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India to purchase Russian ammo for $1 billion
29.06.2012

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India will create a joint venture to produce ammunition for Smerch multiple artillery rocket systems. The news was announced by Viktor Komardin, deputy general director of Russia's defense export giant Rosoboronexport.

"We are not only selling - we are also creating productions. We are currently in the works to create a joint venture in India to produce ammunition for Smerch rocket systems," Komardin said. The Indians were thrilled about the initiative, the official added.

Rosoboronexport is currently negotiating the delivery of Mango tank ammo to India. "I do not remember the quantity, but it's going to be a lot," the official told Interfax.

The Russian defense export corporation plans to complete the talks by the end of the summer.

In the beginning of this year, Russia concluded a package of agreements with India in the amount of nearly $1 billion for the delivery of tank and artillery shells, anti-tank missiles of several types and other ammunition for ground troops, the Vedomosti newspaper wrote.

Anatoly Isaykin, the General Director of Rosoboronexport earlier said that the company had concluded new arms contracts totaling $5 billion since the beginning of the year. The new contract with India is one of the largest export contracts, which Rosoboronexport signed in 2011-2012. In addition, a number of large contracts for the delivery of arms for the ground and air defense troops in the amount of more than $1 billion was signed last fall with Algeria.

The Indian army, despite its own ammunition industry may often suffer from shortages in supplies. In the beginning of this year, the issue was considered on the parliament level.

The Indian army needs several thousands of anti-tank missiles of the Russian type. India could not solve the problem alone, experts said.

Such contracts are extremely important for the Russian ammunition industry which suffers from the lack of orders from the Russian Defense Ministry. The ministry has recently decided not to purchase large amounts of ammunition during the upcoming years until expired shells and missiles are decommissioned.

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Citation :: First P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its official flight test

737 military derivative for India on schedule for 2013 delivery

SEATTLE, July 11, 2012 -- Boeing's [NYSE: BA] first P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy began its official flight test program July 7, taking off from Boeing Field in Seattle at 9:15 a.m. and landing three hours and 49 minutes later after demonstrating flying qualities and handling characteristics. The flight went as planned with all test objectives met.

The P-8I is one of eight long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft Boeing is building for India as part of a contract awarded in January 2009. During the coming months, Boeing test pilots will put the P-8I, a Next-Generation 737-800 derivative, through its paces over a U.S. Navy test range west of Neah Bay, Wash., and a joint U.S./Canadian test range in the Strait of Georgia.

"Today's flight is another on-time milestone for the program," said Leland Wight, Boeing P-8I program manager. "We'll start out testing the P-8I's mission system, which includes its sensors and communication systems. The team then will transition to 'stores' tests during which the P-8I will carry inert weapon shapes under its wings to demonstrate that the aircraft is capable of carrying all the weapons the Indian Navy will use during regular missions."

The stores the P-8I will carry will have the identical shape and size of real weapons, including the Harpoon anti-ship missile, depth bombs and torpedoes.

"This is an important milestone for the program and sets the stage for operational testing and weapons certification as we move closer to P-8I aircraft joining the Indian Navy," said Rear Adm. DM Sudan, assistant chief of Naval Staff (Air), Indian Navy.

P-8I flight and weapons testing follows on the heels of similar testing for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon. P-8I is a variant of the Poseidon.

In order to efficiently design and build the P-8I and the P-8A, the Boeing-led team is using a first-in-industry, in-line production process that draws on the company's Next-Generation 737 production system. Assembly is complete on the second P-8I aircraft and it will make its first flight in the coming weeks.

The P-8I features open system architecture, advanced sensor and display technologies, and a worldwide base of suppliers, parts and support equipment. P-8I aircraft are built by a Boeing-led industry team that includes CFM International, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Spirit AeroSystems, BAE Systems and GE Aviation.

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Citation :: Agni-I successfully test-fired

The HinduThe nuclear-capable Agni-I, with a strike range of 700 km, was successfully test-fired from a test range at Wheeler Island off Odisha on Friday as part of the Army’s user trial. File photo
The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Indian Army successfully launched on Friday the Agni-I missile from the Wheeler Island, off Odisha and the missile travelled its full range of 700 km.

Agni-I took off from a mobile launcher (a TATRA truck) at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at 10.06 a.m. and sped towards its target in the Bay of Bengal. The missile’s re-entry systems worked well and it plunged into the targeted area with accuracy.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation designed and developed Agni-I. The Army has already deployed this short-range missile which can carry nuclear warheads.

An elated V.K. Saraswat, Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister, told The Hindu from the Wheeler Island, that all the Agni missiles — Agni-I, II, III, IV and V, developed by the DRDO, “are flying high.” The DRDO launched Agni-V with a range of more than 5,000 km in April 2012 and the DRDO was back to launching Agni-I now.

“The production system of Agni missiles is working on schedule and the user [the Army] is conversant with the exercise of the launch. They have done a superb job today. The Strategic Forces Command has mastered the technology of launching the missile to a high degree,” said Dr. Saraswat. The missile was drawn from the production lot.

G. Satheesh Reddy, Associate Director, Research Centre, Imarat (RCI), one of the DRDO laboratories situated in Hyderabad, described the launch as “a complete success.” Cameras on board two ships stationed near the targeted area recorded the terminal event of the missile’s flight.

Avinash Chander, Chief Controller (missiles and strategic systems), DRDO, V.G. Sekaran, Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL), Hyderabad, S.K. Chaudhury, Director, RCI, J Chattopadhyaya, Project Director Agni -I, M.V.K.V. Prasad, Director, ITR, Balasore, Orissa and the top officers of the SFC witnessed the launch. The ASL, a DRDO laboratory and the RCI contributed the systems in Agni-I.

Agni-I is 15 metres long and weighs 12 tonnes. It is a single stage missile that is powered by solid propellants. It can carry a nuclear warhead weighing one tonne. With its range of 700 km, it is Pakistan-specific. The first flight of Agni-I took place on January 25, 2002. The DRDO developed it quickly within 15 months because there was a felt need for a missile with a short range which will cover the western area. Such a need was felt after the Kargil war between India and Pakistan in 1999.

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Citation :: Indian Navy eyes expansion with three more Russian-made Krivak IV class frigates

Indian Navy's quest to emerge as a global and regional sea power will receive a major boost with New Delhi and Moscow in negotiations to purchase three additional frigates from Russia.

Military partnership has been the cornerstone of Indo-Russian ties and the Indian Navy has been using Russian-made frigates. It has been learnt that India and Russia have already held preliminary discussions for the three additional frigates that the navy would purchase from Moscow. The talks on this issue will gain momentum when Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin arrives in Delhi on Tuesday with a jumbo delegation.

"Discussions are at a preliminary stage and it will get concretised in the coming days," said an official speaking on condition of anonymity, refusing to divulge details of the type of frigate and its features at this stage of negotiations.

However, it is understood that these frigates could belong to Krivak IV class of Russia. A Krivak IV class frigate is equipped with a 100-mm gun, a Shtil medium-range air defence system, Club-N supersonic antiship missiles, two Kashtan point defence systems, two twin 533-mm torpedo launchers, and an anti-submarine warfare helicopter.

Russia, it is understood, made the offer to supply three additional frigates. India, which is constructing seven indigenous frigates at Mumbai and Kolkata, is mulling over the proposal.

The issue was discussed last April when the two sides agreed on a roadmap of doables in several areas of military cooperation. This roadmap would be deliberated in details between Rogozin and his Indian interlocutors, officials hinted. His delegation includes Alexander V. Fomin, director of federal service for military and technical cooperation and several key Russian defence industry bosses. The discussions would also focus on supply of spare parts for Russian supplied aircraft to the Indian Air Force (IAF), development of Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft and much delayed aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.

This will be Rogozin's, a close aide of President Vladimir Putin, maiden visit to India. Rogozin who is the co-chairman of Russian-Indian Intergovernmental Commission on military-technical, trade, economic, scientific and cultural cooperation will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, external affairs minister S.M. Krishna and defence minister A.K. Antony besides commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma. Russia is taking part in 20 tenders in India, with which it has a military-technical cooperation agreement until 2020.

Last month India received - INS Teg - the first of three the Stealth Talwar frigates it ordered from Russia six years ago. The 3,970 tonne P-17 project Talwar's are 124.5 meter (386 feet) long, carry 24 anti-aircraft and eight anti-ship missiles, four torpedo tubes, as well as a 100mm gun, short range antimissile guns, a helicopter, and anti-submarine weapons (depth charges and missiles).

The ship has a complete set of electronics gear. The crew strength is 180. All of the Talwars are being equipped with eight BrahMos anti-ship missile (range of 290 km) each. The Talwar is a modified version of the Russian Krivak III class.

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Citation :: Indian Aircraft Carrier Heads For Second Sea Trials

The Indian Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the Vikramaditya, has headed into the Barents Sea for second-stage sea trials, as part of its refit by Russia's Sevmash shipyard, Captain Vadim Serga of Russia's Northern Fleet information service said on Monday.

The Vikramaditya, formerly the Soviet Union's Admiral Gorshkov, has finished a long-delayed refit for the Indian Navy at Sevmash on the Kola peninsula. The ship was extensively modified to undertake STOBAR (short takeoff but assisted recovery) operations with MiG-29K naval fighter aircraft, as well as receiving new air defense, communications and navigations systems.

The Vikramaditya is currently successfully undertaking the second round of shipyard sea trials, during which the ship will test its main systems, main and secondary power systems, communications and navigation systems," Serga said.

The ship is being operated by a Northern Fleet crew, many of whom have experience with carrier operations on the Russian Navy's Admiral of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov. Also on board are Sevmash shipyard specialists and Indian Navy officers.

The crew includes Northern Fleet aviation personnel, who test the carrier’s radar systems, air defenses, communications and air direction systems.

India and Russia signed a $947 million dollar deal in 2005 for the purchase of the carrier, but delivery has already been delayed twice, pushing up the cost of refurbishing the carrier to $2.3 billion.

The Vikramaditya - as the Admiral Gorshkov - was originally laid down in 1978 at the Nikolayev South shipyard in Ukraine, launched in 1982, and commissioned with the Soviet Navy in 1987.

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Citation :: IAF pilots training on VIP helicopters in Britain

London: Indian Air Force ( IAF) pilots have begun training on the Agusta Westland AW 101 helicopters that have been purchased for ferrying dignitaries, the first of which are to be delivered by end-2012.

Finmeccanica group CEO Giuseppe Orsi told India Strategic during a media interaction at the Farnborough Air Show that the first batch of the IAF pilots had arrived in Britain as scheduled and were undergoing training at the Agusta Westland facility.

He did not give any details but said that some of the pilots would be trained in Britain as instructors also and they would in turn train their colleagues in India.

Agusta Westland, incorporating the former British Westland Helicopters, is a Finmeccanica group company now. It has delivered some 300 helicopters of different types to 22 countries since the merger of Augusta and Westland in 2000.

The week-long air show ended July 15.

IAF had selected the three-engined AW 101 for its VIP squadron in 2010 in a euro 560 million ($827 million) deal for 12 helicopters inclusive of training. The delivery of the 12 helicopters would be completed in 2013.

The AW 101 had also been selected by the US Army for White House use, but President Barack Obama had the deal cancelled as part of the measures to reduce defence expenditure.

The helicopter was selected after field trials whose results were evaluated by the IAF and the Special Protection Group (SPG), responsible for protection of the prime minister and select political leaders. It was chosen over the American Sikorsky S92 Superhawk and is considered to have got the nod as it had features that suited security requirements.

The IAF has been using Soviet-vintage Mi-8s and some Mi-17s to fly the prime minister and other dignitaries, but both the IAF and the security agencies have been sweating over their continued use. It has also been felt that the VIP helicopters have to be modern, with the best of the communication equipment, and also secured against terror threats.

It is understood that the AW 101 machines are being fitted with missile jammers and electronic warfare counter-measure gadgets as indeed like those of the US or other presidents around the world. No details are available though.

According to IAF sources, eight AW 101 helicopters are being configured for VIP use and the remaining four for carrying support crew, security personnel, baggage and training.

The VIP Squadron, officially designated Air HQ Communication Squadron, was set up in 1952. According to an IAF statement, "the primary role of the squadron is to convey VVIPs/VIPs of India and visiting foreign heads of state and government".

Besides flying Indian leaders for duties and varied missions like aerial survey of disaster-struck areas, the squadron has the distinction of flying the first president of independent India and thereafter all the VVIPs of the country.

The foreign dignitaries transported by this squadron include erstwhile Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, China's Zhou Enlai, Palestine's Yasser Arafat, UN Secretary General U Thant, South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Britain's Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II.

The squadron had the unique privilege of flying Mother Teresa also. The list of such distinguished dignitaries, though, is endless.

The Squadron had acquired Boeing 737s in the 1980s and recently they were replaced with newer generation models with some equipment similar to that also installed on the US President's Air Force One. The US government gave a special sanction once the Indian authorities made a request for some of the equipment.

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Citation :: Tejas won't be ready for combat before 2015

NEW DELHI: At a time when the US is fast-developing hypersonic bombers capable of flying at 20 times the speed of sound, India's largely home-grown Tejas light combat aircraft will "not be ready to go to war'' anytime before 2015.

The latest assessment of Tejas, which has now clocked close to 2,000 flights in its almost three-decade-long developmental saga, holds the light-weight fighter will be capable of firing guns, rockets and BVR (beyond visual range) missiles as well as air-to-air refuelling only by 2015 at the earliest, say defence ministry sources.

That is when the single-engine Tejas will become fully combat-ready after getting the final operational clearance (FOC). The review suggests that the fighter is again headed to miss a deadline in its convoluted tale that began in 1983 as an endeavour to replace the ageing MiG-21s.

So far, Tejas has achieved only initial operational clearance-I (IOC-I) to certify it's airworthiness. "The IOC-II for the fighter, which also includes integration of some weapons like laser-guided bombs, was pushed back to December 2012. But now, it will only be possible by July, 2013, or so after over 200 more sorties. FOC will come only two years after that,'' said a source.

India will eventually spend over Rs 25,000 crore in the entire Tejas programme, including the naval variant and trainer as well as the failed Kaveri engine, as earlier reported by TOI. But more than the cost, it's the time taken to develop a fully-tested, weapons-ready fighter that underlines how critical defence projects should not be run.

While it is true that developing a supersonic fly-by-wire fighter from scratch was never going to be easy, the entire project could have been managed much better. IAF, on its part, is supporting the fighter programme since it knows the country's need to have indigenous weapon systems is strategically critical.

Plans are underway to upgrade the Sulur airbase in Tamil Nadu, which will house the initial Tejas squadrons inducted in the IOC-II configuration, at a cost of Rs 524 crore. While the first 20 Tejas will be powered by the American GE-404 engines, the next six Mark-II squadrons (16-18 jets in each) will have the more powerful GE F-414 engines. The $822-million deal for 99 GE F-414 engines is likely to be inked soon, with additional engines being ordered at a later stage.

The number of fighter squadrons in IAF will further dip to 31 over the next three to four years with phasing out of the aging MiG variants, further impacting IAF's combat capabilities, before it slowly begins to pick up with new inductions. Projections show IAF will have the required 45 squadrons only by 2032.

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Citation :: Ainsi après avoir lancé un vaste chantier de refonte du parc d’avions de combat avec l’acquisition de SU30MKI, de rénovation des MiG29 et la sélection du Rafale, c’est au tour des marins indiens de préparer la relève de son vieux porte aéronefs Viraat par le prestigieux Vikramaditya. Une opération à 2,3 Md$ qui ressemble à tout sauf à un long fleuve tranquille

L’inde va pouvoir remplacer son son vieux porte aéronefs Viraat par le prestigieux Vikramaditya.

Le fleuron de la marine indienne, le porte avions Vikramaditya vient d’entamer ses essais en mer le 8 juin dernier… en Russie ! Ce navire, dont la carrière a débuté en 1987 est de classe Kiev qui se nommait autrefois « Bakou » lorsqu’il voguait pour le compte de la marine soviétique gréé comme porte-aéronefs. Il fut ensuite rebaptisé « Admiral Gorshkov » lors de la chute de l’union soviétique avant d’être proposé à la vente par Moscou en 2004. Une aubaine pour l’Inde qui voulait alors remplacer son porte aéronefs Viraat, un fringuant jeune homme entré en service en 1959… Le contrat initial de 947 M$ prévoyait l’acquisition du navire et sa transformation en porte-avions moyennant un petit surcout de 800M$. Au final le navire qui devait entrer en service en 2010 accuse un retard de plus de deux ans pour causes de déboires techniques à répétition, de surcouts et de litiges entre la Russie et l’Inde.

Le porte avions indien Vikramaditya sera équipé de 16 Mig29K et KUB

L’addition est salée puisqu’elle se monte désormais à 2,3 Md$ au bas mot, certaines sources évoquent plutôt 3Md$, somme à laquelle il faut rajouter un budget conséquent pour l’acquisition de 16 MIG29K et KUB. Des avions conçus eux aussi dans les années 80 mais profondément remaniés depuis pour en fait l’équivalent d’un F/A18 américain.

Le fleuron de la marine indienne, le porte avions Vikramaditya vient d’entamer ses essais en mer… en Russie !

Aujourd’hui le navire a un pont remanié. Bien que dépourvu de catapultes, il est tout de même capable de mettre en œuvre des appareils conventionnels grâce à un pont de 160 mètres de long prolongé par un tremplin. A l’appontage, des brins d’arrêt conventionnels se chargent d’immobiliser les aéronefs. D’ici à la fin de l’année, le « Vikramaditya » puisque c’est son nouveau nom quittera définitivement les chantiers russes de Severodvinsk (Sevmash) pour rejoindre l’Inde. Il mettra alors en œuvre des avions de combat MiG29K, des hélicoptères radar KA31, et peut être le chasseur indigène Tejas lorsqu’il sera au point.

Le porte-avions Vikramaditya est équipé d’un pont de 160 mètres de long prolongé par un tremplin.

Désormais dotée de ce navire de 45.000 tonnes pour une longueur de 273m l’Inde espère pouvoir s’imposer comme une puissance maritime avec laquelle il faut désormais compter…

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Citation :: Jets Make First Landing on Indian Carrier

A MiG-29KUB two-seat naval fighter jet made the first touch-and-go landings last week on the Indian Navy aircraft carrier Vikramaditya, Sevmash shipyard said on Monday.

The ship is currently undergoing sea trials in the Barents Sea off the north coast of Russia.

The jet, piloted by navy test-pilots Col. Nikolai Diorditsa and Mikhail Belyaev, completed several approaches to the carrier and finally made a touch-and-go landing.

The Vikramaditya, formerly the Russian Navy's Admiral Gorshkov, is to be handed over to India after the trials after a much-delayed refit.

The ship was extensively modified to undertake STOBAR (short takeoff but assisted recovery) operations with MiG-29K naval fighter aircraft, as well as receiving new air defense, communications and navigations systems.

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Citation :: Ministry clears Rs 12,000-cr deal to procure 56 aircraft

The Ministry of Defence on Monday cleared a proposal worth over Rs 12,000 crore to procure 56 transport aircraft for the Air Force to replace its fleet of vintage Avro planes. The Defence Acquisition Council’s meeting, headed by Defence Minister A K Antony, cleared the proposal to issue a global tender for procuring these aircraft.

Sources said the first 16 aircraft will be procured off-the-shelf from foreign vendors who will have to partner with a local private or public sector firm. Another set of 16 aircraft will have to have 30 per cent indigenous component while the remaining 24 planes will have 60 per cent locally-procured and produced parts.

On being asked why the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited was not being involved in the project, ministry officials said the PSU was already burdened with projects such as the SU-30MKI production and upgrades of IAF aircraft fleet, including the Mirage, MiG 29 and Jaguar. The HAL has a vast helicopter division and will be involved in the forthcoming M-MRCA project for producing 126 combat aircraft.

The 56-aircraft project would help in developing a domestic aerospace industry and capability to undertake such projects. The IAF fleet of Avro aircraft was inducted in the 1960s and is used for transporting men and material. The aircraft can carry loads of upto seven-eight tonnes.

The DAC also cleared a proposal to create a new Defence Offsets Management Agency which will replace the existing Defence Offsets Facilitation Agency. Sources said the new agency will be under the Department of Defence Production. The meeting is also learnt to have approved the inclusion of transfer of technology and critical technologies as defence offsets.

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Citation :: MIG fighter makes first landing on INS Vikramaditya

A Russian-built fighter jet has made the first landing on the INS Vikramaditya as part of comprehensive sea trials the aircraft carrier is undergoing ahead of its induction in the Indian Navy later this year.

A MiG-29KUB two-seat naval fighter jet landed on the Vikramaditya’s deck for the first time on Saturday after performing several touch-and-go approaches in the Barents Sea in the Russian Arctic, the Interfax news agency reported quoting a Russian defence industry source. The jet, built for India, was piloted by Russian Navy test-pilots Colonel Nikolai Diorditsa and Mikhail Belyaev.

The former Soviet Admiral Gorshkov heavy aviation cruiser, rechristened Vikramaditya, has been extensive refurbished and upgraded to a light aircraft carrier at the Sevmash shipyard in the Russian city of Severodvinsk under a $2.3 billion contract with India. It had its flight deck extended and turned into a full runway with a ski jump and arrestor wires.

A MiG-35 jet will also be used for landings and take-offs from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier to test its new short-takeoff-but-assisted recovery (STOBAR) system.

The Vikramaditya is to be handed over to India in December. It will carry 16 MiG-29K fighter jets, which Russia delivered to India last year, and about a dozen Russian-built Kamov helicopters.

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Citation :: Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya to take part in the Russian Navy Day Parade

INS Vikramaditya, the Indian Navy’s (IN) aircraft carrier, will take part in the Russian Navy Day parade to be held in the Arctic port city of Severomorsk this Sunday.

The aircraft carrier is currently undergoing marine tests with the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet, ahead of its induction in to the IN. Located in the Barents Sea coast, Severomorsk is the main naval base of the Russian Navy’s Red Banner Northern Fleet, responsible for the maritime security of the North-western portion of the Eurasian nation.

Currently the INS Vikramaditya is undertaking several drills in the Barents Sea, operated by seamen from the Russian Navy. Local media reported that in addition to the naval servicemen, staff and officials from the Russian shipbuilder JSC PO Sevmash, as well as Indian Navy officials are also onboard the ship. The upgrading of the aircraft carrier was done at the Sevmash shipyard, which is the largest of its type in Russia. The shipyard, which employs close to 27,000 staff, is also Russia’s only manufacturer of nuclear submarines.

Local sources reported that a total of 12 vessels are likely to take part in this year’s parade in Severomorsk, including the Indian aircraft carrier. A total of 3,000 naval servicemen will also participate in the ceremony. Commemoration functions will be held at the Primorskaya Square and at the Severomorsk harbour, expected to be attended by senior officials from the military and the civilian administration.

The INS Vikramaditya, formerly Soviet Aircraft Carrier Admiral Gorshkov was purchased by the Indian Navy at a cost of $2.35 billion a few years ago. The refurbishment works which had been ongoing at the Sevmash shipyard were completed earlier this year, and currently the ship is undergoing marine trials. The Russian Navy recently announced that the aircraft carrier will be inducted by the IN probably by the end of this year.

INS Vikramaditya will be the second aircraft carrier to be inducted in to the ndian Navy, following the Induction of INS Viraat in 1987. The IN has also started the manufacture of two Vikrant class aircraft carriers, the first of which will be inducted in to the navy by 2017.

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Citation :: India to develop new batch of advanced Surface-to-Air missile systems

The Indian news media reported today that the local defence scientists are developing a new batch of surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems, capable of intersecting and destroying targets up to a distance of 180 miles.

Avinash Chander, Chief Controller R&D (Missiles and Strategic Systems) at Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) informed the media that the defence scientists are working hard to design the new missiles, which can improve the air defence capabilities of the Indian Armed Forces. Chander was attending a function at the Research Center Imarat (RCI), in Hyderabad.

Chander said that in addition to the new SAM systems, the scientists at DRDO are also working on new air-to-surface and air-to-air missiles. He claimed that upon the completion of the designing, the air-to-surface missile will be having an operational range of 250 miles, while the air-to-air missile will be capable of destroying targets up to a distance of 180 miles. He added that in addition to these three types of missiles, new submarine-launched, supersonic, and cruise missiles will be developed in the near future by the DRDO.

During the function at RCI, Chander praised the locally developed Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation (HILS) technique. He said that the HILS technology had helped the Indian defence industry enormously for the last 25 years, having a positive impact in various sectors such as avionics, and navigation systems. During the ceremony, the former Indian president Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam also praised the role that the HILS played in the Indian defence field. Kalam worked as an aerospace engineer with the DRDO during the 1960s, before moving to the ISRO, where he remained until the 1980s.

The Indian army is already in the possession of one locally developed SAM system, the Akash missile. However, the missile is having a range of only 18 miles, and is incapable of targeting airborne targets at far away distances. In addition to the Akash missile, India is also in the possession of foreign made SAM systems such as the Pechora, 9K22 Tunguska, and Barak.

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Citation :: Boeing Completes Major Join of India's 1st C-17 Airlifter

Ambassador N. Parthasarathi, Consul General of India, San Francisco, drives a rivet into the first of 10 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft being built for India's Ministry of Defence during a ceremony with Boeing in Long Beach. (Photo: Boeing)

Program on schedule to deliver strategic and humanitarian capabilities

15:03 GMT, August 1, 2012 LONG BEACH, Calif. | Boeing yesterday in Long Beach integrated the forward, center and aft fuselages and the wing assembly of India's first C-17 Globemaster III during the airlifter's "major join" ceremony.

Embassy, senior Indian Air Force and local elected officials drove ceremonial rivets into the aircraft as they celebrated the achievement of this key program milestone.

India's Ministry of Defence signed an agreement with the U.S. government on June 15, 2011, to acquire 10 C-17 airlifters, making India the largest C-17 customer outside the U.S. Those governments finalized the Foreign Military Sales contract for the airframe alone on June 6.

"The defense relationship between India and the United States is an important dimension of our strategic partnership," said Ambassador N. Parthasarathi, Consul General of India, San Francisco. "This momentous occasion, where we see India's first C-17 take shape, further strengthens our growing relationship. As India strives to become a global reservoir of highly skilled and technologically sophisticated manpower, we will witness an escalating technology transfer, collaborative joint research and development, and co-production of defense items between our two countries."

"This is a proud day for the highly skilled Boeing workforce and our newest customer to celebrate a major production milestone," said Bob Ciesla, Boeing Airlift vice president and C-17 program manager. "We are preparing for India’s first C-17 to enter flight test on schedule early next year, and we look forward to providing for India's current and future needs and continuing to support C-17s long after they are delivered."

Boeing has delivered 245 C-17s worldwide, including 217 to the U.S. Air Force active duty, Guard and Reserve units. A total of 28 C-17s have been delivered to Australia, Canada, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the 12-member Strategic Airlift Capability initiative of NATO and Partnership for Peace nations.

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Citation :: Browne to review Su-30 MKI upgradation programme

New Delhi: Air Chief NAK Browne will review the upgradation programme of Su-30 MKI at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) facility in Nashik during his two-day visit to Maharashtra from today.

“The Air Chief will also be visiting the HAL’s Su-30 MKI production facilities at Ojhar (Nashik) to oversee the first two Su-30 aircraft which have been recently inducted for overhaul and would also be interacting with the HAL chairman,” IAF officials said in New Delhi today.

Fighters of the IAF. Image courtesy PIB

Under the upgradation programme, the first block of Su-30MKI fighter aircraft are being upgraded in a Rs 11,000 crore contract with the HAL, which will provide additional capabilities to the planes.

The Russian-origin Su-30 MKI are the backbone of IAF and have been deployed at Pune, Bareilly, Halwara in Punjab, Jodhpur in Rajasthan and Tezpur in Assam. The first block of these fighters were inducted into the force around a decade ago.

On 4 August, ACM Browne will also visit the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) at Pune to address the Undergraduate and Post Graduate medical students there.

The tri-services medical training institution is celebrating the golden jubilee of its undergraduate wing.

Today the Air Chief visited the Paraplegic Rehabilitation Centre at Kirkee in Pune.

Upon his arrival at the Air Force Station Pune, ACM Browne visited various administrative and operational installations of the station and interacted with the Air Officer Commanding (AOC) Air Commodore VR Chaudhari and other key IAF officials there.

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Citation :: IAF Sukhoi-30 jets have a design flaw: Browne

Pune, Aug 4, 2012 (PTI)
Air Chief NAK Browne today said the IAF has identified a "design flaw" with the Russian-made supersonic fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30 though nothing is wrong with its "airworthiness".

"We have identified a Fly-By-Wire problem with the aircraft. It is a design issue and we have taken it up with the designing agency," he told reporters on the sidelines of a function held to mark Golden Jubilee celebrations of Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) here.

Referring to the December 13, 2011 crash of a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft near here, the Air Chief said that more checks were being implemented to ensure that such incidents do not happen again.

The aircraft had crashed at Wade Bholai village soon after it took off from Lohegaon air base. Two pilots of the fighter plane managed to bail out safely. "There is nothing wrong with the aircraft or its airworthiness. I have myself flown the aircraft," he said.

On proposed acquisition of the French Rafale aircraft, Browne said the negotiations in this regard were progressing well and could be finalised by the end of the financial
year.

In reply to a question, he said the IAF had an "elaborate plan" at hand to change over from old to new fleets. Earlier, the Air Chief released a postal stamp brought out by the Department of Post and Telegraph to commemorate the AFMC Golden Jubilee.

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Citation :: Indian Navy Warships Conclude Israeli Visit

INS Trishul is the second ship of the Talwar Class guided missile frigates (Krivak III, Project 11356) built in Russia for the Indian Navy. the vessel is armed with Club-N anti-ship cruise missiles. In later models the Club-N was replaced by the supersonic BrahMos missile.

An Indian Navy group comprising four vessels deployed in the Mediterranean Sea visited the Israeli port of Haifa last week, as the two countries celebrate 20 years of diplomatic ties this year. The vessels include the Indian built Delhi Class guided missile destroyer INS Mumbai (D62), the Russian built Talwar Class (Krivak III) class guided missile frigate INS Trishul (F43), Indian built Godavari-Class (Project 16) frigate INS Gomti (F21) and Russian built INS Aditya replenishment and repair ship (A59).

INS Mumbai is one of three Indian built Delhi Class guided missile destroyers currently serving in the Indian navy.

The vessels are part of the Indian navy’s western fleet. The Mediterranean tour of the four warships is being headed by Rear Admiral A R Karve.

Indian warships have regularly paid visits to ports in the West Asia and East Africa, reaffirming their peaceful presence and solidarity with countries in the region; the four-day visit in Israel reaffirms the growing Indo-Israeli relations and continued cooperation between the two countries” Indian officials said.

In recent years the Indian Navy has expanded the use of Israeli systems on the new classes of ships. Among the visiting ships, only the Gomti carries Israeli Barak anti-missile systems, however, almost all new Indian built classes of warships currently fielded or under construction in India, are loaded with Israeli systems, primarily defensive electronics, radars and missile and Barak systems. The Indo-Israeli Barak 8 counter-air system is scheduled for deployed on the lead ship of the P15A class, INS Kochi, following completion of the system’s testing, currently underway in India and Israel. Barak 8 and its associated IAI Elta EL/M-2248 radar provide the Indian Navy an AEGIS-class weapon system, extending its active air defense capability far beyond current capabilities.

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While INS Vikrant will be delivered late, India starts design work on much larger, 65,000 tons, carrier

Indian Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma announced the nation's first indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) INS Vikrant will not be ready until 2017, three years later than the planned schedule. However The New Indian Express daily reports that design work on the much larger aircraft carrier INS Vishal has already started.

“There were problems in manufacturing the gear box, which involves complex technology. The truck bringing generators overturned near Pune last year, further delaying the schedule,” Indian Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma explained.

INS Vikrant out of dry dock
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Preparations for building INS Vikrant started in 2008, and the keel was laid in February 2009. The carrier was floated out of its dry dock on 29 December 2011.

The vessel is designed to deploy up to 30 fixed-wing aircraft, primarily the Mikoyan MiG-29K and the naval variant of the HAL Tejas Mark 2, and about 10 helicopters. It features a STOBAR (Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery) configuration with a ski-jump. It will displace 40,000 tons and measure 262 meters long.

At the same time, sources told The New Indian Express daily that design work for INS Vishal has already started. INS Vishal is set to displace 65,000 tons: That's 25,000 tons more than INS Vikrant. INS Vishal will be close to Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers in terms of size and displacement. According to rumors, this carrier will be CATOBAR (Catapult Assisted Take Off Barrier Arrested Recovery) similar to US Navy super carriers, however nothing has been officially confirmed and it is not clear yet how India would obtain the catapult technology.

Indian Navy is set to receive INS Vikramaditya (ex-Admiral Gorshkov) by year-end.

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Citation :: India successfully test-fires Agni-II missile

Sharpening its missile teeth, India on Thursday successfully test-fired its medium range nuclear capable Agni-II missile with a strike range of 2000km as part of a user trial by the Army from the Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. "The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was conducted

from a mobile launcher from the Launch Complex-4 of Integrated Test Range (ITR) at around 8.48am," defence sources said.

Describing the launch as a complete success, ITR Director MVKV Prasad said, "All mission parameters were met during the trial of the indigenously developed missile."

Agni-II Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) has already been inducted into the services and today’s test was carried out by the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Army with logistic support provided by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).

"The 2000km range versatile missile, already inducted and part of countries arsenal for strategic deterrence, was launched as a training exercise by the armed forces," a DRDO scientist said.

The two-stage missile equipped with advanced high accuracy navigation system, guided by a novel scheme of state of the earth command & control system was propelled by solid rocket propellant system, he said.

The entire trajectory of the trial was tracked by a battery of sophisticated radars, telemetry observation stations, electro-optic instruments and naval ships located near the impact point in the down range area of the sea.

The 20-metre long Agni-II is a two-stage, solid-propelled ballistic missile. It has a launch weight of 17 tonnes and can
carry a payload of 1000kg over a distance of 2000km.

The state-of-the-art Agni-II missile was developed by Advanced Systems Laboratory along with other DRDO laboratories and integrated by the Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Hyderabad, the sources said.

Agni-II is part of the Agni series of missiles which includes Agni-I with a 700km range, Agni-III with a 3,000km range, Agni-IV and Agni-V.

The first prototype of Agni-II missile was carried out on April 11, 1999.

Though trial conducted on May 19, 2009 and the first night trial on November 23, 2009 from Wheelers Island could not meet all the parameters, all other trials including the last one carried out on September 30, 2011 from the same base were successful.

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Citation :: Indian Air Force Takes Delivery of its First ERJ 145 AEW&C Aircraft

Embraer Delivers First AEW&C Aircraft to India

São Paulo, August 16, 2012 – Embraer Defense and Security today delivered the first EMB 145 Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) class of aircraft to the Government of India, in a ceremony held at Embraer’s headquarters in São José dos Campos, Brazil. The delivery follows successful completion of ground and flight tests of the aircraft which met operational targets established by both Embraer and Centre for Airborne Systems (CABS) of Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO). Later on the aircraft will be delivered to the Indian Air Force after integration of missions systems of DRDO by CABS in India.

“The collaboration with DRDO in such a complex program strengthens the ties between Brazil and India”, said Luiz Carlos Aguiar, President & CEO of Embraer Defense and Security. “We are very proud to meet the expectations of our clients in providing CABS, DRDO with this platform.”

“This EMB 145 AEW&C features major capabilities such as in-flight refueling system, significant increase in electric and cooling capacity and a comprehensive set of structural changes to which will allow the installation of the advanced mission systems that have been developed by India’s CABS (Centre for Air Borne Systems) along with its work centers of DRDO”, said Dr. Elangovan, Chief Controller R&D (Avionics & Aero) of DRDO.

“The success of this programme is the symbol of cooperation between India and Brazil”, said Dr. Christopher Programme Director AEW&C and Director CABS. “The airborne Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) designed and developed by CABS, is now flying on top of this modified Embraer aircraft is one example of such cooperation. CABS, DRDO will integrate all other mission systems in India and deliver it to Indian Air Force”.

Remaining AEW&C aircraft are due to be delivered to the Indian Air Force as part of a contract signed in 2008 that includes a comprehensive package for training, technical support, spare parts, and ground support equipment. These aircraft, upon entry-into-service, will join four Embraer Legacy 600 jets – currently operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF) for the transportation of Indian government officials and foreign dignitaries – and a fifth Embraer Legacy 600 which belongs to the Border Security Force (BSF), under India’s Home Ministry.

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Citation :: India, U.S. Expected To Sign $1B Apache Deal

NEW DELHI — India and the United States soon will sign a $1 billion deal for the purchase of 22 attack helicopters, an Indian Defence Ministry official said.

The Boeing AH-64D Apache helicopter beat the Russian Mi-28N Night Hunter, outscoring the Russian helicopter on more than 20 technical points, said an Indian Air Force official.

The helicopters can fly day or night, in all weather, and are capable of operations in desert and mountainous environments. The helicopters will have an empty weight of about 2,500 kilograms and have advanced anti-armor capability.

The helicopters will be equipped with a radar warning receiver, allowing them to intercept, identify and prioritize multiple airborne and ground-based radio frequency emitters.

The purchase will include a supply of Hellfire Longbow missiles, Stinger missiles and 12 fire-control radars.

India is also developing its own light attack helicopter through state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics. It is expected to be ready by 2013-2014.

The helicopter is being designed for use in altitudes of up to 26,000 feet. Armament would include a 20mm cannon, as well as rockets and missiles for a variety of missions, including air-to-air, air-to-surface and anti-radiation.

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