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All credit goes to wikipedia for information and some phrasing,

AMCA - Program has been folded back into FGFA, details to be announced by the CSS Ministry of Defense in due time.


The TEDBF program is dumb and we aren't developing a whole 'nother 4th gen fighter just for the two aircraft carriers we have that wouldn't be done until 2032. We'll go back to our original plan of making a carrier-based Tejas Mk 2, which was only cancelled due to thrust-weight concerns with the original Tejas (the Tejas Mk2 has a more powerful engine however)


Tejas Mk 1 Production Schedule of existing orders (specs here)

Year Mk 1 Mk1A Mk1A Trainer text
<=2021 36 0 0 text
2022 4 10 2 Based on figure of 16 per year for FY2021-2022 from sketchy website
2023 0 22 2 text
2024 0 26 4 Wikipedia says that production would be done by 2025 and increase in production is the only explanation
2025 0 15 2 Tapers off to finish order in favor of Mk2

Tejas Mk 2 Production Schedule of existing orders (specs here)

The existing design and specs for Tejas Mark 2 will be followed. However, a modified version capable of carrier launch and optimized for carrier warfare will be made with a year's delay, Tejas 2B. Some say it's a "4.5 " gen aircraft, and for the price it better be. By that time, it is assumed that our efforts in military buildup would bear fruit and our production lines wouldn't just be converted warehouses.

Total cost of fighters

$70 mil * 100 Tejas 2 = $7 billion

$70 mil * 60 Tejas 2B = $4.2 billion

Year Tejas 2 2B
2025 10 22
2026 10 22
2027 20 12
2028 30 2
2029 30 2

Hal Combat Air Teaming System

Compatible mother aircraft: Tejas Mk 1, Tejas Mk2, FGFA plane

Budget for tech integration and interface: $500,000,000

Components:

Warrior Wingman UCAV

This automomous wingman drone already in development, capable of both land and carrier take-off, can do scouting missions as well as anti-ground and anti-air capabilities. Similar to the Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie, this UCAV / glorified missile with brains has a similar cost of $2 million a plane, making it cheap enough to act literally as a missile in kamikaze missions if need be. This drone will be particularly powerful when it comes to striking airfields as it is equipped with DRDO Smart Anti-Airfield Weapons.

Name Warrior Wingman UCAV
Length 9.2m
Wingspan 5.8m
Powerplant 2x HAL PTAE-7 Turbojet
Maximum speed Mach 0.9
Combat Range 800 km
Weapons 2 external and 2 internal (carrying 2 Astra missile and two SAAW) 
Misc AESA radar, jammer

This UCAV will be more like $5 million when considering the weapons bought with it lol. First flight was set for 2024-25 and with a relatively simple design compared to fighters, we expect production to be up and running by the start of 2026. $200 million in development costs (only $50 million were put down for Warrior and for Valkyrie for development so this should be plenty if not overkill)

$5 million * 600 = $3,000,000,000 spent (not a whole lot built since these are expendable and multiple will be assigned per fighter)

Production:

Year Amount
2026 110
2027 120
2028 120
2029 130
2030 120

Hunter Multi-Mission UCAV

This UCAV is basically just a delivery mechanism in the form of a smart cruise missile that carries either a 250kg warhead or cluster munition to a target, drops it, and returns. The cool thing is that it uses GNSS and TERCOM mid-route as well as automatic target acquisition through AI to mimic the close air support of a human pilot, creating a cheap and versatile means of getting boom boom from point A to point B and drop it on baddy C. Very cool!

Name Hunter Multi-mission UCAV
Weight 600kg
Weapon 250kg Warhead
Speed Mach 1
Striking Range 250km
Engine HAL PTAE-7 Turbojet

This will be around $3 million dollars, $1mil for the conventional cruise missile part, $1 mil for the more advanced electronics required, and $1 mil for better quality parts given that it's reusable. Add $0.5 mil for the big boom (shouldn't be that expensive as it's just the cluster bomb/warhead itself). Should be ready by the end of 2025 with a development cost of $200,000,000 given that it also is in development already, it's basically just combining already existing tech, and computer science nerds are cheap in India.

$3.5 million * 1000 = $3,500,000,000 spent.

Production:

Year Amount
2026 200
2027 200
2028 200
2029 200
2030 200

Future projects such as CATS Alfa loitering munition will also be developed but development will be delayed for a month or two so the project can learn from technological improvements of the first two UCAVs.

[m]: rolls will be done for each project

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