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Armenia is interested in buying additional ATAGS 155mm artillery systems from India
Sputnik Armenia news agency reported citing Indian Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses Director Sujan Chinoy.
“ATAGS is highly maneuverable,” Chinoy told Sputnik Armenia. “They are made in India and have been highly successful. The Armenian side bought six of these systems and was satisfied.”
Chinoy mentioned Armenia’s previous acquisition of the Swathi Weapon Locating Radar systems and Pinaka MRLS.
He said that Armenia has potential to develop its defense industry, which is now focused on startups. “Armenia has three such companies, which isn’t few given the country’s size and population. India has 120 such companies. Therefore Yerevan and Delhi can establish active cooperation in the area of military technologies, especially in issues concerning startups,” Chinoy said.
Earlier media reports said that Armenia ordered the ATAGS systems back in 2022 and received the first batch in August 2023.
According to the Indian Defense Ministry, Armenia bought $600,000,000 worth of armaments from India in 2024-2025 fiscal year.
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Sputnik Armenia news agency reported citing Indian Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses Director Sujan Chinoy.
“ATAGS is highly maneuverable,” Chinoy told Sputnik Armenia. “They are made in India and have been highly successful. The Armenian side bought six of these systems and was satisfied.”
Chinoy mentioned Armenia’s previous acquisition of the Swathi Weapon Locating Radar systems and Pinaka MRLS.
He said that Armenia has potential to develop its defense industry, which is now focused on startups. “Armenia has three such companies, which isn’t few given the country’s size and population. India has 120 such companies. Therefore Yerevan and Delhi can establish active cooperation in the area of military technologies, especially in issues concerning startups,” Chinoy said.
Earlier media reports said that Armenia ordered the ATAGS systems back in 2022 and received the first batch in August 2023.
According to the Indian Defense Ministry, Armenia bought $600,000,000 worth of armaments from India in 2024-2025 fiscal year.
Published by Armenpress, original at Armenia interested in buying more ATAGS artillery systems from India
Armenia looks to India for Astra missiles, upgrade of its Sukhoi fleet
Four Su30s bought from Russia in 2019 did not take part in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan as they lacked fire power, including guided air-to-surface munitions.
By Snehesh Alex Philip
14 September 2024 01:10 pm IST
The 'Astra' beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by DRDO | Photo: Commons.
New Delhi: Armenia has reached out to India for possible procurement of Indian missiles including the indigenous beyond visual range Astra air-to-air missile and possible upgrade of their Sukhoi 30s, ThePrint has learnt.
Sources in the defence establishment said that the talks are on and still at a very initial stage.
Armenia is looking to upgrade its air force and is seeking help from India in terms of weaponry and maintainability of their assets, the sources added.
“The Su30s operated by Armenia are different from what we operate. So one will really have to see what all can be done. The talks are just in the initial stage,” a source told ThePrint. “They (Armenians) want to upgrade their Su30s and integrate our weapons.”
The weapons being sought by Armenia also include air-to-surface guided munitions. There was no confirmation on whether Armenia was also seeking the air launched BrahMos missiles.
The sources explained that there are multiple protocols when it comes to exports of missiles and multiple issues have to be tackled first.
Armenia had bought four Su30s from Russia in 2019 but those did not take part in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan as the aircraft lacked fire power including guided air-to-surface munitions.
Interestingly, Azerbaijan has beefed up its Soviet era Su25s with help from Turkey.
Another area that Armenia is looking at is maintaining issues of the Su30s and also training of its pilots, the sources said.
India operates close to about 272 Su 30 MKIs and has managed to locally manufacture some of the components of the aircraft which helps in reducing the dependability on Russia for service and spares.
Incidentally, the four Su30s operated by Armenia are largely known as “white elephants” because of large investment without being of use. On the other hand, Azerbaijan invested in drones and loitering munitions, which were able to take out multiple air defence assets of Armenia and also pulverise its armoured columns.
Since the conflict, Armenia has become a big defence export destination for India and has, in the past, bought several systems, including artillery guns besides certain kinds of missiles, mortars, radars, small arms and sight systems.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
Armenia looks to India for Astra missiles, upgrade of its Sukhoi fleet
Four Su30s bought from Russia in 2019 did not take part in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan as they lacked fire power, including guided air-to-surface munitions.
By Snehesh Alex Philip
14 September 2024 01:10 pm IST
The 'Astra' beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile developed by DRDO | Photo: Commons.
New Delhi: Armenia has reached out to India for possible procurement of Indian missiles including the indigenous beyond visual range Astra air-to-air missile and possible upgrade of their Sukhoi 30s, ThePrint has learnt.
Sources in the defence establishment said that the talks are on and still at a very initial stage.
Armenia is looking to upgrade its air force and is seeking help from India in terms of weaponry and maintainability of their assets, the sources added.
“The Su30s operated by Armenia are different from what we operate. So one will really have to see what all can be done. The talks are just in the initial stage,” a source told ThePrint. “They (Armenians) want to upgrade their Su30s and integrate our weapons.”
The weapons being sought by Armenia also include air-to-surface guided munitions. There was no confirmation on whether Armenia was also seeking the air launched BrahMos missiles.
The sources explained that there are multiple protocols when it comes to exports of missiles and multiple issues have to be tackled first.
Armenia had bought four Su30s from Russia in 2019 but those did not take part in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan as the aircraft lacked fire power including guided air-to-surface munitions.
Interestingly, Azerbaijan has beefed up its Soviet era Su25s with help from Turkey.
Another area that Armenia is looking at is maintaining issues of the Su30s and also training of its pilots, the sources said.
India operates close to about 272 Su 30 MKIs and has managed to locally manufacture some of the components of the aircraft which helps in reducing the dependability on Russia for service and spares.
Incidentally, the four Su30s operated by Armenia are largely known as “white elephants” because of large investment without being of use. On the other hand, Azerbaijan invested in drones and loitering munitions, which were able to take out multiple air defence assets of Armenia and also pulverise its armoured columns.
Since the conflict, Armenia has become a big defence export destination for India and has, in the past, bought several systems, including artillery guns besides certain kinds of missiles, mortars, radars, small arms and sight systems.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
Armenia looks to India for Astra missiles, upgrade of its Sukhoi fleet
Egypt seems interested in Tejas & ALH Dhruv. High level delegation visited HAL facilities this week. Still a long way before this translates into anything substantial:
Egypt out military shopping, eyes Tejas and Dhruv as high-level delegation visits HAL
Brazil seems to be interested in DRDO's AIP plug for their Scorpene subs:
Brazilian Scorpene subs are the largest among their cousins:
Weapon load out remains the same for all of the Scorpene subs. Of course, with the AIP plug the subs will get much longer:
Wish we made a VLS plug too. But then sub would get too heavy & too slow. INS Kalvari (S21) is going into here 1st major refit in September 2025. She will receive her AIP during this refit. The Nirbhay SLCM would become ready by the time INS Kalvari completes her refit. After this refit maybe the Brazilian navy can get a demonstration of the AIP.
Cost will play a big role too. Per unit cost of Brazil's Scorpene subs comes out around 1 billion USD compared to India's 680 million USD. Even if the AIP works great, one wonders if the Brazilian navy would want to put more money into these subs.
Egypt out military shopping, eyes Tejas and Dhruv as high-level delegation visits HAL
Brazil seems to be interested in DRDO's AIP plug for their Scorpene subs:
Brazilian Scorpene subs are the largest among their cousins:
Weapon load out remains the same for all of the Scorpene subs. Of course, with the AIP plug the subs will get much longer:
Wish we made a VLS plug too. But then sub would get too heavy & too slow. INS Kalvari (S21) is going into here 1st major refit in September 2025. She will receive her AIP during this refit. The Nirbhay SLCM would become ready by the time INS Kalvari completes her refit. After this refit maybe the Brazilian navy can get a demonstration of the AIP.
Cost will play a big role too. Per unit cost of Brazil's Scorpene subs comes out around 1 billion USD compared to India's 680 million USD. Even if the AIP works great, one wonders if the Brazilian navy would want to put more money into these subs.
looks like there is a big pool of countries looking for products from friendly neutral country to avoid overreliance on west. India could very well capitalize on it & grow our exports.
This could very well be under consideration for Batch-2 Scorpenes imo.
I'm no expert but a VLS plug shouldn't add more than 100t to the displacement.
SLCM in its current version is designed for tube-launch so imo IN brass will want to stick to that for the Kalvaris.
Some work on VLS plug was ongoing along with the AIP plug.
From the looks these were Brahmos launch tubes. 2x4=8 nos. of them.
Kalvari class subs have a beam of 6.2 m. Brahmos missiles are 8.4 m long. We would need to cut holes in the inner hull which would reduce the depth at which this sub can operate. The hump on the sub would be about 2.5 m tall. This would surely change the hydrodynamic & acoustic properties of the sub. The Navy eventually dropped this plan.
Maybe the modifications were causing the subs to be unacceptably loud. Maybe the French OEM didn't agree with this mod or were charging a lot of money to do hydrodynamic tests. We don't know.
Yes, that's what I meant. These missiles would need to be stored in the torpedo magazine which is limited in size. To carry SLCMs we have to reduce the number of torpedoes carried.
Well no wonder they went for torp tube launch capable system for Brahmos NG , hopefully true. This cutting sub hull for fitting the api is itself a murky business. Why not incorporate from new batch even if test case?