SWIFT Landing gear to undergo load testing

Project AURA

DRDO’s Project “AURA”, is another most secretive aircraft project of the Indian government, which is aimed to develop an unmanned stealth deep penetration strike bomber for the Indian Armed Forces. It is being developed in two phases. In Phase-I, a smaller version of UCAV called SWIFT (Stealth Wing Flying Testbed) will be developed. In Phase-II actual and bigger UCAV will be developed which will be known as GHATAK. Swift will act as a Flying Testbed for Ghatak UAV before developing a full-scale product.

Latest progress and Update on SWIFT

Our today’s update will be around the SWIFT UCAV. Last year in June, India has started ground level trials on the first assembled prototype of its SWIFT. The Taxi trails of the UCAV has completed successfully for both slow and fast speeds. It has got clarence for the first full flight which we are expecting soon. The CVRDE, laboratory of DRDO has indigenously designed and developed 3 Ton Retractable Landing Gear (RLG) Systems for TAPAS and 1 Ton Landing Gear System for SWiFT UAV. In January 2021, CVRDE handed over retractable landing gears for Tapas and Swift unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as 18 types of filters for P-75 submarines. As per the latest update, CVRDE has now issued RFP for Strength testing of 1 Ton Main Landing Gear & Nose Landing Gear which means its going to be for Swift. The Landing gears will be tested for minimum and maximum load conditions.

SWIFT & Ghatak program in detail

SWIFT UAV is a one-ton SCALE down MODEL of GHATAL UCAV which will weigh around 15-16 ton.

It has a wingspan of 5 metres and has length of 4 meters. It will have a range of 200 km, service ceiling of 6KM with endurance of 1 hour.

SWIFT is at present powered by a NPO Saturn 36MT turbofan engine. The plan is to replace it by Manik Small Turbofan Engine (STFE) at later stage which was already successfully tested on Nirbhay cruise missile.

The full-scale version of SWIFT i.e. Ghatak UCAV will be powered by a dry Kaveri engine variant, which can generate maximum thrust of 52 kilonewtons. It is said to employ a fluid thrust vectoring exhaust nozzle which will provide the ability to an aircraft, rocket, or UCAV to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine to control the altitude or angular velocity of the vehicle.

It is expected that the first flight test of the first prototype of Ghatak UCAV will be conducted by 2024. The UCAV will be capable of releasing missiles, bombs and precision-guided munitions. It will be India's combat drone with a stealthy flying-wing concept aircraft, internal weapons bay and a turbofan engine.

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