Bharat Rakshak

ARay

I saw 2006-07 post. However its 2011 and Toshiba has started manufacturing TGI7785-50L http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Toshiba+Adds+High+Gain+50W+GaN+HEMT+Power+Amplifier+for+C-Band+SATCOM...-a0227230268 I feel what you require is a detailed technical discussion and sort of final countdown. Well, I wo...

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Which one is better/timewise best choicePD/PESA/AESA radar may start an endless event of debates. Atleast my intention is not to start such thread right now. As a matter of study: Detailed spec. of Zhuk AESA: http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Zhuk-AE-Analysis.html & A brief historical account of ...

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The Zhuk family is a X Band Pulse Doppler radar. The story of Zhuk series export as follows: _____________________________________________________________________________ Zhuk-M (Export Designation Zhuk-ME) The N010M Zhuk-M is an advanced variant of the original N010 Zhuk radar introducing advanced ...

ARay

^^ there is one more factor - Whatever is listed for mig-29, we will get every single thing of that plus we an add and modify stuff we find is available elsewhere and is better then the stuff present in oem version. In f18, we will be getting "some" of the listed stuff, and out of that &q...

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ARay, you should probably read up more on the FA 18. Its design is just as old at the Mig 29. The FA 18 E/F were modified (enlarged) designs of the original FA 18. The modifications have resulted in compromises including quite a draggy pylon arrangement. In terms of pure airframe design, I would pu...

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Once again Philip you have put your deep analysis in it. However I have a little different opinion than yours on FA18 Hornets and will narrate it. But beforehand we may talk on Tu22M3 again. INS, as its present status shows, acquired/acquiring almost a squadron of P8I Poseidons (derivative of 737. A...

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Philip, I had gone through your earlier posts :wink: . Indeed its an indeppth study ranging from battle cruisers-->mini subs. Also I had a brief chat with my dear friends (of CBG support group!!! I presume :mrgreen: ). The fact is any defensive/offensive network should be based on pragmatism. I elab...

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A story that everbody knows: ___________________________________________________________________________ Su30 MKI (souce: wikipedia) Performance Maximum speed: Mach 1.9 (2,120 km/h, 1,317 mph) at altitude; 1,350 km/h, 839 mph near ground level Range: 3,000 km (1,620 nmi) at altitude; (1,270 km, 690 ...

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Given the shape of the Indian sub-continent, which naturally thrusts itself deep into the heart of the Indian Ocean, it continually intrigues me as to why the Indian leadership went for aircraft-carriers over long-range naval bombers as its strategic tool of choice in the southern seas? The aircraf...

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About Typhoon I am really doubtful. But about Backfire I am not because ____________________________________________________________________________________ Chinese Bombers The Russian offer has already drawn a swift reaction from leading Western defense analysts. "Russia now has two regiments ...

ARay

Now from the mini-sub to the mega-sub! Russia is to scrap its 3 remaining Typhoon class SSBNs,as operating them,6 milion pounds a year (can't we easily afford that?) is proving too expensive for the Russians,also because a new class of Borei subs dsigned to fire the Bulava missile and easier to ope...

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[quote="Philip"] Why smaller mini/midget subs? The large number of islands in out strategic island territories of the A&N islands,Lakshadweep and even based at our key bases,etc.,require quiet subs for ISR purposes.The Japanese in WW2 even took such subs all the way to Hawaii,(a somew...

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http://www.inewsone.com/2011/09/01/india-denies-naval-stand-off-with-china/72800 Looks soth china sea is going hot. Any takers on that???? Augments the need for the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier (second planned in the Vikrant class). I would hope five of these would eventually (i.e. within 15 years) ...

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The threat in the future will be joint Sino-Pak ops using their large number of subs to infiltrate into the IOR and seek out IN forces in the Indo-XCHina Sea operating from Vietnamese and hopefully other friendly ports. Exactly the same point I dwelled on few months back. Sino-Pak axis is on rollin...

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http://www.inewsone.com/2011/09/01/indi ... hina/72800

Looks soth china sea is going hot. Any takers on that????

ARay

1. INS Vikramaditya to be delivered in 2012 2. INS Vikrant to be delivered in 2014/15 3. The mythical cruiser to be delivered ???? VIKRAmaditya to be delivered 2009,10,11, now 12----lets see. If delivered will not be released immediately in open sea, far from home, risky because a big, valuable ass...

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But would that logistics favour be at the cost of their own borders being attack. I have a question, if we have a base in Vietnam and China attacks that base, would that be considered an attack of Vietnam itself? If so, would Vietnam be ready to face such an attack. I truly respect their independen...

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A detachment of IAF and IN in Vietnam can cause a little headache to the chinese in event of a hostility.I would say let Vietnam be to India what Pakistan is to China.Build a couple of peaceful nuclear reactors for Vietnam as a measure of Indian goodwill. Sounds like a well laid strategy. And yes, ...

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Why such a division? The US relied heavily on subs in the Pacific War vs. Japan, in fact their subs were far more effective than the German wolf-packs in the Atlantic because the Imp. Japanese Navy heavily neglected defensive doctrines including ASW. And the Germans (in both wars) relied on pocket ...

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But, IMO, nothing beats the versatility and the Multi role capability of a mid sized to large flat top.

Agreed, but what is the grassroot condition with INS to counter Sino-PAk nexus?

ARay

The only reason the Soviets went wild with missile ships is as a semi-asymmetric response to the overwhelming American advantage in naval air power which they had no real hope of matching. The answer is partially yes and no both. After WWII US occupied/leased most of the warm water ports here and t...

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Limiting your navy as Brown Water while you want to become an economic superpower is somewhat at odds. If you want to secure you welth you have to be strong---- at least old man tales are like that. Secondly, no plan is perfect 100% proof. Every plan has its own endurance and it depends on as many g...

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Nice to read all the comments. Very well thought indeed. Better to check the probability of replinishing--- At the intial phase when the BGs will opearate just at the mouth of Bay of Bengal, Kolkata/Orissa coast and Andaman are the land based relinishing points. However within Bay of Bengal or extre...

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My humble point is that these cruisers can be part of the CBG and supplement the carriers with their awesome firepower and command & control equipment. But, they cannot really replace a carrier. Agreed upto 80%. But CBGs are far to come by. May be 20 yrs from now to have 3 full grown CBGs. You c...

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The fourth of the Project 1143 aircraft carrying cruisers, Baku had many differences to the rest of the class, trialing technologies to be used on the Admiral Kuznetsov. As it appears on wikipedia about Gorshkov. Gorshkov designated as Kiev class but still there is reference of Kuznetsov. Genesis l...

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Well, I am not advocating for Ticonderoga (correct or not). What I felt is that the name SLAVA beats an odd tune. But think its the only thing we have as cruiser and option is open. Organizing SLAVA in a new way may be a problem. But not as time consuming as the CBGs will be. To built three CBGs wil...

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Cost overruns and maitenance hazards are always hell of a problem. Regarding opearting with older design---- other than recent destroyers (Delhi, Kolkata) and Frigates most of the assets worked on older designs. Take case of two aircraft carriers: (i) WWII vintage Vikrant (an example of refits) and ...

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I would personally put the large sub fleet on a higher priority rating to counter the underwater threat from the Sino-Pak axis,where the IN is completely outnumbered in both conventional/AIP and nuclear subs. True but the procurement is delayed. To sustain a broad operation theatre starting from Ba...

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do heed my earlier request and cut down on the confrontation quotient.

ARay

We'll need cruisers someday. that someday is when we start graduating our ASA ... ooops 300 km alt exo-atmospheric interceptors to the sea. The day is very near. SLAVA can further be modified. Infact Battle cruisers may be more potent, but its not free for sale. SLAVA has 32 Knots----quite faster a...

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Search for GPS on net and look at the architecture. It will be clear to you. US provide GPS data on agreement but purposefully add noise (degraded version) to limit the resolution. Clocks are inseparable part of GPS and GPS is inseparable from Defence. US use Cs standard clocks, Russia uses hydrogen...

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"You have subs, I need subs" Its nice to see so many comments. However I want to make certain things clear before I catch the thread: 1. PLAN subs: Han class nuke sub is often on aggressive patrol on Jap coast or even shadows US battle group. Type 093 Shang (---> VICTOR III Russia) is on ...

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let me get this right, because PLAN is inducting many submarines, we have to discard our carriers (which have a very strong ASW component) and start inducting missile cruisers (whatever you mean by that) with no or little ASW component ? interesting. Looks like a statement of politics embedded. Wel...

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Technicalities for later discussion. My feel is to raise small battle groups in the IN centered around missile cruisers for employment and aggressive/non aggressive patroling at the mouth of Bay of Bengal (Eastern side) and nearing China sea. For next couple of decades this strategy could be followe...

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Dear Ticky, Bit by bit answering you---- 1. Its true PNS Ghazi was let loose and destroyed by INS Rajput as it appers. Though there are other visions on that. What I am talking off is if there was not the sinking of Ghazi, what would have happened? Have you ever thought of it? Few days fighting in A...

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After having read your insightful post , this humble zimble SDRE says IB4TL P.S. use the existing navy thread dude, the mods are sure to dish out some tough love if you keep starting new threads like this ---ticky Your advice well taken dude, so I now post where you suggested, scared of tough love ...

Bharat Rakshak

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