Ghatak and Rustom Indigenous UAV Programs

[Photon Vish]

Rafael Icebreaker weighs <400kg at a 4m length. NGARM weighs 600kg at 5.5m. Even at conservative estimates, the bays should be long enough to accomodate a 4m long munition.

Yeah IceBreaker is good option to buy for anti-ship if we can not develope any other by ourself.

IMO, a platform that advanced would be able to carry payloads in an assymetric configuration. No reason to limit each hard-point to 500kg max.

Yeah they can, but making bear higher load means much more weight gain for strengthening the points.

And a flying wing design should easily be able to taken off even with 15 tonnes of load, so if they are explicitly mentioning that max payload is 1100 tonnes, then i doubt it can accomodate more than 550kg of payload at each pylons

 

[Rune]

As ghatak from specs looks like it can not carry any weapon weighing more than 500kg, so pretty much useless for anti-ship role.

It will be integrated with Hammers in future for such targets.

 

[Photon Vish]

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It will be integrated with Hammers in future for such targets.

Hammer for anti-ship ?

May be against OPV or under light ships but against frigate or greater ? Not at all.

We need 2*AMC mk2 dry engine based ghatak for anti ship.

 

[Rune]

Hammer for anti-ship ?

May be against OPV or under light ships but against frigate or greater ? Not at all.

We need 2*AMC mk2 dry engine based ghatak for anti ship.

Lol Hammers can easily achieve mission kill against any frig/destroyer.

 

[AllStirFry]

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Hammer for anti-ship ?

May be against OPV or under light ships but against frigate or greater ? Not at all.

We need 2*AMC mk2 dry engine based ghatak for anti ship.

I am impressed! You mean this Ghatak to be used as an anti ship missile !!
With 2 engines I assume you imply near hypersonic kinetics..... and direct impact, like a m829 sabot?

 

[Photon Vish]

Lol Hammers can easily achieve mission kill against any frig/destroyer.

Yeah, good luck going to the release range of hammer without being hammered by enemy SAM.

You need to achieve radar lock on warship to release the hammer, and if u are able to track ship then so she will.

And then SAM will chase you faster than you can go cold.

And if enemy is China(CBG), then even launching brahmos is hard, without being hit by enemy a2a in return (KJ-600 AWACS ).

I am impressed! You mean this Ghatak to be used as an anti ship missile !!
With 2 engines I assume you imply near hypersonic kinetics..... and direct impact, like a m829 sabot?

I have many impressive ideas, but world does not care about it .

 

[Barcid]

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Hammer for anti-ship ?

May be against OPV or under light ships but against frigate or greater ? Not at all.

We need 2*AMC mk2 dry engine based ghatak for anti ship.

We don't need a separate drone for anti ship. Ghatak will be able to carry both NASM MR and future Nirbhay based long range ashm

 

[Photon Vish]

We don't need a separate drone for anti ship. Ghatak will be able to carry both NASM MR and future Nirbhay based long range ashm

Yeah we need, infact a bigger ghatak will be beneficial to IAF more than current ghatak if they thinks that China is bigger threat than Pakistan.

And obv for navy, ghatak even with NASM MR is very insufficient (and we dont even know if it can even fit it as 1100kg is maximum payload of ghatak , spreaded in 2 IWB.

 

[lmaoxd]

Yeah we need, infact a bigger ghatak will be beneficial to IAF more than current ghatak if they thinks that China is bigger threat than Pakistan.

And obv for navy, ghatak even with NASM MR is very insufficient (and we dont even know if it can even fit it as 1100kg is maximum payload of ghatak , spreaded in 2 IWB.

The Ghatak if it can handle 2 600KG bomb can handle 2 NASM-MR. 2 NASM-MR is pretty decent. After all its not meant to be a heavy fighter, it cant carry like 6 of them. Its meant to support precision A-G and A-A in highly contested environments.

Is it confirmed that the ghatak has 2 seperate bays? where? the L&T EUAV might not even the the final form of the ghatak. Its called experimental for a reason.

 

[Photon Vish]

The Ghatak if it can handle 2 600KG bomb can handle 2 NASM-MR. 2 NASM-MR is pretty decent. After all its not meant to be a heavy fighter, it cant carry like 6 of them. Its meant to support precision A-G and A-A in highly contested environments.

Max payload is 1100kg. Most probably it will exclude pylons, as a2g and a2a have different pylons.

So at max, it should be able to only take 2*500kg glide bombs.

Is it confirmed that the ghatak has 2 seperate bays? where? the L&T EUAV might not even the the final form of the ghatak. Its called experimental for a reason.

It's theoretically impossible to have single weapon bay with engine in center which feeds air with an serpentine air intake.

Engine will occupy all the volume on center, while side will have good volume.

 

[lmaoxd]

Max payload is 1100kg. Most probably it will exclude pylons, as a2g and a2a have different pylons.

So at max, it should be able to only take 2*500kg glide bombs.

It's theoretically impossible to have single weapon bay with engine in center which feeds air with an serpentine air intake.

Engine will occupy all the volume on center, while side will have good volume.

IC then idk. it might not be able to carry the NASM MR But I think they could modify the bay enough for give it another 50kg per bay. Idk. lets see

 

[Hydra]