Indian Navy warships and surveillance aircraft are maintaining high level surveillance in Indian Ocean Region. Indian Navy tracked the movement of Pakistan Navy Ship Yarmook from Romania enroute Red Sea to Karachi. pic.twitter.com/kBBYgwzyLT
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INAS 311 #IndianNavy's all-weather day & night operations capable Air Squadron commissioned on 24 Mar 09 operates Short Range #MaritimeReconnaissance Dornier 228 aircraft equipped with State-of-the-art airborne #MaritimePatrol Radar & sensors (1/2). pic.twitter.com/6s9PPyp0XF
Interesting flight data from 21 March 2020, spots an #IndianNavy P-8i Poseidon returning to base after a flight near the #India-#Pakistan border, reminding #planespotting enthusiasts of its ASUW role which was earlier demonstrated in #Doklam as well pic.twitter.com/il3t7FMXGa
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Infographic, The Indian Navy's (@indiannavy) P8-I, Multimission Maritime Aircraft.#P8I #IndianNavy pic.twitter.com/zCqT9ErjWr
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Internal Weapon Bay... pic.twitter.com/igTsarVw23
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Wow. So it's going to be 2.5 Harpoons & 4 torpedoes per aircraft. Sounds cheerful. If that's exhausted in an engagement, then all those aircrafts will do is grin & bear it.Weapons package for 4 P8I received FMS approval. 10 Harpoon missiles and 16 MK54 torpedoes.
21 Harpoons and 32 MK54 were bought for first 8 P8I.
More MK54s will be procured.Wow. So it's going to be 2.5 Harpoons & 4 torpedoes per aircraft. Sounds cheerful. If that's exhausted in an engagement, then all those aircrafts will do is grin & bear it.
You yourself mentioned that for the first lot of 8 only 21 harpoons were procured. What exactly is the function of those harpoons? Seems that the IN is procuring them more for show. And P-8i are supposed to be our front line ASW platforms against the PLAN.More MK54s will be procured.
Cannot say the same about Harpoon. Maybe NSM finds its way to our P8I too. Then NSMs will be ordered.
We had bought some Harpoon block 2 for 12 Jaguars too. They too might find their way into Navy's hands once Jaguars are gone.You yourself mentioned that for the first lot of 8 only 21 harpoons were procured. What exactly is the function of those harpoons? Seems that the IN is procuring them more for show. And P-8i are supposed to be our front line ASW platforms against the PLAN.
Wow. So it's going to be 2.5 Harpoons & 4 torpedoes per aircraft. Sounds cheerful. If that's exhausted in an engagement, then all those aircrafts will do is grin & bear it.
Modern submarines are also reported to have limited AD capabilities. I doubt whether these are present in the forth coming subs to be inducted in the PN & PLAN but I've no doubt that going ahead these would be standard features with any sub & that expecting the PN & the PLAN to have such features during their MLUs shouldn't be ruled out.Submarines cant fight back ...if you detect it at most u need 1 or max 2 torpedoes to sink it.48 torpedoes are thus enough to sink 24-48 submarines,because you dont need numbers to saturate enemy defenses.24-48 submarines is pretty much the whole PN sub fleet plus whatever PLAN can put on short notice into IOR.(most diesel subs of PLAN cant operate in IOR in meaningful way)Thus torpedo numbers are optimum.