Indian Air Force News & Discussions

[Valiant_Soul]

This is the difference between an Indian and a Pakistani mind.

We want to destroy a terrorist and you want to destroy a love monument.

Why don't you understand, he wants to protect his country's best assets.

 

[footmarks]

then wait for a strike back home.how about a strike at Taj Mahal..two babur cruise missile will do the job i guess.

Brother, please tell me- what sympathy do you have with Dawood Ibrahim? wat good has he done for Pakistan? I advise you- if you really want to retaliate our Laser guided missile attack on Dawood, please feel free to bomb your own laser guided missiles over the house of Bal thakery, or maybe some VHP leader. I wont oppose that. These "non state actors" should be eradicated by non state actors only.you wash my stains and I will wash yours. and soon we both will be pure and spotless. what u say??
but please for god sake, dont imagine ruining a symbol of love like Taj Mahal for a MotherF@#*er like Dawood Ibrahim.

 

[RAHUL INDIAN]

to all my Indian friends...please ignore all posts of scChinese....he is the winnner of troll of the century on PDF.... his no post deserves any reply...

 

[gogbot]

So all our AWACS from Israel will be on Russian platform..thats confirmed ..

That's not true only the Phalcon systems will be on a Russian Platform.

DRDO AWACS will be on Brazilian Platforms. And will be supplementing the more capable Phalcons.

 

[Iggy]

That's not true only the Phalcon systems will be on a Russian Platform.

DRDO AWACS will be on Brazilian Platforms. And will be supplementing the more capable Phalcons.

Gogbot yaar you didnt read that post clearly..i said AWACS from Israel.. There is a statement made my Air Force Chief that they are looking for another platform for the additional AWACS being ordered from Israel

 

[RPK]

Air Chief Marshal PV Naik wants missiles to destroy enemy satellites​

http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/r...-missiles-to-destroy-enemy-satellites_1338174​

http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/r...-missiles-to-destroy-enemy-satellites_1338174http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/r...-missiles-to-destroy-enemy-satellites_1338174

Bangalore: Taking serious note of China’s growing defence capabilities, particularly its anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon system, Air Chief Marshal PV Naik on Friday sought the development of India’s own missile system that can destroy enemy satellites.

“Our satellites are vulnerable to ASAT weapon systems because our neighbourhood possesses one,” Naik said, while delivering the Air Chief Marshal LM Katre memorial lecture at the HAL Convention Centre here.

“We need to develop ASAT technology. It is one of our challenges of future war capability,” he said.

He was referring to the vulnerability of a series of communication, weather and remote-sensing satellites of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which are in orbit.

If the satellites are targeted, there could be widespread chaos in the country. Indian TV channels would go off the air, satellite communication links would snap, and there would be no updates on weather and climatic data, which is crucial for aviation, shipping and meteorology.

Isro also has the Technology Experiment Satellite, launched on October 22, 2001, in orbit.

The satellite is equipped with a one-metre resolution camera and
is capable of sending images of troop movements and installations.

The first images of this satellite were requisitioned by the United Statesfor its Afghan operations.

“Defending our space-based assets is important and the IAFhas to protect them,” said the air chief.

China demonstrated its ASAT capability in January 2007; the US followed suit the next year. These are the only countries with ASAT capability as of now.

S Chandrashekhar, National Institute of Advanced Studies, who is studying India’s space weaponisation, toldDNA that scientists only need to fine-tune the existing missile and rocket-launching technologies to develop an ASAT system that will act as an effective counter to China’s.

 

[RPK]

Saturday, January 23, 2010

EXCLUSIVE: Barak-2/LRSAM First Flight This Year

The first flight test of the Rs 2606.02-crore Indo-Israeli Barak-2/LR-SAM air/point defence missile is scheduled to take place about seven months from now in August 2010. A "control and navigation flight test" of the LR-SAM is one of DRDO's targets for the year 2010. Sources indicate that the missile is currently undergoing simulated tests in Israel, which will be followed by in-loop simulations of the guidance system in Hyderabad from sometime in May. Israeli Navy chief Vice Admiral Elizer Marom and his Indian counterpart Admiral Nirmal Verma exchanged notes on the missile programme on January 19 during their official discussions in South Block. I'd broken the story in 2005/06 about the Barak-2 deal being signed, so it's going be be pretty cool watching the thing fly. More updates soon.

LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence: EXCLUSIVE: Barak-2/LRSAM First Flight This Year

 

[RPK]

Defence min scrambles to ink deal on VVIP helicopter purchase as Budget draws closer

Defence ministry is scrambling to sign a deal to purchase Italian Augusta Westland VVIP helicopter before the Budget is presented. According to sources, “It is keen to utilise the Budget allocation rather than surrender it.”
The defence ministry short listed Finmeccanica’s helicopter division, Augusta Westland, as it emerged the frontrunner in a multi-million contract to supply 12 AW-101 VVIP helicopter for the Indian Air Force (IAF). Worth Rs 3, 726 crore (Rs 310 crore each), the helicopter would be used by the President and the Prime Minister. Cabinet Committee on Security, too, gave its clearance early December after finance ministry gave the purchase a go ahead.
The Indian contract, which is expected to be signed soon for the flying offices equipped with advanced communication aids and self-protection devices, is likely to be the greatest Italian export to India since 1960s. While the IAF would buy 12 helicopter, the US has placed an order for 20 machines.
Talking to FE on conditions of anonymity sources said, “A high-level team of IAF test pilots and engineers have evaluated the deal.”
According to industry sources, “The IAF deal is very prestigious for the company, especially when one is looking at an aircraft of this nature. Safety is important.”
In 2009, the finance ministry had declined its approval for the deal on the grounds that the machines were too expensive at Rs 310 crore each.
Reportedly, the ministry had objected to the IAF narrowing their selection to a single vendor for seeking price bid. It had pointed out that what AgustaWestland quoted for 12 AW-101 had overrun the estimated outlay of Rs 1,400 crore approved in 2006. AgustaWestland was the sole firm that qualified the technical norms set by the IAF.
The new machines are to replace the Mi-17 machines in the Air
Headquarters Communication Squadron, as the VVIP transport squadron is called, will be equipped with flare dispensers and special self-defence systems. With two deals already signed— one for 5 mid-sized Embraer 135 BJ Legacy jets in 2003 and the other for 3 Boeing Business Jets in 2005—this will be the third deal.
The EH-101 will have self-defense systems like missile warners, flare dispensers and directed infrared electronic counter measures for protection. The existing Russian Mi-8s and Mi-17s would be replaced with these newer versions of advanced jets. These helicopter would have a high tail boom, which would allow…
the VVIP cars to come near the rear exit staircase.
According to company executives, the helicopter can even be ferried in transport plane, if the PM or President wants to travel abroad. The 30-seater helicopter also has a cushy special lounge and will have a full-fledged communication suite.
Westland and Sikorsky were the two companies short-listed for the Indian VVIP fleet. Sikorsky’s S-92 is used by nine heads of states in the world, but the IAF has zeroed in on Westland recently.
The Anglo-Italian company is also in talks with state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) as a partner for the various helicopter bids, to meet the offset condition. The two companies have worked together on maintenance of the Indian Navy’s Sea King helicopter fleet….

Link

 

[RPK]

IAF to have data network centricity in two years


Bangalore, Jan 22 : The Indian Air Force (IAF) will have a central network in the next two years to process data that will help during critical operations, Chief of Air Staff P.V. Naik said Friday.

"I am looking at a two years' time to have a net centric environment to process data in real time for combat operations and optimal performance," Naik told reporters on the margins of an air force event here.

With technology at the core of operations, the Indian Air Force (IAF) will use optical fibre cable as a backbone for its network AFNet (Air Force Net) with the Integrated Air Command & Control System (IACCS) as the ground arm, Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), radars and electronic warfare system for data links as the base arm and satellites as a space arm.

"AFNet will be active by June this year and IACCS will be ready in a couple of years. AWACS and radars are in place for integration with other arms for building a network centricity by 2012-13," Naik said after delivering the fourth L. M. Khatre Memorial Lecture here.

Unfolding the vision of the air force 'requisite capability - well in time, 'adaptive organisation' and the 'right people', Naik said to achieve the capability, the IAF had a three-pronged transformation plan to preserve and maintain what it had, selectively upgrade and improve the lethality of its assets and to progress with acquisitions and replacements.

"We need satellites, force multipliers and strategic lift capability, fourth and fifth generation fighters, latest weapons, weapons systems and sensors, network centricity and communication and trained and motivated air warriors," Naik said in his 30-minute address to serving and retired air force personnel and aerospace people from the industry.

Copyright Indo Asian News

 

[lockh33d]

I mean in class grades, in some classes if you 10 marks out of 100 then you pass and in some class if you get 95 number out of 100 then even u also fail. but their failure of 95 still more knowledge then 10 marks pass out one....

You didn't understand me. I'm saying the 90% above, which I wrote is ~the international acceptance rate, meaning it is the threshold which a development is seen as acceptable. In physics, when a development is ~90% efficient, it can be regarded as 100% efficient. Hence for all developments globally, a 90% acceptance rate is used.

 

[RPK]

India readies large-scale UAV procurement programme - Jane's Defence News

India readies large-scale UAV procurement programme




India is planning to significantly upgrade its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability over the next decade in order to enhance situational awareness along its land and maritime borders.

Official sources said the army was planning to procure a large number of manportable mini- and nano-UAVs with short-range intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and laser-designation capabilities, as well as the ability to detect nuclear, biological and chemical weapons inside enemy territory.

The army also intends to acquire weaponised UAVs similar to the General Atomics RQ-1 Predator, which can be armed with Hellfire missiles. These will be deployed largely along the disputed borders with Pakistan and China.

At present, India operates around 70 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)-built Searcher Mk 1 and Mk 2 and Heron UAVs, as well as 30 Harpy ground attack drones designed to detect and destroy enemy radars.

"A larger number of UAVs would constitute an integral ingredient of the burgeoning network-centric warfare capability that all three Indian services are seeking to execute the full spectrum of war," a three-star Indian Air Force officer told Jane's.

Image: India operates around 70 UAVs, including the Harpy, but is now planning to significantly augment its UAV fleet (IAI)

 

[Iggy]

IAF worried about safety of satellites


Bangalore: Defending space-based assets will assume vital importance for the Indian Air Force (IAF) in the 21st century when satellites are likely to become vulnerable to attacks, said Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik, Chief of the Air Staff.

Delivering the fourth Air Chief Marshal L.M. Katre memorial lecture here on Friday, he said the dependence on satellites would naturally increase when space-based systems could accomplish missions in a technically superior manner and more economically than achieved by other means.

Hence, Air Chief Marshal pointed out that the vulnerability of satellites to anti-satellite weapons had become an issue and more so when the development of anti-satellite technologies was taking place in our neighbourhood.

“Networking and assimilation of space, both inter-dependent, are way forward. A quiet space race and even weaponisation to some extent, is becoming a reality. Perhaps more than others, it is air power that is more significantly enhanced by the integration of space enabled capabilities,” he said.
Technology

Admitting that there was a technology gap in the IAF, he said the technology would be core, and assimilating and operationalising the technology was a primary challenge for the IAF.

“Future wars are likely to be short, crisp and intense. Hence logistics and inventory management become crucial as well as critical,” the Air Chief Marshal pointed out.

He said that it was imperative that military and civil aviation integrate, for better efficiency, cost-effectiveness and for offering more options to the leadership.
Indigenisation

Making it clear that the IAF supported the national quest for indigenisation, he said: “There are a number of areas wherein we lack industrial base and simply do not possess the requisite capabilities. We have to accept that we cannot develop capabilities in each and every field.”

“We must therefore identify core technologies which have a promise of maximum potential in indigenisation and pursue them vigorously. Some of these areas, in my view, are critical areas like avionics, simulation, electronic warfare, communication and so on. It is imperative that we identify emerging technologies and concentrate on developing them. We should develop niche capabilities in specific spheres,” Air Chief Marshal said.

He said the IAF would recommend a collaborative and participative approach of partnerships between users, Defence Research and Development Organisation, the Government, the industry and the foreign vendors. “In this collaborative effort, we believe that the user must be the captain,” Air Chief Marshal made it clear.
HAL’s initiative

Apart from producing aircraft and supporting their maintenance through overhauls, spares support and mid-life upgrades, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) is now thinking of extending its footprint in the operations at the Squadron level.

“We are now looking at providing a comprehensive performance based logistics solution through 1st and 2nd line maintenance thus increasing the share of value added services to IAF. HAL would make a proposal to IAF shortly in this regard as we consider this will enable IAF to concentrate more on the operations and strategic side of flying rather on the maintenance of its assets,” said HAL chairman Ashok Nayak while speaking on the occasion.

The Hindu : National : IAF worried about safety of satellites

 

[RPK]

ASIAN DEFENCE: India

Rosoboronehksport is holding discussions with India about a new contract for the delivery of long-range IL-76 Phalcon AWACS, a source in the defense industrial complex reported to AviaPort."The official negotiations may emerge in approximately half a year," he noted.According to him, the new contract may provide for the delivery of three airplanes of this type, plus an option for six aircraft.



The first contract for the delivery to India of threeIL-76 Phalcon AWACS equipped with PS-90A-76 engines and the Israeli ELTA firm's EL/M-2075 radar was signed in Delhi in 2003 by the three parties: India, Israel and Russia. The Taganrog Beriev Scientific and Engineering Complex, the Il'yushin Aviation Complex and the Vega scientific Production Association are taking part in realization of the contract from the Russian side.



The ELTA is the lead executor of the order. The total contract price is estimated at 1.1 billion dollars, Russia's share is 150 - 200 million dollars. The first contract under this contract was supposed to be delivered in 2006 and the contract's closeout was intended for 2009. However, the first A-50 (side number KW-3551) was delayed in delivery to Israel, in May 2009: The Tashkent V.P. Chkalov Aviation and Production Association was unable to build the Il-76MD, which serve as the basis for the IL-76 Phalcon AWACS, on time.

 

[sancho]

Rosoboronehksport is holding discussions with India about a new contract for the delivery of long-range IL-76 Phalcon AWACS, a source in the defense industrial complex reported to AviaPort."The official negotiations may emerge in approximately half a year," he noted.According to him, the new contract may provide for the delivery of three airplanes of this type, plus an option for six aircraft.

So only 3 and not 6 more as the last article states?

 

[jha]

India readies large-scale UAV procurement programme - Jane's Defence News

India readies large-scale UAV procurement programme




India is planning to significantly upgrade its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability over the next decade in order to enhance situational awareness along its land and maritime borders.

Official sources said the army was planning to procure a large number of manportable mini- and nano-UAVs with short-range intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and laser-designation capabilities, as well as the ability to detect nuclear, biological and chemical weapons inside enemy territory.

The army also intends to acquire weaponised UAVs similar to the General Atomics RQ-1 Predator, which can be armed with Hellfire missiles. These will be deployed largely along the disputed borders with Pakistan and China.

At present, India operates around 70 Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)-built Searcher Mk 1 and Mk 2 and Heron UAVs, as well as 30 Harpy ground attack drones designed to detect and destroy enemy radars.

"A larger number of UAVs would constitute an integral ingredient of the burgeoning network-centric warfare capability that all three Indian services are seeking to execute the full spectrum of war," a three-star Indian Air Force officer told Jane's.

Image: India operates around 70 UAVs, including the Harpy, but is now planning to significantly augment its UAV fleet (IAI)

thats an old article....