jakeporeshenko:
Afghan Air Force ?

nemesis2u:


yeah ,

the MI35 include 4 donated by india, these come with israeli and indian upgrades,

india is looking to transfer 4 more but russia is objecting to it due to it recent policy shift to support taliban (as proxy against US)

jakeporeshenko:

What does India stand I gain from supporting/strengthening the ANA ?

nemesis2u:
MI35 and SUPER TUCANOS

jakeporeshenko:
China's first "indigenous" aircraft carrier nearing completion

chinese8107:

That's a kuznitzov class with assistance form UKRAINE.Some media omitted others mentioned a little.

tdayof:

你好， 你去了哪里？

chinese8107:

最近忙，没时间多看论坛

nemesis2u:
vajra k9 T can engage targets in direct fire mode at ranges of 5km

that's like stepping into MBT territory

nemesis2u:
India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to begin contract negotiations for the purchase of 56 Airbus Defence and Space (DS) C295 medium transport aircraft (MTA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) to replace the service's ageing fleet of Avro 748M transports.

Industry officials estimate the MTA tender to be worth around INR119.29 (USD1.78 billion).

The MTA programme involves a joint venture (JV) between Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) that will import 16 C295s and build the remaining 40 locally.

In accordance with the 2013 MTA tender, 24 of these 40 aircraft are to be imported in kit form for local assembly and include a 30% indigenous content, the latter of which is set to double in the remaining 16 platforms.

User trials for the C295 were successfully completed in early 2016, and official sources told Jane's that they expect the Airbus-TASL deal to be inked during the 2017-18 financial year. Aircraft deliveries are expected to commence some 36 months later.

Industry sources told Jane's on condition of anonymity that the number of C295s purchased by India could increase to "well over 60" as the paramilitary Border Security Force and the Indian Coast Guard are also considering acquiring them.

chinese8107:

That's a kuznitzov class with assistance form UKRAINE.Some media omitted others mentioned a little.

kikuyu2:
Am I the only one with pic probs?

nemesis2u:
India's Ministry of Defence (MoD) is set to begin contract negotiations for the purchase of 56 Airbus Defence and Space (DS) C295 medium transport aircraft (MTA) for the Indian Air Force (IAF) to replace the service's ageing fleet of Avro 748M transports.

Industry officials estimate the MTA tender to be worth around INR119.29 (USD1.78 billion).

The MTA programme involves a joint venture (JV) between Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) that will import 16 C295s and build the remaining 40 locally.

In accordance with the 2013 MTA tender, 24 of these 40 aircraft are to be imported in kit form for local assembly and include a 30% indigenous content, the latter of which is set to double in the remaining 16 platforms.

User trials for the C295 were successfully completed in early 2016, and official sources told Jane's that they expect the Airbus-TASL deal to be inked during the 2017-18 financial year. Aircraft deliveries are expected to commence some 36 months later.

Industry sources told Jane's on condition of anonymity that the number of C295s purchased by India could increase to "well over 60" as the paramilitary Border Security Force and the Indian Coast Guard are also considering acquiring them.

nemesis2u:


chanakya the ancient guru of statecraft had wrote that "ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND"

terrorism is the biggest issue here , drugs + terrorism from both taliban ruled afghan and *********** will harm india in a big way (and the world ).

plus Afghanistan after soviet withdrawal was kept on the boil becz the country on the east want it assimilated into it or at the least subservient to it, inorder to gain strategic depth.

that country in question is only 700km in depth , a over whelming armor thrust into the said country will cut it into 2, plus its airfields r not safe due to lack of strategic depth , last 2 war its aircraft's were withdrawn to Afghanistan to keep them from being destroyed (and some to iran).

other reasons r economic and geo-political


pic 1 indian built SALMA dam (June 4, 2016 the Salma Dam was renamed as the Afghan-India Friendship Dam.) implemented by India’s state-owned Water & Power Consultancy Servicxe India Ltd (WAPCOS) to provide electricity to afghans something which the Americans could not do

India’s state-owned Power Grid Corp also successfully completed a four-year effort in 2011 to build a 202km-long transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri near the Salang Pass on the Hindu Kush mountain range to bring electricity to power-starved Kabul after another 462km-long transmission line was built from the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan border to Kabul.

Much of this fell in the ‘snow zone’ at heights reaching up to 3,800 metres ASL. As many as 613 towers have been erected, and these were designed in India to withstand inclement weather.

P****** had refused the use of its territory for transporting these towers which then had to be sent via Iran. Also, heavy-turbine equipment was moved in what was among the largest Indian airlift operations to Kabul.

In March 2013 the LeT tried in vain to try to blow up the under-construction Salma Dam with 1,300kg of explosives, plus attacks on Indian embassy and consulates increased 10 fold

Until this, the city was running on a single gas-turbine and some 25 heavy-duty diesel generators for which the US was providing $100 million of fuel per annum. Kabul had long power-cuts and matters became worse during winter. With the commissioning of the transmission line and the Chimtala sub-station near Kabul, there is now 120mWe available, which is enough for Kabul.

There is now excess power and the Afghanistan government wants India to help start an industrial estate near Kabul.

Also in 2010, Indian water resources management experts were contracted by Afghanistan to draw up feasibility studies and detailed engineering project viability analysis of 12 hydro-power projects with capacity to generate 1,177mWe to be built on the Kabul River. Once the 12 projects get completed, they will store 4.7 million acre-feet (MAF) of water, thereby squeezing the river’s water-flow that reaches P******.

After completing the tendering processes, Kabul will initiate construction of the 12 dams with the help of the World Bank (WB), which will provide $7.079 billion as funds.

pic 2 chah bahar project to provide relief to land lock country from economical blackmail and road infra development something which the Americans could not do

in 2003, India signed a tripartite agreement with Iran and Afghanistan for preferential trade practices that would eventually ply through Iran’s Chah Bahar FTIZ and in 2013, committed US$100 million for Chah Bahar port’s development.

On January 22, 2009 India handed over to Afghanistan the strategic Delaram-Zaranj highway (Route 606 AH-71) on the main Herat-Kandahar highway. Built at a cost of Rs.600 crore ($135 million), the 215km-long highway was handed over by India’s then External Affairs Minister.

A total of six Indians, including a BRO driver and four ITBP soldiers, and 129 Afghans were killed in attacks during the highway’s construction.

Besides the highway, India had by then also constructed 58km of inner city roads in Afghanistan. The project was initially estimated to cost Rs.740 crore but the BRO completed it for Rs.600 crore and six months ahead of schedule and in three years with the help of 339 engineers. Due to construction of this black-top road, the journey between Delaram and Zaranj was reduced substantially from 14 hours to 2 hours.

This highway also established direct road access to four of the major cities of Afghanistan—Herat, Kandahar, Kabul, and Mazar-e-Sharif. On its part Iran has since built a new transit route to connect its city of Milak to Zaranj in Afghanistan, and has also completed an important bridge over the Helmand River. These road-building projects in Iran and Afghanistan have shortened the transit distance between Chah Bahar and Delaram by 600km, thereby giving Afghanistan-origin exportable commodities/goods duty-free access to Chah Bahar.

kikuyu2:


Henry240,seun ,what the hell is up!? 2.5 hrs ago I posted up smth on the G3 with my kikuyu1 nick. I saw it posted and returned to modify with these pix but it was gone! How does that happen??

jakeporeshenko:
GPS Guided Stand off attack kit integrated with the JF-17. Kit turns unguided bombs into guided munitions with 70km range.

nemesis2u:


FYI it belongs to Chinese FT series munitions family

just asking

ru sure it has been integrated to jf17 ?

it has been displayed next to jf17 in airshows but otherwise i have not come across any official conformation.

kikuyu2:

lol

kikuyu2:

I lol whenever I lurk on defpk! They perpetually shout and shriek how they'll mass murder "Yindoos" like their forefathers despite the woeful war record and you guys quietly make moves where it matters-in the geopolitical realm. Now you control a veritable land bridge into Eurasia and the ME while they ululate on how the j outflies the Tas-CONGRATS!!

jakeporeshenko:

The quote doesn't say the guidance KIT was developed in Pakistan.... common nemesis i am only tryiny to contribute to your thread, you can't pick on somthing because it's related to Pakistan.

BTW I got the news from an official account so I guess it's pretty much confirmed.

jakeporeshenko:

Most likely the next transport aircraft to enter NAF service.