Bharat Rakshak

Kanan

I feel we shouldn't discount the F-22 so easily. Its list of capabilities is pretty long. You might call me a fanboy (I wouldn't mind it this time) but the F-22 is the benchmark of stealth even today! ^I would agree with you, bhai! :D All I am saying is it wouldn't be a cake walk for F-22s against ...

Kanan

^^^^^ :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Manishw, you are so childish that you are outright annoying! All your posts are of hitler-esque nuts to be honest! Who do you think people in sound mind would listen to, you or Indian Navy chief? The latter of course! If you have a sound mind, Please read what the Chief...

Kanan

Dear manishw, when i say "catch up" I mean numbers! They have around 70 subs against some 15 that we do! And all the 15 are most likely be retired by 2025 (these are kilos, foxtrots and type-209)! Our scorpenes will be ready by 2020-22 (estimated) and P-75I say,2025? That in addition to 3 ...

Kanan

I have a noob Q ,guys!

If an aircraft of 0.1m2 RCS is carrying a missile of 0.1 m2 externally, would the resultant RCS be the sum of these? If not can anyone give the basics of the calculation?

Kanan

^^^^This rather sounds like why make aircraft at all? Why not use MLRS, cruise missiles , conventional artillery for land attack and SAMS for air defence? Bro, I don't think it works the way you mentioned!

Kanan

Wonder why many nations think the best way to become India's best friend is by arming to the teeth the mentally unstable, new-clear whore nation called Bakistan :eek: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: You Rock Brother! :wink: I don't think any military alliances will work for India NOW! India-US Pact=Big Tim...

Kanan

IN wants a shore trainer. For for carrier landing it will use MiG-29. Hawk is common logistics. Yeps! IAF is already using Hawk and hence another trainer was not chosen! IMHO, IN is bolstering its aviation arm on a war footing in order to counter PLAAN threat! Since we can never catch up in submari...

Kanan

Carl_T: I agree with what you say about the Pakfa, but Kanan was referring to the Su-30. I think the Raptor would spot it before vice versa. He was saying you could use jammers to deter missiles launched by the F-22, but I think the Raptor would have a big advantage A good MAWS or Missile Approach ...

Kanan

Just curious. If PAKFA can be a Raptor killer, why not Su 30? What would the PAKFA have in terms of Raptor killing ability that the Su 30 or future upgrades might lack? You don't need a stealth fighter to kill another stealth fighter, You only need a bullet or missile to hit the plane you want to k...

Kanan

Suddenly after 1947, the brits discovered India again! :P can anyone say if silent eagle has better RCS than Super hornet? The F 15 later variants are still better than the Typhoon in many aspects including A2G. In fact one could argue that in the current global climate strike missions take preceden...

Kanan

Raytheon and Elcome Marine Complete Phalanx Maintenance for Indian Navy INS Jalashwa to India, the landing platform dock arrived in India with two Phalanx Block 1 systems on board. Maintenance on the Phalanx systems included the replacement of circuit cards and other work. Chackojee, was it phalanx...

Kanan

^^ I strongly feel that we should buy more MRCA's of the shelf instead of Su 35's. We need a good amount LO platform which will be the first one's to be used in case of WAR. A question -- Any MRCA contender which can match the specs offered by IBRIS ? The problem, Nair bhai, is that none of the MMR...

Kanan

^^^ That is correct GD the Poseidon for USN will indeed be without MAD and as you said they are looking for high altitude release of torps onlee...although will make it interesting to see how they will deploy sonobuoys from that sort of altitude :-? interesstingly though withose sort of altitudes t...

Kanan

Was Super Hornet's high alpha manouveres better than Rambha? Just Curious................... The Super Hornet has no TVC engines. Whatever alpha it achieves, it does it with this constraint and its quite a sight. IMO, no non-TVC fighter can do reach such high AoA as the SHornet. Thanx for the reply...

Kanan

So now we should wait for 15-25 years so that gap can widen further.My 2 cents says no 15-25 yrs are going to be available to us. If we don't have the capability to finish china with nukes then all this talk of economy shikonomy is a waste. :rotfl: The problem is our strike range at present is 700 ...

Kanan

BTW, over the weekend I got to witness a C-17, Super Hornet and Viper demo (both clean). This is the second time I’m seeing them in action and again, the SHornet’s high alpha passes and controllability at extremely low speeds was the hallmark Was Super Hornet's high alpha manouveres better than Ram...

Kanan

Zero level of tolerance should mean, one IED blast by Puki terrorists at the CWG venue at H Hour, Pukistan gets wiped out from the face of the earth at H Hour plus flight time of ballistic missiles to Pukistan. I think all missiles should be armed and kept aimed in sufficient numbers to cover every...

Kanan

2) Strategic Bombers:India needs nuclear triad to realise its dreams of being a Super Power. We need to negotiate for 40-50 Tu-160 Blackjacks (optimised as per our requirements,read reduced RCS,Israeli tech.....) Su34's are a better bet - They can carry 8tons of ordnance, can defend itself, technol...

Kanan

what are the chances that any big misadventure by Let or any other pak based terrorist group during CWG may lead to war ? should we mobilize forces to build a pressure on pak to stop any kind of unwanted this happening . Hmm........If we do as you suggested;tensions will run high and CWG might alto...

Kanan

I have also been advocating cost effectiveness and logistics unification for MMRCA and Mig-35 fits the bill quite well. If it makes it in MMRCA it would be good for the IAF in its long term streamlining of logistics beyond the usual lip service. One key problem with MiG-35 comes in the form of BVRA...

Kanan

weather radar feature too...the air search mode makes sense for self-defence because IN cannot always count on lurking E2 for early warning unlike USN http://knol.google.com/k/vijainder-k-thakur/indian-navy-maritime-multimission/yo54fmdhy2mq/13# At the Singapore air show in February 2010, Boeing re...

Kanan

India and Russia have always shared a great rapport! To infuse some life into the ties, we might need to have some defence agreements in a mutually beneficial way! 1) Greater co-operation and ToT agreements of PAK_FA! India might buy 200 of them, but if its a really good aircraft, we will buy more t...

Kanan

Why do folks want to jump into conclusion? International version would mean COTS or Standards that is used by users overseas. For example, if you bring a Laptop from US which has different voltage needs. In India we have different needs. Other can be that they use NTSC and we use PAL for beaming pi...

Kanan

>...New airframe... Huh? Let's say a modified airframe to reduce RCS like Su-35BM! Read somwhere that the RCS of MKI is 10m2 while Su-35 BM is around 1m2! IAF has indeed expressed interest to bring the RCS down ! So, IMHO, an airframe modification or a new airframe is quite probable! Plz revert for...

Kanan

India's submarine purchase plans and the way west looks. (atleast the way this reporter looks at :D) This fellow has painted India as not friendly nation to the west... as if after aquiring AIP India would go bombing the world :D http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/14/indian_aip_sub_order/ East-o-...

Kanan

Hmmmm.........I believe the MKI is set for a major upgrade within the next five years that it might come back a completely new one! India would not let go of its top gun without sufficient upgrades to face new fighters like F-35 or the Eurocanards! >An AESA is almost certain! A good AESA with the RA...

Kanan

How and why it went unnoticed by Western Air Command?

Thnx to Gr8 RADARs?

Hmmm..........May be yes!

Kanan

^^^^ Quote from above link. Boeing awarded a contract to Raytheon to develop an international version of the APY-10 surveillance radar to be installed on the P-8I Maritime Surveillance Aircraft built for Indian navy. What do they mean by an 'international version' - Is it going to be dumbed down fo...

Kanan

Hmm ...... Agreed, they demanded2.2 billion to upgrade 51 Mirages! but seems they did reduce the price for Rafale! Here are a few links! I also remeber reading it on some print media! :D http://www.brazzilmag.com/component/content/article/82-february-2010/11823-latest-news-brazil-settles-on-rafale-a...

Kanan

I think this battle is clear cut unlike the MRCA! Its Russia's Amur vs. Germany's U-214! Marlin Class is still very far away!

Kanan

^^ I guess you didn't get the memo... India has a $279 Billion dollar in CASH RESERVES!!! I think $12 Billion should suffice to Bail out Europeans or France!!!! 12 Billion ?????? Craig - As per reports the current Brazilian deal for 36 Rafale aircraft is going to cost in the range of 8 - 10 Billion...

Kanan

According to defence analysts and news reports , it is estimated that India will be spending about 100 Billion dollars on defence deals. Keeping that in mind - if we are spending 30 B dollars on just aircraft acquisition, then what will we do about other defence deals !! IMO MoD will not go for the...

Kanan

Brazil already feels that it is a superpower b'coz no nation challenges it in South America! Just spent some time in Brazil recently, some things noticed: Very little perception on India, i say that when they only talk about Bollywood. Interiors resemble Goa, though Goa seems more developed. Tremend...

Kanan

Manuji, To the best of my knowledge,there is an E.U arms embargo on China ! IMHO,they can't even do away with the embargo as the U.S would pressure the E.U no end to deny such tech to China! With E.U in trouble, it would look upto the U.S more than evere;since the end of Cold War! lets remember that...

Kanan

However, to round out this post, I would be very interested in the Russian AESA - whatever that gizmo with some 1056/1500/whatever T/R modules. Would like to track it and see where that goes. As I see the situation the US leads by eons, the EADS solution seems to be next and then the Russian. ?????...

Kanan

I think for the 2nd line of submarine we need to let private player play a leading role rather then just becoming a subcontractor to supply components to HSL for assembly. We should let players like L&T build the entire submarine and give them complete freedom in project managing and subcontrac...

Kanan

Our current forex reserve as of today ( though its not a benchmark to gauge the two economies ) stands at $279.422bn link and theirs at $467 bln link >Good point! Russia is NOT a pauper like PAK, but DICTATES terms to E.U; thanx to Oil! Still the scope of the project, is much better with joint fund...

Kanan

Keeping fighter capabilities aside. IMHO this comes to geo politicial considerations. If US assures India a permanent UN security council deal in exchange for this deal then i am pretty sure that teens will take away the coveted deal - for reasons apparent i am favouring the older one if this is th...

Kanan

Though I am completely with you on your observation on attitudes towards Desi/phoren maal, I feel we shouldn't nail the IAF for the Kaveri. I don't want to go into the rhetoric ... IAF is not the only one to blame ... they also understand building aircraft engines is close to rocket-science ... but...

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US national security adviser Gen James Jones in his first preparatory talks for US President Barack Obama's visit here in November spent some " quality time " with Air Chief Marshal P V Naik in a meeting that has rekindled interest in the humongous 126 fighter aircraft deal . Hmmm....... ...

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