Bharat Rakshak

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Crew member 'tampered with temperature sensor on Nerpa sub' MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - The deaths of 20 people on board the Russian nuclear submarine the Nerpa were caused by a crew member entering the wrong data into a temperature sensor, the Kommersant paper said on Monday. (INFOgraphics...

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Thanks Singha , yes even Bulava seems to have a spheroconical nose so I guess at some point of time it might be using aerospike , a 50 % drag reduction is amazing achievement for an aerospike.

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Gerard wrote:Quite interesting. The aerospike deploys as the missile clears the water. There appears to be a wall of bubbles being produced from the base of the nose cone.

Why are aerospike deployed ?

Why do some slbm have it and some dont feel the need to ( i.e Trident , Bulava ) ?

Thanks

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Awesome video of French M51 SLBM launch

M51 SLBM

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I dont think its a good idea to have a silo based system in the 21st century , specially when we have a small nuclear force.

It should be 50 % Rail Mobile and 50 % Road Mobile for our Land Forces , the least vulnerable and one that provided maximum mobility is rail mobile system

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Present destroyers, which can accommodate brahmos can take these toys as well with some modifications (VLS is ideal). From available information it is not a MRBM I dont see how the present destroyers P-15 or even future destroyers P-15A can accommodate Shourya , unless you rip off some component (S...

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I feel 20-30 feet deep pits can be dug in Destroyer class ships and above. It will be a potent weapon from surface ships as well. one might have to design a destroyer from scratch to accommodate Shourya MRBM , not sure what useful purpose a surface ship will provide with a BM , at best you have one...

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Yes Depressed Trajectory spends most of its time in atmosphere , making tracking and interception difficult and the rocket also experiences tremendous stress in such flight and not sure in practice how much of this is possible , not to mention it cuts down on range. If if you have a rocket flying at...

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I still dont get it , why would it be difficult to target a "tailored trajectory BM" with AAD/S-300/400 system even assuming its manouverable. These High end AD system are just designed for such task , the LRTR of such system can detect the BM in flight and then considering its speed is ~ ...

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Shouyra seems to follows the same trajectory as Prithvi does , spending all the time in atmosphere , make its flight a very controlled , tailored one an achievement for solid fuel missile. This should be an accurate missile , but also vulnerable to systems like AAD. Can it make a pure Ballistic flig...

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Hi guys, Reading the various reports, and the characteristics of the missile, I am getting the impression that the missile will be the foundation of an Indian version of the dead hand system. The talk of cannisterisation implies that the missile is low maintenance - suitable for a dead hand system....

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So if this is not the K-15 Sagarika SLBM , is this a new system for the army .?

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The flying cap reminds me of another SLBM the Russian SS-N-20 which arms the Typhoon , even she has similar cap which flies of in a different direction once launched. But some one had commented that its not a efficient solution , most modern SLBM dont have these flying cap , may be arun can give his...

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the assumption you make here is that mki has had not similar treatment as bison pls read on mki to know more from electronic defense online kopyo 21 range for mki target is just not enough Unless the treatment paint is from Mars or some special DRDO developed one which can make a plane disappear fr...

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It should not be surprising that Bison is receiving all the praise , Its a small aircraft , with RAM treatment its RCS has been significantly reduced , visually too its a very small aircraft to track , combined with radar , BVR missile and EW ..... for an opponent its a worst nightmare. The MKI insp...

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Russia to equip 5 brigades with Iskander missile systems by 2015 http://img.rian.ru/images/11818/96/118189661.jpg MOSCOW, November 7 (RIA Novosti) - At least five missile brigades deployed on Russia's western border will be equipped with new Iskander-M short-range missile systems by 2015, a Defense...

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I wonder when the Russi's will publicly revel the new 5000 km range stealthy Kh-101 cruise missile , only some pics were reveled on the Tu-95 , I think they may be testing some new system as well instead of the X-55.

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I dont see any reason why they should test Nirbhay CM in secrecy , as they have already reveled the project in public , they may be testing certain system or sub-system related to Nirbhai via Lakshya. But once they test the fully system aka Nirbhai cruise missile we will know , I think from what I r...

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Range can't be more than 300KM Thats is not correct. You cannot sell a system like missile/uav which is having range moer than 300 Km but you can co-develop them. Since India would be developing the engine too, in this case co-development is possible. I dont think that is a work around to MTCR , th...

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Russia, India to develop new BrahMos cruise missile NEW DELHI, September 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and India will jointly develop a new BrahMos-2 hypersonic cruise missile, the head of the BrahMos company said on Monday. "Today, at a meeting of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission o...

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Nice find Philip ...:) A couple points...... The exercise they are referring to was Operation Atrina , when the most modern of the Victor 3 SSN under the leadership of Shevchenko ( not sure if it was Popov or some one else ) carried an exercise , in which 5 of most modern Victor 3 participated. The ...

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Well in both cases they are indecisive , They dont have any phobia or any thing , status quo works for them and provides them well. Any ways to the topic , I wonder if Neustrashimy is equipped for and carrying Russian SF with them , they are quite well armed and just too heavily armed for anti-pirat...

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When will our netas grow the b@lls and actually use the good equipment the IN has for such purposes? Look at it this way , we don't hot pursue the terrorist across the border , who come in our own country kill our own people and jawan and then run off to the other side. Do you think the policy make...

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Russia sends warship to fight piracy near Somalia MOSCOW, September 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Navy has sent a missile frigate to waters off the Somali coast to fight piracy in the region, a Navy spokesman said on Friday. (Russian Navy modernized - Image gallery) "The Neustrashimy (Fearless) ...

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Hven't you seen the range vs payload graph of Agni 3 , what is surprising is that they claim except of RV they dont use carbon composites(CC) , but AFAIK we do use CC for the first stage of A-3 and even the 2nd stage was supposed to receive that in the 3rd test of A-3

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Actually we should not worry too much about it -- Because most probably Agni3 wont be the workhorse of our missile arsenal.. at best a intermediate step between Agni2 to true-ICBM and might probably see a LSP at best.. Well military planners dont work and plan according to what they may get , but a...

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Well from a stastical POV you still need a 3 perfect test to get that V Gama Graph as ramana had suggested , most likely as Arun pointed out the 3rd test will be done along with the Army , generally such test by the army was done on missile of production batch , DRDO seems pretty confident about A-3...

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sarang wrote:Agni III induction
http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/23/stories ... 841000.htm

I remember to my question ramana had stated that a bare minimum 3 test is needed for the system to be technically proven and to draw the V gama graph , why are we satisfied with just two test ?

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abhijitm wrote:does anyone know whether russian s-400 was/being sold to India?

Thats the most easiest to answer , NO

We are investing in AAD and PAD and developing it further.

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Russian Navy to adopt new Bulava ballistic missile in 2009 MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will adopt new Bulava-M submarine-based ballistic missiles for service with the Navy and commission the first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine in 2009, a senior Navy official said on Friday...

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Thats a PSed thinge because even the single engine Mig 5th gen A/C had twin angled outward vertical stabliser.

Oh i just forgot that the Mig 5th gen proposal (LFI 2000 ) which lost out to Sukhoi PAK-FA was heavily based on the Soviet 5th Gen Mig-1.42 , so its possible they looks pretty similar.

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austin that was the LFI istribityel 2000 wasn't it ? Was it ? my impression always was it was a Mig-1.42 , may be you are right . What ever it is , its really beautiful and elegant design , I hope to see a Klimov single engine ( 180 kn) powered variant of this design. May be the aerodynamic expert ...

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RM, While that is true, I recall that many laughed at the idea of a MKI. BTW, going back to the topic of thsi thread: If u have some time to kill + pinch of salt Thats the beautiful Mig-1.42 , that was supposed to be the soviet response to F-22 ( dont confuse with the displayed Mig-1.44 that was a ...

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austin, don't remember any such thing. not meaning you are old ! :P anyway, did novator/any russi sources confirm it independent of f mag ? Nahi I dont recollect Novtar or Russi doing it , but I do remember we were doing a discussion on it when the good old gold JC sahab was here. And IIRC the conc...

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Yes there was lots of talk in the F magazine last year or before that detailing even individual details and even in an interview some one from DRDO confirmed that.

Didnt we had discussion on this last year when this was hot news ? or am i getting old

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If you mean we are jointly developing the KS-172 with Russia , that is correct , there was this interview in F mag from DRDO last year or so who said it was the case.

But suddenly things have gone silent and no one talks about it , its a DRDO Black Project

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Delay in Phalcon delivery - Bugs Shipment from US delayed. Emm the so called Dead Mans Switch , built into the systems Black Box , you can trigger it based on certain events or remotely making the whole system dud or atleast out of action. Expect US purchased system or for that matter even Israel r...

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Since we will be importing only LWR , what is that the US and Russian can offer ?

What about technology , are the Russian and US new gen reactors as good as french ones ?

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123 is about civilian nuclear program and trade with NSG members , it will not affect military programs or programs directly/indirectly connected with military .

We have to go alone with on reactors for sub program.

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I think what will happen with respect to PAK-FA would be Russia will fly a TD in 2009 and get the basic thing working , based on that the project will be forked into Indian Twin Seater PAK-FA and Russian PAK-FA. Where as the Indian one would be more of MKI type and Russian single seater will also be...

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