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thunderchief said:

Buying Griffin C/D doesn't have much sense IMHO. It is significantly inferior to Mig-29 UPG already in Indian service, and much costlier (price similar to price of SU-30 MKI) . Of course, you could wait for Griffin E/F but it would take time to finish that project, and by that time even FGFA could be ready .

Best option would be to finally introduce Tejas, even if not fully operational, in greater numbers. Even now, It has to be lot better then Mig-21 Bis . Rest of the numbers could be made up with improved Su-30 MKI .

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well Tejas mk1 FOC got delayed by another year, and IAF will never buy it until it has got FOC.

as for Griffin i was indeed talking of E/F

from what i hear Tejas MK2 will be Griffin E/Fwith an indian stamp, some Air Marshalls were bold enough to put it in their autobiographies.

now there is something called the Tejas MK1.5 or MK 1A
Fitted out with latest israeli bells and whistles , especially the Elta 2052 AESA,

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USA and India have formed a Joint Working Group for possible co-operation in the field of aircraft carrier technologies in the future.

The collaboration, which will result in building aircraft carriers, is expected to significantly boost the Indian Navy’s capabilities.

Indian Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar released the information of the Joint Working Group in a written reply to Shri KC Tyagi and Shri P Bhattacharya in Rajya Sabha.

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Indian Navy’s warship INS Trikand is conducting a port visit to Djibouti.

The vessel entered the port on August 10 and is scheduled to stay until August 13.

Since November 2008, the port has been frequented by warships of the Indian Navy for operational tasking during anti-piracy escort missions being conducted in the Gulf of Aden. Recently, Djibouti also played a central role in ‘Operation Rahat’ in April 2015, during which Indian warships rescued over 3000 stranded Indian citizens along with citizens of 35 different nationalities from strife-torn nation of Yemen.

The evacuated people were brought to Djibouti, designated as the centre for initial evacuation by the Indian Government, for onward transfer to their countries.

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Those Indian Talwar frigates are getting around. Good all around Frigates. INS Trikand, F51, is the sixth of six FFGs and was commissioned in 2013. India is looking to buy three more from Russia, and will probably most definitely do so.

Djibouti is a small Arabic country right on the Horn of Africa, surrounded by Eritrea , Ethiopia, and Somalia. It gained its independence from France in 1977.

It has about 800,000 inhabitants, but is located very strategically. Many times when there is trouble in other nations around the area, other nation's militaries stage there, or base their rescue or humanitarian operations there.

There is a strong us presence there. Camp Lemonnier is a United States Naval Expeditionary Base which the US has operated there since soon after 911. It was originally a French Foreign Legion base which the local government then operated before allowing the US to occupy and operate the base.

I was looking at pictures India's recently launched submarine INS Kalvari a scorpene class sub
Looking at the picture , It has some kind of Side sonar , picture below


Does Kilo 636 has such kind of side sonar ?
What is the advantage of such sonar on the side?


Back to bottling my Grenache

Miragedriver said:

Looking at the picture , It has some kind of Side sonar

What is the advantage of such sonar on the side?

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Well, on the Virginia class the side-facing sonars use Light Weight Wide Aperture Arrays (LWWAA). This is basically a set of fiber optic sonar array panels mounted on each side of the submarine.

They provide input to the submarine's combat system, using what is called Fiber Optic Acoustic Sensor (FOAS) technology to convert a target sub's acoustic signature into info that can identify, track and target it.

FOAS uses only passive fiber-optic elements which contain very few parts and no electronics. The data it receives is transmitted on single mode fiber.

These fiber-optic acoustic sensor arrays can be used for the Light Weight Wide Aperture Array (LWWAA) mentioned, or on new FOAS based towed arrays, or on fixed bottom arrays for deep ocean and shallow/littoral water surveillance.

The Sonar 2078 system that is employed on the Astute submarines has fiber elements that are similar for some of its arrays.

I presume that these side facing arrays on the Scorpene use something similar...but am not sure.

Either way, they are meant to give the sub that employs them a much better 360 degree sense of its battle space and the potential targets in it. The side sonar arrays inrease this awareness significantly over bow mounted active arrays or towed arrays...or both. With all three, the sub has a much better ability to identify and track potential targets, and then to target the ones it identifies as threats.
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British pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon fighter with a resounding humiliation suffered at Indian pilots who handled Russian Sukhoi SU-30 in 2015 Indradhanush joint exercises recently conducted in the British sky, according to the specialized magazine Aviation week.

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Bilateral exercises pitting Britain’s Eurofighter Typhoons against Indian air force Sukhoi Su-30s have resulted in an unlikely diplomatic spat. Exercise Indradhanush IV was hailed as a success as the four Sukhoi Su-30MKIs which had been deployed to Coningsby air base headed for home on July 31. But British officials were surprised when days later, members of the Indian contingent were quoted in the Indian media claiming a 12-0 victory against the Typhoons during within-visual-range .

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Those Indian Talwar frigates are getting around. Good all around Frigates. INS Trikand, F51, is the sixth of six FFGs and was commissioned in 2013. India is looking to buy three more from Russia, and will probably most definitely do so.

Djibouti is a small Arabic country right on the Horn of Africa, surrounded by Eritrea , Ethiopia, and Somalia. It gained its independence from France in 1977.

It has about 800,000 inhabitants, but is located very strategically. Many times when there is trouble in other nations around the area, other nation's militaries stage there, or base their rescue or humanitarian operations there.

There is a strong us presence there. Camp Lemonnier is a United States Naval Expeditionary Base which the US has operated there since soon after 911. It was originally a French Foreign Legion base which the local government then operated before allowing the US to occupy and operate the base.

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"Djibouti" sounds like a great name for a grand-son, even if the parents are not amenable, in a pinch it would do for a granddaughter as well ??? LOL yeah, it has a nice ring to it, if the Honey Badger didn't so obviously fit her nick, I might even have to call her that???

Air Force Brat said:

"Djibouti" sounds like a great name for a grand-son, even if the parents are not amenable, in a pinch it would do for a granddaughter as well ??? LOL yeah, it has a nice ring to it, if the Honey Badger didn't so obviously fit her nick, I might even have to call her that???

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One of my granddaughters, a child of my oldest son, is named Rayna. They asked us what we though her middle name should be, so I said..."um, how about Onya?"

That would have made her Rayna Onya Head! LOL!

They didn't go for it, but it has become my nickname for her and she, and her parents now accept it as Papa's nickname. Hehehe.

Jeff Head said:

One of my granddaughters, a child of my oldest son, is named Rayna. They asked us what we though her middle name should be, so I said..."um, how about Onya?"

That would have made her Rayna Onya Head! LOL!

They didn't go for it, but it has become my nickname for her and she, and her parents now accept it as Papa's nickname. Hehehe.

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I love it, my Djibouti is here!

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As anybody who read the initial report should understand, the Flanker VS Typhoon "merges" were "set-ups" to allow the Indian lads to get a feel for the country side, and to get to "play" with their thrust vectoring in the only flight regime where it is effective, as the Eng has stated in the very low speed regime, likely under 250 knots, and while the Typhoon will still turn inside the Flanker in that speed regime, the Flanker pilots were able to "yaw" or "slew" their nose side ways with the 3D nozzles, and doing so were able to "cheat" aerodynamics and "push" the nose sideways inside the "phoon", very simple and it has to be "under 250 knots", or you will cause structural damage, very likely what has happened to those sweet little T-50s, they may not be quite as robust as the Flankers, and as I suspect that aft weapons bay is likely a weaker area, thrust vectoring places very high "sideloads" on an airframe that is primarily designed to move forward through the air. The F-22 and Flankers are very "robust" airframes.

The Indian pilots who commented stated that they were able to "yaw" their aircraft and push the nose inside the "phoons" with the OVT. simple, get it, got it, good!

To be sure, a gracious host always offers the guest the Master Bedroom, in this case, these initial WVR merges were to allow the Flankers to play to their strengths, it was also obvious from the very few comments that in a more realistic scenario, the Phoon was operating in its own element, I believe they refer to the Phoon as an energy fighter, in other words you keep your birds speed and energy very high, once the phoon gets slow, it does enter into a regime where is is much more defensive, and much less dominant??? just physics.