Hi,
After, ahem a look (very quick) on the internet I was able to find weird claims on the operational numbers of Brhamos which is
14000 which is bit unrealistic as Pakistan has been producing baktar Shikan in Pakistan and have only been able to produce 30000+ in the same time period. The later is an ATGM with far less complex system. Hence the claim seems a bit grandiosity. My research led me to This article which I believe most people use to determine numbers
“the Russians or Indian military.
We can guestimate it though.
When the production was started in 2005, the news was that about 2000 would be made in 10 years. That should have been complete by now.
Now, the nation has added 2 more production lines bringing the capacity to 3 lines while increasing the indigenization levels. We can assume 3 times the capacity. This means the last 5 years we should have made another 3000 of new generation variants.
So a total of 4500 - 5500 would be a good estimate. Most of these would be land based variants. Only 20% of that might be naval variants.
In 2016 there was a news of ramping production to 100 missiles a month. By 2018 the third production line was added. So current production should be 150 - 200 missiles a month. That's 1800 - 2400 missiles a year. In 5 years that will translate to 9000 - 12000 missiles. That's the second most aggressive manufacturing in Indian defense second only to Pinaka MLRS at 5000 rockets a year since 2005. India must have produced over 80,000 rockets by now, but most of the initial rockets are either used or expired. Rocket propellant as well as warhead are primarily chemicals that means they come with an expiration date i.e a use by dd/mm/yyyy. Usually 8 - 10 years for open units like 80 mm rockets and MLRS rockets while those in casister like brahmos have 15 + years.
There was also news last year of “service life extension” for brahmos which means a test and replace of expired chemicals and batteries. Warhead I believe are also replaced.”
article 2:
It is difficult to give you number of Brahmos which are currently NOT Inducted - but i will give you the exact figure of the amount of Brahmos India and russia Intend to make, as well as the details and numbers of Brahmos currently inducted in Indian and Russian armed forces.
Before i present you the Statistics , let me give a brief introduction about Brahmos missiles.
The BrahMos is a short range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from Submarine , ships , land or Aircraft. It is being developed by Russian Federations NPO Mashinostroeyenia & India’s Defense research & development Organisation(DRDO)
Russia and India have decided that they will be producing around 2000 Brahmos super sonic cruise missiles in next 10 years of which around 50% can be exported to strategic partners.
At this point Indian armed forces are the only ones where Brahmos has been inducted below are the required details.
- Indian Navy (200 Brahmos - 100 live and 100 as back up inventory)
As of today ,Brahmos has been inducted in 12 warships of the Indian Navy.
A) Rajput-class destroyers -INS Rajput has four Brahmos missiles in 2 twin inclined launchers with in 2003. - (4 missiles ). INS Ranvir and INS Ranvijay were armed with one 8-cell Brahmos VLS launcher. - 16 missiles
B) Talwar-class frigate –The three later ships, INS Teg, INS Tarkash, INS Trikand were armed with one 8-cell Brahmos VLS launcher. - 24 missiles
C) Shivalik-class frigate –The three frigates in this class are armed with one 8-cell Brahmos VLS launcher. - 24 missiles
D) Kolkata-class destroyer (two active and one more under construction) –armed with two 8-cell Brahmos VLS launchers. - 16 missiles
E) Visakhapatnam-class destroyer (building)-Armed with two 8-cell Brahmos land attack and anti ship VLS launchers. - 16 missiles
2. Indian Army ( total of 288 Brahmos live plus 288 Back up inventory)
Indian Army has inducted 1 regiment of Brahmos Block 1 and 2 regiments of Brahmos Block 2& 1 very recent Brahmos Block 3, each regiment has 72 Brahmos Missiles
A) 861 Regiment (BrahMos Block I in Rajasthan) - 72 missiles
B) 862 Regiment (BrahMos Block II, in Rajasthan) - 72 missiles
C) 863 Regiment (BrahMos Block II, in Rajasthan) - 72 missiles
D) 864 Regiment (BrahMos Block III, in Arunachal Pradesh) - 72 missiles
Indian air force has not yet inducted any Brahmos variants , how ever it will very soon be inducting Air variant of the missile for its Super Sukhoi or Su-30 Mki
Russian Navy has intimated that due to the size and hull specifications of the BrahMos, they will not be able to accommodate Brahmos in any of its ships.
Russian Airforce too will soon induct Air version of Brahmos in its Su-30Sm fighter.
I hope my article helped you in some way , please do give me feedback and point my areas of improvement.
Regards,
Puneet
Founder - War-Wiki
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Footnotes
not believing anything provided by Indian media I would say they produce about 300-600 missiles a year with a unit price of 5 million resulting in a cost of about 1.5-3 billion a year meaning spend 22.5 - 45 billion us $ with Russia taking 15- 30 billion of this cash lol.
so really they have around 6000 missiles.
My ask is
1)what do you think the number of missiles and delivery systems ?
my guess is 3000 operational with ships using about 400 of these only destroyers can carry these. Of the180 ( minus the 3 PAF shot down) results in 50 aircraft varying 3-4 in a sortie resulting in a need 400 again
and finally 8 Indian refiners with 72 missiles each resulting in about. 1400 missiles needed for multiple strikes
2) question how does Pakistan defend against these, as this will affect our ability to defend our fixed assets like airbase, ports and supply and repair depots
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