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We all know that Mk1A will be based on Mk1 airframe; but the question is which Mk1? AF Mk1 or NLCA Mk1?

Not sure if you've been following the news since 2015, but HAL has said that it can further reduce the weight of the landing gear (even if the existing one is already 'qualified'). Whoever said that Mk1A would be doing ski jumps??? And whoever said that LEVCONs will help with maneuverability...

NLCA has a very different landing gear (thunder thighs actually:-) ). Google for images. How else do you think they are able to test ski jump take offs and short landings? NLCA became the basis for the trainer - not the other way around. I do hope the NLCA will be the basis for Mk1A, as its...

For a while I thought the same too i.e. fix the airforce landing gear to the NLCA; but HAL never used those words. They've always said that the landing gear will be re-engineered as it is overdone (I think they feel that the airforce landing gear is over weight too). Yep, 2018 is just around the...

Not having the design details available is one thing, but denying its very existence when the who's who of HAL & MOD are making official statements is lunacy. It's an obvious fact that not everyone will have access to ALL the information available out there. Different people will break different...

Interesting thing is that there're isn't a pip squeak about Mk1A. What is the status of the new (lighter) landing gear? Have they integrated/tested ELM 2052? Which airframe is being used for Mk1A - Tejas AF Mk1 or the LCA Navy Mk1 version?? Doesn't Tejas need another FOC with new radar and...

Just do a 'Find' for SANT... (unless you're reading a print out)

http://164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Defence/16_Defence_30.pdf

New Stand-off Anti-tank Guided Missile (SANT) development is underway!! I only hope they make this one Rail-launched and not Tube-launched.

The project director wasn't very clear but I heard him say that using Nag's aerodynamics etc was ONE path of development. He starts off by saying that a new missile is required, yet for most-immediate needs we'll use Nag as the basis. Long before the new Helina came into being, I was always...

I had read on a news site that the 2011 test was actually Nag missile that got launched from the helo tubes - not the stretched Helina - and the test had failed! (I need to google and find that link to show you). The actual Helina missile wasn't ready then - even though some blogs called it as...

@Water Car Engineer @GuardianRED Do you guys know if the most recent form of Nag missile (with maybe the 4 thrusters still on) also have the RF datalink that could be used for LOAL?? Ideally Nag missile should be the make-shift Helina missile (with RF link, 7+ km range) with probably the...

I know this :-) This is ground based test (in 2011) of the Nag missile. The helicopter based test of Helina wasn't conducted until June 2014. If the redesign was prompted by physically noticing windshield degradation, then the stimulus wouldn't have come until after June 2014!! 2015-2016 is too...

Ajai Shukla broke the initial story about Mk1A (I am not a big fan of Ajai Shukla either - especially because his smug leftist political views. He kept claiming on all TV channels immediately after the Pathankot attack that he knows Indian army inside-out and knows very well that India has no...

I never disagreed with that notion. I too am trying to find out if and what might have changed..... I have never mentioned anywhere that I am sure about Helina's internal cooling system - I only said that I heard of some chatter about an indigenously developed miniature cryogenic cooler for...

I was hoping you would have read the conversation on Trishul blog already. Even the Trishul dude agrees that there's an internal coolant for Javelin. But here's the source (which I already quoted in the conversation): (From: Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense...

Incorrect! You should see this video from 6 years ago.... The Helina's project director clearly states that using Nag's configuration for Helina is only a quick fix, but in parallel they are redesigning the missile to be a regular Heli lauched ATGM. Nag's 4 thrusters were required to do a...

The missiles have BOTH internal and external cooling systems. Internal cooling is very limited and lasts only for the during of the flight. The target acquisition duration is highly variable and hence the cooling is provided externally. In general everyone has the right to their opinions...

Agreed. If only he was at least half as good an analyst as he is a photographer!! :-)

Not sure if you had a chance to read the comments on the link I posted (where I conversed under the the name 'Scrutator'); but essentially he has claimed that no missile in the world has an external bottle of coolant cooling the missile's IR seeker (when it's still on launcher). Where in fact...