VSHORAD Tender for Air Defence

Do not rush to buy anything. Keep the bribery packed dealers out. But buy for next 30 years. Until then the existing air defense systems are good. They have to shoot Pakistani planes which the existing systems can handle. Chinese will always theaten in the mountains of Tawang or Ladakh but stay out of a shooting context, because their modern planes would fly from far away bases (none in the neigbourhood to fly high performance planes from 7,000 ft) with tired pilots and easy prey to the Indian Airforce before they meet the local air defense system.

mistral 2 can be quick reaction short range point defence sam to replace trishul but if the army's requirement is manpads them igla-s is the best option.other missiles here are crew portable.

Based on the RFP participants, it doesn't look like shoulder fired MANPADs are the requirement.

well u had missed out star strek range which is around 7KM & it missile speed is around mach 3.5 .

also RBS 70NG also has MAX range of 8km but it's speed is less around 2 .

who knows ????

RBS 70/NG max range is 7km, not max powered flight and Mach 1.6 - 2... not equal to the Mistral-2 kill envelope..

Starstreak maybe as you have to wait awhile for its second stage burnout... of course that is made by Thales.

All are good. Just buy the cheapest.

Hmm why not .,thales has been developing cutting edge weapons till date now

but some are better ,hmm price is also important lets see mistral 2 can win on that ground or not

Wiki says RBS 70 is - Manufactured by == ( Bofors Defence (1980s-2000) Saab Bofors Dynamics (since 2000) )

Upgraded stinger and/ or Igla should be ideal, i think the need should be for a shoulder fired missile, such extensive kit makes deployement slower, we need missiles on the ready at a moment's notice, upgrade stingers too have a long range of around 8 km. or even better go in for a Indo / US / Israeli co developement of the replacement for the stinger, put in a mini version of the python 5 or aim-9x 2 seeker on an updated stinger body with higher g-tolerances, the missile and launchers made lighter with composites and you have a cutting edge missile that could be manufactured locally at a lower cost per missile.

I would personally go for quick developement with Israel or unkil or both.

WELL thats a criteria which needs to be seen like shoulder fire criteria which IGLA among all the contenders only has.
But if that's not the criteria then of course star strek is the most advanced among them

Why did the French pull out of the Maitri project?

Agreed, we should opt for commonality to keep the costs & logistics issues to a minimum. IGLA-S should suffice, although Starstreak seems to be more advanced than the rest . Of course next step should be to develop/ co-produce something with Help from Khan or the Israelis.

bit offtopic..

currently what do we have for 'low level air defense'??

do we have anything similar system like shown in the below videos?

i like shyshield. do we have any similar system?


The complete Skyshield array w/a SAM module in the back right. The two men give a sense of scale

Skyshield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

watch this video, i like the concept, design and technology of skyshield.



i also like this gun, do we have any similar guns?