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[A Bar Brother]

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The navy has no plans for a second Nerpa. They are prioritizing funding towards diesel electric subs and our own SSN designs.

green pine radar odisha coast

More likely to be Swordfish, not Greenpine.

 

[aksha]

the number of Barak 8 SAM's on Kolkata comfirmed ,32

PTI
INS Kolkata heading to the Kochi Harbour after practice during the Navy Week.

Stealth destroyer INS Kolkata, the largest warship built in India, will fire a long-range surface-to-air missile (LR-SAM) for the first time in 2015.

“The vertical launch units of the LR-SAM, also called Barak 8, have been built into the vessel and the MF-STAR [multifunction surveillance and threat alert radar] is in place for missile guidance. All you need to do is take delivery of the missile, load it and fire. It is slated to take place next year,” Captain Tarun Sobti, Commanding Officer of INS Kolkata, told The Hindu during an exclusive tour of the ship.

The ship, commissioned in August in Mumbai, has just finished its maiden work-up here, during which the vessel and its crew were put through their paces by the Flag Officer Sea Training. The ship will carry 32 SAMs, with an enhanced range of up to 70 km, for missile defence.

The first flight of the LR-SAM, jointly developed by the Israeli Aerospace Industry and the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), took place in Israel in November.

An operational firing of the vertical BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, against surface targets, would be carried out early next year, Capt. Sobti said. The vessel fired BrahMos during the sea-acceptance trials off Karwar in June.

He said the vessel had an indigenous content of about 70 per cent. The work-up laid emphasis on, and perfected, the standard operating procedures, safety routines and tactical skills. “It’s a special training where procedures are perfected, the crew put together and safety drills performed to a fault,” he said.

The vessel, sporting a stealth design and displacing 7,500 tonnes, demonstrated strength, manoeuvrability and survivability and provided crew comfort. robust anti-submarine warfare capability was achieved with depth chargers, heavy-weight torpedoes, rockets and a bow-mounted sonar, the HUMSA-NG, developed by the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory, a DRDO lab.

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[aksha]

Indigenous nuclear powered submarine INS Arihant to head out for sea trials


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India's quest for a secure seaborne nuclear deterrent is set for a giant stride when its first indigenously constructed nuclear submarine the INS Arihant begins sea trials next week.

Naval sources indicated a casting-off date of Monday, December 15, and preparations are currently underway at the Shipbuilding Centre, Visakhapatnam to ensure a smooth sail out for the 6,000-tonne nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN).

"It will be a surfaced sortie, but a great milestone nevertheless," naval officials told India Today.

It has been a slow crawl for the Arihant since she was launched at the shipbuilding centre in Vizag on July 26, 2009. It was four years before the next major milestone could be crossed, in August 2013 when the 83MW reactor onboard the submarine went critical.

Navy chief Admiral Robin Dhowan told mediapersons on December 3 that the submarine would commence its sea trials "very soon" and attributed the five-year time lag to the complexity of the platform and its equipment. Sources say the navy chief Admiral Dhowan wanted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be present at the cast-off, but it failed to materialize because of scheduling reasons.

Naval officials say the sea sortie marks the first in a series of steps-submerged sea trials and weapon firing trials which the submarine will have to cover before she is ready for induction into the navy, a process which could take another year.

The navy plans a fleet of five SSBNs, all of them capable of firing nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles from under the sea. Two more Arihant class submairnes are being fabricated at the SBC in Vizag and are likely to be inducted over the next five years.

India currently operates one nuclear submarine, the INS Chakra (the ex Russian sub 'Nerpa') taken on a ten-year lease from Russia in 2012. One of the items on the agenda of recent summit-level talks between Russian President Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is believed to have been the lease of a second SSN, the unfinished 'Iribis', left unfinished after the breakup of the Soviet Union.


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[aksha]

INS Arihant sails out of harbour

The indigenously built nuclear-powered submarine INS Arihant emerged from the breakwaters of the Visakhapatnam Harbour on Monday morning marking a step in validation of indigenous technologies involved in its construction.

The highly-secretive project monitored directly by the Prime Minister’s Office, INS Arihant, with a helicopter flying over it, emerged from the breakwaters into the Bay of Bengal even as low hanging mist made it difficult to view the submarine. The submarine glided in Bay partially submerged as part of its sea trials.

INS Arihant majestically sailed north in the Bay along the coast, partially submerged. After about an hour later it disappeared into the mist.

The event coincided with the maiden visit to the city of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Official Naval sources could not confirm whether the Defence Minister flagged off the sea trials. When contacted, Naval officials declared that Arihant was not a Navy controlled project and so they were not in a position to give any information on the subject.

The Defence Minister who arrived by an IAF aircraft from Goa in the morning was driven from INS Dega to the Naval Base. The Minister is scheduled to have left the city for New Delhi by lunch time.

INS Arihant is a 6,000 tonne vessel powered by 83 MW pressurised light water reactor. It was launched in 2009 and its nuclear reactor went critical in 2013. It is the first in the series of nuclear-powered ballistic submarines being manufactured indigenously.

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What on earth do they mean when they say its not a navy controlled project?
Bar Bro ,what do you think?

 

[A Bar Brother]

INS Arihant sails out of harbour

What on earth do they mean when they say its not a navy controlled project?
Bar Bro ,what do you think?

Being part of the nuclear triad, the Arihant is under direct control of the Prime Minister and not the Ministry of Defence. The Navy is the end user of the Arihant, but the Strategic Forces Command calls the shots. The SFC is under the PMO.

In a few years, the military will only have control of conventional weapons systems. All nukes will be handed over to civilian control once the SFC has achieved enough experience in handling the nukes.

 

[aksha]

i know that the straegic forces command operates a few shukhois ,(about 40)
but operate an entire ballistic submarine..............
i had thought that they will keep a political officer. instead
as for the army ,they operate the agnis, but do not have the launch codes,someone once told me that drdo keeps them


and what do you think of her hump? quite flat compared to others first time SSBN's ,inspite of being small, ,though the less no. of missiles is the reason,
i beleive our SSGN's will follow a somewhat a similar design,but with a more powerful powerplant.


another pic.

 

[A Bar Brother]

i know that the straegic forces command operates a few shukhois ,(about 40)

They don't operate Sukhois. They don't operate any fighter aircraft. They plan to use IAF jets for delivering nukes.

but operate an entire ballistic submarine..............

IN is the operator. The SFC decides where the sub goes and what it carries and when it fires.

as for the army ,they operate the agnis, but do not have the launch codes,someone once told me that drdo keeps them

DRDO doesn't have launch codes. The PMO does.

and what do you think of her hump? quite flat compared to others first time SSBN's ,inspite of being small, ,though the less no. of missiles is the reason,

Arihant looks like the Borei class.

Arihant

Borei

i beleive our SSGN's will follow a somewhat a similar design,but with a more powerful powerplant.

You mean SSN? 6 SSNs are to be built, and the decision could be taken pretty soon.

There are three Arihant class subs and two larger subs that are coming up. Overall, 5 SSBNs and 6 SSNs have been cleared or in the process of being cleared for construction. I don't believe we plan on building SSGNs right away. SSGNs are rich people subs. Even the USN has only 3 subs. The reason is because IN can't afford to keep 100-150 Nirbhays on one platform. We don't need this capability.

But we can have our SSNs carrying a few Brahmos/Nirbhay.

 

[thunderchief]

Older article, but shows how much is India paying (and expected to pay) for various fighters :

Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd, which manufactures the Tejas, has quoted Rs 162 crore a fighter as its latest price. Amortising the entire development cost on the envisioned 344 fighters (IAF: 294; Navy: 50), the Tejas would cost Rs 209 crore ($33.5 million) per fighter.

In comparison, the IAF’s Mirage 2000 fighters, bought in the 1980s, are currently being upgraded for $45 million per aircraft. IAF pilots that test-fly the Tejas Mark I find it qualitatively superior to the Mirage 2000.

The heavier Sukhoi-30MKI costs more than Rs 400 crore ($65 million) each. And the Rafale, which is currently being negotiated with Dassault, is pegged at Rs 750-850 crore ($120-140 million) per fighter.

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