tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post5987357328829258211..comments2024-02-10T23:32:15.095-08:00Comments on TRISHUL: Rocket Artillery Firepower Being EnhancedPrasun K Senguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-63693867463495223072008-10-11T15:05:00.000-07:002008-10-11T15:05:00.000-07:00Prasun,I should have specified what I meant by ind...Prasun,<BR/>I should have specified what I meant by indeginization. I meant building an aircraft from raw material sourced from Indian companies. Indian comapnies having the knowhow to build these components and yes including tyres. The only reason I ask is because SU 30 MKI is our frontline fighter as the MRCA and LCA are still a few years away from operational roles.<BR/>ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-3533586747304476762008-10-11T00:01:00.000-07:002008-10-11T00:01:00.000-07:00It depends on what is meant by indigenisation. Doe...It depends on what is meant by indigenisation. Does it mean ToT for licenced-assembly from fully knocked-down kits? Does it mean producing the airframe, engines, accessories out of India-sourced raw materials? Does it mean procuring avionics off-the-shelf from foreign and Indian vendors, with HAL only assembling them and then installing them on the aircraft? Does it mean the various foreign vendors setting up workshops within India to undertake complete MRO activities in India, but choosing to import the critical components of the various LRUs (especially for avionics)? The problem here is the Govt of India and HAL have not yet spelt out with clarity on what constitutes indigenisation. <BR/><BR/>Regarding the tyres, the problem has been the industrial litigation between Dunlop India and MRF Tyres. MRF had already bought over Dunlop India a few years ago but the takeover was the subject of a litigation case that only recently got resolved. Now MRF Tyres looks set to mass-produce the tyres for not only military aircraft, but for commercial airliners as well.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-77186703376436593462008-10-10T08:55:00.000-07:002008-10-10T08:55:00.000-07:00Prasun,Any idea hoiw the indigenization of the SU3...Prasun,<BR/>Any idea hoiw the indigenization of the SU30 MKI is going on. how many #'s have been inducted in IAF to date. A while back there was a story that even the front wheel tyres are imported from Russia!<BR/>ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-67265109476720220552008-10-10T07:38:00.000-07:002008-10-10T07:38:00.000-07:00@PrasunNo worries mate.. Take your time and keep u...@Prasun<BR/><BR/>No worries mate.. Take your time and keep up the great stuff!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-38363227204847588932008-10-09T13:11:00.000-07:002008-10-09T13:11:00.000-07:00To Max: Cut me some slack here yaar. The ATV artic...To Max: Cut me some slack here yaar. The ATV article will appear along with related info on the Akula-2 SSGN and related shore-based establishment reqmts. Patience my friend.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-34930866071007740482008-10-09T11:12:00.000-07:002008-10-09T11:12:00.000-07:00typo*your articletypo<BR/><BR/>*your articleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-62097942465653929872008-10-09T11:11:00.000-07:002008-10-09T11:11:00.000-07:00@PrasunOK.. I'll read our article and comment. Ple...@Prasun<BR/><BR/>OK.. I'll read our article and comment. Please don't make it be like the "alleged ATV article" you told me about ages ago.. :-)<BR/><BR/>LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-22539556824502147462008-10-09T10:06:00.000-07:002008-10-09T10:06:00.000-07:00To Max: If I'm not mistaken, Ajai in BROADSWOR...To Max: If I'm not mistaken, Ajai in BROADSWORD had a few months ago done a detailed report of the on-going industrial spat between L & T and BEML regarding the Pinaka MBRL's final assembly. It is a truly damning report and the MoD should be ashamed of such a state of affairs. Regarding production of weapons from raw materials it does take time for the production line to churn out the weapons as the desired levels of QC take time to achieve. For instance, although the licenced-production of T-72M1 MBTs was inked in the early 1980s, it was only in 1988 that the first locally-assembled (from Soviet-supplied raw materials) was rolled out. Same goes for aircraft as well. The ones of imported design were and are being licence-assembled by HAL, not being built with India-sourced raw materials as yet (this applies specially to the Su-30MKI. That's what explains the long lead-times taken to produce the Tejas LCA's LSPs and to complete the development cycle of even the HJT-36 IJT. Lastly, some of the advanced navigation systems for the Pinaka MBRL are being outsourced from abroad and were ordered only last February (this year). These items will be delivered only early next year. <BR/>Am doing the article on the new MBRL being developed by the ARDE. It will be almost identical to the Smerch-M in terms of firepower performance. Cheers!Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-76502099975342850592008-10-09T05:11:00.000-07:002008-10-09T05:11:00.000-07:00@PrasunThis article says 6 months. See: ( http://...@Prasun<BR/><BR/>This article says 6 months. See: ( http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Tata,-L&T-bag-orders-for-Pinaka-rocket-launcher/1662/ )<BR/><BR/>And why should it take so damn many months to make such a system? more than a year? it's just some hydraulics mounted on a truck fitted with rockets! Even a fighter jet doesn't take so long to produce. HAL makes several Sukhois and Dhruvs etc. every year!<BR/><BR/>Can we hear something on the ARDE's plan to develop a long range MBRL on par with the Smerch? Or please include it in your article coming up on the same.<BR/><BR/>ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-65926037428946053392008-10-08T10:28:00.000-07:002008-10-08T10:28:00.000-07:00The Pinaka Regiment you are referring to was in fa...The Pinaka Regiment you are referring to was in fact a Test & Evaluations Unit. The fully equipped Regiment that will be part of the Army's operational ORBAT will be commissioned with all its MBRL assets next year. The defintive version of the Pinaka was not ready until 2006 for user-trials. All that was delivered to the Army's Test & Evaluations Unit were pre-production prototypes. No MBRL can be delivered by any OEM (Indian or foreign)within six months of contract signature. The minimum specified time-period is 18 months as series-production-tooling and long-lead items take a minimum of 14 months to be fabricated and tested.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-87187286800651045582008-10-08T10:24:00.000-07:002008-10-08T10:24:00.000-07:00Prasun,waiting for your Pinaka MBRL story.THansk i...Prasun,<BR/>waiting for your Pinaka MBRL story.<BR/>THansk in advance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-31445241868956119732008-10-08T09:45:00.000-07:002008-10-08T09:45:00.000-07:00Dear Prasun sir,Entering service next year?The fir...Dear Prasun sir,<BR/><BR/>Entering service next year?<BR/><BR/>The first PINAKA regiment was raised in early 2000. Sometime last year I remember TATA and LT winning a contract to produce more PINAKA which were to be delivered within 6 months.<BR/><BR/>I think you got your facts mixed up.<BR/><BR/>_MKKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-38677800878959415262008-10-08T09:17:00.000-07:002008-10-08T09:17:00.000-07:00To Kannan: Will do a separate analysis of the farc...To Kannan: Will do a separate analysis of the farcical towed howitzer competitive trials very very soon.<BR/><BR/>To Anon@3:03AM: The 214mm Pinaka MBRL will begin entering service early next year. Am doing a separate story describing its capabilities and future growth potential.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-99734610678257222008-10-08T03:03:00.000-07:002008-10-08T03:03:00.000-07:00Dear Prasun sir, you said: Russia’s SPLAV State R...Dear Prasun sir,<BR/><BR/> you said: <BR/><BR/>Russia’s SPLAV State Research and Production Enterprise, and the procurement of another 18 follow-on 9K58 Smerch-Ms was sanctioned late last month. <BR/><BR/> How about PINAKA MBRL? Why not PINAKA rather than Smerch Ms?<BR/><BR/><BR/>_MKKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-60994796942346195852008-10-07T20:02:00.000-07:002008-10-07T20:02:00.000-07:00Plz throw light on status of artillery contract. I...Plz throw light on status of artillery contract. I think after cancellation of 700 pieces bid, nobody is capable of fulfilling requirements of army's GSQR. What the hell were they thinking? By the looks of things, our strategy is area suppression dominated by long range MBRL (improved pinakas+smerch)and pakis are concentrating on howitzers in numbers. right? If we use long range MBRLS for duels with pakis in LoC,wont this be treated as escalation by international community. Do we have adequate howitzers to do the job, heard longtime ago that Soltam have upgraded all small calibres to 155mm. Is that enough?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-69371069906490434912008-10-07T16:34:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:34:00.000-07:00Kindly take note that ALL the BEML-built TATRA veh...Kindly take note that ALL the BEML-built TATRA vehicles shown above feature left-hand drives. Apparently BEML must have forgotten to include the RHD modification in the technology-transfer agreement with TATRA!Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-43371256136084023732008-10-07T16:22:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:22:00.000-07:00Prithvi will work only with GLONASS PY code becaus...Prithvi will work only with GLONASS PY code because India has a bilateral agreement with Russia (which has agreed to do so because the Prithvi SS-150/SS-250 does not violate any of the MTCR guideleines), and not with the US. Therefore India cannot access the US PY codes from NAVSTAR. But India's own Gagan GPS satellites that will be deployed for regional constellation coverage will give India her own PY code accuracy. <BR/>Prithvi SS-250 will be covered by me in a separate article. But prototypes of this missiles have been fired out to 310km to date. <BR/>There's no Prithvi 350 as such. It is called the Dhanush. There is another solid-fuelled variant of the Prithvi SS-150 which is used as a target for the PAD-1/AAD anti-ballistic missiles.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-29882340229460468232008-10-07T16:12:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:12:00.000-07:00to prasun is prithvi works with US gps or russian ...to prasun <BR/><BR/>is prithvi works with US gps or russian GLONASS for PY codes <BR/><BR/>or will US allow its gps for PY codes i think russia agreed to allow PY codes of their glonass thats y india joined that<BR/><BR/>one more question <BR/><BR/>what about range of pritvi-250<BR/>and what is prithvi 350 and what r the ranges of these two missilsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-77763956298804537362008-10-07T16:07:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:07:00.000-07:00Well, only the PM or RM can reveal those figures w...Well, only the PM or RM can reveal those figures with authority during question-hour in Parliament. But what I say say with certainty is the the IAF has no SS-250 missiles that it promised take for its two squadrons, which have not yet been set up. Why? because the IAF wants Prithvi SS-250 to have greater accuracy, i.e. a CEP of 10 metres, which has not yet been possible to achieve.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-54843139761746462062008-10-07T15:49:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:49:00.000-07:00to prasun i want to know how many missiles r in se...to prasun <BR/><BR/>i want to know how many missiles r in service<BR/><BR/>i mean exact number of missiles<BR/><BR/>like how many prithvi-150<BR/>how many prithvi -250 <BR/><BR/>how many agni-1 and agni-2 missiles have been commissioned <BR/><BR/>i just want to know the numbersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-64488746413667916842008-10-07T15:36:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:36:00.000-07:00As I said in the article, the missile can be fuell...As I said in the article, the missile can be fuelled days, months or even years before its usage. The fuel has a 10-year shelf-life. There's no need to put fuel into the missile just before launch. It can even be done six months before the missile is fired. So relax. They are ready-to-fire missiles whenever required.Prasun K Senguptahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369323150694008798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5154280302945875495.post-16654836990691334242008-10-07T15:33:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:33:00.000-07:00to prasun i wnat to know r prithvi missiles ready ...to prasun <BR/><BR/>i wnat to know r prithvi missiles ready to fire missiles like solid fuel missiles<BR/><BR/>or they need to fill up the liquid fuel first and then fire cuz it takes almost 2 hours to fill up the misiile and those 2 hours r deadly lateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com