I hate to say but with the many poor decision by the Indian Goverment. I really doubt that she is going to become a great Naval Power…….too bad!:(

I agree a lot of poor decisions but thankfully they avoided the mother of all poor decisions by not going for KH. 😀 .

The complement as I said would be 1200-1600 not more. The Baku with all its missiles and air group of 26-30 planes never had more than 1600 crew of mainly conscripts. IN can handle it with fewer sailors. 2000 is clearly way more than required. Just because USN ship is very manpower intensive does not mean AG also has to be.

Ok, so I guess there is no military block.

I agree with SeaL, its just bad reporting. No typhoons are up for lease. As for the xia if it can make it to the indian ocean it would be an enormous achievement.

Erm yes they are!

So wow HAL built HF 24 way back when..

Why would they need to develop their own engines? :S They could buy the engines of the shelf if they needed or wanted.

What is the real point of re-inventing the wheel when you can buy it off the shelf?

The Arrogance at DRDO and the RED TAPE mentality/culture that is HAL/DRDO caused the issues with LCA and Kaveri.

This does not mean everyone else in the world has to follow those rules if they want to build their own fighter.

http://www.embraer.com/english/content/empresa/history.asp
http://www.embraer.com/timeline/english/

Yes they could buy them off the shelf but then they should shut up about being independent of the west :rolleyes: . It is not DRDO’s arrogance that GTRE is a big f**k up. If you don’t have a clue about why India went with Lockheed and not the French just say so. There are enough people on BR who will enlighten you. By your standards even pakistan has a fighter, kudos to them.

Who said India needs SLBM for Pakistan?? This is just a first step, the Agni-3 SL has been in the works for a while. Anyway this was apparently the fifth or sixth launch of this missile. A 700-1500 Km missile does not complete nuke triad the same way ABM capability against 2500 Km range BM’s does not constitute complete ballistic missile defence.

The ex-Gorshkov and IAC’s would require at least 2,000 plus per ship……as for what India can handle. Well, I think that is up to them……..clearly they are capable enough.;)

Nope, 1200-1500 is the estimated crew size.

TAM was designed by German Thyssen-Henschel and the IAe.27 Pulqui I by french man Émile Dewoitine and IAe.33 Pulqui II by kurt tank. The osorio seems intersting but sad it went under. Once again were the powerplants for any of these built by SA nations or were they simply bouht from europe? The Ch-14 on the otherhand seems wholly made in argentia?

The true is the 4th Generation Mig-29K is hardly in the same class as the 4.5 Generation Super Hornet or Rafale…………….:diablo:

Radar wise probably. If K does ever et El-2052 I wouldn’t want to be in a hornet or rafale.