.
.
.
Yes I write these posts from time to time repeating the same points or there abouts.
India does not need a Blue water navy. What ever the dictates of the RSS at Pune, and their silly Israeli funded unrealistic ambitions.
India needs to develop FIRST and foremost strong reliable strategic relationships with her immediate neighbor countries.....such as Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and China. Save China, India can buy better relations with these nations through regular AID, and greater trade .........a recent 20th century foreign policy phenomenon most famously executed by the USA since WWII, and China since the 1990's.
SECOND, India has fought all its wars on LAND comprehensively, with the sea playing a negligible peripheral side show theater: 1948, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1999.
The military top brass think the next war will be on land....90% sure. I am 100% sure the next war will be on land. Therefore military procurement expenditure should be 70% army; 25% airforce and about 5% navy. The paltry defense budget/expenditure should be pooled so that it is spent where it is most needed. Granted that the navy always needs to be upgraded with new equipment, but the priority must be the army.
India will never be a superpower......it is a tropically hot country, with mainly tropically hot people.....save for the 15-20% Aryans, who migrated South from the Pontic Steppes/Central Asia 3500 years and onwards. India may have been a superpower under Ashok in the 3rd century BC, and under Akbar in the 16th century.....but never in the modern sense.
I would like India to decisively ditch any notions and pretensions of being a super power. Being a superpower is dangerous and self destructive...as we saw with the Soviet Union and the USA now. India should focus on meeting the basic needs of its people first and foremost.....thats it. Its a big enough challenge for the post-colonial Macaulay Brown Sahib corrupt neo-liberal International banker governments of the Congress and BJP.
Manekshaw the Great sipāhī---Persian word meaning soldier.
AK 47 Anthony the Harijan convert with his boats......recruited by Western Intelligence. Suppressing Indian indigenous defense production in favor of Red Herring foreign procurements from around the world (70-80% of all arms procurements annually....63 years after "independence") which gives his MoD mafia contractors (netas, babus, officers) huge kickbacks....but leaves India's strategic defense vulnerable.
Pakistan's arms and ammunition industry, with an economy 8 times smaller, produces better and more reliable defense equipment simply because the Pakistani military cannot afford to buy abroad, its cheaper to produce domestically......so why can't India? Because of the conspiracy of the Defense mafia within the MoD of India.
100% of American arms procurement is domestic.
98% of Russia's arms procurement is domestic.
98% of China's arms procurement is domestic.
20% of India's arms procurement is domestic......and even then given the level of foreign parts its questionable whether even the 20% are really domestic productions.
If you have false misdirected ambitions of being a "great power"....at a minimum first of all try producing your own arms........you can't be a "great power" using other nations "great mix" of arms and spares.
___________________________
India to boost 'blue-water' warfare punch with two new stealth frigates
Rajat Pandit of the TOI.
The Navy continues to hone its war-fighting capabilities despite being stretched in coastal security and anti-piracy operations. The force is now on course to soon induct two more deadly stealth frigates to bolster its growing "blue-water" warfare capabilities.
Sources say the 6,200-tonne indigenous stealth frigate INS Satpura is likely to be commissioned in June-July, while the Russian-built 4,900-tonne INS Teg should finally be ready for induction by September-October.
These long-awaited warships will come at a time when Navy chief Admiral Nirmal Verma has stressed that "maintenance of war-fighting abilities" remains the "top-most priority" for his force despite the "large number of peacetime commitments (anti-piracy, coastal security and the like) at hand".
"With the security situation being fluid, we need to maintain the organizational ability to deploy warships, submarines and aircraft at immediate notice," said Admiral Verma, at the naval commanders' conference here on Tuesday.
INS Satpura and INS Teg will certainly boost combat capabilities, packed as they are with sensors, weapons and missile systems, coupled with their stealthy nature due to "vastly-reduced" radar, infra-red, noise, frequency and magnetic "signatures" to beat enemy detection systems.
That's not all. INS Satpura, the second of three indigenous stealth frigates built under the Rs 8,101-crore Project-17 at Mazagon Docks, will be followed by INS Sahyadri after six months. The first, INS Shivalik, was commissioned in April last year.
Similarly, INS Teg is to be followed by its sister frigates, INS Tarkash and INS Trikhand, built under a Rs 5,514-crore project inked with Russia in July 2006, after gaps of six months each.
Both the Indian and Russian projects, of course, have been dogged by huge time and cost overruns. The three warships from Russia are actually "a follow-on order" to the first three frigates, INS Talwar, INS Trishul and INS Tabar, inducted by India in 2003-2004 at a cost of over Rs 3,000 crore.
Though their induction too was delayed, the Navy is quite happy with the power the Talwar-class frigates pack. The warships have "a very high weapon and sensor density", including eight vertical launch cells for the 'Klub-N' anti-ship and anti-submarine cruise missiles. In addition, the three new frigates will also be armed with the 290-km BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles.
The Shivalik-class frigates, in turn, can also deal with "multiple-threats" in all three dimensions -- air, surface and sub-surface. Apart from Russian Shtil surface-to-air missile systems and Klub anti-ship cruise missiles, they are also armed with the Israeli 'Barak-I' anti-missile defence systems to guard against Harpoon and Exocet missiles, launched from platforms like P-3C Orion aircraft and Agosta-90B submarines which Pakistan has acquired from US and France.
The defence ministry has also approved Project-17A to construct seven more frigates at Mazagon Docks and GRSE in Kolkata, with even more stealth features, for around Rs 45,000 crore. In all, the Navy has around 30 new warships and six submarines on order as of now to maintain its force-levels at about 140 combatants.
