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Air Force to equip Su-30MKI fleet with indigenous 'Virupaaksha' radar
The Virupaksha radar is being developed indigenously, keeping in view the requirements of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in different sectors.
Since there is no topic about the Armenian army, I am publishing it here. The Armenian Army continues to strengthen its units with foreign-made weapons. Armenia reportedly signed a $41 million contract with the Indian company Zen Technologies Ltd to purchase the ZADS anti-drone system. The ZADS complex was developed in 2020 and allows for classification, tracking and passive surveillance of drones. The complex is equipped with a radio frequency drone detector, radar, video cameras and drone suppression equipment. 3D X-band radar detects drones and provides precise target coordinates to jam drone communications. The video cameras of the Zen complex are capable of identifying a drone at a range of up to 3 kilometers. The complex can be equipped with a special drone with a hanging net to capture small-sized enemy drones. The exact characteristics of the ZADS complex are unknown.
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Looks like a massive new APAR is coming up at the Near Field Test Range (NFTR) at Kolar:
When all future aircraft & flying bodies undergo RCS testing, they'll probably be facing this radar.
When all future aircraft & flying bodies undergo RCS testing, they'll probably be facing this radar.
Indian Army, IAF to procure C-UAS with soft-kill capabilities
by Oishee Majumdar
The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) are each procuring 25 units of Big Bang Boom Solutions' long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS (pictured). (Big Bang Boom Solutions)
Chennai-based Big Bang Boom Solutions (BBBS) has secured two contracts worth more than INR2 billion (USD24 million) to provide its counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) to the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Janes understands that the Indian Army and the IAF will each receive 25 units of BBBS' long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS by mid-2025.
In an interview to Janes on 11 March, R Shivaraman, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of BBBS, said the long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS has soft-kill capabilities. The system can jam hostile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using different techniques, including barrage, spot, and sweep.
“The core part of the [C-UAS] is an artificial intelligence (AI) fingerprint technology that allows the C-UAS to detect low signatures present in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, enabling the system to detect hostile UAVs at a relatively larger range,” Shivaraman added.
Shivaraman said the long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS weighs less than 50 kg and comprises the Vajra Scan-X detector and Vajra Shield-X jammer. The Vajra Scan-X is an RF sensor that can detect UAVs flying at a maximum distance of 15 km and operating at a frequency range of 400 MHz to 6 GHz. The Vajra Shield-X can jam several UAVs simultaneously from a distance of 15 km.
BBBS is currently also demonstrating a short-range, portable C-UAS to the Indian Navy, he added. This C-UAS, named Vajra Shot, is a handheld jammer that can “adapt its interference output frequency using software, effectively neutralising a wide array of standard and non-standard unauthorised UAVs”.
by Oishee Majumdar
The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) are each procuring 25 units of Big Bang Boom Solutions' long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS (pictured). (Big Bang Boom Solutions)
Chennai-based Big Bang Boom Solutions (BBBS) has secured two contracts worth more than INR2 billion (USD24 million) to provide its counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) to the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Janes understands that the Indian Army and the IAF will each receive 25 units of BBBS' long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS by mid-2025.
In an interview to Janes on 11 March, R Shivaraman, co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) of BBBS, said the long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS has soft-kill capabilities. The system can jam hostile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using different techniques, including barrage, spot, and sweep.
“The core part of the [C-UAS] is an artificial intelligence (AI) fingerprint technology that allows the C-UAS to detect low signatures present in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum, enabling the system to detect hostile UAVs at a relatively larger range,” Shivaraman added.
Shivaraman said the long-range Vajra Sentinel C-UAS weighs less than 50 kg and comprises the Vajra Scan-X detector and Vajra Shield-X jammer. The Vajra Scan-X is an RF sensor that can detect UAVs flying at a maximum distance of 15 km and operating at a frequency range of 400 MHz to 6 GHz. The Vajra Shield-X can jam several UAVs simultaneously from a distance of 15 km.
BBBS is currently also demonstrating a short-range, portable C-UAS to the Indian Navy, he added. This C-UAS, named Vajra Shot, is a handheld jammer that can “adapt its interference output frequency using software, effectively neutralising a wide array of standard and non-standard unauthorised UAVs”.
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@Nilgiri you probably saw this before but I found it recently. If you haven't, this is the Uttam with 992 GaAs T/R modules and old dioples antenna. At that angle from behind Tajas probably had around 2m RCS. Tracking it at 150km is really impressive. If I am correct, then new Uttam will have GaN T/R modules and UWB TSA. (Plus new software and probably back-end hardware upgrade) It would really be a game changer.
I couldn't help myself but to do some rough guestimates. If we increase the power output with GaN TRMs two times coupled with better directivity of TSA and perhaps with higher PRF (from back end upgrade), 1/3 increase in range performance can be achieved. Much better than stated performance of RBE2 AA. If you couple Tejas MK1A with Astra 3, there isn't really any need to have expensive Rafale for qualitative edge in BVR IMO.
Rafale does Carry much more A2G firepower. But than again, you could do that (and more) with two Tejas. Like a single rafale, it wouldn't have a single point of failure. If one is shot down, other Tejas would still be in the game.
