Indian AESA Radar Developments

[Hydra]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2058565946592330182

 

[Gautam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2058510529803780365

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Neat design. Same plank architecture & cooling loops as the Hawk-I 2700 radar:

 

[spice]

Data Patterns Concall:

Okay. First is Virupaksha is not our product. Virupaksha is a DRDO project, name for the Super Sukhoi radars. This is not ours. We call it by a different name. So, we never delivered Virupaksha or any equivalent to Air Force as yet. So that is the wrong information you have received. So,
we have our own versions of it. And we believe that, that will also be taken up by Air Force in the coming years. But because of the uncertainty and time lines, which I can't predict, we've not given revenue expectations out of those things and in our opening remarks.

 

[Thunder]

Bars radar has peak power of only 20KW?
Can a MKI even production 25KW+ from its current engines?

 

[Rajput Lion]

Bars radar has peak power of only 20KW?

7KW as per open source and 10KW as per informed people.

Can a MKI even production 25KW+ from its current engines?

MKI's engines produce 60KVA electrical power each, so a total of 120KVA. Virupaksha's definitive version would be even more powerful than 25KWs(read more powerful with better software than HAWK I 2700).

 

[Hydra]

7KW as per open source and 10KW as per informed people.

MKI's engines produce 60KVA electrical power each, so a total of 120KVA. Virupaksha's definitive version would be even more powerful than 25KWs(read more powerful with better software than HAWK I 2700).

We can use this radar as interim solution, right?

 

[PhotonVish]

Bars radar has peak power of only 20KW?
Can a MKI even production 25KW+ from its current engines?

Super sukhoi is extensive upgrade program

It includes upgradation of generator which is projected to provide more electric power per engine than the current one

7KW as per open source and 10KW as per informed people.

MKI's engines produce 60KVA electrical power each, so a total of 120KVA. Virupaksha's definitive version would be even more powerful than 25KWs(read more powerful with better software than HAWK I 2700).

Is it confirm has hawk i 2700 is not in race ? And could u explain hoe virupaksha has better software and howbits more powerful ?

 

[Rajput Lion]

We can use this radar as interim solution, right?

Interim solution? This radar is a direct competitor to DRDO/LRDE's Virupaksha. Both are struggling to have the pie in the sky. Since IAF is willing to test DP's Talon Shield ECM pods and HAWK I 2700 GaN AESA radar aboard an MKI, maybe they will split the order between both or select whichever performs better. Let's see.

 

[lmaoxd]

India doesn't have a 6th gen fighter, but it sure as hell can make radars and EW worthy of a 6th gen fighter.

With this tech, the target isn't merely a blip, you can actually make out its structure at long ranges. Operate at such high bandwidth and frequency agility that existing AESA based jammers can't keep up all the while you run laps around the adversary's EW.
A few years ago the TTD level was around 4ns, now they've brought it down to 0.92ps.

(But then, the Koreans are working at a mature and deployment ready system which is quite ahead of this system, much less delay and truly ultra wideband performance)

Though Virupaksha isn't likely using this tech. There's a strong change that VISR-AX might be.

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i might be uninformed but this sounds very similar to the photonic radar India is developing alr in site trials(TRL 6-7). we alr have the ultra wide bandwidth performance given by PICs used in the backend of the radar.