Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft [AMCA] Development | Updates & Discussions.

[Foxbat Alok]

https://www.defenceview.in/india-5th-gen-fighter-aircraft-may-spread-its-wings-by-2025/

The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), part of the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), showed two slightly different scale models of India’s planned multirole fifth-generation fighter at DefExpo 2020 in Lucknow.

The Bangalore-based agency is cooperating with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) on the Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), whose mission set for the Indian Air Force (IAF) will include air superiority, air defence, precision strike, maritime operations, EW, bombing and reconnaissance.

An ADA representative confirmed to Shephard that the feasibility study and basic design configurations have been completed. This work included extensive wind tunnel testing.

Critical detailed design work is planned for next year, and Indian firm Vem Technologies will reportedly produce a 1:1 model of the AMCA.

Despite features such as serpentine air intakes, the fighter’s design will not be able to achieve the stealth levels of platforms such as the F-22 or F-35. Thus, the ADA said the design will be a ‘trade-off between aerodynamics, stealth and structure for achieving a balanced design’.
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[Deino]

Doe we really need a new thread, when there are already two?!

Reported to merge.

 

[jaibi]

Could you mention those threads, Deino? I can't seem to find them. Thanks!

Doe we really need a new thread, when there are already two?!

Reported to merge.

 

[Indos]

An ADA representative confirmed to Shephard that the feasibility study and basic design configurations have been completed. This work included extensive wind tunnel testing.

Critical detailed design work is planned for next year, and Indian firm Vem Technologies will reportedly produce a 1:1 model of the AMCA.

If the basic design has already been completed so why detail design will be worked next year or in other word 1 year after that? It should be rightly worked once the basic design is completed.

Or maybe there is still issue on the funding since working on detail design phase means that the program has been given clearance to build prototype and do required fight testing.

 

[Nilgiri]

If the basic design has already been completed so why detail design will be worked next year or in other word 1 year after that? It should be rightly worked once the basic design is completed.

Or maybe there is still issue on the funding since working on detail design phase means that the program has been given clearance to build prototype and do required fight testing.

It just vague terminology bro.

"Configuration" just likely means sizing and performance parameters and mapping out first few sensitivity studies.

So more basic design stuff will be ongoing this year, at some point it will transition to detailed design if the project funding sustains and expands appropriately.

 

[313ghazi]

I won't hold my breathe but it's not completely unfeasible. Surely they must have learnt something from the LCA debacle.

 

[StormBreaker]

Still a long way, and if it goes as planned, there is nothing surprising about first prototype by 2025.
Still then it will need 6-7 years to actually get inducted.

Title says, AMCA will spread wings by 2025, waiting for PAF to Spread AMCA’s legs as well by 2030

Even for our AZM, if funding is kept as top priority, we might see AZM’s first prototype by 2026-7 if it really is our own design from scratch.

 

[Deino]

Could you mention those threads, Deino? I can't seem to find them. Thanks!

Here's the regular one:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/adva...evelopment-updates-discussions.298161/page-40

... and IMO this one could be merged to:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/indias-amca-model-displayed-at-lucknow-airport.652935/

Best,
Deino

 

[Nilgiri]

Here's the regular one:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/adva...evelopment-updates-discussions.298161/page-40

... and IMO this one could be merged to:

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/indias-amca-model-displayed-at-lucknow-airport.652935/

Best,
Deino

Second one should not be merged, that was a model made by school kids put on display in airport. Childish members of course know no better.

1st one looks like good candidate to have one solid thread about AMCA developments.

 

[Oracle]

LCA 3

 

[Wood]

It would be a delight if this timeline comes true. But based on India's previous track record with such projects, I'm inclined to believe that this is perhaps too optimistic.

Despite features such as serpentine air intakes, the fighter’s design will not be able to achieve the stealth levels of platforms such as the F-22 or F-35. Thus, the ADA said the design will be a ‘trade-off between aerodynamics, stealth and structure for achieving a balanced design’.

This transparency is welcome. It is good for India to aim at a modest goal to begin with. Future projects can perhaps hope to achieve 'marble size' stealth.

 

[Indos]

@Water Car Engineer

Do you know official estimated development cost for AMCA program ?

 

[Water Car Engineer]

@Water Car Engineer

Do you know official estimated development cost for AMCA program ?

No idea, it hasnt entered prototyping. It will ask for funds soon for prototyping.

 

[Aliph Ahmed]

No idea, it hasnt entered prototyping. It will ask for funds soon for prototyping.

And you indians have already wasted 40 pages worth of bandwidth drooling and chest beating over something that has no completion date? No prototype and heck not even secured funding?? Hahaha

 

[KhanBaba2]

And you indians have already wasted 40 pages worth of bandwidth drooling and chest beating over something that has no completion date? No prototype and heck not even secured funding?? Hahaha

If you prefer 80 pages instead you can go to https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/project-azm-stealth-ambition-project.522011/