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Snehashis

My observations. Taking F77H, it can deploy a warhead weight of ~40Kgs. Rate of fire is 3 rpm for 20 min sustained. 20x3=60 rounds. It then needs a cool down time for its barrel and crew. Pinaka OTOT, has a warhead weight of 100 Kgs. Can fire 12 Rockets at max range in 44 sec and reload time of 4 m...

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Chacko, army now have Krasanpol rounds to blast those rat holes. In the Kargil war all of the Bofors gun were towed by trucks/tractors a pretty difficult task due to the sharp ridges in that region. Their movement were slow and some of the guns were lost in the ridges while transporting. But now wit...

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prabhug wrote:GPS signals would be very weak in mountains.I have reservations with GPS guided ones.How about a laser guided ones and illuminated by the UAV.

Laser guided munitions will be a better option since unkil will stop GPS signals in the conflict zone. Also LGMs are more accurate than GPS ones.

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sum wrote:Chiru-saar, now that you mention it, it was indeed a dual engine craft and couldnt have been the C-130.

Wonder what it was then since it seemed to been the air for a long time...Doubt if it was a HS-748 since it seemed spanking new and painted in nice gray colour.

Was it an upgraded An-32 ?

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Scorpene submarine sea trials in 2013 The first of the six Scorpene submarines ordered by the Indian Navy will be launched for sea trials in 2013, a top official of the firm constructing the submarines has said. India had placed orders for six Scorpene submarines with French firm DCNS in 2005, of w...

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Kersi D wrote:
Excuse my dumb question. What is a cargo shell ? Where is it used ? Advantages ?

K

Kersi, a cargo shell can can carry grenades and can deploy anti personnel / anti armour mines. Also it is possible to modify it to a nuke artillery.

Snehashis

IIRC Asian Age reported that the whole Assegai family to be manufactured at Badmal. It includes the V-LAP projectile. Singha, the volume of the chamber also play a crucial role for achieving longer range. A 25l chamber gun can throw the up to 67.5 km whereas a 23l gun can achieve 58 km with the same...

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But guys isnt the recent ban on ST Kinetics removed the roadblocks for acquiring LWHs from US ?

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So what is needed to make a cargo shell from the existing types in OFB capability? IMI is expected to provide the TOT to manufacture them at Nalanda. Also a desi 130 mm cargo shell is undergoing user acceptance trials. Its look like Denel actually transferred the technology for the cargo shells. It...

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IA has around 750 x 130 mm M-46 guns, out of which 180 guns seems to have been upgraded to 155mm standard. That leaves around 500+ guns for potential 155mm upgrade. ^^^I thik it has more. We have around 1800 M-46 guns. At least we had them back in 2001. The upgradation of the 1800-odd 130 mm guns t...

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Arjun-Mark I main battle tank will prove its mettle by firing a LAHAT missile A modified version of Arjun-Mark I main battle tank will prove its mettle by firing a LAHAT missile from an Army range this month. The LAHAT (Laser Homing Attack or Laser Homing Anti-Tank missile) is a third-generation se...

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The bolded part is patently wrong. ICL-20 is nothing but indigeniously synthesized CL-20 explosive. CL-20 explosive are ~20% more potent than HMX. This has been reported as 20 times more potent by our DDM!!! :roll: With regards to using ICL-20 in our warheads, it's a long way out(10-15 years at lea...

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I can understand that France does not start a new core for Kaveri as a completely new engine means an investment of something like US$5 Billion and ten years. I think that India should first absorb the technology of M-88 level before trying for the next stage. The issue would be as what would be th...

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Video 3rd batch of Ukrainian modernized An-32s light transport planes to fly back to India The upgraded An-32s have updated equipment for operation from airfields up to four thousand meters above the sea level as well as in hot conditions. The upgrades will help in increasing payload carrying capac...

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Inside the Malaysian Scorpene Impressive , Thanks for putting that up Snehashis. It shows Exocet SM-39 in action .... hits some containers it carried 160 kg odd warhead , imagine Club with 400 kg warhead. But Scorpene is quite impressive sub and the sonar can hear lot of things including dolphins ,...

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Of Ambajhari to manufacture SMERCH rocket casings Ordnance Factory Ambajhari at Nagpur will soon add another powerful rocket to its production repertoire. Hardware (casings) of the powerful Russian SMERCH rockets will be built at the factory in the near future, said OF Board chairman Shashidhar Dim...

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OFB upgrading Bofors to 45 calibre Meanwhile, in a small step towards indigenization of Bofors-type artillery guns, the ordnance factory has recently dispatched a couple of upgraded 155mm howitzers to the army. This is the first batch of guns lying with the army that have been upgraded by the ordna...

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Smerch rockets to be made in India at Ambajhari In a typical case of procedural delay, the Ordnance Factory Ambajhari (OFAJ) has bagged an order to make Rusisan Smerch rockets with a range up to 90km, but is now seeking permission from the ministry of defence to enter into a joint venture (JV) with...

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Navy light combat aircraft refused certification

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"IAF has till now received close to 190 fighters out of a total order of 272"

- Air Marshal (Retd) V.K. Bhatia in SP's Aviation, Jan 2012.

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Inside the Malaysian Scorpene

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^^^ +1

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But at least the MOD have shown good sense to procure the first two from the foreign yard. This will help to avoid any Collins type disaster the Aussies faced. L&t and Pipapav can get major sub-contracts from the MOD yards. Pipapav is currently helping MDL with the Scorpenes and the L&T wit...

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At last. Congratz.

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Rafale: French conquest FRANCE seems to be on the verge of walking away with one of the biggest defence deals in recent times. In early February, the Indian government announced that it had chosen the French firm Dassault Aviation as the sole bidder to supply 126 Rafale jet fighters for the Indian ...

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Navy's eyes and ears THE Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), Kochi, aims at perfection. Take for instance the system integration rig on its wooded campus. It is a small room, rigged up to look like a cabin in the Indian Navy's warship, with several pieces of sonar equipment, operato...

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Underwater might :: The DRDO's triad of laboratories supply the Indian Navy with high-potential weapons systems THE 52 laboratories of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) spread across India have a high-potential but low-profile trimurti, specialising in naval systems, among th...

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Austin wrote:Some update on Kaveri Program in this weeks AW&ST

Pg 52 http://www.zinio.com/reader.jsp?issue=416213559&e=true

http://i40.tinypic.com/qrf1js.jpg

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Does that means that Denel will be removed from blacklist circa 2015 ?

I believe there are still Giat, Patria Vamas and Samsung left to be banned. Perhaps we could take the generous offer by the Chinese to procure the guns from Norinco.

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But at least the MOD have shown good sense to procure the first two from the foreign yard. This will help to avoid any Collins type disaster the Aussies faced. L&t and Pipapav can get major sub-contracts from the MOD yards. Pipapav is currently helping MDL with the Scorpenes and the L&T with...

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Israel Military Industries to face action soon: Antony The Indian government will soon decide on penal action against an Israeli defense company blacklisted in connection with a graft case filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against a former Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) chief, the In...

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Setting up of ordnance factory in Nalanda has not been stopped The work of setting up of ordnance factory in Nalanda in Bihar has not been stopped. There are mainly four plants i.e. Nitro Cellulose (NC), Nitro Glycerine (NG), Sulphuric Acid Concentration (SAC)/Nitric Acid Concentration (NAC) and Bi...

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Nalanda is in limbo. It is not scrapped but surely things are not moving its way. Initial plan was to collaborate with Somchem/Naschem were scrapped after the Denel fiasco. IMI was then selected to provide the machinery / tooling and technology to set up the factory.

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Philip wrote:Doors slammed on pvt firms in submarine project

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ramana wrote:So what is needed to make a cargo shell from the existing types in OFB capability?

IMI is expected to provide the TOT to manufacture them at Nalanda. Also a desi 130 mm cargo shell is undergoing user acceptance trials.

Snehashis

ramana, according to the OFB site it looks like we are making most of the shell types with the cargo variant as notable exception. It was reported in Asian Age (?) that after Kargil OFB was producing a little less than a quarter m round per year.

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Fotu via Kunal Biswas. http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9082/img0521hvk5.jpg http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/218/img0256hvm9.jpg http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/9127/img0526hzr8.jpg http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5563/img0525hnr9.jpg http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6750/img0523hqd0.jpg http://i...

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NP Singha.

+1 to koti.

To my untrained eye the cutaway / see through models looks like a double hulled one. But again $1.5b for a conventional sub is too much.
5b for a conventional sub is

http://www.marineforum.info/assets/images/216-2.jpg

http://www.marineforum.info/assets/images/216-4.jpg

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Singha, Navy Recognition says that it is a double hulled design. Which one to believe ?

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... iew&id=264

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We need a single hull design with more punch and longer leg than the current Scorpenes in making. Also if one have to shell out $1.5b per conventional sub then a Barracuda type nuke boat would be a far better option.

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