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Wow, 1 hitjob a day! So Rahul Bedi is also dalal? Never really looked at his work closely. Isn't he the dude that rights for most foreign publications like Janes and The Diplomat? Maybe we need a thread on DFI to track all dalal defence media persons.

Bulbous bow is found more commonly on commercial ships because they cruise at a set design speed and bulbous bow shapes create destructive interference thereby reducing wave drag. Key word "design speed". You go at a different speed and it might end up causing more harm than good because it...

No idea. But isn't it the same for most Indian warships? Only Navy ship with bulbous bow I remember is some tanker class. BTW, even Nimitz class supercarriers didn't have bulbous bows initially. Only in last two Nimitz class it was added.

TEDBF will be a much better idea. Its a delta planform, with much higher payload and bring back capacity. TEDBF can also serve far longer without the need for band aid solutions on the MiG-29Ks. Once you add NLCA features like Magic Carpet and Automatic Hands Free Takeoff on TEDBF, it will be...

That would be the ultimate diplomatic flex if India could pull of mating a Russian airframe with an American engine for an Indian carrier right in the middle of Russo-Ukrainian war. But the MiG-29K has problems with cracks in the airframe itself, so not a lasting solution anyways. And if...

Originally, XXI Strike Corps should have become our Expeditionary Force. But with I Strike Corps being shifted to China front, that is off the table now. I don't see our dedicated amphibious warfare forces rising beyond the current 2 brigades.

Our situation is not as bad as the Royal Navy though. The got half our number of Destroyers and Frigates. Also, at least for frigates, the news of a possible P-17B after Nilgiri class makes me a bit more confident. Agree on submarines though. Exactly. If you can force a guy like him to behave...

What a load of crap written just to explain away the need for a third aircraft carrier. And then you call me Chinese. Read this:- https://maritimeindia.org/reflections-on-indias-vikrant-centric-carrier-battle-group/

I see four total rectangle-like shapes. Two in either red circle. Each rectangle is likely an 8-cell VLS. So total 32.

Its not 64. Its 32. Wiki fooled me for ages, but the recent Navy presentation clearly decalred 32 VLS Barak-8. :sad:

Looks like this dude is trolling us. No way this is the real design. Looks like some kid modified the early 2000s era ensign using paint.

Didn't this ensign exist before as well? Or was it the blue chakra instead in that old ensign?

NG vessels will likely be mass produced in flights like the Chinese and Americans do their destroyers because most of the components will be Indian. We are already seeing that trend with Talwar and P-17A class. 2030s, with a budget of $15B in a year, the fleet can grow rapidly, even if NGD cost...

Its closer to France, Japan and UK right now. Even by 2030 alone, we'll be spending twice as much as these countries. We won't reach US and China in defence spending within next two decades. That much is true. But we won't remain France and UK tier till 2040. By then our naval fleet will be the...

I am not expecting CAPEX to "flow like water". I am expecting it to grow in concert with India's GDP. Which has been the case till now. Take the previous decade, for example between 2011-12 and 2021-22, Defence CAPEX has grown at an average rate of 7%. Similar to the rate at which India's GDP...

We can produce TEDBF faster in 2030s because size of Indian aerospace ecosystem is growing. We won't have to wait for 2040 for just 45 TEDBF. Navy is in a hurry with TEDBF, they want it ready ASAP. And it makes sense to field TEDBF from Vikramaditya instead of MiG-29K because TEDBF is a much...

I'd say its better to throw them away after TEDBF comes. TEDBF specs will blow MiG-29K out of the water.

It is indeed developing cracks. Been reported by a senior Navy officer "can't remember the name". The officer said "We paid for the development costs of MiG-29K and if the Russians have any shame they should repair the cracking airframes without asking for more money." Read it too long ago to...

The article I posted only names MiG-29K True. Not yet. And even in future, it would require a major leap in technology. But a subsonic launched from stealth platforms is still a deadly enough capability. And its not just Muricans but even Japanese and British that will field that capability...

Well, the muricans are fitting NSM AShM into F-35 IWB. A deadly capability. Our Navy going for non-LO is likely due to them wanting to rely on proven technologies instead of taking risk. Right now, with Tejas experience, a 4++ gen fighter tailored exactly to Navy's performance specifications is...