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aksha · Feb 24, 2015

Jeff Head said:
The engines in question may not have only come from the 13 carrier qualified aircraft. There are over 20 total aircraft that have been delivered.

Either way, I too believe the Hindu has been historically fairly reliable, so it adds credence to the report.

It simply needs to be checked out and then addressed one way or the other and certainly not dismissed out of hand.

the same journalist recently confused the arihant with an SSK,not to mention that he is actually a tourism journalist.

defence journalists like shiv aroor ,who was one of the few guys who were present for the launch of the submarine,rubbished this report,saying that the submarine will refuelled only once in 7 years.

also note that this guy is a tourism jounalist,
and recently has written a lot of anti-indian military articles.
also note that the vikramaditya has been a punching bag for many indian journalists.

one guy called Rahul Singh for Hindustan times,which was said to be a reliable newspaper too,
said that that the vikramaditya had faced embrassing failures on her journey to india,
and that on one of her boilers were damaged.
the navy chief called it a blatant lie

and to prove her fitness, the vikramaditya spend 245 days at sea from her arrival until the end of september 2014, she again left for the sea on on november first week, visited mumbai on dec 3&4 and returned to karwar base on december 5.
then again she left for the sea in mid january 2015,for the tropex exercise which began in february and has now docked at karwar.

aksha · Feb 24, 2015

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Defence officials pointed out that unlike West Bengal, neighbouring Assam had fully cooperated with the defence forces.IAF stations in Tezpur and Chhabua in Dibrugarh had been upgraded and bases forSukhoi T-50 aircrafthave been set up.The existing IAF stations in Jorhat and Mohanbari in Assam and Bagdogra and Hashimara in West Bengal are being modernised. At the Mountain Strike Corps headquarters (HQ) in Panagarh, an IAF station for C-130 J Super Hercules aircraft, which can fly troops and weapons very fast to the Sino-Indian border, has been built.
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Jeff Head · Feb 24, 2015

aksha said:
the same journalist recently confused the arihant with an SSK,not to mention that he is actually a tourism journalist.

defence journalists like shiv aroor ,who was one of the few guys who were present for the launch of the submarine,rubbished this report, saying that the submarine will refuelled only once in 7 years.

I was not talking about the reactor repot...it has nothing to do with this report.

Aksha said:
also note that this guy is a tourism jounalist,and recently has written a lot of anti-indian military articles.

All of that is immaterial. the only relevant question si whether this report on the engines has any credibility to it.

Aksha said:
also note that the vikramaditya has been a punching bag for many indian journalists.

I am not asking about the carrier itself.

Aksha said:
one guy called Rahul Singh for Hindustan times,which was said to be a reliable newspaper too,said that that the vikramaditya had faced embrassing failures on her journey to india,and that on one of her boilers were damaged.the navy chief called it a blatant lie

That has nothing to do with this report.

Aksha said:
and to prove her fitness, the vikramaditya spend 245 days at sea from her arrival until the end of september 2014, she again left for the sea on on november first week, visited mumbai on dec 3&4 and returned to karwar base on december 5.then again she left for the sea in mid january 2015,for the tropex exercise which began in february and has now docked at karwar.

Again, I have not questioned the reliability of the carrier. She seems to be doing very well.

Also, we have seen numerous pictures now of the Vikramaditya exercising with numerous Mig-29Ks aboard.

You are interjecting a whole lot of info here that has nothing to do with this report...as if though that makes this report by default false.

I am not interested in all that other. My only issue is with determining the veracity and reliability of the report indicating that 30 engines had somehow gone belly up.

That is all.

I am sure that with such a report appearing in the Hindu, that the Indian Navy will respond officially.

A Bar Brother · Feb 24, 2015

aksha said:
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That's T-50 base thing is the journalist's mistake. He is referring to the MKI. IAF is years away from setting up a base for the T-50. Although it may be sooner if they want to procure a squadron or two of the Russian Stage-1 PAKFAs.

Air Force Brat · Feb 24, 2015

Heh!, Heh! I was thinking some Roman Soldier came up with the phrase "caveat emptor" after buying a sword from an ancient company called "Russo Stellato", after the handle fell off??? just a bad joke sorry, and I hope this is not true for everyones sake?? The Mig 29K is a lovely airplane, and likely would manage a bolter, but you would have to watch very carefully, as you throw all that power into the good engine, if you might lose directional control and find yourself in a VMC roll into the dead engine?
The problem is that while Sergiah Bogdon very might well manage with no sweat, as the experience goes down the risk goes up. The Russians did have some export Mig-29s returned in the very distant past, but I am rather certain their QC is much better now. The Real issue is the RD-33s as that seems like a rather unlikely failure rate, even half that could be problematic??

Brumby · Feb 24, 2015

aksha said:
the same journalist recently confused the arihant with an SSK,not to mention that he is actually a tourism journalist.

defence journalists like shiv aroor ,who was one of the few guys who were present for the launch of the submarine,rubbished this report,saying that the submarine will refuelled only once in 7 years.

also note that this guy is a tourism jounalist,
and recently has written a lot of anti-indian military articles.
also note that the vikramaditya has been a punching bag for many indian journalists.

one guy called Rahul Singh for Hindustan times,which was said to be a reliable newspaper too,
said that that the vikramaditya had faced embrassing failures on her journey to india,
and that on one of her boilers were damaged.
the navy chief called it a blatant lie

and to prove her fitness, the vikramaditya spend 245 days at sea from her arrival until the end of september 2014, she again left for the sea on on november first week, visited mumbai on dec 3&4 and returned to karwar base on december 5.
then again she left for the sea in mid january 2015,for the tropex exercise which began in february and has now docked at karwar.

This begs the obvious question. If the author of this report has so much credibility issues, why did you bothered to share something so questionable and lacking in truth values? At a minimum, you should have prefaced it as damaging to the brain if reading it. Lol.

Brumby · Feb 24, 2015

Air Force Brat said:
Heh!, Heh! I was thinking some Roman Soldier came up with the phrase "caveat emptor" after buying a sword from an ancient company called "Russo Stellato", after the handle fell off??? just a bad joke sorry, and I hope this is not true for everyones sake?? The Mig 29K is a lovely airplane, and likely would manage a bolter, but you would have to watch very carefully, as you throw all that power into the good engine, if you might lose directional control and find yourself in a VMC roll into the dead engine?
The problem is that while Sergiah Bogdon very might well manage with no sweat, as the experience goes down the risk goes up. The Russians did have some export Mig-29s returned in the very distant past, but I am rather certain their QC is much better now. The Real issue is the RD-33s as that seems like a rather unlikely failure rate, even half that could be problematic??

Maybe the one being advertised in your area is one of those defective ones? Should you decide to go up in one, better be sure that the parachute works and doesn't have the same failure rate. Lol.

Air Force Brat · Feb 24, 2015

Brumby said:
Maybe the one being advertised in your area is one of those defective ones? Should you decide to go up in one, better be sure that the parachute works and doesn't have the same failure rate. Lol.

Roger That!

thunderchief · Feb 25, 2015

Idea that 30 RD-33MKs "packed up" (whatever that means) but no planes crashed is silly at best . RD-33MK is a upgraded version of RD-33, it is relatively old and stable technology used by many airforces without major problems .

As our Indian members pointed out, what is really happening in India is a battle of various lobbies (French, Russian, American ....) to get a larger piece of cake , cake being Indian defence procurement . That battle is getting hectic in recent months, as decision about Rafale deal gets closer . Therefore, various news outlets working for one side or other would put various stories in order to influence public opinion and put a pressure on government .

aksha · Feb 25, 2015

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