Crobato

If you think No. 37 is LO, you are quite mistaken. See that big bulb there? That gleams radar off like a beacon. The first thing that is a no no in an LO design is 90 degree surfaces. The second thing is round and curved surfaces. No. 37 has the bulb, the spherical turret, and the cylindrical AshM launchers. If you cannot understand the disvalue spherical and curved surfaces are to RCS, don’t bother talking about “carefully contoured”.

Curved surfaces can produce varying effects on RCS dependent on the design – they may not reduce RCS but they can de-emphasize particular zones on a ship and magnify others to confuse, for example, a missile seeker as to ship aspect. The comment you made is overly simplistic.

Within the gross parameters of that simplistic statement, that curved surfaces and radomes dont necessarily equal low-observability, was the reason why I said ‘presumably’ in my comment as I couldnt see any special value in it myself. That the artist then went on include, in the design, these very intricately detailed rails added further incomprehension to an incomprehensible design.

Haley,

Again I dont know what you are trying to suggest with that last post but the way it reads, if you said that to my face, I’d put you on the deck for it. I’ll take it that you dont quite understand what you said and ask you to remove your post.

Jonesy, thats a complicated explanation. That curved ship looks ugly. And is hence non stealthy. My limited understanding of naval matters.:D

PS: Did I say that it looked ugly?
The Hovercraft is cool though, I am gonna order me a couple- should I place your order as well? Runnin on a short notice here,gotta takeover the world by next weekend.

As of now the MCA is still on the drawing board as the IAF firms up its requirements.

Any news on the PAK-FA?

Nitin yoru right, I dont have a pice of paper stating exactly how many exocets Pakistan has right now, but we have apporx 22 aircraft that we use to launch air to surface exocets from, dont you thinkits pretty safe to assume we have enough to equip them? Or do you expect us to try and divide up or missiles between aircraft!? :diablo:

SIPRI and the UN Arms register both show that Pakistan bought only a handful of exocets. Besides, Pakistans economic troubles in the 90’s are also well catalogued. Stands to reason that the Exocet inventory would not have been spectacular! Now if you can show me any proof to the contrary I would gladly see it, as of now its only your belief that the PAF has a huge exocet stock.

Cheers,
Nitin

Dude
The exact number we have is probably a state secret, and I doubt the all numbers would be open source, but lets use some common sense.

Pak Navy has 6 Sea Kings, 3 Atlantiques and 12 Mirages all capable of firing excocets and all having test fired them in recent exercises. They will certainly have enough to ensure a huge number for any attack on an Indian carrier

In other words, you dont have any sources, numbers to justify the “huge inventory of exocets” remark and the comment was your personal belief.
Thats ok.

rwr = radar warning receiver
IFF = identification friend or foe

I did not find anything logical in your statement or link.

here the rwr… And where is the link with China?

Ooops. The latter pic you showed is the Chinese RWR. Per an earlier Janes report, if we make a reasonable inference i.e., the earlier pic you displayed is part of a series of cooperative projects/coproduction started by PAC Kamra, mostly with Chinese assistance. There were plans to lic assemble Sagem FLIR’s as well for the Mirage fleet as well, but these were dropped. And the upgrades were done with original French units.
I had some articles on PAC Kamra’s attempts to indigenize as well, I’ll try and dig them up.

Cheers!

Jonesy you are a wetblanket.:p

Sure hope that the Upholders dont turn out to be Collins for the Canadians.