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[mist_consecutive]

@mist_consecutive
Any comment ??

Yep, as I have mentioned and maintained my position before in case you forgot -

• Dristi-10 / Hermes 900 is a useless purchase, Tapas is better than using this garbage. Forces for some unknown reason bought token numbers for benchmarking (for what?).
  
  
• Tapas is still inadequate as a MALE-class UAV and should not pretend to be in the leagues of MQ-9 / Akinci.
  
  If any forces (like Navy) wants to buy it for non-demanding surveillance like maritime security looking at Pirate ships, it is perfectly fine.
  
  But for requirements like fly at 35,000 ft. over towering Himalayas looking through dense cloud using SAR payload at Chinese positions and giving live updates to ground troops, Tapas is not and never will be the platform.

 

[fire starter]

View: https://x.com/wartrophy_414/status/1835242107294093813?t=ymQZTFinCEb6cxUQXvcTzQ&s=19

 

[FalconSlayers]

View: https://youtu.be/L0FivPBLZuU?si=nid-fQFGEJrzuJVp

 

[Blood+]

View: https://x.com/alpha_defense/status/1835219073590083732

So another project got killed silently

Maybe they too will go for the VLSRSAM??

 

[jaijaganath]

Maybe they too will go for the VLSRSAM??

No idea
But qrsam was made on their requirements and they do have need of such systems
We have spent money and resources to make it
And moreover qrsam is specifically made to provide AD cover to armoured column

 

[Vishnugupt]

Maybe they too will go for the VLSRSAM??

But how would General manage to sail a destroyer in desert/Soil?? This missile is for Navy.

 

[Blood+]

But how would General manage to sail a destroyer in desert/Soil?? This missile is for Navy.

I don't know, the same way they haul their Barak 8s around perhaps??

 

[fire starter]

View: https://x.com/GODOFPARADOXES/status/1835318328010686832?t=X3LO9XFcdL7Yn66OZCbjfg&s=19.

 

[fire starter]

View: https://x.com/Varun55484761/status/1835326195615093060?t=EYYET4ziYGsIJtnnLfQOxg&s=19

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

Here is the video felas

View: https://youtu.be/at5POvTkyb4?feature=shared

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

See how ramjet kicks in or maybe nozzle less booster

View: https://youtu.be/_uGIExsI6Zs?feature=shared

 

[ArjunMK1A]

View attachment 9452

Saved it from other forum and converted it to a .gif.

Again enjoy fellas.

Dil Dil Pakistan Dil Dil Pakistan Kill Kill Pakistan.

 

[Blood+]

Dil Dil Pakistan Dil Dil Pakistan Kill Kill Pakistan.

Woh toh waise hi bhookhmari se marne wale hain abhi.

 

[fire starter]

It should be ordered in thousands.

View: https://x.com/AjayshreeSamby3/status/1835331569969774969?t=1miC5RynrXA07Plz8C0Xug&s=19

 

[Vishnugupt]

Here is the video felas

View: https://youtu.be/at5POvTkyb4?feature=shared

This test looks like a failure as nose cap failed to separate.

 

[Satish Sharma Ji]

This test looks like a failure as nose cap failed to separate.

We can't figure it out from the video. I don't see nose cap staying with it. I dont say it is successful test.

 

[Ayan Barat]

What the heck is going on with this nose cap separation thing!?
There is a pic by Arihant just few posts back of literally that very thing happening

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[Fatalis]

QRSAM is not dead at all.

BEL/BDL is expecting orders by 2025-26. All the trails are successfully completed. It is a big ticket for BEL/BDL. 5 regiments are expected at the inception.

 

[Vishnugupt]

We can't figure it out from the video. I don't see nose cap staying with it. I dont say it is successful test.

Very strange. If you can't figure it out from video then tell me how else you going to figure it out ?

 

[Vishnugupt]

I really don't know, I question this decision. Maybe some tech-transfer deal, maybe benchmarking, maybe corruption. But 4 drones ain't gonna add any significant capability, and neither it is going to make any dalal rich.



Last I heard Navy & Airforce is planning to induct 4 & 6 Tapas drones. They have submitted their proposal to Defence Min. for approval.

So yes, they will be used.




Understand that GSQRs aren't issued like - "Hey I want a fighter like F22". That is not a clear requirement. What is mentioned is capabilities that is required, and was mentioned very succintly.

It isn't that ADE wasn't aware of GSQR, they always knew and promised the GSQR requirements will be fulfilled, but later failed to achieve the targets during flight testing. The problems were pretty obvious to everyone (design issue, low-power piston engine) but ADE tried to brush them under the carpet.



What is the problem with twin-engine if they can produce enough thrust and work efficiently ? Akinci has 2 engines.



Tapas (Rustom - 2) is under development since 1990s, it is 3 decades since now. You expect that nothing to change vis-a-vis capabilities and expectations ?



I don't have exact numbers, but I think Heron Mk-1 is similar to Tapas, but I can be wrong. But then again those are outdated platforms brought in 2000-2010s. Newer generation Eitan (Heron Mk2) is more similar to MQ9 in respect to performance.

Just few months back IAF took delivery of Heron MK1. Means they still buying.

TAPAS development was started around 2014