"To confront China and Pakistan": India buys 30 Predator MQ-9B attack drones

India intends to purchase 30 Predator MQ-9B multipurpose unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) amid ongoing confrontation with China and Pakistan. This is reported by the Indian edition of Business Standard, citing sources in the military circles.

The agreement is planned to be signed in April, the cost is 30 drones The Predator MQ-9B is valued at $3 billion. At the same time, neither India nor the United States has yet officially confirmed this information.

According to the newspaper, New Delhi plans to use drones both in the Indian Ocean and on the line of de facto control in eastern Ladakh, where military tensions with China remain. The acquisition of attack drones should significantly expand the military capabilities of the Indian army, which is armed only with Israeli-made Heron TP reconnaissance UAVs.

For our part, we note that the Indian army is already operating two American multipurpose Predator MQ-9B SeaGuardian drones, leased from the Pentagon at the end of last year.

The MQ-9B UAV is a medium-altitude drone developed on the basis of the MQ-9 Reaper striker, its maiden flight took place at the end of 2016. The device is capable of flying at speeds up to 388 km / h and at an altitude of up to 14 thousand meters. The flight duration is up to 48 hours for a distance of over 11 thousand km.

In 2019, the Indian Ministry of Defense refused to purchase up to 30 UAVs from the United States for a total of about $ 6 billion. The order was to include 20 Predator-B strike drones (10 each for the army and the Air Force) and 10 reconnaissance RQ-4 Global Hawk (or other UAVs) for the Indian Navy.

Comments

[Doccor18]

30 UAVs totaling about $ 6 billion ...

The amounts are just a fairy tale ...

[dSK]

Russia has nothing to offer India in this segment ...

[Kaman]

I'm waiting for the uryakalka to write: “why didn't the bad Indians buy from us? Ours is better "

[venik]

Quote from dsk

Russia has nothing to offer India in this segment ...

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There is nothing yet. Keyword BYE!
"Altius" has just completed the tests and entered the stage of the pilot batch.

[Maz]

Interesting thing

[Eldorado]

It is based on the American "Predator". The Chinese "Wing loong" and our "Orion" have an identical design.

[Professor]

Quote: Maz

Interesting thing

Don't be complex. You also have fun things.

[Kaman]

Professor, there is only one country that is cooler than Israel in the field of unmanned aircraft. This is the USA.

[Professor]

Quote: Kaman

Professor, there is only one country that is cooler than Israel in the field of unmanned aircraft. This is the USA.

Nevertheless, MAZ has something to be proud of. The US buys Israeli drones, not the other way around.

[Kaman]

In my opinion, they have not been purchasing for 15-20 years. Once purchased by Sercher and Pioneer

[Professor]

Quote: Kaman

In my opinion, they have not been purchasing for 15-20 years. Once purchased by Sercher and Pioneer

Israeli drones guard the US-Mexico border.

[rocket757]

At the same time, neither India nor the United States has yet officially confirmed this information.

Are we going to guess or wait until we find out?

[novel66]

and if so - not a fig poked them! Vitya, hello!

[rocket757]

They dance, bustle around the minke whales ... he smells the kitten whose hamburger has encroached on!
They will give, they will take .... although, in the confrontation against China, how will this help them, the question is ???

[novel66]

do not climb the mountains, patrol yourself and rush with the hellfires

[Vladimir_2U]

Quote: novel xnumx

do not climb the mountains, patrol yourself and rush with the hellfires

Will it roll against China's air defense?

[novel66]

you won't try, you won't know

[Flooding]

Quote: rocket757

Are we going to guess or wait until we find out?

I wonder if India has the ability to control the UAV at a great distance by means of satellites?

[rocket757]

Do they have a satellite constellation, the question is ... but anyway, against China, this technique will help a lot? How?

[Flooding]

Quote: rocket757

Do they have a satellite constellation, the question is ... but anyway, against China, this technique will help a lot? How?

I'm just about it
about the expediency of spending such an amount
it is understood that the price of the ammunition used is most likely included in the transaction price
What's the point of buying unarmed drummers?
but if it is not possible to act at the maximum distance laid down in the characteristics of the aircraft, and to deliver strikes deep behind enemy lines, then this means knowingly buying equipment with castrated capabilities

[donavi49]

India is a large space power if that. Their satellite constellation exceeds 200 spacecraft.

They have an autonomous satellite navigation system - NavIC of 8 spacecraft. While the military and state. The NVS program will start in November - the first satellite will fly. He will already give a signal to private traders.

They have a relatively fresh constellation of transponders from 1,5 to 3,5 tons in different orbits.

Well, they also have a whole grouping for radar scanning of the earth and optical reconnaissance.

They throw in heaps of small things. There, on February 28, they launched on PSLV-C51 - 5 of their own satellites and 14 private ones in addition to the Brazilian observatory of Amazonia.

[Flooding]

Quote: donavi49

India is a large space power if that. Their satellite constellation exceeds 200 spacecraft

Thank you

[rocket757]

Clear. Then "butting" can go to another level.

[Pashhenko Nikolay]

If it is against China, believe me, someone will provide them with as many communication channels as they need.

[rocket757]

Then it's really serious ...
I wonder why they don't do this themselves ... or do they have it and they just want to supplement, diversify?

[Thrifty]

This is a concession to the United States, so that the Yankees endure the brains of the Indians less for buying the C400.

[knn54]

A couple of months ago, Trump signed a decree prohibiting US agencies from purchasing drones from Russia, Iran, China and North Korea. Because they are "opponents" of the United States, threatening the national security of the country.
I think that this decree is automatically "recommended" to other countries as well.
India uses the above-mentioned UAVs for reconnaissance purposes, without weapons.

[evgen1221]

A vivid example of post-imperialist policy for the benefit of a specific country (not India), but in other matters, any country with due lack of principle and desire for benefits only for itself, can go the same way and achieve some success (moral law is another matter). Divide and conquer technology in creative recycling. We create the forces of our agents, the foreign ministry and all levers of power, including the media and mass culture - cinema, radio (requires a single center without any hints of democratic snot - only the goal, control and punishment of unnatural performers), create the enemy itself, then blow it up to the skies with fables. And we offer neighboring countries our protection from an allegedly common threat (in fact, imaginary and non-threatening to them, but what is logic and history in comparison with the thesis - everyone knows that this is an enemy? Such as an enemy))), then we start selling solutions to the problem at an exorbitant price. How tired or how the Papuans will begin to see clearly that they are being fooled, start anew to create a new enemy, or even better create these images of enemies per CD. Convenient and profitable, plus, you are all Dartagnan in white and not at all in business. No matter how business is, and there is nothing to show and not to anyone, because the peoples of the neighbors already consider each other the most evil spooks of hell and nothing will try on, and you continue to sing for peace and quietly play off the next victims who have the natural resource you need at the moment. The Quintessence of Sun Tzu, polished to idial! By the way, it also works in the household everyday home field))))

[Holuay T.O]

How handsome he is!

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

Against China and Pakistan, these UAVs are of little use in the strike version. These countries have powerful air defense, they will instantly remove these slow-moving and expensive "toys" from the sky.

The United States just tried to enter Iranian airspace on a naval version of such a UAV, immediately got a missile in the belly and lost 200 million dollars.

3 billion dollars can be spent more efficiently by buying, for example, 30 Su-35s or returning to a joint project with Russia on a 5th generation fighter.

Although India is a rich country, they can boo.

[OgnennyiKotik]

More important is the intelligence equipment that can be installed on these UAVs and the fact that it can be in the air for 1-2 days. Optical systems, electronic warfare, PLO, communications, etc. The value for India is in this.

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

As a scout, yes, such a UAV cannot be replaced. You can't fly over the desired area on anything else so inexpensively and for a long time, transmitting information directly to the checkpoint.

[stayer]

"To get along with China and Pakistan": India buys 30 Predator MQ-9B attack drones

Is affinity a scientific term? Or another jamb in grammar?

[Anar]

And the population of this country, not counting a couple of hundred millionaires, is considered one of the poorest in the world ..... India is very, very far from China. 1 by 1 China will tear apart the small homeland of the Roma ...

[Magmax]

India sure is spending billions on weapons.