insomnia.delhithe whole ballistic missile process involves too many things that can individually or together cause faliure. I think there must be some percentage of ballistic missiles that can be expected to fail their objective.
insomnia.delhiAh, so Ajai Shukla is being called to Glasgow on a paid visit by BAE to cover a British warship’s induction into the RN and for a tour of its ship-building facilities because Indian readers are interested in it ? Yeah right..Even if one of the CVF was not going to be offered, there HAS to be a good reason why an Indian defence journo would be invited for such a tour.
Anyway, time will tell what the true story behind this is.
Even if the navy is not interested in building a major number of ships outside India, it(the navy) requires a lot of critical systems and consulting for domestic projects, (for e.g the IAC project required a lot of imported systems and consulting), that is a big market no one will want to miss.
Take the example of Project 17-A and IAC-2, even if they are not selling the aircraft carrier itself, they can sell a lot of technical expertise and systems for the follow on carrier designs.
insomnia.delhiNot if all the missiles are targeted at your nuke storage facility especially as you may no longer have a retaliatory capability.
BrahMos is an out and out supersonic missile and its going to travel 300kms. There will be limited time from launch to impact to know where, what or how many of them have been targeted, in that time no one can launch a response.
there is very little distance between the two nations and the whole process will take time.
insomnia.delhiI think no one will launch nuclear missiles at a possible launch by enemy, unless the enemy fired a whole lot of ICBMs at them.
For such events a nuclear launch would happen after impact, the conventional warheads displayed for Prithvi missile point towards that.
All of the future cruise missile programs should move beyond “world’s crappiest power point presentation” stage (they need to read up on some MS office tutorials) before any real facts could be discussed about them.
insomnia.delhiCould one also turn this around and say that if the winner of the MMRCA is either the Typhoon, SH or Gripen NG, then it would make sense to pick the same engine for the LCA…? Or will the LCA engine be picked first? Why is it so delayed? Choosing an engine can’t be that hard can it?
Re. the low Eurojet price — Free razors, anybody? :diablo:
The engine contract will be awarded in the next 2-3 months, after which the selected firm will make the necessary modifications to their engine (along with modifications to LCA by Indian firms).
The MMRCA tenders’ final stage will be over in less than a year, the lowest bidder with the best off-sets will be selected, this could also mean that a relatively higher bid with better offsets could negate its higher quotation. I think all planes will satisfy the InAF requirements.
The firms competing in the engine contract could have factored in the MMRCA and quoted their prices to give them an edge in the eventual off-sets that have to be offered against the tender. However that also provides for a situation where their plane is not selected and they do not earn good profits in the engine tender. All in all a good deal for the Ministry of Defence.
insomnia.delhiIf the missile misses the mark by 2-3 kms, the results might not be the ones expected, if they miss by a higher factor, the results might be absolutely undesirable. I suppose that could be addressed the soviet way.
insomnia.delhiIt does if your sub based weapons are short legged and you have not miniturised nuclear weapons.
An airwing is just pure sitting duck feeding fanboy ego, in Indias neighbourhood it is of little use apart from saying look i have a plane with canards for my bomb it does nothing else (well apart from build up costs).
Also remember one of the points of the air based weapons was to have some bombs constantly in the air now what aircraft in India can do that without needed massive logistics support? Also what aircracft in service in India has the capability to do that plus carry a missile big enough to have a 1000 km plus range? to make it worth while and really be a deterent and not just a detergent. Indian Navy has given up on the Tu-95’s (Tu-142) which could have carried a few long range cruise missiles when India has them. Not sure if can do the same on the P-8’s. Not sure if the US would give permission.
I suppose a case for free fall nuclear bombs and planes to drop them from could be made:
– With a supersonic dart near the border a fixed wing asset can be over a large number of pakistani population centres in no time, same goes for Pakistani planes, the two nations have a land border with major population centres near the border.
– Air defence on both sides has not been that sophisticated, even simple early warning assets have just begun induction.
– Ballistic missiles by nature are neither accurate nor reliable, far too many things can go wrong, and the number of warheads at disposal are limited. The only thing that can go wrong with a plane is that it can be shot down (well not entirely true a plane can also have tech. problems, however i doubt as much as a ballistic missile), and the plane can drop the bomb where we want it.
– Planes and warheads can be hidden in the vast number of airbases, it will be near impossible for the enemy to target all of these air bases with nuclear weapons, and in case of a conventional attack these air bases are best protected assets. Each air superiority and attack squadron along the western front could be provided with some nuclear weapons and planes dedicated to drop them, and they could form a strike package when ever it was ordered for.
insomnia.delhiWondering if all this effort/money wouldn’t be better spent on, say, reducing poverty, improving health care, education etc….
Yes in that utopia we wont have the pleasure of being in such a wonderful neighborhood, the world would be a much nicer place.
PRC to the right (with border conflicts and wars as history with India), Nepal with its own Maoists revolution going on(with communist anti government forces a major nightmare for India, causing deaths of Indian security forces every year), Afghanistan-Pakistan with its extremist Islamic forces (with extremist Islam also being a major threat to India), Myanmar with its near crazy military Junta, Sri Lanka and Bhutan are the only two we can call peaceful at this time.
I think the Gov. will have to keep investing into capacity build-up for as long as i can see, if US and its allies pack up and leave we are left with a huge Islamic extremist force ready to gather up the momentum (last time that happened, i.e Soviets left, we had a huge bloody spike in anti India Islamic forces in Kashmir), as soon as they call it a day, we have the added responsibility of supporting the anti-Taliban/Pakistan forces in Afghanistan to ensure they can be contained in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile we also have to ensure PRC does not have its ships dominating the Indian Ocean Region in the next 10-20 years, and that takes ships, There can be no sacrifice in keeping the ocean’s clear for us and nightmarish for our enemies.
Reducing poverty, that would be the slogan for all of the worlds ideological nightmares.
Any man who can say without doubt that its better to spend money on weapons instead of ensuring basic needs for the population is not in a right frame of mind, possibly even mentally unstable, however reality rules the world, and as long as the Defence budget is contained to what it is right now, i suppose its all very good, if the ground reality deteriorates then the Gov. of India will be obliged to spend even a higher percentage on defence of the nation, ensuring the integrity of the nation is its primary duty.
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I don’t think its wise to take this image out of context, the image is not even a basic concept drawing, more like a power-point presentation space filling sketch. Most of the specification of the project are debatable.
insomnia.delhiIs all that not what the missile is supposed to do, maneuver and hit its target at supersonic speed (i think travel all the way to its target from launch at supersonic speed)?
insomnia.delhiYep. Sure are expensive. It is not they are US$1.6 billion subs, but that the sum that had to be allocated in local currency that is affected by higher than average inflation (mean: 7.6% over last 6 years, but up to 16%) now happens to convert into the equivalent of US$1.6 billion. Goldmine for foreign companies it would seem, but maybe not so much with offsets et al.
I think the tender also includes setting up specific manufacturing facility at two separate Indian shipyards, training for manpower, and supervision till the project is completed, along with transfer of technology.
insomnia.delhiYes that is 10 billion USD, two submarines will be delievered to the IN built at the selected companies shipyard, and interestingly enough rest of the 4 submarines will not be built at a single Indian shipyard, they will be built at two Indian shipyards.
insomnia.delhiThat is the paper.
He may have done all the other stuff after the fact but that isn’t what Lockheed used nor did the Russians use it at the time. Maybe the Russians do now.
Who knows, its a book under controlled publication by moscow of the USSR times three pages of some information followed by four of propaganda, i heard they did not even let out any civilian information, the dear old physicist will still remember that radioactivity is not so nice in food 😀
Lockheed had to use the theory they wont sit down and reinvent physical laws, and why would they not use all the work done previously?
The Russians have to use the work, and all that has been added since.
insomnia.delhiHe published the paper on how to measure radar reflections. That’s where his contribution ended. He didn’t even know Lockheed had used them until they TOLD him in the 90s.
It seems like he did more than release a paper, like writing books on physical theory of diffraction and its implementation, seems to have contributed a lot to that field.
And the contribution to the american project was from the book (link), not from the paper that he published in USSR.
The work of refining the work, making a computer simulation, designing the airframe, developing the flight control system, making the ram was not done by him.
insomnia.delhiSeems to be a different HUD in the pic
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(Than the one on the Su-35), can anyone tell which one is this?
insomnia.delhiI don’t know if they have “kill switch” on Israeli equipment but I am sure as hell they have on ones they sell to Saudi or Pakistan.
Best to stay away from American equipment.
Better to have a club than a gun which will not fire during a fight.
Or better yet to have the technical competence to know that the weapon has a kill switch.
Strange to say that people can not figure such things out when the level of information and electronic technology (and the combination of it) is at the levels that it is.
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