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Indian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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Nice.
14 Mig-29Ks on deck of the Vikramadtiya at once.
Great photo!
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Doubts about India's ability to conduct precision strikes into Pakistan.
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On Thursday India claimed it had conducted a “surgical strike” in Pakistan controlled Kashmir across the Line of Control (LoC). Pakistan denied that India carried out a surgical strike and claimed that two of its soldiers were killed in cross border fire.
“The notion of linked to alleged terrorists’ bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by India to create false effects,” the Pakistani military said in a statement.
India’s director general of military operations, Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, publicly announced the strike. He , “Based on receiving specific and credible inputs that some terrorist teams had positioned themselves at launch pads along the Line of Control to carry out infiltration and conduct terrorist strikes inside Jammu and Kashmir and in various metros in other states, the Indian army conducted surgical strikes at several of these launch pads to pre-empt infiltration by terrorists.”
India has provided of the operation but sources indicate that the “surgical strikes” consisted of a heliborne unit and Special Forces that infiltrated the LoC and conducted assaults on seven suspected terrorist launch pads that were two to three km beyond the LoC.
Throughout the day Pakistan has continued to deny any surgical strike took place. “There has been no by India, instead there had been cross border fire initiated and conducted by India which is existential phenomenon,” the Pakistan Army said in a statement.
A surgical strike operation by Indian forces begs the question of whether Indian forces have the capability to launch such a sophisticated and coordinated attack.
Surgical strikes can be conducted through airborne or artillery based precision guided strikes or ground force based assaults; both of which require sophisticated intelligence collection, platforms to conduct collections, and surveillance of target sites and objectives.
India is still on the cusp of building a sophisticated and modernized to conduct counterterror operations, while much of its forces are still organized and trained on Cold War models.
Over the last decade, India has spearheaded efforts to modernize her military to include domestic production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Rostum I and Rostum II could provide India with an air platform capable of surgical strikes, long loiter times for target surveillance, and intelligence collection. However, these platforms are still in development and just began test trials this summer. India’s drone development program is still in its infancy.
As for artillery, in 2015, India and BAE finalized contracts for the sale and development of new M777 155 mm howitzer system, capable of firing the new Excalibur GPS guided shell. However, of the artillery system is not slated to begin until 2018.
India does currently field a Russian GPS guided munition called the Krasnopol, though its precision fire support is within a 30-40 km radius and its accuracy is far less when compared to the new Excalibur shell.
As far as precision strike missile capability, India has recently acquired the U.S. anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) , which has frequently been used for targeting operations by U.S. forces. India is currently producing a called the Helina, a helicopter launched precision strike missile, though this missile is still undergoing testing.
In other words, much of India’s asymmetrical warfare capability is still being developed and tested. The examples above are by no means an exhaustive list but it certainly details a capacity not fully developed by Indian forces.
Furthermore, a cross border air raid by either heliborne assets or drones would still prove exceedingly difficult as Pakistan an incredibly impressive . Pakistan controlled Kashmir is a high threat area for shoulder fired , some of which have found their way into the hands of militant groups. Any air operation over the territory would be under threat from these weapon systems.
India has released little detail on the operation; however if India in fact carried out a cross border surgical strike on terrorist facilities and not Pakistani military posts, it would be a in India’s war against terrorist and militant organizations. It would also boast the perception that India’s asymmetrical warfare capability is further along than many may perceive.
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Harpoon missiles ordered for Indian submarines
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Boeing a USD81.27 million contract to supply the Indian Navy (IN) with 22 Harpoon submarine launched anti-ship missiles via the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme.
The overall package is worth USD200 million and includes 12 UGM-84L Harpoon Block II Encapsulated missiles and 10 UTM-84L Harpoon Encapsulated training missiles. Also included are two Encapsulated Harpoon certification training vehicles, containers, spares, as well as all-inclusive logistics support and instruction for IN personnel on the missile system. The missile systems will be delivered by 2018, the DoD notification stated.
The awarding of the contract on 23 September finalises a deal struck in July 2014 to fit the missiles as part of the midlife upgrade of the IN's two Shishumar-class (Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Type 209/1500) diesel electric submarines
A modernized Mirage 2000 of the Indian Air Force got its first missile MICA EM
March 25, 2015, at the air base 125 of Istres-Le Tubé, Dassault Aviation has delivered to the Indian Air Force its first two Mirage 2000 renovated, now called Mirage 2000I for single seaters, and Mirage 2000TI for two seaters.
This modernization includes integrating air-air missiles MICA IR (Infrared) and MICA EM (Electromagnetic), already in service in the Army of the French Air, including the Mirage and Rafale Air 2000-5F and on the Rafale Hunting Embedded.
It is in this framework, September 24, 2016, a Mirage 2000I / IT Indian Air Force carried out the shooting of his first MICA missile during an exercise over the Indian territory.
According to the press release issued by the Indian Ministry of Defence, the Mirage 2000I / IT No 1 Squadron "The Tigers" conducted "successfully" the first shot of an air-air missile MICA EM against "an aerial target manoeuvrable, "which is described as" much smaller than a real aircraft flying low. "
The statement said the air target was destroyed on impact with the missile, and that the success of this shooting MICA EM gives the Indian Air Force an 'essential capability' for its flight operations.
Finally, "with the success of this mission, the Indian Air Force has become one of the few air forces in the world to hold a long-range shooting ability and beyond visual range," it added in the official communication. This statement is highly qualified because nowadays, almost all air forces in the world, modern and with a minimum of equipment 90s, has a fire capability beyond visual range.
Remember, modernization, amounting to $ 2.4 billion and made by Dassault Aviation and Thales brings in Delhi and its fleet of Mirage 2000H / TH new life with the installation of a new radar more powerful (RDY-3), a more effective measures against system, the ability to take the air-air missiles MICA IR and EM MICA (500 ordered), a helmet sight, new avionics and modern internal computers.
If the first Mirage 2000I / modernized IT emerged chains Dassault Aviation at Bordeaux-Merignac, future devices will be upgraded directly in India, by the local company Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), but with the assistance of the manufacturer's engineers French.
All these upgrades are such that from now on, 2000I Mirage / Indian IT may be similar, with some modifications, to Mirage 2000-9RAD / DAD UAE, capable of conducting air-to-air missions and missions air-ground
Can be armed with also four Mica under the fuselage
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INS Arihant was commissioned by Navy Chief Admiral Lanba in August.
India has quietly completed its nuclear triad by inducting the indigenously built strategic nuclear submarine INS Arihant into service.
INS Arihant was formally commissioned by Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba in August, defence sources confirmed to The Hindu on Monday. The issue was reported earlier in the day by TV channel NewsX.
To maintain secrecy, it is not being referred to as INS Arihant, sources added. INS which stands for ‘Indian Naval Ship’ is affixed to a ship only after it is inducted into service.
No-first-use doctrine
Arihant is capable of carrying nuclear tipped ballistic missiles, the class referred to as Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear (SSBN). SSBNs are designed to prowl the deep ocean waters carrying nuclear weapons and provide a nation with an assured second strike capability — the capability to strike back after being hit by nuclear weapons first.
Second strike capability is particularly important for India as it had committed to a ‘No-First-Use’ policy as part of its nuclear doctrine.
The vessel weighing 6000 tonnes is powered by a 83 MW pressurised light water nuclear reactor. The project to build a strategic vessel began as the Advanced Technology Vessel (ATV) project in the 1980s and the vessel was launched in 2009 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Since then it was put to extensive sea trials and the reactor on board went critical in 2013.
It will be armed with the K-15 Sagarika missiles with a range of 750 km and eventually with the much longer range K-4 missiles being developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.
With this India joins the select group of countries which have a nuclear triad, i.e. capable of delivering nuclear weapons by aircraft, ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles.
Both the Defence Ministry and the Navy declined to comment as the issue is out of their purview being a strategic asset.
