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Well, what's inside that missile tho ? that's the most important thing. and what batch it is ?

The Indian did attempted to enhance the Brahmos via local components, it could be expected to be more expensive due to local manufacturing QC's and other things. Also if they are indeed extending the range then one cannot compare it with earlier 290-300 Km range Brahmos.
 
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Stealthflanker said:
Well, what's inside that missile tho ? that's the most important thing. and what batch it is ?

The Indian did attempted to enhance the Brahmos via local components, it could be expected to be more expensive due to local manufacturing QC's and other things. Also if they are indeed extending the range then one cannot compare it with earlier 290-300 Km range Brahmos.
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With their iPhone case production yield being ~50%, I can imagine their missile production yield being ~10-25%. And that's probably even while importing most of the actual components from China/West/etc. That is probably where all the extra cost comes from. It's the India price.
 
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The nuclear-powered attack submarine deficit of the Indian Navy shows another very good reason for helping the Indian Navy get its third aircraft carrier fast. It will not only starve the Indian Army's budget, but also prevent the Indian Navy from having sufficient funds to buy French nuclear-powered attack submarines. Currently the Indian Navy has one SSN leased from Russia and it sounds like it can do harm to Chinese shipping.

At the height of one of many border standoffs between India and China in the past decade, the Navy’s lone nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the INS Chakra, slipped out of Visakhapatnam harbour.

The Chakra dived into the Bay of Bengal and disappeared for over a month, her deployment known to very few in the government. The SSN transited a few thousand nautical miles to the east where she occupied a patrol station and successfully accomplished its mission.

It was a rare deployment of an Indian tactical asset in distant waters, proving that India could mount a naval riposte against China’s landward aggression. The choice of the lone SSN leased from Russia was not surprising. They are among the few platforms capable of operating independently and discretely in enemy waters.
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On the other hand, the aircraft carriers of the Indian Navy look like targets.

What is known is that increasingly sophisticated imaging satellites and weapons like China’s ship-killing ballistic missiles have increased the vulnerability of large surface ships like aircraft carriers.
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It seems to me the real reason India wants a third aircraft carrier is because having it looks good. Indians are certain they will become a global power any day now and having a fleet of aircraft carriers matches their grand self perception. The high caste Hindus who run Indian foreign policy probably make up 90% or more of Delhi's strategic community. The group is an unusually vain and prideful people. We should psychologically take advantage of their deficiency, a combination of vanity, ingrained sense of superiority, and excessively optimstic projections of their own economic potential, to cheaply undermine their military effectiveness.
 
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