Recent content by Rajendra Chola

IN OPV ship if sunk during wartime is a major morale buster for personnel. The Navy OPV and ICG armament specs are mostly the same except the ICG OPV weights 1000 tons less at 2500t. It’s just we are waiting for minesweepers, more subs, destroyers (we have less destroyers & frigates than South...

Indian OPVs are really bigger with very very less armaments. In war these are sitting ducks. Atleast the helicopters used here must have ASW capability. Or OPV roles should be completely given to ICG. Should prioritize acquisition of capital warships

Either they have increased the assembly area or decreased the number of Su jigs there. They can’t do both without expansion. Particularly after Super Su project kicks in. Older GE F404 engines can’t be used as HAL uses the IN 6 version. The earliest prototypes used a different version of F404. I...

Only 12 more Su max. Super Sukhoi upgrade hasn’t been started However HAL Nashik has advertised they will be delivering 2 mk1A by March next year. Means work has already started there. Engine delivery is another issue. GE hasn’t delivered engines as per contract . They have supply chain issues

Chinese won’t come alone for sure. They will plan to coordinate with Pakistan navy for sure. Entire Indian Navy couldn’t meet portion of Navy here. Our Eastern and Tri Service command should be tasked for this role. After 1971, the eastern side importance have gotten less. Western Command gets...

Congratulations to Turkey for launching this project and getting it on air in time

As usual not yet. These news get recycled every now and then and newspapers just copy paste it based on sources.

Finally someone is pushing Indian engine on our cruise missiles. Guess some bureaucrat took a look at the cost of the missile with foreign import engine and decided to develop new one from scratch. India still has unspecified number of Nirbhay missiles with old Russian engine inducted. They...

Piecemeal. I think for now Dhruv production will take place. Only 12 LUH and 15 LCH are placed. So not economical to move for small orders. It was planned for 4-500 Ka226 and LUH and 114 LCH. So facility was created in anticipation of the order which never came

FA50 is still an trainer. Tejas is an full fledged fighter. It’s no comparison. Other than engine and radar, there are no other similarities. Tejas still uses Israeli HUD , FA50 uses American ones I think. Weapons wise, Tejas has 3 times more weapons already integrated, Indian , Russian ...

This facility was planned with Ka226 and LUH in mind. Unfortunately this facility will be idle for the next 3-4 years.

F18 is still dual engine. Two F404 would still work in Catobar or stobar config. Would still carry lot of fuel and weapons in stobar config. But single engine with stobar would be still an tough call. For Indian tender, F18 was tested in stobar configuration and they found it can still lift 80%...

Koreans are pretty good “businessmen” if anyone asks me. They won the Malaysian tender without the officials visiting other aircraft facilities or test flying them. In fact it was so open, that their RFP was more than the max tender value Malaysian MoF has planned, and their MoD requested more...