depends on whether they want service for their scads of russian origin systems like kilo, ASMs, SAMs, su30MKK, Sovremeniy, AAMs 🙂

if not , the way is clear!

amen. dont mess with the russians when ur services run on their products.

The Russian media jumped the gun. As usual. Its a fact of life that journalists- regular- suck at defence reportage. The world across!

Some old news.

Russia to speed up delivery of military hardware
(Times of India, 08 February 2002)

Even as working groups of the Indo-Russian commission on military technical cooperation discussed different defence deals, sources said Moscow has assured New Delhi that it will speed up the delivery of the fourth-generation Sukhoi-30MKI fighters and T-90S main-battle tanks. Sources said India should receive the first batch of four multi-role SU-30MKI jets from Moscow by June. “Before this year ends, the IAF will have 10 Su-30MKIs in its inventory. The two sides are also considering the initial blueprint for the joint production of a fifth-generation combat aircraft,” said one. The Su-30MKI air-superiority fighter, capable of undertaking both strike and air defence missions, is expected to form the IAF backbone for the next two decades, with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. also subsequently taking up indigenous licensed production of the jets.

While the first lot of the T-90S tanks, equipped with night-fighting capabilities and protected by explosive reactive armour, has already arrived in India, New Delhi wants the delivery schedule to be further speeded up. Apart from the proposed leasing of the Tu-22 long-range strategic bombers and nuclear submarines, the two countries are also engaged in hard bargaining over the sale of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov, as also the supply of MiG-29K fighters and Kamov anti-submarine helicopters to arm the carrier, in a package deal.

The negotiations for the 44,570-tonne Admiral Gorshkov have attracted some criticism due to the sharp escalation in its high retrofitting costs. Reports indicate Russia is asking for $747 million for the refit job on the carrier, while India’s top offer is said to be $650 million. India and Russia will sign a wide-ranging defence protocol on February 8th. The two sides will go in for more programs to jointly develop and produce a new generation of weapon systems. They are also in the process of finalising deals for three Amur 1650 Class submarines, Smerch multi-barrel rocket systems and Mi-17 helicopters, among others.

Ermmm- the F16 bombed a school in egg harbour. Talk about egg on one’s face! :rolleyes:

i’d go with the flanker

who wouldnt!

Thats way too optimistic SOC, many of the most critical subsystems are yet to be developed- AESA for eg. Or demonstrated- stealth measures for one. The Su work on the 27 may be a starting step though.

Nice articles but slightly alarmist. The IN subs are seeing considerable update. The KIlos got state of the art new sonars and fire control systems as well and DRDO developed ESM gear is also being inducted on the sub fleet. Per IN officers latter is highly capable and equivalent to any imported kit.
Also BDL is making decoys with Italian tech.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/2003/11/06/stories/2003110604691200.htm

The company is closely involved with the Navy and the Air Force, apart from the traditional customers, the Army, and is developing munitions for all the three services. Submarine-fired decoys are being produced while user trials have been held for lightweight torpedoes and production may start soon.

http://www.ap.nic.in/bdl/publish/04DECOYS_AND_TORPEDO.PDF

Trust the dorks not to have asked about the fifth gen project.

Nice effort Austin, shows the steps India is making in radars.

I loafed aroundand within the 3D CAR- its a pretty decent system and runs on a rugged real time OS. They were planning to finetune it further for the IAF and those folks were also snooping around at the time. The aim to make it mobile for the Akash system constrained its overall power and peak performance vis a vis a larger less mobile system. If they scale down the mobility requirements, the CAR can be enhanced further and become the lynchpin of the IAF’s modernised ADGES. Its present performance itself is pretty powerful and it has sophisticated software anti spoofing and ECCM safeguards-really cool to look at, on all em flat screens. Good on DRDO that they were proactive and offered the CAR to the IAF instead of tying it to the Akash SAM system.