Published December 24, 2020 | By admin
SOURCE: RAUNAK KUNDE / NEWS BEAT / IDRW.ORG.
LSP-2 TESTBED FOR UTTAM AESA FCR
Indigenous Uttam AESA Fire control radar (FCR) has completed crucial air to air mode trials successfully and by mid of 2021, DRDO is expecting that it also completes its Air to Ground and Air to Sea Mode before it is cleared for production sometime at end of 2021 or in early 2022 said a report prepared by the Delhi Defence Review. Air to Air mode trials made up 80% of the flight trials and major section of the software development required for the program.
Uttam AESA FCR has been tested in Basic and Advance air to air mode in the trials in the last few years, it has been, further fine-tuned with regular software upgrades and scan refinements, and it has shown better search and track results then the Israeli ELTA ELM-2052 AESA FCR found on the Jaguar Ground attack jets.
Published December 24, 2020 | By admin
SOURCE: RAUNAK KUNDE / NEWS BEAT / IDRW.ORG.
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be procuring an Ex-Air India, Airbus A319 to be used as an Inhouse flying Testbed aircraft for various Airborne Radar programs for the Indian military said a report prepared by the Delhi Defence Review. Uttam AESA and AWACS Program including Navy’s Multimission Maritime Aircraft Senior suite program are some of the initial programs that will be using A319 as testbed.
DRDO use to lease a Business jet from Commercial Airplane lessors to be used as flying Testbed initially for the Uttam AESA program. DRDO also had used the services of Hawker Siddeley HS 748 as a flying Testbed for ELTA/MMR Hybrid Radar that has been developed for the Tejas Mk1 Program.