DRDO and PSUs (21 Viewers)

[liberalredditor]

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Ladla general yojna , now f#ck all corporate mazdoori and placement, i will join army through cds or engineering regiment

 

[shade2]

But do capital ships like all ships of P15, P17 class need it? Given the primary threat faced from PLAN & PN are salvos of anti-ship subsonic, quasi-ballistic & ballistic missiles. More VLS for SAMs in the space taken by RBU in these ships will come in handy to protect against such missile threats.

As ships operate in task forces during combat, there will be other ships with RBUs available.

Regarding protection from torpedo, something like this can be looked at:

RAFAEL Unveils Torbuster SP Torpedo Defense Suite for Surface Vessels - Naval News

RAFAEL and its subsidiary DSIT Solutions are participating in IMDEX 2023 and are introducing the TORBUSTER SP anti-torpedo system.

www.navalnews.com

Most of the stuff the Admirals put on ships is not ((( Imported, therefore The Besht ))) unlike a certain other force but considered "good enough".
It's why they still run those AK-630s or the RBU or anything else but with deshi upgrades like Binayak sir has revealed.

I guess they either know they will get a "No" from the babudumb political leadership for importing new sub-systems, or said imports are too messy to get, or they are too expensive or all these reasons combined.

For e.g there was atleast a 10 year drama over the Atlas Towed Array Sonar import/domestic assembly because DRDO was failing in their deshi TAS development and they wanted ((( more time saars ))), therefore on their end they were doing something to block the import.

Now ofc Atlas has signed a deal with deshi company so the Arnala class and other ASW vessels will get these.

May be we should ditch the system and build RUM-139 VL-ASROC Anti Submarine Missile equivalent.

It simply uses the Light weight torpedo strapped with an Solid booster. The booster gives some distance (Approx 22 KM for ASROC), from there the Torpedo will have its own range (MK 54 - 9 KM).

We should go with our approach in which TAL Shyena will be the torpedo strapped to an booster. This gives some serious long range Submarine Strikes.

On good side, it may remove the bulky RBU Systems, free up the space for extra VLS which can be used to store these missiles.

US Arleigh Bruke Class destroyers have this combination. They have torpedos and VLS based anti submarine Missiles like RUM 139.

Few people talked about how RBU 6000 can also be used to do shore bombardment. But Navy is looking into Naval Pinaka which may replace that role also. Even an Guided Pinaka with 75KM range will be devasting for enemies.

I agree we need to be focused on UVLS for future design and also put this into P15, P17 when their MLU/refit is due. Other warships can retain RBU-6000 launcher and ER-ASR.

That's where all major navies including PLAN and USN have moved since the past decade or earlier. Russian Navy is a failure and not someone from where much inspirations should be taken from.

If depth charges are needed for whatever reasons then keep the RBU-6000 launcher with ER-ASR already loaded but with no under deck reload mechanism. The space needed for this will something like the chaff launcher or a bit more than that. The limitation of this is that rockets exposed above deck can explode when damaged and put ship out of action.

LWT missile (with glider) similar to RUM-139 is achievable by DRDO.
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Y'all are kanging over more VLS but IN doesn't have a UVLS program in development, max you have is the VLS being developed for the VL-SRSAM.

Ideally they should make a VLS that can fire atleast 3-4 types of missiles, even if all are SAMs and build all new missile models to conform to this VLS spec, some experience is gained with VL-SRSAM VLS development already.

 

[Gyyaan]

Anybody got something that proves BMD phase1 is already operational?

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