Turbofan & Turboshaft R & D Challenges For India

 

The slides above were from two separate webinars that can be viewed through the weblinks below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpSOW28W47Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8jx7D1qfbk&t=531s

Indian Navy's New Helicopter-Launched Missiles

After living for 14 years without helicopter-launched anti-ship cruise missiles, the Indian Navy (IN) will this June re-equip itself with such missiles with the arrival of about 100 Kongsberg HSMs that will arm the 24 Lockheed Martin/Sikorsky MH-60R shipborne naval multi-role helicopters that are on order for the IN.

It may be recalled that the IN had MBDA-built Sea Eagle subsonic helicopter-launched anti-ship cruise missiles that were service-inducted back in 1988 and were decommissioned in 2008.

The HSMs are likely to be followed by the DRDO-developed and Bharat Dynamics Ltd-built NASM-SR missiles. The maiden test-firing of the NASM-SR from an IN Sea King Mk.42B was conducted on May 18, 2022. At least nine more test-firings in both single-mode and ripple-fire mode will be required to be conducted before the NASM-SR is cleared for service-entry sometimes in 2025.

R & D work is also underway on developing a 130km-range, high-subsonic NASM-MR variant (usable by both airborne LRMR/ASW platforms and principal surface combatants) that will make use of the IMR seeker now board the BrahMos-1 Extended-Range supersonic multi-role cruise missile.

Mapping SS-BSM & Cruise Missile Storage Sites of India & Pakistan

 Indian Army SS-BSM Storage Sites

IA 333 Missile Group with SS-150 Prithvi at Secunderabad

IA 444 Missile Group with SS-150 Prithvi at Suratgarh

IA 555 Missile Group with SS-150 Prithvi at Stakna, Ladakh

IA 555 Missile Group with SS-150 Prithvi at Tangtse, Ladakh

IA 861 Missile Regiment BrahMos-1 Block-2 at Itarana

IA 881 Missile Regiment with BrahMos-1 Block-2 at Nasirabad

IA 1889 Missile Regiment BrahMos-1 Storage Facility at Misamari

IA SS-BSM & M-777 UFH Storage Area at Sigar, Arunachal Pradesh

IA SS-BSM Storage Area at Panagarh AFS

Indian Air Force SS-BSM Storage Sites

IAF BrahMos-1 Storage Facility at Baghdogra AFS

IAF BrahMos-1 Storage Facility at Chabua AFS

IAF BrahMos-1 Storage Facility at Halwara AFS

IAF BrahMos-1 Storage Facility at Jamnagar AFS

IAF BrahMos-1 Storage Facility at Naliya AFS

IAF BrahMos-A Storage Area at Thanjavur AFS

IAF Prithvi SS-250 Storage Facility at Sirsa AFS

IAF Prithvi SS-250 Storage Facility at Suratgarh AFS

     Pakistan Army BM & SS-BSM Storage Sites

PA SS-BSM & GLCM Storage Base at Masroor

PA SS-BSM & GLCM Storage Base north of Nawabshah

PA's BM Storage Area at Tarnawa

PA's BM Storage UGF at Jindar-1

PA's BM Storage UGF at Jindar-2

PA's Fatehjang BM Storage UGF-1

PA's Fatehjang BM Storage UGF-2

PA's Kirthar Mountains BM Storage UGF

PA's SS-BSM Storage & Launch Sites in Mangla

ANI Peddles FAKE NEWS About IAF Ordering JDAMs For Tejas LCA

It all began with a poster (below) displayed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) in the India pavilion at the 17th Defence Services Asia (DSA-2022) exhibition, underway between March 28 and 31, at the Malaysian International Trade & Exhibition Centre (MITEC), Kuala Lumpur.

That the poster contained several inaccuracies is self-evident, especially when compared to another poster (below) that was designed and publicised by the DRDO last January.

ANI’s ‘Desi Patrakaars’ WRONGLY ASSUMED that since the HAL poster showed Boeing-built JDAMs, therefore the Indian Air Force (IAF) would be arming its Tejas Mk.1 and Mk.2 L-MRCAs with JDAMs.

However, a quick check at the US Defense & Security Cooperation Agency’s (DSCA) website reveals that the export of JDAMs to India was never proposed (see https://www.dsca.mil/tags/india).

Instead, the HAL booth at the DSA-2022 expo hosts a full-scale mock-up of the SAFRAN-built AASM Hammer precision-guided munition (PGM).

To give the benefit of doubt to HAL, it can well be that HAL showed the JDAM in its poster to assure the Royal Malaysian Air Force (TUDM) that in case it ordered the Tejas Mk.1A L-MRCA, then HAL would be able to integrate the JDAM (which the TUDM already has for its eight Boeing F/A-18D Night Attack Hornets) with the aircraft’s weapons management avionics suite.

The IAF on its part will be procuring NOT the JDAMs, but the PG-HSLD PGMs.