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

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Yet Another Impression Of India's
Stealth UCAV Concept
This image, of India's Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft (AURA), featured in a recent presentation by ADA director PS Subramanyam. This one appears to be a top-shot of the impression here. Design concepts are being generated by ADA's stealth workshop.
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BAE and Dassault join forces to develop new UAS

UK-based BAE Systems and French aerospace giant Dassault Aviation are to jointly develop a new medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system to be offered to the military in France and the UK.
The signing of a memorandum of understanding follows an agreement between the UK and French governments in November 2010 to collaborate on the next-generation MALE UAS to meet the requirements of both countries.
BAE and Dassault will collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission of a joint proposal to the UK and French ministries of defence for the design, development, production and support of the MALE UAS.
The two companies have already completed a feasibility study for the project that will feed into the joint proposal.
Kevin Taylor, managing director Military Air & Information at BAE Systems says: "A successful BAE Systems/Dassault Aviation solution will ensure that the UK and France maintain their status as leading providers of aerospace capability.
"It will also ensure that both countries get the best return on the investment they have made in state-of-the-art technologies and UAS. We have a strong team in place that is ready to develop the future frontline UAS capability required by both the UK and France."
Eric Trappier, executive vice-president international at Dassault, says that the skills of both companies will allow them to provide a cost-effective system "to meet both countries' military requirements to schedule and within the budgetary constraints under which both governments will operate in future".

BAE and Dassault join forces to develop new UAS
 
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This could be good for India. Few months back eads asked Europe to make choice, so that they could find customer for their UAV like India, Brazil. EADS was paying for this program from its own pocket and hence they would like to find customers for their Talarion uav which is like predator.

EADS asks Europe to make a choice | Shephard Group

Apart from this there is good news that BAE Mantis is also going on at a good rate and so is Dassault's Neuron all both the countries showed interest in our AURA. French however said that they can't include India in AURA project as it is solely a European project but they will help in AURA if requested. BAE on the other hand said that their Mantis is in early stages but they are open for help. Considering our relationship with Britain, we can be part of Mantis and AURA can be Indian version of Mantis. Britain will be happy if we form a JV.

Industry Lukewarm to Indian UCAV Ambition
 
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angeldemon,

hurry. email that to IAF top brass.

they will be happy to see new toy in market and then they will goto daddy(MMS) and start whining to get few for them.
 
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angeldemon,

hurry. email that to IAF top brass.

they will be happy to see new toy in market and then they will goto daddy(MMS) and start whining to get few for them.
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I prefer JVs rather than direct purchase for both category. Its not wrong to go for JVs. JVs is not happening nowadays, as is clear from the above article also. The cost of development is also reduced, time of development is also reduced, number of purchase is also ensured and technology wise we learn everything.
 
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India quietly begins combat drone project

NEW DELHI: India is quietly going ahead with an ambitious programme to develop its own stealth UCAVs (unmanned combat aerial vehicles) or 'smart' drones capable of firing missiles and bombs at enemy targets with precision.

Talking about the secretive AURA (autonomous unmanned research aircraft) programme for the first time, Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) told TOI that the aim is to develop the UCAVs for IAF in seven to eight years.

"With Rs 50 crore as seed money, a full-fledged project team with 15-18 scientists has already begun work on the UCAV's preliminary design and technology. With on-board mission computers, data links, fire control radars, identification of friend or foe, and traffic collision avoidance systems, they will be highly intelligent drones," DRDO's chief controller R&D (aeronautics) Dr Prahlada said.

"Capable of flying at altitudes of 30,000 feet and weighing less than 15 tonnes, the UCAVs will have rail-launching for the missiles, bombs and PGMs (precision-guided munitions) they will carry," he added.

The realisation that UCAVs are "game-changers in modern-day warfare" has been reinforced by the successful use of American 'Predator' and 'Reaper' drones, armed with Hellfire and other missiles, against the Taliban in the region.

"But unlike Predators, which are like aircraft, our UCAVs will be more of 'a flying-wing' in design. This will ensure they have a low radar cross-section to evade enemy sensors," said Dr Prahlada.

Pakistan, incidentally, has been after the US to get Predators but so far has only managed to extract assurances for supply of the unarmed 'Shadow' drones for intelligence-gathering missions.

DRDO, on its part, is confident of developing the UCAVs mainly on its own, with "some foreign consultancy or collaboration" in fields like stealth as well as autonomous short-run take-off and landing.

Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) at Bangalore is the main nodal DRDO lab for the AURA project, with others like Defence Avionics Research Establishment (Bangalore), Defence Electronics Application Lab (Dehradun) and Gas Turbine Research Establishment (Bangalore) chipping in.

As earlier reported by TOI, apart from spy drones, India already has some "killer" drones like Israeli Harpy and Harop UAVs. These drones basically act as cruise missiles by detecting and then destroying specific enemy targets and radars by exploding into them.

UCAVs are much more advanced, almost like fighter jets in the sense that they let loose missiles on enemy targets before returning to home bases to re-arm themselves for the next mission.

IAF is also exploring "add-ons or attachments" to its existing fleet of Israeli Heron and Searcher-II UAVs to upgrade them from their present surveillance and precision-targeting roles into some sort of combat drones.

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* UAVs are major force-multipliers for their ability to send back real-time imagery of enemy targets with their sensors and cameras. They are cost-effective and eliminate risk of aircrew being killed since they are remotely-piloted from far away.

* Armed drones like 'Predators', controlled through satellites from thousands of miles away, are being used to fire 'Hellfire' missiles to devastating effect against the Taliban in region.

* UCAVs (combat UAVs) being currently developed may well replace manned fighter jets in the years ahead for medium and long-range tactical as well as strategic bombing missions.

India quietly begins combat drone project - The Times of India
 
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how about they first get Tejas, MRCA, MRTA, AMCA and FGFA on track before actually wasting time and money on an unknown technology. If HAL was rivaling IAI in capability, I would have been happy but with their current management in shambles (as even IAF has given up), I don't understand how DRDO has a penchant for getting products delayed, poor and pitiful.
 
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How you came to this conclusion ? And don't tell me by it looks....

AURA will be able to drop "smart bombs" and other PGM's according to DRDO and yes by looks compare a B-2 to the outline of the AURA there is an obvious similarity adding on AURA will be "stealthy" as well
 
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AURA will be able to drop "smart bombs" and other PGM's according to DRDO
So does other fighters like Rafale bu they are not called bomber.

yes by looks compare a B-2 to the outline of the AURA there is an obvious similarity adding on AURA will be "stealthy" as well
Yes aura will be stealthy. Also have you any other UCAV ? All of them looks like B-2. Also for AURA to be a bomber, it should also be of that size also but AURA is smaller like X-47 or Dassault neuron or Mig Skat....

Although i would like ADA to develop a bigger version for Bomber role also because as IAF is modernizing its fleet it also need a good Bomber for strategic purposes....
 
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i was saying that isn't this aura thing piece of :cheesy:crap:rofl:
& 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

so its difficult to detect in radar
 
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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.
LOOKS LIKE B2-SPIRIT BOMBER.. REALLY COOL STUFF!!!!!
 
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this will give us surgical strike capability in case of another 26/11 situation without risking pilots lives
 
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