India is on a Mission to Build a Stealth Fighter by 2025

[VkdIndian]

Over ambitious article.
Combination of HAL, DRDO, Babus in MOD and shifting QRs of IAF are a massive obstacle.
Let’s see.

 

[Indos]

Still being made. That's why the 2025 target is a tad too ambitious. But unfortunately, that's the only way to make the government employees work in our country - by setting unrealistic targets.

What do you mean of the word made in your statement ??? Design phase or prototyping phase ??

 

[Tshering22]

What do you mean of the word made in your statement ??? Design phase or prototyping phase ??

Design is frozen now. No idea of what testing is going on right now in prototyping. However, there isn't a step-by-step detail available since it is a confidential project with limited data available out in the open. If only we could track it, it would be really good.

 

[Indos]

Design is frozen now. No idea of what testing is going on right now in prototyping. However, there isn't a step-by-step detail available since it is a confidential project with limited data available out in the open. If only we could track it, it would be really good.

This program will propel Modi if it runs well, if no information coming out of the program, it means the program faces some hurdle

You need to clarify, what design ???? Basic design or detail design that is frozen ???

 

[prokion]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1483794172683251715

pto shaft under testing

 

[jaybird]

Here is the Indian Stealth fighter design in detail:

1 Engines: import from U.S soon.

2 AESA radar: import from Israel soon.

3 Electronic warfare systems: import from France soon.

4 Wind tunnel test: export to Russia for help later.

5 Will assemble in India in 2030.

6 If everything goes well, 5th generation fighter operational in 2040 when every major players in the world is using 6th generation fighters.

 

[prokion]

EOTS of AMCA - Alpha Defense

An Alpha Defense Exclusive – By Aman Routray and Subodh Sharma Conventionally detection and tracking has always been a Radio Frequency (RF) based operation. The RADAR can be called as “Eyes and Ears” of a fighter jet, that allows it to detect, locate and target another aircraft. The evolving...

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EOTS under development

Here is the Indian Stealth fighter design in detail:

1 Engines: import from U.S soon.

2 AESA radar: import from Israel soon.

3 Electronic warfare systems: import from France soon.

4 Wind tunnel test: export to Russia for help later.

5 Will assemble in India in 2030.

6 If everything goes well, 5th generation fighter operational in 2040 when every major players in the world is using 6th generation fighters.

not actually

AMCA | Next Generation Radar for AMCA - GaN Uttam | Alpha Defense

An Alpha Defense Exclusive: Gallium Nitride based AESA for AMCA. Exclusive details on AMCA from www.alphadefense.in . Read here.

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radar

 

[Riz]

Less talky talky and more makey makey

DRDO and HAL two best sources of making money for corrupt Indian military generals

 

[Indos]

Here is the Indian Stealth fighter design in detail:

1 Engines: import from U.S soon.

2 AESA radar: import from Israel soon.

3 Electronic warfare systems: import from France soon.

4 Wind tunnel test: export to Russia for help later.

5 Will assemble in India in 2030.

6 If everything goes well, 5th generation fighter operational in 2040 when every major players in the world is using 6th generation fighters.

It is good for Pakistan that India is ambitious in building its own fifth generation further

 

[prokion]

you absolutely dont know anything about this. we already have wind tunnels, even hypersonic

 

[Indos]

you absolutely dont know anything about this. we already have wind tunnels, even hypersonic

Can you show Indian wind tunnel facility ????

If it is exist there will be video showing it like Indonesian wind tunnel

 

[Chak Bamu]

Nope. The whole point of not going for something foreign in this case was to develop capabilities independently.

It's a long struggle but the learning curve is a blessing and an asset to building industrial capability in the long-run.

Indeed. for a country the size & economy of India, it makes no sense to go shopping for weapon systems. Alright, no one can make (or should make) everything by themselves. But still strategic weapons should have less reliance on other countries.

As noted, though, the development cycle as executed by DRDO is too prolonged. The Project ought to be paced well & not allowed to fall victim to bureaucratic red tape.

It is my wish that this project be delayed enough that IAF does not feel comfortable with misadventures; and that consequently, Indian leadership considers a durable peace & regional connectivity as the best approach. This would help the region curb militancy & extremism (religious, nationalistic, ethnic). We can make this century a truly Asian century. India holds the key, but do Indians realize this?

 

[Joe Shearer]

Here is the Indian Stealth fighter design in detail:

1 Engines: import from U.S soon.

2 AESA radar: import from Israel soon.

3 Electronic warfare systems: import from France soon.

4 Wind tunnel test: export to Russia for help later.

5 Will assemble in India in 2030.

6 If everything goes well, 5th generation fighter operational in 2040 when every major players in the world is using 6th generation fighters.

And all without a single high-speed photocopier! Miraculous.

 

[AZMwi]

The Indian Air Force’s delivery timeline is liable to change in the coming years as the project moves further along, but the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft is currently expected to make its maiden flight by 2025, with serial production to begin by 2028.

Here's What You Need to Remember: The effort is being led by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.


The Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) program has its roots in an Indian effort to modernize the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) stock of older fighters, including the SEPECAT Jaguar and Dassault Mirage 2000. The AMCA project has undergone multiple iterations, but the core requirement is for a stealth, single-seat multi-role multirole fighter.


In 2018, India withdrew from the joint Russian-Indian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program to manufacture a new fighter based on Russia’s Su-57 fighter jet. Though the IAF had its share of concrete technical reservations with the FGFA—centered mainly on the Su-57’s stealth performance and the production challenges facing its bespoke Izdeliye 30 engine—New Delhi’s decision to withdraw from the FGFA program was not without its political context. Namely, the FGFA partnership gradually became a liability in light of India’s goal to build up its domestic defense industry as part of the government’s 2014 Make in India initiative.

The AMCA, then, is as much a technical project as it is part of New Delhi’s broader policy effort to reinvest in India’s defense sector. The effort is being led by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and is likewise slated to involve efforts from local contractors.


The details have shifted somewhat in the past decade, but here is where the AMCA project currently stands. As a fifth-generation fighter with “sixth-generation characteristics,” the AMCA will boast a very low radar cross-section for superior stealth performance, integration of certain AI-based systems for streamlined operation, and an advanced cockpit display with a touch screen interface. The AMCA’s avionics suite will be headlined by a large suite of advanced radars and electronic warfare systems.

The AMCA will also reportedly feature thrust-vectoring engines for superior maneuverability, an impressive feat considering all the other advanced technologies being packed into it. Little is known about the AMCA’s armaments, which reportedly will be carried entirely in an internal weapons bay configuration to maximize stealth performance and deep penetration capability. The fighter will feature Beyond-Visual Range missile targeting capability. In addition to the usual crop of air-to-air missiles, standoff weapons, and guided bombs, the fighter will also reportedly support directed-energy weapon (DEW) systems; it is unknown precisely what form the fighter’s rumored DEW capability will take.

The AMCA seems more similar to Lockheed Martin’s F-35 jet than to Russia’s Su-57 jet or China’s J-20 jet, in that it’s designed as a role-flexible fighter capable of executing a wide range of missions depending on loadout. The AMCA appears to be a complement rather than a replacement, for the IAF’s air superiority fighters, serving as a flexible force multiplier with superior penetration capabilities.

The IAF’s delivery timeline is liable to change in the coming years as the project moves further along, but the AMCA is currently expected to make its maiden flight by 2025, with serial production to begin by 2028.

India is on a Mission to Build a Stealth Fighter by 2025

The Indian Air Force’s delivery timeline is liable to change in the coming years as the project moves further along, but the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft is currently expected to make its maiden flight by 2025, with serial production to begin by 2028.

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[Joe Shearer]

DRDO and HAL two best sources of making money for corrupt Indian military generals

As it happens, the generals have nothing to do with HAL, other than with the Advanced Light Helicopter.

The generals have a lot to do with DRDO, but at the moment, DRDO has won several battles. Let us see who wins the war.

It is good for Pakistan that India is ambitious in building its own fifth generation further

You sound sceptical.

Can you show Indian wind tunnel facility ????

If it is exist there will be video showing it like Indonesian wind tunnel

Would it help if I said I have seen it, but have no photographs or videos?

I am not posting the location - it would be inappropriate - but it is written large on even civilian maps of a part of Bengaluru.