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Yes definitely from LRDE lab.
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Yes definitely from LRDE lab.
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#CROWN Project -A #European Multifunction #AESA System
https://rbt-defense.blogspot.com/2024/10/crown-project-european-multifunction.html
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@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?
Monstrous Virupaksha Radar of Su30 MKI Upgrade - alphadefense.in
DRDO’s Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is starting fabrication of the Virupaksha radar for the Indian Air Force’s Su-30MKI upgrade. They are setting up two assembly jigs to begin ground testing soon. Tight Assembly and Testing Timeline LRDE plans to deliver two fully...
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@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?
Monstrous Virupaksha Radar of Su30 MKI Upgrade - alphadefense.in
DRDO’s Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is starting fabrication of the Virupaksha radar for the Indian Air Force’s Su-30MKI upgrade. They are setting up two assembly jigs to begin ground testing soon. Tight Assembly and Testing Timeline LRDE plans to deliver two fully...alphadefense.in
No, I thought he thanked someone in the original post, maybe edited it out later?
Either way, it seems legit. It does seem like we got some novel stuff up our sleeve for designing improvements to the electrical generators we plan to hook up to the modernized/indigenized AL31FPs.
Well he corrected himself later. Its 2400 TRMs.@Gessler any idea where they are getting these updates from?
Monstrous Virupaksha Radar of Su30 MKI Upgrade - alphadefense.in
DRDO’s Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) is starting fabrication of the Virupaksha radar for the Indian Air Force’s Su-30MKI upgrade. They are setting up two assembly jigs to begin ground testing soon. Tight Assembly and Testing Timeline LRDE plans to deliver two fully...alphadefense.in
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Difference Between Gallium Arsenide/GaAs and Gallium Nitride/GaN RF Power Amplifiers
Difference Between Gallium Arsenide/GaAs and Gallium Nitride/GaN RF Power Amplifiers
Radio waves were first mapped out and harnessed back in 1873. Since that time, radio frequencies and microwaves have been...
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India, Russia set to sign USD 4-billion deal for advanced radar system
The USD 4 billion radar deal with Russia strengthens India’s missile detection and air defence capabilities, enhancing surveillance range and supporting the nation’s drive for self-reliance in defence manufacturing and technology.
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Low directionality bias, generally I have seen these configurations for weather, marine (and also space I think).... since targets of interest can vector in from anywhere, and you dont get bleed effects from planar polygon (keeping power output and frequency band same) that affects beam steering, width, polarisation etc (that need computation power to correct and address for planar).
Planar makes power density and circuitry more efficient. So there is a tradeoff at play till those things get miniaturised more, so I guess it depends on the final application needs and optimisation from the current sweetspot enjoyed by planar versus sweetspot enjoyed by spherical.
Cylindrical is somewhat halfway between planar polygon and pure spherical, so its got its mix of pros and cons in between the two.
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I had this in my archive:
Quick search just now:
L-IESA® - Surveillance radar by INTERSOFT ELECTRONICS NV | AeroExpo
the L-Band Intelligent Electronic Scanning Array product family is the next generation of circular AESA radars, for many applications, ranging from Identification Friend/Foe, via Data Link to Primary Surveillance Radar. Its operation in L-Band allows for long range and heavy weather resilience at...
@Nilgiri @Gessler Do you think GaAs MMIC are actually fabricated in India from Wafer level? Afterall if there was any there would be announcement right? GAETEC in Hyderabad is a Laboratory but not on level of Industrial or Production ready level to supply to Indian Industry for Radar Applications. I believe whether its Astra Microwave or Data Patterns they import the GaAs MMIC from other countries right? Afterall that's what we have been callling as Indigenous. I think they made the foundational aspects right otherwise this wouldn't get released in PIB. The "actual" stuff of making wafers and MMIC, not importing them and claims of beating F-22 or F-35.
Although above is lab-scale success, we have to actually invest billions if we are to run a Fabrication plant. But I believe its more about tactics, suddenly GaN MMIC are available to import from South Korea it seems I read news somewhere, which were earlier restricted. Due to demonstration of Indigenous capability, now foreign countries are open to export. It has happened millions of times when we achieved or on verge of achieving local capability. What do you think?
Indigenous Development of Silicon Carbide Wafers and GaN HEMT based MMIC Technology up to X-band Applications
Solid State Physics Laboratory, a DRDO laboratory, has successfully developed indigenous processes f
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Although above is lab-scale success, we have to actually invest billions if we are to run a Fabrication plant. But I believe its more about tactics, suddenly GaN MMIC are available to import from South Korea it seems I read news somewhere, which were earlier restricted. Due to demonstration of Indigenous capability, now foreign countries are open to export. It has happened millions of times when we achieved or on verge of achieving local capability. What do you think?
US DoD has BAE fab with 140nm for GaAs, the workhorse for GaN is 180nm and they are targeting 90nm process. I don't know about others because this is what I got when i searched around. For GAETEC, I think they have been doing GaAs 500nm process node. Now I don't know what process node the above accomplishment is.@Nilgiri @Gessler Do you think GaAs MMIC are actually fabricated in India from Wafer level? Afterall if there was any there would be announcement right? GAETEC in Hyderabad is a Laboratory but not on level of Industrial or Production ready level to supply to Indian Industry for Radar Applications. I believe whether its Astra Microwave or Data Patterns they import the GaAs MMIC from other countries right? Afterall that's what we have been callling as Indigenous. I think they made the foundational aspects right otherwise this wouldn't get released in PIB. The "actual" stuff of making wafers and MMIC, not importing them and claims of beating F-22 or F-35.
Indigenous Development of Silicon Carbide Wafers and GaN HEMT based MMIC Technology up to X-band Applications
Solid State Physics Laboratory, a DRDO laboratory, has successfully developed indigenous processes fpib.gov.in
Although above is lab-scale success, we have to actually invest billions if we are to run a Fabrication plant. But I believe its more about tactics, suddenly GaN MMIC are available to import from South Korea it seems I read news somewhere, which were earlier restricted. Due to demonstration of Indigenous capability, now foreign countries are open to export. It has happened millions of times when we achieved or on verge of achieving local capability. What do you think?
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@Nilgiri @Gessler Do you think GaAs MMIC are actually fabricated in India from Wafer level? Afterall if there was any there would be announcement right? GAETEC in Hyderabad is a Laboratory but not on level of Industrial or Production ready level to supply to Indian Industry for Radar Applications. I believe whether its Astra Microwave or Data Patterns they import the GaAs MMIC from other countries right? Afterall that's what we have been callling as Indigenous. I think they made the foundational aspects right otherwise this wouldn't get released in PIB. The "actual" stuff of making wafers and MMIC, not importing them and claims of beating F-22 or F-35.
Indigenous Development of Silicon Carbide Wafers and GaN HEMT based MMIC Technology up to X-band Applications
Solid State Physics Laboratory, a DRDO laboratory, has successfully developed indigenous processes fpib.gov.in
Although above is lab-scale success, we have to actually invest billions if we are to run a Fabrication plant. But I believe its more about tactics, suddenly GaN MMIC are available to import from South Korea it seems I read news somewhere, which were earlier restricted. Due to demonstration of Indigenous capability, now foreign countries are open to export. It has happened millions of times when we achieved or on verge of achieving local capability. What do you think?
It is outside of what I know.
Lot of the issue is what is considered "indigenous" . At some point there is IP acquisition, capital machinery acquisition, transfer of tech from cooperating countries institutes and so on. These may also be licensed rather than acquired per se....it would all be in fineprint.
If something is secured sufficiently supply wise and enough of the total value (there is a lot past components regd their design, optimisation, assembly, testing etc into the full mature system) of production is done inside India, generally they give it the "indigenous" tag I have noticed. But what are the exact coefficients in various specific components between inhouse/outhouse origin (where one stops and the other begins), I dont know.
