Weaknesses of Indian Navy

[AUSTERLITZ]

1. India having undergunned ship is your assumption. During peace time, when you don't see enemy build up, there is no need for overpacking with guns. Indian ships are capable of packing heavy heat when needed by quick upgrades. It was seen in 1971 war whereby India packed heavy heat on its ships. So, there is no problem of undergunning
2. Minesweeper is a long term requirement and India wants to build technology base for its manufacture rather than import blindly. If push comes to the shove, India can make older generation minesweepers on its own. So, I don't see any reason to import minesweeper. This is a hole in the short duration but is of more strategic than actual problem
3. Helicopter project - IMRH was abandoned by UPA in 2008. The project is back on course and will be ready by 2025. Unless there is an urgent need, importing is meaningless. It is better to rotate existing choppers than being hasty and importing. This problem will be solved by 2025.
4. India has modern torpedoes. Indiahas made Varunastra and Shyena, both of which are in service with surface ships. The submarine version is being made by altering Varunastra and is either completed or will be complete soon. Both of these torpedoes are quite modern
5. The RBU6000 is a very cheap rocket and is meant for saturation attack in the last moment. It is a final backup rather than the main weapon.
6. Talwar class frigate is an old one. It has not yet been upgraded yet.But the modern frigates don't have a problem like this. So, it is unjustified to generalise problems of one set of ships to the entire navy
7. The Barak-8 has 100km range but is not good enough for planes. It does not have the maneuverability needed. But, the alternative is to use a heavy SAM like sm6 of which each missile weighs 1.5ton. Though, the problem with this approach is that despite the long range SAM, the aircrafts will still retain edge of superiority over the Naval SAMs. The aircrafts can launch weapons like exocet, Harpoon which has range of 150km+. Even if the SAM has a range of 200km, the planes will have ample opportunity to make a run after firing the ASh missile. Su30 can, for example, launch Brahmos from 300-400km and the enemy will not be able to do anything to the plane. So, at the end of the day, the ship will never be able to destroy enemy planes even with longer range SAM but only end up wasting more space and adding unnecessary weight. The best bet for ships to stay safe from enemy aircrafts is to stay away from land until enemy air assets are destroyed by bombardment by aircrats of aircraft carrier or airforce and by missile strikes.

1.This is actually your assumption.If indeed during peacetime navies don't pack their ships with weapons then why is every other navy in the world in peacetime better armed pound for pound,32 sam vls in not good enough for a 7000 tonne ship.Why do chinese 52D have 64 universal vls plus 24 short range sam. Don't even go to type 55.Japanese, korean and american ships have 64- 96 vls.Even british have 48 asters.Do you think all these navies are fools and only IN is professional?We need minimum 48 barak-8s on these ships and preferably 64.

The fact that IN persisted with just 32 baraks on future ships like p17a and p15b shows its lack of vision. Kamorta class too is oversized for its armament.That armament could be carried by 2000 tonne corvette.Just look at new russian admiral gorshkov class frigate .They put 16 oniks/brahmos in 5000 tonne frigate and we will have 8 brahmos in 7000 tonne p17a. Total Disappointment.

2.Lets hope its short term problem.Because a few mines quietly laid by submarines on chokepoints or harbour entry regions can bottle down whole fleet.Remember even the mighty royal navy and its battleships were sunk at gallipoli by mines.

3.I hope so.

4.For surface ships its ok.But for submarines i'm not sure how good varunastra will be after its deployed. Perhaps better than old russian torpedos ,but with chinese subs entering IOR we should need seahake or black shark for the kalvaris.Just 100 such torpedos will be not very costly yet a big boost.But stupid MOD and its red tape.The german Seahake has more range and better target acquisition than varunastra. Shyena torpedo with pathetic 7km range i don't have much confidence in.

5.I know RBU is a backup weapon.But its an increasingly obsolete one,so why are we putting it on our newest ships that will serve for 3-4 decades?Why not use something like paket anti torpedo /anti sub system ?RBU also takes up large spaces..if we used something like ASROC which can be launched from VLS with much larger range it would open up spaces for much more vls and increase sub hunting capability.Navy again lacking vision.Russia has moved on to paket and asroc style klub variant in vls combo.

6.Talwar is not old one.It numerically the most important class.Delhi class has just basic shtil missile in arm launcher,always hearing of upgrades -still nothing.The ship itself has become obsolete.Also new shivalik class frigates also have this shit launcher which shows dumbness of IN.Shtil-1 arm launcher is shit,it will be overwhelmed by any saturation attack with 2-3 missiles.Unlike shivalik i,talwar doesn't even have barak-1 as backup.Its range also makes it useless against aircraft,and arm launcher has restricted angel of attack so even against that 1 missile or PGM its vulnerable if its not in its arc.No one knows if its effective against sea skimmers like barak. This shitty arm launcher is main reason why standard chinese type 054a frigate is better than ours.We cant match PLAN in numbers,so ship for ship we must be qualitatively better.Barak-8,elta AESA radar,ACTAS,brahmos are all better than anything PLAN has but we need to increase payload and also remove these obsolete missiles.We also need to make the most of existing platforms.The saryu and sukanya class OPVs with 2000 tonnes can easily carry 4-8 brahmos to act as missile attcak platforms if necessary.If brahmos is too costly use the klubs that are being replaced by brahmos on the older ships.
If the godavaris are being decomissioned we should put their barak-1s on either the talwars or the kamortas.

7.Planes can't always use full range of missile due to target acquisition problems.OTH shots are problematic due to earth's curvature interfering,as well as other issues.So having a long range SAM would be useful in the future.I agree its not an immediate priority ,but as china builds more and more carriers we will need to develop such a weapon.We can't match chinese carriers in number so we will have to compensate by land based aerial support from south india and andaman ,plus our carriers and long range missiles while brahmos from ships and sukhois and our subs attack from below.

Above all we need to put more weapons on our ships.At least IN got ACTAS sonar.

 

[Kshithij]

1.This is actually your assumption.If indeed during peacetime navies don't pack their ships with weapons then why is every other navy in the world in peacetime better armed pound for pound,32 sam vls in not good enough for a 7000 tonne ship.Why do chinese 52D have 64 universal vls plus 24 short range sam. Don't even go to type 55.Japanese, korean and american ships have 64- 96 vls.Even british have 48 asters.Do you think all these navies are fools and only IN is professional?We need minimum 48 barak-8s on these ships and preferably 64.

The fact that IN persisted with just 32 baraks on future ships like p17a and p15b shows its lack of vision. Kamorta class too is oversized for its armament.That armament could be carried by 2000 tonne corvette.Just look at new russian admiral gorshkov class frigate .They put 16 oniks/brahmos in 5000 tonne frigate and we will have 8 brahmos in 7000 tonne p17a. Total Disappointment.

2.Lets hope its short term problem.Because a few mines quietly laid by submarines on chokepoints or harbour entry regions can bottle down whole fleet.Remember even the mighty royal navy and its battleships were sunk at gallipoli by mines.

3.I hope so.

4.For surface ships its ok.But for submarines i'm not sure how good varunastra will be after its deployed. Perhaps better than old russian torpedos ,but with chinese subs entering IOR we should need seahake or black shark for the kalvaris.Just 100 such torpedos will be not very costly yet a big boost.But stupid MOD and its red tape.The german Seahake has more range and better target acquisition than varunastra. Shyena torpedo with pathetic 7km range i don't have much confidence in.

5.I know RBU is a backup weapon.But its an increasingly obsolete one,so why are we putting it on our newest ships that will serve for 3-4 decades?Why not use something like paket anti torpedo /anti sub system ?RBU also takes up large spaces..if we used something like ASROC which can be launched from VLS with much larger range it would open up spaces for much more vls and increase sub hunting capability.Navy again lacking vision.Russia has moved on to paket and asroc style klub variant in vls combo.

6.Talwar is not old one.It numerically the most important class.Delhi class has just basic shtil missile in arm launcher,always hearing of upgrades -still nothing.The ship itself has become obsolete.Also new shivalik class frigates also have this shit launcher which shows dumbness of IN.Shtil-1 arm launcher is shit,it will be overwhelmed by any saturation attack with 2-3 missiles.Unlike shivalik i,talwar doesn't even have barak-1 as backup.Its range also makes it useless against aircraft,and arm launcher has restricted angel of attack so even against that 1 missile or PGM its vulnerable if its not in its arc.No one knows if its effective against sea skimmers like barak. This shitty arm launcher is main reason why standard chinese type 054a frigate is better than ours.We cant match PLAN in numbers,so ship for ship we must be qualitatively better.Barak-8,elta AESA radar,ACTAS,brahmos are all better than anything PLAN has but we need to increase payload and also remove these obsolete missiles.We also need to make the most of existing platforms.The saryu and sukanya class OPVs with 2000 tonnes can easily carry 4-8 brahmos to act as missile attcak platforms if necessary.If brahmos is too costly use the klubs that are being replaced by brahmos on the older ships.
If the godavaris are being decomissioned we should put their barak-1s on either the talwars or the kamortas.

7.Planes can't always use full range of missile due to target acquisition problems.OTH shots are problematic due to earth's curvature interfering,as well as other issues.So having a long range SAM would be useful in the future.I agree its not an immediate priority ,but as china builds more and more carriers we will need to develop such a weapon.We can't match chinese carriers in number so we will have to compensate by land based aerial support from south india and andaman ,plus our carriers and long range missiles while brahmos from ships and sukhois and our subs attack from below.

Above all we need to put more weapons on our ships.At least IN got ACTAS sonar.

1) I would not worry more about ships being undergunned as there is plenty of space left for upgrades. So, there is room to put whatever we want. Also, prematurely setting up VLS in large number may be problematic as we need to incorporate things like Nirbhay missile, Barak-ER and longer range Brahmos in the future. So, it is better to keep room for upgrades than fill everything up right away.
4) Varunastra is as good as USA torpedo Mark48. I don't see any reason to say Varunastra is bad. Why do you hate Varunastra so much? Shyena is small lightweight torpedo which is cheaper to make and for small range. That is not the main torpedo. It is secondary one. Also, I don't see why varunastra can't work with submarines.
5) RBU6000 is automatically reloadable and one can get large number of salvo firing ability. The ASROC can't provide such capability.
6) India has the ability to use VLS and the SHTIL launcher is not the only technology India has. As of now, there may be operational difficulty due to ShTIL but since India has the technology and has demonstrated it in Kolkata class carrier, the upgrade to VLS is just an upgrade away

 

[Armand2REP]

1.This is actually your assumption.If indeed during peacetime navies don't pack their ships with weapons then why is every other navy in the world in peacetime better armed pound for pound,32 sam vls in not good enough for a 7000 tonne ship.Why do chinese 52D have 64 universal vls plus 24 short range sam. Don't even go to type 55.Japanese, korean and american ships have 64- 96 vls.Even british have 48 asters.Do you think all these navies are fools and only IN is professional?We need minimum 48 barak-8s on these ships and preferably 64.

The fact that IN persisted with just 32 baraks on future ships like p17a and p15b shows its lack of vision. Kamorta class too is oversized for its armament.That armament could be carried by 2000 tonne corvette.Just look at new russian admiral gorshkov class frigate .They put 16 oniks/brahmos in 5000 tonne frigate and we will have 8 brahmos in 7000 tonne p17a. Total Disappointment.

2.Lets hope its short term problem.Because a few mines quietly laid by submarines on chokepoints or harbour entry regions can bottle down whole fleet.Remember even the mighty royal navy and its battleships were sunk at gallipoli by mines.

3.I hope so.

4.For surface ships its ok.But for submarines i'm not sure how good varunastra will be after its deployed. Perhaps better than old russian torpedos ,but with chinese subs entering IOR we should need seahake or black shark for the kalvaris.Just 100 such torpedos will be not very costly yet a big boost.But stupid MOD and its red tape.The german Seahake has more range and better target acquisition than varunastra. Shyena torpedo with pathetic 7km range i don't have much confidence in.

5.I know RBU is a backup weapon.But its an increasingly obsolete one,so why are we putting it on our newest ships that will serve for 3-4 decades?Why not use something like paket anti torpedo /anti sub system ?RBU also takes up large spaces..if we used something like ASROC which can be launched from VLS with much larger range it would open up spaces for much more vls and increase sub hunting capability.Navy again lacking vision.Russia has moved on to paket and asroc style klub variant in vls combo.

6.Talwar is not old one.It numerically the most important class.Delhi class has just basic shtil missile in arm launcher,always hearing of upgrades -still nothing.The ship itself has become obsolete.Also new shivalik class frigates also have this shit launcher which shows dumbness of IN.Shtil-1 arm launcher is shit,it will be overwhelmed by any saturation attack with 2-3 missiles.Unlike shivalik i,talwar doesn't even have barak-1 as backup.Its range also makes it useless against aircraft,and arm launcher has restricted angel of attack so even against that 1 missile or PGM its vulnerable if its not in its arc.No one knows if its effective against sea skimmers like barak. This shitty arm launcher is main reason why standard chinese type 054a frigate is better than ours.We cant match PLAN in numbers,so ship for ship we must be qualitatively better.Barak-8,elta AESA radar,ACTAS,brahmos are all better than anything PLAN has but we need to increase payload and also remove these obsolete missiles.We also need to make the most of existing platforms.The saryu and sukanya class OPVs with 2000 tonnes can easily carry 4-8 brahmos to act as missile attcak platforms if necessary.If brahmos is too costly use the klubs that are being replaced by brahmos on the older ships.
If the godavaris are being decomissioned we should put their barak-1s on either the talwars or the kamortas.

7.Planes can't always use full range of missile due to target acquisition problems.OTH shots are problematic due to earth's curvature interfering,as well as other issues.So having a long range SAM would be useful in the future.I agree its not an immediate priority ,but as china builds more and more carriers we will need to develop such a weapon.We can't match chinese carriers in number so we will have to compensate by land based aerial support from south india and andaman ,plus our carriers and long range missiles while brahmos from ships and sukhois and our subs attack from below.

Above all we need to put more weapons on our ships.At least IN got ACTAS sonar.

During the Libya campaign the Royal Navy ships only had a handful of missiles installed and that was in a combat zone. The reason France doesn't use 100+ VLS is that the cost of rotating those missiles every five years would be as much as we paid for the ship. It is better to have a 32 VLS frigate with all missiles loaded than having to skimp like the British with 48 VLS and less than a dozen missiles in a combat zone.

 

[Kshithij]

During the Libya campaign the Royal Navy ships only had a handful of missiles installed and that was in a combat zone. The reason France doesn't use 100+ VLS is that the cost of rotating those missiles every five years would be as much as we paid for the ship. It is better to have a 32 VLS frigate with all missiles loaded than having to skimp like the British with 48 VLS and less than a dozen missiles in a combat zone.

Can you explain further as to why UK did not load all the missiles before deployment for war when there was empty VLS available?

 

[Armand2REP]

Can you explain further as to why UK did not load all the missiles before deployment for war when there was empty VLS available?

Navy frigate sent to Libya with four missiles
A Royal Navy frigate was sent to the Libyan war zone armed with as few as four missiles, it has been disclosed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...frigate-sent-to-Libya-with-four-missiles.html

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

During the Libya campaign the Royal Navy ships only had a handful of missiles installed and that was in a combat zone. The reason France doesn't use 100+ VLS is that the cost of rotating those missiles every five years would be as much as we paid for the ship. It is better to have a 32 VLS frigate with all missiles loaded than having to skimp like the British with 48 VLS and less than a dozen missiles in a combat zone.

So you are saying chinese destroyers are packed with empty vls?If you have the vls in place even if they are empty you can easily fill them in wartime and go loaded,without the vls in place you don't even have the option.I don't understand why only IN has to have so few VLS,if this is a prudent practice why not every navy should follow this?Half empty but lots of vls in peacetime is better than few vls always because you have no flexibility and the option itself doesn't exist.

 

[undeadmyrmidon]

So you are saying chinese destroyers are packed with empty vls?If you have the vls in place even if they are empty you can easily fill them in wartime and go loaded,without the vls in place you don't even have the option.I don't understand why only IN has to have so few VLS,if this is a prudent practice why not every navy should follow this?Half empty but lots of vls in peacetime is better than few vls always because you have no flexibility and the option itself doesn't exist.

What about Paki Navy? Are there any ships or just speed boats.

Chinks have never engaged in actual large scale naval warfare. Their idea of spamming vessels without tactics is like a HOI 4 noob trying his luck in 1948.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

1) I would not worry more about ships being undergunned as there is plenty of space left for upgrades. So, there is room to put whatever we want. Also, prematurely setting up VLS in large number may be problematic as we need to incorporate things like Nirbhay missile, Barak-ER and longer range Brahmos in the future. So, it is better to keep room for upgrades than fill everything up right away.
4) Varunastra is as good as USA torpedo Mark48. I don't see any reason to say Varunastra is bad. Why do you hate Varunastra so much? Shyena is small lightweight torpedo which is cheaper to make and for small range. That is not the main torpedo. It is secondary one. Also, I don't see why varunastra can't work with submarines.
5) RBU6000 is automatically reloadable and one can get large number of salvo firing ability. The ASROC can't provide such capability.
6) India has the ability to use VLS and the SHTIL launcher is not the only technology India has. As of now, there may be operational difficulty due to ShTIL but since India has the technology and has demonstrated it in Kolkata class carrier, the upgrade to VLS is just an upgrade away

1.Whatever they might add 12 more vls for baraks would not be any problem.I agree on nirbhay part.Its either lack of foresight from IN or faulty design which has taken up too much space in the interior.I can't understand how russian navy can put 16 brahmos/oniks on their 5000 tonne frigate gorshkov class,but our 7000 tonne P17A future ship will have 8 brahmos?How is that justified?

4.I don't hate varunastra.I'm glad we have a good indigenous torpedo,but its not on seahake level,which has its own sonar with active homing and better range.I would like the little edge over the chinese.Germans have been building torpedoes for a century,we have just started.Why not have a mix of both instead of putting all egges in one basket?A 100 torpedoes won't be very costly.

5.ASROC has five to 10 times the range and better accuracy than rbu,and takes up almost no space.Combine with mareech/kavach and an anti torpedo system like paket and we would have a much more efficient system of ASW warfare along with heavy torpedo tubes.

6.I keep hearing from 2012 that upgrade is coming,still nothing.I hoep it comes,we need it asap.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

What about Paki Navy? Are there any ships or just speed boats.

Chinks have never engaged in actual large scale naval warfare. Their idea of spamming vessels without tactics is like a HOI 4 noob trying his luck in 1948.

Pak surface fleet is just a matter of launching 15-20 brahmos.A single kolkata class can sink their surface fleet.But we have to keep and eye out for their subs.

Chinese fleet is going to become more and more of a problem as time passes and bigger ships like type 55 and carriers enter service in numbers.Their ships do not lack quality either,the newest ships are very good and must not be underestimated.Glad to see a fellow HOI4 player here.

 

[darshan978]

From what i see -

1.Undergunned ships.
Kolkata class with just 32 barak despite more space.Same with vishakapatnam.Just compare with chinese and american destroyers.Same with kamorta class - frigate size with poor armament.Now they are also arming P17A with 32 baraks.They should have 48 baraks at least if not 64 or something with quadpacked ability.How come russia puts 16 oniks/yakhont on 4500 tonne gorshkov frigate but we can't put more than 8 brahmos on shivalik at 6200 tonnes.Wtf.

2.Lack of Minesweepers.
Cancelled the tender.Now we are facing potential enemy submarines with no real minesweeper force.A sad state.

3.Lack of Helicopters.
Tender after failed tender.Helos are being rotated and cannibalized,whats the point of building ships with 2 helo spots if u don't even have 1/3rd available strength.At least our ships are now getting ATLAS elektronik active towed array sonar,otherwise our ASW would have been totally toothless.

4.Lack of modern torpedoes.
I don't trust russian torpedoes that much.Scorpenes and 209s are doing with older torpedo.No black shark or seahake still due to stupid procurement mess.Varunastra and mk54 are good news but only for ships and aircraft.

5.Obsession with RBU-6000.
Why put 2 of these in every big ship?IN thinking seems totally obsolete.Russians themselves have moved on to paket.Chinese and americans use much longer ranged vls weapons like ASROC.Its only good for short range torpedo defense,if anyone thinks they can kill subs with 5km rocket launcher they are delusional.Should get a paket or asroc type system soon.

6.Shtil-1 arm launcher.
As far as I see the talwar class ships are utterly useless against saturation attacks,the shtil-1s are launched via arm launcher which takes 4-6 seconds to reload and fire after each shot.Navy still doesn't replace them with VLS.Replace these and the others on the delhi class ASAP.

7.Bigger range SAMs needed -
90 km barak-8 is a great sam for taking out cruise missiles and PGMs but i doubt how effective that range is against aircraft.We need to increase range to atleast 150 km or procure something equal to US long range SM series,russian navalized s-400 or chinese equivalents.This may not be a immediate priority but will become one as china adds more carriers.

Am i wrong on any of these points?

bas itna hi?? aur google karke time barbaad karke khoj khoj ke nikaal navy ki ''weaknesses'' mere pet nahi bhara abhi tak

 

[john70]

Leave it ,i'm just wasting my time on a fool like you.
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[Steven Rogers]

1.This is actually your assumption.If indeed during peacetime navies don't pack their ships with weapons then why is every other navy in the world in peacetime better armed pound for pound,32 sam vls in not good enough for a 7000 tonne ship.Why do chinese 52D have 64 universal vls plus 24 short range sam. Don't even go to type 55.Japanese, korean and american ships have 64- 96 vls.Even british have 48 asters.Do you think all these navies are fools and only IN is professional?We need minimum 48 barak-8s on these ships and preferably 64.

The fact that IN persisted with just 32 baraks on future ships like p17a and p15b shows its lack of vision. Kamorta class too is oversized for its armament.That armament could be carried by 2000 tonne corvette.Just look at new russian admiral gorshkov class frigate .They put 16 oniks/brahmos in 5000 tonne frigate and we will have 8 brahmos in 7000 tonne p17a. Total Disappointment.

2.Lets hope its short term problem.Because a few mines quietly laid by submarines on chokepoints or harbour entry regions can bottle down whole fleet.Remember even the mighty royal navy and its battleships were sunk at gallipoli by mines.

3.I hope so.

4.For surface ships its ok.But for submarines i'm not sure how good varunastra will be after its deployed. Perhaps better than old russian torpedos ,but with chinese subs entering IOR we should need seahake or black shark for the kalvaris.Just 100 such torpedos will be not very costly yet a big boost.But stupid MOD and its red tape.The german Seahake has more range and better target acquisition than varunastra. Shyena torpedo with pathetic 7km range i don't have much confidence in.

5.I know RBU is a backup weapon.But its an increasingly obsolete one,so why are we putting it on our newest ships that will serve for 3-4 decades?Why not use something like paket anti torpedo /anti sub system ?RBU also takes up large spaces..if we used something like ASROC which can be launched from VLS with much larger range it would open up spaces for much more vls and increase sub hunting capability.Navy again lacking vision.Russia has moved on to paket and asroc style klub variant in vls combo.

6.Talwar is not old one.It numerically the most important class.Delhi class has just basic shtil missile in arm launcher,always hearing of upgrades -still nothing.The ship itself has become obsolete.Also new shivalik class frigates also have this shit launcher which shows dumbness of IN.Shtil-1 arm launcher is shit,it will be overwhelmed by any saturation attack with 2-3 missiles.Unlike shivalik i,talwar doesn't even have barak-1 as backup.Its range also makes it useless against aircraft,and arm launcher has restricted angel of attack so even against that 1 missile or PGM its vulnerable if its not in its arc.No one knows if its effective against sea skimmers like barak. This shitty arm launcher is main reason why standard chinese type 054a frigate is better than ours.We cant match PLAN in numbers,so ship for ship we must be qualitatively better.Barak-8,elta AESA radar,ACTAS,brahmos are all better than anything PLAN has but we need to increase payload and also remove these obsolete missiles.We also need to make the most of existing platforms.The saryu and sukanya class OPVs with 2000 tonnes can easily carry 4-8 brahmos to act as missile attcak platforms if necessary.If brahmos is too costly use the klubs that are being replaced by brahmos on the older ships.
If the godavaris are being decomissioned we should put their barak-1s on either the talwars or the kamortas.

7.Planes can't always use full range of missile due to target acquisition problems.OTH shots are problematic due to earth's curvature interfering,as well as other issues.So having a long range SAM would be useful in the future.I agree its not an immediate priority ,but as china builds more and more carriers we will need to develop such a weapon.We can't match chinese carriers in number so we will have to compensate by land based aerial support from south india and andaman ,plus our carriers and long range missiles while brahmos from ships and sukhois and our subs attack from below.

Above all we need to put more weapons on our ships.At least IN got ACTAS sonar.

Dont wanna go indetail but you're comparing Multirole ships with one standard job ships. British destroyers are air defence destroyers and have mediocre anti ship, land attack and anti sub capability. While Indian ships have land attack anti ship, anti sub and area defence capabilities, comparing the p17a and Gorshkov class is also an idiotic comparison, indian ships carry bigger torpedoes of 533mm vs 330mm of Russian frigate, also Indian ships carry two Multirole choppers compared to one on the Russian ships. Its another matter that some of these ships haven't got the equipment which are hampering their job at current such as Towed array sonar. INS shayadri was given the best ship award so in my point of view, Shivalik class are the best ships operated by the navy for Multirole ops, compare the endurance of Indian ships before calling them over weight and under armed, they havee endurance than Chinese naval ships, also Indian destroyers have COGAG propulsion for long endurance against Chinese which have CODOG propulsion. Their is a reason why Indian navy is called a blue water navy while Chinese are yet to stretch like a blue water navy despite the numerical superiority.

 

[Steven Rogers]

Still trying so hard to defend the indefensible.Why is it so hard for indians to accept the flaws and shortcomings so apparent to the rest of the world??!!Why do you folks have to remain willfully ignorant and act like such tryhards all the time??

Yes its painfull to know that you're comparing an Indian destroyer with a
frontline destroyer(Chinese ) has the efficiency and endurance of a frigate, not so robust ASW capability and can only take 1 helo at a time with small calibre torpedo , can understand the pain.

 

[Steven Rogers]

No but it does make it aptly clear when one becomes too pussyfooted to take responsibility for one's own shortcomings and instead, tries to to shift the blame on someone or something else like you just put your ineptness on some stupid auto correct feature!!

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Actually, their FFGs are almost on par with front line IN DDGs and let's not talk about their DDGs from Type 052Ds on wards, those are on a whole different level altogether!!

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Of different level, yeah with CODOG propulsion, so what is the endurance, from scs to the nearest Chinese base. Talking of grammar when yourself don't know the type of mistakes, since when "is" being typed in the place of "if" became a huge grammo mistake than a typo.

 

[undeadmyrmidon]

TYPE 054A

Type: Frigate
Displacement: 4,053 tonnes (full) (CCTV report)
Length: 134.1 m (440 ft) (CCTV report)
Beam: 16 m (52 ft) (CCTV report)
Propulsion: CODAD, 4 x Shaanxi 16 PA6 STC diesels, 5700 kW (7600+ hp @ 1084 rpm) each
Speed: 27 knots estimated
Range: 8,025 nautical miles (9,235 mi; 14,862 km) estimated
Complement: 165
Sensors and
processing systems:

• Type 382 Radar
• Type 344 Radar (Mineral-ME Band Stand) OTH target acquisition and SSM fire control radar
• 4 × Type 345 Radar(MR-90 Front Dome) SAM fire control radars
• MR-36A surface search radar, I-band
• Type 347G 76 mm gun fire control radar
• 2 × Racal RM-1290 navigation radars, I-band
• MGK-335 medium frequency active/passive sonar system
• H/SJG-206 towed array sonar
• ZKJ-4B/6 (developed from Thomson-CSF TAVITAC) combat data system
• HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded)
• SNTI-240 SATCOM
• AKD5000S Ku band SATCOM

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• Type 922-1 radar warning receiver
• HZ-100 ECM & ELINT system
• Kashtan-3 missile jamming system

Armament:

• 1 × 32-cell VLS
• • HQ-16 SAM
  • Yu-8 anti submarine rocket launcher
• 2 × 4 C-803 anti-ship / land attack cruise missiles
• 1 × PJ26 76 mm dual purpose gun
• 2 × Type 730 7-barrel 30 mm CIWS guns or Type 1130
• 2 × 3 324mm Yu-7 ASW torpedolaunchers
• 2 × 6 Type 87 240mm anti-submarine rocket launcher (36 rockets carried)
• 2 × Type 726-4 18-tube decoy rocket launchers

Aircraft carried: 1 Kamov Ka-28 'Helix' or Harbin Z-9C
Aviation facilities: hangar

TALWAR CLASS

Type: Guided Missile Frigate
Displacement:
3,850 t (4,240 short tons) standard load

4,035 t (4,448 short tons) full load
Length: 124.8 m (409 ft 5 in)
Beam: 15.2 m (49 ft 10 in)
Draught: 4.2 m (13 ft 9 in)
Installed power:

• Zorya-Mashproekt M7N.1E propulsion plant
• 2 × DS-71 cruise gas turbines
• 9,850 shp (7,350 kW)
• 2 × DT-59 boost gas turbines
• 22,185 shp (16,543 kW)

Propulsion: COGAG configuration
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range:

• 4,850 mi (4,210 nmi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
• 1,600 mi (1,400 nmi) at 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)

Endurance: 30 days
Complement: 180 (18 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:

• 1 × 3Ts-25E Garpun-B surface search radar
• 1 × MR-212/201-1 navigation radar
• 1 × Kelvin Hughes Nucleus-2 6000A radar
• 1 × Ladoga-ME-11356 intertial navigation and stabilisation
• 1 × Fregat M2EM 3D circular scan radar
• 1 × Ratep JSC 5P-10E Puma fire-control system
• 1 × 3R14N-11356 fire-control system FCS
• 4 × MR-90 Orekh

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• 1 × TK-25E-5 EWS
• 1 × PK-10 ship-borne decoy launching systems
• 4 × KT-216 decoy launchers

Armament:

• 24 × Shtil-1 medium range missiles
• 8 × Igla-1E (SA-16)
• 8 × VLS launched Klub, anti-ship cruise missiles (F40, F43, F44)
• 8 × VLS launched BrahMos, anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles (F45, F50, F51)
• 1 × 100mm A-190E, naval gun
• 2 × AK-630 CIWS (F45, F50, F51)
• 2 × Kashtan CIWS (F40, F43, F44)
• 2 × twin 533mm DTA-53-11356 torpedo tubes
• 1 × RBU-6000 (RPK-8) rocket launcher

Aircraft carried: 1 × Ka-28 (or) Ka-31 (or) Dhruv

SHIVALIK CLASS

Type: Guided-missile frigate
Displacement: 6,200 tonnes (6,100 long tons; 6,800 short tons) full load
Length: 142.5 m (468 ft)
Beam: 16.9 m (55 ft)
Draught: 4.5 m (15 ft)
Installed power:

• 2 × Pielstick 16 PA6 STC Diesel engines
• 15,200 shp (11,300 kW)
• 2 × GE LM2500+
• 33,600 shp (25,100 kW)

Propulsion: boost turbines in CODOGconfiguration.
Speed:

• 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph)
• 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) (diesel engines)

Range: In excess of 5,000 nautical miles(9,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement: 257 (35 officers)
Sensors and
processing systems:

• 1 × MR-760 Fregat M2EM 3-D radar
• 4 × MR-90 Orekh radar
• 1 × Elta EL/M-2238 STAR
• 2 × Elta EL/M 2221 STGR
• 1 × BEL APARNA
• HUMSA-NG (hull-mounted sonar array)

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• BEL Ellora electronic warfare suite
• Kavach decoy system

Armament:

• Anti-air missiles:
• 32-cell VLS launched Barak 1 missiles
• 24 × Shtil-1 medium range missiles
• Anti-ship/Land-attack missiles:
• 8 × VLS launched Klub, anti-ship cruise missiles
• or
• 8 × VLS launched BrahMos, anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles
• Guns:
• 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun
• 2 × AK-630 CIWS
• Anti-submarine warfare:
• 2 × 2 DTA-53-956 torpedo launchers
• 2 × RBU-6000 (RPK-8) rocket launchers

Aircraft carried: 2 × HAL Dhruv or Sea King Mk. 42B helicopters.

GRIGOROVICH CLASS (TALWAR CLASS 4 ON ORDER)

Type: Frigate
Displacement:

• Standard: 3,620 tons
• Full: 4,035 tons

Length: 124.8 m (409 ft)
Beam: 15.2 m (50 ft)
Draught: 4.2 m (14 ft)
Propulsion:

• 2 shaft COGAG;
• 2 DS-71 cruise gas turbines 8,450 shp (6,300 kW);
• 2 DT-59 boost gas turbines 22,000 shp (16,000 kW) ;
• Total: 60,900 shp (45,400 kW)
• or M90FR FRU 20 MW (max 25 28) M70FRU 14 MW , M70FRU2 6 8 MW

Speed: 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 4,850 nmi (8,980 km; 5,580 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Endurance: 30 days
Complement: 200
Sensors and
processing systems:

• Air search radar: Fregat M2EM
• Surface search radar: 3Ts-25E Garpun-B, MR-212/201-1, Nucleus-2 6000A
• Fire control radar: JSC 5P-10E Puma FCS, 3R14N-11356 FCS, MR-90 Orekh SAM FCS

Electronic warfare
& decoys:

• EW Suite: TK-25E-5;
• Countermeasures:
• 4 × KT-216

Armament:

• 1 × 100 mm A-190 Arsenal naval gun
• 1 × 8 UKSK 3S14 VLS cells for Kalibrand Oniks and Zircon[2]
• 2 × 12 3S90M Shtil-1 VLS cells
• 2 × Kashtan CIWS
• 8 × Igla-1 (SA-16)
• 2 × 2 533 mm torpedo tubes
• 1 × RBU-6000 rocket launcher

Aircraft carried: 1 Ka-27PL or Ka-31 helicopter

Chink frigates barely match Talwar class. Shivalik class is a wet dream for them.

 

[Steven Rogers]

Guess you are not just an imbecile moron but apparently you can not see either!!Kid, nobody was talking about endurance!!The OP was merely showing his concerns for the apparent lack in firepower which all of the front line IN ships apparently suffer from compared to the ones serving other powerful navies (such as but not limited to the Chinese navy), which is a completely valid cause for concern.Hence my comment about the apparent lack of iq among the indians.

You still haven't managed to figure out your mistake.Apparently you are illiterate as well.Oh and by the way, I think you meant to write 'it', not 'if', oh and it wasn't the mistake I was reffering to back there either!!You're welcome.

Yeah and without endurance you're going to fight in an contested environment, so what Chinese ships are going to do, firing Chinese made missiles scs to Indian navy ships in Indian ocean, without endurance those ships are good off to their coasts only. Probably you're happy with those fanboyotic comparison which takes paper specs of the two and compare, so far i know Indian naval ships have brahmos missile which has range over 450km for antiship/land attack mission, hardly any Chinese missile have that range in the anti ship missile.

 

[Steven Rogers]

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Ok kid, given the oh-so-apparent lack of common sense and basic comprehension abilities you seem to be suffering from, guess I'm left with no other choice but to try and spoon feed you to the best of my abilities.Here goes nothing -
First of all, Chinese sending their warships in the Indian Ocean to confront the IN is simply a far fetched idea as they would never survive a pitched battle in the Indian Ocean against the combined might of IN and IAF and that too, IF they manage to break out of the iron fortress of a stranglehold that is the Andaman and it's a galactic size of an 'IF' we are talking about here.So having or not having an advantage in endurance is a moot point.

In any case, why do you even think that Chinese would need to travel all the way back from their bases in SCS when they could simply get themselves berthing rights in countries like Maldives and Srilanka and of course, Pakistan??!!I mean they could and would surely do that if they really feel like it and the way things are headed, it's no longer a distant possibility but a not so distant eventuality, in which case, having or not having sufficient endurance wouldn't matter......like at all!!In which case, IN ships will find themselves in some really deep shit owing to their pathetically underwhelming firepower, shit which is perfectly avoidable if they can pull their bloody socks up and get their shit together.

I'm surprised no one ever gives any thought to this very real eventuality.Can't you see that the Chinese are becoming more and more assertive by each passing day, that they are adding to their already large fleet at an alarmingly fast rate??Haven't you take any note of their latest developments??Have you folks been sleeping for the past decade or what??!!
You probably do not even realize it but you guys, in fact, have reduced this forum to nothing more than a circle jerking site where the only thing members seem to be interested in is sucking each other's dicks, almost literally and any opposing views, no matter how much valid and disconcerting they may or may not be, are no longer tolerated, let alone appreciated and the person being chased away by a mob of overzealous blind nationalist buffoons with a near subhuman level of autism and lack of any semblance of basic human intelligence!!
Poor @Ray would be rolling in his grave, (only if he went into one I mean).

Far better than being happily asleep with a false sense of superiority by pulling specs out of one's posterior.


Are you sure??Cause I'm not so sure.
https://www.popsci.com/china-shows-its-deadly-new-cruise-missiles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YJ-18

That really shows the absence of cerebral cells in adequate numbers. Maldives, Sri Lankan ports are not available to China for military base, they are assured for trades, probably Pakistan which is an official bitch of china could sell her soul but at the cost of their already fucked up country. All that "theory" of yours went in vain, due to you're dead cerebral cells and absence of all of your limbic system. Land launched land attack missile is your answer for an antiship missiles, now you seriously need some brain cells. And then comes the old shit YJ18 which can't maintain its speed neither guarantees a range.

 

[Manish Khan]

let's just say our aircraft carrier is still ski-jump not the catapult-style, this may has big limitation to our new generation aircraft.besides,don't forget the influence of the corruption.

 

[Jumbo]

As per the thread title ----> Weaknesses of Indian Navy

Not enough submarines.

That is the biggest weakness of Indian Navy.

Correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Blood Rain]

As per the thread title ----> Weaknesses of Indian Navy

Not enough submarines.

That is the biggest weakness of Indian Navy.

Correct me if I am wrong.

Not the only one but a significant one never the less.