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  1. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    Meanwhile the Russian navy continues to upgrade it's older giants as well! The heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" in the Barents Sea. Source:RIA Novosti/Yuri Kaver
  2. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    @Bahamut - most of the actual data regarding Sonar efficiency remains a state secret in both cases, i cannot give you any figures regarding detection & targeting ranges. However that said what i can tell you is that the latest known Chinese Torpedo is the YU-6 with a maximum kill range of...
  3. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    It's staring you in the face! The noisier a sub is the easier it is to detect and the easier it is to kill as well. That said the Chinese and Russians both use comparable torpedoes, barring the Russian trump card in the shape of the skhval of course!
  4. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    completely correct there, we are but minnows in a stream here!
  5. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    That comes to around 7500 crores/ship or around 1 billion$/vessel. http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/ins-visakhapatnam-shows-growing-indian-ability-to-build-warships-economically-115042100011_1.html The only cost estimate of the leader i could find were from...
  6. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    Each leader should cost around 2.5$billion compared to around 1$billion for a vishakapatnam. As far as money is concerned the Indian economy is poised to cross 3$ trillion before 2020, simultaneously the defence budget should cross 70$billion( more than the entire current GDP of Nepal) making...
  7. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    While I too understand and support the point about having more smaller combatants instead. The missile battlecruiser is still the biggest bruiser around, the era of gunboat diplomacy never ended and much as we deny it there is still some merit to carrying a really big stick. I mean one leader...
  8. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    While the CBG's shall primarily serve as our shield in the IOR, these could serve as swords much like the army's strike corps.I actually think that these vessels can be complementary to the CBG. providing long range detection and heavy organic SAM cover to the CBG. Imagine three flotillas of two...
  9. bengalraider

    An Indo Russian Leader?

    The Russian navy shall begin construction of the Leader class destroyers from 2019, meant to replace the Sovremennyy-class destroyer, the Udaloy I class and the Slava-class cruiser. These nuclear powered giants shall displace 17500 tonnes and be armed with no less then 60Ashms/LACMs each apart...
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