India developing guided bombs for fighter jets

[Mujraparty]

By the end of next year, Indian fighter planes could be equipped with indigenously-developed 'glide bombs', which will be guided to their targets for precision attacks.

The first-of-its-kind bomb in the country, being developed by the DRDO, will boost India's strike capabilities as targets can be hit even beyond the range of a fighter aircraft.

The DRDO is working on developing glide capabilities on the existing bombs of various payloads including 100 kgs, 250 kgs and 500 kgs.

"We are developing glide bombs which can be directed towards their intended targets using guidance mechanisms after being dropped from aircraft of the IAF," outgoing DRDO chief V K Saraswat said.

"Such a capability will allow the IAF pilots to drop the bombs at their intended targets from stand-off distances as the glide capabilities will help in enhancing the range of the bombs," he said.

The DRDO has already carried out two trials of such bombs successfully and plans to hold more trials this year for proving the capabilities of the ammunition.

"By the end of the next year, we want to complete all the development trials of the glide bombs before offering it to the IAF," he said.

The outgoing DRDO chief said the organisation is also in the process of developing an anti-radiation missile, which will multiply the strike capabilities of the armed forces by destroying the enemy's advance warning system.

Such missiles can be mounted on Sukhoi fighter planes Su-30 MKI.

These missile can detect a radar by tracking its electro-magnetic radiation and pulses generated and these would be independent of the radar wavelength and be able to

destroy it.

Such missiles, currently in use of some major powers like the US, can detect and attack a radar antenna or transmitter with minimal aircrew input.

India developing guided bombs for fighter jets - Indian Express

 

[acetophenol]

We already have our own sudarshan LGBs.

 

[madooxno9]

anti-radiation missile: how many variants or types of such missiles are in service in other countries ?

 

[xuxu1457]

I think everything comes from DRDO......., should let company do that, one bomb company will Continuous develop and updata new bomb to get order. DRDO will only make plan, then develop, then stop, then outdata, then ask another new plan, then call for people together, then begin develop again........ without Continuous work and interesting for a Semi-bureaucratic organization

 

[Omega007]

We already have our own sudarshan LGBs.

They are talking about Sudarshan here;with a glide kit.Due to widespread proliferation of advance SAMs in our neighbouring countries,aircrafts with normal LGBs will be too much vulnerable,that's why IAF had asked DRDO to give the LGBs some stand off range-that's why they are fitting the glide kit.

 

[IndianArmy]

I think everything comes from DRDO......., should let company do that, one bomb company will Continuous develop and updata new bomb to get order. DRDO will only make plan, then develop, then stop, then outdata, then ask another new plan, then call for people together, then begin develop again........ without Continuous work and interesting for a Semi-bureaucratic organization

DRDO Does not make it, its the PSU's and Pvt companies who make it. I mean come on, you cannot expect every Research Lab of DRDO to also do the Manufacturing. DRDO only takes up the designing part.

 

[Omega007]

I think everything comes from DRDO......., should let company do that, one bomb company will Continuous develop and updata new bomb to get order. DRDO will only make plan, then develop, then stop, then outdata, then ask another new plan, then call for people together, then begin develop again........ without Continuous work and interesting for a Semi-bureaucratic organization

You are right and that's exactly what DRDO was meant to be.Their main goal was to develop the laboratory level core technological know how and then transfer the tech to the respective state manufacturing hubs like BDL,OFB,BEL etc who would then turn them into industry manufacturable products,manufacture them and then upgrade them periodically as per user recomendations;in which the state entities failed misserably albeit hillariously.Be it ballistic missiles,INSAS assault rifles,radars-you just name it.The quality control was simply missing.And most of the time the poor DRDO chaps were bad mouthed and criticised for not delivering since the users or media or public hardly discriminate between the developer and manufacturer.

 

[xuxu1457]

DRDO Does not make it, its the PSU's and Pvt companies who make it. I mean come on, you cannot expect every Research Lab of DRDO to also do the Manufacturing. DRDO only takes up the designing part.

Sell the parts of DRDO to PSU and PVT, then let them compete for order, without directely Competition， every one will become lazy and delay

 

[GR!FF!N]

They are talking about Sudarshan here;with a glide kit.Due to widespread proliferation of advance SAMs in our neighbouring countries,aircrafts with normal LGBs will be too much vulnerable,that's why IAF had asked DRDO to give the LGBs some stand off range-that's why they are fitting the glide kit.

I think they're talking about next-generation bomb (NG-LGB).I read somewhere that India was developing stand off range LGB.currently deployed Sudarshan has only 9 km gliding range.next LGB will have around 50 km as gliding range while CEP will be the same,around 10m..

 

[Anony]

By the end of next year, Indian fighter planes could be equipped with indigenously-developed ‘glide bombs’, which will be guided to their targets for precision attacks.

The first-of-its-kind bomb in the country, being developed by the DRDO, will boost India’s strike capabilities as targets can be hit even beyond the range of a fighter aircraft.

The DRDO is working on developing glide capabilities on the existing bombs of various payloads including 100 kgs, 250 kgs and 500 kgs.

“We are developing glide bombs which can be directed towards their intended targets using guidance mechanisms after being dropped from aircraft of the IAF,” outgoing DRDO chief V K Saraswat said.

“Such a capability will allow the IAF pilots to drop the bombs at their intended targets from stand-off distances as the glide capabilities will help in enhancing the range of the bombs,” he said.

The DRDO has already carried out two trials of such bombs successfully and plans to hold more trials this year for proving the capabilities of the ammunition.

“By the end of the next year, we want to complete all the development trials of the glide bombs before offering it to the IAF,” he said.

The outgoing DRDO chief said the organisation is also in the process of developing an anti-radiation missile, which will multiply the strike capabilities of the armed forces by destroying the enemy’s advance warning system.

Such missiles can be mounted on Sukhoi fighter planes Su-30 MKI.

These missile can detect a radar by tracking its electro-magnetic radiation and pulses generated and these would be independent of the radar wavelength and be able to

destroy it.

Such missiles, currently in use of some major powers like the US, can detect and attack a radar antenna or transmitter with minimal aircrew input.

The proportional guidance system that homes in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missile’s nose.

The ARMs are used by the US Air Force and they move at the speed of over Mach 2, propelled by a smokeless and solid-propellant rocket motor.

The US Air Force introduced High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) on the F-4G Wild Weasel and later on specialised F-16s equipped with the HARM Targeting System (HTS).

Listing the successful test-firing of the over 5,000 km range Agni-5 missile as the “crowning glory” of his tenure as DRDO chief, Saraswat said more lethal versions of the missile would be developed.

He said the DRDO was working on producing a variant of the missile with Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads.This MIRV capability would make the missile capable of carrying multiple warheads to destroy several targets in one go.

Terming it as a “force multiplier”, he said, “I will be able to do force multiplication with this… where I was using four missiles, I may use only one missile.”

He said a few more tests of the missile would be done before it is ready for induction into the armed forces.

On the joint venture programmes to develop Medium-range Surface to Air Missile (MR-SAM) and Long-range SAM (LR-SAM) with Israel, he said the programme has been delayed by two years due to some technological problems.

India and Israel have formed a joint venture under which the IAF and the Navy would get these missile systems.

 

[Bobby]

good news...hope it will be developed on time

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

A source would be helpful...do inform abt the range of the proposed missiles...... also not just major power like USA make such bombs... but so do countries like S.Africa,Israel,Turkey,Pakistan etc.

 

[Anony]

A source would be helpful...do inform abt the range of the proposed missiles...... also not just major power like USA make such bombs... but so do countries like S.Africa,Israel,Turkey,Pakistan etc.

India developing guided bombs for fighter jets | idrw.org

Nowhere it is written that guided bombs are used only by major power like US, it is written for anti-radiation missile.

 

[xuxu1457]

already posted
http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian-defence/256011-india-developing-guided-bombs-fighter-jets.html

 

[Ayush]

good news..