Kongsberg to supply RAS technology for Indian Navy’s new Fleet Support Ships
Kongsberg Maritime has signed a contract with Hindustan Shipbuilding Limited to supply its electric replenishment-at-sea equipment for its Fleet Support Ships programme. The Indian Navy’s Fleet Support Ships (FSS) are...
More details on the Mars Lander Mission:
IndianSpacePost has already made a more legible graphic based on the above slide:
Also, we get our first look at what the ExoWorlds telescope supposedly looks like:
Unless they're just using this image as a placeholder (I don't think they are)...
There's various kinds of lifting bodies you can go for, all have a tradeoff to be made.
There are also other HGV bodies in the works as previously shown in some slides:
What they're likely to settle on would depend on a bunch of factors including manufacturing cost. There might even be...
This, seen together with SMART is an undeniable indication that we're going for a grand A2/AD strategy based out of the Andaman islands against PLAN.
Also, it seems the upper stage (the missile itself, sans the large booster) ought to be able for VLS-launching out of the BrahMos UVLM on...
Keel laid for the first of five 44,000T Fleet Support Ships being built by HSL, Vizag
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/11/keel-laying-of-the-first-fleet-support-ship-for-indian-navy/
NSA - Mike Waltz (head of the India caucus & China hawk)
State - Marco Rubio (introduced the bill asking for CAATSA waiver to India and wanted sanctions on Pakistan)
So far the Trump cabinet is shaping up well from an Indian perspective.
https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/india-set-to-test-over-1000-km-strike-range-anti-ship-ballistic-missile20241110194006/
Could be what this is for:
Stay tuned...ASBM could happen this week.
In other N-sub news over the last few months, the 2nd Arihant-class SSBN was commissioned and the 4th (presumably last) boat of the class, which is also one of the two that are the 'Stretched' variant, was launched i.e. released into the water from the dry dock.
Oh and construction of a new VLF...
The Project-77 Nuclear-powered Attack Submarine (SSN) Program: An Analysis
(this is a reproduction of an article I've written for a different blog)
On the 9th of October 2024, The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), the apex decision-making body of the Indian Government regarding all Military...