RUSSIA - INDIA Military Contracts

The Baltic Shipyard will produce four sets of shaft lines for India's newest torpedo-boat destroyers under Project 15B, which will be built at shipyards in Mumbai from 2018 to 2024, a source in the Russian defence industry told Interfax.

The shafts are expected to be ready by 2017, Baltic Shipyard said on its website: “Under the terms of the contract concluded between Baltic Shipyard LLC, Rosoboronexport, and the foreign customer, Baltic Shipyard is to produce four sets of shaft lines by the year 2017.”

The statement notes that the first contracts for such machine parts were fulfilled by the enterprise in the early 1990s, while shafts for the predecessor Project 15A were made in 2007-2009.

The source in the Russian defence industry clarified that the shaft lines were for four Project 15B destroyers, currently being built for the Indian Navy at the shipyards of Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) in Mumbai. Engineers of Northern Design Bureau (St Petersburg) had been involved in designing the blueprint of the destroyer, according to the source.

Indian Defence Minister A K Antony previously stated that his ministry had signed a contract with MDL in January 2011 for the construction of four new Project 15B destroyers. The ships are due to be built sequentially in June 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024.

Three ships of the Project 15A guided-missile destroyers are being constructed in the MDL. The four Project 15B destroyers are essentially upgraded Project 15A ships, with changes in the superstructure that will improve stealth and include better sound and infrared suppression systems. The displacement of each Project 15B ship will be about 8,000 tonnes and they will operate two helicopters.

The Project 15B ships will be armed with the Nirbhay land attack cruise missile, which has a 1,000 km range, the hypersonic Brahmos-2 anti-ship cruise missile, with a 300 km range and Extended Range Surface to Air Missile also known as Barak 8ER, which has a 120 km range.

TR1 wrote:Talk about a bombastic head line

Are there any recent photos of the INS Kolkata?
The last pic I saw was all 3 ships being worked on/fitting out in Mumbai.
Sea trials were supposed to start last year, what is the word?

Russia will supply India 67 Mi-17V-5, said Rosoboronexport


MOSCOW, Aug. 26 - RIA Novosti. Russia in 2013 signed a contract with India for the supply of 67 military transport helicopters Mi-17V-5, according to the press service of "Rosoboronexport".

"It is expected that the most dynamic segments in 2013 will be the rotorcraft and air defense systems, the volume of exports which will increase by 20% and 30%, respectively. Among the major agreements" Rosoboronexport "since the beginning of 2013 - a contract with India the supply of an additional batch of military transport helicopters Mi-17V-5 (59 units for the Air Force and 8 units for the Ministry of Internal Affairs), "- said in a statement.



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RIA Novosti wrote:Russia’s MiG fighter jet maker has signed two additional contracts with India worth a total $55 million, the corporation said Wednesday.
They are part of a general contract with India’s air force.

Under the first, $43 million contract, a servicing center will be established in India for maintenance and repair of Zhuk-ME on-board radars, MiG representatives said.

The second, $12 million contract provides for the creation in India of a servicing center for modernized MiG-29UPG fighter jets.
Russia will deliver six MiG-29K Fulcrum “generation 4++” fighters to India this year as part of a 2010 contract for 29 planes worth $1.5 billion, MiG CEO Sergei Korotkov said at the MAKS-2013 international air and space show.

India currently has 21 aircraft. Under the contract, MiG is to deliver 29 planes before 2015, Korotkov said. Last year four aircraft were delivered and one has been delivered so far this year, he added.

Economic Times wrote:Seeking to address the issue of bursting barrels of Army tanks due to ammunition, the government is planning to replace them with canons of T-90 tanks in collaboration with Russia.

T-72 tanks, the mainstay of the Indian armoured fleet, are facing problems with their ammunition as they sometimes burst in the barrel and 200 such cases have been reported causing concern in the Army.

The Defence Ministry is planning to replace the barrels of the T-72 tanks with the ones fitted in the T-90 tanks. Under the plan, around 800 barrels are to be procured from Russia under a deal expected to be worth around Rs 1,500 crore, government sources told PTI here.

The issue is expected to be taken up for discussion during the high-level talks between India and Russia during the visit of Defence Secretary Radha Kant Mathur to Moscow next week, they said.

Earlier this year, the Army told a Parliamentary panel that barrels burst sometimes due to ammunition and wondered whether its troops will be "afraid" to fire even after seeing the enemy.

"It (the T-72 ammunition) used to burst in the barrel. If it bursts in the barrel, then the firer is afraid to fire his own gun, which is not a correct thing. If he is afraid to fire his own gun, then even if he sees the enemy he will not fire," the Army had told the Standing Committee on Defence.

The Army informed the government and the Parliamentary Committee that over a period of time, there have been 200 such accidents involving the ammunition and "it brings down the confidence of the firer, especially, with regard to tank ammunition".

In terms of the numbers, the T-72 tanks are the backbone of the Indian armoured fleet and have undergone several upgrades since their induction to be able to fight effectively in the battlefield.

I can practically hear the Bharat-Rakshak tears about "Tin-cans" LMAO

TR1 wrote:The Russian Army standard "T-90MS" is supposed to be unveiled soon, so hopefully India goes for the latest and best iteration....the T-90MS we have seen so far is basically a show-piece by Tagil.

Viktor wrote:Sujoy, Austing - anything from India newspapers?

2nd nuclear submarine lease likely to be 'X factor' in Indo-Russian summit

Viktor wrote:Sources also said if the negotiations were to be wrapped up, India would like to go for construction of a new submarine, rather than buying one off-the-shelf.
- > If all goes well, India would finance the construction of the new submarine in Russia. For Russia’s part, Russia will handle maintenance and overhauls.

Mindstorm wrote: In my opinion India , at reason , will never accept to give up its FICV -Futuristic Infantry Combat Vehicle- project for production of BMP-3/3M IFV, the technical requirements in play are too different in level and sophistication to allow a similar compromise to happen.

Mindstorm wrote:No variant of BMP-3 will meet technical requirements of Indian Army for FIFV program.

Indian Army must obviously assure that its FICV will retain operational significance in a future battlefield environment ,therefore the vehicle should integrate the most modern solutions both in the defensive department :

1) Passive protection (in particular new composites and meta-alloys)
2) Active protection (APS, soft kill systems )
3) NBC shielding (in particular new anti-meutron fillers and also....EMP/HP microwave shielding for electronic components)
4) Multispectral signature reduction (both in-built and through mass-produceable camo-coverage)

In the offensive department:

1) Improved medium caliber gun (40 mm or over)
2) New type of medium caliber munitions, even better if telescopic (capable to engage ANY sub-MBT menace on and over the battlefield )
3) Stand-off missiles with very high jamming immunity

In the mobility department:

1) Full amphibious capabilities
2) Active suspension systems
3) Composite transmission
4) New generation engines (with high specific power and very low fuel consumption)

In ther vectronic department:

1) Multi sensor data unification
2) Sensors working on very wide electromagnetic bands
3) Capability to process indipendently data stream coming from third part assets
4) Capability to guide indipendently reconnaissance UAVs


Therefore India don't need BMP-3/3M ,but it need a perspective IFV built on the same basis principles of BMP-3/3M : a machine designed to fight and win a major war against a very powerful enemy (BMP-3s and BTR-80s was intended and capable to let the bulk of Soviet mechanized infantry to transverse indipendently the English Channel from various points !)

Viktor wrote:Well I think it was a good offer and now its up to India to produce even better IFV. 

India refused to BMP-3 in favor of their own "car of the future"