Why don't you share that link to that blog ? I too would be interested in reading that USN officers opinion.
Indian VLC can fire Barak-1, Barak -8 and Brahmos. Nirbhay in the future. That is all it needs to do.
Finally provide evidence to your claims on 52 C and D
This is part of it, if you are interested in the rest, you can google it yourself, it's rather easy to find.
“IAmA US Naval Officer who spent 5 days onboard an Indian Navy warship.” | September 11, 2011 | SmartWar.org
Evidence? These two claims that I made are easily verified that's why I didn't go further into it, due to our secretive nature I cannot make cases for missiles, electronic system, design and "AEGIS," though if you do a little bit of research and understand a few things it's not hard to come to the same conclusion.
Missiles for one, we have the Russian advanced missile when we made the 4 DDG purchase, the whole point of the purchase at the time, and the missiles on our ships are definitely better according to naval admiral who teaches in the naval academy and pretty much ever other source, but the specifics are scarce and unreliable. So I didn't go into it.
As to electronic systems, Russians systems have been deemed not good enough back in 06, today we are an electronics giant, in both the latest tech and variety. Civilian sector is the gate way to high end military tech as proven by US and wouldn't you know it, us.
Though these are hard to prove without a doubt.
I know India can fire those missiles, but the 52D is very lean, why is that? Everything is in the VLS, every canister are the same size and can fire any missile, as we standardized every missile.
As you can clearly see here.
52D is a clear upgrade of 52C, the radar on 52D is much improved due to the shape, it's just a board, the reason for the shape of the 52C and Kolkata is cooling, that has not been worked out. 52D matches and exceeds the current Burkes in radar due to it being AESA and 2014. Though Americans still got one more trick up their sleeve in the Zumwalt.