India's indigenous UCAV ‘Aura’ taking shape in DRDO labs

[rofl]

NEW DELHI (BNS): India’s premier defence agency DRDO is developing an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), which it has named ‘Aura’.

Three DRDO laboratories – the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), the Aeronautical Development Establishments (ADE) and the Defence Avionics and Research Establishment (DARE) – have joined hands to design and develop Aura.

The flight control system and data link packages of Aura will be designed and developed jointly by ADE and Defence Electronic Application Laboratory, Dehradun, according to Technology Focus, a bi-monthly journal published by DRDO.

The unmanned aircraft will fly at altitudes of 3,000 feet with payloads. It will have short take-off and landing capability on prepared runway, the journal said, elaborating on the combat drone’s key features.

Earlier in September, P S Subramanyam, project director and chief of ADA, had said that all technologies required for the UCAV had been identified, and the most important of them were its flying wing and stealth technology.

The combat drone, which will be able to detect and identify targets, and even fire weapons at them, will be controlled with command and control centres (CCC) spread across the country, DRDO Chief, V K Saraswat had revealed last year.

Meanwhile, the capability of the advanced Laser Guidance Bomb kit ‘Sudarshan’, which has been designed to improve the accuracy of air-to-ground bombing by Indian Air Force, has been enhanced.

“The development of the (LGB) kit has matured to the level of guiding the bomb within 10 m CEB (Circular Error Probability) from its otherwise 400 m to 1000 m fall-off the target.

“Indian Air Force has shown keen interest in buying hundreds of these kits. The extension of kit’s capability to further increase its range using global positioning system
(GPS) INS is going on,” the Technology Focus reports.

isn't this crap American uav/ucav canfly at 50000 feet

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

isn't this crap American uav/ucav canfly at 50000 feet

Not american thts ur Dhruv helicopter........... this uav is still on paper.

 

[Yeti]

Hey druv is not crap its been exported to some countries but we need to increase the domestic components to make it better.

Around 69% of the material used in manufacture of Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) ‘Dhruv’ is procured from foreign sources. In terms of number of components involved, around 90% of the components are made in India.

 

[sanibhagwan]

Not american thts ur Dhruv helicopter........... this uav is still on paper.

Agreed. You know more about American drones and missiles than we do. After all they are testing it in your back yard. Please tell me which of their drones and missiles are effective.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Agreed. You know more about American drones and missiles than we do. After all they are testing it in your back yard. Please tell me which of their drones and missiles are effective.

Were we supposed to laugh?..... come up with fact or stop cryin like a witch.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Hey druv is not crap its been exported to some countries but we need to increase the domestic components to make it better.

Around 69% of the material used in manufacture of Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) ‘Dhruv’ is procured from foreign sources. In terms of number of components involved, around 90% of the components are made in India.

Actually it was donated to nepal and i think 1 was bought or invaluated or somethin my some hospital in turkey.... also i think 90%of it is procured by foriegn companies...... and its design etc is foriegn aswell.

Anyways i was just answering the guy who talked abt this drone..... a thread on dhruv is already present.

 

[sanibhagwan]

Were we supposed to laugh?..... come up with fact or stop cryin like a witch.

No. You are supposed to cry for allowing American to operate drone in your country.

And here is the fact about Dhruv from janes defence

India has finalised a USD50.7 million deal to supply Ecuador with seven Dhruv multirole advanced light helicopters: its first ever major overseas sale of an indigenously developed military platform

India achieves first major export of Dhruv helicopter - Jane's Defence News

Is this fact enough for you.

 

[rofl]

Not american thts ur Dhruv helicopter........... this uav is still on paper.

i was saying that isn't this aura thing piece of crap
& that american uav/ucav can fly at 50,000ft+
while this one only 3000ft what a joke
whats the use of the so called stealth features
when it flies at just 3000ft

no one even noticed that

 

[satishkumarcsc]

isn't this crap American uav/ucav canfly at 50000 feet

Actually it was a false reporting...it was 30,000 feet. Rustom H has an operational ceiling of 35k feet.

 

[TenjikuKensei]

Actually it was a false reporting...it was 30,000 feet. Rustom H has an operational ceiling of 35k feet.

Indeed. Its obvious its a typo.

Hell..I even saw one of those official S-400 adverts state that its operational ceiling of 10,000 feet...while the actual ceiling of the missile is probably 100 000.

 

[angeldemon_007]

AURA looks just like B-2 Spirit.

Its B-2 bomber. I don't Think our ADA has even thought about the design. All the designs on the web are just the speculation. I think we should take Israel's help because they have good knowledge.

Also as somebody mentioned about Dhruv, that reminds me India and Israel are making a UAV with rotary wheel by using chetak helicopters. We should talk to them as they would definitely help us.

 

[johnny boy]

hmm nice ucav ..we need this baby by 2015 anyhow

 

[angeldemon_007]

EADS asks Europe to make a choice | Shephard Group

EADS chief executive officer Louis Gallois has warned against the existence of two competing MALE (medium altitude low endurance) UAV programmes in Europe while describing his company’s intention to continue development of its self-financed Talarion programme in 2011.

Speaking to the media at an EADS press event in Les Mureaux, France, on 12 January, Gallois demanded that European nations ‘make a choice’ about their future MALE UAV capability.

He referred to November’s Anglo-French government agreement regarding the possibility of a joint UAV project and described how the co-existence of Talarion (the EADS-led Franco-German and Spanish development) and BAE Systems’ Mantis MALE programmes would be a ‘risk’.

One industry source told Unmanned Vehicles that any final decision regarding the potential Anglo-French UAV project was a long way off.

‘The bi-lateral MALE [UAV] programme has yet to be defined and the UK’s Ministry of Defence [MoD] doesn’t know what it will yet entail either. It’s all about joining up a military requirement and a political drive,’ the source said.

EADS confirmed that it had offered up Talarion in response to an invitation to tender from the UK’s MoD for its ‘Scavenger’ ISTAR UAV requirement. The MoD is also understood to be considering General Atomics’ Predator C and Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk UAV.

In France, Dassault and Thales have offered up the Système de Drone MALE (SDM) while Sagem is also understood to have put forward its Patroller UAV.

‘I shall not go further. We have to avoid having two MALE programmes [in Europe],’ Gallois argued.

Another industry source told UV that an ‘Airbus for UAVs’ solution, comprising BAE Systems, Dassault Aviation and EADS for example, would be applicable for such a pan-European programme.

Meanwhile, Gallois asked the wider defence industry to embrace more multi-national co-operation in the development of aircraft and UAVs, describing EADS’ intent to form ‘associations’ with competitors especially in regard to targeting markets in ‘emerging countries’.

This, he added, was part of a ‘Three Pillars’ approach to dealing with Europe, emerging countries and the US.

‘We are going to partnership. If we want to sell in Brazil or India, we need to have a partner. We are discussing [this] with a lot of them,’ Gallois said while refusing to reveal specific information on individual companies.

 

[angeldemon_007]

EADS Talarion

BAE Systems Mantis

I hope we stop fooling ourselves and realize the reality and be the part of this project. This is our chance to get ahead in this field. We are already searching for US like UAVs which are capable of using precision guided missiles, this our chance to get even the technology. We also enjoy a very good relationship with UK.

 

[sancho]

I hope we stop fooling ourselves and realize the reality and be the part of this project. This is our chance to get ahead in this field. We are already searching for US like UAVs which are capable of using precision guided missiles, this our chance to get even the technology. We also enjoy a very good relationship with UK.

What exactly is your point here? Pro EADS, or pro BAE?