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Should be.
BDL has decent and growing production capacity and has seen lot of investment in the last 5 years.
Should be.
BDL has decent and growing production capacity and has seen lot of investment in the last 5 years.
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It has a lot of commonality with our existing systems with over 90%+ indigenous content. Given the number of indigenous missiles and ADs we've been inducting lately, there should be no issue producing these in numbers
Radar & Control Systems: BEL
Launcher: L&T
Missiles: BDL
Carrier Vehicle: Ashok Leyland or Tata
Not to mention, this QRSAM has a GaN based radar which is kinda a first and among the most advanced radars in an Indian weapons system
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Are these GaN modules developed and manufactured in India?
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Yeah, DRDO has established India's second GaN foundry at GAETEC lab in Telangana. First one is at IISc Bangalore.
We've developed and inducted several land based radars for a while including ADTCR which uses GaA based technology. QRSAM's BFR and BFSR are the first Indian AESA radar with GaN based QTRMs
Each QRSAM battery consists of one Battery Surveillance Radar (BSR) and four Battery Multi-Function Radar (BMFR), each mounted on a single Ashok Leyland 8x8 high mobility vehicle with power generation, cooling, and communication link to the launchers. DRDO has developed a 2 axis Stabilized Electro-Optical Sight (SEOS) for the QR-SAM that can passively acquire targets up to 40-km away
DRDO's AWACS radar is also GaN based
https://www.drdo.gov.in/sites/default/files/technology-focus-documrnt/TF June 2021 for web.pdf
Uttam AESA radar which will go into our LCA Mk-1A & Mk-2 is currently GaA based but LRDE is also working on a GaN based Uttam AESA for AMCA and TEDBF
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Indian Army Set To Induct Enhanced Range Rockets For Pinaka And Grad Rocket Artillery Systems
The Indian Army is set to induct enhanced range variants of Pinaka and Grad rockets. User trials of Pinaka Mk-1 Enhanced rockets were successfully completed in August. 122mm Enhanced Range Rocket (ERR) for BM-21 Grad are close to being ordered, with a Request for Proposal (RfP) having been issued earlier this year. Both rockets were developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
The Pinaka Mk-1 Enhanced rockets were test fired at ranges in Pokhran and Balasore. These rockets have a range of 45km compared to the 37.5km range of the original Mk-1 rockets. This is achieved mainly by the incorporation of six flat fins instead of the four curved fins in Mk-1. The front end igniter in Mk-1 is replaced by a nozzle closing cap mounted ignition system in Mk-1 Enhanced. The enhanced rocket is marginally shorter and heavier than Mk-1. DRDO claims that a maximum range of 50km had been demonstrated during design trials.
Nagpur based Economic Explosives Limited (EEL) and state owned Munitions India Limited (MIL) already produce Pinaka rockets for production and testing. Both firms are also in the race to produce Guided Pinaka rockets and ADM warheads. EEL and MIL have received technology from DRDO for production of Pinaka Mk-1 Enhanced. Over 120 rockets made by both firms were fired during the user trials. Firms like Yantra India Limited (YIL) also produce components such as pods.
The smaller 122mm ERR is also set to be inducted into the Indian Army in large numbers. DRDO reverse engineered the original Soviet BM-21 rockets. The range was then doubled to 40km in 122mm ERR using composite propellant packed into case bonded grains. It also features an ignition system similar to the Pinaka Mk-1 Enhanced. An RfP issued in early 2022, accessed by Overt Defense, called for supplying 5,000 122mm rockets every year for 10 years. This includes both the ERR and regular rockets.
The RfP envisions manufacture of 2,000 ERR rockets per annum. The 122 ERR has a length of 2.9m and has a minimum range of 8km using brake rings. Various types of fuzes are available for the 66.5kg rocket. The unguided rocket is stabilised using four curved fins. The Indian Army has five Grad regiments, each with around 20 launchers, which have been upgraded by Ashok Leyland and L & T.
https://www.overtdefense.com/2022/0...for-pinaka-and-grad-rocket-artillery-systems/
This looks similar to Moskit / mini moskit(KH35)
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i was always curious about MRSAM radar.DRDO's MRSAM
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Land based systems come with a multi-function radar (not much info on this in public domain) and can be integrated with other radar systems as needed. For instance, IN's MR-SAMs are integrated with the MF-STAR radars onboard our destroyers and frigates to simultaneously engage multiple targets
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I know how air defense systems works! whether it is land based or naval. I am just curious, if it is the same israeli EL/M-2084 FCR which is used with barak 8. ( Given MRSAM is developed based on barak 8. And also IN uses israeli radar with MRSAM on board of its destroyers and frigates, as you pointed out )
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Have you noticed the missile dropped before the motor went off, unlike mk1 where the missile fires off a rail? They intend to use mk2 from inside AMCA bay in the future.
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IAF Shows Off 160 Km Range Astra Mk-II Missile In Promo Video Released Ahead Of 90th Air Force Day
Astra Mark-II will have improved jammer resistance and an indigenous seeker. It will also be equipped with a dual-pulse rocket motor to improve the range and performance of the missile.
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NEW DELHI: The IAF is going to arm more Sukhoi-30MKI jets with the precision-strike BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, whose range has been extended from 290 to 450-km, even as a blueprint is also being drawn to indigenously upgrade all the 260 such Russian-origin fighters in the combat fleet.
Impressed with the first test of 450-km BrahMos from a Sukhoi-30MKI jet in the Bay of Bengal in May, IAF plans to send another 20-25 jets for the structural, electrical, mechanical and software modifications required to carry the 2.5-tonne missile to defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL).
"These Sukhois will be in addition to the original 40 jets earmarked for BrahMos missiles. Thirty-five of the first 40 Sukhois with the 290-km BrahMos have been delivered back to IAF by HAL," a source said.
IAF considers the combination of Sukhois, which have a combat radius of almost 1,500-km without mid-air refueling, and the 450-km range conventional (non-nuclear) BrahMos missiles to be a deadly weapons package with strategic reach.
These air-to-ground BrahMos missiles can carry out pinpoint strikes on high-value military targets, underground nuclear bunkers, command-and-control centres on land or aircraft carriers and other warships on the high seas.
With the Army, Navy and IAF inking contracts worth around Rs 38,000 crore over the years for BrahMos missiles, which fly almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8, a 800-km missile variant is also in the works, as was first reported by TOI.
The 272 twin-seat Sukhois (10 have crashed), with the bulk of them being licensed produced by HAL at an overall cost upwards of $12 billion from Russia, constitute the backbone of the existing IAF combat fleet.
Technical parameters for the major Sukhoi upgrade are now being refined. "We have decided this upgrade will be done indigenously with a plethora of indigenously-designed weapons, electronic warfare systems and the like. We are looking at upgrading 84 Sukhois in the first tranche," IAF chief Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari said.
The design and development phase will take four to five years, following which the actual major upgrade will kick off. The "spiral upgrade" of Sukhois with new weapons and sensors, in any case, has been underway for the last 10 years. "BrahMos and Astra air-to-air missiles, for instance, have been added to Sukhois indigenously," IAF vice chief Air Marshal Sandeep Singh said.
The Sukhois will also be armed with the `Rudram’ new generation anti-radiation missiles (NGARMs), which are designed to destroy a variety of enemy surveillance, communication and radar targets on the ground from stand-off distances. After Rudram-1 with a strike range of 150-km, the DRDO is also developing Rudram-2 (350-km range) and Rudram-3 (550-km) air-to-ground missiles.
The Sukhoi fleet upgrade becomes crucial since the IAF is currently grappling with just 31 fighter squadrons (16-18 jets in each) when the sanctioned strength is 42 to deter China and Pakistan.
