Yes AAW has been achilles heel for IN till now. Hopefully Barak-2 would rectify that.

And how many accidents have you heard of in IN? They wouldn’t have ordered 6 more Seakings from US if they didn’t like them. The IN seakings still have 8-10 years in them.

I meant the force and MR Sengupta.

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Project28.html

In a news article from the Press Trust of India, dated 30 October 2005, Rear Admiral T S Ganeshan (Retd) – GRSE’s Chairman & Managing Director – said, “It is a 2500 ton corvette armed with stealth-mounted guns, the latest electronic warfare suite which, together with other key operational equipment and is shielded using stealth technology incorporated into the design of the bulwarks. The structure of the ship would be such that it would cut down noise drastically to prevent it from getting detected by enemy submarines. But it will be able to detect an enemy submarine from a distance and destroy it.”
The 20380 is rated at 2000 tonne fiully loaded which makes it much smaller. I don’t have a lin but I remember admiral T S Ganesan had refuted that the P-28 was based on 20380. I am guessing now but it could easily be a smaller version of talwar itself.

A link on how the 2500 tonne figure came about:
http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?category=National&slug=India+builds+first+warship&id=80706

http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2717
Brazil Looking To Acquire BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile

Brazil has shown interest in becoming the first foreign nation to procure the 300-km range Brahmos cruise missile.

Commander of the Brazilian army Gen Francisco Roberto De Albuqurque now on a six-day state visit here today visited the Brahmos aerospace complex in Delhi cantonment. He also held discussions with the Brahmos project director S Pillai.

The South American nation has shown interest in acquiring the sea as well as surface to surface version of the Indo-Russian missiles.

While, the sea version of the missile has already entered service with the Indian Navy, the surface to surface version of missile has been cleared for induction early next year.

The Brazilian Chief of Defence Staff held discussion with Chairman Chiefs of staff Committee S P Tyagi, Army Chief J J Singh, Naval Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta and Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt.

He also called on the Defence Minister AK Antony.

USe google or sinodefence. They have pretty detailed info.

korea, japan, aussies and even canada might find it interesting.

Who’s buying F-35’s??

Thanks for the info tiddles. Found this article about the aussie LHD’s. Its a year old though. Any new updates?
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/industry/contracts-awards/australia-approves-2-finalist-designs-for-2b-amphibious-ships-project-01015/

The Navantia design is as big as the cavour. I guess it could easily carry the same number of aircrafts (24) as cavour. The Mistral seems like a more conventional LPD design.