Bharat Rakshak

Eric Leiderman

The footprint for a gas turbine might be smaller than a n=plant, However when you factor in the 4 exhaust manifolds and the fresh air maniolds A lot of prime real estate will be used up on multiple decks These will have a dia of approx 24 inches each x 8 (withlagging maybe 36 inches) Also with such ...

Eric Leiderman

I am quite sure IN is welldown the path of designing 200 mW plants with BARC involved. Common sense wold dictate above. How far along? In sync with comissioning of 65k carrier? Speculation ends. Fall back options available. You will not need extra gas turbines for E=mals if the vessel is diesel elec...

Eric Leiderman

Podded propulsion can give the same speed as shafted propulsion. you can have n-number pods. The speed of the vessel is mainly dependant on hull form and skew of propellor. The size and skew of propellor is matched to engine BHP , Too much of either and u overload/stall the power plant There is not ...

Eric Leiderman

http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/sea-tria ... very-well/

Eric Leiderman

The source is not the best. There is no question of the IAF stopping at 272 aircraft. With the way our Migs are going we will need multiple production lines, to:- 1) Initially keep the Sq strength where it is now. 2) Up it to 42 in the 2020's The MKI is a great aircraft, It will be impossible to get...

Eric Leiderman

No Need to bury or burn them , They should be fed to the pigs, This is not about religion, it is psykooology. If you are fed to the pigs do you get the 40 virgins?? Maybe each virgin gets a bite of them.

Eric Leiderman

Great idea , we need a Naval flyboy to shake up the men in blue.

Eric Leiderman

Hi Austin Quote "And Irbis peak power is 20kW and avergae of 5 kW which means it need those high thrust if at some point in time it operates at peak power but thats a rare thing when figher operates at peak power , even if they do they probably dont do few speeds in quick seconds to get a wider...

Eric Leiderman

When your squadron strength is falling rapidly and cash is tight

"Yes, IAF should simply genuflect and say Thank You to the R&D guys and feel blessed about getting a plane"
It is a better plane than what your enemies will field to boot

Eric Leiderman

Speculation Alert

The Latest lot of Khan arms to the Beggar boys in khaki , Could be to curtail any further purchases from Russia

Eric Leiderman

http://swarajyamag.com/economy/indias-c ... from-past/

India’s indigenous combat aircraft programmes have another chance to fulfill their potential. However, that is only possible once lessons from the past are heeded to.

Eric Leiderman

Hi Vardhank

The idea you just brought forward , is in commercial use , they are called stabalisers, They work on the bernolli effect. and they are effective @ speeds above 15-16 knots.

Most cruise ships have them. At lower speeds and during docking they can be folded.

Eric Leiderman

I do not think the manouveribility/speed/agility etc are causes of concern

Eric Leiderman

partha

the fact that our OFB did not follow up on TOT for Bofers for many years might be due to the political pressure of a particular party, family.

Eric Leiderman

Pratyush The issue of catapult launch has been discussed threadbear, however over the lifespan of a steam generating/distrubuting plant. The mantainance issues with sending steam to do work and the return line for the said steam to return to a condenser, are expensive and time consuming. and there i...

Eric Leiderman

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... ok-408775/

Commercial and tanker option for airbus and thomas cook.

We should look at this option to keep our overheads down, while maintaining a large tanker fleet

Eric Leiderman

John roll on roll odd usually implies a through design, it fore to aft ,(or on larger vessels the means to turn on board) this ensures vehicles do not need to back up to load or unload, saving time and possible damage due to cramped parking. However ,this design would be imply time consuming load wi...

Eric Leiderman

Depends on price,hope the French sage is sending a message

Eric Leiderman

A link to Brahmos and its defence from a western perspective. Also touches on the Barak 8 wrt Brahmos http://defencyclopedia.com/2014/12/27/explained-how-the-us-navy-can-shoot-down-the-deadly-brahmos-missile/ The chinese solution to Brahmos http://idrw.org/?p=56315 However the claims made here again...

Eric Leiderman

xave If we were to go the Azipod route on the LHD's being planned. The main tech leap will not be in the azipods but if we were to go for azipods. We will have to go diesel electric, This will encompass a whole lot of automation, to accomplish, however the same is commercially available off the shel...

Eric Leiderman

http://idrw.org/?p=55541#more-55541

Defence minister is cracking the whip

Eric Leiderman

Using one of the multiple jehidi organisations , stage an attack on a neculear wepons base.
Get nuggets dropped to forgien media and watch the tamasha unfold.

Ps The attack need not be successful just widely covered.

Eric Leiderman

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/n ... epage=true

No confirmed orders for OFB gun as yet

Eric Leiderman

Interestingly, official sources confirmed that seven scientists from Navy’s NSTL laboratory and members of Naval armaments inspection team were also on board when the mishap occurred. All of them were rescued.

http://www.samachar.com/Army-Depolitici ... aaggf.html

Eric Leiderman

The stern seal is usually replaced every dry dock. Most modern vessels will have a watertight compartment that is designed to flood on stern seal failure, without impacting the bouyancy of vessel. However older vessels do not have this luxary. There are many types of stern seals, considering this ty...

Eric Leiderman

Arthuro If and when the arms embargo is lifted against China , France sell them all its crown jewels , if the price is right, so lets not paint the french as white as the driven snow. The rotary wing stuff that France has transferred in the last decade dressed up for civilian usage tells its own sto...

Eric Leiderman

One thing I can say for Phillip and that is:- he is consistant.
Its his view point. Does not mean he is right or wrong , just that, thats the way he thinks.
And if pertinant to the thread he has every right to do so.

Eric Leiderman

The LCA I has issues of serviceability. This is basically a green field venture, The guys with" panna pakar" were not involved in the design stages, Plus the small size with our airforce asking for everything and the kitchen sink have ensured peice meal development which will be ironed out...

Eric Leiderman

Where are the back up copies of the file? In this day and age are there no electronic copies? The MOD makes policies and polices them too, something has to change , Our classified stuff is open to most arms dealers and this has been going on for a while. Somebody needs a vacation at Tihar for this M...

Eric Leiderman

There are options:- get f16 (Used) on the cheap, uncle is dumping them by the gross, so will his munnas, Use Israel to upgrade them. Our boys in blue will have to live with what we can afford. Maybe we will get professional negoaters in the next time we have to sign such deals, not our one cap fits ...

Eric Leiderman

The logistics of using rotary winged aircraft for sustained artillary fire is not sustainable.
It has to be by road mechanised or mule.

Eric Leiderman

Have any of the forces asked for a Embracer and what are their projected numbers, Maybe a small Jstar could evolve.

Eric Leiderman

Cross border firing on the LOC with our jihadi neighbours.

We have weapon locating radar why are we not taking out their guns, once we take out a few dozen. They will either try something else or stop.
Start making it real costly if they initiate crap like this

Eric Leiderman

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/how-in ... ada62af8b9

Our IA is also thinking on similar lines but nothing so drastic

Eric Leiderman

When you fund in dribs and drabs, Your time line stretches,Your cost esclates.You are using valuable real estate, manpower realisation, milatary inflation in India would be higher than domestic inflation, Steel availability, gear box saga etc, shake it all up and you have price esclation

Eric Leiderman

A real incident in Pakistan... A Taliban suicide bomber stopped and searched by police, was found with a metal shield around his penis. Asked about the purpose of this protection, his response was: "I want to keep my penis intact after the explosion, so as not to have sexual problems once I get...

Eric Leiderman

Singha ji "the costliest and long lifetime (ie continuous cost to keep in good shape) parts of warships would be - engines - we neither make marine diesels or gas turbines - gearboxes - elecon of pune makes renk gearboxes under license, but I guess there is no indigenous maker" It would se...

Eric Leiderman · Re: China Military Watch - Jan 11, 2011 French yahoodi stuff costs more.

French yahoodi stuff costs more.

Eric Leiderman

Raffy as an asset that will not be subject to interference in when and where we operate it. It will not be subject to intrusive inspections. The f35 will come with not strings attached but ropes attached. So lets not just compare capabilities but look at possible usage in different senarios. The Raf...

Eric Leiderman

Whats the sense of a 5th gen plane, when we may not be able to use it against Munna, and only against Cheen.
With a little more green stuff, we can ensure that we use our assets when/where we want to.

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