There is something ironic about India complain of delay.
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The thing about FGFA was that apparently Indian also wants so many changes to the point beyond the baseline T-50 can provide or in other word a new aircraft.
If I’m right then India wanted over 40 changes in the aircraft. The exact details aren’t available though. Indian armed forces are famous for requesting too many changes from venders (This includes Indian ones).
It would’ve been good for them if they stayed with the projects and worked on a better deal, consider the slow progress being made with AMCA.
You should read about the HAL HJT-36 Sitara trainer. The Indians made a deal with NPO Saturn (Russia) in 2005 to design and build a new Al-55 engine for the aircraft. NPO Saturn delivered the engines in 2008. And yet the Indians claim that this was a 2 year delay in deliveries by the Russians. Good luck trying to find anyone anywhere else to design and build a new engine in 3 years. Let alone 1 year like they wanted.
Not only that, then the Indians figured out that the airframe had issues with loss of control, so they paid several Western advisers to fix those issues. The tail and other sections were redesigned. This took them over a decade to do. And the trainer is still not in production. They cannot even clone the MiG AT properly. It is a clear clone but of course they had to change the airframe design and goof it up.
With the Su-30MKI they requested many changes to the electronics, and radar, etc. They typically required the use of Western components. Then they complain that the aircraft is expensive per unit. Well of course it is when you add Western components to it. It is also vastly inferior to current Su-30SM2 upgrade. They ended up with an aircraft that was little better than the Su-30MKK that China got but vastly more expensive.
With the FGFA you hear all sorts of BS in Western news. But the truth is the Indians didn't want to put that much money into development of the aircraft. So they are just waiting for the Russians to develop the aircraft and then they might buy it.
Russian-Indian naval exercises took place in the Bay of Bengal. The purpose of the exercise is to strengthen cooperation and ensure security in the Asia-Pacific region. The Russian Federation was represented at the exercises by the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs of Project 1155 and the medium sea tanker Pechenga of the Pacific Fleet. The destroyer Ranvijay and the corvette Kiltan were deployed from the Indian Navy. The Indian destroyer Ranvijay is a large anti-submarine ship of the Soviet project 61ME, built by order of India in 1988 and subsequently modernized. The anti-submarine corvette Kiltan was built according to Project 28 and is one of the most modern ships in India. Corvette Kiltan was launched in 2013. The warships carried out artillery firing at sea and air targets. The crews practiced on-the-fly resupply skills. In addition, Indian pilots practiced landing on the deck of the Russian ship Admiral Tributs, and Russian pilots practiced landing on board an Indian Navy destroyer.
The first Russian missile drone Termit. Serial production of Termit helicopter-type drones has begun in Russia. The drone was developed by the Strela production enterprise, which is part of the Kronstadt company, and was first shown in 2021. The unmanned attack mini-combat helicopter MDP-01 “Termite” is an analogue of the civilian version of the SmartHELI-350 drones. The new drone is equipped with a surveillance and sighting station, a weapons control system and three S-8L missiles from the Kalashnikov concern with an 80 mm laser homing head. In Russia, this is the first unmanned helicopter with missile weapons. The S-8L missile is based on the S-8 unguided aircraft missiles used by Russian aviation. Unlike the S-8 missiles, the S-8L missile has a semi-active homing head with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, the missile's range is up to 6 kilometers. It is assumed that the drone operator, having detected the target, sets it to be tracked by a laser beam, after which the drone acts autonomously, with the help of artificial intelligence, choosing the time of the missile launch based on the calculation of altitude and range. The Termit drone can reach speeds of up to 150 km/h, its range of use is up to 300 kilometers, the flight time is up to 6 hours, at an altitude of up to 3000 meters.
Mini-drones for various purposes have been created for the Russian Su-57 fighter, a source in the Ministry of Defense reported. Whether it will be a swarm of drones or something similar is not yet clear. But as reported, the UAVs will be placed on the external sling and in the intra-fuselage compartment of the aircraft. It is planned that the fighter pilot will launch several drones at once and control this group of drones.
The group will include attack and reconnaissance UAVs, as well as electronic warfare drones. Drones launched from a Su-57 aircraft will allow fighters to break through enemy air defenses by overloading their information channels, as well as strike at air defense systems. Drones for the Su-57 aircraft began to be developed in April 2021.
The group will include attack and reconnaissance UAVs, as well as electronic warfare drones. Drones launched from a Su-57 aircraft will allow fighters to break through enemy air defenses by overloading their information channels, as well as strike at air defense systems. Drones for the Su-57 aircraft began to be developed in April 2021.
The Russian Navy has commissioned the B-608 "Mozhaisk" Pacific Fleet SSK. Project 636.3 Improved Kilo diesel-electric submarine.
I wonder what happened to Lada. Like it supposed to be the Kilo's successor. It even have maybe the largest and the most advanced conformal aperture sonar suite for a conventional Diesel-electric submarine.