The first one is regarding the Indigenous made Light Utility Helicopter designed and developed by HAL getting its Initial Operational Clearance and open for production. The Indian Army is in desperate need for Light Utility Helicopter which is a vital requirement for soldiers posted at the world’s highest battlefield on the inhospitable Siachen Glacier of Himalayas. Currently the Indian Army is depending on its vintage helicopters fleet of Cheetah/Chetak and they have lived way beyond the threshold by more than 12-15 years. These copters were purchased from France and inducted into the Indian Army over 40 years ago in 1971. There is a need for more than 600 helicopters for the armed forces. The HAL Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) is a single-engine light helicopter designed and developed by Rotary Wing Research and Design Center of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) of India for civilian and military use. This chopper has a max speed of 250 km/hr and Cruise speed of 235 km/hr with a range of 350 kms. Three prototypes have been built and cumulatively completed over 550 flights under various terrains and climatic conditions like cold weather, hot weather, sea-level and high altitude complying to stringent certification and user requirements. As mentioned, the HAL Light Utility Helicopter received the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) on 7 February 2020. The point to note is that HAL is also simultaneously working to manufacture 200 Kamov 226 helicopter in collaboration with Russian Helicopters. Coming to second update which is regarding another great achievement by an Indian Firm. The JSR Dynamics has come up with indigenous 180 km strike range air to ground missile named Khagantak and the same has been displayed in DefExpo 2020. The Khagantak missile is a guide weapon with excellent aerodynamic performance and a seeker in the front which has got artificial intelligence to recognise targets. This missile is a air launch variant which when released from 12 kms can travel upto a range of 180 kms. One of the variant can carry a warhead of 72 kg and the other one can carry a warhead of 146 kg. We need to see if Gov approves further production of this missile and helps in being inducted. The third update is regarding India's Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) unveiling a model of a new, third generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) at the Defexpo 2020 defence exhibition in Lucknow. Designated as 'Amogha-III', the new man-portable, 'fire-and-forget' missile has a conventional cylindrical body with eight mid-body foldable fins, and four relatively larger aft fins, for flight stabilisation. The Amogha-III has a comparatively simple configuration featuring a Bharat Dynamics developed smokeless, signature free, dual-thrust solid rocket motor with thrust vector control (TVC). and a dual mode - imaging infrared (IIR) and electro-optical (EO) - seeker assembly for terminal homing. The missile is fired in lock-on-before launch (LOBL) mode, and can engage targets by using either top or direct attack mode. The Amogha-III ATGM houses an anti-armour tandem warhead, which is claimed to be able to penetrate in excess of 650 mm beyond Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA). The weight class of the warhead has not been disclosed. The complete missile system features an Amogha-III missile and a tripod, and a command launch unit (CLU) with remote operation capability.
Sunday, February 9, 2020
DefExpo 2020
The first one is regarding the Indigenous made Light Utility Helicopter designed and developed by HAL getting its Initial Operational Clearance and open for production. The Indian Army is in desperate need for Light Utility Helicopter which is a vital requirement for soldiers posted at the world’s highest battlefield on the inhospitable Siachen Glacier of Himalayas. Currently the Indian Army is depending on its vintage helicopters fleet of Cheetah/Chetak and they have lived way beyond the threshold by more than 12-15 years. These copters were purchased from France and inducted into the Indian Army over 40 years ago in 1971. There is a need for more than 600 helicopters for the armed forces. The HAL Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) is a single-engine light helicopter designed and developed by Rotary Wing Research and Design Center of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) of India for civilian and military use. This chopper has a max speed of 250 km/hr and Cruise speed of 235 km/hr with a range of 350 kms. Three prototypes have been built and cumulatively completed over 550 flights under various terrains and climatic conditions like cold weather, hot weather, sea-level and high altitude complying to stringent certification and user requirements. As mentioned, the HAL Light Utility Helicopter received the Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) on 7 February 2020. The point to note is that HAL is also simultaneously working to manufacture 200 Kamov 226 helicopter in collaboration with Russian Helicopters. Coming to second update which is regarding another great achievement by an Indian Firm. The JSR Dynamics has come up with indigenous 180 km strike range air to ground missile named Khagantak and the same has been displayed in DefExpo 2020. The Khagantak missile is a guide weapon with excellent aerodynamic performance and a seeker in the front which has got artificial intelligence to recognise targets. This missile is a air launch variant which when released from 12 kms can travel upto a range of 180 kms. One of the variant can carry a warhead of 72 kg and the other one can carry a warhead of 146 kg. We need to see if Gov approves further production of this missile and helps in being inducted. The third update is regarding India's Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) unveiling a model of a new, third generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) at the Defexpo 2020 defence exhibition in Lucknow. Designated as 'Amogha-III', the new man-portable, 'fire-and-forget' missile has a conventional cylindrical body with eight mid-body foldable fins, and four relatively larger aft fins, for flight stabilisation. The Amogha-III has a comparatively simple configuration featuring a Bharat Dynamics developed smokeless, signature free, dual-thrust solid rocket motor with thrust vector control (TVC). and a dual mode - imaging infrared (IIR) and electro-optical (EO) - seeker assembly for terminal homing. The missile is fired in lock-on-before launch (LOBL) mode, and can engage targets by using either top or direct attack mode. The Amogha-III ATGM houses an anti-armour tandem warhead, which is claimed to be able to penetrate in excess of 650 mm beyond Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA). The weight class of the warhead has not been disclosed. The complete missile system features an Amogha-III missile and a tripod, and a command launch unit (CLU) with remote operation capability.
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