experimental test set up of S band magnetically insulated line oscillator (MILO).

The MILO is a cross field device that generates gigawatts level of HPM. The device is compact because it generates the magnetic field by itself. Good for direct energy weapons of the HPM type.

In the experimental lab setup with the compact S band MILO with 2 choke, 3 SWS cavities and one coupling cavity , RF output power of 4 MW at a frequency of 3.26GHz for the beam voltage of 485 KV and the current of 48.4 KA was obtained.

Now DRDO needs to work on the developmental cycle and scale it up to the desired performance and output levels step by step over a period of time. It will be a long journey though.

Anyways the significance of MILO lies in its ability to deliver highest energy per mass per pulse compared to other HPM source devices/technologies.

And importantly MILO allows for smallest possible dimensions for a HPM system along with the relevant support systems , light and compact enough to make it mobile ie truck / trailer / track mounted for battlefield operations.

According to unclassified reports the Americans tested mobile MILO devices with RF energy levels well over 1KJ per pulse ( 2-3 GW for .5-1us ).

Large area flexible electronics

Video of recent DRDO solid fuel ducted ramjet SFDR test

Same type of propulsion is used in meteor


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jch6cVgz0dU&feature=youtu.be

This is General Krishnaswamy Sundarji, PVSM the greatest strategist till date in Ind....

In the 80s he concocted an operation which would have removed the itch on the western permanently , he managed to stage one of the largest military excercise after WW2 which infact was a cover up for an alleged invasion plans comprising upto 1 million troops at a go.

Unfortunately Americans butted in after cia penetration of the moronic ind.... politicians at the last moment. The general was able to keep the actual plans hidden until the last moment but failed when the politician needed to be bought into the loop for the final orders.

The idea was to provoke the opposite side into contact with own forces so that it could serve as an excuse to attack the nuclear sites and disintegrate the said country.

Now all is lost unfortunately

The exercise was so huge , NATO classified it as the biggest wargames ever since WW2.

CAD diagrams of LCA mk2 from tender documents

It will have close coupled active canards and will be in the medium weight category unlike LCA mk1 and mk1a which is in light weight category

Chinnoks arrived in Ind...

nemesis8u:
Canards confirmed for LCA MK2

canards would greatly improve maneoverbility. especially during high alpha turning fight.

lionel4power:
canards would greatly improve maneoverbility. especially during high alpha turning fight.

Yes , and good thing is now the developers have enough experience to skip the prototype stage and go directly for development of production stage aircrafts ie there will be no prototypes of LCA mk2 , the first aircraft itself will be production standard LCA mk2 (which will be compliant with the IAF ASQRs)

Incidentally carnards for LCA mk1 was rejected becz of the complexities involved and some disadvantages which could not be minimised then due to lack of experience on the part of design team.

Now it has been resurrected becz the design team can bank on its 2 decades experience and resultant expertise.

Nemesis8u are you still in the freezing place

Odunayaw:
Nemesis8u are you still in the freezing place

Nothing is static

DRDO testfired PDV exo atmospheric interceptor successfully today

It was fired at a electronic target

During the recent high altitude cold weather trials (4.5 km) at Leh, LUH was cold-soaked for 48 hours before the successful engine restart.

It has passed the high altitude cold weather trials successfully.

The chopper will now head for high altitude hot weather trials in Leh during July/Aug.

Marcos

Para

OFB's new unnamed CQB Carbine 5.56x45 mm NATO ammunition. Design borrows from the INSAS 1C design, modifications like a machined receiver over the INSAS stamped and riveted body, a single Picatinny rail to take an assortment of weapon sights and accessories.

Chetaks it seems got fitted with MAWS

Dual weapons pylon for LCA

nemesis8u:


All units which r rotated for deployment in CI ops.

I wonder why CI ops in India are carried out by regular troops rather than special forces (PARA SF).

Ll

One occasionally comes across questions here about South Africa's nuclear program. The link below is one of the more comprehensive open sources out there on the program.

Personally, far more interesting than the weapons themselves, were the various delivery systems. From the Raptor glide system - acquired by Pakistan, Algeria and others – to the 1 500km RSA-3 rocket which precipitated the US shutting down our Space program as a condition to us joining the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).

DEMISE OF THE SPACE LAUNCH PROGRAM AND TOUGH CONTROLS
ON ARMSCOR
Gaining membership to the Missile Technology Control Regime included tough conditions. The United States demanded that South Africa end its space launcher program, the rocket program that US officials viewed as essentially a dangerous ballistic missile program.
It also demanded that South Africa further limit its foreign sales of missile goods. The US government also imposed a range of conditions on Armscor (and Denel, a state-­owned commercial company that took over the Armscor manufacturing subsidiaries in 1992) because of past illicit trade practices. South Africa agreed, but the damage to Armscor and in particular Denel was immense. Hundreds if not thousands of high-­tech defense jobs were lost. 12

https://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/RevisitingSouthAfricasNuclearWeaponsProgram.pdf

frumentius:
One occasionally comes across questions here about South Africa's nuclear program. The link below is one of the more comprehensive open sources out there on the program.

Personally, far more interesting than the weapons themselves, were the various delivery systems. From the Raptor glide system - acquired by Pakistan, Algeria and others – to the 1 500km RSA-3 rocket which precipitated the US shutting down our Space program as a condition to us joining the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).


https://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/RevisitingSouthAfricasNuclearWeaponsProgram.pdf

The guy is on a serious nuclear info proliferation mission, gotta do something

Uncle bush plz
I am dead

Uncle trump plz
Migrant proliferation ?

No nuclear info proliferation
Build a wall

SuperSixOne:


I wonder why CI ops in Indi/)a are carried out by regular troops rather than special forces (PARA SF).

Please dont use the full name for In/dia or P/ak/istan

Use this Ind.... Or pa......... From next time

Thank u

DRDO AESA swordfish long range tracking radar together with its heavy duty liquid refrigerant cooling system.

Used in Ind.... ABM shield

DRDO automated system for loading and unloading of SLBMs into SSBNs

The system is fully automated with failsafe redundancy for performing the tasks of handling , indexing , loading and unloading of the articles to and fro from the SSBNs.

1st pic DRDO pulse power system and coaxial vircator

2nd pic Explosive driven HPM system for a EMP bomb ( posted as a example )

If one compares the 2 , both have same building blocks but with differences in the types of sub systems used.

So if DRDO has managed to develop the relevant sub systems with minimal SWaP form factor then one can be sure that we have a EMP bomb possibly little overweight at that in the first or second or ....... attempt. And if so hopefully by now they would have optimised

Design of automated loading trolly for missile and cannister

DRDO Off route mine system warhead based on EFP ( explosively formed penetrator )

DRDO Multi EFP bomblets based anti ship warhead

DRDO Multi EFP based warhead for a active protection system ( APS )

DRDO EMP pulser

DRDO Marx generator and REB system ( not shown )

REB = relativistic electron beam

REB can be used as a particle beam weapon

Metallic cannisters for missiles