES GIVING THEM 140KN+ TEMPORARY SPEED WITH NO MEASURING GADGETS INSTALLED AS TUNED TO 85KN AND BLISTERS WERE ON ENGINE SURFACE DUE TO EXCESS THRUST HEAT BUT NOT ON COOL BLADES AS TECHNICAL GLITCHES AND MOREOVER SOFTWARE NEED TO BE TWEAKED TO NEW SPEED SO ALSO FYL BY WIRE. SO TEJAS BEING HIGHLY ACCEPTED NOW AND SPECIAL 10X BETTER THAN QUANTUM AESA RADAR TO FIT INTO MIG-21 BIS AND TEJAS MK-1 LIKE SMALL NOSE CONE ALONG WITH EW SUITE LIKE RF DEVICE FOR JAMMING ALL INCOMING MISSILES SAY 200 OR MORE AND 2X PAINT COATINGS AND FIBER GIVEN RCS REDUCTION AND MISSILE CARRYING ABILITY WITH 11 HARD POINTS AND COMBAT RANGE IMPROVED TO RAFALE LIKE AND SO ALSO TONNAGE WEIGHT CARRYING WHILE FLYING. MIG-23 IN STOCKS MADE INVISIBLE PLANE AND BEST IN IAF INVENTORY BETTER THAN RAFALE AS 4-D BVR OTAS TOO GIVEN WITH BVR COCKPIT AND CONFORMAL FUEL TANK GIVEN AND SOME OTHER. SIMILARLY SUKHOI-30MKI ENGINE FLAW ADDRESSED AND SO ALSO EJECTION SEAT PROBLEM SOLVED AND TEJAS TOO WILL GET IT AND SO ALSO TEJAS GUN PROBLEM SOLVED. SO FOC FULLY MET WITH HIGH STANDARDS ABOVE AND ALL WHAT WAS THOUGHT. LCA MARK-1A ANGLE OF ATTACK TOUCHED F-22 RAPTOR. I ASKED 30% TAX FREE ROYALTY FROM GOI AND WRITTEN TO PMO IN THIS REGARD.
ReplyDeleteSIMILARLY 4+1=5 HIGH END CRUISE MISSILES GIVEN LIGHT SPEED AND COSMIC RAY SPEED TO REACH 155000 KM IN FEW 10 SECONDS TO LESS THAN A MINUTE AND ELECTROMAGNETIC GUN GIVEN AND HELIUM ANTI MISSILE GUN GIVEN (PM MODI SOLD OFF TO RUSSIA ALONG WITH ONE HELIUM MISSILE WHICH PUTIN BOASTS OF FASTER THAN METEOR MISSILE AND WILL SURPASS CONTINENTS IN SECONDS AND THEY RUSSIA SOLD ONE MATERIAL TO CHINA FOR WU-14 FROM HELIUM GUN STABLE). 12TH GENERATION PLANE DESIGN GIVEN AND THEY USED SOME THING IN LCA MARK-2 AND I LATER IMPROVED UPON IT.) ALL OLD PLANES INCLUDING JAGUAR MADE HIGHLY WORTHY WITH NEW ENGINE SCHEMING INCLUDING MIG-21 BIS. ALL BIOFUELS GIVEN SAY 10-11 TYPES AND THEY STOLE AND 1-EACH PATENTED BY CSIR AND BHU. I COMPLAINT AND SEEK ROYALTY REST NITIN GADKARI DAUGHTER-GEVA COMPANY WANT TO STEEL AND WANT TO CERTIFY WITH THE HELP OF MEDA. Li-ION BATTERIES GIVEN, SO ALSO 3 OTHER TYPES INCLUDING SUBMARINE USAGE BETTER THAN JAPAN AND OTHER AND AIR INDEPENDENT PROPULSION WITH DRDO TECHNIQUE COMBINE WILL BE 3X BETTER THAN GERMAN OR SWEDISH AIP. ALL KINDS OF SUBMARINE STEEL AND AIRCRAFT CARRIER 1 LAC TON STEEL GIVEN AND MUCH BETTER THAN USA AND JAPAN LIKE HY-130 THEY REACHED AND COMBAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT GIVEN FOR BOTH AND RADARS-MAGNETIC ANOMALY DETECTOR-UNDER WATER MISSILE INSTEAD OF TORPEDO AND 1000 METRES DEPTH NUCLEAR SUBMARINE SSN/SSBN/SSGN ON LEU FUEL BETTER THAN/EQUAL To FRENCH GIVEN AND NUCLEAR REACTOR DESIGN IMPROVED TO SUIT THORIUM CYCLE FOR 32 YEARS CLOSED CYCLE. ALSO GIVEN WERE HELICOPTERS IN BVR ENVIRONMENT WITH ENGINE AND BLADES AND MATERIAL MUCH BETTER THAN USA HAS FOR OWN. ALL OLD HELICOPTERS FOR NAVY TOLD HOW TO IMPROVE INCLUDING CIVILIAN OLD BELL HELICOPTERS AND SEA KING AND KAMOV TO BETTER THAN ROMEO S-70 BEING ORDERED TO USA. SFDR MISSILE IS MY TECHNOLOGY OF TWO CRUISE MISSILES FUSED TOGETHER AND NOTHING ELSE RUSSIAN WAS PRIMITIVE CONCEPT ONLY. NAG MISSILE SEEKER GIVEN SO FOR HELINA AND AAKASH NG. AASWIN MISSILE NEW SEEKER TO TAKE ON IRBM AND MRBM WITH KINETIC KILL FACILITY. SIMILARLY THE A-SAT MISSILE HAS MY SEEKER MATERIAL.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE GIVEN R-MGLEV 3000KMS BULLET TRAIN ON ORDINARY TRACKS AND ANOTHER 350KM WHEELED BULLET TRAIN AND BOGIES AND ALL DESIGNING AND MATERIAL ETC. AND FLYING SAUCER TOO. I HAVE GIVEN HIGH END FUELS FOR ISRO UNDER MAKING. I HAD GIVEN WHEELS FOR CHANDRAYAAN ROVER AND IGLOO ON MOON AND TOLD THE SITES WHERE TO LAND AND WHY ON MOON AND MARS TOO SAY ON MARS IN 24 HOURS ONLY. ISRO SPACE SUIT IS MY MATERIAL. I HAD GIVEN NEW HIGH END RIFLES AND BULLET PROOF JACKETS AND NEW HIGH END AMMUNITION FOR GUNS AND TANKS MADE SAFER FROM NUCLEAR SHELLING MANY TIMES AND 2-NEW LIGHT WEIGHT HIGH END TANKS GIVEN AND HOVERCRAFTS GIVEN. I COMPLETED THE THORIUM CYLCE WITH 2+0.75 MEANS 2 TYPES FULL AND ONE 75% GIVEN. ALL BASES ALL AROUND CHINA AND PAKISTAN AND OTHER COUNTRIES GIVEN AND FOREIGN POLICY GIVEN BUT GOI COPIED AND PART GIVEN ON YOU TUBE AS MODI'S STRING OF FLOWERS AND GAS HYDRATES TECHNOLOGY GIVEN.
ReplyDeleteI AM THE ONLY PERSON HAVE AND HOLD TECHNOLOGY TO CATCH AND DEFUSE ATOMIC WEAPONS ANY TYPE AND REPULSE THE BLAST OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF ALL KINDS SAY FISSION-ATOMIC/BOOSTED FISSION AND COBALT AND HYDROGEN BOMB AND NEUTRON BOMB AND THORIUM BOMB GIVEN AND SO ALSO METEOR AND TECHNOLOGY TO PASS THROUGH BLACK HOLE AND FUSION REACTOR 13X SUN, COLD FUSION TECHNOLOGY, HIGH END BATTERIES, 12-15 TON HIGH END FLYING TANKS, HIGH END R-MGLEV 8000KM/HOUR, OVER THE HORIZON RADARS FOR ALL GLOBE COVERAGE, 14GTON HYDROGEN AND 17GTON THORIUM BOMBS, MANY TIMES FASTER THAN LIGHT WEAPONS SAY ENDLESS TECHNOLOGIES, BLACK HOLE PASSAGE TECHNOLOGY AND SUN PASSAGE TECHNOLOYG WITH 20000 DEGRESS CENTIGRADE SHEILD FOR ALL KIND OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. SO GOI KUCHCH BANNE DE TO BANE. MERI TECHNOLOGY BAHAR BECHNE KI NEEYAT RAHI INKI. FRANCE SE BHI SAUDEBAZI CHAL RAHI THI. DHOKA DENE WALI BAAT HUI YEH TO. I HAD WRITTEN TO PM MODI ABOUT IT WITH DIRECT QUESTIONING ON HIS TRAITOR ACT. SO INDIA KISI SE PEECHHE NAHI HAI IN ACTUAL SENSE SAY 10 TIMES AHEAD OF USA. EURO FIGHTER 3-SQUADRON AND 3-SQUADRON SU-57 WITH IDZELIYE 117 ENGINE KO KHARIDNE KO BOLA HAI MAINE WITH ENGINE OVERHAUL AND TOT AND CAPTOR AESA KI EK TECHNOLOGY LENE KE LIYE I SPECIFIED FROM WHERE. DRONES TOO GIVEN AND NAVIGATION TECHNIQUE TOLD LIKE GPS SAY BETTER THAN GPS TOLD GOI DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING. SIMILARLY 85 TON CLASS GSLV MATERIAL AND FUEL GIVEN. AND 11000 TON SOLID BOOSTERS FOR MOON FAIRING TOO GIVEN. NO ONE HAS SUCH TECHNOLOGY IN THE WORLD.
ReplyDeleteALSO THE MISSILE TRACKING SHIP TOO HAS BEEN BUILT ON MY MATERIAL AND ALSO GIVEN HIGH END LIGHT WEIGHT OFFSHORE PATROL VEHILCES AND MINE SWEEPERS CUM MINE HUNTERS. SIMILARLY THE HIGH END E-MALS SYSTEM ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER SHIP HAS BEEN GIVEN MUCH BETTER THAN GENERAL ATOMICS USA. I ASKED TO BUY SWEDISH SUBMARINE A-26 KOCKUMS WITH 90% TOT INCLUDING COMBAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND TOWED AWAY SONAR AND HEAVY WEIGHT TORPEDO AS IT IS 90% GERMAN TYPE-212 SUBMARINE. THOUGH GERMAN TYPE 214 SUBMARINE IS MARGINALLY BETTER SAY 2% AROUND BUT SPECIAL TOT PACKAGE WILL NOT BE THERE WHICH IS HIGHLY REQUIRED. INCLUDING TORPEDO AND ESPECIALLY THE TOWED AWAY SONAR SPECIAL REQUIREMENT. AND I ASKED FOR AROUND 48 SUCH VESSELS AT VERY LOW COST OF AROUND 90000 CRORES APPROXIMATE. AND THAT TOO 3000 TON SUBMARINE AS ASKED BY NETHERLAND FROM SAAB. EARILER THEY MERGED WITH GERMANS AND LATER SEPARATE AS SAAB ENTITY SO TECHNOLOGY RETAINED. SORYU IS DISTANT THIRD WITH NO CRITICAL TECHNOLOGY ON THE ANVIL. I WANT THIS ORDER TO BE GIVEN TO MAZAGAON DOCKS AND LARSEN AND TOUBRO ON 90:10 BASIS AND DRDO BE GIVEN FULL TOT. NO TO ANIL AMBANI OR OTHER PRIVATE ENTITY AT ALL. SEE WHAT GOI DO. THEY BOUGHT USELESS S-400 MISSILE AT EXHORBITANT PRICE AND USELESS AKULA CLASS SUBMARINE FOR 3 BILLION USD=21000 CRORE IN MY VIEW AS OWN NUCLEAR SUBMARINE AS DESIGNING I HAD GIVEN TO BE BETTER THAN VIRGINIA AND SEA WOLF CLASS AND ALSO BETTER THAN YASSEN AND HUSKY CLASS GIVEN ON LEU FUEL AND OTHER TECHNOLOGY MINOR SPIN OFFS FROM A-26 KOCKUMS SAY =500 CRORE FOR 1 SUBMARINE AND THEY STILL PLACING ORDERS ON OLD TECHNOLOGY AND EVEN ORDINARY DIESEL AIP SUBMARINES WITH BATTERIES MADE EQUALLING TO NUCLEAR SUBMARINE LIKE IN MULTIPLES GIVEN. WHY SUCH HUGE WASTAGE OF MONEY IS BEING DONE IS NOT KNOWN. BRAHMOS SEEKER IN ANTI-SHIP ROLE TOO I HAD GIVEN AND TOLD HOW TO MAKE THEM HYPERSONIC AS THEY CALLED TO MACH 5-7 INSTANTLY AT LOW COST WITHOUT RUSSIAN HELP. AGNI SERIES MISSILES HIGHLY IMPROVED TOLD SAY AGNI-5 TO 11000 KMS AND AGNI-6 MISSILE TO 15500KMS RANGE TOLD WITH NEW RING GYRO TECHNOLOGY.
ReplyDeleteALSO I HAD GIVEN COMPUTER CHIPS LIKE INTEL MANUFACTURE FOR SUPER COMPUTER AND PCs AND MOBILE AND MUCH BETTER THAN INTEL. I HAD GIVEN A SUPER COMPUTER EQUALLING USA SUMMIT SUPER COMPUTER MY BEING FASTEST IN THE WORLD WITH HIGH END SOFTWARE FOR EXA FLOPS OPERATIONS.
ReplyDeleteMANIK ENGINE USED MY MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY AND FUEL ADDITIVE AND INDIA SPECIFIC ENHANCEMENT IS ABSURD FOR FRENCH RAFAELE AS MANIK ENGINE IS BASED ON OLD FRENCH MIRAGE UPGRADE AND MY TECHNOLOGY AND IS BETTER THAN FRENCH RAFAELE COLD START TECHNOLOGY AND WILL BE USED IN NIRBHAYA MISSILE ALSO.
ReplyDeleteTHREE KINDS OF ENGINE ENHANCEMENTS I HAD GIVEN ALREADY AND FRENCH 6 OUT OF 12 MIRAGE 2000-H-5 UPGRADE USED IN BALAKOT AIR STRIKE WERE EQUIPPED WITH IT. THEY OUTCLASSED THE F-16 D 129KN THRUST WITH AROUND 160KN THRUST.
MICA RF MISSILE MADE EQUAL TO METEOR MISSILE WITH 170KMS BVR RANGE AND HIGH CLASS BETTER THAN METEOR.
SFDR MISSILE USES MY FUEL AND NOZZLESS BOOSTER COPIED AND MADE ON MY DESIGN OF TWO DIFFERENT LIGHT SPEED MISSILES.
SIMILARLY 7800 DEGREES CENTIGRADE SHEILD HAS BEEN GIVEN BY ME AND NATIONAL AERONAUTICS LAB CAN NOW TEST HPERSONIC GLIDE VEHICLES EASILY AND A NEW LAB MATERIAL WITH MUCH BETTER THAN CHINESE AND USA MISSILE TESTING FACILILTY FOR TRISONIC MACH 270 SPEED AROUND GIVEN.
5XBETTER THAN A26VL 1400 TON TO NOW 800 TON LIGHT WEIGHT SUBMARINES TECHNOLOGY GIVEN WITH MATERIAL AND OUTER DESIGN TO GOI FOR COMMANDO OPERATIONS AND ESSENTIAL FOR INDIA'S SECURITY IN VARIOUS DOMAINS.
CSIR COPIED AND ILLEGALLY PATENTED BIO-FUEL IS MINE WHICH WAS USED IN SPICE JET FLIGHT AND AN-32 ON RAJPATH. I OBJECTED TO THAT WITH THE PMO.
ASKED TO PURCHASE AROUND 7 GERMAN AND SWEDISH MINE HUNTERS CUM SWEEPERS BEING USED BUT NEW SAY UPTO 5 YEARS OLD AND 1 FROM ITALY CAN BE THOUGHT OF FOR INDIAN NAVY ON IMMEDIATE BASIS TO BOLSTER UP THE VACANT PART OF INDIAN NAVY AGAINST ENEMY MINE-LAYING.
AN ANTI-TANK RIFLE NEUTRALISING TANK COLUMN FROM 2 KMS RANGE GIVEN WITH SPECIALNHIGH END EXPLOSIVE. THEY CAN NEUTRALISE TERRORIST COLUMN OR ENEMY TROOP COLUMN HIGHLY.
BO5 MISSILE EXCEEDS K-5 MEDIA TOLD SPECIFICATIONS ON MY FUEL OF FASTEST MISSILE WITH LIGHT SPEED FUEL LIKE SFDR.
H-748 AVRO FLEET UPGRADED WITH 4-D BVR OTAS SCREEN AND ENGINE ENHANCER TO BECOME BETTER THAN C-295 SAY DOUBLE ORIGINAL PAYLOAD. IT CAN NOW SERVE AS SHIP BORNE E-2 SENTRY LIKE AWACS WITH NEW RADARS, A TU-142 LIKE BOMBER AND U-2 SHINMAYWA LIKE SEA PLANE. DESPITE MANOHAR PARRIKAR OBJECTION AND MY GIVING TECHNOLOGY THE AIR FORCE FAVOURED TATAS-AIRBUS TO PURCHASE C-295 AIRCRAFT WASTING FUNDS ON NOT REQUIRED THINGS. SIMILARLY THE AN-32 AND IL-76 MADE BETTER THAN C-17 GLOBSTER AIRCRAFT WITH EXTRA HEAVY LOAD AND SHORT RUNWAY TAKE OFF EVEN FROM CHUSHUL AND SIKKIM RUNWAYS. CAN LAND ON ANY STRIP AND TAKE OFF.
DONEIR PLANE TOLD TO CONVERTED INTO U-2 SHINMAYWA LIKE SEA PLANE WITH MY ENGINE ENHANCER TECHNOLOGY AND BLADE TECHNOLOGY TOLD EQUALLING 9X OF 5-BLADE GERMAN SYSTEM.
360 DEGREES HIGH QUALTIY AWACS TECHNOLOGY GIVEN EVEN ON AVRO HS-748 WITHOUT CHANGE OF ENGINES.
SIMILARLY IL-78 SABOTAGE TALKED OF SAY AIRFORCE BLUFF TOLD AND ASKED TO GET IT FLY TAKE OFF AND LANDING WITH ROOKIE PILOTS ON A SHORT RUNWAYS 7000 FEET. THEY SABOTAGE THE FUELSAGE PLACE WITH STOPPING OIL FLOW IN TO THE PUMP. IT BECOMES NARROW SO JUST GET IT WIDER. NO PROBLEM. A-330 TANKER IDEA WAS FLOATED A WASTE OF MONEY.
SPECIAL AIR TO AIR REFUELLING POD GIVEN TO EXCEED COBHAM POD FOR 100% FUELLING IN AIR. SPECIAL DESIGN AND DESIGNING TOOLS TOLD.
EXHAUST OF INDIAN PLANES HIDED TO GIVE THEM STEALTH WITH TOXY GLOW TECHNOLOGY.
PUGACHEV'S COBRA MANOUVRE HIGHLY EXCEEDED WITH LCA DOING IT. SIMILARLY MIG-21 BIS AND BISON ANGLE OF ATTACK CHANGED TO HIGH END AND SO ALSO THE MIRAGE 2000-H-5+MY TECH. TECHNICAL INFORMATION CAN'T BE GIVEN.
LCA NEW 20% LOWER WINGS TOO HAVE MY TECHNOLGY.
CSIR LAB 40 KMS DAY NIGHT CAMERA FOR BORDERS IS BASED ON MY MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY.
ReplyDeleteTHE NEW URANIUM REFINING CENTRIFUGE BETTER THAN ALL WORLD FOR CHAKLAGERE AND RATANHALLI PLANTS GIVEN FOR HIGH END URANIUM REFINING. NOT MUCH MORE INFORMATION CAN BE GIVEN EXCEPT INDIA WILL SURPASS EVERYBODY INCLUDING USA AND RUSSIA AND EU.
THORIUM BOMB TECHNOLOGY TOO GIVEN.
MUCH HIGHER THAN HYDROGEN AND NEUTRON BOMB TECHNOLGY VIA CONVENTIONAL EXPLOSIVE GIVEN.
HIGH END MOTOR BOATS FOR RAKSHAS TAAL GIVEN AND SPECIAL LIGHT WEIGHT NBC AND WATER PROOF HYBRID TANK GIVEN FOR MANSAROVAL JHEEL.
SHOULDER FIRED MISSILE TOLD TO BUY PIROUN FROM POLAND BASED ON FM RADAR AND TECHNOLOGY ASSIMILATED TO SUIT A CERTAIN OTHER ESSENTIAL FIELD BUT VESTED INTERESTS PLAYED SPOIL SPORT AND GONE FOR IGLA-S.
SDR RADIO GIVEN FOR TWO WAY DATALINK ON FIGHTER AIRCRAFT AND SUBMARINE BETTER THAN ISRAELI ONES AND ONLY COMPUTER CODING IS LEFT TO BE JAM FREE AS TOLD. THEY MADE ONE BUT SOME THING LEFT AS SAID.
MIG-29 NAVY PROBLEM SORTED.
COMBAT RADIUS OF SUKHOI-30MKI AND OTHERS ENHANCED TO EQUAL OR HIGHER THAN RAFAELE EXCEPT MIG-21 BIS/BISON SAY TRIPLE ONLY BUT LCA ANOTHER SMALL PLANE EQUALLING RAFAELE.
SUKHOI-30MKI RCS REDUCED TO LOWER THAN RAFAELE.
ALL INDIAN AIRFORCE FIGHTERS MADE WORTH OF WAR FIGHTING WITH HIGH QUALITY NOW. WORK NEED TO BE DONE BY DRDO, AIRFORCE AND HAL.
HIGH END DAY AND NIGHT ROAD TECHNIQUE GIVEN IN FROZEN AREAS AND CHUSHUL AIRPORT MADE WORTHY OF FLYING DAY AND NIGHT AND IN SNOW ALL WEATHER. SO ALSO FUKCHE AND OTHER ALGs.
T-72 AND T-90 AND ARJUN TANK ENGINES GIVEN AND NOW FULLY MADE IN INDIA. THE 29% LEFT OVER PORTION IN TOT COUNTERED AND NEW ENGINES MADE 30% MUCH POWERFUL. ORDNANCE FACTORY BOARS SUBMITTED THESE ENGINES TO THE NATION.
TANKS CAN NOW BOAST OF 4-D OTAS SCREEN FOR DAY AND NIGHT SEEING MUCH HIGHER THAN UPGRADED T-72/T-90 OR ARJUN GUN SIGHT SYSTEM. THE LAHAT AND SMALL RUSSIAN MISSILES CAN NOW BE FIRED FROM BOTH T-90 AND ARJUN. DRDO MADE MISSILE IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND SEEKER MATERIAL GIVEN AS THEY HAVE IT. INDIAN TANK CAN NOW FIRES AFPDS SHELLS TO +70 KMS RANGE.
ALL OLD 130MM INDIAN GUNS MADE LIGHTER THAN M-777 HOWITZER WITH 164 MM SHELLS AND CAN FIRE AS HIGH AS 80KMS. SIMILARLY THE LIGHT WEIGHT MATERIAL FOR DHANUSH GUNS REDUCING 3 TON WEIGHT WITH FIRE POWER OF 40KMS GIVEN FOR MOUNTAINS-PLAINS IN SHOOT AND SCOOT MODE.
I DO HAVE 1.7 TON GUNS FOR MOUNTAIN REGION BUT I DECIDE TO HOLD THE ADVANCED HIGH END TECHNOLOGY WITH ME.
HIGH END TECHNIQUE BETTER THAN GERMAN TYPE-212 GIVEN FOR 900 METRES OPERATIONAL DEPTH OF INDIAN CONVENTIONAL SUBMARINES. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION LIKE SO NO ACTUAL DETAILS.
ReplyDeleteI DO HAVE OTHER HIGH END TECHNOLOGY BUT BETTER TO HIDE FURTHER.
DAY AND NIGHT TAKE OFF AND NIGHT VISION FOR GROUND ATTACK PLANES GIVEN LIKE RECONNAINCE POD TO SEE THROUGH IN NIGHT AND SHOOT EQUAL TO OR BETTER THAN MIRAGE 2000H-5 UPGRADED TECHNOLOGY OR RAFAELE.
--- I work in Rotaprint Section Lok Sabha Secretariat---
AS TOLD INDIA HAS GOT A HIGH QUALITY SINGLE CRYSTAL BLADE IN TEJAS MARK-1 WITH GE 404 ENGINE OF 78.6 KN ONLY THAT IS WHY 27 TESTS OF NAVAL TEJAS CARRIED OUT SUCCESSFULLY AND SO PROGRAMME REVIVED QUITELY AS EARLIER INDIAN NAVY CHIEF TOO HAVE REJECTED IT AS HIGHLY UNDERPOWERED FOR AIRCRAFT CARRIER BORNE FIGHTERS AND TENDER FLOATED FOR 57 NAVAL AIRCRAFT FOR USA F-18 SUPER HORNET AND RAFAELE M IN THE FRAY AND TODAY NEWS ABOUT NAVAL EXERCISES TO BE DONE BETWEEN MIG-29K AND RAFAELE-M SOON.
ReplyDeleteI HAVE GIVEN HIGH END IRST BETTER THAN ALL SAY RUSSIA, EU AND USA FOR INDIAN AIRFORCE. SIMILARLY IFF TOLD HOW TO MAKE WITH ONE OF MY MATERIAL ADDITION AND ANOTHER AS TOLD THEY WILL GET. MAREECH SYSTEM FOR INDIAN NAVY IS A DECOY THAT FRENCH RAFAELE INDIA SPECIFIC ENHANCEMENT. SIMILARLY KS-172 NOVATOR AND DERBY ER=METEOR ALMOST AND NOW MICA RF MADE BETTER IN QUALITY AND EQUAL TO METEOR IN RANGE GIVEN EXCEEDS HARM 88 LIKE QUALTIY SAY TO AIM-120C-4 LEVEL. = AIM-120 BLOCK 9 LIKE MISSILE TOO GIVEN AND WILL TAKE SOME TIME AND SFDR ON MY TECHNOLOGY FUEL IS MINE AND SO IS NOZZLESS BOOSTER AND 2-WAY DATALINK ON SDR RADIO AS MATERIAL I HAD GIVEN WITH COMPUTER SOFTWARE REQUIRED TO MAKE IT UNJAMMABLE. AND I HAD GIVEN 2D TECHNOLOGY AND 3D TECHNOLOGY AND UPTO 9D TECHNOLOGY. WE NEED FM SEEKER OF PIROUN SHOULDER FIRED MISSILE TO START WITH ON PASSIVE RADAR SYSTEM AND CHANNEL BASED SDR RADIO TECHNOLOGY.
ReplyDeleteI SANDEEP GUPTA works in Parliament of India, Lok Sabha Secretariat, Rotaprint Section, DELHI AND E-MAIL: Krishnaa2335@gmail.com
SAY MICA RF BECOMES EQUAL TO AIM-120C-BLOCK 8 MISSILE NO BUT SURPASSED AIM-120D BLOCK 1 MISSILE TOO IN QUALITY AND RANGE.
ReplyDeleteMY HELIUM CRUISE MISSILE NEAR LIGHT SPEED MISSILE WAS SOLD BY PM MODI TO RUSSIA AND THEIR AVENGARD SYSTEM ON SARMAT ALL GLOBE MISSILE AS TOLD BY VLADIMIR PUTIN IN HIS ELECTION SPEECH IN 2018 AND SHOWED ON MEDIA WITH FULL OF IMAGES. I COPIED THAT FOR EVIDENCE. ISME PM KA KYA KASOOR SATH MEIN AMBANI ADANI THE AND SABUN LAGANE WALI KGB AGENT BHI THI AS MY INTUITION TELLS ME. SO HELIUM MISSILE AND HELIUM GUN DONO BECH AAYE. KYA YEH DESH BHAKTI HAI. MERI TECHNOLOGY CHORI KARNE KE LIYE 24X SPYING LAGA RAKHI HAI WITH THE HELP OF TRI COMMAND AND ISRO HASAN CENTRE DIRECTLY FROM MY COMPUTER AND ALL DATA FROM MY PEN DRIVES ETC. ETC. ETC. PM MODI NEGOTIATED WITH FRANCE TOO DURING RAFAELE DEAL AND WANT TO HAND OVER MY CRITICAL SC BLADE AND RADAR TECHNOLOGY TO THEM. NITIN GADKARI WITH HIS DAUGHTER+SON IN LAW AS GEVA COMPANY WANT TO STEAL MY BIO-FUEL WITH CERITIFICATION FROM MEDA. ALREADY CSIR AND BHU STOLE ONE EACH AND GOT PATENTED FROM 10-11 BIOFUELS. SO ALSO DRDO MADE SUPER AESA RADAR ON MY MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY ALIAS QUANTUM AESA COMPARABLE TO CHINES LATER I GIVE HIGH END TECHNOLOGY 8X MORE POWERFUL WITH NEAR HIGHEST END IRST AND RF DEVICE FOR TOTAL INVISIBLE AND TO BE USED IN FIGHTER JETS AND SUBMARINES SAY EVERYWHERE IN BVR ENVIRONMENT HELICOPTERS TO SEE THROUGH 4-D OTAS SCREEN. I NOW CLAIMED 30% TAX FREE ROYALTY ON COMPARABLE SELLING PRICE FROM PMO. AND POINTED TO MY TECHNOLOGY BEING MISUSED AS CASH COW BY HIGHEST UPS IN HEIRARCHY AND SOME OTHERS.
PURCHASING 36 RAFAELE ONLY INSTEAD OF 126 WAS MY PROPOSAL AS FRANCE IS P-5 MEMBER AND EU NUCLEAR POWER AND SO ALSO TEJAS MARK-1A TOO WAS MY PROPOSAL AND GOI TOOK THESE AWAY BUT I DO NOT TOLD THE PRICE TO BE BOUGHT AT. THEY DECIDE TO BUY 36 PLANES EQUAL TO OR HIGHER THAN 126 PLANES ORIGINALLY ENVISAGED. ALL THIS DESPITE THEY GOT 2 BEST OF THE BEST SC BLADE TECHNOLOGY IN 2014 ITSELF SO ALSO 2X LIGHT SPEED CRUISE MISSILES TECHNOLOGIES THEN CALLED METEOR SE TEZ MISSILES AS MY WORDS AND THIRD ONE BEING ANTI-MISSILE. LATER I GAVE TWO OTHER CRUISE MISSILES VIA TRI COMMAND SPYING.
MY ADDRESS: 124, CHANDERLOK ENCLAVE, PITAMPURA, DELHI-110034.
Vikram_prasad : F-35 is not better than Rafale, it's actually full of flaws and is nowhere near to reach what Lockheed brags about. You should read DOT&E reports, although since Dr.Gilmore resigned, now they have more wooden tongues. USAF 5 years procurement plan last proposal even rules out any further F-35 orders (!!!), they want to buy F-15X and prefer to invest in R&D for 6th gen aircraft!!!
ReplyDeleteTejas is also part of the Rafale offset since the team Rafale was required at helping finalising Tejas and keeping the Mk2 alive is RIDICULOUS considering the specs I could collect from French speaking sources, Tejas would end with 98kN version of Rafale's M88 (and slightly stretched air intakes), its size/lighter weight would allow as much fuel to be fit into the airframe, the Rafale's radar has been slightly modified to fit in the Tejas nose, an active stealth system taken from SPECTRA being added. These 3 items are ALREADY validated by DRDO. Dassault has already provided improved blueprints to have the bigger fuel tanks fitting, the airframe is even reinforced and the empty weight loses 500kg! They even propose a BRS recovery parachute in order to save the aircraft would there be a critical failure (!)
Tejas so becomes a mini-Rafale with as much thrust and fuel as the on-steroid Emirati Mirage-2000-9 while weighting 1800kg less (and M-2000-9 as 500kg more payload than Indian M-2000-5).
If done this way, Rafale will also receive the 98kN M88/Kaveri K9+
So both will share the same make in India engine+radar which would be a great advantage in maintenance and at the same time allow to field something more potent than Tejas Mk2 without taking many years at making a prototype for a stretched airframe etc...
Now, what will be the decision, err, if you put someone with French highly Cartesian mindset, the decision would already have been taken and for long...
In the Indian culture, sincerely, I'm only able to point what is available, what will be decided and the way it will be must be too transcendental for me!
Look : CH-47 Chinook has been ordered, payload is around the half of Mi-26's 20t (as much as C-130!) for the double of its $20M cost, then M777 light Howitzer at $10M you can carry under a CH-47... Well, for $5M you get a self propelled CAESAR Howitzer which weghts more but can be carried by Mi-26... And CAESAR has a computerised targetting system with metric accuracy at 50km using standard 155mm shells (and powder boost). M777 needs a $68k GPS guided shell for such accuracy and no way you use powder-boost or the gun blows.
Reaction of a French to such purchase : "Putain de merde! Ils sont complètement fous!" (bloody f*ck! They're totally bonkers!). Nobody which has both US and Russian choppers available would go for the US ones!
anshuman said... "5. A great lesson from the Japanese experience relate to the costs involved in such 'indigenisation' projects. Mass production reduces this cost."
ReplyDelete=> At $127M per Mitsubishi F2 "Viper Zero" = slightly stretched F-16, errr, sincerely, they cut a serious number from what was planned. You near get 2 Rafales at such a price!!!!
anshuman said... "Tejas may be fairly advanced in the evolution process to get foreign designers interested, but some offsets catering to its teething issues can also be addressed through a govt-govt MoU of the US-Japan kind."
=> Read what I've wrote in another comment herein! Foreign designers have already worked it out!
Sujeet Deshpande said... "10-20-30 years from now, assuming off course that all of us stay alive after the Chinese Invasion which will surely happen by 2035 at the latest."
ReplyDelete=> If such custom hardpoints are considered to carry 5 Meteors :
http://hsfeatures.com/images/F-4G_PN-20.jpg
And without the optional ejector, to add maybe 1 Meteor/2 MICA-IR or 2 Meteor/1 MICA-IR under the outerwng pylon, a Rafale has potential at carrying 34-36 Meteors and 6-4 MICA-IR...
PLAAF may end with a very bad surprise...
Now consider these triple launchers :
http://tinyurl.com/yyvttytp
https://tinyurl.com/yxa5gyls
Then :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-Cost_Guided_Imaging_Rocket
Laser guided Zuni by MBDA :
https://tinyurl.com/y3xy3kmx
I don't think PLA would like to face Rafales doing CAS with such tools after having demolished the air force...
Speaking about the air force, their bases wouldn't like it :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_(missile)
BTW, I'd advise India to consider doing like Sweden and start using Rafale from roads! Takes off in 400m, lands in 450m, a 600m road portion able to cope with a 25-30t truck is enough!
Airbases would be flooded with ballistic missiles. Rafale only needs 3 techs and 2 carts. You have documentaries on Swede bases available on YT...
If you shoot down sats, good luck to know where aircraft are deployed
Do you know MBDA proposed a conventional version of ASMP to French govt?
https://tinyurl.com/y5w7amne
Well, Brahmos, which has barely the same characteristics wheights 3t vs. 860kg...
The Rafalised-Tejas could carry several ASMP-A, considering size/weight, I doubt BrahMos being Tejas-friendly... Now if India puts nukes or CW in, it's not the Frenchs' problem ;-)
S-400 was a bad idea!
As air defence system, I'd use :
- ONERA Nostradamus as early warning (sees a B-2 from 3,000km)
- Thales GS-1000 mounted into blimps like 'Flying Whales' or Airlander 50 blimps. 1000km anti-stealth with enough accuracy to guide missiles. Well, 400m high towers to compare with the Dimona radar would be interesting too.
- NBS MANTIS as a CIWS
- Leonardo Draco = OTO Melara 76/62 Super-Rapid mounted on IFV =
DART guided anti-air 8km range shell and VULCANO 40km range surface shell
- Rafael Iron Dome
- Either EuroSAM MAMBA (same Aster-30 used by FREMM frigates, etc) OR Rafael David's Sling
Aster-30 has 98.5% hits against missiles like Scud or P-800/BrahMos. David Sling's "Stunner" interceptor is EO/IR+Radar guided and when licence built in the US, is Patriot's PAAC-4 Skyceptor.
The new 160km range (only) $350k missile to fit in (overexpensive) PAC-3 batteres. Rafael is said preparing an AAM version. May become an alternative for (expensve) Meteor.
MAMBA costs half of S-400 battalion with 6 launchers of 8 missiles
- IAI Arrow-3 : said ranging 2,400km, shooting down satellites and costing $2M per missile. RIM-161D block-2 has similar features for $20M/missile
Considering the dire state of IAF, where even Mirage-2000 and MiG-29 are already 30 years old, Where the law says IAF must have no less than 42-45 squadrons, only the 13-14 Su-30MKI squadrons are, for the older built, 15 years old. Jaguars are 40 years old, MiG-21 and MiG-27 should have been retired for long, in other terms, Replacement of Mirage-2000 and MiG-29 should already be on the table even if M-2000 may still be flying in 2030, although France started retiring them for a while.
ReplyDeleteIn other terms, 28-30 squadrons MUST be considered for orders ASAP.
14-15 MMRCA and as much LCA, and this doesn't includes INAF needs (57 MMRCA, as much LCA since MiG-29K is very troublesome).
It's not about 114 or 126 aircraft.
The 36 (+18 in options) Rafales mean 2 (3) squadrons of 18 and better consider 1 additional aircraft per squadron to deal with future attrition, these to be added at the end of the contract.
So, we'd talk about procuring 266-285 Rafale-C/B and 57 Rafale-M. Let's say that 3 squadrons will end being made in France, knowing that a Rafale assembly line can produce up to 18 aircraft a year, then add the 2 years to build an assembly line and 2 more to start deliveries...
It'd need 15 years to build 266 Rafales and 16y to build 285...
QED, with 2 assembly lines added to the 4 years to start deliveries with a rate of 3 per month, deliveries start in 2023 and stop in 2030-2031
IF decision is taken... NOW!
And don't hope for a private company to build 2 assembly lines without enough orders, as much it was ridiculous trying to push Dassault into providing a guarantee on eventual HAL-built Rafales : this would have been suicidal! Private sector has no state as a parachute, losses mean bankruptcy...
AFAIK, Tejas squadrons are supposed to be of 21 aircraft, add one for attrition => 14-15 squadrons = 308-330 units, likely 57 more Tejas-M => Up to 387 units
Here, an assembly line produces 8 units per year. With a 387 figure and 5 assembly lines, it's near 10 years to build these with full production not reached before 2023...
This means a total procurement cost about $40-45 billions, hopefully to be repartitioned over the next 12-13 years
And this is for fighter jets alone, thanks to total lack of decisionship of some former defence ministers : this would have been spread over 25-30 years had they done their job.
Now, c'mon, Gripen-E is still a prototype and offer less than an upgraded Mirage-2000, F-16V doesn't offers a lot more than M-2000, just more payload, all are fully 70's concepts, BTW, Taiwan is having her old F-16A/B upgraded as F-16V. BTW, look for "Gripen Bribes". Brazil's former prez is jailed because of Gripen. Now you get how Brazil chose Rafale and ends with Gripen ;-)
Others have been already tested, Su-30MKI "Super-Flanker" upgrade goes further than Su-35.
This RFI makes no sense, especially considering the HUGE offset for the Rafale contract : the Rafale "team" has already started to build factories, subcontractors are settling.
Oh, BTW, ONERA is finalising the Plasma-Stealth system which will be available with Rafale-F4 upgrade...
AMCA is no more futuristic than FGFA/Su-57, it's 5 gen fighter that, if pursued, would be introduced at the same time as 6th gen. Considering the already high R&D costs for Su-57, not speaking about the astronomic ones for F-35, ADA already gained lots of experience in the last 30 years, the best way, now Dassault is bi-national, is to have them teaming together and with Airbus for the 6th gen fighter. The very good side with Dassault compared to many of their competitors : they don't come with promises they can't keep.
One has to be very rational when it comes to such programs.
By the time either AMCA or the 6th gen Dassault/Airbus can be introduced, Su-30MKI will start to be retired (or put in storage).
@TIMBAKTOO :
ReplyDeleteKaveri K9+ = 98kN version of Rafale's M88 engine and is already validated by DRDO and Safran and HAL are into a JV to produce it. Kaveri K10 is to follow since M88 can be pushed to 115kN without changing the core.
M88/K9+ is about to be tested on Tejas Mk1
IDK what they're into deciding at MoD but there is a "rafalised" Tejas in the pipeline which would totally kick butts even more than Mk2 while not having the characteristics of Mk1A and using K9+, all that still being needed is a few internal mods to Mk1. No need for prototype, just validating the mods... Maybe the upcoming flight tests are waited? IDK WTF Nirmala is doing. For sure, price is likely to be about $40-45M but the features that have leakd in France are puzzling.
Jaguar is already 40 years old.
You don't want to invest with new engines for them!
If the right choices are done, and strong decisions are needed with enough assembly lines,1st, trashing MiG-21/27, then MiG-21, then Jaguar and ASAP, to be replaced by Tejas+Rafale... Any way, w. French mods, Tejas becomes more interesting than a MiG-35...
"The AL 31 engine has to be made more reliable"
=> Izdelyie 30 is said to be so... But you know, the Russians are like the Yankees : they promise a lot and you never get what is promised!
Any way, India has totally missed the train!
Su-30MKI ends more expensive and less capable than Rafale, Tejas was a Dassault project bought by ADA wth 1 year assistance.
Dassault was initially supposed to provide 150 Mirage-2000, this was reduced to 60 and India bought less capable MiG-29, OK, cheaper per unit, but much more expensive to use. Malaysia went bonkers : $13M/year/unit!!!
Had 150 M-2000 been ordered, there'd be a Dassault factory since end 80's.
The right decision would have been this, then Dassault going on helping for Tejas and going directly for Rafale instead of Su-30 in 2001..
The Tejas blue-prints bought from Dassault were for the demonstrator, so, as for Rafale-A, to use GE F404 as a temporary measure until M88 was available. ADA missed the point, had Dassault still been around, they had knew that M88 was planned to be able to be pushed to 98kN into 18 months if asked... INAF is furious about MiG-29K, and not just because the engines...
Adapting K9+ into MiG-29 : hum hum. M88 is much smaller than RD-33. Structural changes on already built aircraft = hardcore! Using some temporary system for a testbed, it's OK but permanent use is something else.
For a fighter-jet, you create your project around your engine.
Now, being smaller, for sure M88 can be adapted, but you'd need serious mods.
"All the effort must be coordinated but unless you develop commercially viable civil aviation production infrastructure military aircraft is extremely difficult job and that pain you are feeling in building Tejas in sufficient numbers."
=> HAL makes much more civilian aviation than Dassault which concentrates only on military and business jets (although there were other stuff, and if you want a space shuttle, they can provide!)
"partnering Airbus to build the C295 medium transport aircraft in India"
ReplyDelete=> Sad some may not know about French aviation history and that Bréguet and Dassault merged...
Why?
Look at 1961 Bréguet Br.941S and prepare to a SERIOUS shock seing it flying
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breguet_941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrIOg0moJd4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3CE7khv6fU&t=3s
Now, it's clear that it had some complexities making the operating costs pretty high, BUT today, with digital control of engines, the complex shaft system wouldn't be necessary any more...
There are also much more powerful+lighter engines, e.g. the 1940hp PT6C-67A or 2,100hp PW120...
Then, consider modern composites and the loss of weight would allow easily 12t payload if not more...
Taking off in 185m and landing in 120m while being able to stay airborne at only 90km/h, even today, you can question the purchase of the $100M MV-22...
Just think about how it'd be useful for airlines in the Himalayas, with the very dangerous Lukla in Nepal, and even inside India : no need to build municipal airports, just 300m to bulldoze and a Br.941-NG can go there, maybe not even bulldoze.
Have an optional folding wing system, then you can use it even from "small" amphibious ships like the Mistral-class.
Making it an AWACS, MarPat, ASM, ASUW, Tac-refueller, gunship, etc would be easy. It may even carry a MOAB.
If not enough STOL, inspire from YMC-130H Credible Sport with JATO and brake-rockets.
Put something like this on market for $30M and everybody will want it!
Even the new light weight landing gear of naval tejas equal to french Rafale M has been given by me to make sure the programme goes forward.
ReplyDeleteThe MRBM killer A-SAT has a new seeker device based on my material.