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I agree....always its better to take war into south and east china sea. these areas are allegedly quite shallow with mean depth of 75m onlee (barring a few trench areas), and hence unsuitable for large SSN. sounds like a place where the new U218 design could help out. The Type-216 is a double hull ...

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100 made-in-India Bofors artillery guns Defeating the ghost of Bofors scandal that has haunted successive Congress governments, the Indian Ordinance Factory Board (OFB) has set on a daunting task of manufacturing 100 Bofors artillery guns indigenously from scratch, nearly 24 years after the first o...

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^^ nothing much to complain.. they are already giving us P8I. In line with Russian policy of giving latest to us and latest minus one to china. They are not giving but selling us P8I with watered down AN/APY 10I radar while they are gifting the bakis P3Cs and our Rambhas are better electronically e...

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Microwave masters “OURS is a unique laboratory. Only about 15 countries in the world are engaged in research in microwave tubes, which is a tough technology area,” says Lalit Kumar, Director of the Microwave Tube Research and Development Centre (MTRDC), Bangalore. Microwave tubes, or MWTs, find app...

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Only China makes the world's best - with the exception of America - military equipment. The rest...like the Europeans and others make only inferior and useless equipment. WRONG WRONG WRONG China makes the world's best military equipment. AND Pakistan makes the world's second best military equipment...

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Kersi D, after the 98' patakhas there was a new procurement policy envisaged by George uncle. It required warehousing spare needed for five years of operation within desh. Dont know if it is still followed. But the recent higher procurement cost from unkil seems to indicate that. Some new innovation...

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Kaveri turbofan programme seeks extension The Kaveri turbofan engine programme has asked the government for an extension and more funds to overcome a fresh set of technological hurdles that have cropped up in the latest phase of flight tests. According to top sources, the extension involves at leas...

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Thats Kamorta. It has unique anchor placement.

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Tejas models at Singapore.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aNGaW3rtjZQ/T ... +Booth.jpg

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I agree with Austin, brahmos is a overkill and overweight....and a SSK cannot carry enough to make a diff in land attack role. I think we should not dream of big VL arrays in SSK and instead focus on a new single hull Kilo++ sized design derived from the Arihant, say around 20-25 weapons in torpedo...

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Philip, I completely agree with you. But the negative comments by Vladimir Vysotsky seems to indicate that the Russians will not mind getting rejected for the second line. He has given enough ammunition to the other competitors and media to scuttle the deal. Before reading his interview I was really...

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it is somewhat mystifying though what the IAF hopes to achieve with just 22. surely 4-6 will be needed as a training unit. that leaves 16-18. assuming a 80% uptime over a 2 week war period thats just like 12 airframes. even a bottle-fed munna like UK that will never need to fight a land war on its ...

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Singha, its true that the S-90 mki I am proposing will not come cheap but it will have more indigenous content. We have integrated Brahmos on the Shivalik class and to be commissioned Kolkata class. I am hoping with our own IPMS fitting Brahmos/Nirbhay on a western sub will be possible. Also the Spa...

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Even if they clear it for export the cost will be sky high.

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Philip, sub launched Nirbhay is much more cost effective than Brahmos. Nirbhay will definitely our range Brahmos which is handicapped by MTCR limitation. According to Commander of the Fleet Vladimir Vysotsky the Lada/Amur class is an underpowered boat with poor ergonomics. The Greeks and South Korea...

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Austin, logistically a limited tender between S-90(?) and Super Scorpene is much preferable than bringing the Germans and Russian on board. If Navy wants an ocean going conventional sub then the next gen AIPs will come handy. Otherwise IMHO the endurance provided by the current breed of any western ...

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Austin, there was some talks from Navantia to equip the second batch of S-80 sub with an AIP of greater endurance than the first batch.

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^^^ Typhoon excelled in "Aircraft Performance", "Engagement" and "Pilot Workload" category. No victory for Gripen.

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Rafale Partners with Reliance New Delhi. Dassault Aviation has selected Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) as its private sector partner to manufacture the Rafale Combat jets in India. Details are not known but Dassault confirmed the agreement with the Mumbai-based Mukesh Ambani-led Indian conglomer...

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Bala Vignesh wrote:The C 27J sure are tempting. We could use them to boost the medium lift fleet of AN 32's. Or to support the Hercules fleet too.
JMO...

Only 4 have been delivered and delivery of others has been cancelled. We have to finance the remaining 34.

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The Russian Navy will not take the "Lada" The Russian Navy rejects the newest submarines "Lada". This was told RIA Novosti in an exclusive interview with the Commander of the Fleet Vladimir Vysotsky . Multi-year saga of a prototype non-nuclear submarines near maritime zones comi...

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Russia is to drop production of the Lada/Amur diesel subs.The report (http://en.ria.ru/russia/20120209/171225725.html) suggests that the new AIP system under development which will arrive in 2014 will be retrofitted to the earlier subs built and any new ones in the future. <snip> The dropping of ma...

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The financial bids were checked by the representatives of both companies before opening.

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Rafale is IAF’s New Year Gift The Indian Government formally informed the manufacturers of these two aircraft Jan 31 of the much-awaited Medium Multi Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition of this result. That Rafale is Number 1, and Eurofighter Number 2 in their financial bids. A brief statement...

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SaiK, here is the radar close up.

http://sitelife.aviationweek.com/ver1.0 ... c.Full.jpg

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Nope. IAF refused any change in engine configuration after the trials cause it will change the flight characteristic of the aircraft.

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Another 80 Super Sukhois ?

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Well for IAF's sake I hope Swami doesn't pull out some piece of paper that looks like evidence, all it takes to get kill the raffy deal is a piece of such evidence. It is an old article indeed, how the heck did Swami know so long ago that Raffy will win? Not soo easy to discount this as co-incidenc...

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Raffy in IAF colour via twitter.

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rajanb wrote:CNN-IBN says $65M for a Raffy in flyaway condition.

Wont there be any haggling before signing the deal ?

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Great choice. Raffy is superb and way better looking than Tify.

Also it means there will be no American AAM in the IAF service in near future.

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Saurabh Joshi of Stratpost is claiming that the lowest bidder will be announced by this weekend.

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suryag wrote:And then the user trials will go on for years ) no one needs an astrology degree to predict this

A small addition :

And then the user trials will go on for years before eventually banning the turret supplier

) no one needs an astrology degree to predict this

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Arjun MK-3 might be a reality now Arjun mk-2 with latest improvements might be ready for Army trials in June this year, but there has been some encouraging development in countries Main battle Tank’s saga. Delays in putting down requirements for the FMBT, countries next generation tank which Indian...

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India becomes 6th nation to join elite nuclear submarine club NEW DELHI: India's long hunt for a nuclear submarine is finally over. But it will take the country another 10-12 months to get an operational nuclear weapon triad - the capability to fire nukes from land, air and sea. India on Monday bec...

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The TOI reports that India is negotating for a second nuke sub form Russia. Heard this after a longtime after initial reports. Wonder how far its true. While they are at it they should just go ahead and lease a total of 5. :mrgreen: Looks like Irbis will follow Nerpa. But there are no unfinished Ak...

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Another possibility is for achieving better contrast with the old Radium dialed instruments at night ?

On a lighter note it could be the favourite color of Stalin and now Putin.

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There is a distinction between ergonomics and effectiveness. If operational research suggested that a spike in the middle of the aircraft seat improved pilot alertness for the duration of the sortie, there is a good chance the Russian designers would have included one on their aircraft. The pilots ...

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Are we getting the Irbis ? There was some Russian sites claiming we are getting 2 Akulas.

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