Indian Military UAV Procurement Programs : General Discussions
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It would be better to burn that money. ADE is the worst performing lab of DRDO.
Why though. It would be primarily surveillance platform. Hellfire is cheap enough for secondary use cases.
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what drone delivered weapons we got? those 1 km thin missile by BDL? Not useful for HALE drone. I guess we will mainly keep it as ISR platform, maybe some hellfires will be added given we might make those locally.
Helina/Amogha variant
NASM-SR (An even shortened version)
If they are talking about setting up assembly here ,rest assured,, weaponisation is coming.
Indian firms to weaponise Israeli drones under IAF Project Cheetah
IAF's 'Project Cheetah' for weaponising Israeli drones to be awarded to Indian firms under Make in India route
By Ajit K Dubey
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): With all major import deals being either put on hold or scrapped by the Narendra Modi government, the Indian Air Force is now planning to go ahead with its Project Cheetah under the Make in India route where Indian defence manufacturers would arm the Israeli Heron drones with strike capabilities.
Under the ambitious Project Cheetah, the Indian Air Force wants to upgrade its existing fleet of Israeli-origin Heron unmanned aerial vehicles with better communication facilities and missiles which can target enemy positions from long range.
As per plans, the project was to be completed with Israeli weapon manufacturers.
“Now, the IAF is planning to go ahead with the upgrade of its drones by involving Indian defence firms under Make in India in defence,” government sources told ANI.
The IAF is the main lead in the project under which the Israeli drones in the Navy and the Army are also planned to be upgraded with strike capabilities and better surveillance and reconnaissance pods.
The three services for a long time have depended upon IAF Israeli-made Searcher II and Heron UAVs for reconnaissance and snooping purposes.
With the upgrade in snooping capabilities, the forces on the ground would also be able to get pinpoint intelligence about hideouts in areas where men have to be involved in operations.
The upgrades would also enable the ground stations to operate these aircraft from far-off distances and control them through a satellite communication system.
The surveillance capabilities of the UAVs planned to be upgraded would be similar to the ones that have been acquired by the Indian Army and IAF under the emergency acquisition powers granted to the forces by the government in wake of the ongoing military stand-off. (ANI)
It's fine. We do not have an program comparable to this. Assembly is a decent start for something which gives us this capability. Also, means, we can learn few things, if we are smart enough to learn. Look at the change in tactics. This itself will take couple of years. Testing our weapons by bringing it into the decision loop. Lots of things to learn.
There is nothing wrong in assembly. Concentrate on what we already have on the plate first.
Whatever TOT they will offer will be outdated even by our standards neither we will get any thing by CKD, these things are unnecessary increasing the cost of deal.
We have nothing even close to the proven capabilities of a MQ 1, let alone MQ 9.
Bharat Forge, General Atomics Partner To Manufacture Key Components For Advanced UAVs In India
Bharat Forge, General Atomics Partner To Manufacture Key Components For Advanced UAVs In India
In a major move to boost manufacturing in India, US-based General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Bharat Forge have announced a partnership to manufacture main landing gear components, subassemblies, and assemblies of remotely piloted aircraft
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If it's ADE , we'd be lucky to get it in 2028 . If the gentle Dr Kota felt the urge to exhort ADE to "promise" to deliver 3 systems of which 2 have been in the making since long you can imagine the confidence ADE enjoys among both serving & retired scientists leave aside the bureaucracy or the services.
I think they have a bit better reputation than GTRE which is not saying much. Hasn't improved a lot even after the new director joined.
This 18 number has been doing round for quite some time. So its 10 Navy who need it the most, 6 IAF & 2 army; or really 6-6-6 split which would indicate joint command sort of thing given Navy recently flew those in LAC on request from IAF? Given army's small capex I find it hard they want to spend that much on such a very limited number asset when they can buy the approved rest of apaches for the money?
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Indian forces seek armed predator drones from US
The Indian armed forces are seeking 18 armed Predator MQ 9A drones from the US, and electronic and spatial intelligence organisation NTRO will soon acquire eight Indian-manufactured medium altitude long endurance (MALE) drones for border surveillance and reconnaissance, according to people aware...
India to announce major $3 billion drone deal with the US
Deals to acquire and lease MQ-9 Predators to be unveiled during Prime Minister Modi’s state visit
$3 billion and not even offset?
Do we expect actual signing? We do not have any FMS clearance as of yet.
I am saying this because France, Italy, etc when they got MQ9s, FMS clearances were published.