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Like I said: "I've arbitrarily drawn the line between major & minor combatant at 3,000T purely based on displacement (indicative of range/endurance/mission), otherwise some of the Minors here have more teeth than some Majors." Another factor which determined why I'm drawing it at 3k tons is...

I made a post on here a while back about the same: https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-navy-general-archive.93/page-8#post-92038 But I have now updated the 2 x MRSV to 4 in keeping with updated requirements. Here's the list as it stands: I've put together a pretty realistic/conservative...

During sea trials last month...

The Indian Navy's new 11,300-ton technology demonstration vessel INS Anvesh is reportedly out at sea (officially, sea trials haven't started yet). The large dual-face radar housing can be seen behind the superstructure: And the missile compartments behind that: This ship will supposedly...

Any 7.62x51 platform will have considerably higher recoil than IA's existing 5.56 INSAS staple. But among 7.62x51/.308 platforms, an AR-10 platform like the SIG 716 will actually have significantly milder recoil impulse compared to types like SLR - thanks to the buffer mechanism. Obviously, IA...

Last month, HAL had placed a $716 million order for 99 x F404-GE-IN20 afterburning turbofan engines from General Electric of US. This order goes toward fulfilling the $6 billion contract HAL received from the IAF earlier this year for 83 Tejas Mk-1A multirole fighters. The "IN20" is the...

NP-1 with a Navy Hawk AJT

Obviously, but I'm not telling you what we SHOULD be buying and for who - I'm telling you what we ARE buying and for who, as per the sources available. Why we are doing this? If I have to take a guess, like I said it could be us giving the Russians a biscuit and hopefully avoid buying a larger...

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That's what I thought but multiple sources are adamant that they are for IAF (including Neeraj Rajput who I trust). While the actual number of IAF personnel who use a rifle in day-to-day work is low, the armouries are likely to stock enough rifles for most personnel in case of need. The IAF has...

Netra AEW&C system of IAF: Indian-developed AESA early warning radar mounted on Embraer EMB-145I jet platform. Configured & modified by the Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS).

Perhaps, but unlikely to be the defining need. This is important for carriers that launch fighters as they may have to respond rapidly in order to intercept incoming threats. But large-scale vertical lift is almost never done spontaneously, even for HADR it all happens in a well thought-out...

IAF C-130J-30 SuperHerc landing at the Daulat Beg Oldie (DBO) advanced landing ground @ 16,700ft (5,100m) ASL, the highest airstrip in the world.

IAF CH-47F(I) Chinooks in the high-altitude region of Ladakh:

The RFI sure specifies some interesting things: Those are some huge-a$$ lifts they want. Bigger than what are on the Vikrant carrier! (which I think are ~18.5m wide, dunno length for sure). Also mentioned in the RFI is that the Lifts & Hangar deck must be able to handle aircraft of up to 24...

Yea fabrication - design & spec is handled by ADA.

Shivalik & Kadmatt when they first arrived @ Guam: P.S. - They changed the font (and position) of the pennant number. Used to be amidships, now its more toward the bow like on most Western ships. How it used to be:

The mission & profile of Nirbhay is similar to that of BGM-109 Tomahawk - a missile system that preceded the technology of MQ-1 by some 20-25 years. Single-use airframe that follows pre-determined flight path & uses terrain contours & Digital Elevation Models to course-correct. Fundamentally...

But designed by ADA.

Missiles & aircraft are fundamentally different. The airframes, engines, electronics of missiles are meant to be single-use. Drones/aircraft are entirely different and I've no idea why ADE was ever even established. Design capabilities existed with ADA aplenty and HAL was capable of...