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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    This is what I said culled from the official advertisements: "Akash fire control radars put out >70KW peak power" I did not say that peak power was exactly 70KW, just as the official advertisements did not say that either ;). Russian radars of equal size/roles were putting out 270KW in peak...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    These glide bombs are going to cost 20000 USD (dumb) + probably 10000 USD (glide mechanism). For a 30000 USD bomb you can either only put in a cheaper missile or go after the aircraft that can launch it. Should you choose the second method, you end up wasting a 10 million USD SAM with a Pk of...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    What kind of a SAM would you like to face off with if you were a pilot? One that is quick, carries thrust giving multiple passes and demands very short reaction time from the evading pilot and the off board sensors put out so much power that you cannot ever jam them. OR One that travels very...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    I don't know why people are under-estimating the current Akash. There is hardly anything to change in it for the foreseeable future. You have a cheap SAM plus that has a fuller ceiling plus a fuller slant range plus the radar that sees very very low at the very far end range of the SAM plus...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    @tharun At 1/10th the cost. cursory check on wiki: France has spent €4.1bn at 2010 prices on 10 SAMP/T launchers, 375 Aster 30 missiles and 200 Aster 15 missiles - "Projet de loi de finances pour 2013 : Défense : équipement des forces" (in French). Senate of France. 22 November 2012...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    Leaving aside the obvious but harmless stupidity of the reporter in this case, an Akash primed for tactical nukes can be made to work without much changes (or even without any at all) to the basic Akash SAM. The command link will obviously work till the line of sight is available and that...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    @Chinmoy, today off course the tactical nuke can be carried by a Pinaka-2 or a Prahaar but then at the time this urban legend started it was a cogent argument and probably to show that Paki bellicosity in the light of their later day Nasr or Raad was not going to impress us beyond a point...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    Don't know about the progress on Akash-2 either. Just hoping for the best. But this could easily mean any or all of, bunch of things: 1) That Akash-2 is indeed a seeker headed SAM and it is taking longer to make a seeker for it, which is understandable to me; 2) That Akash-2 is not needed...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    Akash is meant to be a cheap SAM system. Seekers are claimed to be around 60% of the cost of a SAM system. So command guidance is the only way out. Putting a seeker on it defeats its primary purpose - that of providing effective Air Defence on the cheap. In any case if you want a seeker on it...
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    So now that should bury all doubts. Makes sense to double production now that nearly all of launchers are to get delivered in next couple of years.
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    Akash Surface-to-air Missile

    Akash had about 115 launchers to be delivered. IAF had about 900 Akash that then needed. Tata SED has only last year delivered 64th Akash launcher of the Air Force version. BDL in turn has also in the last year handed over some decent stuff to the Indian Army. Presumption of 5 per month is...
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