Bharat Rakshak

Cybaru

send back to oem. If we buy a new build, it will end up in a long queue to be produced after all the orders before it are executed. Retrofit will take less than 9 months to a year once you purchase something. You will probably have all 6 refuelers in less than two years from date of purchase. Given ...

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Buy used A330s for refuelers at 1/3rd price and convert the current 6 refuelers to AEW status. Cheap and effective, use the saved money to start a new IIT type college somewhere.

72 hours in AIR! wow.. Amir khan knows how to fight...

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Yeah, none of these have been flogged. They might go for another 20-25 years. Look at those B52s and the older build 707 still slogging out there 25 years after they were supposed to have been retired. I think all the bad news about gajraj was written to justify the purchase of C-17. I am hoping we ...

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Wouldn't that make sense Singha. We seem to be a collectors force, we want one of every type rather than a fighters airforce, where you maximize your supply chain to support a conflict.. 6 days into anything we will be waiting on parts from different parts of the world.. :(( Sure we need to refurbis...

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A little caught up this week. There are a lot of weights and payload capacities that I do not know about. Let me read up a bit and get back to you with my back of the envelop calculations. P.S. the chapatis weigh more, the antenna on the Wedgetail weighs about 3000 kgs. Sure.. Take your time.. Do y...

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There is no way that you can use the same platform and carry more stuff using the same amount of fuel. Going from a civilian airliner, one loses the passengers,furniture and luggage but adds electronic equipment. Generally the plane gets heavier. There is no workaround. There are other factors affe...

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Ah, more time for life then!

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Its a large enough country + we need lots of help in COIN & anti-Naxal operations and other internal security needs. But if the above numbers materialize, that's a pretty decent AWACS fleet. I don't think you can use aew for that. How would you use it for COIN + naxal stuff ? Better suited woul...

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Indranil, IMO it will be minimal if at all. The ranges given for the 737-700 fall in line with the reported range for 7A platform used for the Wedgetail program. There seems to be no difference listed. Even if there is a penalty, the range will still be twice the ERJ145 unit seems to have. Given tha...

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... IMO, Airbus 321 Neo meets the bill. Good internal space, long ranged enough, has capacity to add extra fuel tanks, upto 9 I think. Current range is around 4000NM+ in NEO config and no extra tanks, Good space for rest and 2nd crew. Cost is $110 million and Indigo has ordered about 150 in number ...

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What do we really need in AWACS. 1. Uptime for about 8 hours with one crew and upto 16 hours with refueling or extra fuel tanks. 2. Space for two set of crews, 8 workstations, Commanders unit, galley and rest area with almost the same rest room configuration as passenger liner. 3. Cost - shouldn't c...

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If munna is at a peak, be rest assured all other WLR bits have been chewed off! And if there is any gun on the other end, its on a sight of a air borne unit with a big one coming its way. This is just to pound the riff raff faithfuls without needing to refuel or take bio breaks!

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Why almost 200 trainers? 1. We need to train a lot more pilots. Intake can be increased. 2. Trainers get used heavily. More aircraft means flying hours per aircraft gets distributed, thus fleet will last a while. And more numbers cater to maintenance schedules. Batches of trainees need to be traine...

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vic those mission computers are russian. They look like generic i486 based stuff, which BTW, our IT/Vity boys will do an infinitely better job with and of course, we already have the stuff on the LCA and the stuff derived from that on other platforms and also on the M2K upgrades and Mig 29 upgrades...

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The DRDO source said, ‘This has delayed the induction of the tank a bit, but then we are telling the army that since the platform, the tank, is ready they can take it up, with the missile getting mated later.’ Guess IA is not really into this logic when it comes to desi stuff? The Arjun MK II main ...

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Thanks rohitvats, but seriously. what are we going to do we 200 trainers ? How many students per batch do we get ? Are we going some trainers out with each squadron so they can get their hours? What is the intended purpose ? Signha, that Mi17 V is the best purchase we may have ever made. The older o...

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Why does IAF need 200 trainers ?????

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No data from the engines if it spun down normally kinda indicating landing or did the data stop mid way at high revolutions indicating a disaster ? Lots of interesting data captured for sure. http://www.rolls-royce.com/about/technology/systems_tech/monitoring_systems.jsp The sense tab seems interest...

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>>> OFB can build 1 Gun / month with present capabilities, and will be enhanced to 3/month. thats a frighteningly now installed capacity. taking 18 guns per regiment thats only 2 regiments a year. they would take 9 years to even deliver 300. kind of like a rafale production line. That might be a bl...

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Order extra 40 LCA mk-1 & Mk-2 and add 60 of the upgraded next gen Super 30 MKI thats on plan and call it a day...
Focus on upgrades, AMCA and PAKFA...

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What lovely photographs! Its a beauty of a plane! Now since its up for retirement, we can all safely say that!

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I think they should order more and make it around 22 units. Transports are something the US are good at presently (unlike fighters apparently, where they want to make a one size that fits all sevices, F/A-18/F-35 as versus the masterpieces such as the F-15). The Russians and Euros have no eqvt in t...

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damn this looks awesome! So Akash 2 which may be slightly longer than 1 would end up in a canister exactly like this.

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Chacko,

Thanks for your report. This is a very significant change for us. Great news.

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Nice tactical missile. With multiple types of payloads we have, a cheap & high precision missile like this will end up as the mainstay, call on demand artillery. That is pragati for sure! :-? Going a bit OT, but it is necessary to "nip in the bud" this highly mistaken PoV that refuses...

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Waiting to see how many they put on a truck. It would be nice if they get 4 missiles with 1000 pounds all the way to 150 KMS. Nice tactical missile. With multiple types of payloads we have, a cheap & high precision missile like this will end up as the mainstay, call on demand artillery. That is ...

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Chacko Joseph, What is the idea behind mk-3 ?

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No we don't and it doesn't make sense going there for this. Get the migs here, tweak at home. Far more bang for the buck. Keep two mig-29s with one kaveri each and a third with two once our comfort level passes 100-200 hours. Buy 3-5 migs for this work. Keep one constantly in air to get those freque...

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Singha wrote:GTRE director has told TOI today that kaveri will be fitted on Mig29 early next year for testing.

AYE!!! finally! Hope we are buying a few extra birds from Natasha for this. which can be heavily instrumented.

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Yeah, time to kill Rafale. Add more brahmos capable MKI. The level of tech can stay same. Adding 60 more MKI will streamline things for us quite a bit and save us quite a bit of FE at the moment.

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Hopefully the Su-30 UPG has lots of commonality with PAKFA as this will streamline training for pilots & maintenance for ground crews when PAKFA starts around 2020.

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Just add 12 more of each type and be done for a while. We need transports.

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30 KMS akash ? That is a 5 KM increase from their common commentary of 25KM range. ~20% increase is not bad.

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Are these publicly listed companies ? TAML TASL ?

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Lalmohan wrote:mil spec =/= civvie spec

You are right. but it doesn't matter for refuelers. They are not taking off from un prepped runways.

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Converting to tankers should be doable but may not be cost effective if we need relatively few. Older planes also come with increased maintenance baggage and lower availability. In the end, it is effectiveness and economics in that order. Just speculating. Civil aircrafts are easier to maintain and...

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> MRCA and apache can be scrapped and the below three let through. chinook will to some extent cover for the Mi26 retirement and we really need those big tankers and transports...no domestic options exist. more C130 as well if and when situation improves. heavy lift helicopter(Chinook selected), ae...

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^^ Not sure why HAL is not lic manuf Do228 NG variant and then use it for CG MPR requirement. DRDO can outfit all the equipment on Do228-NG. Cost Effective and Home Made solution. Probably the range. You need stuff that has longer station time for such work. You might as well get something that can...

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Sanku wrote:
krishnan wrote:24,0000 ATGMS ???? we going to destroy all the world tanks ?????
Singha ji must have sneaked in Sena Bhavan one night and written the specs for this order.

Sanku++

or added the extra zeros!

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If we are needing urgent induction, then a new type is not a way to go. From all my research, it seems it takes about 10 years from contract signing to get through documentation, protocols, limitations, ground staff, spares, support to be really operable for war like conditions. I think inducting a ...

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