RayRHowever, it is clear that the Su-30’s aerodynamic performance and T:W was no better than that modelled during JOUST, and no-one believes that BARS is better than the ‘parity’ radar modelled during the original JOUST evaluation.
Okay!So it is clear to whom?And who are these no-one?
RayRDRDO begins work on Agni-IV missile
Y. Mallikarjun
HYDERABAD: Even as Agni-III, the 3,500 km range ballistic missile, is getting operational, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has begun work on Agni-IV, a 5,000 km range missile, to provide “enough capability” for a credible deterrence to the country.“Work on the 5,000 km range missile is on and the first trial is expected to take place in early 2009,” said V.K. Saraswat, Chief Controller, R&D (Missiles and Strategic Systems), DRDO.
New featuresTalking to The Hindu here on Wednesday, he said Agni-IV would have many new features, including anti-ballistic counter measures and rocket motor systems with composite materials to improve the thrust-to-weight ratio. It would be equ ipped with stealth technology and be more accurate than those currently available in market with improved mobility and higher energy.
Maintaining that Agni-IV was not an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile but a long range one, he said Agni-III and Agni-IV were the building blocks for missiles with longer reach.Pointing out that all the major technologies for long range missiles had been realised following the successful flight test of Agni-III in April this year, he mentioned some of them as high-power booster, multi-stage vehicles, good re-entry know-how which could sustain aero-thermal loads at very high Mach numbers and a potent navigation system to maintain accuracy throughout the flight path.
Security requirementAsked about the need for a 5,000 range missile, Dr. Saraswat said “when our threat perception is deeply analysed, we feel that ranges from 2,000 km to 5,000 km will give enough capability to have credible deterrence.”
Stating that long range missiles were designed on the basis of the country’s security requirement to counter existing or emerging threats, he said the need might arise for a 10,000 km missile in future.
He said Agni-III’s deployment was proceeding concurrently and only the system’s repeatability and reliability would be tested in future trials without major technological changes.
The DRDO has also started a technology development project for building a “long endurance,” long range cruise missile that will fly at high subsonic speeds. The advantage of subsonic cruise missiles was that they would enable delivery of payload at low cost. Because they fly at low altitude such missiles would be difficult to be detected by enemy radars.
RayRAnd though the ‘Flankers’ on ID were operating without radar, and though there wasn’t much BVR, everyone who is read into the exercise seems confident that JOUST was a pretty good predictor of what real world results would be.
Wow!Now you have started making up stuff?:rolleyes: Because what I’ve heard is that the MKIs can handle the Typhoons,no problem…and vice-versa.
RayRChina in mind, India to boost eastern air power
The plans include moving two squadrons or 36 state-of-the-art Russian-built Sukhoi-30 aircraft to an air base in the east, adding advanced helicopters, strengthening runways and upgrading other air force facilities.
RayRWhat’s your source? What are the details? 🙂
People in and around the IAF.There has been some reports already.Look in the Indradhanush thread.Other than that what I’ve been able to prize out is that AWACs support was there for both attacking and defending forces.Radar use minimal.Kill criteria was complex.Almost all missions were co-operative.Kills were calculated as A team V.B team and not on individual basis or type.Individual pilots remember what type they got and how many.But this time around they are not that forth-coming.The maximum I got out was that the MKIs and the Typhoons matched upto each other and it all boiled down to who’s got the superior tactics and experienced pilot …and it came out even-even.
Thats about what can be said openly.There are other ppl here who should have more info.
RayRDo you have any substantial inside information going either way?
I can say nobody spanked nobody.;)
RayROn the basis that they have produced two interesting variants on the F5, are we soon to look forward to an Iranian significantly modified F-14 with V shaped tail, TVC and new wings etc ? :diablo: 😀
That would be very interesting.:cool:
But thats again just a Tomcat fan’s dream.:)
RayRAnd heres a nice write up on the Mi-25/35 upgrade:
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Info/Aircraft/Mi35-Upgrade.html
RayRHas someone infos or pictures about the Indian Mi-24 helicopters?
I read somewhere that they are upgraded by Israeli Elbit and feature a FLIR and new cockpit.
Has someone any kind of information? 🙂
Check out these links:
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Aircraft/Specs/index.html
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Images/Current/Helicopters/Mi25/
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Images/Special/Features/No125/
Also search youtube for some IAF Mi25 videos.
RayRIt was in that thread that the ‘everything will be alright, trust the nice Indian admiral’ threads were posted.
Unicorn
I know where it was posted and as I said before,it was probably a newspaper report.
Almost looks like you have a bone to pick…aint ya:p
RayRGorshkov delay can be a boon
By Admiral Arun Prakash (Retd)
Excellent article.Thanks for posting it Joey.
Once we make hard-headed assessments, we will find that we can take uncompromising stands, and break debilitating strangleholds, so that we do not remain hostage to one country or another
=mMRCA MUST go West.
Finally, let us streamline the DRDO. It needs to be understood that India’s claims to being a great power or even an industrialised nation will ring hollow unless we can acquire the competence and skills to design and produce our own tanks, fighters, ships, submarines, missiles and satellites. For all their shortcomings and past blunders, the DRDO has often made us proud, and it is only DRDO that can help the nation scale the technological heights that it aspires to. This organisation has led a sheltered existence, without accountability or responsibility, and has thus fallen prey to the twin failings of hubris and inflexibility. Defence R&D delivers far more efficiently and effectively in countries like Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, and we should not be too proud to emulate their strong points, wherever necessary.
So so true.
RayRAnd as I before,I always advocate that IN needs a CATOBAR with a few more aircrafts than the 12-14 a STOBAR can manage.All STOBAR can be built in the local yards.
RayRI seem to recall certain posters pointing out everything was fine and we should listen to the nice media releases from the nice Indian Ministry of Defence. :rolleyes:
IIRC,there was a newspaper report quoting the Admiral or somebody..I dont think there were any releases from the MoD.
btw Mods..why are there only 2 pages in this forum..where the H are the old threads?Have they been deleted or somethin?
RayRIAF plans doctrine to expand strategic reach
WngCdr Monga first Indian across Davis Strait
Indian forces get foothold in Central Asia
17 Jul 2007, 0057 hrs IST,Rajat Pandit,TNN
➢ Immediate plan is to deploy Mi-17 choppers and some trainer aircraft at Ayni airbase
➢ Later, MiG-29s could be stationed there
➢ The base will help New Delhi to keep tabs on its energy interests in central Asia
➢ It will also allow close watch on anti-India activities on Pak-Afghan border
➢ In situations like Kandahar hijack, special forces can be moved in quickly when national interests are threatened (TOI Photo)NEW DELHI: Quietly, very quietly, India is preparing to deploy at least one squadron of Mi-17 helicopters at the Ayni airbase in Tajikistan. This will be its ‘first real military outpost’ on foreign shores and give New Delhi ‘strategic reach’ in energy-rich Central Asia.
The ‘immediate’ plan may well be to deploy Mi-17 helicopters, as well as some Kiran trainer aircraft to train Tajik pilots, at the airbase before the end of this year. But sources confirmed that this was just the prelude to ‘a larger strategic imprint’ in the region, which India sees as crucial to its growing energy needs. The ‘eventual aim’ is to station even MiG-29 fighter jets at the airbase.
“It may be just a military outpost at the moment but will develop into a full-fledged base in the future,” said a source. This will also give India the option to even rapidly ‘insert’ its special forces into nearby areas if its interests are threatened, as they were during the hijack of IC-814 to Kandahar in December 1999.
Officially, the defence ministry and IAF strongly deny the move to establish an Indian military base at Ayni. But there is also a quiet sense of satisfaction at the unfolding of the Ayni plan, first conceived in 2002, which will see India break out of its self-imposed strategic constraint that rarely extended beyond its immediate neighbourhood.
Sources say the defence ministry has sought the Cabinet Committee on Security’s formal approval to begin operations at the Ayni airbase, renovated and upgraded with India’s help at a cost of almost Rs 100 crore.
With the help of engineers from Army and Border Roads Organisation, India has extended and relaid the runway at the airbase, around 15 km from Tajik capital Dushanbe. It has also constructed three aircraft hangars and an air-control tower besides implementing perimeter fencing around the base.
This was done under a three-way agreement among India, Tajikistan and Russia. It has gained momentum since the Ayni airbase — lying largely unused since the mid-1980s — has now become ‘fully-ready’ for operations after four years of hard work.
India, on its part, wants “military presence” in the area to keep tabs on “any anti-Indian activity” in the terrorism-infested Pakistan-Afghanistan region.
RayRKeel laying for the next 3 Talwar class frigates at Kaliningrad.They will have the Brahmos as the main weapon isnt it?
Kaliningrad shipyards start building frigates for Indian Navy
Kaliningrad, July 27: The Pribaltiisky shipyards Yantar in Kaliningrad started building frigates for the Indian Navy.Although the laying-down ceremony of the fist warship of the project 1135.6 will be held today, work on fulfilling this important foreign order goes with a swing: Metal is being cut, new advanced equipment was purchased, and technology which was not used in the past, has been introduced. The management retooled workshops. The best specialists are involved in filling the order.
The laying-down ceremony will be attended by the Russian President’s adviser and head of the joint ship-building corporation Alexander Burutin, the Indian ambassador to Russia Kanval Sibal, Deputy Managing Director of the Rosoboronexport Company Vladimir Pakhomov and other high-ranking officials.
The contract for the construction of three frigates for the Indian Navy was signed in New Delhi in July 2006. This is the biggest order, awarded to the Yantar shipyards over the past few years. The construction of ships of the project 1135.6, sophisticated in their design and technical execution, is conducted under international standards, taking into account the customer’s requirements. The frigates are to be turned over to the Indian Navy in 2012.
Frigates (escort ships according to the Russian classification) are among the most advanced surface warships of the 21st century. These are multifunctional ships with a limited deadweight, capable of resolving a broad range of tasks both at seas and oceans.
Bureau Report
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