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Russian air force interested in bramhos A ???

BrahMosMissilesToBeInductedIntoArsenalsOfSeveralCountries


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Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has declared that India plans to export arms and train military personnel from other countries.

Speaking on Sunday at the International conference on India & the Indian Ocean, head of the Indian defence ministry said:

“At least 38 countries are sending their defence personnel for training in India. We are also considering to supply some sort of defence materials through export or through line of credit to the countries so that they can depend on India for their defence.”

Manohar Parrikar did not name the countries that will avail to these offers. However, Russian journalists have come to know that one of the potential customers of Indian arms may become Russia.
The management of the Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace has already offered the Ministry of Defence of Russia the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos. As stated to the newspaper “Izvestia” by one of the directors of the company — Alexander Maksichev, “Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has been informed of the capabilities of our missiles and has been offered the option of adopting BrahMos in the Russian Army, Navy and Air Force”.


Some Russian experts are extremely skeptical in their approach to the possibility of purchase of the BrahMos missile by Russian Armed Forces. Igor Korotchenko, Chief Editor of “National Defence”, totally eliminates the possibility of induction into the Russian armed forces of missiles with foreign components.

Especially, as Russia has its own analogue of the BrahMos missile. Moreover, the BrahMos is a modernized version of the Russian supersonic cruise missiles “Onyx” / “Yakhont”. And the universal anti-ship missile system – the medium-range “Onyx” is being already serially supplied to the Russian Navy and is undergoing official trials.


However, a number of Russian experts indicate that products manufactured by BrahMos Aerospace may be of interest to the Russian Air Force. After all, neither the “Onyx” nor the “Yakhont” have been adapted to be deployed on aircrafts.

And India has already begun trials of the aviation version of BrahMos. This modification is 500 pounds lighter and a half a meter shorter than the land-launched and the marine version.
In February, the Indian Air Force received deliveries of the first modified Su-30MKI fighters, capable of carrying BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles. And by 2016, the Indian Air Force is expected to adopt the aerial version of the BrahMos.

"For Russia, it makes sense to buy BrahMos missiles, at least in limited quantities”, — considers Ruslan Pukhov, director of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies — and equip these missiles, for example, those Su-30MK’s, which are based in Crimea".

This will create a compact aviation formation, which will be equally capable of dealing with threats arising from the land, sea and the air. After all, the Su-30 is also a great fighter aircraft with super-maneuverability capabilities. The Su-30 can carry three BrahMos missiles, which would make this aircraft a formidable anti-ship complex.

The management of BrahMos Aerospace expects to expand the market for the export version of the aircraft missiles — BrahMos-A — to countries that have the Su-30’s in active service. Primarily, these are friendly countries with which India has stable relations like — Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
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Bose

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Is it real?

If it is, then it looks like Armata will be longer and bigger overall than any of the T series tanks ever were.
It could be larger than current T-series, but I don't believe it will be so much larger. One more month and we'll be able to see it properly. I feel it will slot in between T-90 and Abrams in terms of size and maybe, more closely, to the Leclerc.
 
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