How about after the construction of the ADS.(sorry IAC) India sells them to Brazil and builds CVF’s under license in India for the Royal Indian Navy. Hey, I can drean can’t I…………

Why would they sell IAC to brazil? IN needs it along with gorky and 1 more AC. Brazil doesn’t have any planes that can take off from IAC. If you mean the design, can they build a AC by themselves?

So where is this tsunami of pics?:mad:

http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2735

Networking Infrastructure Upgraded for Indian Navy Warships
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Dated 8/12/2006
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This would be a first of sorts for the Indian Navy. Three ships to be delivered by Mazgaon Docks Limited (MDL) to the Indian Navy will have LAN connections with a 10g backbone.

A veteran in developing ships for the Indian defence, MDL had invited tenders for the project in 2005. The ships are being developed at the Mazgaon Docks.

CMC bagged the contract last Friday. The order is valued at Rs 7.4 crore.

Arvind Kumar, account manager at CMC said, “We will install LAN for three ships to be developed by MDL for the Indian Navy. We will do complete network integration for these three ships.”

He added, “10g is a very special requirement. Installed in rare cases, the 10g backbone helps faster transmission and processing of data.”

At present, most networks run on 1G platform and midrange servers from HP.

The OEMs for the project would be Dlink Foundry for switches and backbone, and passage components, HP for servers and Microsoft for software.

Kumar refused to divulge more details and said, “It is confidential since the ships are being developed for the Indian Navy.”

The project involves two-tier network architecture with core and zonal switches. The zonal switches would be strategically implemented and connect to the core switch over 10G Ethernet over fiber. The delta connectivity created due to redundant link would also provide load sharing for entire traffic life.

Other bidders for the project were Wipro, HCL and Adlink (Singapore).

The project will be completed in three phases. Each ship will be taken up independently per phase.

Get prepared for a tsunami of pics tomorrow and monday.

Yak-141 rumours are Bravo Sierra.

Can’t wait for them. Is venezuela also planning to replace the mirage-3/5’s and F-5’s? I was wondering if they would consider Mig-35 to replace these aircrafts.

The Koreans have a very mature ship building industry, their combat ship building skills are self evadent just look at their designs – KDX-3, im sure that if the Indian navy tendered for aegis type destroyers they would welcome the Korean Destroyer eXperimental no doubt.
What immediatly comes to mind is the La Fayette, very stealthy design, dispalces around 4 700 tonnes, and can accomadoate a 10 tonne helicopter.

Taiwain ordered their Kang Ding-class, six Lafayette-class frigates at a cost of US$2.8 billion.

IF IN wanted aegis type destroyer then it would have to develop it own its own. US is not going to give the source codes required to integrate Brahmos and Barak-2.

Lafayette are 3500 ton displacement and are too tiny with very little armament. The FREMM is bigger and hopefully can accomodate a larger number of missiles. I hope the P-17a would be based on FREMM.

Bronco: mate seriously, I too would have prefered the An-124 but I think what we did was the right decision, I don’t like buying too much from one country, but in this case, it is the only choice and it has the accredited point feasible for service (the main one being ready now when we need them). Yes I think the colour scheme is dull and boring, wish they had of kept 36Sqdn’s bush camo, perhaps I could persuade someone on the “What If” forum to do a C-17 in the bush camo 😉

Oh, I wasn’t implying that condor would have been better for RAAF, just the looks. Right now C-17 seems to be the best bet for RAAF. Since only 4 are ordered currently would they go ahead and order more or are they looking at A-400M?

potential fitment of P17A:

– “nagan” sonar suite
– “Apsoh/humsa” hull sonar & towed sonar
– 6xNPOL heavy torpedo tubes (co-developed with kazakhstan ex-ussr
bureau)
– 2 x Dhruv or 2 x NH90 helos
– gas turbine power plant
– high level of hull , acoustic, IR stealth per latest EU stds (one reason why
they are scouting the EU designs)
– 16 x vl brahmos
– 32 x barak-NG if available else Aster-30 🙂
– 32 x barak-1 point-defence
– 2 x 30mm ciws cannon (kashtan-M ?)
– the usual decoys and ESM
– MF-star-mki attack radar on fore mast / else EMPAR if barak-NG delayed
– a 3D search radar of EU origin on rear mast / a scaled up CAR radar from
the T28 ASW corvettes
– 1 x 5″ oto-breda gun
– RBU anti torpedo grenades
– Thales IRST for missile detection
– more sensor and control system integration compared to P17 and Krivaks
– node in the navywide network being implemented
– ability to downlink KA-31 AEW and Heron UAV

Nagan is a TAS and the sonar suite would most likely be HUMSA. I am not sure if just 5000+ ton ship could carry 16 brahmos + 64 barak’s and kasthan-M along with 2 helos.
The numbers of Brahmos or Baraks might have to be scaled down if the ship has to carry all that you have mentioned

FREMM price is supposed to be about 400 mn Euros per ship, and they’re a bit bigger. Type 45 is bigger still, but much more expensive.

How much would they cost if the exocet has to be replaced with Brahmos and have Barak-II installed? What about radar and stuff, since IN is standardizing on MF-STAR.