Marinha Indiana

[Carlos Mathias]

O MIG-29K decola bem mais fácil que o SU-33 do PA.
Bem, a diferença de tamanho influencia, lógico.

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Gorshkov’s final price decided: Russian envoy

December 14th, 2009 - 6:50 pm ICT by IANS

Manmohan Singh New Delhi, Dec 14 (IANS) Days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Moscow, Russian ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin Monday said the final price for the refurbishment of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov has been finalised.
“Talks were successful. Talks have concluded,” the Russian envoy said when asked about the final price at which Russia has agreed to sell Admiral Gorshkov to India.

The envoy, however, declined to disclose the final price of the aircraft carrier that has been the subject of protracted negotiations between the two sides.

“Please don’t sensationalise Gorshkov’s pricing. These are routine price negotiations,” said Kadakin, an old India hand whose earlier tenure as Russia’s ambassador to India (1999-2004) saw the forging of strategic partnership between the two countries.

The Gorshkov issue came up during the summit level talks between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow last week.

After the talks, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao had said the negotiations over price and other technical issues relating to the re-fitted aircraft carrier were brought “to a successful conclusion”.

Rao, too, did not disclose the final price agreed to by both sides.

Kadakin admitted that there were “mistakes” by both sides in negotiating the price, but assured that these issues have now been sorted out.

The carrier would be supplied to India in a very good shape with cutting-edge technology, Kadakin said.

Kadakin said India-Russia defence ties remained as strong as ever and Moscow was not worried about New Delhi diversifying its purchase of military hardware from other countries.

He admitted that supplying spares and maintenance of Russian weaponry sold to India remained an issue, but expressed confidence that these would be sorted out soon.

Moscow had reportedly asked for $2.9 billion for the aircraft carrier, nearly thrice the price that was originally agreed between the two sides in 2004.

But New Delhi insisted on scaling back the price to $2.1 billion.

Delays in re-fitting the aircraft carrier and huge cost overruns had turned out to be an irritant over the otherwise time-tested relationship between the two countries.

Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/unc ... z0ZhGJuLIz

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Navy to build four amphibious warships
Agencies
Posted: Dec 13, 2009 at 1235 hrs IST


New Delhi Aiming at adding more teeth to its amphibious warfare capabilities, the Navy is planning to build four Landing Platform Docks (LPD) to join the fleet alongside INS Jalashwa, a US warship bought by India in 2007.

The Navy is already in the process of getting the design for the LPDs ready in the next year or two and will move the government for sanction to build these warships.

"The plan is to add four more LPDs to the fleet and these would operate alongside INS Jalashwa, the only LPD currently in service," a senior Navy officer said here today.

"In the coming year or two, we are going to finalise the design for the LPD, which is somewhat akin to INS Jalashwa. The government sanction for building these ships would be obtained next," he said.

INS Jalashwa -- a Sanskrit name for Hippopotamus -- is a replenishment and amphibious warfare ship with capacity to embark, transport and land a 1,000-men battalion along with equipment and tanks to support operations on enemy shores.

Being the second largest ship in the Navy inventory after aircraft carrier INS Viraat, Jalashwa is also capable of undertaking maritime surveillance, special operations, search and rescue, medical support as well as humanitarian aid. Jalashwa was originally commissioned in the US Navy as USS Trenton and had served for 36 years when India bought it for USD 48.44 million and commissioned it in its Navy in June 2007.

After a refit programme at Norfolk, US, Jalashwa joined the Indian Navy service late in 2007 and is based under the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam. Jalashwa became the first ship the US transferred to India. It is also the first LPD in the Indian Navy service.

"The need for such a landing transport amphibious warship was felt in December 2004 when Tsunami waves hit Indian coast including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and southeast Asia," the officer said.

India had rushed its warships with medical aid and food to the countries hit by Tsunami, but an LPD, which could be converted into a multi-bed hospital, would have made a difference, they said.

"But more than that, LPDs provide the Navy strategic reach to operate far away from Indian shores and support amphibious warfare," they added.

Jalashwa also carries four mechanised landing craft and eight landing assault craft, which could be launched by flooding the ship's well deck, a speciality of LPDs. These craft could reach enemy shores and dock to deliver infantry and mechanised troops, tanks and equipment.

It also has a flight deck for operating four medium helicopters simultaneously, apart from operating Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft such as Sea Harriers, which the Navy possesses, in special circumstances. Last February, Jalashwa had a gas leak on board in which five Navy personnel died and three were critically injured.

http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news ... ps/553560/

Russia's MiG aircraft maker said on Tuesday it has delivered the first four MiG-29 Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets to India.

Russia and India signed a contract on January 20, 2004, stipulating the supply of 12 single-seat MiG-29Ks and four two-seat MiG-29KUBs to India as part of a $1.5 billion deal to deliver the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, currently being retrofitted in Russia for the Indian navy.

Indian media earlier reported that two MiG-29K and two MiG-29KUB fighters arrived from Russia in a knocked down condition on December 4.

Deliveries of the remaining aircraft will be carried out in line with a schedule agreed by MiG and the Indian Navy.

The contract for the jets also stipulates the procurement of hardware for pilot training and aircraft maintenance, including flight simulators and interactive ground and sea-based training systems.

India and Russia are also reportedly close to reaching an agreement to break the deadlock on additional financing for the retrofit of the Admiral Gorshkov, which caused "a distinct chill in expansive Indo-Russian defense ties."

"India is likely to shell out around $2.5 billion and get the carrier by early 2013,'' Times of India quoted a source in the Indian military as saying.

The Indian Navy has named its MiG-29K squadron the "Black Panthers." The fighters will be based at an airfield in the state of Goa on India's west coast until the Admiral Gorshkov joins the Navy under the name of INS Vikramaditya.

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20091208/157157259.html

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Ceremony to launch frigate Teg (Saber) in Kaliningrad


Description:
The ceremony to launch the frigate Teg (Saber), built at Kaliningrad's Shipyard Yantar for the Indian Navy.
Location:
Russia, Kaliningrad
Date of event:
27.11.2009

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http://visualrian.com/images?text=Cerem ... tion=photo

[Carlos Mathias]

Pelo menos essa chamaram de fragata e não de "lancha patrulha de canais e rios menores".

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Gorshkov price is settled with Russia at $2.3 billion

The price of aircraft carrier Gorshkov has been finally settled at US $2.3 billion.

Notwithstanding some bitterness, the Indian side finally agreed to pay this price after being told by the Prime Minister's Office that the high level of friendship with Russia has to be maintained and an agreement had to be worked out, preferably before Manmohan Singh left for Moscow Dec 6.

That was indeed done on the morning of Dec 4, Navy Day, with a visiting Russian delegation, according to the latest issue of India Strategic defence magazine. Defence ministry officials refused to comment on the development.

The Indian side had asked for some additional onboard equipment at least as part of the increased price, but within that price, which the Russians agreed to. Details of that were still being finalized with the Russians 10 days later in the Indian capital.

The original agreement with the Russians signed in 2004 was for $974 million for the carrier's refurbishment and upgrade, Gorshkov itself being offered free of cost. The delivery was then set for 2008.

In 2007, Rosoboronexport, the sole Russian agency responsible for selling and exporting weapon systems, indicated a delay in the delivery of the carrier. In 2008, it demanded an additional $1.2 billion in writing saying it had made mistakes in calculations and that it had to many more miles of wiring for instance than it had originally thought.

After that, during the negotiations to settle the dispute arising from this new demand, Rosoboronexport representatives mentioned varying figures asking for still more money, taking the cost of the carrier to $2.9 billion.

Rising prices of oil, which is consumed during the trials, was among the reasons quoted for this second revision of the Gorshkov cost.

The Indian side had agreed to consider the written request for additional $1.2 billion but declined to entertain anything above that.

Well placed sources from Moscow told India Strategic that the Russian government asked Rosoboronexport to come down to $2.4 billion and it also submitted a letter in this regard to the Indian Navy's negotiating team.

Finally, India agreed to pay a total of $2.3 billion but with a request for some additional equipment, and the Russians agreed to that.

India has also agreed for delivery of the carrier, which the Navy urgently needs, by 2012 without any penalty.

It may be noted that the Russian government paid the Sevmash shipyard, which is doing the repair work on Gorshkov, $250 million as credit to ensure that the work did not stop. India had paid $600 million at the time of the contract, and another $122 million in August this year.

India has already paid more than $600 million for 16 Mig 29K carrier borne aircraft, the first four of which have been delivered at the INS Hansa, the naval base in Goa.

The Indian Navy has asked for 29 more Mig 29Ks, the proposal for which has been cleared by the government. An order is likely to be placed soon.

These deals, although related to the Gorshkov, are separate and the Mig 29K aircraft will operate from both the Gorshkov and India's first indigenous aircraft carrier now under construction at the Kochi shipyard in southern India.

There has been no official confirmation of the price from either side but Russian sources said that the agreed price was "close to what the Indian Navy wanted".

The Indian prime minister's delegation did announce though from Moscow that the agreement over the price had been reached.

"We do not know if the two sides shared some vodka over the deal, but there is goodwill between the negotiators on both the sides following the conclusion of the price," said an informed source.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Gorshkov- ... 87615.aspx

[Ilya Ehrenburg]

Combat Management System for INS Vikramaditya

'Lesorub-E' CMS
http://www.npomars.com/index.php?view=a ... &Itemid=66



Mig-29K/KUB

Não deixa de ser interessante perceber, que a Aeroflot é responsável até por reabastecimento aéreo!

[P44]

http://pilot.strizhi.info/2009/12/27/7027

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India to get first indigenous aircraft carrier by 2014
13:15, January 11, 2010

India's domestic aircraft carrier currently under construction at Cochin Shipyard Limited off the southwest cost of India will be launched before the end of 2010, and will be commissioned by 2014, according to an Indian media agency report on January 10.

India started building its first indigenous aircraft carrier in 2006 and 70 percent of production has been completed, said Commodore M. Jitendran, Chairman & Managing Director of Cochin Shipyard Limited.

The vessel is some 260 meters long and 60 meters wide, with a full displacement of 40,000 tones and a maximum cruise speed of 28 knots.

With this, India joins the elite club capable of designing and building aircraft carriers of 40,000 tones with the U.S., Russia and France. This will greatly help to expand the Indian navy's activities scope.

Commodore M. Jitendran said the vessel will become a mobile air base and can accommodate 30 fighter aircraft like MIG-29 K and Indian-made light combat aircraft.

A second order might also be given to Cochin Shipyard Limited when the first one is handed over to the Indian navy.

India currently only has one operational carrier - the INS Viraat - after scrapping its first, INS Vikrant, in 1997 after more than 35 years service. Viraat is scheduled to be phased out in 2015.

By People's Daily Online

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/9077 ... 65104.html

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India, Russia close to $1.2 bln deal for 29 navy fighters

Russia and India are poised to sign a $1.2 billion contract for another 29 MiG-29K fighter jets for the Indian Navy, an Indian daily reported on Monday.

According to The Times of India, a Russian team is expected in New Delhi later this week to "fine-tune the contract" now that it has received the go-ahead from the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The 29 new MiG-29Ks will be in addition to 16 jets already to be delivered under a 2004 contract.

Russia's MiG aircraft maker said in early December it had delivered the first four MiG-29 Fulcrum-D carrier-based fighter jets to India.

Russia and India signed a contract in January 2004 for the delivery of 12 single-seat MiG-29Ks and four two-seat MiG-29KUBs as part of a $1.5 billion deal for the Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier, currently being retrofitted in Russia for the Indian navy.

The contract for the jets also stipulates the procurement of equipment for pilot training and aircraft maintenance, including flight simulators and interactive ground and sea-based training systems.

NEW DELHI, January 18 (RIA Novosti)

http://en.rian.ru/business/20100118/157597280.html

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India will form its first naval air squadron operating the MiG-29K on Feb. 18 at Goa; the unit will go to sea when the Russian-built carrier Admiral Gorshkov is delivered in 2012. (MiG photo)

Navy to Formally Induct MiG-29K Naval Fighter Jets


(Source: ddi Indian Government news; issued Feb. 2, 2010)

The [Indian] Navy will formally induct the Russian-made MiG-29K naval fighter jets for deployment on Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier on 19th February in Goa.

The first four of the 16 MiG-29Ks that India had bought from Russia in 2004 along with Gorshkov were delivered at the INS Hansa naval base in Goa on 4th December last.

"The formal induction ceremony has been fixed for February 19 at INS Hansa. The squadron has been named Black Panthers," a Navy spokesperson said in New Delhi on Tuesday.

The fighter jets that arrived in Goa in a knocked-down condition in a transport plane were re-assembled at INS Hansa, which also has a maintenance and training facility for the aircraft and its pilots.

"At present the Russian technicians and pilots are based in Goa to do the reassembling and training our technicians and pilots to take over maintenance and operations soon," he said.

After induction, the fighter jets would be operated temporarily from the shore-based facility at INS Hansa till the actual delivery of Gorshkov, rechristened as INS Vikramaditya, slated for 2012.

Under the USD 1.5 billion deal signed in March 2004 for the 45,000-tonne Kiev class Gorshkov and the MiG-29Ks, USD 974 million went towards the warship and USD 526 million for the fighter jets.

Of the 16 jets, 12 are MiG-29K single-seater fighters and the rest four are MiG-29KUB twin-seater trainers.

India is all set to ink another deal with Russia for 29 more MiG-29Ks for USD 1.2 billion in a bid to strengthen its naval aviation wing.

The MiG-29Ks flight operations on Gorshkov will be in the Short Take Off But Arrested Landing (STOBAR) configuration for which the ship is being re-modified at Sevmash yard in Russia.

To train Indian pilots for STOBAR operations, India has already set up the world's third shore-based training facility at INS Hansa.

The pilots were also sent to the US for deck landing training and on board a French aircraft carrier for operations training, apart from Russia for Qualified Flying Instructors' conversion training.

The aircraft has arrester gear on its tail to help hooking onto the arrestor wires on board the landing deck of the carrier.

It also has stronger landing gear to withstand the arrested landing on board the carriers, folding wings and rust-proofing to prevent corrosion.

Fitted with a fully digitised glass cockpit, improved engine protection against ingestion of foreign particles like birds, a multi-mode radar and increased range, the MiG-29Ks will also provide aerial cover to the carrier's battle group, acquire air superiority and destroy sea-borne and ground-based targets with guided high-precision weapons in all weather, day-and-night conditions.

India currently operates the Sea Harrier jump jets on board its solitary Centaur Class aircraft carrier, which celebrated its 50 years of naval service both in the Royal Navy as HMS Hermes and in the Indian Navy as INS Viraat.

Of the 30-odd Sea Harriers the Navy bought from Britain along with Viraat in late 1980s, only a dozen of them are left in service.

-ends-

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articl ... hters.html

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First Fleet Tanker For Indian Navy Launched At Muggiano



17:17 GMT, February 12, 2010 Genoa | Today at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia) there was the launch of the first of two fleet tankers ordered by the Indian Navy, with delivery scheduled by the end of the year. Present at the ceremony were Arif S. Khan, ambassador for the Republic of India in Italy, Corrado Antonini, Chairman of Fincantieri, Admiral Franco Paoli, commander of the Naval Department of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea. First announced at Euronaval in 2008, the order is the first surface vessel India has ever made to a European company and followed a selection procedure with strong international competitors, especially from Russia and Korea.

At 175 metres long, 25 wide and 19 high, the fleet tanker is a supply and logistic support vessel with a displacement at full load of 27,500 tonnes and a propulsion system of two 10,000 kW diesel engines enabling her to reach a maximum speed of 20 knots. Notable features of the vessel are its propulsion system incorporating a shaft with adjustable pitch propellers and a flight deck for medium weight helicopters (up to 10 tons). Maximum passenger capacity is 250 including crew and additional forces.
Equipped with double hatches the tanker can refuel four vessels at the same time.

In accordance with the new Marpol regulations of the International Maritime Organization regarding protection of the environment, the ship has been built with a double hull. This will afford greater protection to the fuel tanks, thereby avoiding the risk of pollution in case of collision or damage.

Cooperation with India started in 2004 when Fincantieri drew up two contracts with Cochin shipyard for the design of an engine (one of the most powerful non-nuclear propulsion systems in the world), technology transfer and provision of complementary services for the construction of the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC). Furthermore, in 2007 the company delivered the “Sagar Nidhi”, an oceanographic vessel for the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) of Madras, which is already operating off the Indian coast to the great satisfaction of the customer.

Fincantieri considers the East market and the development of cooperation with the high prestige Indian partner to be strategic, as witnessed by two events – the opening in recent years of a representative office in New Delhi and the company’s participation every year at the leading naval fair, “Defexpo”.

The partnership has been successful as the Indian Navy has exercised its option (provided under the original contract) and ordered a second sister fleet tanker, which is under construction at Fincantieri’s Sestri Ponente (Genoa) shipyard for delivery in late 2011.

http://www.defpro.com/news/details/13133/

[Corsário01]

Quando teremos o nosso?

[Loki]

Li essa noticia hoje, mas no site indiano não há nenhum comentário sobre o assunto, acho que é mais um hoax!

Brasil interessado no míssil de cruzeiro BrahMos
Qua, 17 de Fevereiro de 2010 11:51
A BrahMos Aerospace, joint-venture russo-indiana criada para o desenvolvimento de um míssil de cruzeiro supersônico (BrahMos) está em conversações avançadas com ao menos quatro países para vender o sistema militar, disse hoje (17) uma autoridade indiana.

"Nós estamos em processo de obter as necessárias permissões (para as vendas)", disse A. Sivathanu Pillai, presidente da BrahMos Aerospace na Defexpo 2010, feira de defesa que acontece esta semana em Nova Déli.

Um executivo sênior da empresa que pediu para não ser identificado afirmou que havia sérias negociações com a África do Sul, Brasil e Chile para uma versão naval do míssil, e com a Indonésia para a versão terrestre.

O BrahMos é considerado o mais rápido míssil de cruzeiro do mundo (cerca de 1 km por segundo), e cada unidade tem custo estimado de 3 milhões de dólares. Com desenvolvimento iniciado em 2001, seu alcance é de aproximadamente 280 km, com ogiva convencional de 200 kg.

http://www.tecnodefesa.com.br/index.php ... &Itemid=55

[saullo]

Que seja, já imaginaram fragatas de 6.000 ton. e com esse SSM de quase 300 Km de alcance ? Seria fantástico.

Abraços