My theory remains that the French at most COULD have provided software, testdata and engineering asistance. UNLIKE with LAVI, I have NOT EVER heard or read anything by anybody in relevant business or government that would indicate that the french assisted the Chinese in developing their CIWS.
What sources/information/references can you present that would support your THEORY that China obtained any help from France in develping the Type 730? Without any evidence (and to make it easy for you I use that term loosely, in the broadest possible sense of the word) to support the theory why would anyone accept it as true? And mind you, I’m not expecting to find French or Chinese ‘official reports’. I’ll accept articles from industry publications (e.g. Janes) or think tanks (e.g. RAND) too. Even less than that.

Considering how so many gun manufactures have failed to devolop to gatling gun based ciws dont u think its more than just conincidence that china managed to devolop identical to Gau-8/A while have far less experience than naval guns. Anyway You are not get much info about Type 730 atleast know it will takewhile before data about capabilities and whats based on to make it to the public.

Honestly I doubt USN is worried that PLAN got its hands on that considering that currently has ak-630 and will soon recieve kashtan as well both of which are on par or better than the it.

While i think it was based on satmos when i said “730 = samos” i meant to compare it in preformance not say that they were similar systems btw. Since satmos and 730 as well unlike goalkeeper dont carry a tracking radar so its performance its mainly based on capabilities of survellance radar (dont know what radar the surv. chinese use for Type 730).

I think the Meroka is not so good and mature as those CIWSs I’ve mentioned above. Its calibre and fire rate are not so powerful as Palma/Kashtan/AK630/GoalKeeper, and its fire control technology are primitive compares to the phalanx.

It was designed to have hi muzzle velocity higher than any of those systems you mentioned FYI.

Added: Anyway got a pdf brochure of Palma if anyones intrested will take a screenshot of it and post it here. There is nothing new in there thou.

is it just me or is F-15 seem to be losing a lot of mock battles these days , couble this be politically fixed by USAF in order to push for F-22?

conveniently Janes would be correct, but if we were discussing any indian product, janes would be the most unreliable source of info… yada yada yada….

let assume what you said is correct and its comparable/slightly better than apg-66. So u assume that Grifo-M stats are similar to APG-66 has a range of 55 km against fighter sized targets and around ~ 30 km tracking range its still overkill to fit mica on it isnt it and its still inferior to Kopyo-M.

Grifo-M for Mirage-III has improved strike capability, think about it if its look up range is around 37 km doesnt it seem like overkill to fit mica onto it.

Whenever you see a report about a Chinese system that is like something you know and love, always take that assertion with a pinch of salt. It’s the same with the Chinese anti-missile platform that is supposedly similar to AEGIS.

because it is there is still strong connection in terms of transfer of technology between france-china, there have been numerous other naval equipment transferred to china i.e french 100 mm compact gun.

Are we forgeting that that some Akulas were also connected to the Gorky deal.

If India did not buy Mig-29 then no Gorky and no Akula.

So India would have to take Rafale say US$1.6 Billion and a French built carrier, say US$ 1 billion with Misc of US$ 500 million, we are taking of US$ ~3billion and 2-5 year delay.

There is no doubt that this French combination would be better and perhaps justify its costs but the deployment of money saved on Gorky; in ADS-NCLA also justifies the Gorky deal.

Akulas are icing on the cake.

I doubt there was connection between akula and gorshkov it something that was suggested by the media. What held akula or Tu-22m purchase was that India was using foreign firms for upgrade of India’s russian products which russia wasnt happy about. hence they wanted them to sign agreements to pay royalty & so on which India just did.

As for french carrier i doubt it can be built it can be built for 1 billion, a convential cdf would cost around 2.8 billion euros according to the recent french report and incoporate armaments. It would easily end up costing around 5 billion $. Fyi ADS construct cost is already said to be over 4000 crores.

was the triangular design the only one being considered for A-12? Anyway IMO i think USN made major mistake funding devolopment of F-18E should have instead focused on navalised ATF or ST21.

i thought 100 knots for F-8 was the USNs requirement for the aircraft ?