Search results

If the best example you have is a leading member of NATO reneging on Russia for invading another European state, I rather wear that with a badge of pride and highly doubt seeing any prospective buyers using that as a sticking point.

Israel has been exporting to India because the US has not had a problem supporting India. If that ever changed you would find it to be a problem. You do not have these issues buying Russian or even French because our technology is proprietary.

Israeli components are usually advanced because they have direct access to US components and bilateral tech. The downside is they are subject to US pressure otherwise they cannot even export the product.

The only thing I get reading about Sea Dart on wiki is that it was really bad at shooting down Dassault aircraft. :cruisin2:

Cannisters would make it weigh more.

They haven't even finished qualifying S-400 yet, the long range missile still doesn't perform. Right now it is just an S300PMU2.

To pay all the money for license production indicates they plan on making a bunch of them, not just a trial run.

That is what it says... Tarmak007 -- A bold blog on Indian defence: BVR Astra missile warming up for aircraft release in 2013; re-engineered weapon to undergo more captive flight trails in 2012

That doesn't make much sense when a ToT deal was signed to produce Agat seekers.

Both India and China can launch things into space. China is still dependent on telecom sats made by Thales and they faked a space walk mission. Beidou was said to be operational a couple years ago, then they said it is operational now but you still can't buy a receiver to check it. Don't...

Unless you are on the development team, you are not going to have access to alloys, composition and components so quit blowing smoke. Kub did really well in Georgia, NATO couldn't even find them in Serbia. Command guided missiles have been pretty useless as demonstrated over Libya. For a...

It is easy enough to say that, but the physical similarities are evident. In terms of materials and subsystems, they have high commonality in the missile set. They both work on the same dynamic. Akash uses CG because they never developed a SARH seeker. The latter is superior. Akash is in...

I still think it is India's attempt to copy it. They don't clone like the Chinese do, but like other nations pull the concepts.

It is uncanny how much it looks like the Kub missile.

Not really, I know the basics of missile energy and trajectory. We know its operational parameters so it is easy to know the fact. Its intercept window is very small, especially considering the SR-71s speed, it is minuscule. A million to one is an expression of course. And p2prada made an...

Its ceiling is 85K feet. It cruises at 80K. Akash doesn't even have the range to get that high, much less the range to intercept it. Even if it flew at 55K feet, Akash would have only one point and time to intercept it, like a 1:million shot. It's rather impossible for Akash. Only the LR...

Akash wouldn't have a chance in hell of catching an SR-71 Blackbird. It operates at 80,000+ft and cruises at Mach 3. Akash ceiling is under 60k and Mach 2.5. Aster 30 would be lucky to catch one.

Apparently, Miatri is getting more range than just 9km. It puts it in the range of Akash, also an SR-SAM.

How much turn rate do you think an acceleration to Mach 3.5 is going to have with a 15G limit? The vector product is what we want to find the g-force on a missile that is basically a rocket on its final trajectory. Its limit will already be reached by its acceleration on the final approach...

Your're forgetting missiles have frag warheads. If Akash is exploding a 60kg frag under your ass = ass is grass. The G forces missiles need to undertake are only relavent to the explosive radius of the warhead it carries. Hence, smaller missiles need to be more manueverable to get into a...