googleOriginally posted by Harry
The LAHAT firing is old news.The LAHAT (on the right),
As you can see from the date, it was last month’s news.
googleI’m glad you’re so much better than saddam……
googleI’m glad you’re so much better than saddam……
googleHmm, perhaps the dinosaurs tried praying, but I bet it didn’t help them very well.:)
googleDon’t worry PLA, it won’t happen very often.:)
googleWell, if SAMs, then why not MRBMs or ICBMs? Presumably, MRBMs can be used to destroy airplanes as well.
googleI figured that missiles count as part of aviation as well.
googleand in one more related post…
India Receives Talwar 2 years late
Date Posted: 21-Apr-2004
JANE’S DEFENCE WEEKLY – APRIL 28, 2004
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India receives Talwar frigate two years late
RAHUL BEDI JDW Correspondent and
JOSEPH ROHE JDW Special Correspondent
New Delhi and London
The third Project 1135.6 Talwar-class frigate, built at Russia’s Baltiyskiy Zavod yard for the Indian Navy (IN), was commissioned on 19 April at the Blatiisk Naval Base in Kaliningrad, more than two years behind schedule.
An IN spokesperson in New Delhi told JDW that a navy crew had been in Russia for the past six months waiting to take charge of the ship.
Official sources said INS Tabar, the last of the frigates being built under a $1 billion contract awarded in 1997, was delayed due to integration problems with the Shtil-1 medium-range air-defence missile system (JDW 9 July 2003).
INS Talwar and INS Trishul, the two earlier Project 1135.6 frigates, were handed over last year after delays of more than a year because of similar problems following extensive platform and combat system acceptance tests (JDW 25 June 2003).
Officials said the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) was continuing negotiations with the Russian arms export agency Rosoboronexport to claim damages for the delays. The vessels were originally scheduled to be handed over to the navy in 2002.
The contract specifies that Rosoboronexport is liable to be penalised for delivery delays, which would be calculated on a daily basis for a maximum period of six months. The MoD has declined to confirm the amount involved.
The contract provides an option for three additional frigates. Official Indian sources said the “sporadic” negotiations with Russian officials about compensation include the “possibility” of adjusting these claims in partial payment for the three additional frigates.
The frigates are equipped with the vertical-launch Klub-N missile, capable of engaging surface targets and submarines at ranges of 10-220km. They also have a single 100mm A-190 Puma gun effective against air, seaborne and land-based targets. Eight Igla-1E missiles and two Kashtan air-defence systems provide short-range air defence. The frigates are also designed to accommodate one Ka-31 anti-submarine warfare helicopter.
IN sources said INS Tabar would be the first Talwar-class frigate to be fitted with the supersonic BrahMos (PJ10) 290km-range anti-ship cruise missile, which India has co-developed with Russia. The other two will subsequently be equipped with the BrahMos.
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googleOriginally posted by PhantomII
Are you certain about that?Any sources?
See my thread. Oops, I didn’t realize this one already existed.
googleWhat remains to be the biggest obstacle is convincing the public that this is a large enough threat to warrant such countermeasures that will inevitably be very costly.
googleSorry, no picture. There is on, but it’s of the older F-4-2000.
googleSrbin, you might want to read the latest Flight International mag- their front cover is on the RAAF, and what’s going on ‘down under’. I didn’t read it, but I think it mentioned something about the JSF.
googleI read the article again, and it only said that they’re looking to install 18,000 lb engines to ‘hog up’ the A-10s. However, despite the huge boost in power that this would offer, they’re not sure whether the aging airframes can take that kind of stress.
googleThe Mi-28 also has a secret compartment? I thought that the Su-25/39 were the only ones to have this mobile field kit.
googleHere’s an excerpt on the Mig-29 Upgrades from one of their earlier issues.
MiG-29 Modernisation Projects Seek World Export Sales
MiG-29’s agility and performance were a revelation to the West, when the first examples appeared at air shows. Their impact was heightened still further when details of their air superiority weapons systems, including the first high off-boresight close-combat AAMs and a deadly-accurate laser-ranged 30mm cannon cued from a helmet-mounted sight, also emerged.
By early 1996, total MiG-29 production was claimed by MAPO MiG, within the newly formed Military Industrial Group (MIG) MAPO, as over 1600, including about 400 aircraft exported to 22 countries. The latter numbers have since increased to nearly 600 to about 29 countries, including 134 currently in Central Europe, although a few sales of new MiG-29s have been reported since the mid-1990s. In fact, not a single aircraft order has been received by the MiG group from the Russian Defence Ministry since 1992.
Long-term marketing plans by the now renamed Russian Aircraft Corporation MiG (RSK MiG) have therefore been directed, with some success towards expanding MiG-29 export sales from on-going developments, including a wide range of upgrades. These vary from low-cost installations of basic equipment to satisfy NATO and ICAO inter-operability standards, including in conjunction with EADS-partnered MiG Aircraft Product Support (MAPS) TGmbH, to major redesigns.
Several of the latter were revealed for the first time at the MAKS ’01 aerospace industry show held last August at the Zhukovsky flight-test centre near Moscow. There, MILITARY TECHNOLOGY was indebted to Lev Bolshakov, Deputy Chief Designer Projects (Marketing) of RSK MiG, for a personal briefing on their origin, and many of their details.
The MiG-29S/SD/SE/SM Series
While setting new standards in performance, agility and weapons system sophistication for the then Soviet Air Force (VVS) upon entering service in 1983, the first MiG-29s (factory designation Type 9-12) suffered from fuel and equipment limitations which restricted their operations mainly to short-range air defence roles. Nevertheless, about 1000 single-seat FULCRUM-As and 200 MiG-29UB FULCRUM-B two-seat combat trainer versions were built by MAPO MiG in the Moscow area, and the Sokol factory in Nizhni Novgorod, respectively, for Soviet and export requirements, before the first design improvements were introduced, under the direction of then General Designer Rostislav Belyakov, to start rectifying these shortcomings.
Main external change in the resulting MiG-29S (Type 9-13, or FULCRUM-C for NATO) which first flew in May 1984 and entered limited VVS service in 1991, was a heightened fuselage profile from behind the cockpit. This was designed to house additional avionics, as well as 175 litres more fuel, earning the MiG-29S its nickname of “Gorbach”, or hunchback. A relocated cannon link ejection chute allowed gun firing with the standard 1520 litre centre-line external fuel capacity was further increased from the provision for two underwing drop tanks, totaling 2300 litres.
New avionics included an L203BE GARDE-NIYE-1-FUE active radar jammer and provision for the GLONASS satellite navigation system, plus wing-tip L-150 PASTEL RWR or ECM systems. The MiG-29S also incorporated an uprated Phazotron-NIIR N019M TOPAZ X-band cassegrain radar, with an improved Ts-101M weapons computer which extended the MiG-29’s original N019 SLOT BACK system’s capabilities to twin target engagement at up to 74 km. As part of the original MiG-29’s advanced equipment, the UOMZ Sch-2UM-1 helmet-mounted sight has no display capability, but it nevertheless led the field when entering service in 1983 together with the high off-boresight Vympel R-73 (AA-11 ARCHER) air-to-air missile.
Malaysia’s initial US$560 million MiG-29 procurement package did not allow full attainment of operational standards until after a 1997 US$34.4 million local four-phase upgrade programme. This included establishment of a local Aerospace Technologies Support Center (ASTC), owned jointly by Malaysia (70%) and Russia (20% by the state arms sales agency and 10% by MiG MAPO), to handle the work involved, plus subsequent maintenance and depot level service. The first phase upgrade covered the installation in a port-fuselage fairing of a semi-retractable air-refueling probe, for the first time in a MiG-29.
This was successfully tested from November 16, 1995, in flight trails with an llyushim II-78 MIDAS tanker, and completed in a few months later. Full N019M1 TOPAZ radar uprating then led the way to third-phase integration of the medium-range active radar-homing AMRAAM –type Vympel R-77/E RVV-AE (AA-12 ADDER) air to air missile, with integrated ECCM. The AA12 supplemented the earlier semi-active radar or IR-homing VYmpel R-27Er1/TE1 (AA-10 ALAMO), which requires continuous target tracking and illumination from the launch aircraft to impact, and the already mentioned R-73E for closer combat. The forth phase of the RMAF upgrades involved increases in overhaul and service lives of the RD-33-3 engines , which included twelve spare powerplants within the original Malaysian order . Engine overhaul lives were initially increased from 700 to 1,000 flying hours, and service lives doubled to 2,000 hours.
Similar upgrades were offered in type 9-13 FULCRUM-A airframes as MIG-29SEs, spares and maintenance were brought by the FAP from MiG MAPO under a US$ 117 million September 1998 contract, to supplement 16+2 MiG-29/UBs with 96 R-27R and 216 R-60 AAMs as well as 18 Sukhoi Su-25s, acquired as surplus from Belarus for US$385 million from July 1997.
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