raids13Hi! Can anyone please tell me what this black smoke marking is on the Typhoon?
Thanks in advance.
raids13Source: http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2635
India, Russia to produce 1000 BrahMos cruise missiles by 2016
Dated 27/10/2006
India and Russia intend to make 1,000 BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles over the next 10 years through their joint venture company, with nearly 50 per cent of them expected to be sold in third countries, defense sources said today.
“We already have a capacity to produce 100 missiles a year. One thousand missiles in 10 years is a reasonable target. Nearly 50 per cent will go to exports,” a source told PTI.
India and Russia have so far invested 300 million dollars in BrahMos Aerospace, which was established to design, develop, produce and market the missile by using the technological skills and capabilities of both countries.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced last month that BrahMos (named after the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers) has been inducted into the Indian Navy.
Speaking to PTI here, BrahMos Aerospace CEO A Sivathanu Pillai said the missile’s land-based version is expected to be inducted into the Army next year.
Pillai, also chief controller of research and development in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), said the company is undertaking a project to instal BrahMos missiles on the Sukhoi-30MKI combat jets of the Indian Air Force.
“Now, we are fitting one BrahMos in the belly (of the Su-30) to start with. With certain reinforcement of the wings, we can fit up to three,” he said.
Pillai said the joint venture company, established in India in 1998, is now looking at an upgraded version of BrahMos but added that no final decision has been taken. He, however, hinted that one area of focus could be increasing the speed of the missile. “It can be speed,” he said.
Noting that BrahMos is the world’s only supersonic cruise missile — others are subsonic — and that there is no competition for it, he stressed the need for retaining the competitive edge.
“Having reached this stage, it’s necessary that we keep that edge. We are definitely working on that (upgraded version of BrahMos).” The 2.5-tonne BrahMos has a strike range of 290 km and has a maximum speed of Mach 2.8 (one km per second).
Pillai said BrahMos would be sold in third countries “very soon” but did not name the nations or give any timeframe.
He said the price of BrahMos depends on several variables like “country-to-country (relations), political situation and credit line”.
“There is no competition for BrahMos. Our prices are competitive. We are not greedy about making money out of it. We are not greedy people,” he commented.
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raids13nice shot there, becomes my next wallpaper.
raids13Gents let’s cut some slack here for MiG-23.
He read an article, came here, showed it to all of us, Stood by his beliefs, was proved wrong, accepted he was wrong and is being a sport about that. He will surely learn now to take articles with grain of salt.
I think we should appreciate his behavior.
raids13Source: http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2631
Additional funding worth Rs.200 crore for Astra Missile Project
Dated 23/10/2006
The Government has extended fiscal sops given to prestigious indigenous air-to-air missile project, Astra, by six more years.
The extension of the sops, in the form of excise and customs duty concessions, till August 31, 2012 will cost the exchequer Rs 200 crore.
The concessions to the project, aimed at developing beyond visual range air-to-air missile, were to expire this year, the Central Board of Excise and Customs said in two notifications issued recently.
The excise duty sops were given to the project originally in 1995 and customs duty concession the following year.
The Astra missile (from the Sanskrit Astrā, meaning “Weapon”) is an air-to-air (AA), beyond visual range (BVR) missile under development by India under its Integrated Guided Missile Development Program. This is the first indigenous air-to-air missile developed by India. The range of this missile is 80 km in head-on chase and 15 km in tail chase. This missile was successfully tested without control and guidance systems on May 9 to May 12, 2003.
India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is developing this advanced beyond visual range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) for its Mirage 2000, MiG-29, Sea Harrier, Su-30, and the Light Combat Aircraft [LCA]. Astra looks like an elongated Matra 530. It uses an indigenously developed solid fuel propellant, though DRDO is believed to be looking at rocket/ramjet propulsion similar to that used in its AKASH SAM project. The missile’s onboard radio-frequency seeker has been designed in India. It will have an active homing range of 15 km. The missile has a pre-fragmented warhead & is fitted with a proximity fuze. A radar fuze already exists for the Astra, but the DRDO is currently working on a new laser fuze.
raids13Nice pic of the ship neptune. Any idea when was this shot?
raids13Combat Radius on earth would be….. as long as the runway :p .
:diablo: :diablo: :diablo: :dev2: :dev2: :dev2: :diablo: :diablo: :diablo:
raids13This is nothing to get too excited about.
I had a chat with a friend of mine flying choppers from Jodhpur sometime back about how do they navigate in the desert with hardly any avionics on there Chetaks. His reply was very simple,” We follow the roads.”
Once he took a wrong turn and reached the IB. The only thing that alerted him of the IB was the Border posts, ( you know those small columns). He did a 180 and flew back as fast as possible.
Another interesting thing he told me on how do they fly cross country, They carry relinace mobiles and to know where they are they look at the location on the mobiles. 🙂
I hope the situation improves with the induction of Dhruvs.
raids13Hi dude,
Wrong forum but anyways. avi is a file format just like mp3 pr doc. Some players need codec to play certain formats. codec is a plugin for your player. its basically a software module used to Code and Decode formats ( hence the word “co”-“dec”).
Why dont yuo download the latest Windows Media player from MSN. It plays all formats.
Let me know if this helps.
raids13bharat-rakshak is up as of now.
I dont think it was down for the whole week.
raids13But you forget who wrote the article. Our dear old Mr. Sengupta.
Nothing more to add 😉
raids13This is his third comparision post. PAK-FA you hypothetical… NO? 🙂
raids13Whoa…. 4 years +
raids13Indo-Russia joint stealth fighters programme flies into turbulence
Finally some news about India’s involvement in PAK-FA
Indo-Russia joint stealth fighters programme flies into turbulence
shiv aroor
Posted online: Friday, August 04, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 3
A team from Russia’s Sukhoi Design Bureau and Irkut gave a detailed classified presentation to the Defence Ministry on Thursday on its fifth generation fighter concept, but discrepancies have already begun to surface between New Delhi and Moscow over the proposed multi-billion dollar joint programme to develop and produce advanced stealth fighters for both countries in the next decade.
In essence, South Block has communicated to Moscow that the Russian fifth generation fighter programme, designated PAK-FA, is already at an advanced stage of design, which effectively negates the aspect of ‘‘joint-development’’ and has asked it to come up with a more ‘‘equal’’ proposal.
The Sukhoi-led consortium’s concept, based on the PAK-FA, is being pitched vigorously to India as part of a protocol signed by the two countries in 2004 to build a fifth generation fighter.
In fact, the government plans to tell Moscow in December at the sixth meeting of the India-Russia Inter-Government Commission that if billions of dollars are to flow from the Indian side for the joint project, Moscow needs a partner because its budget will not allow it to develop alone, then the IAF and HAL must be on board from scratch, so that the aircraft platform incorporates IAF operational needs as well.
The fifth generation joint project is still a futuristic one, though it was clear from Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s comments in Parliament today, that the government is taking strong note of lessons learnt from the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) programme for its other proposed project, the Medium Combat Aircraft (MCA).
‘‘For expediting development work on MCA, government may consider collaboration with friendly countries,’’ he said. The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) in Bangalore has already begun to conceptualise the MCA, possibly as India’s fifth-generation platform. The only operational fifth generation fighter right now is the American F/A-22 Raptor, with the F-35 Lightening II set to make its first flight this year.
At the most basic level, the wish-list that the IAF has for a fifth generation fighter, which should ideally begin flying operationally between 2015-2020, includes comprehensive stealth, a single engine, supercruise capabilities, an active electronically scanned array (AESA) combat radar and swing-role capabilities that allow seamless switching between air-to-air and air-to-ground modes inflight. This of course is in addition to the capability to operate entirely beyond visual range (BVR) of the enemy and perform short take-offs and landings.
raids13Behind Schedule…
Delayed…
Seriously I think its undergoing user trials.
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