In the Ukraine war, both parties are using drone interceptors. Perun on YT has a video on how the problem is being tackled.
I'm sure private MIC is up to the challenge given sufficient funding from GoI.
I'm sure private MIC is up to the challenge given sufficient funding from GoI.
They will have to come down eventually toward the target. Usually, when the target is military, there will be protection.
There is cost and material symmetry here in terms of Virtual Attrition. If Pakistan intends to use higher altitude drones, then cost and material usage would increase likewise for them.
Bofors L70 is said to be able to do 90 fire vertically upward upto 12.5km but lets assume 5km is max effectiveness. Shahed-136 or IAI Harpy or Harop all using Cheap Piston Diesel Engines can atmost reach 5km in altitude well within L70 firing altitude. Lets assume these kind of drones are Level-1 which fish within 0 to 5km
Then there is Level-2 kind of drones which are not exactly cheaper but not too costly. They use Turboprop engines or even Small Jet Engines. These may reach beyond 5km to some 10km in altitude. Ironically Akash SAM can reach as high as 18km but material wise its very inefficient i.e using a 750kg missile against a 500kg plus drone. I don't think anyone can design a drone that flies at such high altitude below 500kg and some 500,000$ cost. We should have a rather cheap CAMM Missile equivalent at 100kg exactly for this kind of stuff.
There is finally Level-3 which is 10km to 20km(65,000) which is max altitude of fighter jets which should be taken care of by Project Kusha/S-400.
Back to your question- it depends on cost and material analysis of enemy drones. The higher the altitude and speed they aim, the more the cost for them.
Probably this thing was always on the drawing board. And now it caught eyes of IAF thanks to the whole Israel & US vs Iran conflict. Let's see where it goes. I would still says we are far from having our own B-21.
10000 km is ferry range or combat radius. If it is combat radius, yeas its usefull against china, otherwise not a big deal.
Deja Vu! I'm reminded of a 2001 India Today article that said KALI and DURGA were space-based Star Wars weapons. I was ecstatic. It was only years later that I found out the two progs were in fact far more modest.
We don't need the su-34. We need the f-15EX.
Good need to make ICBM's that can reach UK and Bible Belt U.S.A
We need to have an engine in the class of the nk-32. This is more of a pipedream than anything real.
This should be seen in context with persistent reports in the early 2000s of Indian interest in leasing around 4 Tu-22M3 Backfire bombers. Even made it mainstream papers like the Asian Age. Indicates something may have been in the works along the lines of ATVP that eventually produced the Arihant class. There are many parallels- we leased Chakra-1 to imbibe N reactor design and ops insights, then went on to make our own boats.
Is it possible we leased Backfires that the IN did not publicly acknowledge?
The article talks about Tu-160 being the design inspiration. So perhaps the role has now changed from maritime strike to strategic deterrence.
Although the idea of a swing-wing stealth bomber is a paradox in itself. Anyhow time will tell.
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Is this even real though? Prototype flying in 10 years with what? This is fiction unless we're buying Tu-160. ET has published truckload of garbage this month, can't trust them anymore.
Yeah even if it is true by any chance of which there is very little. This could be just some drawings in a DRDO lab at best as of now. And will take 20 years or so before it even flies.
Delusion.
A military version of ISROs Avataar hypersonic space plane was supposed to serve as our strategic bomber back in the day. Now probably superseded by SSLV, TSTO and RLV projects.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
India unveils space plane - Times of India
Science News: NEW DELHI: Indian scientists have designed a reusable space plane - Avatar - which they say can launch satellites at extremely low cost and also take
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