I’m still hoping that MiG can secure a MiG-29M1/M2 sale to go along with its MiG-29K/KUB sale to the Indian Navy.

Some more MiG-29SMTs to add to Algeria and Yemen’s orders would be nice too.

PAC-3 almost certainly, though this article as usual gets it wrong, the PAC-3 doens’t have a chance against ICBMs, only TBMs.

the next gen of US air defense systems will be laser-based. destruction at the speed of light. shoots down eveything down to missiles and arty shells… can an S-400 do that? that’s where all their R&D cash is going… it’s the russians who are gonna get hopelessly left behind.

The Airborne Laser program is currently a farce and the MTHEL system is currently decidely THEL and never intended to be anything more than short-range. The next-gen of US air defense is THAAD- a missile system. So yeah, you’re wrong 🙂

Seriously, this is just hyerpbole, but its interesting to know that the system after S-400 is on the way.

Awesome (I of course have them)- What program do you use to reduce the size of the pics without reducing the quality (it seems)?

How likely is it that Russia will allow India to copy Russia’s best submarine?

Not very likely at all.

How likely is it that the first submarine India builds will be as good as Russia’s best?

Nil, obviously. I don’t think anyone’s said that.

This claim about the Indian ATV being a derivative of the Russian Severodvinsk-class (Yasen) SSGN is just a wet dream.

It’s obvious the Russians won’t just hand over their newest SSN design hook, line and sinker to another country, but that doesn’t mean that the “ATV” won’t have potential to be a respectable SSN relative to others, or that it won’t borrow design concepts from the Pr. 885 Yasen.

The ATV is probably an attempt to clone the old Soviet Charlie II submarine. India has been struggling to build the ATV for decades.

That’s just being ridiculous- quietening, reactor, and systems have advanced considerably since then; it won’t be a clone of some old thing like the Charlie II.

One note about the original article- the Yasen and the Akula II are not SSGNs. The addition of cruise missiles to the arsenal doens’t make a sub an SSGN. Look at VLS equipped USN subs- they’re still called SSNs.

You got the wrong game. The faction in Generals using the lasers is the USA Laser General, which has laser equipped tanks. China Tank General does not have lasers.

It is in Earth 2150 and its expansion packs, that you have the Eurasian Dynasty (Russia+China+Mongolia alliance) that you have Chinese like tanks that shoot lasers.

I know, I wasn’t saying that’s a Chinese ability in Generals (playing as the US is zzzzzzzzzzzz, I play with tanks first and foremost), just a general thing.

Svero doesnt seem hugely diff from Akula2 but for VLS cells and a
massive bow sonar.

It also has torpedo tubes on the sides of the hull canted outwards, rather than the typical place on the bow. More room for the huge sonar. You can sort of see the red-marked torpedo tubes on the sides in the US Naval Intelligence diagram posted.

Here’s a more up to date version of that one, different angle (slightly).

As to monoblock reactors, the SSN-774 Virginia (which of course just sailed) has them as well. They actually exceed the service life of the submarine, I hear.

Any upgraded sensors to enhance all-weather and night attack capability?

Yes- navigational bombing, anyway. The LCD MFD also offers future compatibility with say, SAPSAN, I’d guess.

Official details of the upgrade is as follows: http://af.airfleet.ru/issues/25/page_18.phtml

Just to clarify some of the statements:

creating a new cockpit-management system with a color multi-purpose display;

confirmation that it is an LCD MFD

MF OES Zakhvat multipurpose optoelectronic system;

What’s this?

An electronic intelligence station, the successor to the obsolete radar warning system, that detects emitting air defence radars and warns the pilot of the threat degree considerably reduces a possibility of hitting the modernised aircraft.

Pastel RWR, from other news reports.

Basically, the avionics have been practically swapped out. The sensors are all more capable and more accurate.