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Wow Just what we in this forum has been shouting for a long period. The question is in which shipyard we can license build these ships? Almost all our shipyard's are full except from the private ones. It would be interesting to see to whom all the RFP will go to. As Singha saab said there are quite ...

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200-250 FFGA of 100Million a pop. Even IAF completes these acquisition by 2030, it will have formidable regional supremacy.

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In the past the US was panned for showing the J&K region as disputed..what would one say about a Russian website showing India without J&K at all ?[/quote] Oh really?!!! Then kick the MiG-35 out of the MMRCA competition. Cancel the MTA aircraft contract. No more IL-78s for mid-air refuellers...

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What is happening in the Sea level trials happening in GOA? are they also doing some weapons testing? any news on that side?

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This will certainly trigger an arms race between Malaysia,Indonesia,Australia and Singapore. The problem for the Chinese will be to allocate significant air-power to this region. The impact on India will be that our plans for deploying one squadron of SU-30MKI in A&N and control the whole malica...

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Despite of the repeated rejects and bolts to the LCA program, The Committee has selected the GE-414 for LCA? This is a Bad day for Indian Aviation industry, since we have lost the golden opportunity remove the Dependency over Uncle and achieve max TOT for a better engine. GE-414 is a good engine, wi...

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The Helicopter based AEW would be sufficient for the fleet defense. But when it comes to offensive operation's we need AEW aircraft with more range and speed to keep up with the fighters. This has been the main drawback of Kamov and in future the Merlin EH-101 based AEW. The other Option is to Have ...

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As per the latest reports of DAE chief's interview we are seriously experimenting with nuclear propulsion. The First generation of Reactors is in production for the Arihant class while an improved second generation is on the making. While the next carrier should have a Nuclear propulsion developed i...

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Let me be specific: If we are going to play a defensive-offense, i.e:Patrolling our waters for offensive denial, then the subs, frigates, land-based IN UAV/aircraft's and the best of the best brahmos should be more than enuf. The AC is pretty much a sovereign property even in international waters, ...

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I would say, the getting the QE class is not a good idea. QE class is made for RN needs, not IN. They are supposed to operate JSF not Mig-29K or NLCA. Like this every place we could see the dissimilarities. If we want to speed up the second IAC, get the designs of the QE class if possible, put an In...

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Millions of Indians are working abroad. The carriers are used more as show of power rather than it will be used in war. Consider a IAC visiting a country with more fighters than of many countries airforce.

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This is Alarming development. This could be the reverse engineering of the French augosta class submarines, since pakis already have the drawyings of the same. The pand gets access to technologies while TSP gets a few renamed subs chinees augosta for lesser price. The Panda is effectively using the ...

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That’s the problem with the Donations which I am referring to. Groskov was accepted in a time period where we don’t have a carrier. The IAC program was only evolving. No we have two carrier programs right on track and no way we need such a super junk. Isn't the navy still in requirement of bigger a...

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^^^ No it will not be donated to anybody for military purposes. The U.S. Navy is looking to donate the decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, under the condition it be used only as a museum or memorial. Vishnu.nv, I have a question. How would it be different from the Gorshkov + Mig-29K de...

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manum wrote:yeah, hopefully we got Iron man sitting in MOD...

Antony is no IronMan.... But in his end tenure as the chief minister, i think last month he did quite a few things. One thing he will no take a penny from any one...

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Yes, Rohit this was discussed previously in the Su-30 forumn.

Will take another 5 years for the babus to decide this, I think andaman base is also included in the IAF's infrastruture project

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And Buy 90 Superhornets for Airwing of the old Lady. The Uncle gets the name of donating a carrier and maintaining the stability in the region.

I find it surprising there is still takers in India for this.

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Harry was a class apart, could never compare his articles with any of this DDM masters. Ajai shukla and anathkrishnan is better compared to the likes of suman Sharma and shiv aroor.

Wonder what they r doing now in goa…

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Just trying to summarize the new choppers being procured for the services. Gurus correct if i am wrong.
139 - MI-17's
159 -ALH's
25 - Attack choppers
25 - Heavy Lift
180 - Light helicopters
175 - LCH
NAvy choppers -- ??
LOH -- ??

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It would be pathetic for India to go for the Patriot missile defence. A lot better would be to buy the new s-400 system or to co-develop with russia the s-500 system. This is as a stopgap meassure, for long term we are developing the LR-SAM, PAD and AAD. Its to be noted that in past we have seen soe...

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Posting in this thread because of the quoted statement from the article: Changing face of Russia-Pakistan ties The Sochi summit also dimmed India's hopes of gaining a strategic foothold in Tajikistan. India and Russia had planned to jointly use the Ayni airfield, which India helped to renovate, but...

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A fat and portly air chief is an embarrassment Don't know what to make of it. IAF Chief's duty is not to man the fighters or any way physical in nature. He is beyond that stage now. I believe to comment about his tummy is a cheap way to get the attention of the public. The blogger is comparing him ...

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How do you know Brahmos II will be heavier, I guess this is no more than an educated guess. They may not add boosters but change the engine and propulsion tech. itself. What is your guess on this? Adding boosters won’t increase the weight of the missile? The current bhramos itself is comparatively ...

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Ok. So a new missile program pops up supersonic LRCM having range of 600 KM's. This is a very good development something i have been asking for in my previous post. Since the program is entirely indigenous we could have later variants of different ranges. rohit, not a expert, but this is my open sou...

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personally i don't see any benefit with bhramos II if we don't improve up on the range of the missile. None of our enemy countries is having any counter measures for bhramos. Instead of spending time money and efforts to increase the speed of the missile we should concentrate on increasing Range of...

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personally i don't see any benefit with bhramos II if we don't improve up on the range of the missile. None of our enemy countries is having any counter measures for bhramos. Instead of spending time money and efforts to increase the speed of the missile we should concentrate on increasing Range of ...

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nachiket wrote:
K-15 is not a cruise missile and has a range of 700km.

Bhramos-2

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The aircraft carrier vs Submarine debate is going on from the starting of navy. What we need is right a balance of both. The program for a SSN has to start now if we have any serious ambitions of controlling the Indian Ocean. We can also start the SSGN program also right now on the basis of Arihant....

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The disadvantage of U-212A is that, it has got zero land attack capablities.
If we can get hold on Dolphin class with tube launched Klub/Nirbhay that would be nice.

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both of them? second one was for sure......what about first one?

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Vishnu, 1)Is IN having a SSN Design with them. If yes how long will it take to put them in to production? Ans; I don't know. What I do know is that P 75I will not hit the water before 2019. If the design activities start now, using the Arihant template, the design can be made ready quite quickly (n...

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Pratyush, As rohit told you, If we need to customize a existing design as per our needs we need to pay more. Now i have stated many things that IN would ask for which could bring up the price of the sub. Now you point is to build SSN or SSGN for that cost is debatable. Let me ask you some Questions ...

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It depends up on the requirements of Navy. We are still unaware what IN has asked for. The point is if IN is paying the amount that you have quoted for a Kilo, then we can say the amount is being wasted. But Still we don't know what IN wants. It could be a Super SSK with capability to fire brahmos a...

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Philip, I understand the thrust of your post, but still have trouble accepting that the IN will spend 11 billion dollars on just 6 conventional boats. The boats must be worth their weight in gold if that's what is going to happen. The recent Vietnamese SSK purchase amounts to approx 300 Million $ p...

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chacko, Which is the point defence Fighter for Sweedish Airforce? or USAF? The IAF needed the Point defece Fighter to Replace the Mig which was the requiremnt in 90's. But Right now its not looking for a Point defence fighter, If it was the case we would have seen more orders for the MK1. The IAF is...

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This could be British Navy propaganda also to escape from the Huge Defence cut they are facing. The ASW Patrol aircrafts are also included in the Defence cut.

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Can't Say that. LCA Will only be accepted if it proves the capablites. Take this scenario, If IAF is ordering a Single engine aircraft as MRCA, and IAF is not confident in LCA capablities, for sure they are gonna order more of MRCA's. After 2015 the IAF will be Inducting the MRCA,LCA MK2 and FFGA to...

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IMHO The years and years of Bad PR for LCA has impact on IAF. The LCA has to get in to service and prove itself. Once that happens automatically More orders will come. The HAL can't Ramp up the production unless there is a solid commitment from IAF or it should have solid Export orders. Most worryin...

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Why not Kaveri Power our UCAV? Cruise missile engines cannot power a UCAV.

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Mods, i am trying to access the BR Forum from outside of India. Night when i try to access the forum i am getting some SQL error message. It says the number of connection exceed 1040. The number could be different. I am getting this error quite frequently. May be you can increase the number of simul...

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