just for info

AFAIK Myanmar has ordered 16 no of FC1 from china

nemesis2u:
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Lockheed signs pact with Tata to make F-16 block 70 planes in India

In announcing their agreement at the Paris Airshow, Lockheed and Tata said moving the production base to India would still retain jobs in the US.

Lockheed Martin signed an agreement with India's Tata Advanced Systems on Monday to produce F-16 fighter planes in India, pressing ahead with a plan to shift its Fort Worth, Texas plant to win billions of dollars worth of order from the Indian military.

India's air force needs hundreds of aircraft to replace its Soviet-era fleet, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has said foreign suppliers would have to make the planes in India with a local partner to help build a domestic industrial base and cut outright imports.

But Mr. Modi's Make-in-India drive runs the risk of conflicting with U.S. President Donald Trump's America First campaign under which he has been pressing for companies to invest in the United States and create jobs instead of setting up factories abroad.

In announcing their agreement at the Paris Airshow, Lockheed and Tata said moving the production base to India would still retain jobs in the United States.

“F-16 production in India supports thousands of Lockheed Martin and F-16 supplier jobs in the U.S., creates new manufacturing jobs in India, and positions Indian industry at the center of the most extensive fighter aircraft supply ecosystem in the world,” a joint statement by the firms said.

Sweden's Saab is the other contender to supply the Indian Air Force, offering to make its Gripen fighter in India. It has not yet announced a local partner for the plane which it has pitched as a modern alternative to the F-16s.


The announcement comes days before Mr. Modi travels to Washington for a first meeting with Mr. Trump, scheduled for June. 26. India and the United States have built a close defence relationship in recent years with Washington emerging as among the top three arms suppliers to India, along with Russia and Israel.

India will also have the chance to export the F-16 that is flown by air forces around the world, the joint statement said. Some 3,200 of these planes are being flown by 26 countries and the model that is being offered to India will be Block 70, the most modern of all the F-16s.

“This unprecedented F-16 production partnership between the worlds largest defense contractor and Indias premier industrial house provides India the opportunity to produce, operate and export F-16 Block 70 aircraft, the newest and most advanced version of the worlds most successful, combat-proven multi-role fighter,” the statement said.

Tata is already building airframe components for the C-130 military transport aircraft.

India has not opened formal bidding for the jet order, which is expected to be anything from 100 planes to 250.

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lol dont know what to make of this recent development .

maybe posturing by modi before upcoming US tour

but as far as i am concerned it is a bad deal to buy F16 from US due to various reasons

also gripen e is out of contention due to its dependence on multiple IPRs , with one country refusing to give clearance for their IPR , plus Swedish govt negative stand with respect to Indian NSG entry is another roadblock

Chai Russia just lost a reliable costumer and India lost a reliable ally

giles14:
Chai Russia just lost a reliable costumer and India lost a reliable ally

lol no

arms deal r not sum zero games

these r games within a game within a game within a game.............

why do u think PM modi visited Russia before the upcoming visit to US.

as i said before arms deal/negotiations r a ploy to ensure geo-political concessions.

it is a matter of who blinks first and whose interests r served better

importantly the tender for the SE aircraft has not been opened till date. so the F16 can end up as a dud after all

it will be clear after modi / trump meet

nemesis2u can you analyze a dogfight encounter between a single EF Typhoon and also a single F22 Raptor?
Thank You.

tdayof:
nemesis2u can you analyze a dogfight encounter between a single EF Typhoon and also a single F22 Raptor?
Thank You.

unfortunately no

anyways who do u think will win in a dogfight provided the typhoon is able to survive long enough in BVR inorder to get into a merge with the F22 ?



F22 has very good advantage of first look first kill in BVR

Multi-Mode Hand Grenade - Shivalik developed by DRDO

Modular in design: Two modules, i.e, fuze and main body, light in weight: Gross weight is 490 g in defensive mode and 260 g in offensive mode.
serves as both Offensive and defensive grenade i.e Lethal radius of 3 to 5 m from point of burst in offensive mode. In defensive mode, it incapacitates human being with in the radius of 8-10 m from the point of burst Uniform fragmentation pattern. More number of fragments (>4000) embedded in plastic matrix to provide higher splinter density of fragments. Time delay 3 sec and arming delay of 0.5 sec provides additional safety to the thrower. Maintenance free and highly reliable. Operational temperature range of -20 ºC to 55 ºC and storage temperature range of -50 C to 75 C .

Mechatronic fuze for multi-mode hand grenade operates in three modes, viz., time delay, impact, and dual. Pre-launch safeties have been provided through mechanical components whereas post launch safeties and intelligence have been incorporated using embedded system based electronic hardware and software. The detonator is misaligned with the rest of the explosive train during storage and transportation. The fuze is powered by primary lithium battery. The fuze has been designed to withstand accidental drop for thrower’s safety. The time delay for arming and initiation of detonator is factory settable with a high precision. The fuze has a provision of self-discharge system to avoid delayed initiation after a preset delay.

note:to change from defensive mode to offensive move u just have to unscrew (remove) the outer fragmentation sleeve and vice versa

DG Infantry Lt Gen YK Joshi firing the new 7.62mmx51mm assault rifle during trials

darn they took the all metal magazine of the SLR rifle and did not use the see through polymer based INSAS magazine.

hope they change it in the future

good news is, army is impressed with the rifles accuracy as it exceeded the armies GSQR accuracy requirements

pic 3 INSAS Magazine

nemesis2u:


unfortunately no

anyways who do u think will win in a dogfight provided the typhoon is able to survive long enough in BVR inorder to get into a merge with the F22 ?



F22 has very good advantage of first look first kill in BVR

....and the Shiit is expensive

tdayof:

....and the Shiit is expensive

fool proof killing is always very expensive

tdayof:

....and the Shiit is expensive

another thing BVR is like fools gold, most of the time every fighter will have to get into the merge for a fool proof kill.

visual identification of targets becomes paramount when the airspace is dynamic and fast paced with multiple actors from both sides crisscrossing all over u , in such a scenario BVR becomes a liability ,only way out is WVR , and only WVR missiles can assure relatively high probability kill with their high NEZ.

also note this is why Israelis tend to make their BVRAAMs both LOBL and LOAL capable

LOBL capability of BVRAAM is akin to a WVRAAM most of the time.

so dont fall for western marketing tactics

Watch "Russia’s Cutting Edge Weaponry Capable Of ‘Blinding’ Enemy's Army" On YouTube







https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c4xVK9Oh3s

L&T Launches Indian Navy’s Floating Dock

it is basically a dockyard built on a ship and can move from one naval base to another to undertake repair , build and maintenance needs of naval ships and submarines. it is usually used were land/ infra is not available for a regular dockyard.

The Floating Dock, which is the first Naval shipbuilding project for L&T, is 185m long and 40m wide, and is designed for docking Indian Naval ships and submarines of up to 8000 T displacement with draughts of up to 7 m, during both day and night. Simultaneous docking of multiple ships, and off-centre docking options are also feasible.

The dock, which conforms to internationally accepted norms, incorporates a fully automated ballast control system, inducting state-of-the-art technology in its equipment.

The Floating Dock has been designed as a versatile dock that can be installed either along a jetty or moored in calm waters enabling round-the-year operation. It is provided with a hauling-in system to handle a ship’s docking and undocking operations. It can also support ships berthed along its side and meet their logistics requirements.

On completion of its launch at Kattupalli, FDN-2 would be put through a series of harbour trials before delivery to the Navy. Once operationalised, it would enhance the technical repair infrastructure of the Navy for ships based at the Andaman & Nicobar Islands as well as for visiting Naval ships.

nemesis2u:
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L&T’S HOME-GROWN TECHNOLOGY AIMS TO RAISE STEALTH SUBMARINE CAPABILITY: JAYANT PATIL
SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2017 BY INDIANDEFENSE NEWS


by Amrita Nair-Ghaswalla

The Indian Navy intends to acquire the next set of conventionally powered six diesel-electric submarines under Project-75I, a follow-on of Project 75 Kalvari-class submarines. Larsen and Toubro (L&T) and another private shipyard Reliance Defence turned out trumps, beating three public sector shipyards to become eligible to participate in the P-75I programme. Business Line caught up with Jayant Patil, Head of Defence and Aerospace, and Member of Shipbuilding and Heavy Engineering Board at L&T, to understand how the Indian shipyard is set to take the lead in responding to the tender, effectively ending the 70-year public sector monopoly. Patil also enumerated on the company's quest for greater submerged endurance with the crucial Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system, a home-grown technology and an enormous challenge for Indian companies, which is aimed at increasing endurance and stealth capability of the submarine. Excerpts:

Has the request for proposal (RFP) been announced as yet? Can you explain the process?

No, we await receipt of the RFP for P75I. Having approved the Strategic Partner (SP) policy, the defence ministry (MoD) will first issue an expression of interest (EoI) to probable companies and evaluate eligible private sector Indian yards for construction of the P75I submarines. This will be done by a MoD-appointed specialist committee that will short-list yards that meet the Strategic Partnership criterion, leading to selection of Potential SP. Concurrently, the MoD willl evaluate foreign OEMs through a EoI process and short-list those complying with the requirements of P75I.

Could you give us an idea about L&T's capabilities in stealth submarines.

Larsen & Toubro has been associated with India’s strategic submarine programme for decades. It was formally announced when INS Arihant was launched in 2009. Our work centres specialise in the construction of submarine hulls with an entire range of in-house developed capabilities that are key to the submarine construction value chain - from detailed design and engineering in digital domain to hull construction using IT-enabled automation.

We have also developed technologies and matured them to do 3D-assisted outfitting, system integration, to system level qualification tests and trials as proven on classified underwater programmes. These have been developed indigenously given the nature of the programmes and the National endeavour we have been associated with.

How is the company placed with regard to other Indian competitors in facilitating the P75I contract?

L&T is the only shipyard in India which has a track record in the construction and integration of the most critical and complex bow, aft and other pressure tight structures, which needs to be imported by other yards. Our indigenous knowledge and technologies are amply proven across underwater programs.

L&T is also the System Integrator for DRDO’s Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system programme. L&T also has a track record in the development of significant platform specific systems such as propulsion systems, engineering systems, control systems and weapon systems for Naval underwater programs. These capabilities places L&T in a unique position.

Does the company have the wherewithal to undertake and help with the AIP-related technology for the submarines, which is a major prerequisite of this tender?

L&T is currently partnering with the DRDO as Lead System Integrator for the indigenous development of the fuel cell based AIP system. This is engineered as a modular package that can be plugged into a platform of choice. This technological solution holds promise to be among the latest and safest evolution in propulsion technology for conventional submarines for enhanced indiscretion rates.

(The indiscretion rate refers to the percentage of time a submarine spends when it comes up for air, which also makes it the time when it is the most vulnerable)

It enhances the endurance of conventional diesel-electric submarines to remain underwater many-folds, thus converting it into a more potent weapon platform with higher indiscretion rate.

A stark reminder of what the development of an arms building manufacturing capacity entails! The major systems,sub systems and sub sub systems are now home built. How much money,how many man hours,how much failure and frustration went into L&T's capacity building? I'd pay to watch the doc!

kikuyu1:


A stark reminder of what the development of an arms building manufacturing capacity entails! The major systems,sub systems and sub sub systems are now home built. How much money,how many man hours,how much failure and frustration went into L&T's capacity building? I'd pay to watch the doc!

and did i tell u they also have a state of the art virtual-reality submarine design centre in Gurgaon, used to virtual design indian nuclear submarines

Reliance Defence signs warship repair pact with US Navy to maintain Seventh Fleet

Under a deal announced on 1st week of February 2017, India will become a major service and repair hub for the US Seventh Fleet.

Reliance Defence and Engineering announced that it has signed a “Master Ship Repair Agreement” with the Pentagon to service and repair Seventh Fleet warships and supply and patrol vessels at its shipyard at Pipavav, in the western Indian state of Gujarat.

According to a Reliance official, the shipyard stands to carry out as much as 100 billion rupees (US$1.3 billion) worth of work for the US Navy over the next five years.

Hitherto, maintenance and repairs on the Seventh Fleet have been carried out in Japan and Singapore.Reliance Shipyard has been selected after a detailed site survey by US Government representatives in end October 2016, the statement said.


funnily Washington used the Seventh Fleet to threaten India during the December 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.

nemesis2u:





and did i tell u they also have a state of the art virtual-reality submarine design centre in Gurgaon, used to virtual design indian nuclear submarines

We're already using your corvette bridge simulators but WOW! Just wow. I SAID IT BEFORE AND I REPEAT INDIA WILL DOMINATE,TOTALLY CONQUER THE GLOBAL ARMS MARKET WITH ITS PRODUCTS WITHIN THE MEDIUM TERM; 5 YEARS!! Aerospace,tactical aviation, armour,SAM's, ,firearms,full spectrum,godammit!
Bookmark this thread and this post and return in mid 2022.

kikuyu1:


We're already using your corvette bridge simulators but WOW! Just wow. I SAID IT BEFORE AND I REPEAT INDIA WILL DOMINATE,TOTALLY CONQUER THE GLOBAL ARMS MARKET WITH ITS PRODUCTS WITHIN THE MEDIUM TERM; 5 YEARS!! Aerospace,tactical aviation, armour,SAM's, ,firearms,full spectrum,godammit!
Bookmark this thread and this post and return in mid 2022.

provided the economic benefits r there, as i have always said a strong military industrial complex is feasible if u have a strong civilian industrial complex to hedge on during difficult times.

example: if a shipyard has a strong business run in manufacturing civilian ships like tankers,cargo ships etc, then financially it becomes strong enough to under take construction of military ships simply due to economies of scale and capacity build up.

if a shipyard only carries out military contracts then it becomes very difficult to maintain sound financial health as the profits earned from such contracts r not enough to sustain manpower and capability in the long run.

Indian military aerospace has been suffering from this very problem, without adequate civilian aerospace products to give u sustained profits , it becomes risky for civilian companies to commit into billion dollar military aerospace business. investment is too big to risk without secondary benefits from the civilian sector/market both local or global.

also last 30 years Indian spent billions of dollars and man hours to build the infrastructure and experience (pedigree) necessary to design and build locally all kinds of military equipment's.the results could have been better but due to incompetent governments of the past and stupid bureaucracy it was delayed.

i still remember when the AKASH SAM was being developed , India faced a hurdle with a stimulation software required to test the flight control / flight paths / modes of a SAM.

India approached America Russia European countries for help , everybody turned them down becz such software are closely guarded secrets.

later 2 Indian scientists took up the challenge and developed the software which contained around million lines of code successfully within 1 and a half years.

there r so many similar stories , lol the Americans even said India did not have the competency to design and fly a combat jet, they even launched a media tirade against LCA just couple of days before LCA was about to make her first flight saying it was doomed to fail.

they forget 25-30 % of their top defence scientists r Indians ( an naturalized Indian even headed their DARPA ), only thing India lacked was the funding , the test facilities /resources which they have now , not all but it is a on going work.

anyways me and colleagues were pressing for Indian involvement with African countries to take up defence related projects initially small through private companies and later with public sector companies on both sides, it would cut down costs, help in localization , ensure bidirectional flow of finances and talent . most importantly the geo political implications r huge.

problem is india is tied down with the 2 nuclear armed countries , so priority is always to address them from the point of security.

lets see

more pics of L&T Floating Dock (FDN-2)

INS Ganga on her last sortie, to be decommissioned this year. She served the nation for 32 years. She extracted Indian troops from Somalia during UN peacekeeping mission in 1994. She was commissioned on 30 December 1985

Msta-S2 self-propelled howitzers

nemesis2u:
Msta-S2 self-propelled howitzers

Did the Russians fit a Jacuzzi somewhere inside that thing?

MikeCZA:
Did the Russians fit a Jacuzzi somewhere inside that thing?

u might want to take that Jacuzzi matter up with mr.putin

i am limited to domestic application of Jacuzzi only

rafale upgrade roadmap

anyways looks like french is willing to sell IN 70 Rafales for the same price of 36 IAF rafale (batch 1) already ordered provided IAF agrees to commit to buying another 36 rafale (batch 2) later on.

IN 70 rafale is actually 57 carrier borne rafales for IN, rest 13 r for IAF maritime strike squadron (replacing the maritime jaguars)

all this under MII (make in india) category

man
the pic below is really ridiculous

a highly dangerous 'smiling' man with suspicious looking long hair is being arrested by 4 stalwarts of the local police department in SF type operation equipped with gas masks , NVG, CQB assault rifles, backpacks and riggings loaded with grenades or what not .

man that is serious overkill to the point of being stupid .
looks more like a fancy dress competition.

anyways
i would have arrested that dangerous fellow highly armed with 'nothing' ,with only a bag filled with spicy popcorn and a can of beer at my side
and may be a promise to fund him for his long overdue visit to the barbershop.
see easy pesy





PS:looks like the local police department was a big beneficiary of the US military war surplus weapons disposal program.and they grasped it with open arms.

plus looks like they also raided the next door CD rent shop for some Rambo movies

oh i dont see stryker type "tactical vehicle" with bushmaster cannons, MRAPs with remote weapon stations,

guess they must be stuck in the traffic

KC-390 at paris air show

there r so many similar stories , lol the Americans even said India did not have the competency to design and fly a combat jet, they even launched a media tirade against LCA just couple of days before LCA was about to make her first flight saying it was doomed to fail. lipsrsealed

they forget 25-30 % of their top defence scientists r Indians ( an naturalized Indian even headed their DARPA ), only thing India lacked was the funding , the test facilities /resources which they have now , not all but it is a on going work.

anyways me and colleagues were pressing for Indian involvement with African countries to take up defence related projects initially small through private companies and later with public sector companies on both sides, it would cut down costs, help in localization , ensure bidirectional flow of finances and talent . most importantly the geo political implications r huge.

The first bolded shows the stupidity of racist arrogance which is based on ignorant projection! They probably imagine India still goes to battle with elephants while thugees rule all the villages. Even here many whites insist Kibera is our only national face.

The 2nd confirms what I've concluded from your posts: you have an active tech background on the arms man'f side and even better you and your team have a vision you're actively following. Ohh well;at least I know the first Indo Kenyan gunship won't be a 45 mn$ HCH capable of performing loops!

kikuyu1:


The first bolded shows the stupidity of racist arrogance which is based on ignorant projection! They probably imagine India still goes to battle with elephants while thugees rule all the villages. Even here many whites insist Kibera is our only national face.

The 2nd confirms what I've concluded from your posts: you have an active tech background on the arms man'f side and even better you and your team have a vision you're actively following. Ohh well;at least I know the first Indo Kenyan gunship won't be a 45 mn$ HCH capable of performing loops!

amen to that
but things move slowly at our side

and lol i am just a insignificant person in the scheme of things back here.

chkil0:
KC-390 at paris air show

Very modern and impressive plane

a NATO F-16 Approached The Russian Defence Minister's Plane who was escorted by russian Su-27,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYvP82D_qYI

a comment found on the video :

This is the standard procedure, followed by both pilots. Flanker came close, flashed the guns, then backed away to shooting position....each and every warning light on board F16, lighted like the Christmas three when it got targeted by Flanker's radar. There are safety procedures, so if F16 runs, that means he is engaging, but if he moves slowly, that means: everything is ok, I am not a an enemy.

Nemesis2u waiting for your analysis on USS Fitzgerald and it's AEGIS.
nemesis2u nemesis2u nemesis2u

Chinese WZ-10 attack helicopter

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India's 'eye in the sky' is set to become sharper and wider with the launch of a third spacecraft in Cartosat-2 series -- a dedicated satellite for defence forces -- from the Sriharikota spaceport tomorrow.

The previous satellite in the series had a resolution of 0.8 metres and the images it took on India's neighbourhood had helped New Delhi carry out surgical strikes on seven terror launch pads across the Line of Control last year, ISRO sources said.

The latest remote sensing satellite slated to be launched on board PSLV-C38 tomorrow morning has a resolution of 0.6 metres, which means it can spot even smaller objects.


"It can recognise objects within that square (0.6 m by 0.6 m)", an ISRO official told PTI on condition of anonymity.

"Defence surveillance will get a leg-up. It can be used in identifying terrorist camps and bunkers... Some formations."

Once this satellite becomes operational, it would be "handed over" to the defence forces, which have their own "set up," including ground-stations and trained manpower to access data.

On the need to have a third satellite in the series, the official said, "The revisit time is the one which determines your data accessibility. More the number of satellites, the better and shorter revisit time you will have and more data you will get."

"They (Cartosat-2 series) are agile satellites - agile in the sense they can take pictures of the place that you want, you can choose and programme it," he said.

According to ISRO, the latest spacecraft is similar in configuration to earlier satellites in the series with the "objective of providing high-resolution scene specific spot imagery."

The 28-hour countdown for the launch of Cartosat-2 series satellite along with 30 co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh began at 5.29 am today.

The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its 40th flight (PSLV-C38), would launch the 712 kg Cartosat-2 series satellite for earth observation and 30 co-passenger satellites together weighing about 243 kg at lift-off into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) at 09.20 hours tomorrow, the ISRO officials said.

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note: official resolution is always downgraded , true resolution is always classified