The Brahmos are waiting too
why brahmos......when prithvi can do the job
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The Brahmos are waiting too
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why brahmos......when prithvi can do the job
Aim 2 more baburs in that direction.
PHOTOS: IAF's New Air Base At Phalodi, Rajasthan
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Aim 2 more baburs in that direction.
This is not related to your banter with the member.
I was wondering how effective cruise missile (with conventional warhead) are against airfields?
To make field un-operative for extended duration, how many missiles will be required?
This assume that missile is successful. Means it hits the target.
Can some knowledgble member ans?
As I said, lets discuss the conventional weapon load. If we talk nuclear than it changes all factors in eqn.Curise missiles are not actually meant for runway denial. conventional ones are meant for taking out command and control centers, arms depots, fuel dumps, ityadhi...... but not run ways or huge mil bases.
Cruise missiles,given their small payloads can be a good use for nuclear attack-if not intercepted by enemy(considering their sub-sonic ranges,which can even be intercepted by a chasing aircraft with its AAM)
But cruise missiles like supersonic brahmos and hypersonic shourya are a different world.Brahmos is only conventional while shourya is dual purpose.
IAF will use brahmos (the recently placed order) at its border bases of both pak and china. for example the brahmos launched from the new IAF base can strike 2 pakistani bases without being intercepted by SAMs.But pakistan dont have that luxury with their subsonic cruise missiles.
IAF will more likely use its prithvi tactical BM for runway denial.Primary thing is pak dont have ABM capability to intercept prithvi.And prithvis accuracy and purpose designed warheads are a best bet.
OTOH,if a CM is used against a runway,it can be repaired in couple of hours.But one has to look at the aircraft IAF is basing at these forward bases. These can take off and land on semi prepared runways as well .
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How easy or difficult is to land an aircraft on highways??? I was going through a thread that talked about PAF practicing landing on Highways in case runways are damged...My question is can we take off from highways as well(if we can land then i believe we can take off as well)???
So apart from danger of parking aircrafts out in open(in case highways) and making operations as well as maintenance difficult for the crew what other damamge can be done if you lets say take off runways??? Second question would be for how long a runway can be damaged if there is a succesful brahmos attack on it???
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As I said, lets discuss the conventional weapon load. If we talk nuclear than it changes all factors in eqn.
Well lets talk in general terms. I was thinking is its possible to make direct hit at runway. Even if it makes direct hit, how much damage can it make? Also, airbase has lot of other potential target. Ammo storage, Oil storage, C&C, Jets etc. This made me wonder if CM or even BM with conventional weapon will make much impact on the any airbase.
Using Motorway as runway is useful if you have all the auxaliry items avilable. Otherwise they can used for only landing the aircraft in case of emergency. If you land the jet at motorway, how you will re-fuel them, re-arm them? How to protect them with enemy attack. You need to have connectivity between airbase and motorway which is possible in small country like Singapore or Taiwan only.
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How easy or difficult is to land an aircraft on highways??? I was going through a thread that talked about PAF practicing landing on Highways in case runways are damged...My question is can we take off from highways as well(if we can land then i believe we can take off as well)???
So apart from danger of parking aircrafts out in open(in case highways) and making operations as well as maintenance difficult for the crew what other damamge can be done if you lets say take off runways??? Second question would be for how long a runway can be damaged if there is a succesful brahmos attack on it???