India unveils proprietary Warrior unmanned slave mockup

India intends to develop its own unmanned wingman. At the Aero India 2021 international aerospace exhibition in Bangalore, India, the Indian state aviation industry association Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) presented a full-size mockup of the Warrior unmanned aerial vehicle.

The unmanned wingman is being developed as part of the promising Combat Air Teaming System (CATS) program, its use is planned in conjunction with the Indian Tejas fighter, and the fighter will have to control several drones. Also, in conjunction with the drone, it is planned to use promising Indian fighters.

The drone under development is relatively small, the declared maximum take-off weight is 1300 kg, the speed is about 850 km / h, the flight range is 800 km and the flight duration is 80 minutes. The total weight of the armament placed in the two inner compartments and under the wings is 250 kg. The armament includes air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles.

The device is made with stealth elements and resembles the American Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie UAV, developed for the F-35 and F-22.

It is planned that the first stage of the CATS R&D program will be completed by 2024, after which work will begin on creating a prototype. The start of flight tests of a full-scale prototype is scheduled for approximately 2025-2026.

Comments

[OgnennyiKotik]

The device is made with stealth elements and resembles the American Kratos XQ-58 Valkyrie UAV, developed for the F-35 and F-22.

Reminds me of it putting it mildly. Just copied.

[Zaurbek]

So the same model was presented at Army2020.

[newcomer]

Will Tejas handle? At least you need to tighten up the "program".

[Pashhenko Nikolay]

Model exhibitions are popular today. True, from a mockup to a real device like walking to China. And even not at all.

[orionvitt]

Quote: Pashhenko Nikolay

Model exhibitions are popular today

The layout was exposed and it is possible with a proud look, to assert that we are, like, "at the forefront of progress". I remember that a similar practice was common in the homes of pioneers, where creatively gifted children with great imagination made models of everything. Up to intergalactic ships. But what is good for children's creativity is not at all suitable for a state like India. However, the Indians throughout history have not invented or made anything breakthrough. They can't even mess up, even with the technologies provided to them, and even then humanly cannot. But they dance well.

[mark1]

I like the application if they also achieve a cost proportional to their weight ... But Indians, Indians ... when they worked quickly ...

[APASUS]

Judging by the sad fate of the HAL Tejas projects and the Arjun tank, everything is not done soon in India.

[rocket757]

India unveils proprietary Warrior unmanned slave mockup

Well, the layout, and then a lot, a lot of work to translate it into "metal"!

[Mountain shooter]

The layout is ... cute. It remains to make the drone itself ...

[Soveticos]

In India, apart from dances and songs, pharmaceuticals and light industry are very well developed, and there are many intelligent doctors. But the military industry, in addition to joint production or copying of missile systems, rests on bragging and Mahabharata fantasies. Even "famous" Indian "programmers" have been involved in Boeing crashes. The only way out for them at the moment is cooperation with Russia in the military sphere. In the past, it was the assistance of the Soviet Union in the development of the Indian military-industrial complex that saved them in many conflicts with Pakistan.

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: Soveticos

very well developed pharmaceuticals and light industry

As far as I know, generics of average size are massively displayed, nothing of their own, and textiles "It's not serious!"

[Siberian54]

The question is not to make or steal with the permission of the owner, the question is how much equipment of the product is produced by the national industry and how much is bought or stolen from a potential ally ... Let's recall the distant Argentino-English war, when strategic allysurrendered Argentina to his "cousins"

[V1er]

Will he sing and dance? But seriously, the country is not even capable of producing a normal 4th generation aircraft.

[Last centurion]

Oops layout. Oh, this is important. I've seen the layout of "Baikal", inspired. And something is not. You can mold anything from papier-mâché and foam

[kit88]

Prototyping is an important and profitable industry.