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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Lun 12 Mai - 16:28
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Fire at Mumbai Dockyard Injures Three
Three people have been injured in a fire that broke out this morning on the Indian navy’s frigate INS Ganga while undergoing refit at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, local media reported.
The fire is said to have started in the ship’s boiler room during welding work. The injured, two civilians and a naval officer, sustained minor burns and were rushed to the hospital for medical assistance. Since August last year, the Indian Navy’s reputation has been marred by various naval accidents, from ships running aground to those of greater consequence such as the explosion on the Navy’s submarine INS Sindhurakshak, that took the lives of 18 crew members.
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Mer 14 Mai - 7:09
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Russia ready to continue helicopter deliveries for Indian Navy
MOSCOW, May 13 /ITAR-TASS/ Russia is ready to continue deliveries for the Indian naval aviation, if it receives a request from the Indian side, the head of Russia’s biggest helicopter building company, Helicopters of Russia, said on Tuesday.
“As for the Vikramaditya aircraft carrier, this will undoubtedly be a decision by the Indian side. The holding company (Helicopters of Russia) will be ready to continue its program of Russian helicopter deliveries to India under a contract with Rosoboronexport,” Alexander Mikheyev said.
India has quite a large fleet of Ka-28/Ka-31 helicopters operational in the Indian naval aviation, he said.
“Correspondingly, if the Indian side will opt out for these helicopters in the future, we are ready to meet this request,” he said.
“As for Mistral-class helicopter carriers, the Helicopters of Russia holding company is ready for this program (the delivery of helicopters for these warships),” Mikheyev said.
http://en.itar-tass.com
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Jeu 15 Mai - 2:15
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Scorpene subs to join fleet without torpedoes
Old submarines need upgrade, new subs unarmed, navy regrets MoD delays
longside a three-year delay in adding six new Scorpene submarines to its depleting ranks, the Indian Navy faces an even more disquieting prospect - the Scorpenes will start joining the fleet in 2016 without their main weapon, the heavyweight torpedo.
Submarines carry two major weapons - missiles against ships and land targets, and torpedoes to sink enemy ships and submarines. Missiles can be intercepted by anti-missile systems; and they inflict less damage. Torpedoes are harder to intercept and they blast holes below the waterline that quickly flood their targets, sinking them.
Inexplicably, the ministry of defence (MoD) has failed to buy torpedoes to arm the Scorpenes it contracted for in 2005. In 2008, after a global tender, Italian company WASS was selected to supply their Black Shark torpedoes that were specifically engineered for the Scorpene. In 2011, a price was finalised: about $300 million for 98 torpedoes. Yet, even today, the contract remains unsigned.
Consequently, when the first Scorpene submarine is commissioned in 2016, it will be armed only with the Exocet anti-ship missile. Were it to be challenged by Pakistan's silent new Khalid-class submarines - the French Agosta-90B -the Scorpene will have empty torpedo tubes. Even if the new government signs the contract quickly, delivery would be unlikely before 2017.
The MoD did not respond to Business Standard's emailed questions.
A top-level navy planner laments the MoD's lack of accountability, contrasting it with how former navy chief, Admiral D K Joshi, took responsibility for warship accidents and resigned. Says the naval officer: "If a military person were responsible for commissioning a Rs 4,000 crore submarine without its primary armament, he would be charged with dereliction of duty."
The delay in signing the torpedo contract followed accusations that WASS had won unfairly, a tactic commonly used by arms vendors who are confident the MoD will suspend the contract and order investigations.
Eventually, Defence Minister A K Antony referred the matter to the Central Vigilance Commission, which found no indication of wrongdoing. Even so, the MoD continues to stonewall.
The prospect of an unarmed Scorpene has sent alarm bells through a navy that is down to just 11 submarines, against a minimum of 18 that naval planners require for safeguarding India's maritime interests.
Of 14 submarines in the fleet, three Russian Kilo-class vessels are unavailable: INS Sindhurakshak was destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion in Mumbai last August; INS Sindhuratna will take a year to repair after a fire in February. A third, INS Sindhukirti, was scuttled by Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, Visakhapatnam (HSL), which dismantled the submarine for refit in 2006 but cannot put it back together again.
The navy is furious that a Rs 1,500 crore frontline submarine was lost because the MoD insisted on providing work to HSL, a public sector shipyard without expertise in submarine repair.
Disregarding this experience, the MoD now insists that HSL builds one of the six new submarines being procured under the Rs 50,000 crore Project 75I. Cabinet sanction is being obtained for two to be built abroad and four in India - one in HSL and three in an unspecified shipyard, probably Mazagon Dock Ltd, Mumbai (MDL).
A senior admiral observes wryly, "INS Sindhukirti has already been destroyed by HSL. Now let us see whether it reduces Project 75I from six submarines to five."
Building Project 75I in two Indian shipyards would also mean paying double for transfer of technology (ToT) -which includes supervisors, instructors, special tools, jigs, etc. In the Scorpene contract, MDL paid Rs 6000 crore for ToT. This would more than double if Project 75I is shared between two Indian shipyards.
Even so, the die seems cast. Navy sources tell Business Standard that former secretary of defence production, R K Singh, who became home secretary and then joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, insisted on HSL's participation as a condition for Project 75I.
The MoD took over HSL from the Ministry of Shipping in February 2010, a white elephant that the latter was glad to forego. The Rajya Sabha was informed on August 24, 2011 that HSL had accumulated losses of Rs 930 crore and a negative net worth of Rs 628 crore.
The MoD is stonewalling another measure that the navy believes essential for overcoming the submarine shortage. With the Scorpene and Project 75I delayed, the navy has proposed extending the service life and providing a mid-life upgrade to the existing submarines, which have exceeded the dives and hours of service that manufacturers prescribe. That proposal has lain with the MoD for six months now, while the submarine fleet becoming increasingly more hazardous to operate.
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Ven 16 Mai - 2:49
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Stage set for test of nuclear-capable cruise missile Nirbhay
NEW DELHI: India is gearing up to test its first long-range cruise missile 'Nirbhay' (the fearless), which can carry nuclear warheads with a strike range of over 1,000 km, within a month or so.
A stealth missile long in the making, Nirbhay is meant to fulfill the armed forces' demand for nuclear-tipped land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs) versatile enough to be fired from land, air and sea.
Flaunted as India's answer to the famed American Tomahawk missiles as well as an effective counter to Pakistan's Babur LACM, Nirbhay was experimentally fired for the first time in March last year.
But the test went awry. "We had to abort the flight after a snag in one of the components made the missile deviate from its flight trajectory at a waypoint. The problem has now been resolved. The maiden test-firing did prove most of the required critical technologies," said a DRDO scientist.
"Preparations for the fresh test (from the Chandipur launch complex off Odisha coast) are more or less complete. Depending on the slot available, we will test Nirbhay around early-June,'' he added.
India already has the 290-km supersonic BrahMos cruise missile as well as the Agni series of nuclear-capable missiles with strike ranges varying from 700 km to over 5,000 km.
But while BrahMos is a short-range conventional weapon, not a nuclear one, the Agni missiles are ballistic ones that follow a parabolic trajectory. Cruise missiles like Nirbhay are designed to fly at low altitudes, virtually hugging the terrain, to evade enemy radars and missile defence systems. Cruise missiles are also much cheaper and easier to operate than ballistic missiles.
Nirbhay, after an initial blast off with a solid-propellant booster rocket engine to gain speed and altitude, deploys its smallish wings and tail fins in the second stage to fly like an aircraft thereafter.
The sub-sonic missile, which flies at a speed of 0.6-0.7 Mach, is said to be highly maneuverable with "loitering capabilities" to first identify and then hit the intended target. "In the test last year, Nirbhay's launch was perfect. The wings were deployed properly after the 'aircraft engine' took over following the separation of the booster motor from the main missile... the flight had stabilized," said another scientist.
"But we had to resort to the self-destruct mode after there was inertial navigation control failure and the missile began to drift towards the coast. Yes, the missile's turbo-fan is imported as of now but the indigenous engine is also getting ready," the scientist said.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Ven 16 Mai - 5:28
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Warships in peril as defence ministry blocks sonar purchase
At the start of this year, INS Vikramaditya, the navy's new aircraft carrier, sailed into the Arabian Sea near the end of a non-stop, 15,000-km voyage from Russia. Accompanied till the Mediterranean by a single Talwar-class frigate, the Vikramaditya was joined by an armada of Indian warships for the last leg of its journey.
This was not celebration, but operational safety. With the navy's best warships worryingly incapable of detecting modern submarines, such as Pakistan's Agosta 90B, the flotilla was tasked to bring Vikramaditya safely home.
The reason for this blindness to submarines: the ministry of defence (MoD) has steadfastly blocked the import of an Advanced Towed Array Sonar (ATAS), a sensor crucial for detecting submarines in warm, shallow waters like those of the Arabian Sea. Without ATAS, India's most advanced warships - including 25 destroyers, frigates and corvettes built and bought since 1997 - would be sitting ducks in any future war. Enemy submarines, lurking undetected, can pick off Indian warships with heavy torpedoes from 50-80 kilometres away.
The import of ATAS was blocked since the mid-1990s because the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was developing an indigenous ATAS called Nagan. In 2012, the Nagan project was officially shut down and the DRDO began work on another system called ALTAS. This has not been operationalised either.
Meanwhile, two generations of otherwise capable warships sail with an empty space where ATAS will be fitted some day. Until then, these vessels have only limited sonar capability, provided by a relatively ineffective Passive Towed Array Sonar (PTAS), and a hull-mounted sonar called HUMSA.
The warships without ATAS include three Delhi-class destroyers (INS Delhi, Mumbai and Mysore); three Brahmaputra class frigates (INS Brahmaputra, Betwa and Beas); six Talwar class frigates; and three Shivalik class frigates (INS Shivalik, Satpura and Sahyadri). Ten more warships are currently being built without ATAS - four Kamorta class corvettes (INS Kamorta, Kadmatt, Kiltan and Kavaratti); and three Kolkata class destroyers (INS Kolkata, Kochi and Chennai).
In 2009, responding to a furious navy, the MoD consented to import six ATAS for some Rs 300 crore. A German company, Atlas Elektronik GmbH, won the tender but the contract was stalled by predictable complaints of wrongdoing. After the MoD found four successive complaints baseless, the ministry's independent monitors committee examined the allegations in March. No wrongdoing was found and the committee suggested the purchase be expedited. Yet, Defence Minister A K Antony continues to stonewall.
A serving admiral told Business Standard tersely: "The MoD is endangering warships worth several thousand crore each, and the lives of several hundred crewmen, by blocking the import of ATAS that costs just Rs 50 crore each."
ATAS is especially vital for our neighbourhood. Warships detect underwater objects (like submarines) with sonar - a "ping" of sound emitted into the water that reflects from submarines, just as radar bounces back from aircraft. In our waters, however, that signal often gets lost. Our warm climes cause a sharp "temperature gradient", with warm water on the surface that cools rapidly as one goes deeper. These water layers at different temperatures refract (bend) sonar waves, often deflecting them altogether from the warship's sensors. With the returning sound signal lost, the warship cannot detect the submarine.
To overcome this, an ATAS is towed by the warship with a cable, extending deep below the surface, into the cooler layers where submarines lurk. With the ATAS positioned in the colder water layers, there is no "temperature differential". Even the faintest return signal from a submarine is detected.
PTAS, unlike ATAS, does not actively "ping". It can only detect a submarine that is emitting sound. Since submarines on patrol are deliberately silent, they emit no sound for a PTAS to detect.
While the Arabian Sea offers tricky, shallow-water operating conditions, the Bay of Bengal is much deeper. Thirty kilometres off Karachi, the ocean floor is just 40 metres deep; while five kilometres off Visakhapatnam, the depth is 3,000 metres. The Arabian Sea, therefore, is the playground of small conventional submarines.
Simultaneously, the Bay of Bengal offers the deep diving conditions that favour nuclear submarines, which are too large for shallow waters. That is why experts predict India will operate both conventional and nuclear submarines - conventional in shallow water, and nuclear in deep water. Major navies tend to choose one or the other; e.g. the US Navy operates only nuclear submarines.
In servicing India's need for high-end sonars, the winner of the ATAS tender would grab in pole position. Already, Bharat Electronics Ltd is building 10 ATAS in partnership with a foreign vendor, probably the winner of the ATAS contract. Eighty advanced sonars could be tendered over the next three years.
Besides submarines, sonars would be required for anti-submarine surface vessels. Last month, the MoD tendered for 16 Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft. Their critical sensor will be sophisticated sonar with an electronically controlled beam that can flash in any direction.
Notwithstanding the delay in ATAS, Atlas Elektronik is expected to perform strongly, given its expertise in shallow water sonar. Through two world wars, German submarines (called Unterseeboots, or U-boats) were feared for their sonars. During the Cold War, German submarines operated from a short coastline along the Baltic Sea, which was relatively shallow, like the Arabian Sea
http://www.business-standard.com
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Jeu 22 Mai - 4:56
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Rafale, Su-30MKI Face-off in Indian Exercise
The Indian Air Force’s Su-30MKIs and the French Rafale fighters will come together for a ten-day air exercise called the 'Garuda-5', aimed at training the pilots and crew of Indian and French fighters in air superiority operation in Rajasthan's Jodhpur airbase from June 3.
The French composition for the Garuda- 5 will include four Rafale multi-role fighter aircraft and one air-refueler aircraft with more than 100 personnel. During the exercises the French aircraft may face the IAF’s Su-30 MKI, MiG -27 and MiG -21 as both sides showcase air superiority, defense and attack on high-value targets dogfights or nearby.
Objective of the exercise include exposing IAF pilots to French fighter tactics and French pilots to Indian fighter tactics, to engage in air-to-air refueling, cross-servicing of a common type between ground crews and Understanding basic concepts of each countries fighter operations.
The performance of the Rafales at the exercise could create incentive to boost the long-delayed MMRCA program and also show how it stacks up against the IAF’s most potent asset, the Su-30MKI.
http://www.defenseworld.net
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Ven 23 Mai - 5:14
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India Looks Abroad for New Jet Trainer
NEW DELHI — The Indian Defence Ministry, tired of waiting for its homemade intermediate jet trainer, is seeking a solution from overseas. The MoD floated a global tender in early May for the trainer through a request for information (RFI). The jet trainer is being developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL). Analysts see the RFI as the MoD’s first attempt to allow competition for low-tech defense products that are under development by state-owned companies. “In the past, whenever an indigenous product was available [through state-owned defense companies], it completely closed the gates for further efforts to seek alternatives with better operational or commercial terms,” said Subhash Bhojwani, a retired Air Force air marshal. “And if the defense services still insisted on going ahead, they were labeled as being enamored by imports.” The RFI was sent to Russia’s Yakovlev; Italy’s Alenia Aermacchi; Korea Aerospace Industries; US companies Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Beechcraft; and Sweden’s Saab. The Sitara trainer has been delayed by eight years, due initially to the late delivery of Russian NPO Saturn engines and later to the slow pace of development at HAL, an Air Force official said. HAL takes advantage of being a monopoly state-owned company and takes orders promising early delivery, the official said. HAL has promised that the jet would reach initial operating capability by December. The Sitara, under development for over 15 years, was to have entered service in June 2012. But in 2011, flight-testing suffered a major setback when a Sitara crashed in stall testing. Another Air Force officer said the HJT-36 Sitara has yet to be demonstrated in any air show, indicating unspecified technical insufficiencies. “Only the Sitara can meet [the Air Force’s] training requirements,” a HAL official said, and the trainer’s development “is progressing well.” The HAL official refused to give an exact date when the trainers will be made available to the Air Force. The Air Force earlier abandoned the HAL basic trainer and opted to buy the Pilatus trainer from Switzerland in 2012. The specifications call for the intermediate trainer to be a two-seater with a ferry range of at least 1,500 kilometers and the capability to fire a lightweight gun or pod with ammunition for at least five seconds, and to carry at least four 250-kilogram bombs. The RFI asks vendors for the likely cost to supply their trainers in batches of 10, 20, 30 and 50 aircraft. The Air Force wants to retire the aging Kiran Mark-1 and Mark-22 intermediate trainers by 2015. Indian pilots graduate from the Pilatus PC-7 trainer to the Kiran and then to Hawk advanced jet trainers. Air Force officers welcomed the floating of an RFI since it would give a strong signal to state-owned companies that they have to produce high-quality defense products on time, the first Air Force source said. “A global RFI will probably make HAL realize that it no longer has the [Air Force] as a captive customer — a customer forced to accept sub-standard products on an as-is-where-is basis merely because these happen to be homegrown,” Bhojwani said. “In other words, it must meet or beat world standards in order to sustain its customer base. “Had this happened 30 years ago, we would have had a vibrant indigenous defense industry by now.”
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Lun 26 Mai - 10:19
Citation :
India Turns to Domestic Sources for New Air Defense Guns
NEW DELHI — After failing since 2007 to buy replacements for its Swedish-made L-70 air defense guns through global tenders, the Indian Ministry of Defence has decided to procure the guns only from domestic sources, in the Buy and Make (Indian) category.
Under that category, only domestic companies or their joint venture with overseas companies will be allowed to compete, provided 50 percent of the system’s components are indigenous.
While the move fits with a new policy designed to encourage domestic production, defense analysts and serving military officers are apprehensive about whether domestic sources will be able to meet the weapon requirements.
The Defence Ministry has sent a request for information (RFI) to domestic defense companies, including private sector Tata Power SED, Larsen & Toubro, Punj Lloyd, Bharat Forge, and state-owned Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and Bharat Earth Movers, seeking information about their willingness and ability to compete for the tender, worth US $1.7 billion.
Global tenders for the guns attempted in 2007 and 2009 were canceled because of single-vendor situations: Rosoboronexport in 2009 and Rheinmetall in partnership with OFB in 2007.
Both tenders sought to procure 428 air defense guns, and required transfer of technology to OFB.
Several defense analysts fault the procurement process for the failed attempts to buy the air defense guns.
“The story is all too familiar even in this case; lack of foresight, poor planning, inadequate homework and no accountability in the MoD as well as the armed forces has led to the crisis in modernization of air defense in the Indian Army. There is limited appreciation of potential vendors who can qualify and their ability to subscribe to the tenders,” said Rahul Bhonsle, retired Indian Army brigadier general and defense analyst.
Rajinder Bhatia, CEO of private sector major Bharat Forge, cites the blacklisting of overseas defense firms as the larger issue.
“It is not the problem with the acquisition system but due to the fact that the best technology for this gun is owned by Rheinmetall Air Defense and a very large number of countries are using that technology. Rheinmetall Air Defense is, however, banned from business in India. And hence the problem.”
The domestic defense companies will need to tie up with overseas defense firms to manufacture the guns because none of the domestic firms has experience in selling the weapons, an MoD official said.
An Indian Army official said he is not sure if the domestic companies will be able to forge tie ups with overseas firms.
“We are already behind scheduled in buying several priority purchase for the defense forces, and we need to buy from the overseas market immediately and later rely on the domestic sector,” the official added.
Amit Cowshish, retired MoD official and defense analyst, favors giving a push to the domestic industry.
“The Indian industry does not have the capability and experience to make all the systems that the armed forces need, but if that is the deciding factor we will have to continue to buy from foreign sources. If we want to promote Indian industry, such measures are unavoidable. The ball is now in the court of the Indian industry, which must rise to the challenge by getting into tie-ups with the foreign original equipment manufacturer, investing in research and development and creating capacities within the country
“When procured, the air defense guns will be employed for providing air defense to selected locations in plains, deserts and mountain terrain and should be capable of being towed by an in-service gun-towing vehicle.”
The Army requires guns of a caliber greater than 30mm, and capable of engaging air targets day and night using fire control radars as well as electro-optical fire control systems independently.
The Indian Army has about 1,200 L-70 guns bought in the 1960s from Sweden. ■
http://www.defensenews.com
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Lun 26 Mai - 11:44
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Inde : les chantiers de la Défense
Stratégie et politique 26 mai 2014
La Défense ne sera peut-être pas le chantier prioritaire pour le nouveau Premier ministre indien, Narendra Modi. Mais ce dernier est attendu sur toute une série de réformes devenues urgentes. Les forces armées, minées par les incidents et les scandales à répétition, par les retards de modernisation, d’acquisition de nouveaux matériels, sont dans un état inquiétant. Et leur moral au plus bas.
La marine indienne a ainsi connu, en l’espace d’un an, deux accidents graves à bord de sous-marins vieillissants de classe Kilo, ayant entraîné la mort de 9 marins et la destruction complète d’un bâtiment. Avec pour conséquence directe la démission du chef d’état-major de la marine après quelques mois d’exercice seulement. De récentes fuites indiquent même que les premiers Scorpène qui entreront en service, avec du retard, ne seront pas dotés de torpilles lourdes, suite à d’importants retards dans la finalisation d’un contrat avec l’italien WASS.
La situation est tout aussi critique dans l’armée de terre, avec des manques majeurs d’équipement des troupes, notamment en matière d’artillerie, de systèmes de vision nocturne, de gilets pare-balles ou de fusils d’assaut. Une situation qui a récemment provoqué une sortie médiatique virulente du chef d’état-major, estimant ses troupes «non prêtes pour un conflit armé».
Dans l’armée de l’air, on attend avec impatience la finalisation du contrat MMRCA, afin de booster un volume d’escadrons très en dessous du contrat opérationnel (34 contre 42 prévus). Le ministre de la Défense sortant, AK Antony, dont l’intégrité n’est pas remise en question, est accusé d’avoir péché par inertie et incapacité à la décision, et avait perdu la confiance des industriels et des militaires.
Un panorama bien sombre qui obligera le futur ministre, Murli Manohar Joshi (ancien ministre de la Science et de la Technologie) étant le nom qui circule le plus à New Delhi, à des mesures emblématiques. Mais par où commencer ? D’abord en s’attaquant à la modernisation du processus d’acquisition au sein du MoD.
L’excès de prudence et de transparence a paralysé l’appareil décisionnel et a abouti paradoxalement à favoriser les pots-de-vin, afin justement de contourner les innombrables validations administratives. Les “affaires”, abondamment relayées dans la presse, n’ont pas manqué, parmi lesquelles l’achat d’hélicoptères VVIP à AgustaWestland, de camions TATRA ou encore de turbines Rolls Royce…
Une autre piste urgente, toujours discutée mais jamais vraiment mise en œuvre, est la fin du quasi monopole des conglomérats publics de défense (DPSU) par l’ouverture accrue au secteur privé, que la plupart des observateurs appellent de leurs vœux depuis des années. Il s’agira notamment d’accorder davantage de licences de fabrication aux industriels privés (Tata, L&T…). Si elle s’engageait dans cette voie, la future administration, même avec la pleine confiance des industriels, sera alors certainement soumise à d’intenses pressions de la part de syndicats très puissants et fortement mobilisés.
Le second chantier majeur pourrait être celui de l’interarmisation, sans cesse repoussé pour des raisons de rivalités entre armées et de méfiance historique (de mépris, diront certains) des bureaucrates et des politiques vis-à-vis des militaires. Ces derniers sont aujourd’hui tenus à l’écart de décisions stratégiques, y compris celles portant sur les acquisitions de matériel.
“Last but not least”, la question du leadership est elle aussi un défi de taille, tant il a fait défaut ces dernières années au sein des plus hautes strates militaires. Dans le haut commandement, où la volonté de ne pas faire de vagues pour les besoins de sa propre promotion interne a paralysé l’appareil décisionnel, rares sont ceux qui assument pleinement leurs responsabilités. Un détail qui n’a, bien sûr, pas échappé au voisin pakistanais ou à certains mouvements terroristes. D’autant que manque toujours à l’appel un Centre national de lutte antiterroriste, dont l’absence maintient une fragmentation contre-productive des efforts en la matière.
Des chantiers qu’il faudra mener alors que l’effort de défense indien est en baisse depuis plusieurs années. La faute à une croissance descendue à 4 %, ne permettant plus de résorber les coûts de l’émergence et, par exemple, d’absorber la main d’œuvre qualifiée indispensable à l’industrie.
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Mar 27 Mai - 6:29
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India poised to recover €278 million from VVIP helicopter deal
New Delhi will take steps to recover €278 million ($380 million) in bank guarantees and performance bonds related to its cancelled acquisition of 12 AgustaWestland AW101 VVIP helicotpers.
Following a ruling by a Milan court last Friday, India’s defence ministry says its claims have been “substantially upheld.”
New Delhi is now studying the ruling, after which it will take “immediate steps… to recover the amounts fully.”
The announcement follow’s New Delhi’s cashing of two bank guarantees in February amounting to approximately €30 million.
AgustaWestland International Ltd (AWIL) and AgustaWestland Spa have also been ordered to reimburse legal costs to the Indian government.
In response to the court’s decision, AgustaWestland said that it “will assert its rights to recover the aforesaid amounts in the arbitration process already initiated.”
It refused to comment on the current status of arbitration proceedings.
AgustaWestland had earlier confirmed that the court of Milan had revoked the emergency interim ruling it had obtained in March.
That ruling had prohibited, as a preventive measure, payment to India of collateral worth over €278 million already deposited in relation to the contract
India terminated the EUR 556 million contract with AgustaWestland International Limited (AWIL) in January this year on charges that the provisions of the pre-contract integrity pact and terms of the contract had been breached by the company.
The contract for the acquisition of 12 AW101 VVIP helicopters was signed in 2010. Three helicopters were delivered to the Indian air force before the contract was terminated.
http://www.flightglobal.com
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Sujet: Re: Armée Indienne / Indian Armed Forces Mer 28 Mai - 2:08
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Pilot killed in IAF MiG-21 crash
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: Squadron Leader Saurabh Raghuvanshi, a young fighter pilot, was killed when his MiG-21 "Bison" crashed in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir during a routine combat training sortie on Tuesday morning.
A defense spokesman said that the fighter aircraft, which was flying in a formation with three other fighters, crashed in the open fields near Bijbehara town. Though preliminary reports pointed to "a bird hit", the court of inquiry ordered into the accident will ascertain the exact reason behind the crash.
"One MiG-21 (Bison) aircraft of the IAF crashed about 10km short of Awantipur Airbase today at about 10.48am. The pilot took off from Srinagar and was on a routine training sortie. A Court of Inquiry has been ordered to investigate into the cause of the accident," an IAF release said.
The new defence minister Arun Jaitley expressed grief at the death of the pilot. "I am extremely sorry to hear about the mishap. It is a matter of grave concern and my heart goes out to the family of the pilot who lost his life," Jaitley said.
The aircraft has been nicknamed the 'flying coffin' because it has been connected to so many crashes in the past.
While offering his condolences to the bereaved family, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah suggested that the Narendra Modi government address the issue of defence procurement at the earliest.
"Not entirely disconnected from today's crash the new Govt needs to sort (out) defence procurement issue for Navy, Air Force and Army ASAP," Abdullah tweeted.
Despite many accidents in past, the MiG-21 is likely to remain operational until 2019—two years later than they were originally scheduled to be decommissioned.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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comme d'hab mais c'est une catastrophe cette armee
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comme d'hab mais c'est une catastrophe cette armee
les mig-21 sont mort aussi
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Cela fait combien de perte depuis le debut de l'annéé.... C'est vraiment alarmant,ce Mig 21 a l'air autant "faiseur de veuve " que le F104.
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Aircraft carrier Vikramaditya fully operational: Navy Chief
Signalling that INS Vikramaditya is battle ready months after its arrival from Russia, Navy Chief Admiral Robin Dhowan has said that the aircraft carrier is fully operational with an adequate number of pilots now qualified to operate from the floating airfield.
Speaking with The Indian Express, Dhowan shared that the Indian crew has now been fully trained and the carrier is ready to conduct operations. “The ship is now operationally deployed and our pilots have been conducting regular flying operations. An adequate number of pilots have been trained,” he said, adding that the training was initially carried out by qualified flight instructors from Russia.
The Navy Chief, who took over charge in April after weeks of uncertainty due to the sudden resignation of Admiral D K Joshi after a spate of accidents, expressed satisfaction at the smooth sail of the aircraft carrier from Russia to India and said that the Navy was satisfied with the warship.
While he did not comment on when the Vikramaditya would be ‘dedicated to the nation’, Dhowan said that two major inductions are planned to be carried out in the coming weeks — the first P 28 anti-submarine corvette built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers to be commissioned at Vizag and the first to the Kolkata class stealth destroyers that is to be commissioned in Mumbai shortly.
Sources said the navy has proposed that the commissioning ceremony for the warships be presided over by a senior minister, as has been the norm. A visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to India’s largest warship, the Vikramaditya, is also in the offing and could be his first visit to a major military asset, besides a tour of the Siachen glacier.
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Inde : les chantiers de la Défense
La Défense ne sera peut-être pas le chantier prioritaire pour le nouveau Premier ministre indien, Narendra Modi. Mais ce dernier est attendu sur toute une série de réformes devenues urgentes. Les forces armées, minées par les incidents et les scandales à répétition, par les retards de modernisation, d’acquisition de nouveaux matériels, sont dans un état inquiétant. Et leur moral au plus bas.
La marine indienne a ainsi connu, en l’espace d’un an, deux accidents graves à bord de sous-marins vieillissants de classe Kilo, ayant entraîné la mort de 9 marins et la destruction complète d’un bâtiment. Avec pour conséquence directe la démission du chef d’état-major de la marine après quelques mois d’exercice seulement. De récentes fuites indiquent même que les premiers Scorpène qui entreront en service, avec du retard, ne seront pas dotés de torpilles lourdes, suite à d’importants retards dans la finalisation d’un contrat avec l’italien WASS.
La situation est tout aussi critique dans l’armée de terre, avec des manques majeurs d’équipement des troupes, notamment en matière d’artillerie, de systèmes de vision nocturne, de gilets pare-balles ou de fusils d’assaut. Une situation qui a récemment provoqué une sortie médiatique virulente du chef d’état-major, estimant ses troupes «non prêtes pour un conflit armé».
Dans l’armée de l’air, on attend avec impatience la finalisation du contrat MMRCA, afin de booster un volume d’escadrons très en dessous du contrat opérationnel (34 contre 42 prévus). Le ministre de la Défense sortant, AK Antony, dont l’intégrité n’est pas remise en question, est accusé d’avoir péché par inertie et incapacité à la décision, et avait perdu la confiance des industriels et des militaires.
Un panorama bien sombre qui obligera le futur ministre, Murli Manohar Joshi (ancien ministre de la Science et de la Technologie) étant le nom qui circule le plus à New Delhi, à des mesures emblématiques. Mais par où commencer ? D’abord en s’attaquant à la modernisation du processus d’acquisition au sein du MoD.
L’excès de prudence et de transparence a paralysé l’appareil décisionnel et a abouti paradoxalement à favoriser les pots-de-vin, afin justement de contourner les innombrables validations administratives. Les “affaires”, abondamment relayées dans la presse, n’ont pas manqué, parmi lesquelles l’achat d’hélicoptères VVIP à AgustaWestland, de camions TATRA ou encore de turbines Rolls Royce…
Une autre piste urgente, toujours discutée mais jamais vraiment mise en œuvre, est la fin du quasi monopole des conglomérats publics de défense (DPSU) par l’ouverture accrue au secteur privé, que la plupart des observateurs appellent de leurs vœux depuis des années. Il s’agira notamment d’accorder davantage de licences de fabrication aux industriels privés (Tata, L&T…). Si elle s’engageait dans cette voie, la future administration, même avec la pleine confiance des industriels, sera alors certainement soumise à d’intenses pressions de la part de syndicats très puissants et fortement mobilisés.
Le second chantier majeur pourrait être celui de l’interarmisation, sans cesse repoussé pour des raisons de rivalités entre armées et de méfiance historique (de mépris, diront certains) des bureaucrates et des politiques vis-à-vis des militaires. Ces derniers sont aujourd’hui tenus à l’écart de décisions stratégiques, y compris celles portant sur les acquisitions de matériel.
“Last but not least”, la question du leadership est elle aussi un défi de taille, tant il a fait défaut ces dernières années au sein des plus hautes strates militaires. Dans le haut commandement, où la volonté de ne pas faire de vagues pour les besoins de sa propre promotion interne a paralysé l’appareil décisionnel, rares sont ceux qui assument pleinement leurs responsabilités. Un détail qui n’a, bien sûr, pas échappé au voisin pakistanais ou à certains mouvements terroristes. D’autant que manque toujours à l’appel un Centre national de lutte antiterroriste, dont l’absence maintient une fragmentation contre-productive des efforts en la matière.
Des chantiers qu’il faudra mener alors que l’effort de défense indien est en baisse depuis plusieurs années. La faute à une croissance descendue à 4 %, ne permettant plus de résorber les coûts de l’émergence et, par exemple, d’absorber la main d’œuvre qualifiée indispensable à l’industrie.
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MMRCA deal: Rafale negotiations expected to be wrapped up in 3 months
NEW DELHI: India is closer to finally sealing the almost $20 billion MMRCA (medium multirole combat aircraft) project to acquire 126 French Rafale fighters, which IAF has identified as a top-priority for the Narendra Modi government.
Defence ministry sources said the final commercial negotiations for the MMRCA project, which IAF considers "critical" to retain its air combat edge against Pakistan and maintain "dissuasive deterrence" against China, can now "be wrapped up in the next three months".
In the backdrop of IAF making do with just 34 fighter squadrons, when at least 44 are required, Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha called on PM Modi on Monday, barely a few days after he briefed finance and defence minister Arun Jaitley. On Tuesday, the IAF chief will again make "a detailed presentation" to Jaitley on the operational preparedness and different modernization projects of his force.
The worry is that the final negotiations with French aviation major Dassault for the MMRCA project have proceeded at a slow pace since Rafale was "down-selected" over its rivals in January 2012.
Sources, however, said the work of three subcommittees dealing with technical maintenance (IAF will fly the fighters for 40 years), offsets (Dassault will have to plough back 50% of the contract value back into India) and transfer of technology (ToT) has now been completed.
Under the MMRCA project, the first 18 jets will come in "fly-away condition", while Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd is to manufacture 108 fighters in India over six years. In fact, after months of wrangling, Dassault and HAL could finalize the work-share agreement only in February this year, under which the defence PSU will now have a 70% role.
"With offsets, work-share, warranty, liquidity damages and other issues resolved, the CNC (contract negotiation committee) now has to settle the final costs before the draft contract can be readied for the government's final approval," said a source.
If the MMRCA project is inked in the next few months, the first 18 jets will come to India from mid-2016 onwards. The jets built by HAL, in turn, are expected to begin rolling out from 2018 onwards. HAL will initially deliver six jets per year, which will go up to 20 per year later.
When the MMRCA selection process was initiated by MoD in mid-2007, the overall project cost was pegged at Rs 42,000 crore or $10.4 billion for 126 fighters. But with inflation being factored in, it could zoom upwards of the $20 billion mark by the time it's completed.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Safety scare on Gorshkov
SUJAN DUTTA
New Delhi, June 4: A new fighter jet of the Indian Navy was partly damaged after a “hard landing” on the deck of the INS Vikramaditya today, less than a month after the aircraft carrier was declared “fully operational”.
The carrier — earlier called Admiral Gorshkov — and the aircraft were bought with a lot of taxpayer money and after years of delay.
The incident calls to question a history of tardiness in procurement of weapons-platforms, combined with challenges thrown to Arun Jaitley, who has succeeded A.K. Antony as defence minister.
Antony was the longest-serving defence minister. There were more recorded mishaps in his tenure than in any other minister’s, barring V.K. Krishna Menon’s in 1962.
Navy sources described today’s incident as a “hard landing” to distinguish it from a crash. The nose wheel of the jet, a MiG29K — also procured from Russia like the Vikramaditya — is said to have been partly damaged. The MiG29K has tandem cockpits. Both pilots are safe, navy sources said.
The incident happened off the coast of Goa late this afternoon. The aircraft had taken off from the INS Hansa naval air station at Dabolim, where it is shore-based, and was to land on the Vikramaditya in manoeuvres that the vessel and its aircraft have been engaged in since May 7. That was when navy chief Admiral Robin Dhowan announced the carrier was fully operational with its combat aircraft integrated.
The navy last week reshuffled its top brass after accidents on its ships and submarines were followed by the resignation of then chief Admiral D.K. Joshi and the supersession of the chief of its western command, Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha.
Since then, the government and the navy itself are taking a harder look at the country’s armada.
Even if the potential for damage to a carrier and its aircraft is great, “hard landings” are not all that infrequent because of the complex techniques involved in landing and take-off from a sailing ship.
The MiG29K is designed to land on the Vikramaditya with a tail-hook that has to be trapped in one of three arrester cables on the deck that will force the jet to come to a stop. (Just imagine a sprinter being forced to stop by a tape that cannot be breached, many times over). But the pilots of the jet cannot cut power so much that the aircraft may not be able to take off if the tail-hook fails to trap the arresters.
Navy sources said that in the waters off Goa this evening, the MiG29K failed to “trap” the first two arrester cables but took the third.
That caused the “hard landing” because the pilots were powering up (increasing throttle) to take-off after having missed the first two cables.
Apparently, the shock of the trap and the landing was so much that the nose of the aircraft pointed skywards before the plane dropped down on its nose wheel. The impact damaged the nose wheel. The arrester cables force the aircraft to stop on landing, bringing the aircraft from a speed of about 300kmph to zero in fractions of a second.
The INS Vikramaditya cost the Indian taxpayer $2.35 billion (around Rs 15,000cr).
The twin-engine MiG29K was originally part of a package deal with Russia along with the Gorshkov. India has contracted 45 MiG29K aircraft for $2.4 billion (Rs 14,232cr). A total of 27 of the aircraft have been delivered.
The Vikramaditya sailed from Russia and reached the Indian waters in January this year, five years behind schedule.
Because of the delay, the MiG29K pilots of the Indian Navy were trained at facilities in the US and at a Goa shore-based platform that simulates take-off and landing requirements at INS Hansa, the station in Dabolim.
But more than the technology, the technicalities and rigorous training methods required to operate aircraft from carriers, the Indian Navy and the Indian defence establishment are concerned with the resonance of mishaps and accidents on its top brass and their political leadership.
In the tenure of Antony, the military was always confused between what was politically correct and what was operationally desirable.
For Jaitley, who has succeeded Antony, this is a period of intense study with sharper focus on taxpayer money as he is also the finance minister.
This weekend, Jaitley is scheduled to travel to Mumbai and visit the only other aircraft carrier, the INS Viraat, which is being recycled several times over to meet the navy’s requirements.
http://www.telegraphindia.com
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PM Modi to sail on board INS Vikramaditya
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will sail on INS Vikramaditya, the largest warship of the Indian Navy, off the coast of Goa on June 14.
He will dedicate the warship, India's second aircraft carrier after INS Virat, to the nation on that day, Navy sources said today.
The warship is already in the Arabian Sea.
INS Vikramaditya is the newest and largest ship to join Indian Navy on November 16, 2013. The ship was commissioned by the then Defence Minister A K Antony in Russia.
Vikramaditya, the floating airfield, has an overall length of about 284 meters and a maximum beam of about 60 meters, stretching as much as three football fields put together.
Standing about 20 storeys tall from keel to the highest point, the ship has a total of 22 decks.
With over 1,600 personnel on board, Vikramaditya is literally a 'floating city.'
Associated with this large population is a mammoth logistics requirement - nearly a lakh of eggs, 20,000 litres of milk and 16 tonnes of rice per month. With her complete stock of provisions, she is capable of sustaining herself at sea for about 45 days.
http://www.business-standard.com
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US offers ground-breaking defence technologies to India
The US has a number of “ground-breaking” defence technologies, including a helicopter and an unmanned aerial vehicle program, to offer to India for co-development and co-production, a top Pentagon official has said.
“We have a number of offers on the table for India. There’s a ground-breaking offer to share in the next generation of the Javelin missile, co-production and co-development,” Under Secretary of Defence for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Frank Kendall, told reporters.
He said the offers in the list also include a helicopter program and an unmanned aerial vehicle program.
“We have an artillery piece. We have a number of things in different stages of process,” said Kendall, who has been tasked by US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel to lead Pentagon’s Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) with India.
The Indian side during the previous UPA regime was led by former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon whose replacement is yet to be announced by the Narendra Modi government.
Kendall said the US would continue with the initiative while looking for additional opportunities.
“We also had some good discussions about science and technology cooperation that we need to continue. So to some extent, it will be continuing the work that we’ve already started, but we’re also looking for additional opportunities. So I think there’s a lot of potential there,” he said in response to a question.
http://indianexpress.com
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