Very good Article. Is it possible to get a technical description of the two radar computers. Are these based on COTS or some indigenous ASIC (or FPGA). The radar on the MiG-29k for Indian navy has been said to be the first Russian radar featuring DSP. Is there any plan to endow BARS with DSP.

Below is an old article which meantions abt the DSP on the Zhuk, so it shud not be a surprise to anyone if its said that the Indian variant will be the first one to get it. The DSP was a part of the Zhuk from the start if am not wrong.

The K carries much more advanced radar, the Phazatron Zhuk, the first Russian radar for fighters with a digital signal processor. It provides multiple target shooting capability with the RVV-AE, R-27 and R-73 air-to-air missiles and aiming for the X-31A/X-35 antiship and X-31P antiradiation missiles.

http://www.aeroworldnet.com/1ra11299.htm

Indian,

dual rail pylons to launch pairs of AAMs are necessary. Its a total waste to dedicate
a whole pylon to a small missile R-73.

F-15 has shown the way. 15E carries a unbelieveable amt of individual munitions and
even hangs two fuel tanks near the tail.

fully agree on that one, there has to be multi-racks, and definetely in this Americans sets the standards, I very much like the stuffs on F-15, I hope MKI and MiG-19K too have these.

But my last years queery to the RAC-MiG was not very positive on the multi-racks, insted they said that its possible to have two additional wingtip hard-points. But i feel an inner hardpoints for mulit-racks would be the finer one.

k am putting the new baby over here…..

Amur-950 V2 (Version-2)

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Amur-950 V2 was actually displayed in DefExpo’04’, which unfortunately did not get much attention or coverage … as u guys saw earlier in the thread, which i mistook to be a modified Amur-1650. 😮

Amur-950 V2 spec

Number of torpedo tubes, —— 4 pc
Missile, torpedo and amine ammunition, —— 14 pc (calibre -533 mm)
Normal displacement, —— 1060 m3
Principal dimensions,
– length —— 60,3 m
– breadth —— 5,6 m
Full submerged speed, —— 20 kts
Submerged range at economic speed, —— 350 miles
Cruising range with overload fuel capacity while snorkelling at economic speed of 7 knots, —— 3000 miles
Maximum diving depth, —— 300 m
Endurance, —— 30 days
Crew, —— 18 persons

thanks , blackcat
the pics are great,mate
what was going on in me mind was if the yak-44 could have a hangar of its own just at the rear…also that what i meant when i said it would foulup the trapping of the aircraft… 😮 (going around for another chakkar is a NONO as this would mean irregular op )..this would mean adding another lift at the very end …widening the slot in the back to aroound 10 meters…i also have a detaled drawing of the -44 in which it seems the draughtsmen accounted for the miserly space on the VICK for the -44…so they decided to collapse the vertical radome holder too…dont have a scanner so the drawing can be viewed from the flight international mag…have to search for exat date as i viewed it in the BCL library three yrs ago
so the addition of the lift exclusivly for the -44? is it a posibility or ….
thankx for the pics again
thankx for putting to the notice fo the others that modifications have been going on the VICK….from the pic above and the drawings the port modifications are visible
this is the reason i feel that the another modification proposed as above by moi can be done ..after beatin that idea is bad the following are the reasons for it
1 this increases the landing space :rolleyes:
2 the -44 comes out ready for take off..and uses the landing space for takeoff 😎
3 the undersides of the lift can provide space fr trailing a sonar line( :dev2: )

so u mean a seperate hangre on the Gorshy??….. well i guess thats not a good ide ….. BTW I’m anot very ooptimistic abt E-2C or Yak-44 to get on the carrier mainly becoz of the lift. if the Lift is enlarged enough can it be possible to operate them after clearing the first test, ie to T/O without a catapult. If not, the a/c wud all the time have to be parked on the deck even if the service is ned for them and thats not a very good thing to do.

Also check out the pics below, if the hanger lift is able to get modified or say freshly build to have it open to the extreme deck, then the a/c lifting probs wud not be a problem as the lift is said to have a capacity of 30t.

well of now IN has 5 klub-ized subs and the sixth is undergoing general refit including klub in russia. the three talwar frigates have it. I dunno how feasible it is to mount Klub on
smaller ships, deck penetration makes the vls array unfeasible so a tube launched version would be needed to replace the Urans.

for now IN is happy with the large inventory of Urans which have many yrs of life left
and not in any urgency to get a tube version of klub.

we shud not be just comforting with the upgrades, these are to retire in the next decade, and what i am talking abt is the P-28 pocket destroyers, and the new SSKs, scorpene is not likely to have VLS, and so a TT launched Klub is the only option (and that has to made a necessity).

Also, look at the Russias new set of corvettees, in the 1,800 t corvette we can see 8 cell VLS for Klub and in front of that AK-630 or something, but that can be modified to fit 16 cell VLS for Klub.

Now, what i was implying to is that out new P-28 have some of these features – 16 cell VLS but which have similarity with the 1,350 t corvette, which is also beautiful in addition to its punch (I think that slope in front has got some VLS in there)….. and I hope our P-28 have similarity to these two pocket destroyers in terms of firepower, AD, and the LO design

hope u guys get my points, the pic are copyrighted to some person (don know, who), this pic was posted by Roel/Sev in the Scorpene class patrol boats thread. So repeating his request —- please don use it anywhere else.

tks for the links, but not yet got the image that i was searching for, the one u posted is what i meant , but there was another image of that same grouping from front from a lower altitude and also some what from the left side.

Hermes,

this one for u.

also, just figure out from this view a hanger outline and a virtual placement of MiG-29Ks along its beam and project these two to the lower deck, which is the hanger area.

how many orders till now for the MESA??

and there was some news abt the Isrealis eying the MESA coz of it being better and cheaper than their Phalcon, but Isreali’s wary of doing that b’coz of loosing market for their own Phalcon.

got more on that?