@thepatrioticcat It doesn’t matter what information you have; even if you were provided with the exact coordinates of any ground system, your projectiles wud still miss their target by 2kms.
PAF clearly lacks any semblance of pinpoint accuracy.
This is SWiFT (Stealth Wing Flying Testbed), the sub-scale flying-wing demonstrator developed by ADE (DRDO) as a technology pathfinder for GHATAK UCAV.
At roughly 4m long with a ~5 m wingspan and ~1-tonne class weight, SWiFT was built to validate some of the hardest parts of a tailless autonomous a/c
-FCLs, flying-wing aerodynamics
-autonomous navigation and landing
-and Stealthy LO-airframe techs.
This demonstrator first flew autonomously at Chitradurga in july 2022, means completing take-off, waypoint navigation and touchdown.
One of the clearest differences b/w J-35A and F-35 is in their vertical tail geometry.
Both use outward-canted twin tails, but J-35A features broader stabilizers with a different planform and cant angle. These differences affect stability, control authority and LO/RCS shaping.
@vasilyaarkhipov Are you on reddit? saying this coz i've seen people using your annotated/analysis images of S-5 subs/IAF sqn strength without any credit. Please share your ID.
A seemingly unfinished Su-57 airframe has been captured during what appears to be a factory flight, with its airframe lacking std production digital camouflage.
The a/c appears to be wearing a uniform protective/primer-type finish.
Source: Vostok_Mil_spotter (on TikTok).
How the Chinese aviation industries (SAC/AVIC) must have felt after copying every Flanker in the RussianAF's fleet and making them even better than the originals ones:
@vasilyaarkhipov Babus will never allow this, Laadli behna or laadla bhaiya yojna is more important. not these bombers or IAF national security needs. we will just import rafales and develop no indigenous ecosystem or engine. raja wali mentality saar
Maybe India should name its next ICBM “Gandhi” or “Shastri” a symbol of non-violence enforced through overwhelming deterrence.
The strongest argument for peace is the ability to make war prohibitively costly.
Happy Gandhi & Shastri Jayanti
Currently, every major AF in the world has specific-role bombers in its fleet, like:
-USAF: B-21 Raider, alongside the existing B-52H and B-1B
-PLAAF: H-6, with the H-20 in development
-VKS: Tu-160 and Tu-95MS, with PAK DA in development.
But IAF, despite being one of the world's major AFs, doesn't operate any dedicated bomber. Its stance has largely been that “we don't need bombers.”
I find this a bit confusing, but the reality is also clear that IAF is still below its sanctioned fighter strength of 42.5 sqns, while fighter procurement itself continues to face delays and production constraints.
so how exactly wud we acquire and sustain an expensive dedicated bomber fleet on top of that? a new bomber prgm wud mean another stone age long, very expensive procurement cycle, new infras in existing AFBs, training, logistics, and, most importantly years of waiting/delays from BABUS.
This is where I think the focus on UCAVs and indigenous stealth-strike capability becomes much more important. Ghatak needs to move ahead at full pace, while work on an indigenous KDE continues alongside it. technologies being developed around Ghatak, like flying-wing design, control laws, stealth materials and indigenous propulsion, could eventually form the foundation for much larger unmanned strike platforms.
This is SWiFT (Stealth Wing Flying Testbed), the sub-scale flying-wing demonstrator developed by ADE (DRDO) as a technology pathfinder for GHATAK UCAV.
At roughly 4m long with a ~5 m wingspan and ~1-tonne class weight, SWiFT was built to validate some of the hardest parts of a tailless autonomous a/c
-FCLs, flying-wing aerodynamics
-autonomous navigation and landing
-and Stealthy LO-airframe techs.
This demonstrator first flew autonomously at Chitradurga in july 2022, means completing take-off, waypoint navigation and touchdown.