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FORBIN said:

Behind the second fireplace we see two square shapes, it would be other VLS ?

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Jeff Head said:

Yes. Two sets of 4x2, or a total of 16 cells.

Here's a couple of better looks:

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4 sets of 8

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tphuang said:

not everything needs missiles. If it's role is ASW and IN already has a lot of ships launch AShM, then as long as it has all the ASW gears, then it can do its roles.

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Klub-N 91RTE2 Maquette

Its basic length is 8.9 m (29 ft), with a range of 40 km (25 mi) at supersonic speed. The torpedo has a warhead weight of 76 kg (168 lb). The lightest of all variants, with a launch weight of 1,300 kg (2,900 lb). Speed is Mach 2.

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aksha said:

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Jeff Head said:

Yes. Two sets of 4x2, or a total of 16 cells.

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NEW DELHI: There is finally some urgency being shown to rescue India's ageing and depleting underwater combat arm. The approval for two long-pending projects, one for construction of six advanced diesel-electric submarines and the other for six nuclear-powered ones, is well on the cards now. Sources said the finance ministry has asked the defence ministry to "club" the separate projects to "draft a single note" for the requisite nod from Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS). "The two projects have been languishing for long in the files being exchanged between the two ministries. The government seems serious about fast-track approvals this time," said a source. The approvals, when they come, will not be a day too soon since India is down to just 13 old diesel- electric submarines, barely half of which are operational at any given time, and a single nuclear- propelled submarine INS Chakra on lease from Russia without any long-range missiles. It takes at least seven to eight years for the first submarine to roll out once its construction project actually gets underway. The two projects will together entail a cost of well over Rs 1 lakh crore spread over 10-15 years. 'Project-75India' for the six conventional submarines, armed with both land-attack missiles and air-independent propulsion (AIP) for greater underwater endurance, was granted "acceptance of necessity'' in November 2007, as was reported earlier by TOI. But the global tender to select the foreign collaborator for it is yet to be even issued. As per the existing plan, the first two submarines will be imported to save time, while three will be constructed at Mazagon Docks (Mumbai), and the sixth at Hindustan Shipyard (Visakhapatnam).

The project to build the six SSNs (nuclear-powered attack submarines, usually without nuclear-tipped missiles), in turn, is to be undertaken at the secretive ship-building centre (SBC) at Vizag. India's first three SSBNs (nuclear-powered submarines with nuclear ballistic missiles) are already being built at the SBC to complete the country's nuclear weapons triad - the capability to fire nukes from land, air and underwater. The expertise gained in the construction of the SSBNs will help the SSN project, said sources.

The first SSBN, the 6,000-tonne INS Arihant, is slated to go for extensive sea trials soon after its miniature 83 mw pressurized light-water reactor, which went "critical" in August last year, attains "full power" in another month or so. The second, INS Aridhaman, is also to be "launched into water" soon with its hull and basic structure ready.

China, incidentally, has five nuclear and 51 conventional submarines. It is poised to induct up to five JIN-class SSBNs, with their new 7,400-km range JL-2 missiles, over the next few years.

India, however, has miserably failed in this arena. It was in 1999 that the CCS had approved a 30-year submarine-building plan, which envisaged induction of 12 new submarines by 2012, followed by another dozen by 2030.

But 15 years later, not a single new submarine has been inducted because of politico-bureaucratic apathy. The first programme, Project-75, was finalized only in 2005 to build six French Scorpene submarines at MDL. It's already running over four years behind schedule, with the first Scorpene now slated for delivery by November 2016 and the other five rolling out thereafter every 8-10 months. Moreover, the Rs 1,800 crore contract to buy 98 heavy-weight torpedoes to arm the submarines is also yet to be inked.

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Britain's Hague Plugs Eurofighter on Visit to IndiaBritain's foreign secretary lobbied India on Tuesday to buy Eurofighter military aircraft, suggesting that London has not yet abandoned hope of ousting France's Rafale from a multi-billion-dollar combat jet order.

William Hague was in New Delhi to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who swept to power in a landslide general election victory in May on pledges to boost jobs, upgrade infrastructure and reinforce India's armed forces that are saddled with outdated equipment, much of it of Soviet origin.

"We have always had a strong belief in the capabilities of the Eurofighter and its potential," Hague told reporters at a joint briefing with British finance minister George Osborne.

"It's always available to those countries that are able and willing to purchase it," he said.

London hopes that a stalled deal for India to buy 126 Rafale jets from France's Dassault Aviation may yet collapse, perhaps opening the door to a new deal involving the Eurofighter Typhoon that is partly built in Britain.

Hague made it clear that Britain would not seek to pre-empt the talks on buying the French jets after Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius visited New Delhi last week. "We respect the process that is followed in India," he said at the end of a two-day visit.

Earlier, the Indian hosts confirmed that the question of replacing India's crash-prone fleet of Russian-built MiG-21 jets had come up in intergovernmental talks.

"The UK foreign secretary did indicate the technological advantages of the product that they have available," Syed Akbaruddin, spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs, told reporters in response to a question.

Hague and Osborne visited the site of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination on Tuesday morning and announced that a statue of the civil rights leader would be erected in front of the British Houses of Parliament.

Hague denied there was a contradiction between seeking to sell weapons to India and celebrating its best known pacifist.

"We're dealing with the Indian government, we're not imposing anything on anybody. Of course friendly countries that wish to buy things from the United Kingdom, they are able in compliance with our laws and regulations to buy those things," he said.

"There is no moral conflict."

Akbaruddin said that as well as defence issues, plans to build a 1,000-km (600-mile) industrial corridor between India's financial capital Mumbai and high-tech hub Bangalore figured during Tuesday's talks.

Osborne said Britain would open a 1 billion pound ($1.68 billion) credit line to invest in Indian infrastructure - the largest such facility extended to any sector in any country.

On Monday, he said in Mumbai on Monday that MBDA - a missile systems group in which BAE Systems has a stake - had signed a 250 million pound deal to supply defence equipment to theIndian Air Force.

Other shareholders in MBDA are Airbus Group and Italy's Finmeccanica.

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