• Upgrade to ESSM (Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles) as these become available, which will be used from a modified MK.29 launcher.

Will this be a one-for-one replacement of Sea Sparrow or will the adoption of ESSM mean an increase in the number of SAMs carried (i.e. than one round per Mk 29 cell and dito for reload storage)?

Mmmm, it does look like a frontal shot of a sub-bow was pasted on top of an oblique shot of the sub. Also, there is something off with the diving planes: the starboard plane (left in the pic) is farthest from the lens yet appears bigger than the port plane (right in pic).

they are based on sawari 2 and have a more advanced AAW capability than that ship

Those claims definitely make the article of dubious quality

don even mention the millions that were cleansed for a whiter manhatten ….

As I recall, there were few if any people living in ‘manhattan’ when the Dutch settled there and founded New Amsterdam in the first quarter of the 17th century.

See also: History of New Amsterdam/New York

More in general, what you are suggesting is that one wrong cancels out – or rather legitimizes – another, which of course is ludicrous. An alternative interpretation is that you would say it is ok for yuo to jump of a cliff because others have jumped of a cliff as well.

Israel offers to develop Barak missiles with India jointly

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 4: Deepening bilateral defence cooperation further, Israel is understood to have offered to develop the next generation Barak-II ship defence missiles jointly with India. Defence Ministry sources said Tel Aviv conveyed the offer to Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash when he visited Israel this July, and the issue was discussed during the Naval Commanders’ Conference last week.

The offer — which was first put on the table by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) — is now being considered by the Defence Ministry. Both DRDO and officials at the Israel Embassy’s defence department declined to comment.

The Navy’s INS Viraat aircraft carrier, three Delhi-class destroyers and three Talwar-class frigates are currently equipped with the Barak-I missiles which India bought in 2003.

A view currently persists that the Indian Navy is not equipped with ship-based aircraft tracking equipment that would justify a 70-km range missile, though long-range tracking technology is being looked at as a possible technology spin-off if India decides to sign on the dotted line with Israel.

I could try that if you could provide for Aishwarya’s accomodation in the same tent. 😀

What a lousy newspaper, any idiot that has internet can find out that only INS Viraat, INS Delhi and INS Ganga have BARAK installed. Certainly no BARAK on Talwar class ships!

The currently persisting view that the Indian Navy is not equipped with ship-based aircraft tracking equipment that would justify a 70-km range missile is silly: what if Barak II is fitted with an active radar homing head, say, from the current Derby SSM? You wouldn’t need much more than the current medium to long range search radars like Fregat MAE and Signaal LW08.

Ja Worsley, here’s some links you could have found if ýou had bothered to google a bit

http://home.att.net/~wellsbrothers/Battleships/SovietBBtable.html
http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/russ_dr.htm
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/russia-pre.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/russia-dread.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/russia/russia-battle.html

As for the Italian fleet, this was to sail to Malta for surrender to the Allies under the 8 Sept 1943 surrender agreement. Ships that could not sail were scuttled and fell into German hands; the rest put to sea on the evening of the 8th, one being sunk en route to Malta. The fleet was returned to the new
Italian government, although 3 ships were assigned to the Allies as
reparations postwar. The US and the UK each received a Littorio class battleship (repectively Littorio and Vittorio Veneto) while the USSR got a single Cavour class battleship (Giulio Cesare)

Giulio Cesare was built by Ansaldo, Genoa. Laid down 24 June 1910, launched
15 Oct 1911, completed 14 May 1914. Reconstructed 10/1933 to 10/1937 at Genoa. To Allied control 9/1943. Renamed Z11 after WWII. To Russia as Novorossiysk 15 Dec 1948. A plan to rearm the ex-Italian Novorossiisk with Russian 12-inch guns was abandoned after the ship discovered, evidently via her anchor chain, that plans for minesweeping of Black Sea harbors had not been carried out. She sunk from the explosion on 29 Oct 1955 while at anchor at Sevastopol. This indeed costed Kuznetzov his job …

You mean to tell me that you really look like that :p , Mr. Wanshan?

If so, then you will have to excuse me for the honest mistake because I’m
not familiar with Dutch names and was sort of confused with the Asiatic sounding alias!
However, I still can’t figure you taking on the resemblace of that astronaut.

And Oh… Is that the ISS??? And, did you say it sports a NASA rather than a
Dutch Logo? Not that it matters of course. Additionally, I don’t see any Logo of any other
nation from out of the mighty continent of Asia on that thing. And that, my friend, automatically
disqualifies it as something that is one’s own for the big mouths of this board.

Anyway, I am not here to arm wrestle with you over weather Dutch techs are any superior
or inferior to Chinese one’s or visa versa because there are no conflicts of interest existing between
the Dutch and the Chinese either way it swings. However, I would not say same for those whose logics, or
whose mentality and rehtorics, are more suited to… shall we say… the BR board, maybe???

Just a thought :p !
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Man, you really are a looser. I’m not waisting my good time on you no more.

Ah Mr Wanshan wants to boast about his submarines… Well here’s ours:

😮 😮 😮 Oh no, we’ve been mightily out-developed!