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If only the rhetorical horse they were on were real, I'd gladly yank the stirrup so the damn HAL leadership could fall into the mountain of muck they've left behind over the years and see what their track record actually is.. | ||
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Offcourse, that said, the Dhruv has been successfully deployed by the Indian armed forces, so not sure who to believe here! Last edited by dragracer567 : 25th August 2020 at 23:48. | |
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| Re: Indian Naval Aviation - Air Arm & its Carriers Chinese carrier borne AWACS spotted flyingLooks like the Chinese KJ-600 AWACS has been spotted in flight REF:https://twitter.com/scramble_nl/stat...02158029934598 ![]() ![]() Quote:
Such a capability would give embarked PLAN carrier groups quite a competent organic radar bubble extending in all domains over said carrier group. In turn the data picture from said AWAC could greatly enhance the ability of the PLAN air wing beyond fleet area air defence towards more proactive operation. In fact more than that, the scenario where this PLAN AWAC is buzzing about overhead would implicitly mean the PLAN is able to fling more meaningfully combat loaded naval fighters off towards distant targets, further extending their reach so to speak. Though it remains to be seen whether the portly old J-15 can take being yanked along by a catapult. Surely not, they Must have a new airframe in the works then to go with the KJ-600 to form a CATOBAR suitable air wing | |
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Yak-44: ![]() E-2C: ![]() If this new carrier based PLAN AWACS as capable as is being claimed, it will be a quantum leap in PLAN surveillance capabilities - something which even the Soviet Navy did not have during it's glory days. | |
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I think other than the Americans and the French, when it comes to AWAC capability from carriers the solution has been to have a rotary wing platform. I believe the Royal Navy have a system called Crowsnest they use off of a Merlin helicopter. ![]() I believe the IN relies on the Kamov-31 with a big old radar under it's belly for the same purpose. Either way, won't be anywhere near the capability the PLAN would hypothetically achieve with their own AWACS. Till that time I imagine Indian shore based assets would be the workaround for the IN considering our ships won't be engaging way beyond the immediate sphere of territorial waters. | |
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The carrier was to be equipped with a ski jump as well as two steam catapults that could launch fully loaded aircraft, representing a major advance over the Kuznetsov class, which could only launch high performance fighters from their ski-jumps. The Yak-44 AEW would have used the catapult to launch from the Ulyanovsk. Quote:
As a consequence, the Westland Sea King helicopter was modified to incorporate an airborne radar system for use in the AEW role from the carriers and they have continued on with Rotary AEWs since then. There was a proposal to have an AEW variant of the Osprey. I don't know what happened to it. Quote:
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LPD/LHDs what have you are imo the most versatile capital ship a country can have. Simply for their enormous utility for rescue and relief operations of any kind. It's disappointing for sure there hasn't been any clean sheet or even derivative Indian design yet. Personally I would've liked India to have taken the opportunity to get the orphaned Mistrals when they couldn't go to Russia but somehow Egypt of all places ended up with them. That would've been an excellent deal for India to acquire a highly modern ready made ship in one fell swoop. The French probably would've happily sold them to India, a good deal round for everyone. Plus the Russians would probably be allowed to linger about the ship on joint exercises even. We'd likely have been license building follow on vessels in the same class by now. Could've even purchased Apache's for naval use to add significant punch to the ships beyond their amphibious capability. Ah well, what might've been. | ||
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| Re: Indian Naval Aviation - Air Arm & its Carriers https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ith-two-navies Nice write up summarising the Viraat's history from when it was first laid down, then entered stasis following WW2, the changes incorporated as it became Hermes and finally it's Falklands service. And then it's life under an IN pennant. An interesting point I wasn't aware of is this: Quote:
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Again all this is just a dream. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride ![]() Last edited by dragracer567 : 17th October 2020 at 23:27. | ||
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| Re: Indian Naval Aviation - Air Arm & its Carriers I think I've become inured to the Indian defence establishment delighting in new ways to prevaricate. Shame really, 4 LHD's in IN service would likely end up being pressed to service a whole bunch more than the aircraft carriers. I still highly doubt India would get the F-35 (even though Trump is really beginning to push the realms of iron clad precedence what with the rumours that the Israel-UAE detente is a first step towards the latter getting the JSF - that alone happening would stagger me. Because it would surely portend Israel being offered some as yet unbeknownst new platform to ensure they retain a qualitative edge in the region). The interoperability with the RAN if India had gone for a Juan Carlos derivative is strong for sure. Again, by the time the USMC flogs their Harriers, I truly doubt there'd be much life left in those airframes. I think the LHD's would be plenty handy with a competent rotary wing element. I vaguely remember the fully independently rotating thruster pods of the Mistral design being not to the IN's liking, they wanted a simple prop shaft driving screws at the rear. That ended up being a considerable engineering job as it would've cut into the well deck space of the Mistral. I wonder a decade down the line, if India ends up going for a Mistral derivative, whether it'll have the prop shaft or as irony would likely dictate, decades later we end up at square one and find ourselves using it with the pods it was originally designed with. |
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| Re: Indian Naval Aviation - Air Arm & its Carriers An interesting video on the prospective wider application of the P8 platform as an anti-ship platform (it already comes with the harpoon missiles I believe) and even a stand-off bomber (not sure if we talked about this earlier in this thread). I've read some articles on this as well regarding the debate in the US navy on whether to expand the potential of the P8 platform to carry the very advanced and stealthy AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) for which it is already being tested for with a range of approx. 370 km, air-launched sea mines and even other land-attack stand-off missiles. This video also talks about the potential for export customers including India for which integrating the Brahmos could be an interesting (but also very complex) prospect, else the IN could just buy the AGM-158C off the shelf like the SCALP missiles were bought along with the Rafales. This drastically expands the role of the P8Is effectively allowing them to hunt surface ships from very long ranges - an important capability since the IN just cannot compete with the shipbuilding capacity of the PLAN leading to more Chinese adventures in the Indian Ocean region. |
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| Re: Indian Naval Aviation - Air Arm & its Carriers Lot of information being discussed here. Whilst everyone has the right to their opinion, I would request members to abstain from discussing capabilities and limitations of the Defence apparatus. Also, kindly refrain from posting images of warships, aircraft etc which are not available in open source internet. If commissioning of a ship is published in news, it is a welcome snippet to add. However, a ship sailing out of harbour, be it for trials or stretching legs or to wash its underpants, should not be posted here. I am not sure whether Spy shot images of warships would be treated with the same enthusiasm by the government as we treat spy shot images of upcoming cars. It has the word "spy" in it for a reason; and in this case, it will be serious. |
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