Indian AESA Radar Developments
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how it can be done for air force does SDR play any role here bcz afaik navy got this capability by using multiple SDR.
SDR used by navy are very big whereas for air force they are small so they really have same capability.
@randomradio is this the X band AESA radar?
Yes SDR would be necessary for high speed safe data transfer. US did it back in 2000... here's the link
Navy Leads Effort to Field Joint Air-Defense Network
The AWACS should first be able to transfer targeting data to the fighter jet, which in turn will feed it into the missile before it's fired. This requires a datalink between the fighter jet and AWACS.
Then mid course updates can be provided to the missile after it is fired from the AWACS through a datalink between the missile and AWACS.
I don't know if the Pakistanis have integrated such a system with their AWACS. But AWACS targeting data is sh!t, so the missile has a greater chance of missing. Which is why it is actually not used on AAMs.
But since the introduction of power efficient GaN..... can a dual band or an X band GaN FCR be put on say an AWACS for better resolution for targeting ?
About MFCR?
The fact that we were tracking satellite during the ASAT test, it is easy to track sat, but it is way beyond the capability of MFCR. We moved way beyond it. And the fact that we conducted the ASAT test as BMD test, is another proof that things are far far beyond MFCR now.
And same fire control system will be used in PDV deployment ( whenever that happen).
For hint
It can be done, but it's not necessary.
A better option is to get CEC capability for long range SAMs instead of AAMs.
This is what we going to do. Indeed.
If you watch carefully images of LRTR over interenet, there are actually 2 different radars, which the Indian defense community/fanboyz named it both as LRTR.
So the DRDO early warning S-band radar is basically an ELT-2090S Spectra. Both are S-band and look identical.
DRDO S - band early warning radar.
Elta-ELM-2090s spectra.
I wonder if can do this much from collaboration or on our own than why the fck we are importing S-400 ? Why not build our own S-400 with far greater capability ?
The BMD's early warning radar is L band.
'Cause we haven't invested on a mobile long range radar like what's on the S-400. The BMD radars are much bigger and are fixed. We don't have the missiles either.
the one I posted as an X band radar actually is a DRDO L-band LRTR.
from DRDO slide.
While this one is a S-band LRTR.
This DRDO radar is nothing but ELTA-ELM-2090S SPECTRA.
This same S-band AESA is probably the secondary radar on VC11184 Ocean Surveillance Ship.
There is no open source information on any S band radar being part of the land based BMD though.
And I've not seen the radars related to the BMD, so there's no point trying to identify them. Maybe once clearer images are available.
MFCR is part of India BMD system and is a S- band AESA FCR.
from a DRDO video.
This new DRDO S-band AESA aka Elta-ELM -2090s Spectra will be used for early warning and possible TBM engagement for both land based as well sea based ABM system.
There are some compulsion to buy S 400.
But if you talking about capability wise, if they wanted BMD for IRBM/MRBM, they should totally gone for Arrow 3 or THAAD.
S 400 is indeed inferior than these two, and is with very limited BMD capability. And if they wanted a long range SAM, they should gone for Barak 8 ER.
But there were strategic compulsion to buy it, so we buying it.
But we still going to need Indian BMD now to cover inadequacies of S 400.