Bharat Rakshak

[ Technology F-18 is a 1970s plane with lipstick on it. its the loser of the F-16 light weight fighter and was called F-17. The USN decided they will take it and navalize it. And became the F-18. Ramana, some corrections to factual inaccuracies. The current 'F18' aka superhornet is a 2001 plane. Gr...

The reason I mention the TU-142 is that it is effectively the same aircraft as the TU95 bomber. Capable of having additional/strengthened hard points and a massive range, it out-ranges both the TU-160 and the B1. With a un-refueled range of ~12500 kms, it can show up from the South China sea off Ch...

Well if wishes were courses why not a 737 based Bomber, Awacs, Mid Air refueller, common platform with our LRMP no. Why not a fighter? :wink: Jtull, you only thought you were joking. There is a concept of an arsenal plane. After all, it is the missile that delivers the hurt. And a big plane can car...

Why TU-142? We can go for TU-160. Supersonic, long range bomb truck. 40+ Tonnes of munitions. In a sense, you can think of Tu 160 not as a bomber but as a cruise missile carrier. It carries long range standoff cruise missiles (strategic ones) rather than acting as penetrating strike bomber. In that...

Any confirmation yesterday Brahmos test a failure, not mentioned in many media reports https://zeenews.india.com/india/supersonic-cruise-missile-brahmos-test-fired-2209123.html http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2019/jun/05/brahmos-fails-fresh-trial-1986254.html Not more than what was al...

We should join a dedicated bomber program. Indranil ji. Understand your first point (it's not as easy to modify - edit: see also A330MRTT for example of delays in modifying existing airliner.). Don't understand your second point. What makes a bomber survivable for the long range penetrative high pa...

Karan, that is wishful thinking on part of the development organisation as it pitched to get approval and more importantly funding for the program. In the corporate world, such statements are called “thought leadership” with the primary intention of getting funding :D NGARM would be a much more man...

[quote="RKumar"]on arjun tanks[/Rkumar] Rkumar, there's nothing raw about what you said, so nothing to be sorry about. What I am sorry to say, is that none of these arguments are new to me. But logistics is a numbers game. It is not tick present or absent. Where the difference is in degree...

Latest reports of purchase of 464 T-90 MS tanks is really bad. Some decision of MoD are outside of my apprehension, on one side GoI want to promote Made In India and on another side rejecting a superior local product. If some lighter tank is required on Chinese border than move the damn existing on...

Barath excellent points , I won't be surprised if our gold plated imports will have to be babied with their own ammo supply ; aise chootiyape ke liye hi hum jane jate hain (we are known for such things) . I didn't mean it with prejudice. After all, those guns were designed for NATO standard rounds....

With induction of 114 Dhanush replacing older fh-77 and then induction of further 400 Dhanush replacing piece by piece the older 105 mm field guns in arty units combined with induction of OFB mounted gun system which inself is based on Dhanush 155/45 all arty guns systems across IA will be standard...

Check the link posted above [re Kuznetsov repair] Austin thanks for the links. - Just to point out : my russian link is newer than any of your links (4 April 2019/5 days ago). You may have to google translate on it. I think these are ultimately from a Russian Military source telling the Izvestiya t...

Isn't that their old strategy since Soviet days? To target CVNs using backfires, bears, blackjacks and supersonic AShM. Wonder why did they even bother to build carriers, given their huge number of submarines as well. Soviet Naval Officer Maxim Tokarev gave a very interesting perspective "Kami...

As per Montreux Convention carriers are not allowed to cross the straits and renaming to Air Capable Cruiser by SU. But now Kuz Misssile is being removed to make extra space for Aircraft in Hanger and they will use it the same way that IN uses for fleet AD and ASW cover for Ships and Submarines. Yo...

@ Karan M, @negi If you had to standardize artillery for improved logistics/flexibility/training/cost efficiencies, what would you propose ? Obviously under pressure of lack of artillery procurement movement, one had to abandon standardization...but now that procurement is moving one can perhaps dre...

Rupee-Ruble trade is a very positive thing not just limited to Defence purchase but even for general trade. We used to have Rupee-Ruble trade back then with SU and our two way trade was very high. Using USD or for that matter any intermediate currency is a big bottle neck considering India and Russ...

India is still treating this issue as a terrorist thing, different from a military issue. Hence the MEA. It doesn't make sense to. While Pakistan has launched remote sensing satellites on Chinese rockets, the justification for satellites tends to be a far cry from the local terror sensing informati...

Why is the foreign ministry putting out FAQs? Shouldn't this be Defence Ministry (security) putting it out ? Or PMO ? (The Department of Space is under PM's office) Is the foreign ministry involvement part of a bigger diplomatic push/outreach ? Is it a pointer that any foreign pushback envisaged ? N...

Pardon my ignorance, but I thought satellites, if they are launched at multiple orbits, would be launched at increasing altitudes. But per the report above, the highest altitude launch happens first and the 3rd orbit is the lowest one. I think it depends. PSLV 4th stage can be restarted and maneouv...

A 1000lb bomb doesn't have a 1000lbs of explosives Quite aware of that. However, This was a 2000lb bomb = 1000 kg bomb. And we were talking about thermobaric bombs, And thermobaric weapons are not heavily armored, no have thick casings (it prevents them from working as designed), nor are they meant...

We would rather lease or build Yasen class SSN with VLS capability India already requested that and Russian navy already rejected it. They do not have sufficient capacity or a number of Yasens for themselves., especially once all those soviet era subs come due for scrap or deep modernization. Russi...

BTW out of sheer curiosity, what would be the feasibility of trying to get something like this as a Vishaal? Just wondering? Lease it perhaps? Buy 60 super hornets and ensure local production of the 414? The US if our new Chum esp for the Navy it seems... https://www.google.com/amp/s/taskandpurpose...

[ 3) India is one of a few nations that have thermobaric weapons. Such weapons suck the surrounding air/oxygen and occupants die of collapsed organs - mostly the lungs. They may or may not do damage to surrounding structures . Mr Rao, given that thermobaric weapons have higher blast effect than reg...

Why are we paying $3 billion dollars for a ten year lease of a nuke sub? We should be buying it not leasing for that kind of money. I suspect our own 6 SSN program is based on this one. There could be a simultaneous equipping of the incomplete hull in Russia and probably a brand new one here. I hop...

>>The work requires a complete build-up and activation of the nuclear reactor that powers it and the fitment of a large number of unspecified Indian original systems for communication and domain area awareness. This means we find our stuff on our KILOs to be better than what we got from the Russkie...

he has learnt from the putin and trump playbook. Much older playbook than that. Reagan cultivated this "Mad Bomber" image towards the end of the Cold War and got the Soviet Union to bankrupt itself by trying and failing to match US defence spending. Reagan had two phases in his presidency...

short range of Mig 29 (as in past) was not a M2k problem. I think within the covers where M2K scores (speculation alert) 1. Reliability (as you mentioned) with machine. With over 90% availability, training, mission planning etc. all gets better. 2.Relability with armament (the AA will work every ti...

Philip, last I heard there were challenges finalizing a deal with Russia to repair the Chakra II or arrange for extension of lease and Chakra III [substantially because CAATSA made any financial agreement and payment problematical] Do you have any link to say that Chakra II is repaired ? I guess esc...

the real travesty is we allow an MiG21 air base to function in a hot zone as Srinagar AB. Habal - Srinagar is in a high risk area; it is well within reach of Pakistani weapons. Given that we have a mix of airframes, it makes sense that some lower end airframes will be in a high risk area. You do no...

One of the locals has tweeted this: https://twitter.com/gypsy_heart6/status/1100315978183909377 "So a friend from the area has confirmed that madressa Taleem-ul-Quran (it’s board says run by Hazrat Maulana Masood Azhar) at Mansehra (Balakot) was hit, & there are ~10 ambulances around. But ...

Vasu, I do not understand. What risk of the AMCA wing are you concerned about (and why) and how are you trying to determine and mitigate that? If it is drag, then the wing alone is not the contributor, how and where the wings are placed etc are important - Mk 2 has it placed differently and on a wid...

It might not make too much sense to buy all 50+ as funding is an issue, it can undermine the Make in India upcoming RFP, and the US Navy can use some by rotation or as their FFGs start to come on board. But I do think there is an opportunity for india and a possible sweet spot for a buy (price vs nu...

1500 sorties completed by 45. Roughly translates to more or less 1000 hours of flying time in Tejas over 2 years. I do not have a yardstick in terms of hours that are usually put on a airframe in IAF - maybe knowledgeable members can shed some light on this. Mr Nair, Su MKI has a service life of 60...

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/02/05/watchdog-navy-bought-too-many-helicopters/ Looks like the US Navy has bought too many naval helicopters (58 extra MH60R and MH60S) and is paying millions to store it. This is the same airframe that India has attempted to buy in the past (though the...