Indian Navy Developments & Discussions (18 Viewers)

[eastern_bhartiya]

Frenchies planning for EMALS on PANG, probabs GA only. Our navy arm is blue eyed wing for Amreekis, maybe a deal can be sought.

Arre Mig29 is past. I'm not even counting them. RafaleM can surely take the load of catapult. They are built for Charles de Gaulle.

Rafale-M will arrive in 2028-2030 period, and we don't know if we they will ever hain ability to carry indian weapon package. Again main issue is not technology, main issue is time, developing and building an carrier based on indigenous emals might take until 2040.

 

[FalconSlayers]

Can Navy get a EMALS based but conventionally powered Aircraft carrier like China.
EMALS system is said to take 130kwh energy. That's equivalent to about 40Liters of diesel if domestic generators are used, LM2500 (can use variety of fuel) might be even more efficient. INS Vikrant fuel capacity if 8000 tons. Just 40 Tons of fuel can facilitate 1000 sorties.
Airwing will either run out of ammunition or aviation fuel (x4 Ton each sorty). Maybe such Carrier could've been sought after if Navy's order book and capex was not already capped to the brim.

That's a bad idea. It reduces the endurance of the carrier. We should first make a carrier with steam catapult first and then move to EMALS. But I'm sure we won't do both. Due to lack of money to throw at 1.8% of GDP defence budget, I wonder when will 3rd aircraft carrier get ordered at all which itself is a repeat order for Vikrant.

"Hunuz Dehli Door Ast"

 

[shade2]

View: https://x.com/Ray70409890/status/1947943636941074447

Styx missiles were earlier the coastal defence.

 

[snakeeyes07]

View: https://x.com/Ray70409890/status/1947943636941074447

Styx missiles were earlier the coastal defence.

So it has begun

 

[snakeeyes07]

So it has begun
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In this context/deployment zone, coastal batteries are an offensive force.

 

[Interested]

In this context/deployment zone, coastal batteries are an offensive force.

These would be the anti ship versions instead of the ground attack one ..?

I don't know if there is a difference in the missile or it's a software change between both these types

 

[FalconSlayers]

@grok is this truu?

View: https://x.com/idrwalerts/status/1948014294106538103

 

[snakeeyes07]

These would be the anti ship versions instead of the ground attack one ..?

I don't know if there is a difference in the missile or it's a software change between both these types

These would be anti-ship (ASuW) ones but these 2 batteries at Okha and Porbandar can impose a naval blockade of sorts on Karachi (which is currently >90% of their commercial port activity).