Actually P-15B is called Banglore class( follow on Kolkata class). First ship of 15B is gonna be launch by next month.It goes to Kolkate 15B for sure, I saw their announcement.
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Actually P-15B is called Banglore class( follow on Kolkata class). First ship of 15B is gonna be launch by next month.It goes to Kolkate 15B for sure, I saw their announcement.
I agree. Everything on that ship screams "come on with those 2x2 8-cell Barak 1 and Elta directors'". Still, they may never come.... not in the last place because Barak 8 can kill close in as well (down to 500m)Not now, but in the first refit. I believe the sole reason for Barak 1 not able to make space in Kolkata was banning of IAI. But now its not at all problem.
The same thing was done on Delhi class, so why go backward in evolutionary ladder in our new ship?
The 76 mm is also much better for anti aircraft / anti missile fire and they are actually quite effective against cruise missiles. Can't do that with a large gun.
I did answer the question. Obviously you haven't been to the small manufacturing villages outside Guangzhou and Dongguan and seen the crappy factories there and the conditions of how people and workers live there. You think that everything is just like Foxtron factories or that everything is like Shanghai or Shenzhen. As far as I see it is more like there are 2 chinas, one highly advanced and another still quite undeveloped.
No, I don't hate china, but I don't like or agree about many things about china; you guys think like if no accepting or liking something has to mean hating.
No only I've been to china dozens of times for the last 12 years, many times spending 2 or 3 months at a time, but I also had my own little factory for 3 years in a village 1 hour from downtown Guangzhou (and it was a very crappy village). You don't want to believe it? I don't care.
The poorest area of China that I've been to: An Hui rural areas, went to see a bronze factory there, very very poor area there, but there are areas like that in many places all over china.
Yes, you are right, my meaning was more like thinking because of the fast rate of fire in a small caliber gun.
Actually P-15B is called Banglore class( follow on Kolkata class). First ship of 15B is gonna be launch by next month.
Kolkata's radar is no doubt the most expensive part of the ship, probably costs billions of US dollars. Very good AESA.
LOL, Even 730 depends on data from an external search radar. What you refer to is closed system, without man in the loop. That doesn't mean AK630 performs worse, though.
Why would you do that for a brand new ship....
Mk 99 = Missile Fire Control System
The radar system associated with the Mk 99 MFCS is the missile illuminator AN/SPG-62.
AN/SPG-62 RADAR.: I/JBand fire control radar.
The SPY-1 radar system detects and tracks targets and then points the SPG-62 toward the target, which in turn provides illumination for the terminal guidance of SM-2 missiles.
In order to track a target, you need a very narrow beam of RF energy. The narrower the beam, the more accurately you can tell if you have one target or multiple targets (this is called radar resolution). This narrow beam radar is normally a second radar that works with a primary search or track radar. The AN/SPG-62 illuminating radar works as a second radar with the AN/SPY-1 series radar.
E.g. on Ticonderoga class cruisers:
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SM-2 is a SEMI-ACTIVE RADAR HOMING missile, which means it homes in on the reflection of radar energy from a target. The AN/SPG-62 is the radar that 'paints' the target with radar energy, causing the target to reflect radar energy that the missila can home in on.
Nice explanation, thank you. Can you talk a bit on how the system works to guide the SM3 and SM6 missiles?
There's not a whole lot of public info on the capabilities of SM-3 or SM-6, so I'll refrain from adding too much, but both have capabilities that are not seen on the more common SM-2. Both can be vectored towards an enemy system via "alternative methods". Illuminators are not a necessity.
What does this mean? Well, "alternative methods" don't have to be a ship-based system, they can be from satellites, as seen here:
"In a first-of-its-kind test, a Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IA fired from the USS Lake Erie destroyed a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target using a remote cue from a satellite sensor system."
This capability is provided by a Navy system call "Space Tracking and Surveillance System". This capability allows for sensors far from the SM-3 and its launch platform to track and vector targets before the ship-based sensors are even in range.
Raytheon: Navy Uses Raytheon SM-3 and Space Sensor to Destroy Missile Target
Or patrolling aircraft can vector the missile:
Cooperative Engagement Capability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The E-2D (and other systems) is providing the USN with this long-range targeting capability to extend missile coverage beyond the sensor range of USN ships.
Or the missile can vector itself using it's own systems.
There are other means too, but i wont go too far into anything that isn't public.
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P17
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P17A
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P15A
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P15B
Just apply the changes from the P17 to P17A, to P15A and P15B, then I think you'll have a better image.
Basically the deck up will be a lot more cleaner.
Next Kolkata will have land attack Nirbhay blocks
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Along with Brahmos family anti ship missiles
RAN-40L is great long range detection radar. on pair with SMART-L, much better than LW-08 on P-15A.Bro, whats your comment on RAN-40Lwhich going to be onboard on IAC-1 and P-15B as secondary radar with MF-STAR as primary.
RAN-40L is great long range detection radar. on pair with SMART-L, much better than LW-08 on P-15A.
But as i said about SMART-L, its only a detection radar, cant make accurate tracking, terminal guidance and illumination.