Indian AESA Radar Developments
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Tejas mk1 equipped with DRDO's Uttam AESA radar at Aero India..
Hey there....Long time no see.Tejas mk1 equipped with DRDO's Uttam AESA radar at Aero India..
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Hello.. Just about hanging in in these unfortunate times... Was in India for a long vacay and didn't access the site entirely. Aero India has bought me back in. How's it going dude?
They use very different algorithm for this. They just write thier specifications like that.
It's impressive for 20 years ago, especially when aircraft had large RCS then. Rafale's PESA also did the same. Both were significant improvements over their MS counterparts. And that's also why the Americans with their new AESA radars with twice the range sang its praises off the top of every tree they could find.
It's actually why I keep saying the Bars is outdated today and the MKI needs a significant upgrade. The JF-17's AESA radar now matches Bars's detection range. But the IAF finds it adequate today because the PAF is still 20 years behind the world.
The Russian Bars-R on their Su-30SM has seen a 50% improvement. This radar and/or the Irbis-E were supposed to be upgrades for the MKI after 2010 but were not pursued.
Btw, 135Km is not the instrumented range. So the Israeli advertisement is different from HAL's. Bars's instrumented range is 400Km, which is only slightly lesser than the instrumented range of AWACS of the time.
Do you think the Russians will offer byelka to be integrated to the mki or is it going to be uttam or fga 57??
Some years ago, the Russians said they will make a more advanced radar than the Byelka for the MKI. We are yet to see what the IAF finally decides.
I don't have any doubts it's going to be uttam.
With so many indian avionics we are designing, it ll be integrated with Uttam radar.
If Russian radars are way ahead of Uttam utility, then it ll be a different story.
The fga series is definitely inferior to uttam. But byelka seems to better and I doubt they will let us integrate byelka on it...
Why don't we upgrade Mig 29 UPG s and Mig 29 Ks with Uttam AESA?
That's 100+ fighters there..
And additionally we have planned for another 29 mig 29.
If we upgrade 140 mig 29 & 270 Su 30 mki with Uttam,
It ll make uttam grand success and big leap in capabilities in the short term with indigenous radar and production industry.
That's 100+ fighters there..
And additionally we have planned for another 29 mig 29.
If we upgrade 140 mig 29 & 270 Su 30 mki with Uttam,
It ll make uttam grand success and big leap in capabilities in the short term with indigenous radar and production industry.
It's still not complete. Having a Radar in hardware is one thing and having a fully functional Radar is another.
What we have is a Radar but to make it functional (or you may call it putting life into it) it needs software which is time consuming as it involves millions of lines of codes and then this software needs to be tested which is very tedious and time consuming as it needs to be put on a fighter and flown in various air combat situations in both air to air and air to ground, also various weapons and missiles need to integrated into software, many types of automation testing, etc. All this takes time.
Right now Uttam has cleared air to air mode only. Air to ground is still being tested and then the definitive Uttam Radar will be coming with GaN modules. All this will take time and expected time for Uttam Radar to be fully battle ready is around 2025-27. So expect it to be on MWF, TEDBF, AMCA but not for any other fighters...