You would be surprised but there are also fixed erector launcher in service.
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India doesn't have a specialized TEL.
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This is like a trailer with an erector. That's it.
A robust TEL for a nuke looks something like this
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Fixed Erector Launcher? Doable.You would be surprised but there are also fixed erector launcher in service.
Transport Erector Launcher? NahUh.
Modern TELs used by China are just engineering golems. Belarus MAZ is the only competitive firm outside of China doing TELs.
I guess it begins....
Not a TEL on the same line as of China, USSR, Russia.
Again.
More like a trailer transport.
Edit : Has it been deployed? Seems like a prototype or demonstrator.
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They should just upgrade their Su-30MKI fighters to Su-30SM2 standard.
Most current UAV wingman designs are also already starting to enter service, not just being announced.
No wingman is fully operational will take some time to fully intergate. But you are not going to see supersonic wing man entering service just now.
So no one complaining or belittling India for copying the Boeing wingman? No one claiming that India hacked Boeing to steal designs? The Boeing one has been out and public knowledge for over a year and been worked on before that for probably half a decade. India's design is closer to that than a J-20 is to an F-22 or F-35 lol.
In any case, drones aren't difficult to produce and set up. What separates them are their less visible capabilities. I doubt India is at a level where they can combine autonomy with drones. India has not even created drones that are the equivalent to CH-3/4 and the antique Pterodactyl I. That rustom drone looks like a high school calibre project and still not exactly in service. So where's even the first step remote control comm tech? Jamming resistance? EW resistance?
So many feel good projects broadcasted to promote nationalism before those projects actual attain substance - AMCA drawings and models, Loyal wingman shell (no ability to manufacture and design critical components not even a domestic first gen AESA has yet been fielded with IAF, comm equipment so vulnerable to older EW assuming Indian comms were used in Feb 2019). Contrast with China never showing anything until it's in service and often with next gen on the way. There is a chasm between planning and developing and another chasm between developing and testing and another between testing and producing, another between producing and initial service, and one more between initial service and upgrading/correcting teething issues. India shows off planning and developing.
Remember the GJ-11 flight tests were leaked back in 2013. The platform indicated to be in service by 2019 (publicly revealed to be in service) and could have been in service well before 2019. After all the WZ-8 drones were used and admitted to have been in use and flown around SCS and Taiwan after they were publicly revealed. There were even photos of crews cleaning up high speed burn marks from the surface of one that was paraded. The earliest Chinese equivalents even leak something is when it is at least flying.
If Chinese behaved like India and revealed development and even plans for future weapons, we'd be seeing things otherwise to be shown in 2040s. The only impressive and sensibly approached Indian development has been the ASAT test which came out of the blue even for observers in the know. It must have surprised observers that India possessed the early warning equivalent tech that allowed them to accurately hit a fast moving LEO satellite with KE warhead. The rocket and warhead itself is less impressive than the tracking and guidance tech demonstrated. I'm sure observers are actually thankful that India is very transparent with their plans and showing clear photos of development phase for so many critical weapons. This isn't a good thing for India though and certainly not something followed by any other major military power or MIC. It isn't a question of being a "open democracy" since so many clearly shroud everything in secrecy as much as China does.
I think there is just a greater proclivity among Indians for needing to show and sort of brag to themselves and others. Even every small plan needs to be shouted quite loudly and wetdreaming to be facilitated.
In any case, drones aren't difficult to produce and set up. What separates them are their less visible capabilities. I doubt India is at a level where they can combine autonomy with drones. India has not even created drones that are the equivalent to CH-3/4 and the antique Pterodactyl I. That rustom drone looks like a high school calibre project and still not exactly in service. So where's even the first step remote control comm tech? Jamming resistance? EW resistance?
So many feel good projects broadcasted to promote nationalism before those projects actual attain substance - AMCA drawings and models, Loyal wingman shell (no ability to manufacture and design critical components not even a domestic first gen AESA has yet been fielded with IAF, comm equipment so vulnerable to older EW assuming Indian comms were used in Feb 2019). Contrast with China never showing anything until it's in service and often with next gen on the way. There is a chasm between planning and developing and another chasm between developing and testing and another between testing and producing, another between producing and initial service, and one more between initial service and upgrading/correcting teething issues. India shows off planning and developing.
Remember the GJ-11 flight tests were leaked back in 2013. The platform indicated to be in service by 2019 (publicly revealed to be in service) and could have been in service well before 2019. After all the WZ-8 drones were used and admitted to have been in use and flown around SCS and Taiwan after they were publicly revealed. There were even photos of crews cleaning up high speed burn marks from the surface of one that was paraded. The earliest Chinese equivalents even leak something is when it is at least flying.
If Chinese behaved like India and revealed development and even plans for future weapons, we'd be seeing things otherwise to be shown in 2040s. The only impressive and sensibly approached Indian development has been the ASAT test which came out of the blue even for observers in the know. It must have surprised observers that India possessed the early warning equivalent tech that allowed them to accurately hit a fast moving LEO satellite with KE warhead. The rocket and warhead itself is less impressive than the tracking and guidance tech demonstrated. I'm sure observers are actually thankful that India is very transparent with their plans and showing clear photos of development phase for so many critical weapons. This isn't a good thing for India though and certainly not something followed by any other major military power or MIC. It isn't a question of being a "open democracy" since so many clearly shroud everything in secrecy as much as China does.
I think there is just a greater proclivity among Indians for needing to show and sort of brag to themselves and others. Even every small plan needs to be shouted quite loudly and wetdreaming to be facilitated.