India’s first AESA equipped Fighter Jet to make its first flight Soon: Report

[Abingdonboy]

I always thought our first AESA equipped aircraft will be Rafale but surprise!! Anyway Tejas mk1A will join the party too. Best thing about EL-2052 is that It comes in many variants and can be fitted to different kind of aircrafts...small or medium!!!

I thought that super Sukhois would be the first to get aesa radars, I was wrong.
Congratulations to the IAF for this momentous occasion.

As it stands the MKIs will likely be the last fleet of fighters to get AESA radars (ignoreing the upgraded M2Ks and MiG-29s); Rafale, Jag and LCA will all have AESA well before the MKIs.

the airframe so old, why bother upgrading? why not get an entirely new jet and totally writeoff the jaguar?

1) Some of the newest Jag airframes have less than 15 years of life on them and can be "zeroed" by HAL during the DARIN III upgrade
2) Only the 60 newest Jags will be upgraded to DARIN III with the AESA radars, rest will be phased out in the next 5-6 years
3) The Jags are still an excellent DPSA and when upgraded to DARIN III will offer exceptional performance against enemy AD, infrastructre and armoured columns- no point devouting assets like the MKI and Rafale to such tasks.
4) The Jags remain the only a/c so far the IAF has integrated with the devestating CBU-105

The Jag fleet will utterly decimate on the Western front and will be potent at least for another 15 years.

I suppose that is for LCA Mark 2.
I'm not sure but owing to size limitations, there never was any plan to fit Indian AESA radar on LCA Mark 1.
@Abingdonboy

There's no reason the latest batches of the MK.1A won't be able to use the UTTAM (it will be ready around 2023-4) and will be tested on the Mk.1 ( starting in the next year), the Uttam has been designed to fit on the LCA from the outset so there is no technical issue there. It is all a question of timing really- Mk.1A will be in production from 2019-20 but Uttam won't be ready by then so a foreign AESA radar will have to come for the first few batches of the Mk.1A (likely the EL/M-2052).

Mk.2 can come with Uttam (and Kaveri ) from day one.

 

[Abingdonboy]

If CPEC expands, it will be like a chinese NATO(china, pakistan, nepal, bhutan, myanmar, sri lanka and bangladesh) vs india.

Post of the year!

You have picked some of the poorest and weakest nations in the world to join "Chinese NATO", you think that would intimidate India in any way? India is already an observer in ASEAN, if you really want to go that way India will turn up the heat in your backyard and it will be with the likes of Korea, Vietnam, Japan and S.Korea not measly nations like BD, Pakistan and SL.


+ and Bhutan is offically an Indian protectorete, an Indian military contingent (IMTRAT) is deployed year-round to Bhutan and good luck getting them part of "Chinese NATO" when they don't even have diplomatic relations with China.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

Post of the year!

You have picked some of the poorest and weakest nations in the world to join "Chinese NATO", you think that would intimidate India in any way? India is already an observer in ASEAN, if you really want to go that way India will turn up the heat in your backyard and it will be with the likes of Korea, Vietnam, Japan and S.Korea not measly nations like BD, Pakistan and SL.


+ and Bhutan is offically an Indian protectorete, an Indian military contingent (IMTRAT) is deployed year-round to Bhutan and good luck getting them part of "Chinese NATO" when they don't even have diplomatic relations with China.

Bur china depends upon poor debt ridden countries to become its war mules dude. US wants NATO to be powerful, China wants Chato to be obedient.

 

[Abingdonboy]

Bur china depends upon poor debt ridden countries to become its war mules dude. US wants NATO to be powerful, China wants Chato to be obedient.

Anyone adovcating for a "Chinese NATO" is obviously ignorant of the reality of NATO. Post the Cold war (and even during it) NATO simply allowed most NATO members to reduce their defence spending and outsource their security to the US paid for by the American taxpayer of course. Instead of increasing the potency of the induvidual NATO nations the opposite occured, now if China (a nation much much more economically stressed than the US) wants to take on this role for some of the poorest and weakest nations on the planet more fool them, they'll end up having to to spend many times more than they currently do on defence simply to stand still.

The US has learnt from this lesson and only under Trump is actually trying to correct it.

 

[Omega007]

This ship was built in singapore.
Its a stealth frigate

india is military technologically backward compared to singapore

That's a French designed FFG you fuckking mong!!

 

[ashok321]

India Readies First Fighter Jet With New Age AESA Radar for Flight

https://sputniknews.com/military/201708071056264181-india-readies-jet-AESA-radar/

In 2012, ELTA offered to equip the IAF's 61 Jaguar with its ELM-2052 AESA radar during the upgrade process that would lead to the DARIN III version, which is being carried out by India's state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). The upgrade is an attempt to add another 20 years of operational life to the aircraft.

Meanwhile, India's Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) is locally developing AESA at a cost of $67 million. This project was approved by the government in January 2012 and is likely to be completed by May 2019, with a delay of three years. Home grown AESA radars will be fitted in upgraded versions of the Tejas MK 2.