Substantiate.....the navy seems not too happy with the first one and plans to make it into a TD platform..
Please do not indulge in rumor mongering/speculations.. let us not initiate another "tin can" characterizations..
Substantiate.....the navy seems not too happy with the first one and plans to make it into a TD platform..
Yes the first sub seems to have some issue and has yet to start trials , but don't take my word as gospel truth I just shared what I came to know.sum wrote:Navy seems not too happy?
If true so who will be blamed for this??Yes the first sub seems to have some issue and has yet to start trials , but don't take my word as gospel truth I just shared what I came to know.
A very good idea.Hope IN has plans along these lines.Only thing to be in consideration is that the airframe should have no problems in maintanence after induction.The rest of the electronic surveillance and warfare gear can be customised relatively easily,i guess.Philip wrote:There are several sqds. of TU-22/22M3s available.They have been mothballed.They have to have better AEW and anti-missile warning systems,but are excellent platforms with a couple of decades of life left in them.Equipped with hypersonic Brahmos and our 1500km LR cruise missile being developed,they would be hugely capable platforms.Why,the US is still using a large number of B-52s and plan to modernise even these too! Thanks to stand-off missiles,any Cold War LR bomber is relevant today.Even our pensioned off Canberra's can be resurrected with the right knid of stand-off missiles.The Oscars are extremely formidable,with a v.heavy weaponload specifically built to destroy carrier task forces (one Oscar built for each US carrier task force).These are being offered to us specifically to deal with any PLAN carrier group,as 4 carriers are being built.LR Backfires operating from our land and island bases and Oscars combined would be a deadly combination able to deal with any navy that challenges the IN in the future.
Carrier killer porbably !!!!Willy wrote:The K-15 has been tested 8 times in various versions over the years and its ready now? Wow!! But what do we need a 200 km, 500 ton warhead air launched missle for when there is the 300 km , 300 kg Brahmos. With just 200 km range the Su30-MKI would have to get real close to a target. So no use as a nuke missile.
Austin wrote:India Today latest issue by sandeep unnithan "The secret K missile family".
K-4 3500 km SLBM tested in Jan , 10m long 1.3m dia , 20T weight.
Arihant can carry 4 K-4 or 12 750 KM K-15 shaurya.
5000km under development , air launched 200 km 2T hypersonic missile under development.
Nice pics of arihant at pier
JE Menon wrote:Somebody for fux sake please scan upload...
Then please if possible take its picture & then upload it....Sorry dude. Me cant do it as am at home and dont have a scanner.
Vril wrote:
India Today pciture
Its involvement extended to India’s first indigenously built nuclear powered submarine, Arihant, for which it supplied the steam turbine integrated with the 85 MW pressurized water reactor on board.