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^^^^ Hmmm very interesting.
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Israel does have a tradition of developing new weapon systems with foreign financing., they have deals with US/UAE/Turkey/India.. Singaporean collaboration started much before than with India.It is called having your pie and eating it too ! The one with China fell flat before it could go on but not before the Xerox country copied whatever it could.
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the ID cannot do much for singapore if someone across the straits were determined to rain down shells.

The israelis can enjoy the luxury of using $100K missiles for 5000 dollar rockets as long as Khan subsidizes them

If they want to bring Singapore to heel - cutting of the water supply is a lot better alternative :) -

Singapore knows its limitations and relies on Khan and then some backup relations with others for any military problems
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Surya
Tamir interceptors cost much less than 100k to manufacture and are lot cheaper than Fajr-5 rockets.
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Surya wrote:If they want to bring Singapore to heel - cutting of the water supply is a lot better alternative :) -

Singapore knows its limitations and relies on Khan and then some backup relations with others for any military problems
Singapore is now almost self-reliant for its water needs. There were 2 agreements with Malaysia to import water. One expired some time ago and wasn't renewed and they haven't renegotiated the second one either as it will be allowed to lapse when the time comes.
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^^^
I may be cheaper than a Fajr-5 (that's a 6+ meter long 900+ kg heavy weight rocket), but no way it it going to be cheaper than the "home made" ones that make up the bulk of the rockets that are being fired at Israel.
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Qassam rockets cost less than 1k to build but the cost to smuggle and hid them are likely more. Eventual plan is to make Tamir less than 10k and IMO they should couple that tiered system using phalanx.
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its very unlikely the US would tolerate a islamist Govt takeover in Malaysia or Indonesia(sumatra and java) ... would complicate their situation in the south china sea as these new "democrats" would promptly tie up with Cheen and lay sinic SOSUS arrays all over the region to hunt US subs

I would like to imagine malaysian and indonesian islamists are not as batnuts crazy like the TSP/Arab versions, but am prepared to be deeply disappointed knowing the 'troubled' history of islamism :)
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vishal

I know - they have been trying with more catchment, recycling, and desalination - especially since Malaysia threatened a couple of times and played their hands.

not sure if that will completely make them independent -

Singha

the malays are generally laid back but a fair bunch of them are viciously rabid underneath.Luckily many are not in KL where I often go but deeper in - are some paki like characters.

Indonesia has more saner chars but who knows
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India should sell off shore nuclear reactor to de salinate water for Singapore needs.

Line up a bunch of old soviet style nuclear submarines ( make sure that they don't submerse)

And supply the hot team into heat exchangers to de salinate


The official said the program to dismantle nuclear submarines from the Northern Fleet had almost been completed and the majority of vessels due to be scrapped are currently with the Pacific Fleet
This decommissioned missile cruiser has a reactor of 300 MWt

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. Desalination is energy-intensive. Reverse Osmosis needs up to 6 kWh of electricity per cubic metre of water (depending on its original salt content), hence 1 MWe will produce about 4000 to 6000 m3 per day from seawater. MSF and MED require heat at 70-130°C and use 25-200 kWh/m³, though a newer version of MED (MED-MVC) is reported at 10 kWh/m3 and competitive with RO. A variety of low-temperature and waste heat sources may be used, including solar energy, so the above kilowatt-hour figures are not properly comparable. For brackish water and reclamation of municipal wastewater RO requires only about 1 kWh/m3. The choice of process generally depends on the relative economic values of fresh water and particular fuels, and whether cogeneration is a possibility.

Some 10% of Israel's water is desalinated, and one large RO plant provides water at 50 cents per cubic metre. Malta gets two thirds of its potable water from RO. Singapore in 2005 commissioned a large RO plant supplying 136,000 m³/day - 10% of needs, at 49 cents US per cubic metre. Malta gets two thirds of its potable water from RO, and this takes 4% of its electricity supply. Singapore in 2005 commissioned a large RO seawater desal plant supplying 136,000 m3/day - 10% of needs, at 49 cents US per cubic metre, and has contracted for a 318,500 m3/d RO plant on a build-own-operate basis, costing US$ 700 million, to provide water at US 36 c/m3. The same company is building a 500,000 m3/d seawater desal plant in Algeria.

The UAE operates the 820,000 m3/day Jebel Ali MSF plant in Dubai, Fujairah producing 492,000 m3/day, Umm Al Nar 394,000 m3/day, and Taweelah A1 power and desal plant producing 385,000 m3/day.

In February 2012 China's State Council announced that it aimed to have 2.2 to 2.6 million m3/day seawater desalination capacity operating by 2015.

Small and medium sized nuclear reactors are suitable for desalination, often with cogeneration of electricity using low-pressure steam from the turbine and hot seawater feed from the final cooling system. The main opportunities for nuclear plants have been identified as the 80-100,000 m³/day and 200-500,000 m³/day ranges.

A 2006 IAEA report based on country case studies showed that costs would be in the range ($US) 50 to 94 cents/m3 for RO, 60 to 96 c/m3 for MED and $1.18 to 1.48/m3 for MSF processes, with marked economies of scale. Nuclear power was very competitive at today's gas and oil prices. A French study for Tunisia compared four nuclear power options with combined cycle gas turbine and found that nuclear desalination costs were about half those of the gas plant for MED technology and about one third less for RO. With all energy sources, desalination costs with RO were lower than MED costs.

The Kwinana desalination plant near Perth, Western Australia, has been running since early 2007 and produces about 140,000 m3/day (45 GL/yr) of potable water, requiring 24 MWe of power for this, hence 576,000 kWh/day, hence 4.1 kWh/m3 overall, and about 3.7 kWh/m3 across the membranes. The plant has pre-treatment, then 12 seawater RO trains with capacity of 160,000 m3/day which feed six secondary trains producing 144,000 m3/day of water with 50 mg/L total dissolved solids. The cost is estimated at A$ 1.20/m3. Discharge flow is about 7% salt. Future WA desalination plants will have more sophisticated pre-treatment to increase efficiency. In August 2011 the state government decided to double the size of its new Southern Water Desal Plant at Binningup plant near Perth to 100 GL/yr, taking the cost to about $1.45 billion. Stage 1 of 50 GL/yr was within the A$ 955 million budget.

At the April 2010 Global Water Summit in Paris, the prospect of desalination plants being co-located with nuclear power plants was supported by leading international water experts.
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pentaiah ji, your posts in the right thread should evoke good responses.
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^shaurya is not submarine launched.
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Singha wrote:would be good if we had something integrated into the maitri/spyder/Akash2 framework rather than another system needing its own C3I, TELARs and crew.
Exactly. That would be the whole JV bit. But they need to deliver on LRSAM first. The big reason we went to Israel for the MR and LRSAM JV was to meet timelines since DRDO (DRDL/RCI/LRDE/ARDE/HEMRL et al) were overloaded with the combination of the strategic and tactical programs, including the BMD ones. And did not want to take on more programs than necessary.
The Israelis on the other hand, agreed to this, and went on ramping up their own programs (Arrow, Iron Dome, Davids Sling etc) essentially limiting resource availability for the MR/LRSAM projects.
These need to come through for both the Navy & AF, as they would allow us to fit out the Kolkata class ships & also boost the AD network by a significant amount.
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@Saik

Isn't it Sagarika is a naval variant of Shaurya Missile??
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^^ Isnt the new N-sub base, Rambilli, also coming up near the proposed second missile launch site?
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Yes.. but the contention is about the launching.. canister based surface to surface has entirely a different mission profile, naming and gaming etc.

BTW, we could have so many commonalities between various missile and sub systems. I was just pointing that submarine launched variant is not named shaurya.
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Surya wrote: Indonesia has more saner chars but who knows
Indonesia has its share of rabid Islamists & their numbers are growing. In one of their islands, the police go out at noon blaring into loudspeakers that its time for namaz and everyone should stop working.

Hopefully Bali will retain its Hindu ethos
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IMO, the 2nd video of the AAD test from LiveFist (top attack) demonstrates boost phase intercept
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Karan M wrote:
Singha wrote:would be good if we had something integrated into the maitri/spyder/Akash2 framework rather than another system needing its own C3I, TELARs and crew.
I don't see any role for Iron Dome in Indian context. This system can be stretched overwhelmed in no time.
OTOH, David's Sling, if we have funds for it will be far better an investment to protect our forward Infra/Airbases/landing grounds and formations against heavy Cruise missile attacks.

Can anyone comment on Tamir's performance or capabilities against cruise missiles?
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Koti, read Page 103 of the MOD annual report 2011-12, DRDO Section!

The IAF MRSAM is designed to neutralize fixed wing aircraft, helicopters , missiles subsonic, supersonic and tactical ballistic missiles) within a range of 70 km. Mind you, details have leaked at trade shows abroad of a booster equipped MRSAM able to cross >100 km, and something which the IAF does not want to tom tom.
Point is with MRSAM integrated with BMD we only have the very short range systems as a threat. That is where Iron Dome comes in. For both service formations and also cities next to the border. Mostly for the former though. Any system can be overwhelmed - the Iron Dome is smarter in that it chooses which targets to attack.
The Israeli ABM system is designed for one class of threats - missiles - primarily- to be cost effective. Arguably, a Davids Sling versus missiles will be cheaper than a MRSAM.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2012/1 ... in-3-years

We already seem to have the MRSAM firmly in the role as it too can handle tactical ballistic missiles which are usually in the 100-200 km or more class. Like that bottle rocket Pakistan was touting the other day for deterring Cold Start.
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MRSAM, will be used in a more area wide denial role rather then against LACM as these mostly will be terrain hugging and in numbers making longer range interception very hard.
I don't see any progress in SPYDER or Maitri in public media, however my interest in David's sling is its relevance compared to Iron dome.
Point is with MRSAM integrated with BMD we only have the very short range systems as a threat.That is where Iron Dome comes in.
Agreed. But Iron Dome IMO is only suitable for low intensity artillery defense as IDF deals with. With a battery of 20x3 missiles it can at its max knock down 60 shells before it itself might be targeted or it runs our of steam. And if any border city is under shelling, we can expect 60 shells coming in every other minute(Not in the case of IDF) and this will saturate the system pretty easily.

I see a more manageable threat in defense of forward air bases and command/field formations from enemy LACM and this is where I was seeing the role of David's Sling(If Maitri/SPYDER don't make it there)
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Closely on the heels of Akash missile system's success, Indian planners took new interest in C-RAM system. One of the C-RAM system in development for US military is a seeker less missile like Akash. And Radar unit developed for Akash is again used in such role.

If we observe the reports, Indians expressed interest in Indian version of Iron Dome. I think the underlined part is important. While talking about the third layer of Ballistic Missile Defense, DRDO mentioned, they are meant to intercept rockets as well as Cruise missiles. Though Iron Dome can intercept rockets, only Daivd's Sling (Stunner) is projected to intercept Cruise missile.
The third layer is planned to tackle low-flying cruise missiles, artillery projectiles and rockets in the line with the overall aim to achieve "near 100% kill or interception probability".

"Look what is happening in the Middle-East (Hamas firing rockets at Israeli cities before the recent ceasefire)...hence, protection against low-cost, very close range threats is also needed. We have begun some initial work on the third-tier. We will try to integrate it with the BMD system once it fructifies," said Saraswat.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes ... egis-bmd-3
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Nov 17, 2010 :: Interview with Mr. Lova Drori, Executive Vice President, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems
Lova Drori: We have lot of products that would interest Indian armed forces and we are talking to them about that, but we can't share more specific details about those products or programs. All I can share is that we are offering Iron Dome and David's Sling to the Indian armed forces.
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akshat.kashyap wrote:http://www.flickr.com/photos/78966197@N ... /lightbox/
AAD Concept Diagram.
AAD goes ~15 km high ~70 km range at say 4.5 machs

Arrow 2 goes ~50 km high ~70 km range at say 9 machs

I suspect the interception trajectories will be significantly different in both cases.

The second phase even the endo-atmospheric missile is represented to be a hypersonic missile for the Indian BMD.
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koti wrote:MRSAM, will be used in a more area wide denial role rather then against LACM as these mostly will be terrain hugging and in numbers making longer range interception very hard.
MRSAM can clearly take on a CM role...it was chosen over the larger, more expensive AAD partly for that very reason...as it was more cost effective, and more optimized for such a role.
I don't see any progress in SPYDER or Maitri in public media, however my interest in David's sling is its relevance compared to Iron dome.
GOI is too busy splurging on cash transfers for the next election. Paying MBDA for TOT/an expensive JV...not a priority.
Agreed. But Iron Dome IMO is only suitable for low intensity artillery defense as IDF deals with. With a battery of 20x3 missiles it can at its max knock down 60 shells before it itself might be targeted or it runs our of steam. And if any border city is under shelling, we can expect 60 shells coming in every other minute(Not in the case of IDF) and this will saturate the system pretty easily.
Increase the batteries.
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there is no dearth of money in india ., only priorities are different .. btw didn't china s top aircraft designer die after the successful aircraft landings in the carrier .. he was too stressed out from work .. it ll never happen IN India !
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kit wrote:there is no dearth of money in india ., only priorities are different .. btw didn't china s top aircraft designer die after the successful aircraft landings in the carrier .. he was too stressed out from work .. it ll never happen IN India !
And it need not happen! Do you mean that the designer has to be sacrificed every time a project is a success?
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What was the stress the chinese designer faced? Translating from Russian to Mandarin?
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kit wrote: btw didn't china s top aircraft designer die after the successful aircraft landings in the carrier .. he was too stressed out from work .. it ll never happen IN India !
Why is it necessary to curse something or someone in India while comparing with others?
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kit wrote:there is no dearth of money in india ., only priorities are different .. btw didn't china s top aircraft designer die after the successful aircraft landings in the carrier .. he was too stressed out from work .. it ll never happen IN India !
What is your problem dude your statement is so nonsensical, you probably dont know how stress the guys in RCI & DRDL handle for every program. I have seen a couple of them go into real depression when the projects they worked for 3 years got cancelled for no technical or user reason
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suryag wrote:
kit wrote:there is no dearth of money in india ., only priorities are different .. btw didn't china s top aircraft designer die after the successful aircraft landings in the carrier .. he was too stressed out from work .. it ll never happen IN India !
What is your problem dude your statement is so nonsensical, you probably dont know how stress the guys in RCI & DRDL handle for every program. I have seen a couple of them go into real depression when the projects they worked for 3 years got cancelled for no technical or user reason
One of my relatives works in DRDL and for 8 months he did not get time to visit his home city.
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Bheeshma wrote:What was the stress the chinese designer faced? Translating from Russian to Mandarin?
:rotfl: :twisted:
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kit wrote:there is no dearth of money in india ., only priorities are different .. btw didn't china s top aircraft designer die after the successful aircraft landings in the carrier .. he was too stressed out from work .. it ll never happen IN India !
:shock: Stressed out.. yeah sure why not... must have had an heart attack due too much of rice wine and ried noodles... stress indeed.
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Smoking, pork meat, fried rice, long hours, lack of proper rest and exercise....not good. Chinese tend to be heavy smokers..prolly far more than indians.
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K-15 test next month

After the successful trial of AD interceptor missile, DRDO is readying for the developmental trial of submarine- launched ballistic missile K-15 from an underwater platform off the Andhra Pradesh coast in the second week of December.

The much awaited test, scheduled for the last week of November, was postponed owing to inclement weather triggered by a deep depression in Bay of Bengal early this month. DRDO scientists are reportedly contemplating two trials of K-15, one from a pontoon (replica of a submarine) and another from a submarine.

Defence sources said the nuclear capable missile will be tested for the first time from a submarine positioned undersea off Visakhapatnam coast. If everything goes as planned, the missile will be fired any time between December 6 and 8.

The DRDO is eyeing for the successful trial of the missile as few countries have the triad of firing nuclear-tipped missiles from air, land and undersea. The other countries, which have the capability include Russia, the USA, France, Britain and China.

“Scientists are working over time and constantly cross-checking the system, including the launch platform. We want to achieve near-zero circular error probability (CEP) accuracy,” said a defence scientist.

The indigenously developed K-15 missile is about 10 metres in length and about a metre in diameter. Its launch weight is about 10 tonnes. This missile uses solid propellant and can carry a conventional payload of about 500 kg to one tonne and also be fitted with tactical nuclear warhead. After its induction, the missile will equip the country’s first nuclear-powered submarine ANS Arihant.

Reports said the K-series missile programme formally began in 2004 as PJ-08 as a tribute to the then DRDO chief and former President APJ Abdul Kalam. The solid-fuel missile had a modest 150-km range but over the years, the missile steadily grew to achieve its desired 700-km range.

“The hybrid K-15 combines aspects of both cruise and ballistic missiles, which use multiple-stage rockets to exit the atmosphere and re-enter in a parabolic trajectory. It flies in hypersonic speed. Launched underwater, the K-15 surges to the surface and is the world’s best weapon in this class,” the scientist said.

The K-15 is one of the most ambitious projects of the DRDO. After its successful induction, the DRDO would go for the developmental trials of its longer-range K-4 missile to strengthen its undersea attacks. Apart from the K-15, India has the submarine version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in its arsenal.
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INS chakra or INS arihant or kilo class?

I highly doubt if it would be kilo class because of missile length.

INS arihant is still going through sea-trial, so not sure, may be they go for weapon testing or may be not, is it possible?.

It have to be INS chakra, but don't know, is it allowed?
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How can a VLS missile be launched from Chakra? I am not aware of any such provision on the Akulas. It has to be Arihant since kilos are too small.
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A Sharma wrote:K-15 test next month

The hybrid K-15 combines aspects of both cruise and ballistic missiles, which use multiple-stage rockets to exit the atmosphere and re-enter in a parabolic trajectory. It flies in hypersonic speed. Launched underwater, the K-15 surges to the surface and is the world’s best weapon in this class,” the scientist said.

The K-15 is one of the most ambitious projects of the DRDO. After its successful induction, the DRDO would go for the developmental trials of its longer-range K-4 missile to strengthen its undersea attacks. Apart from the K-15, India has the submarine version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in its arsenal.
This report is confusing and misleading.... I was not aware any submarine version of BrahMos. Plus hypersonic speed and world's best weapon in this class? The class is sub 700 km submarine launched missile capable of carrying strategic payloads... I think K-15 is unique in that regard...
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