Source: This report being compiled by Roger Smith - DTN News (NSI News Source Info) KOTTAKKAL, Kerala, India - October 18, 2010: India's proposed for the Su-30 radar with 5 generation machine, which can attack 8 targets.
According to the Russian "tie" network on October 11 reported for the Indian Air Force has decided to equip the Su-30MKI multi-role fighter is equipped with Russian-made "beetle-AE" active phased array radar system, the radar system can betrack 30 targets simultaneously and one of the eight attack.
The DTN News reports that India has ordered nearly 280 fighters Su-30MKI.
according to Russian reports, "link" network on October 11 reported that the Indian Air Force has decided to equip its Su-30MKI multi-role fighter is equipped with Russian-made "beetle-AE" active phased array radar system. Indian Air Force sources said the Su-30MKI for the new radar installation work will begin in 2012.
In the Indian Air Force MiG -35 to bid for 126 new fighter procurement plan process, the Indian military has repeatedly about the "beetle-AE" radar performance. In addition, India and Russia plan to T-50 fifth generation fighter based on the joint development of a new generation of fighter aircraft will be equipped with "beetle-AE" radar system.
Indian Air Force Su-30MKI fighters active equipment, but N011M type passive phased array radar. N011M target of a class of fighters maximum detection distance of 140 km and can track up to 15 air targets and guide the missile while attacking one of the four.And "beetle-AE" goal of a class of fighters maximum range can reach 200 kilometers, up to track 30 targets simultaneously and one of the eight attack.
Except for aircraft equipment, the Russian-made "beetle-AE" can also be used to equip other types of aircraft and sea-and land-based systems. For example, they use active phased array radar technology may also be applied, "Diamond - Aetna" company to develop air defense systems. The Russian Navy also expressed the hope to use this radar equipment, carrier-based aircraft, helicopters and even warships.
According to the development of the radar's "Fazhatelong Radio Manufacturing Institute," the company said, "beetle-AE" of the active detection range is significantly greater than the fourth-generation fighter radar. In addition, the radar synthetic aperture with its excellent ability to also be able to draw a map of high accuracy. "Beetle-AE" is not only able to distinguish a moving target, but also identify them by the second identifying the exact model, in particular, it is able to identify a single target in a cluster the number of goals.
Indian Defense Ministry has previously said it would start in the last few years, Su-30MKI fighters on active duty the overall modernization program.
Indian Ministry of Defence introduced, said Su-30MKI in the upgrade process, will install advanced avionics and other equipment to improve their overall operational capability, technical and tactical performance and flight performance. At the same time, also lengthened the fuselage structure to enable it to carry jointly developed by Russia and India, the production of "Brahmos" supersonic cruise missiles.
At present, India has ordered nearly 280 Su-30MKI fighters, while the Su-30MKI fighters are considered the same level in the world, one of the best aircraft, and Indian Air Force as the primary means of attack.
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A total of 33 Type 6610 vessels were built all the way up to 1987 and several of which were even involved in real combat against Vietnamese Navy. Even now, PLAN still operates about 15 of these Type 6610 minesweepers including the frequently photographed No. 830 to 834 of East Sea Fleet.
By the late 1970s, China started development of a new type of coastal minesweeper. This class, known as the Type 082 Wosao class, first joined service in 1988. They are 44.8 m long, 6.2 m wide and have a draft of 3.7 m. They were the first sign of a post T-43 + modernized minesweeping design by China. They were equipped with Type 316 mini contact sweep, type 317 magnetic sweep, type 318 acoustic sweep and type 319 infrasonic sweep. These vessels can also be used to control the Type 312 remote minesweeping drones. This ship class basically consists of the original Type I variant ships (No. 801 to 803) and the improved Type II variant (No. 806、807、816、817, 820 to 827). You can recognize the difference just by looking at the bridge. Here are some of the ships from this class.
As we arrived at the current wave of PLAN modernization, MCM was clearly a huge weakness in PLAN. The Type 082 class is modern compared to T-43, but they are only suitable for coastal operations and are not modern by international standard. PLAN needed MCM vessels that would push it to the modern level of MCM ships that came into service with different NATO navies in the 80/90s like the Avenger class, Tripartite class, Sandown class and Type 343 Hameln class. PLAN has kind of moved into this new era of MCM operation with 2 new classes in the past few years. The first one is the Type 081 minesweeper. They are built more for seagoing mine warfare operations than Type 082. They are larger, probably close to the size of T-43s, equipped with more modern sweeping systems, mine detection sonar and modern command system (like GPS, radar, display console, combat system). At the current time, we know of at least 4 units of this class (805, 810, 839 and 840). Each of these ships cost around $37 million in 2008. The second MCM class is the Type 082II (or another designation) minehunter. So far, there is only one unit of this ship built. As you can see with the photos below, it is very similar in size to Type 081. I would say they are both around 550 to 600 ton in displacement.
I think it has taken a while for the next ship of this class to come out, because it represented too much of an advancement in PLAN. Similar to other ship series, this first unit is testing out a lot of new equipments and concepts before further units are built. This is probably the first MCM ship in PLAN system that does not use any kind of mechanical sweep and probably the first one to be built with Glass reinforced plastic. As shown below, it is also the first MCM ship to be equipped with mine disposing ROV (+crane to lower ROV) and advanced sonar management system. The sonar system is reported to be able to track and identify everything with several hundreds meters. In fact, one of the pictures showed a scale of up to 200 m, but I'm not sure if they have a longer tracking mode.
As it happened, we saw a new class of remote controlled minesweeping drones recently. This development is kind of interesting, because China has been studying different navies around the world for ideas in improvement. In most cases, PLAN follows the path of USN (like 052C + combat system, 071/LCAC, Type 920 hospital ship). In this case, it seems like PLAN found German navy's Ensdorf class to be the one that would be the best for its given requirements. The dimensions of 804 is very similar to Ensdorf class and the dimensions of this new Type 8041 drone is very similar to Seehund drones. It looks like 804 will be operating with 3 or 4 of these drones + ROVs in disposing mines.
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