Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike
03/05/2012
MOSCOW, May 3 (RIA Novosti)Russia does not exclude preemptive use of weapons against [NATO] missile defense systems in Europe but only as a last resort, the Russian General Staff said on Thursday at a missile defense conference in Moscow.
“The placement of new strike weapons in the south and northwest of Russia against [NATO] missile defense components, including the deployment of Iskander missile systems in Kaliningrad region is one possible way of incapacitating the European missile defense infrastructure,” Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said.
Taking into account the “destabilizing nature of the missile defense system… the decision on the pre-emptive use of available weapons will be made during an aggravation of the situation,” he said.
Since you counted 12 TELs and 12 reloaders that means you are comparing at Brigade level.Not battery level.At Brigade level Prithvi has 15 TELs and 75 missiles.
first of all sorry, I only now re-read what I’d typed last time. I’ll type it little more clearly now.
Its a battery and not battalion. So a battery consists of 6 types of vehicles and 8 vehicles in total. Not 10 as I wrongly said earlier.
The figure will look somewhat like this with full compliment of vehicles.
Battery – 8 vehicles (2 TEL + 2 RL + 4 support) (8 x missiles)
Battalion – 16 vehicles (4 x TEL + 4 x RL + 8 support) (16 x missiles)
The number of missiles per battery can be increased and possibly will get increased after they have established all the planned brigades. Right now they seems to be concentrating on establishing the Brigades with just adequate number of missiles.
and a simple question remain for a battery of Prithvi, how many vehicles in total?
Old diagram.And as I said the dubious comparisons panel :p[after dubious goals panel ]votes you number one as you are comparing two missiles from two different generations.
Yes that diagram was basically meant for the liquid fueled Prithvi and I did mention it. For SS350 the number of support vehicles will reduce.
For liiquid fueled Prithvi
Missile launcher + Missile transporter
+
1) warhead carrier vehicle
2) launch control centre
3) power supply vehicle
4) safety vehicle
5) mechanical workshop vehicle
6) oxidiser carrier vehicle
7) oxidiser transfer vehicle
8) mobile crane
9) missile handling trolley
10) cable laying vehicle
11) mosaic
12) air compresssor vehicle
13) air stroage vehicle
14) fuel transfer vehicle
15) fuel carrier vehicle
The above is from the spec we see for the liquid fueled Prithvi. It needs 15 support vehicles. If those 15 vehicles are meant for a battery or a battalion I don’t know, Maybe you can tell me.
For the solid fueled SS350 we can reduce 6 vehicles thatz needed for SS150 and SS250. So that will be 9 support vehicles. But here again we can reduce the numbers if we have a good reload vehicle with a transfer crane. It will allow us to reduce the support vehicles to 7.
Pls do the math.BTW I hope you know the difference between a battery and a battalion.
Who set the limit at 10 vehicles?Is that some sort of international standard?:rolleyes:
yup there ws a mistake w.r.t to battery, battalion and brigade earlier I’ve corrected it. Read above
Regarding the number of vehicles, there is no standard. But wanted to know with just 10 vehicles how much of a punch a Prithvi system (not missile as such) can make. Actually its 8 vehicles per battery for the Iskander system and that is pretty low with just 4 support vehicles.
So a battery will be delivering ~4 tons to 480Km or ~6.4 tons to 400Km from a foot print of just 8 vehicles.
Is there any end to better?We could have something better than Iskander TEL no?What matters is Prithvi TEL is quite good for its purpose.
My main problem with the Prrithvi TEL is that it is a regular truck and not wide as the MAZ or BAZ. Smerch was another mess. From a good 8×8 MAZ platform, it is now on a Tatra. Maybe Tatra was bribing back then also? :confused::dev2:
Same case with Brahmos…..i cant understand why this fascination with Tatra when a better platform is available. Those Tatras are never going to give the capability of the MAZ.
Okay this takes the cake.
http://www.defencesolutions-tatamotors.com/UploadedThumbImage/5553715c-10fa-409b-9590-8c0bfe2ef765.jpg
http://www.defencesolutions-tatamotors.com/UploadedThumbImage/9c6d657e-b9a9-41d7-ae67-859bef9d2850.jpg
http://www.defencesolutions-tatamotors.com/UploadedLargeImage/9b0128ea-438a-4f3a-97b9-cb09e8058563.jpg
http://reviews.in.88db.com/images/stories/Tata-12×12-Prahaar-Missile-Carrier.jpg
Which of these looks like a sugar or grain carrier to you??
If it does so then may be I will buy this as my next family sedan.:D
I was not talking about the Prithvi launchers in that case. But that of Agni series and Agni 3
http://cdn7.wn.com/ph/img/4b/fe/619d1328e6691ed24b72b6ea99a6-large.jpg (Ahni-3 large image)
If this is the kind or size of TEL that DRDO is planning….. I’d prefer rail-mobile. 😀
Btw, your choice for family sedan is of very bad taste. 😉
There you go again. The warzone called Indian Ocean.
Where is Quadie? I would like to see his reaction this time as these people are not from South.;)
what exactly do you mean by that? :confused:
Interview from Yantar on the 2nd batch of 1135.6, from Trishul blog
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