UAV INDIA Part 1: First Ever Impressions Of AURA, India's UCAV

[CONNAN]

http://livefist.blogspot.com/2010/06/uav-india-part-1-first-ever-impressions.html

What you're looking at here are the first ever manifestations of what India's UCAV, codenamed AURA, could look like. These are images from an official presentation (see slide) by India's Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE) director PS Krishnan, outlining AURA (Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft), a programme that was nameless and obscure in the public domain before it was reported on here on LiveFist and on Headlines Today. As you can see from the slide, the ADE describes the AURA as a "self defending" high speed reconnaisance UAV with a "weapon firing capability", which seems a typically laboured way of describing the obvious. With the programme still in its project definition stage, the images used in the slide above are likely just representative (the tacky flag-on-underbelly routine a-la Lockheed Nighthawk with stars and stripes), though it's a definite indication of how the programme's scientists are thinking. It's all fully in line with what former DRDO chief controller for Aeronautics said in 2007: that India's combat drone would be a stealthy flying-wing concept aircraft with internal weapons and a turbofan engine.

 

[CONNAN]

India's Black Kite Fixed-wing MAV

NAL/ADE Black Kite MAV. Wingspan: 300-mm. Endurance: 30 minutes. Range: 2-km. Payload: Daylight camera. Earlier post on Indian MAV

 

[anathema]

No offence ...Connan yaaar ...this is already posted...please do some search before opening a thread...

 

[CONNAN]

No offence ...Connan yaaar ...this is already posted...please do some search before opening a thread...

this is a common mistake done by everybody as you can see i opend a thread on EX GURUDA IN MULTIMEDIA THREAD AND PEOPLE STRATED POSTING HERE IN DEFENCESECTION EVERY BODY DOES THIS SO I DONT BOTHER TO RESEARCH SINCE I SAID THE SAME CHILAX AND ENJOY

 

[CONNAN]

No offence ...Connan yaaar ...this is already posted...please do some search before opening a thread...

AND BUDDY TALKING ABOUT YOU RESEARCH threads in wrong section or double threads

PAK-FA : photos and videos

Ex garuda begins in france same topic thread below link

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/62167-indo-french-forces-begin-joint-exercises.html

there are a few of them so why dont you tell themm all the same thing you said to me

 

[CONNAN]

No offence ...Connan yaaar ...this is already posted...please do some search before opening a thread...

every tom dick and harry opens a new thread so nobody bothers so get along dude

 

[anathema]

AND BUDDY TALKING ABOUT YOU RESEARCH threads in wrong section or double threads

PAK-FA : photos and videos

Ex garuda begins in france same topic thread below link

http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/62167-indo-french-forces-begin-joint-exercises.html

there are a few of them so why dont you tell themm all the same thing you said to me

I do tell them when i can...unfortunately i am not the Mod. ... I dont want your threads to get deleted un-necessarily considering that time that you have put on this...(which AM will do if he sees this)

Nothing malicious behind this ...just good feelings...neways thanks..have a nice day...

 

[CONNAN]

I do tell them when i can...unfortunately i am not the Mod. ... I dont want your threads to get deleted un-necessarily considering that time that you have put on this...(which AM will do if he sees this)

Nothing malicious behind this ...just good feelings...neways thanks..have a nice day...

i agree with you buddy u know what nobody bothers so ignore it

 

[praveen007]

sir, i had posted this news 2 days agao in new thread but it was deleted dont know why?

 

[Hammy007]

whats the difference btw them and regulr model plae toys??

 

[PEACEMAKER2010]

whats the difference btw them and regulr model plae toys??

not mch because they are all models

 

[soaringphnx]

AURA: India's UCAV Programme​

Friday, June 11, 2010.

Deep inside a non-descript building in Bangalore’s Vimanapura area, Indian military scientists are working hard to define the country’s first unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), one of India’s least known government-sponsored defence programmes. Still classified and “off the books”, the programme is steeped in conceptualizing a robotic drone aircraft that can autonomously seek, identify and destroy targets with on-board guided weapons.

According to information made available for the first time, the project has a typically evasive name – AURA, for Autonomous Unmanned Research Aircraft. But the working title of the drone aircraft itself leaves nothing to the imagination – Indian Unmanned Strike Aircraft Programme (IUSAP). In other words, a pilotless bomber.

The AURA programme is currently under the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), and led by aerospace scientist Biju Uthup, who has worked with the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA Tejas) programme in several capacities. Sources reveal that the AURA team is currently conducting a detailed feasibility study of possible parameters under which the aircraft will finally be built. The plan is to develop the IUSAP as a tactical stealth aircraft built largely with composites, and capable of delivering laser-guided strike weapons.

Air Marshal (Retd) Tej Asthana, India’s first Strategic Forces commander says, “We must encourage the programme, and ensure that it stays as Indian as possible. We cannot import UCAVs. It is important for us to have a programme like this to get us in line with the best in the world.”

The AURA programme is, to be fair, still only a concept, and therefore well behind a large number of global combat drone programmes that are either fully operational or near, the most famous of them being the American MQ-1 Predator hunter-killer drone that has garnered a fearsome name for itself as America’s weapon of choice along the Durand Line.

“It would have been prudent if we had started a programme like this 20 years ago,” says Air Marshal (Retd) Padamjit Ahluwalia, who once headed the Air Force’s sword arm Western Air Command. “This is an aircraft that will use artificial intelligence for actual weapon delivery. It is a great thing that it is indigenous, because believe me, no country that has this technology will give it to us. We must make sure we get the sensors and weapons bang-on.”

The parameters of the IUSAP, like range, cruising altitude and sensor/weapon specifications are still unknown, and probably still undefined. Another element that will need thorough working out is the degree of autonomy such an aircraft can be given. For instance, all attack decisions on the American Predators operating in Pakistan are taken by ground controllers.

Former Air Force Chief, FH Major says, “We could have the finest autonomous pilotless vehicles. But that last minute decision to go for the target, abandon or reframe a mission will be difficult for a UCAV. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have huge scope.”

India currently operates unarmed Israel-built drones restricted to surveillance and intelligence-gathering duties, and has ordered a limited number of Harop loitering "kamikaze drones" from the same source. For the AURA programme, there are several challenges still ahead apart from the flying vehicle itself. These include on-board electronics, sensors, guidance systems, and of course, strike weapons that can be used on the platform.

With government funds to be spent on the AURA programme, there are seasoned skeptics as well. Former Air Force Chief, S Krishnaswamy, who flew combat missions in the 1965 Indo-Pak war, “Such research is definitely necessary, but the more we venture into unknown areas the greater the risk of time and cost overruns. We should ask ourselves if such a systems fits in with our requirement at this time. There should be safeguards to ensure it doesn’t turn into another joke like the Light Combat Aircraft.”

original article: LiveFist - The Best of Indian Defence: AURA: India's UCAV Programme

 

[flameboard]

I'm sure India is trying to make UCAVs but those are just artists impressions.

do your research Livefist - Indian Defence & Aerospace: Unofficial Impressions Of India's AURA UCAV Concept

 

[Kinetic]

I'm sure India is trying to make UCAVs but those are just artists impressions.

do your research Livefist - Indian Defence & Aerospace: Unofficial Impressions Of India's AURA UCAV Concept

artists impression true but the image of the UCAV in the second post is from official document/presentation.