Indian Navy Developments & Discussions

[Indianhawk]

Agreed. No ship even with MLU served more than 40yrs & Brahmaputra have reached 20-25. And it was kinda obsolete-on-arrival at 2000-2005 only....
Although it's hardly fair to compare with the "F-22 of warships" note that La-Fayette class is a decade older, entering service in mid-90s.View attachment 22707View attachment 22710

So I don't think we can drag it on for very long post 2035. Easier & cheaper to just arm the Saryu class like @Ayan Barat said.

Let's see how the upgrade turns out.
From naval news,

That said, the most consequential upgrade in combat capability is likely to be in the form of inclined BrahMos missile launchers replacing the 16 Kh-35 missile tubes currently on INS Beas. The Delhi class had received such an upgrade, with two four-cell inclined launchers replacing the Kh-35 launchers.

If this turns out to be true then that f22 la fayate will be be outclassed by humble beas.

Besides navy might want to find out true life of indigenous marine engine hence beas atleast will have to sail as long as it literally could.

 

[Bleh]

For example ins rajpur served 41 years for a warship built with 1970s technology.

So a 2000s technology built ins beas should easily serve 45-50 years.

That said, the most consequential upgrade in combat capability is likely to be in the form of inclined BrahMos missile launchers replacing the 16 Kh-35 missile tubes currently on INS Beas. The Delhi class had received such an upgrade, with two four-cell inclined launchers replacing the Kh-35 launchers.

Well Rajput is old as fuck... In any actual combat will be detected & tracked from 1km off port. In a best case scenario where submarines or stand-off missiles launched from air aren't involved, it might just survive long enough to launch it's BraHmos which will allow it a range advantage.

It's the same with Brahmaputra Class as well. In a pure ship-vs-ship surface-to-surface naval combat 8 BraHmos will allow it to strike 1st & fuck-off, just in case it finds itself in anything other than support role.



IMO they should just stuff it with SAMs. It has a good aerial radar.

And/or 2 ballistic missile launcher in the heli-hangers like Sukanya. It has no business being in anti-sub ops.

 

[vampyrbladez]

Let's see how the upgrade turns out.
From naval news,

That said, the most consequential upgrade in combat capability is likely to be in the form of inclined BrahMos missile launchers replacing the 16 Kh-35 missile tubes currently on INS Beas. The Delhi class had received such an upgrade, with two four-cell inclined launchers replacing the Kh-35 launchers.

If this turns out to be true then that f22 la fayate will be be outclassed by humble beas.

Besides navy might want to find out true life of indigenous marine engine hence beas atleast will have to sail as long as it literally could.

The Delhi Class (P 15) has a superior hull design which was used on the Kolkata (P 15A) and Vishakhapatnam Class (P 15B) as well.

The destroyer has 2 x 24 arm launcher based Shtil-1 (32 Km) SAM and 32 x Barak 1 (12 Km) SAM which means it has decent area air defence.

Therefore, it makes sense to upgrade from 16 x KH 35 (130 Km/ M 0.9) to 8 x BrahMos (450-900 Km/ M 3.0) to further enhance the firepower.

The Rajput Class destroyers went from 4 x P 15M missiles to 8 x BrahMos + 4 x P15M for some examples because we had no hulls at the time.

The Brahmaputra Class for now will share the KH 35 AShM with the Veer Class (2) and Kora Class (4) corvettes until the smaller vessels are retired by 2030 and replaced with NGMV and NGC.