India Approves $3.2 billion Purchase Plan to Boost Night Warfare of Armed Forces

[Adioz]

I was talking about this statement .................this is a propaganda of sputnik .

Bhai read who said that:-

However in certain terrain with limited vegetation higher ranges can be obtained," says Brigadier Rahul K Bhonsle (retired), a Delhi based defense expert. However, the recently floated RFIs are considered highly ambitious. "The type of technology is not available in India. The Ordnance Factory Board is claiming to be manufacturing Image Intensification night sights for LMGs whereas the Army is seeking a thermal image based technology. Possibly the RFI is over optimistic and at the RFP stage some changes with downward range could be made," Bhonsle added.

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[ezsasa]

I was talking about this statement .................this is a propaganda of sputnik .

It's a quote, Dalals quote in favour of whoever pays them money.

I agree on the larger propaganda point.

 

[airtel]

Bhai read who said that:-


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It's a quote, Dalals quote in favour of whoever pays them money.

I agree on the larger propaganda point.

yes this Delhi based self proclaimed " defense expert " was Paid by arms dealers for such propaganda .

 

[Mikesingh]

Excellent. It looks like finally the army and the MOD are taking their jobs seriously.

Knowing the snails pace of the procurement process, the million dollar question is: by when would they be finally issued to the troops on ground?

I hope before 2020!

 

[sthf]

Things have been mostly good since the NDA took charge. They have tried sincerely to cut back the red tape but MOD babu's and services top brass with vested interests are not making things easier.

You don't hear embarrassing stories like critical ammo shortages anymore. Also it maybe just me but I am not hearing more of the infamous "Chandigarh group" stories.

 

[ezsasa]

Knowing the snails pace of the procurement process, the million dollar question is: by when would they be finally issued to the troops on ground?

I hope before 2020!

Full delivery by 24 months of signing of the contract. That would mean 2019. First batch delivery within 3 months of contract signing.

Don't think timeframes have been mentioned before Parrikar came into the picture.

These are for the ones I have posted in the thread.

 

[ashdoc]

Sometimes I don't believe sputnik news. I hope this news is for real.

 

[Screambowl]

I think this will be decided at RFP or tender stage.

not before one decade.......................... and the price will go up and we will have to pay 5 billion. Mark this post

 

[ezsasa]

not before one decade.......................... and the price will go up and we will have to pay 5 billion. Mark this post

Precisely the reason I created this thread, to track this procurement process.

Let's see how it goes.

By mid 2017, if tenders are issued we are on right track.

 

[rone]

i think it was a fast track procurement,becoz one of my friend in army says that India deploying more tropes in Chinese border he also stated that china fields its j10b squadron near to Indian border ,he also said that SSF already functional and it was on freeze until last june this scops is ment for china not pakistan..

 

[AmoghaVarsha]

We may finally be preparing for a limited war.

 

[pmaitra]

An Indian company Tonbo makes night vision equipment. They have tie-ups with US based companies. I wonder whether they are able to participate in this.

Night-vision startup Tonbo bags multimillion dollar contracts

 

[mavles ihctep]

While we r calling for tenders pakis r getting latest US made night vision equipment from Lockheed martin
US approves sale of night vision equipment to Pakistan
https://www.dawn.com/news/1304179/us-approves-sale-of-night-vision-equipment-to-pakistan

Time for throwaway these tender bullshit(15 years for mrca tender process end result is zero we r still not able decide on our mrca fighter jet, same with assault rife tender).this only waste our our precious time and money .Time for direct purchase. Don't waste time on these tender bullshit

 

[ezsasa]

While we r calling for tenders pakis r getting latest US made night vision equipment from Lockheed martin
US approves sale of night vision equipment to Pakistan
https://www.dawn.com/news/1304179/us-approves-sale-of-night-vision-equipment-to-pakistan

Time for throwaway these tender bullshit(15 years for mrca tender process end result is zero we r still not able decide on our mrca fighter jet, same with assault rife tender).this only waste our our precious time and money .Time for direct purchase. Don't waste time on these tender bullshit

Seriously, if anyone has noticed.. paki news articles always follow immediately after Some news article about some Indian acquisition of similar equipment. This time it is about NVD.

Even news about sniper and assault rifle acquisition followed the same pattern.

 

[hardip]

Very Effective ..........Decision.... By GOVT...................

 

[hardip]

While we r calling for tenders pakis r getting latest US made night vision equipment from Lockheed martin
US approves sale of night vision equipment to Pakistan
https://www.dawn.com/news/1304179/us-approves-sale-of-night-vision-equipment-to-pakistan

Time for throwaway these tender bullshit(15 years for mrca tender process end result is zero we r still not able decide on our mrca fighter jet, same with assault rife tender).this only waste our our precious time and money .Time for direct purchase. Don't waste time on these tender bullshit

This is "WHY"(big Y)... India Not have to Trust On Americans .................Replace of Russian.
(this is another bad news that RUS day by day making Distance to INDIA.

 

[airtel]

Is Russia's 'Deadliest Tank’ Using Western Technology?
A new report highlights how Russia is circumventing sanctions to buy Western military equipment.

By Franz-Stefan Gady
June 06, 2015
As I noted a while back, the T-14 main battle tank (MBT) is the crown jewel of Moscow’s future tank force. Its new design constitutes in many ways a clear break with old Soviet-era military hardware “and represent the biggest change in Russia’s armored fighting vehicle families since the 1960s and 1970s,” according to IHS Jane’s Defense Weekly.

The T-14 Armata’s key feature is its unmanned remotely controlled turret (see:“Putin’s New ‘Wunderwaffe’: The World’s Deadliest Tank?”), and the location of the crew in an armored capsule in the forward portion of the hull. It also boasts a new automated ammunition feed system, and “high-resolution video cameras that offer its three-man crew 360-degree awareness around the body of the vehicle,” the Business Insider states.

The T-14 is is the pride of Russian defense industry. However, if the recently published analysis of the U.S. cybersecurity firm Taia Global is correct, a crucial piece of the tank’s equipment – the night vision cameras – might not even be Russian-made!

According to emails obtained by Taia Global (Russian hackers sympathetic to Ukraine hacked the email account of an Russian individual with apparent close ties to the FSB and provided the cybersecurity firm with more than 9,000 emails), the Russian defense industry is having difficulties producing thermal imaging systems like night vision cameras.

The reason? Russia’s inability “to produce a critical component — microbolometer arrays — which can capture images without requiring cooling, reducing the size and complexity of thermal imaging systems,” The Intercept, an online publication that analyzed the Taia Global report, explains.

The report quotes a 2013 letter written by Dmitry Rogozin, deputy prime minister in charge of Russia’s defense industry (see: “Meet the Russian Politician Who Thinks ‘Tanks Don’t Need Visas’”) who stated that “at present, the Russian Army only has a few hundred individual imagers and no sighting systems and machine vision systems with advanced performance. On the other hand, our potential enemy troops — NATO, are equipped with hundreds of thousands of thermal imaging sights, sighting and vision systems.”

Consequently, in April 2014, Viktor Tarasov, the senior manager of a subsidiary of Ruselectronics, a state-owned hodling company, wrote a letter to its CEO in which he asked to press the Russian minister of defense for money to buy 500 microbolometer arrays from a French company.

The French company has denied selling Russia such equipment, although The Intercept notes that such actions are not without precedent: “Last year, Russian national Dmitry Ustinov was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with using a front company, also based in Cyprus, to buy a variety of night-vision scopes and related equipment from the United States.”

A number of other Russian military vehicles are using foreign technology. For example, the upgraded T-72 M1 is equipped with the French Thales Optronique Catherine thermal imager.

Yet, according to Taia Global, the emails obtained from pro-Ukraine hackers uncovered a similar sophisticated operation aimed at acquiring “foreign technology critical to Russian defense industries by bypassing foreign sanctions.”

So, if the Taia Global report proves to be true, the odds that the T-14s night vision camera, proudly displayed during this year’s May 9 Victory Day Parade, contains Western components are moderately high.

As Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia Global, told The Diplomat in an interview: “We regularly see Russian research institutes conducting reconnaissance against U.S. companies who work on high value technologies such as lasers and other optical systems.”

Of course, this does not mean that the T-14 will be less deadly on the field of battle. It, however, does illustrate that despite reports to the contrary, Western sanctions are slowly beginning to hurt the Russian military and Russia’s defense industry.



http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/is-russias-deadliest-tank-using-western-technology/


is it true or Propaganda ??


@Akim @gadeshi @Adioz @ezsasa @Chinmoy @Indx TechStyle

 

[ezsasa]

Is Russia's 'Deadliest Tank’ Using Western Technology?
A new report highlights how Russia is circumventing sanctions to buy Western military equipment.

By Franz-Stefan Gady
June 06, 2015
As I noted a while back, the T-14 main battle tank (MBT) is the crown jewel of Moscow’s future tank force. Its new design constitutes in many ways a clear break with old Soviet-era military hardware “and represent the biggest change in Russia’s armored fighting vehicle families since the 1960s and 1970s,” according to IHS Jane’s Defense Weekly.

The T-14 Armata’s key feature is its unmanned remotely controlled turret (see:“Putin’s New ‘Wunderwaffe’: The World’s Deadliest Tank?”), and the location of the crew in an armored capsule in the forward portion of the hull. It also boasts a new automated ammunition feed system, and “high-resolution video cameras that offer its three-man crew 360-degree awareness around the body of the vehicle,” the Business Insider states.

The T-14 is is the pride of Russian defense industry. However, if the recently published analysis of the U.S. cybersecurity firm Taia Global is correct, a crucial piece of the tank’s equipment – the night vision cameras – might not even be Russian-made!

According to emails obtained by Taia Global (Russian hackers sympathetic to Ukraine hacked the email account of an Russian individual with apparent close ties to the FSB and provided the cybersecurity firm with more than 9,000 emails), the Russian defense industry is having difficulties producing thermal imaging systems like night vision cameras.

The reason? Russia’s inability “to produce a critical component — microbolometer arrays — which can capture images without requiring cooling, reducing the size and complexity of thermal imaging systems,” The Intercept, an online publication that analyzed the Taia Global report, explains.

The report quotes a 2013 letter written by Dmitry Rogozin, deputy prime minister in charge of Russia’s defense industry (see: “Meet the Russian Politician Who Thinks ‘Tanks Don’t Need Visas’”) who stated that “at present, the Russian Army only has a few hundred individual imagers and no sighting systems and machine vision systems with advanced performance. On the other hand, our potential enemy troops — NATO, are equipped with hundreds of thousands of thermal imaging sights, sighting and vision systems.”

Consequently, in April 2014, Viktor Tarasov, the senior manager of a subsidiary of Ruselectronics, a state-owned hodling company, wrote a letter to its CEO in which he asked to press the Russian minister of defense for money to buy 500 microbolometer arrays from a French company.

The French company has denied selling Russia such equipment, although The Intercept notes that such actions are not without precedent: “Last year, Russian national Dmitry Ustinov was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with using a front company, also based in Cyprus, to buy a variety of night-vision scopes and related equipment from the United States.”

A number of other Russian military vehicles are using foreign technology. For example, the upgraded T-72 M1 is equipped with the French Thales Optronique Catherine thermal imager.

Yet, according to Taia Global, the emails obtained from pro-Ukraine hackers uncovered a similar sophisticated operation aimed at acquiring “foreign technology critical to Russian defense industries by bypassing foreign sanctions.”

So, if the Taia Global report proves to be true, the odds that the T-14s night vision camera, proudly displayed during this year’s May 9 Victory Day Parade, contains Western components are moderately high.

As Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia Global, told The Diplomat in an interview: “We regularly see Russian research institutes conducting reconnaissance against U.S. companies who work on high value technologies such as lasers and other optical systems.”

Of course, this does not mean that the T-14 will be less deadly on the field of battle. It, however, does illustrate that despite reports to the contrary, Western sanctions are slowly beginning to hurt the Russian military and Russia’s defense industry.



http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/is-russias-deadliest-tank-using-western-technology/


is it true or Propaganda ??


@Akim @gadeshi @Adioz @ezsasa @Chinmoy @Indx TechStyle

How is this post relevant in this thread? this thread is for night vision device procurement.

 

[gadeshi]

I've answered this BS in Armata related thread.
Shwabe and OPK produce indigenous IIR and bispectral IR/UV imaging matrix sensors with resolution starting from 1024x768 since late 2015.
Including bispectral sensors with IR and UV units in common matrix.
But yes, let's keep cordial to the topic.

Отправлено с моего XT1080 через Tapatalk

 

[ezsasa]

FYI

Looks like the procurement process has moved from RFI to RFP phase this week. By Indian standards this is pretty fast, that too within a month.

Separate RFP for NVD for AK47, INSAS rifle and LMG.

Note: wasn't able to see the document because procurement website has been upgraded, guest user is no longer available.