Nice movie! Viggen is one nasty a$$ airplane. AFA looks are concerned, Í’m sorry our airforce got F16s rather than Viggen.

Interesting comment, suggesting that she may go to see under someone else’s ensign.

India is unlikely given budgetary constraints and their transition to CTOL, who else might be interested in an Invincible?

Unicorn

She won’t fly the white ensign but won’t be sold either.

Hi,

a few questions about USS Trenton/INS Jalashva LPD on IN service:

1) what’s the current armament of the USS Trenton/INS Jalashva LPD?

2) Which helicopters should be used by Indian Navy aboard?

3) Regarding the Vulcan CIWS, IN usualy operate Russian CIWS like AK-630 and AK-230. Is there any intention to replace the Vulcan CIWS in order to guarantee standarts with others ship’s fleet?

thanks
Ayala

1. Last known armanment: two 20mm Phalanx CIWS, two 25mm Mk 38 guns, eight .50-calibre machine guns. I expect the Phalanx and possibly all other armement to have been removed.

2. Helicopters: can provide only limited support, telescopic hangar installed aboard. The hangar is not used to accommodate helicopters but on the flight deck there is space for up to six CH-46 helicopters. Expect the Sea King Mk.42C helicopter to be used and possibly the indigenously-built HAL Dhruv helicopter.

3. Easiest would be to install a few CRN-91 AAA mounted on stabilised optronic pedestals (2A42 30mm Medak guns on BMP-2 turrets, adapted for naval use). Another easy one would be shoulder-held 9K38 Igla-M (SA-N-10) SAM launcher. Chaff launchers. If something with more punch was thought to be needed, I’ld expect Barak to be installed. Other (though much less likely) options include Kashtan CIWS, AK630, OTO Melera Super Rapid 76mm main gun, Type WM-18A 140mm 18-tube rocket launchers.

If one can fit car’s with proximity warning devices for parking purposes, why not warships?

See attached some pictures that I found on a Dutch naval board.

If I connect that to an article in IDR of November, where the CEO Arno Peels is interviewed:

“The next step is the introduction of a rather revolutionary new above-water warfare sensor suite based on non-rotating radar technology installed in a highly integrated mast module,” Peels says. “The SMART-S Mk 2 was to a significant extent based on re-use of existing modules. The innovation that we’re now planning is continuing this approach in the integrated mast programme. The key sensors to be included in this single-mast package will be the new SMILE radar for medium-range volume search, the new SEASTAR radar for surface search and the new Gatekeeper electro-optical camera suite. The last is designed to provide 360TH situational awareness against asymmetrical threats.”

Now the contents of the mast becomes a little bit clear: two type of radars plus IR and TV… all non rotating!

The first of class OPV for the RNLN is planned for 2009-2010.
Length around 100 meters, and 3000 tons

This OPV looks a lot like the Falcon class corvette on p 6 of http://www.iv-groep.nl/en/docs/bro-nevesbu-en.pdf and on page 24 of http://www.iv-groep.nl/en/docs/ivormatie.2005.1.en.pdf
The Falcon Class Corvette is a joint design of Iv-Nevesbu and Merwede Shipyard in the Netherlands

Thanks wanshan

Thanks but to be honest, Radar had it right first.

I thought LPD was Landing ship, platform, dock

Daniel

Hi Dan,

Landing Platform Dock a.k.a. Amphibious Transport, Dock:
Amphibious Transport Dock [LPD] ships transport and land Marines, their equipment and supplies by embarked landing craft or amphibious vehicles augmented by helicopters in amphibious assault. These versatile ships replace amphibious transports (APA), amphibious cargo ships (AKA), older landing ship (LSD), tank landing ship (LST), and the attack cargo ship (LKA).

Landing Ship Dock a.k.a. Dock Landing Ships:
Dock Landing Ships support amphibious operations including landings via Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), conventional landing craft and helicopters, onto hostile shores. These ships transport and launch amphibious craft and vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel in amphibious assault operations and render limited docking and repair services to small ships and craft.

Different role emphasis, I suppose.

“Dock Landing Ships (LSD) support amphibious operations including landings via Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC), conventional landing craft and helicopters, onto hostile shores. These ships transport and launch amphibious craft and vehicles with their crews and embarked personnel in amphibious assault operations. Amphibious Transport Docks (LPD) transport and land Marines, their equipment and supplies by embarked landing craft or amphibious vehicles augmented by helicopters in amphibious assault. These versatile ships perform the mission of amphibious transports, amphibious cargo ships and the older LSDs by incorporating both a flight deck and a well deck that can be ballasted and deballasted to support landing craft. “

“LPD stands for Landing Platform Dock although the ship is usually referred to as an Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD)”
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/ld.htm