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Gyan

Why not indeed.What is the average utilisation rate of other air forces operating the same type? Any chance of obtaining stats? Hawk is supposed to have utilization rate of 60 hours per month in UK, and around 20 hours per month in India. Civilian Piltus are putting in around 1000-2000hours per ann...

Gyan

Why not indeed.What is the average utilisation rate of other air forces operating the same type? Any chance of obtaining stats? If we look at Civilian versions of Pilatus, they can put in 1000-2000 hrs per annum. Indian Pilatus is practically a Civilian aircraft with no military role. Hence for 400...

Gyan

New orders for costly equipment brings loads of bribes while improving availability of old equipment is mostly thankless hard work.

Gyan

We already have adequate Pilatus. IAF is flying them for less than 200 hours per annum, why can this utilization rate be not increased till HTT-40 is more mature?

Gyan

Muscles pumped up with steroids have no endurance. Ask him to run 20 km and he will be crying like a baby at the end of the Run. Almost all SF have a wired slim bodies and do not look like Rambo.

Gyan

HTT-40 cannot take off from Sea. It cannot glide into space. We Indians cannot make cycles, how can we make aircraft? There is so much poverty, Indians still squat on Railway lines, why we need to manufacture planes, we are better off importing them from Switzerland, cheaply! Import 200 Rafales imme...

Gyan

RE:- DRDO QRSAM

Google Chacha seems to indicate that DRDO QRSAM has similar rocket motor like LRSAM. So my guess is that DRDO QRSAM might look like LRSAM ie Barak-2 with a faster propellant coupled with Astra front end. The radar can be derived from Rajendra/CAR/TCR combo or from AESA MMSR.

Gyan

Can somebody comment on the extent of indigenisation of Su-30MKI avionics, radar, electronics, etc?

Also what about hydraulics, actuators, ejection seats, landing gear, canopy etc?

Gyan

ALH has a cabin almost the size of S-92 due to ALH advanced design. If we put in 1200-1300kw engines instead of present 1000kw engines, then 8-9ton MTOW helo which will be adequate for 90% of Naval purposes. In the meanwhile we can develop IMRH.

Gyan

Let's not dig out our history of 1000 years to explain our failure to order 500 LCA. There is problem of attitude in Army and IAF which can be fixed by any determined Defense Minister in few weeks. Why is Navy immune to Maculay? Defense Minister needs to pass a simple order:- You will only order ind...

Gyan

As per ISRO report they already seems to have started on 4-6k bus, which means a 7ton satellite to GTO. Our heavy lift capacity is seriously lagging. My guess is that earliest commercial launches of 7 ton satellites to GTO by ISRO is still 10 years away(?)

Gyan

Using indigenous weapons or systems is not only Social issue but also a Technical & Economic Issue. For instance:- Can we use Arjun instead of T-90s? Can we use combination of Prahaar and 105mm LFG instead of M777 ? Should be order import of USD 10 Billion worth of IIR guided ATGMs or use radio ...

Gyan

Re Kaluram issue

Shiv had pointed out in detailed posts that military has to be "trained" to accept and use indigenous products. I think that 300 years of legacy of getting imported weapons and 70 years legacy of bribes & Agusta partakers will take lot of effort before it goes away.

Gyan

Akash missile has bigger foot print, longer range and 3 times cheaper missile than Spyder. But this requirement of seeker and reaction time has been created just like cabin height requirement for Agusta was created.

Gyan

Even though HAL is manufacturing SCB for Su-30MKI, it is possible that HAL is not able to replicate the process for Kaveri Engine as the "Raw Material" would be coming from Russia and HAL may not be able to replicate the exact composition of the alloy to make the crystal grow.

Gyan

So Billy Boy gave us Taliban and Alkeeda. While Dirty Harry is the mother of ISIS and Nusra?

Gyan

Round nose makes sense only if the ultimate aim is to put in IIR sensors, otherwise pointy nose would have been better. I think we are developing all types of missiles, the only categories seem to be missing are:- AAM IIR WVR KH25,29,38 type mid weight mid range supersonic Air to Ground missile Manp...

Gyan

I used a tool (https://www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm) and adjusted the plotter to 400Km Radius. See below image where i have tried to randomly used a location which covers all our east and west border + Delhi and by 4 S-400 with 400 Km radius we can cover both fronts with 1 for spare...

Gyan

I am sure very soon India will set up a committee to make plans for a special task force which will lay down the time lines and allocate funds for the team that will set up labs, test equipment and flying test beds for gas turbine engines.

Gyan

Where is the air intake? Also would this peaceful experiment have a flower delivery range of 5000 km?

Gyan

Jhujar wrote:They say it's Prithvi test but Photu tells different story

Interesting seems like F-16XL wing. If Prithvi is given such a wing then it's range may increase from 350km to 700km.

Gyan

Gyan, The helicopter lost in Kargil was the only one without chaff dispensers (told by one of those in the know). All the rest had them. I wish you use some of the gnan your name suggests. Continuous rants don't help. UB the problem is the woeful underfunding and limited testing budget for the R&am...

Gyan

Brass has a way of covering its @ss. How much begging and pleading they did compared to AJT, Mirage 2000? Just like the begging they are doing for LCA, DIRCM, MAWS, DRFM etc compared to Rafales, Apache?

Gyan

Army does not want to order Prahaar or support Pinaka-3, but only order very costly Brahmos. So where will heavy artillery support come from? IAF also not want to order huge no. Of LCA but only super costly Apache and Rafale, so how will they do down and dirty CAS? Any Indo-China border skirmish wil...

Gyan

IAF never learnt importance of simple thing like Chaff dispensers inspite of ten year Afghanisatan War till it came to bite it in the @ss in Kargill. Now, will we learn from Syria, importance of night fighting and also what about mass induction of DIRCM and Sat Comms? No we want Rafale without weapo...

Gyan

I think IAF should buy 200 Rafales without weapons and spares. This will use up all it's budget but Chinese Air Force pilots will still die.....due to excessive laughter. Mission achieved.

Gyan

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan collapsed as USA/Pak supplied Manpads to guerillas while Soviets did not return the favor in Baluchistan. It seems Putin may not make the same mistake. Firing Manpads is a non trivial task and requires lot of training. So PKK may be getting lot of professional help.

Gyan

I don't think that there is any public Information that IAF is seeking to induct 32 squadrons of Akash. Only some comments have been mis-interpreted as it is not clear whether they refer to "additional" 15 squadrons or "total" 15 squadrons of Akash. But I would be glad to be prov...

Gyan

Corrupt Indian Babus will continue preventing any Economic Action against China even though It has USD 70 Billion dollar trade surplus with India. I wonder why GATT did not prevent the economic measures and USA+EU vs Russia were able to sanction each other during Ukriane Crisis?

Gyan

We should produce CAS version of HTT-40 and LCA especially for Himalayas. Here is what Air Commodore Tikoo Sen wrote on page 1 of this every thread in 2010 http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=968744#p968744http://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=968744#p968744 I must thank the...

Gyan

Re Karan:- The problem with ballistic profile of conventional missiles is that "theoretically" they show a long range for brochures but practically they have much much shorter range. Even a dual pulse missile at the end of trajectory is "falling" at low speed normally below Mach ...

Gyan

Better to buy 150 Su-30MKI or 36 JSF and stock up on spares instead of Rafale.

Gyan

Akash 1&2 threatens Israeli SAM lobby whose missiles are 5-10 times more costly then Akash. Also one day it will be discovered by General public that Israelis propagate brochure range which only seems better than Akash.

Gyan

I think we should have tried to copy Mirage 2000 but tried to leapfrog with LCA. The lesson therefore is to evolve LCA and Suz-30MKI and not to go for totally new super costly products.

Gyan

My guess :- If it is 5 firing Units then the cost should be USD 1.5 Billion, 20 TELs, around 200 big missiles and 100 small missiles If it's 5 squadrons then the cost would be USD 3 Billion, 40 TELs, around 400 big and 200 smaller missiles. Itar-Tass has reported it is 5 regiment and 6000 missile p...

Gyan

If India is going to sign fake JV deal of PAKFA then we might as well go the whole hog and order 300 aircraft in one go to be manufactured at the rate of 20 per annum in 15 years by HAL. The crucial thing will be the negotiations to acquire full manufactering and upgrade rights of aircraft, spares, ...

Gyan

My guess :-

If it is 5 firing Units then the cost should be USD 1.5 Billion, 20 TELs, around 200 big missiles and 100 small missiles

If it's 5 squadrons then the cost would be USD 3 Billion, 40 TELs, around 400 big and 200 smaller missiles.

Gyan

I think that Rs 1500 crore single vendor deal for Naval Guns was also a sweet heart deal. Can somebody dig out the details?

Gyan

We have to see whether applied principles of Prof Das would work on LCA and Su-30MKI. Whether a downgraded LCA with limited Kaveri engine, limited Indian MMR can be produced in numbers, say at USD 10 Million dollars each? Would it be useful? Would it improve our security against sanctions and delive...

Gyan

I think Redo of Gnat, Mig-21, Mig-27 is toooo late. In fact, if at all we should think about variants of LCA and Su-30MKI. What about LCA AJT, LCA for CAS etc. ?

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