Indonesian Elang Hitam MALE UCAV

[Indos]

This will be a dedicated thread about this home grown UCAV where the design stage is started in January 2015

 

[Indos]

These are the new pictures, showing several prototypes have already been built

Proper landing gear has already been installed

 

[Indos]

This older video from official BPPT (lead consortium of the program) YouTube channel shows more detail story about the program and shows more image during design phase and manufacturing of the prototype. We can use automatic translation in English but will not be perfect.

 

[Muhammad Saftain Anjum]

Its specifications plz.

Design looks nice.it's a big bird as compared to our S2.

 

[Indos]

Its specifications plz.

Design looks nice.it's a big bird as compared to our S2.

If you watch the video, you can see some specification.

The engine is Rotax 915 iS which is latest version of Rotax engine

Rotax 915 iS - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Indos]

SIGNING OF THE JOINT PRODUCTION CONTRACT MALE CLASS UCAV MISSION SYSTEM​

TA. 2022​

Wednesday, June 1 2022

Jakarta, 31/05 Unmanned Aircraft (PTTA) type Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) which is able to fly continuously 24 hours is a vehicle needed to maintain the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia from the air.

In 2017 a joint agreement was formed in the form of the MALE Class Unmanned Aircraft Consortium (PTTA) with members consisting of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Indonesia, namely the Directorate General of Pothan Kemhan and Balitbang Kemhan, the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), the Indonesian Air Force (Dislitbangau), Institut Technology Bandung/ITB (FTMD), LAPAN, state owned enterprises, namely PT Dirgantara Indonesia and PT Len Industri.

On Tuesday (31/5/2022), the Directorate General of Pothan Kemhan represented by the Secretary General of Pothan Kemhan Laksma TNI Sri Yanto, ST, and PT. Len Industri (Persero) represented by the Director of Business and Cooperation of PT. Len Industri (Persero) Wahyu Sofiadi signed a Contract for the Joint Production Program PTTA Mission System Class MALE TA. 2022. This program is the 4th year of mastery of PTTA Class MALE Mission System technology as part of the development of PTTA MALE Elang Hitam with Scope of Work EH1-B Data Alignment, GCS Upgrade Design System and On Board Test Bench for Proof of Concept (PTTA) .

In his speech, Secretary General Pothan Kemhan conveyed to PT. Len Industri (Persero) who received an assignment through this program to carry out the task in accordance with the agreement in the Contract. It is hoped that the mastery of the PTTA MALE Mission System technology can realize the independence of the Defense Industry in producing PTTA MALE to fill the needs of the Indonesian Air Force in maintaining the sovereignty of the Republic of Indonesia through the air. (Red Bagdatin-Dittekindhan)

Direktorat Jenderal Potensi Pertahanan Kemhan RI​

www.kemhan.go.id

 

[Indos]

The UAV is planned to use many composite material and currently several research are going on in term of subsystems and also composite material. We can see in above post for example mission system will be jointly produced by Indonesian local companies.