googleIt’s a Thai boat- Chinese made Jianghu FFG, exported and fitted by the Thais.
googleSounds like a bunch of people are going to get fired….
googleOn the Thai OPVs (from Warships brief page):
How can they be only 2000 tons?
googleFair use:
Date Posted: 07-Jan-2005
JANE’S DEFENCE WEEKLY – JANUARY 12, 2005
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Indian Ocean militaries survey tsunami damage
JDW correspondents and Asia-Pacific Editor Robert Karniol in Thailand provide a preliminary picture of military losses caused by the tsunamis in the Indian Ocean on 26 December
The tsunamis that devastated areas around the Indian Ocean following a powerful undersea earthquake on 26 December hurt defence forces around the region as well as the communities where they are based.
The tidal waves caused extensive casualties and property damage and prompted the largest international relief operation the world has seen stretching from Thailand to West Africa. The four countries worst affected – India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand – together account for more than 95 per cent of the 150,000 people killed based on early January estimates.
Details of the damage to military forces and facilities in the four countries most seriously hit remain unclear, in part because of the priority being given to relief work and also the element of secrecy prevalent as several countries remain reticent about providing detailed information due to security concerns.
In India, Rahul Bedi reports that the tsunami swept away the Indian Air Force (IAF) Carnic base on Nicobar Island in the Andaman Sea and also punched a temporary hole in the nation’s security set-up.
Twenty-seven IAF personnel of some 1,700 posted on the base died and 75 others remain missing nearly two weeks after the disaster struck. Carnic’s 2,744 m runway has been cut to 1,524 m by the water but six maritime-version Mi-8 helicopters there escaped damage.
The IAF Carnic base is India’s strategic outpost on the country’s eastern boundary and had been expanded following the formation three years ago of the Andaman and Nicobar tri-service command.
The newly appointed chief of air staff, Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi, ruled out relocating Carnic but said that some of the officers’ quarters would be shifted. “We have asked for land in higher areas from the civil administration,” he said.
Naval jetties on the Andaman Islands were partially damaged but no naval assets were destroyed, including radars. The jetty at the Campbell Bay Coast Guard Base on the Nicobar Islands was also partially damaged, as was the airstrip, but both were made functional in a short period. There was no damage at INS Karadip, the naval base on Kamorta Island.
On India’s mainland, Madras (Chennai) port was partially damaged but is now functional. No naval assets there or other military assets elsewhere along the country’s east coast were affected.
In Indonesia, Aceh province in northern Sumatra was worst hit of any area in the region. Jessica Sallabank reports that the armed forces (TNI) appear to be downplaying the military impact.
About 400 TNI personnel may have been killed according to early January estimates, said a military spokesman, although this figure may include family members. He also said that no major air or naval platforms were damaged, acknowledging damage only to around a dozen military cars and “a number of small boats and dinghies”.
The spokesman added that “a number of military bases and barracks have been slightly damaged” but most bases continue to “function normally”.
This assessment raises a number of suspicions in view of the large military presence in Aceh, where operations against the separatist Free Aceh Movement have been under way since 1976. Jakarta has an estimated 40,000 security personnel in the province, including TNI and police, and the latter report extensive losses.
Local media reports say police sources indicate that at least three armoured vehicles are “missing” together with two helicopters and six patrol craft. Eight police dormitories were also destroyed.
The TNI have three major bases in Aceh together with an undetermined number of smaller facilities: Sabang Naval Base, which includes a naval air station; Kalijati Air Base, also in Sabang; and the Banda Aceh army base, where the KODAM (Military Regional Command) Iskandar Muda is headquartered. These are in areas hard-hit by the tsunamis, with some reports stating that some 80 per cent of the town of Banda Aceh was destroyed.
From Sri Lanka, Iqbal Athas is unable to confirm military casualties but says sources indicate that the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lost an estimated 2,100 fighters. Both government and LTTE forces suffered extensive damage to infrastructure.
Initial assessments on the government side indicate that the army camps at Kallady and Kalkudah in eastern Sri Lanka have been destroyed, together with an undetermined number of Forward Defended Localities that divided security force positions from rebel bases. The main naval base in the south, SLNS Dakshina in Galle, was badly affected, together with naval facilities in Point Pedro, Manalkadu, Kirinda and some sub-units north of Trincomalee.
The Sri Lankan armed forces did not lose any air assets but one vessel, the Haiqing-class fast attack craft Parakramabahu, was driven ashore in Galle and several inshore patrol craft were sunk. Also, the armoury at Nilaveli naval sub-unit was destroyed together with an undetermined number of coastal radars.
The LTTE suffered extensive damage at Chalai, the main base of its naval arm, together with smaller Sea Tiger units along the northeast coast. This includes a number of boats sunk.
In Thailand, the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) bore the brunt of damage from tidal waves that devastated the country’s Andaman coast. Army and air force facilities were unaffected as they are inland.
The RTN has one major naval base on the Andaman Sea – the Third Naval Area Command headquarters at Phang Nga – where 32 people were killed, including four navy personnel; two sailors are missing.
The missing sailors were among eight aboard a T-213-class coastal patrol craft, hull number 215, which sank in the heavy seas. The remaining six personnel were rescued. In addition, the Chao Phraya-class guided missile frigate Kraburi was grounded and will take about two months to salvage while three patrol craft were damaged.
While the small dock was unaffected, a number of structures and vehicles were destroyed at the naval base. The navy’s deputy chief of staff, Vice Admiral Nopporn Achawakhom, told local media that damage to Phang Nga naval base could be valued at up to Bt2 billion ($50 million).
googleI find it surprising and improbable that the thing still uses boilers. Why not codag, or Ukranian gas turbines, or their own QD gas turbines?
googleWell, that’s interesting. Why are they building 2 new 051Bs? IMO, probably because they’re a proven design, and can fill up fleet space quickly, although they don’t seem as capable as the 052Bs… If they also employ an HQ-7 rather than some type of VLS, then I will be all the more surprised. Will 167 be renumbered?
googleI wonder what Flood will be doing this Christmas… 🙂
googleYeesh, a crash already? That’s going to put a crimp in the program.
googleWhatever happened to that UFO encounter as reported by the Iranians? IIRC, they sent up Phantoms to intercept.
Was it “real”?
googlehello
the Sov image was published originally by janes.
The source was given as Miroslav Gyürösi, and I presume he obtained the image from Russian contacts. It’s my opinion, that the vertical launchers look rather CG.
googleUh, were you arrested? 🙂
googlewhere i can find some information of the fly propieties of an ICBM, i mean trayectorie, speed, heigh, range, relation heigh-speed, MIRV range (at wich heigh-range the heads are ejected), maybe we could start an very,very interesting discussion…
Most likely, in jail. 😀
googleDate Posted: 17-Dec-2004
JANE’S DEFENCE WEEKLY – DECEMBER 22, 2004
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S-400 air-defence system operational
HENRY IVANOV JDW Special Correspondent
Moscow
Additional reporting James O’Halloran Editor Jane’s Land Based Defence
London
The Russian Federation Air Force (RFAF) has confirmed that two S-400 (Triumph) low- to high-altitude air-defence systems are in service with line units but that an extension of the re-arming effort depends on funding.
This information confirms a statement by Lieutenant General Aytech Bizhev, Deputy Commander-in-Chief (CinC) for the Commonwealth of Independent States Unified Air-Defence, that two S-400 systems are deployed with the air force for field testing and that these will be deployed fully in 2005.
The RFAF CinC General Vladimir Mikhaylov said on 11 December that the air-defence priority is to upgrade existing equipment and further develop the new S-400 for air defence and non-strategic missile defence.
Plans to re-arm the air force surface-to-air missile (SAM) units with the S-400 remain highly dependent on the availability of funds, and the manufacturing capacities of the industry, according to RFAF officials,.
Colonel General Boris Cheltsov, RFAF chief of staff, said the S-400 would achieve full operational readiness in 2005 after receiving a number of upgrades. Gen Bizhev also confirmed that the upgrades would allow the S-400 and the A-135M to share target data information.
Together with upgraded variants of the in-service SAM systems, the S-400 is part of an effort to “solve the issues of non-strategic missile defence”. Gen Cheltsov, who headed the air force commission that supervised S-400 fire trials, said the commission has recommended to the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) that it accepts the S-400 in service “in a variant with a standard missile”. Earlier it had been recommended that the S-400 enter trial service with missiles already used by the S-300 series.
Gen Bizhev said the S-400 would initially be located to protect Moscow, St Petersburg and the Urals industrial region, as well as border stretches “where missile attacks can be expected”. He also said the S-400 could destroy cruise missiles and aircraft at a range of 250 km and at a range of heights from several dozen metres to the stratosphere.
The S-400, when operational with the new long-range missile (40N6), is claimed to have a range of 400 km and it is believed to have passed firing tests with all missile types.
The existing S-400s are currently undergoing capability enhancements for interoperability with the space forces assets.
The Russian armed forces say that the S-400 can potentially be used against strategic ballistic missiles after separation of warheads. In that role the S-400s will be co-operating with the A-135 anti-missile system in service with the Russian Space Forces. Provision is made for the S-400s to receive targeting information on approaching space threats from the Russian Space Forces in an automatic mode.
The S-400/A-135 will be the first block of the Air and Space Defence (ASD) system, a future structure concept recently formulated by the Russian defence ministry. The latter said that the MoD has recently approved the ASD concept and it is currently being improved for final validation by the Russian president.
Among other things, the ASD calls for a unitary radar field over Russia, similar to that which the Soviet Union had, but “on a new quality level”. To achieve this, a united air traffic control/air-defence radar field will be created, combining the means of civil and military structures. Almaz-Antei (Air Defence Concern or Kontsern PVO) has been selected to lead the effort. Almaz-Antei will act as systems integrator and also supplier of major elements such as phased-array radar systems and ‘identification friend or foe’ interrogators.
‘Moscow reveals new missile for S-400 system’ (JDW 12 May 2004)
Antei S-400 (Jane’s Land Based Air Defence)
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googleLooks like the Russian arms industry did some of their own photoshopping on the Sov image.
googleWEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT
Date Posted: 14-Dec-2004
INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE REVIEW – JANUARY 01, 2005
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Sukhoi Flanker aircraft benefit from low-observable modifications
More than 100 aircraft in the Sukhoi Su-27/30 Flanker family have been equipped with a set of low-observable (LO) modifications that reduce head-on radar detection range by 50 per cent, according to Dr Vladimir Kisel of the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics (ITAE) at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
Speaking at the IQPC Defence conference on Stealth in 2004, Dr Kisel said that he was unable to say which air forces had received the LO modifications, which were carried out over the past 10 years. However, the Sukhoi has generated most of its revenues in that time through sales of the Su-27 series to India and China, raising the possibility that some of the Indian Air Force aircraft that performed unexpectedly well against US Air Force F-15Cs in last year’s Cope India exercise may have been LO-modified.
The suite of LO modifications includes radar absorbent material (RAM) sprayed on to the inlet duct walls; RAM applied to the compressor face of the AL-31 engine; and the installation of a frequency-selective-surface (FSS) screen inside the radome, in front of the radar dish. (Similar modifications have been applied to the F-16 under the Have Glass and Have Glass II programmes.)
ITAE and Sukhoi make extensive use of real-world hardware in LO testing. Dr Kisel’s presentation showed outdoor radar cross-section (RCS) ranges using a modified aircraft (not an RCS model) and a line-up of operational air-defence radars rather than a specialised instrumentation radar. Signatures from the inlet ducts were measured with the engine running, to model the effects of rotating engine stages.
RELATED ARTICLES:
1 First upgraded Flankers have entered service, Jane’s International Defence Review, 20 January 2004
2 Show report – Aero India, Jane’s International Defence Review, 16 March 2003
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