Indian Navy Developments & Discussions

[Ayan Barat]

Can it be done by modifying something we already have with minimum effort ?

The RIM-116 is made by strapping a Stinger seeker on a Sidewinder missile. So for the seeker we definitely have VSHORAD one but we don't have any Sidewinder analogue. The closest would be Astra but it's too heavy and more of an ESSM analogue.

And what else will be needed besides the projectile?
Also looking at the pictures of USN and PLAN CIWS, ours look like ancient

I'll be posting a detailed article on this topic soon.

So as long as it has an ammo feed, gun is always live.

No to mention the fact that some older generation miniguns can be fired by just rotating the barrel cluster by hand.

 

[Ayan Barat]

Perhaps the first clear view of Thakur with his arms chopped off...I know it may sound bit sadistic, but looks good.

 

[Fatalis]

Perhaps the first clear view of Thakur with his arms chopped off...I know it may sound bit sadistic, but looks good.
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They could have gone for SRGM instead of the A-190M gun as the former is planned to be used on Triput class.

 

[vampyrbladez]

More pictures of INS Tushil

 

[vampyrbladez]

INS Surat

Before Sea Trials :

After Sea Trials :

Older 76mm SRGM cupola to be replaced before or post commissioning.

Credit: VivekSi85847001 (Twitter)

 

[Ayan Barat]

They could have gone for SRGM instead of the A-190M gun as the former is planned to be used on Triput class.

Maybe the Italians were not okay with sending TDP to Russian shipyard because even for "for but not with" type set-up where the guns would have been fitted here in India, the Russian shipyards would have needed quite a bit of technical insight. As for Triput Class, they're being made completely here so not a big deal.

We have already replaced the 100mm on Trishul with SRGM because I'm pretty sure we don't make 100mm gucci ammo and it's all imported. So just a matter of time before all of the 100mm gets replaced

 

[125mm_Smoothbore]

 

[mist_consecutive]

Pretty cool that we commissioned 3 big ships in a single month (with last Kalvari-class submarine to be comissioned next month in Jan).

INS Surat - Vishakhapatnam class Destroyer
INS Tushil - Improved Talwar-class Frigate
INS Nilgiri - Nilgiri class Frigate

INS Vagsheer - Kalvari-class Submarine (next Month)

This alone is enough to sink entire Pakistani Navy and blockade insignificant countries like Bangladesh.

 

[NerVik]

Pretty cool that we commissioned 3 big ships in a single month (with last Kalvari-class submarine to be comissioned next month in Jan).

INS Surat - Vishakhapatnam class Destroyer
INS Tushil - Improved Talwar-class Frigate
INS Nilgiri - Nilgiri class Frigate

INS Vagsheer - Kalvari-class Submarine (next Month)

This alone is enough to sink entire Pakistani Navy and blockade insignificant countries like Bangladesh.

It's a refreshing change of news from the usual delays and accidents. But.
What I really want is to focus in PLAN, we went past PN a long time ago. We need to upgrade the arms on our capital ships they are too underarmed, and missing key defensive weapons like a RIM analogue. We are missing a BMD system and equally important we need to speed up indigenization. We are still using the likes of Barak 8, MFSTAR, Indra radars, and Ukrainian engines. Also I am not seeing much progress or even any efforts to combat drone warfare, where do we stand on that?