tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post6334625202628972525..comments2024-02-10T23:32:15.095-08:00Comments on TRISHUL: Spotlight On The Mi-46 Heavylift HelicopterPrasun K Senguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-83714240831687639782009-02-06T10:10:00.000-08:002009-02-06T10:10:00.000-08:00Prasun K SenguptaComment atTuesday, February 03, 2...Prasun K Sengupta<BR/><BR/>Comment at<BR/><BR/>Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:28:00 AM<BR/><BR/>was copypasted in BENGAL UNDER ATTACK but attributed to you.<BR/><BR/>hope you dont mind.<BR/><BR/>cheersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-89227686826865924692009-02-05T20:36:00.000-08:002009-02-05T20:36:00.000-08:00@Bobs, that's cool. How much were u quoted for the...@Bobs, that's cool. How much were u quoted for the Mig 21? I would love to own an old Dassault Ouragan / Toofani aircraft.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-10116495204310233152009-02-05T20:29:00.000-08:002009-02-05T20:29:00.000-08:00anon@ 11:46ami got the hunter's engine (RollsRoyce...anon@ 11:46am<BR/>i got the hunter's engine (RollsRoyce Avon mk207) for 10 lacs...and a/c was bought at the normal scrap rate ....Ambala AFS is a good place to hang out for warbird spotting and subsequent bargaining....but the biggest problem is transportation...i was offered a Mig-21 2yrs ago,but the left wing was completely destroyed...and the a/c itself has lot of burn marks....which meant a lot of money to be spent for patchup works.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-60704154632950660172009-02-05T11:46:00.000-08:002009-02-05T11:46:00.000-08:00BOBS, how much u paid for ur Hunter ?? if not too ...BOBS, how much u paid for ur Hunter ?? if not too personal that is.. a Mig 23 wld be superb!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-4287486088088200592009-02-05T09:56:00.000-08:002009-02-05T09:56:00.000-08:00Muhaahaahaahaa, if you think Prasun is a copycat, ...Muhaahaahaahaa, <BR/>if you think Prasun is a copycat, why waste your time in visiting this blogs and commenting here. i suppose you might have better things to do in that time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-67523961041308729922009-02-05T08:42:00.000-08:002009-02-05T08:42:00.000-08:00What happened copycat? not getting new brochures, ...What happened copycat? not getting new brochures, eh?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-11871076758693050852009-02-05T08:26:00.000-08:002009-02-05T08:26:00.000-08:00To Zorin: The Merkava Mk4 MBT was available for sa...To Zorin: The Merkava Mk4 MBT was available for sale in an off-the-shelf basis. There are no prospects for the Su-35 in India as the FGFA will be far more superior to the Su-35 as it exists today. What Viktor Komardin said was that India continues to procure spares for the OSA-AKM and Strella 10M and Igla-S. Nothign else was mentioned and I was there with him when he made those remarks last week when he was visiting Malaysia. <BR/><BR/>To Anon@5:22AM: Actually, the Tejas LCA's R & D phase got off on a wrong footing with disastrous consequences. This was primarily due to the DRDO's effort to garner more funds and influence within the MoD. Consequently, HAL in the late 1980s through to the mid-1990s was alloted funding for only developing the Dhruv ALH and the HTT-35 advanced turboprop trainer which has now strangely disappeared from the face of this Earth. I even remember seeing its full-scale mock-up on display in 1996. What the ADA should have been entrusted with was the design and development of various CAD tools/techniques and sub-systems (like avionics, flight/weapon management systems and accessories) to go on-board, with HAL being nominated as the prime contractor-cum-airframe designer. Regretably, this was not done and consequently the Tejas LCA had minimal inputs from the production engineering standpoint. As a result of this, ADA, which is manned primarily by scientists, has produced an LCA that is overweight and not weight-budgeted, something which HAL's designers and engineers could easily have achieved had they been associated with the project from its very inception. Yet another prominent example of scientists vainly attempting to do what engineers ought to is the Saras, which again is overweight. One can now only assume that all these hard-learnt lessons are being applied to futuristic programmes. Regarding the MCA versus the FGFA, the MTOW parameters of both are the same and I therefore don;t understand why anyone should even talk about the MCA project. Afterall, what is it that the MCA will be able to do which the FGFA will not be able to? When I spoke to senior IAF officials present in Zhuhai last November, I was told that the MCA was being talked about BEFORE the offer for the FGFA came in from Moscow. And since the FGFA development is now a certainty, there does not exist any requirement for the manned MCA. Unless ADA has any plans for developing an UCAV variant of the MCA, but I won;t give ADA or the DRDO any credit for even thinking along these lines at the moment.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-81822368873613287412009-02-05T05:22:00.000-08:002009-02-05T05:22:00.000-08:00HAL and ADA going to merge ?? How can ADA begin t...HAL and ADA going to merge ?? <BR/><BR/><I> How can ADA begin the MCA project when the tejas LCA project has not yet reached closure </I><BR/><BR/>That is the case with HAL too. <BR/><BR/>I thought that LCA is moved to HAL.<BR/><BR/>Going by your statement, atleast ADA has only one unfinished job in its plate, but HAL has lot of unfinished things with it. <BR/>So after LCA, ADA is virtually jobless ??<BR/><BR/>HAL is seen only as a assembling and manufacturing company. I wonder how come government trusts a manufacturing company to do R&D without merging/raising a research team in HAL. <BR/><BR/>I would say that it is a good idea to merge ADA with HAL and then let it to develop MCA or any futuristic stuffs. <BR/><BR/>I suppose Amra talks about DURGA / KALI.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-48729587975113861812009-02-05T03:16:00.000-08:002009-02-05T03:16:00.000-08:00Instead of the Russians who are fickle with regard...Instead of the Russians who are fickle with regards to their friendship with India these days, any idea why the Indians didn't go for JV with Israel to produce the Merkava tanks with some Indian add ons such as the Kanchan armour etc.? I thought the Israelis offered Merkava IV to India.Also do you know any news about Indians willing to buy SU-35?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-81336347699788022362009-02-05T03:07:00.000-08:002009-02-05T03:07:00.000-08:00To Anon@5:05PM: How can ADA begin the MCA project ...To Anon@5:05PM: How can ADA begin the MCA project when the tejas LCA project has not yet reached closure? I'm sure ADA on its own can do such conceptual R & D work in its spare time but the DRDO has not allocated any funds for this programme and neither has the MoD released any such funds. In any case, now that it has been decided by the Goct of India that any further new-generation aircraft R & D work will be done by HAL (just as is the case wth the HJT-36, FGFA and MRTA), the possibility of ADA taking the lead position in developing any kind of MCA is extremely remote. I any case it does not make sense to have two separate design and development authorities (ADA and HAL) in the country as it not only duplicates things, but is also cost-prohibitive.<BR/><BR/>To: Amra B: They're already fielded, if you can classify laser rangefinders and laser target designators as eweapons too.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-33471724350362152852009-02-05T00:23:00.000-08:002009-02-05T00:23:00.000-08:00India to field laser weapons in 5 years - Xinhua.C...India to field laser weapons in 5 years - Xinhua.<BR/><BR/>Care to throw light on this.<BR/><BR/>ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-37421216773045225932009-02-04T23:11:00.000-08:002009-02-04T23:11:00.000-08:00A ROSOBORONEXPORT official, Komardin apparently sa...A ROSOBORONEXPORT official, Komardin apparently said that the Indians are buying more osa-akm,Buk, TOR, Tungushka and Strela-10 missile systems but not s-300/400. I thought Strela and Osa-akms were obsolete weaponry.Is India really buying these?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-87561572360531686892009-02-04T23:09:00.000-08:002009-02-04T23:09:00.000-08:00anon @ feb06 10:04amsome of them are given to muse...anon @ feb06 10:04am<BR/>some of them are given to museums,some are cannibalized for spares, some are simply thrown into a garbage ...while few are sold to enthusiastic plane lovers like me...i own a Hunter (along with engine) which was shot down in '71 war......i have no idea abt fate of other a/c.....i am serouisly looking forward to buying a MiG-21/23...prasun, u have any idea?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-66692915970758310612009-02-04T17:05:00.000-08:002009-02-04T17:05:00.000-08:00PKS our all knowing friend, what do you have to sa...PKS our all knowing friend, what do you have to say about news that ADA is starting up the MCA programme?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-78962360301375741252009-02-04T13:29:00.000-08:002009-02-04T13:29:00.000-08:00Prasun,can you post your article in full on this b...Prasun,<BR/>can you post your article in full on this blog.<BR/>http://www.forceindia.net/coverstory2.aspx<BR/>ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-50655873802117167942009-02-04T10:06:00.000-08:002009-02-04T10:06:00.000-08:00prasun sengupta do u have any idea what does india...prasun sengupta do u have any idea what does india do with all its old aircrafts like hawker hunter, Maruts etc??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-49188496276707955502009-02-04T08:47:00.000-08:002009-02-04T08:47:00.000-08:00and wedgetail costs almost $500 million a piece an...and wedgetail costs almost $500 million a piece and it is based on 737 and therefore limited range and same for P8<BR/><BR/>but phalcon mounted on il76 provides more range and more load carrying capacityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-6234276784035477352009-02-04T08:44:00.000-08:002009-02-04T08:44:00.000-08:00to prasunaustralian wedgetail is delayed many year...to prasun<BR/><BR/>australian wedgetail is delayed many years by boeing as it has not been delivered to australia by now and just think P8 not even flown and there is no guarentee that it will arrive on time in indiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-10604188008264137572009-02-04T08:35:00.000-08:002009-02-04T08:35:00.000-08:00according to news the chinese say its an indian su...according to news the chinese say its an indian sub...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-8137682537270736152009-02-04T07:54:00.000-08:002009-02-04T07:54:00.000-08:00It actually makes no sense for an Indian Navy Type...It actually makes no sense for an Indian Navy Type 877EKM Kilo-class SSK to follow the two PLA Navy destroyers all the way to the Horn of Africa when the Indian Navy already knew the disposition of the warships and their missions. If the sole objective of the SSK is to profile the warships' acoustic signature, then this can easily done while the warships are either proceeding towards the Indian Ocean, or proceeding from the Indian Ocean to the Horn of Africa. A typical exercise of this nature would last no more than four to six hours. I'm now more inclined to believe that the SSK could have been an Iranian Kilo-class SSK that had a chance encounter with the PLA Navy warships. Afterall, that area has seen an increasing number of Iranian merchant vessel sightings, especially those suspected of carrying weapons stocks for Hamas via the Red Sea, crossing though the Suez Canal and disgorging their cargo consignments in Egyptian ports. That's also probably why the PLA Navy has not yet confirmed the nationality of the Kilo-class SSK that it claims to have successfully identified and forced it to surface.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-87502621766507725682009-02-04T07:28:00.000-08:002009-02-04T07:28:00.000-08:00How are the AEW aircraft classified in different g...How are the AEW aircraft classified in different generations?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-34030233468674754602009-02-04T06:37:00.000-08:002009-02-04T06:37:00.000-08:00hahaha, anon above u come from Pakistan defence fo...hahaha, anon above u come from Pakistan defence forum??? <BR/><BR/>just look at it like this: china never gives out such information. always it is india that cries. but this time china is crying. quite uncanny. i think the indian subs smoked them unaware and only later the found out when it was too late. so before anybody leaks the news about the humiliation they decided to give their version.... losers..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-840188763909989822009-02-04T05:44:00.000-08:002009-02-04T05:44:00.000-08:00Does Indian SSKs have required range to start from...Does Indian SSKs have required range to start from Mumbai/Vizag and then tail across Indian ocean to Malacca straits ??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-67834742664281415122009-02-04T05:04:00.000-08:002009-02-04T05:04:00.000-08:00To Anon@1:59AM: Why does one need to replace the B...To Anon@1:59AM: Why does one need to replace the BrahMos? <BR/><BR/>To Zorin: The Chilean PHALCON was Gen 1, the Indian PHALCON is Gen 3 and has greater flight endurance than the Chilean platform. The Singaporean PHALCON is also Gen 3 but has limited endurance. The Saab 2000 AEW C for Pakistan is a Gen 2 system. The Aussie Wedgetail system is Gen 4.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-34601941289033005522009-02-04T03:07:00.000-08:002009-02-04T03:07:00.000-08:00What's the difference between the nosemounted Phal...What's the difference between the nosemounted Phalcon system and the roradome type the IAF has obtained?Should they have gone for the same type as that was supplied to the Chilean Airforce?Australia has gone for the wedgetail and also Saab I think...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com