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There are about six items that make up the Advanced Hornet...they have taken a couple off the table for the Block III Super Hornet.
anyhow, the new Engine is the riskiest part and probably will not get funded.
But they can do the IRST, the Conformal tanks, the new Radar, the Stealthy Weapons pod, etc. just about within a year. And I believe the US Navy will upgrade a fair number of its exosting F/A-18Fs.
BTW, the EA-18G can get some of these upgrades as well and I expect they will.
Boeing may not be getting the 5th gen stuff as of yet...but they are certainly going to be building Hornets (and modifying them) for another 15-20 years if this goes through.
And I hope it will.
As the F-35C comes aboard...and it is coming aboard and will be a GREAT multiplier for the US Navy and Naval Aviation...anyhow, as it comes aboard and its numbers grow, having another improement on the Super Hornet is nothing but good.
They are going to be in the fleet for years to come...so I say, improve them and keep them on the edge of their game throughout.
An F/A-18F with longer range, good infrared detection, AESA radar, a better cockpit that can communicate better with the F-35C and that itself is more stealthy than they currently are ...all of that is nothing but good.
I am not sure about the Canadians...they are making wierd noises, because this upgrade is heaven made for them...but I know the Aussies are going to take full advantage of it. And we may see others. At the price point, with these improvements, it will be a good aircraft to have f you cannot have the JSF.
Blackstone
Brigadier
Some of the benefits of friendly relations with the US.
Nice...they need to geet all 12.
...and then 12 more. India has a HUGE Maritime coat line...they could easily use 24 of these, and then about a dozen Tritons.
But I have to say...THAT is one nice pic of their P-8s!
The 4 in option yet ordered so 12, in more they have also 5 Il-38 as P-8 can attack ships with Kh-35UE all modernised with this ugly radar
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Indian Army hunts for new carbines
By: June 15, 2017
NEW DELHI — The Indian Army has issued a global request for information procure 200,000 5.56mm close-quarter battle carbines at a cost of about $400 million under the Buy & Make India category. The total order is estimated to increase to 500,000 if the requirement of the domestic paramilitary forces is also taken into account.
Efforts to acquire the CQB carbines since 2008 have not yielded any result, and the carbines developed by the state-owned Defence Research and Development Organization, or DRDO, and the Ordnance Factory Board, or OFB, have not been accepted by the Indian Army, according to a senior Indian Ministry of Defence.
The formal tender — expected to be issued in the next six months — will seek a transfer of technology for the carbines to be license produced in India under a partnership with domestic defense companies.
Several overseas equipment manufacturers — including Beretta of Italy, FN FAL of Belgium, Heckler & Koch of Germany, Colt's Manufacturing Company of the United States, and Sig Sauer of Switzerland — are likely to tie up with Indian defense companies such as private sector firms Mahindra Defence, Larsen & Toubro, Bharat Forge and Reliance Defence.
After Israel Weapon Industries, or IWI, emerged as the single vendor in the global tender from 2011 for the procurement of 44,618 carbines along with 33.6 million rounds of ammunition, the tender was canceled, paving the way for the fresh RFI. Four contenders — IWI, Beretta ,Colt's and Sig Sauer — were in the race, but only IWI emerged as the winner because the other contenders could not meet the qualitative requirements pertaining to night vision mounting, an Indian Army official said.
Meanwhile, "DRDO and OFB have been trying to develop various small arms, including carbines, but none of them have passed through test and evaluation criteria," said Bhupinder Yadav, a defense analyst and retired Indian Army major general. "Amogh 5.56mm carbine, specially designed and developed for CQB, was rejected by Army on its first trial."
The latest carbine to be developed by DRDO and OFB, the 5.56mm Excalibur, has been rejected by the Army's special forces. "The main obstacle was loud sound and huge muzzle flash, which was undesirable," Yadav noted.
The 5.56mm MINSAS is the homemade carbine to most closely reach acceptance. "The Army has asked to do some improvements in this on two-pin disassembly, quick-fitting suppressor and polymer magazines. Once these things are taken care of, the weapon would be induced," Yadav said.
Meanwhile, domestic private sector defense major Punj Lloyd as well as IWI have jointly set up a manufacturing facility in India to produce small arms, including 5.56x30mm CQB carbines.
Some of the requirements of the carbines listed in the RFI include an effective range of at least 200 meters; a weight less than 3 kilograms; a modular design; and "luminous tipped integrated flip up open sight, reflex sight and visible and invisible laser-spot designator," the Army official noted.
The Indian Army has been without a carbine since 2010 when it removed from service the license-produced 9mm British Sterling 1A1 submachine gun.
How is comparable F16V to J10C ?