IN didnt go for the Sunburn coz it was deemed too expensive , so they went for the SS-N-25 , The SS-N-25 is similar in capability to the Harpoon Block 1C

wasnt the price alone russia no longer had the capability to build the moskit right after fall of soviet union. Even the ones that were transferred to china were from Russian navy inventory no point in investing in missile when there is no guranteed future supply. As for reason for procuring ss-n-25 there is was no other option for IN, styx inspite of all the upgrades was close to obsolete. If Uran was truely capable it would have phased out styx by know.

As for Uran being better than styx when it comes to sea skimming, size and its seeker but styx with its larger warhead had greater kill potential while uran/harpoon like other western SSM are designed to damage vessels not sink them.

Uran Is a Relatively new system , there is hardly any chance of it being phased out , Also we can expect the air launched variant of Uran the KH-35 to arm the Mig-29K when she arrives.

it will replace them doesnt mean that it happen immediatly, Uran was orginally purchased as stop gap measure for delhi’s. But later due to problems procuring moskits decided to push Uran into service into other vessels, IN wasnt really impressed with the missile because it didnt have kill potential P-20s had.

In all likelyhood once P-20s are replaced by brahmos, delhi’s,last two tarantuls and P-25A will be fitted with Brahmos. As for air launched Urans it was hinted once that IN might purchase them but that was before availability of 3M-51 or Brahmos-A. I believe those two might be used for tu-144,Mig-29s,Sukhoi while sea eagle will be used in Dhruv,Sea king and Jaguar till a smaller Asuw is procured like sea skua or designed (i believe drdo was doing case study for small helo launched SSM).

its too early too rule out hostile fire insurgents have been rigging up large AAA systems but the fact that two were lost makes it sound like mid air collision.

i believe swedes have elma, primarily russians introduced ASW mortars to make up for their lack of ASW helos/effective sonars and along with necassary cost associated with operating them. They formed a layered defense with RBU-600/1000/1200/6000 along with torpedoes and SS-N-14/15. In the west asw mortars fell out of popularity since soviet threat was mainly from the russian oscars armed with their shipwrecks so air borne ASW platforms were better suited with dealing with those.
But profileration of SSKs who are quite hard to detect and sink employing sonars/torpedoes but dont have speed and dive capability to escape depth charges. ASW mortars could be quite useful against them some also have secondary anti torpedo capability.

http://www.brahmos.com/downloads.html
those pdf files are similar to the brochure

I doubt the Su-27 could carry even one. It doesn’t have the avionics to use such a weapon. The same for the Mig-31. The Su-30M variants and the Su-34 would be the only flankers likely to carry an Onyx and they would be able to carry three.

i assume u know more about those platforms than NPO/DRDO :rolleyes: . Brahmos can be fired using data from external source or in general viscinity of a target so u dont necassarily need much avoinics to support it, only tricky part is land attack which russian variant wont have. Anyway mig-29s carry 1 brahmos in central hardpoint not under their wings.

I dont know if a MiG-29 could take off from the deck with 2 Bhramoses, maybe due to the design of the Bhramos it could but i am not sure, any ideas?

mig-29 can carry 1 brahmos-a however there hasnt been any mention of having Mig-29 as carry platform for it so there is good chance that sukhoi’s and tu-142 might end up being the only platforms that can support it. Anyway there is plans by drdo for small air launched AShM (for helos) its probable that it might be carried by mig-29k as well.

IIRC, the IN didn’t want to buy ex-RN FA2s probably because of the cost. I think RN asked for more than what IN was willing to pay, considering IN has bet its future on MiG29s and the naval LCA when it materializes.

not just cost but also factors like the age of the airframe which means higher crash rate. Also Mig-29K is better suited for air defense and AsuW purpose than the shar.
Anyway rsk-mig is ahead when it comes to Mig-29k production and has high hopes that IN will procure 30 more in near future.