in trials for chile and singapore iirc it shot down exocet/harpoon class missiles. and IN has shot down ss-n-2 and uran type unarmed missiles I think.

http://www.acig.org/exclusives/viraat/viraat_1.htm
In the final series of tests, all ships test launched their Baraks against every type of AsHM in Indian Navy inventory and scored 100% hits

however it is not capable of intercepting supersonic sea skimming missiles ?

yes it is
http://www.rafael.co.il/web/rafnew/products/nav-barak.htm

. Barak is effective against highly maneuvering, supersonic and low altitude threats (sea skimmers), as well as low radar cross section (RCS) targets.

Anyway i didnt see el/m FCR or star in ranjiit wasnt it supposed to have barak?
http://www.alert5.com/gallery/viraat/MG_0268

I agree. A half a dozen carriers similar to the proposed SAC-220 would’ve been the way to go.

RN doesnt seem have enough surface combatants in the near future to protect that many carriers unless # of t-45s is increased to 12 and FSC procurment is sped up, if that doesnt happen 2015 RN’s surface combatant fleet will be composed of 6 Type 45s and 12-13 Type 23s.

M2K-5 is still better than any MIG-29 versions specially if u upgrade it to M2K9 standards. RDY-2 has invisible lock on feature. EW suite and communication suite is way beyond what russia can built or any other country will help out with MIG-29. single engine saves fuel and maintainance and why spent money on another short range twin seater when u can spent that on MKI. twin engine MIG-29 weopon load and range isnt much better than single seat Mirage nor is there big advantage in hard points.

EW on Mig-29m are indigenous same will be case with MIRAGE-2000 as well. Anyway potential cost savings from a single engine and rdy-2 alone is not enough to mainly justify spending 60+ million on aircraft. As i said before whether Mig-29 or M-2000 win out will mainly depend on how much IAF is impressed with navy’s Mig-29k and the Mirage-2000-5 when they are procured from UAE.

Plans are plans. Unless they turned operational or at least is in trials, they’re paper projects. You can hot air any piece of paper you want. But if it’s not in actual metal and electronics with a stamp of approval on it and a long check record of testing, it’s not real. I don’t view paper projects with the same optimism as you do; it is so easy to make proposals and plans, so much exponentially harder to actually execute them successfully. The issue is what you actually have and not what you are supposed to have or capable of doing. The only thing I give a hoot about is achievement and execution.

wtf are you talking about tombstone is in service with kirov and was undergoing trials and same is true with positiv-ME as well. If you dont know much on these plz refrain from posting makes you only look more foolish. And dont get me started on you not believing paper projects especially considering on all assumptions you make when it comes to J-10, 054, WS-10 etc.

I made it explicitly clear that I was talking about the idiot assumption that there is any connection between the Russian/Ukrainian systems and the 052C’s.

learn to read english properly plz no point in continuing a discussion with someone who cant, I was first replying to your argument on russian radar not on 052C’s radar why else would quote that specifically.

Huh? Tombstone is land based. Positiv is a very different animal from a fleet air defense system functionally similar to Aegis.

what do you mean its land based most russian naval radars are based on land based radars.Tombstone is deployed on kirov 099 was to be mass deployed on all other vessels as well but was put off IIRC. There was plans for four faced tombstone radar on a ddg back in mid 90s i believe the new russian ddg in design phase may incoporate that.
Positiv-3D is much smaller in size to spy-1 but offers 200 km range and can be incoporated into corvette sized vessels wont take much to devolop a larger version of it if needed.

There is no proof it is Ukrainian. Kvant does not even have fire control and missile guidance functions. It is just an air search array. China’s HT-233 phase array systems were already available as early as 1998 long before Kvant was even offered or allegedly sold in 2004.

As i said dont care that radar is indigenous or soviet based would much rather prefer the former, my argument was him saying that russia didnt have radar of that capability.

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will try to find photos of tombstone on kirov and rest when i get some spare time.

Let me repeat myself. That was the dumbest response possible when you attempt to say that because Russia has plenty of unknown, unimplemented R&D projects then it is somehow related to something from a former Soviet republic.

And even you should understand the Russians have a funding problem which means less R&D not more. :rolleyes:

lmao right repeating yourself because you cant read and respond to responses isnt that meaning of a dumb response. You idotically said russia hasnt devoloped a advanced radar like that for destroyers and i provided proof of some very capable radars that were devoloped by russia for the russian navy and export so i rest may case.

Capable or not is besides the point. The Russian/former Soviet Republic systems are nothing like the 052C’s so it is idiocy to claim any connections between the two. We don’t see anything similar on Russian destroyers.

even thou i am not the one saying its ukrainian i think its some decent chinese phased array knock off. You cant say that its not soviet based simply because they didnt have such system installed on destroyer as i said before a lot of soviet systems were R&D and were never implemented due to lack of funding.

i believe IN is procuring more torpedoes from Whitehead most likely Euro torp Mu90, rather unlikely they will confuse that with C-303, especially the amount 900 it clearly states in that link.