Yes, we do. It's in Chitradurga. An IAF base being developed for this is Sulur. The ground test base is in Bangalore.
I asked
do we have a pic, video, diagram of morphing wing you said being tested in the air?
bcoz the Aeronautical Test Range NE of Chitradurga (14°23'12.7"N 76°34'38.4"E), (9HPC+QR8, Varavoo Kaval, Karnataka 577536) has runway surrounded by close, short hills beyond which there're fields, villages, highways. There'no comparison with Area-51.
The Sulur airbase has far worse expose to public.
if a morphing wing experimental platform is being tested on manned A/c or UAV from these locations, cannot escape public eyes.
The source is CSIR-NAL and DRDO, not an article.
Obviously who else will be source? But the articles are portraying unbelievable AI made pics rather than some slide or diagram from CSIR-NAL, DRDO, ADA.
Engine, TVC, and flight controls for tailless high-performance designs. That's why AMCA is a tailed design.
As I told you a few years ago, we are gonna develop foundational technologies through drones. The next evolution after Ghatak is to use AMCA's engine to develop a next generation of high performance drones by 2040, which will give us the foundational technologies required for future unmanned large-body fighter drones to replace manned fighters. ADE recently announced they will begin a new drone development in 2030 using AMCA's engine. So the next evolution for 2050s will be twin-engine drones using VCE that will replace manned fighters. What you call AHCA.
> That approach is only for the UCAVs, not manned jet of 6gen what
i actually call AHCA Mk1 which can be inducted by 2040-45 if made by discipline in PPP.
> After 15 years since 2010, citizens were thinking that AMCA metal cutting happened so its prototype is 50% completed. But now news say that PPP will start making it.
> A medium class engine like F414 or its JV equivalent has many use cases, but India's domestic capability in engine with Kaveri & UCAV with Ghatak & CATS Warrior is new, slow, unprepared for sudden war. 6gen is MUMT, the UCAVs can have small to medium engines but the manned jet needs higher electricity, ATWR (A/c Thrust to Weight Ratio), payload, hence high thrust engine, i've already shown preliminary calculations in AHCA thread long back. Initial batches may have 5gen engine then VCE.
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War will not wait till 2050s & won't be won with super delayed &/or obsolete stuff.
> The discussion is on our 6gen jet & you complicated it by a new parameter of "morphing wings".
> Your solution is to move slower for 25-30 years till all 100% components reach 6gen level in 2050s & probably import MiG-41. My idea of AHCA is a work-around of modular architecture, for IN+IAF, with higher payload, higher thrust engine, to use domestic & international PPP to make TD like YF-22, X-35, with some existing components within 10 years (2030-35) while the PPP/JV goes on & then make final jet & induct in 15-20 years (2040-45).
Its job is to deflect light into absorbptive surfaces or to achieve pass through, so it does the opposite of RAM/RAS.
We see objects bcoz light gets reflected back to our eyes. Instead, if that light is deflected or refracted somewhere else then we'll see a black space in place of the object.
High-speed black programs from the 50s and 60s were later canceled because they were unnecessary. The Americans even had programs for space-going aircraft at the time, so did the Soviets. But the supowerpowers collectively decided to not use space. That also led to the ABM Treaty. It was a choice.
> Apart from rumored ones, since 1990s, these space plane projects (X-20 Dyna-soar, X-33 Venture Star, Rockwell X-30 NASP, BAe HOTOL, etc) have been shown on documentaries on Discovery Channel ,NatGeo, History channel, we grew up watching every episode, some still on YT.
> Obviously in cold war, many projects were launched, cancelled, considered UNNECESSARY due to many reasons -
- to reduce hostility,
- stop arms race which would drain the the finance of any nation with social impacts also,
- satellites could do spying,
- ICBMs could deliver warheads
leading to many treaties like AMB treaty -
- Outer Space Treaty, 1967
- SALT 1, 1972
- SALT 2, 1979
- START 1991, etc big list.
> The experience with costly Space Shuttle, including Challnger disaster, high cost of of XB-70, etc also impacted project decisions.
MW laser can't do sh!t at such heights and ranges.
> On the contrary, hypersonic pilot might shit in spacesuit.
> By MW class i don't mean just 1 MW but 10s of MW.
> The RANGE of detection, firing has to be large enough to disorient incoming missiles, if not destroy.
> Cancelled projects like Don't forget STAR WARS/SDI, Boeing 747 ABL, Zenith Start satellite. But some of these things will return in another form. 6gen in general & MiG-41 are quoted to have DEW.
> Any flying object in space or very high altitude & speed would need thermal skin. It is not neccesarry to destroy the object like shown in movies, animations. Just a crack in skin or damage to sensors can burn, destabilize, destroy the object, like Space Shuttle Columbia.
> just like telescopes are preferred to be place on mountains due to less scattering, a DEW platform would work well at low air density.
> Hypesonic jet, missile would use fossil fuel, hence limited range, action/reaction time. Recent attack by Iran on Israel shows 3 interceptors missed to hit the same missile. But DEW with good aim by RF+IR sensors has better chance.
> USA, Israel, Russia, China, India & others are actively doing R&D on DEW to reduce cost of interceptors not just to shoot down rockets of terrorists, but any supersonic & hypersonic threat.
>A network of DEW platforms from ground & air are already becoming newar-future.
The heck are you talking about? It's within normal parameters for a near-space fighter/interceptor. You can make a smaller aircraft too, like the RLV, but it will have limited on-station time. Even that can be developed, but its utility will be lower for the interception mission.
55T is too low for double speed, double range, and double altitude compared to the Mig-31.
Old estimates of achieving the same using a Mig-31-sized airframe have been unrealistic.
SR-71 is wide and gives 5000 km range, Mig-41 has to surpass that while carrying weapons internally while also being more agile.
> By 100-150 tons you're talking about
Tu-22M SIZED COMBAT JET, with the
biggest RCS & IRS.
> RLV is just a TD, the actual RLV would be big to launch satellites.
> If you wanna launch AGMs from it then BMs & stand-off weapons are already there.
> if you wanna launch AAMs from it then S-400/500 like VLR-SAMs are there + ABM interceptors who's misses will be addressed by DEW.
> It is said that spy sats killed a hypersonic successor of SR-71.
> After A-12, YF-12 in 1960s, nothing alike got made across globe.
We are slowly entering the era of hyper massive aircraft operating out of space. A high supersonic near-space fighter is a stepping stone for that.
Like i said i believe that
high supersonic jets could be made.
I also do believe that space planes will return, at least for commercial purpose. Space Shuttle was just the beginning.
Some say that SR-72 like jet is an existing secret reality.
But a
FUTURE MANNED HYPERSONIC COMBAT JET, it is highly unlikely looking at -
- hypersonic ABMs & VLR-SAMs,
- DEW development,
- the fortune cost, CAPEX, OPEX,
- satellite constellations,
- AI/ML development
- pilots wearing space suits & pulling high Gs,
- inter-state turning radius during high speeds.
Still,
USA, Russia, China might try to play with their money.
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