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- 04 Sep 2020 01:20
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
I understood what you meant. Still don't think that comparison is warranted especially if the only real complaint is that the R-77's aren't good enough. That issue is easily remedied. Not sure why you think a new radar is necessary since it just received a new radar in the upgrade. "Easily rem...
- 04 Sep 2020 01:16
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
... The sanction for the project is expected in two months and the first trials of the missile could begin in early 2023. ... The worry is the time being taken for this. I appreciate the details you listed here. It fills out the story, but I don't see how what you are proposing is any different (or...
- 04 Sep 2020 01:08
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Assuming any sources existed at all and the "Journalist" wasn't just smoking the latest weed while making up the story.ramana wrote:Sources allows any disinfo/lies to be peddled.
- 04 Sep 2020 01:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 847147
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
But the unsinkable carrier is also an immovable carrier. And an extremely vulnerable one! This is the key point. For all our hopes and dream for A&N, their inability to move means that every target of significance on these bases can be literally dialed in to the meter by the enemy well in advan...
- 04 Sep 2020 00:56
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
- Replies: 4118
- Views: 1254400
Re: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
Can you specify how the R-77 is a "proven dud"? Were the early model AMRAAMs dud's too? Because they were behind the later model AMRAAMs or at best had parity with the R-77? The concern is that the AMRAAM is built on the experience gained from the combat experience of the early generation...
- 04 Sep 2020 00:49
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
They are receiving Astra and likely, w/this new deal - the R-77-1. The MiG-29 UPG already has Indian made EW to complement its Russian radar. Is the Astra confirmed for the upgraded Mig-29s? Are all Mig-29s now upgraded to the same standard? The R-77-1 remains a mystery for me. Supposedly it has re...
- 04 Sep 2020 00:44
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
Last year's order for R-77's was apparently for the improved R-77-1. I'm not sure if they are only meant for the MKI's or they will be used on the Mig-29 as well. There is no reason why they can't. The Mig-29 upgrade included a new Radar (Zhuk-M2E I believe) as well as new series-3 engines which ar...
- 04 Sep 2020 00:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1277447
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Surprising how SDRE the Indian Arihant is compared to the Fat-assed Russian sitting next to it. 6000 Tons vs. 12000 Tons. Same length but half the beam with a smaller lower power reactor. Somehow the mental image is to expect the boomers being larger than the attack subs. The Arihant truly is a bab...
- 04 Sep 2020 00:39
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1277447
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Does the IN have such covered facilities for its subs?sohamn wrote:If IN doesn't want our boomers to be clicked then they will hide it inside a secure pen and not moor it in the open.
- 04 Sep 2020 00:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2749
- Views: 1148321
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
The Tejas Mk2 can be ready far before that and there is very much an operational need for it in the Air Force. All the squadrons of Jaguars, Mirage-2000's and Mig-29's will have to be replaced by something before the Su-30's start being replaced. A single aircraft that can replace all three is the ...
- 04 Sep 2020 00:31
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Helicopters
- Replies: 5318
- Views: 2355367
Re: Indian Military Helicopters
LCH LSP is already in production and it could be one of the reason for no urgency being shown to sign the contract as IAF will be getting them once complete even if they sign the contract today or tomorrow and a larger contract will also come after that The present deployment is clear indication th...
- 03 Sep 2020 10:16
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Helicopters
- Replies: 5318
- Views: 2355367
Re: Indian Military Helicopters
The most ludicrous purchase is IA buying "6" apaches!! 6! It could have easily paid for the 15 unfinished LCHs and still had some change left over. And that would have been an entire squadron of LCHs with money left over for weapons, maintenance and attrition reserves. What attrition rese...
- 03 Sep 2020 10:01
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
BTW, I should remind everyone that while the 83 LCAs await orders, the IAF is still flying Mig-21 Bisons against top-of-the-line F-16s+AMRAAMs.
The clock continues to tick...
The clock continues to tick...
- 03 Sep 2020 10:00
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
I do think more Rafales will be ordered before we get the 83 LCAs. I doubt even the IAF will be brash enough to propose yet another imported fighter type from the global market in the midst of all this.
- 03 Sep 2020 09:58
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1277447
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Surprising how SDRE the Indian Arihant is compared to the Fat-assed Russian sitting next to it.
- 03 Sep 2020 09:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 847147
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
The extra cost will be negligible,but for the additional fixed wing aircraft.around 50+ NLCAs and some extra 29Ks won't break the bank,would cost not more than $2.5/3B. Have you seen the fiasco in the LCA thread for ordering 83 LCAs that are already in production? Or the 15 LCHs that we have been h...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:53
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2749
- Views: 1148321
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
I am not sure we have the budgetary resources or time (given how the IAF is slowly filling up on Rafales) to take a staged "stepping-stone" approach to the AMCA over 15 years. Either make the Tejas Mk2 for its own sake and deploy in numbers, or make way for the AMCA and speed the latter up...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:50
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
Yet IAF is buying 21 Mig-29s and holding off the 83 Mk1A order to assure that they will be further delayed - perhaps then ask to get 83 MK2 instead. Are we sure the 21 Mig-29s is not a desperate buy in the face of dwindling fleet numbers? Would the IAF buy more Mig-29s given a choice of other curre...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:47
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
Fact remains that when the IAF needs to gets its hands dirty, it relies on western aircraft and A2G weapons in its inventory. The Mirage-2000s, the Netra and the western standoff weapons. Why else the over-the-top drama for the arrival of the handful of Rafales? I expect the LCA to be a much more po...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:45
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1857843
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
IMHO the IAF will use the Mig-29 for what it does best - air superiority. Its not like we have a surfeit of A2A fighters at the moment with the squadron numbers hovering around 30. With the new radar and avionics, missiles, additional fuel, D-29 jammer and the Mig-29's unmatched kinematic performan...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:41
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 847147
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
So at best IN will have one carrier at sea and one in the shop - fantasies of behaving like the USN notwithstanding. Indeed. I just want the Vikrant to actually be commissioned at this point and fly Mig-29k off its decks and not go the way of the classic GoI "Technology Demonstrator" prog...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:38
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
- Replies: 4118
- Views: 1254400
Re: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
So much discussion here on the Su-30 getting new radars, avionics and other optics. Is that really the pain point for the Su-30 as a weapon-system? Isn't it's legendary powerful radars enough to see the enemy? Or has the Rambha been blinded by the new gen of jammers carried by Pak F-16s? :-? The big...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:31
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
- Replies: 2819
- Views: 1690569
Re: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
France is quite overtly backing Greece against Turkey. In that context this move makes total sense.k prasad wrote:Whenever there's a 'donation' involved, there's absolutely more than meets the eye, and you can bet that theres some larger geopolitical payment being made.
- 03 Sep 2020 09:29
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 847147
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
PS: As stated earlier,if we convert the 4 amphibs into multi-purpose light CVs,we would have at least 3 more CVs operating the NLCA preferably, along with ASW/assault helos,which could operate at various points in the IOR,etc. These vessels would cost a fraction of a large CV,affordable ,unlike a $...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:26
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Vivek you are right. Nirbhay has not been scrapped. Its been supplanted by a new program intended to deliver a tri-service operational missile. All per public reports btw. This was like "closing the IGMDP". Yeah, but everything else continues as it should. So bureaucratic and budgetary cl...
- 03 Sep 2020 09:23
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
STAR *cruise* missile entering wind tunnel testing at NAL. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eg8wbmkVoAEyfoi?format=jpg&name=small This thing might very well be a long-range AAM. Unless it has long aspect-ratio wings ready to pop out of somewhere, I can't see a 1000+ km range from this configuration....
- 03 Sep 2020 09:20
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
- Replies: 4649
- Views: 1845997
Re: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
Part of the problem is that while India is a capitalist country with private ownership of industry, the government behaves like that of a socialist country, handing vital defense projects to public sector units. We all know how that works out. We retain the slow-moving decision process of a democrac...
- 02 Sep 2020 20:02
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Warhead ambiguity is an age old problem that has been studied to death in academia and military circles. At the end it comes down to intent, platforms, and targets. It is as much about the employer of such a weapon calculating its potential escalator impact as it is the defender. At the end of the ...
- 02 Sep 2020 19:57
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
1) Shaurya is not inducted. Project scrapped, or rather let to die without a whimper 2) Neither is Pragati, Pralay or Prahaar. Somewhere in the dev-trials, user-trials black hole 3) Nirbhay was scrapped as a tech-demonstrator 4) Brahmos Extended range is getting mixed news. Some reports say its bee...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:32
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1635192
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Can we say the same about the GoI? Vivek, I think the fact that PM Modi visited Ladakh on Jul 3 is proof enough of this govt's intention in righting the wrongs in this region. Didn't Nehru also go to Ladakh several times for photo-ops and pose with senior IA officers pointing to the border with the...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:23
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3259
- Views: 2404783
Re: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
Is 100 K-9 Vajra vehicles sufficient for a mobile armored force the size of the Indian Army? I seriously doubt that it is. Are there plans in place to build more once the 100 get completed (they are already well past half-way on that order already)?
- 02 Sep 2020 10:21
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - XV Kaalkut
- Replies: 74
- Views: 29318
Re: Possible Indian Military Scenarios - XV Kaalkut
@jamwal: this is nice stuff. I will sit back with some popcorn on this thread for a change. Please keep it coming!
- 02 Sep 2020 10:20
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
- Replies: 3885
- Views: 1911622
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
The LCA is about the only bright spot in my list of Chimera/Fenix checklist items from 2014 that seems to have gone more-or-less as we thought it would (I mean, we always want more and faster, but what the hell). Compared to the LCH, Nirbhay, Vikrant, AEW and other program fiascos, this program is a...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:15
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1635192
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
@Prem kumar: the weak points for the Indian side are the UAVs and Satellite coverage. The latter would be barely sufficient if ISRO sats are being roped in (which they would be, because why the hell not?). But we don't launch enough military satellites right now to provide regular and full coverage ...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:11
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Isn't the Shaurya a semi-ballistic missile? How is that going to work in a hot war without accidentally triggering a blatant ballistic missile exchange with China? Will the Chinese (or Pak) radar detecting these launches understand that these launches are in-lieu of cruise-missiles (because we don'...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:06
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1635192
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Are we seeing a repeat of 1962 where the Indian Army deploys itself in a scattered manner on "policing actions" while the Chinese are massing behind? Part of the reason the IA was taken by surprise is because they scattered themselves into small groups trying to cover all border locations...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:05
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1635192
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Not at all. I don't have to tell you this, given your extensive research for your books - the Army knows about logistics and have been careful about spreading too thin. These heights near Spanggur can be reinforced from the Chushul side if need be, so they won't be isolated pickets. Given the free ...
- 02 Sep 2020 10:00
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2360839
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
The program was scrapped and now has been resurrected under some other title iirc. Trials to begin in December.... In the meanwhile the only real lacm available is the bmos with a range extension of up to 800km. There is also the shaurya, India's event if the iskander with a range > 1500km Did they...
- 02 Sep 2020 09:51
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 847147
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
Wrt long ranged strikes, a less expensive option might be leasing some supersonic long ranged bombers like the tu22. Even a small silver bullet fleet could play a tremendous the in the IOR. These will be quickly available compared to another CV. Another option is the kh32 1000km hypersonic that the...
- 02 Sep 2020 09:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Helicopters
- Replies: 5318
- Views: 2355367
Re: Indian Military Helicopters
Given the reality and the known numbers and non-inductions of most of the things you had predicted( AWACs, LCH, missiles, CBGs etc) in your scenarios,How will a current scenario between India and China look in the present day 2020? All I will say on this is that when Chimera was being posted page-b...