For that matter I wonder if the new steam plant is anything similar to that fitted to the Kuznetsov.

The Steam turbines on the Kuznetsov require distilled water to operate properly, every time they send her out the water distilling equipment clog up and they then have to spend a year repairing it. She spends more time in the yard being repaired then out at Sea.

gorshkov will be fitted with gas fired boilers a total of 9 of those.

sigh trying your best to start flame war i see pointless thread mod plz lock this.

Did anybody notice these are 2 very different Kashin-based models?

Both rather poor conceptually if you ask me. Personally, I don’t see why main SAMs couldn’t be retained forward and rear as well as helicopter gear rear while installing 4×2 decklaunched Brahmos in place of 4×1 Styx and Barak in place of some of the AK230/630 and standardize on AK630. Maybe plug in a 100mm gun like on Talwar to replace twin 76mm. Better all round fit. Seems silly to have a mix of DL an VL Brahmos.

Horizontally inclined brahmos are for mainly Asuw where as the VL are for land attack,asuw and asw will be capable of carrying brahmos as well klub.
Don’t see the point of fiting in a-190e on kashin,the current main gun is decent enough and a-190e is not exactly cheap.
As for sa-n-1 the missiles are NEOL, they havent been upgraded yet. I am guessing the reason the rear ones are being removed is because they probably dont have enough missiles to keep both of them operational or they are being salavaged for parts to keep the others operational.

Are the IN pilots going to get training on a/c carriers??? ….. well NO! …. then whats so much into the training that IN pilots can’t get from Russia and from simulators that the bosses need to throw more money to the American kity???

seems like its the merikkans aim to get to know what will make up the MiG-29Ks pilots and their caliber … its nothing more than that!

blackcat the key word in the article is t-45, IN is looking to procure Hawks for training purpose as well it will take couple years for them to be inducted till then, they need training in something similar to it. I believe this agreement was pushed forth by BAe which almost assures a potential hawk deal worth more than 1/2 billion by doing this.

it has 8 VLS brahmos where the helipad starts.. u can see one small dot popping out..

guess i can see it would still need a better picture to get confirmation, but even the imds model seems to be dated one. INS rajput seems to be fitted with different launcher supposedly designed by L&T.

Great so I guess the last two kashins will have 16 brahmos each. Would the older three only have 8 ? IS it possible to requip other capital ships like delhi or godavari’s with brahmos?

the first three or atleast ranjit will also have 16 as well no reason why to fit just the last two. As for godavari they will likely get it. Delhi’s might get them in VL in place of one/both of the hangers probably once p-15a comes operational.

Moving my post in lca thread to here
did some research on Mig-29k and levcon it seems 9-41 was fitted with levcon in order to improve landing performance which supposedly was a problem for 9-31 when testing resumed in 1999.

So the airdefence of the Rajputs is now limited to just 16 Baraks? They have to remove the aft launcher for the VLS Bharamos.

I think they have a forward launcher as well… or did that go away as well?

yes there is still the 1 Sa-n-1 launcher and there is 32 barak SAM not 16.

According to IDC rajputs will be fitted with 16 Brahmos, currently Ranvir is being fitted.