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India's first laser guided bomb - Sudarshan
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Stop replying to that troll. He is not chinese. Go through his posts and see if he has made a single post about china, or a single post that is not insulting India. That id was created for that sole purpose. It is sad that the mods allow this kind of juvenile behaviour despite everyone reporting him.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/search.php?searchid=4499685
I request the mods to click that link and see if you can spot a pattern. It's not too difficult.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/search.php?searchid=4499685
I request the mods to click that link and see if you can spot a pattern. It's not too difficult.
we also have PAVEWAY?
Lockheed Martin bags deal to supply laser-guided bombs to IAF - Economic Times
Lockheed Martin bags deal to supply laser-guided bombs to IAF
US defence major Lockheed Martin has bagged a deal expected to be worth over Rs 100 crore for supplying laser-guided bombs (LGBs) for the Jaguar fighter aircraft fleet in the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The IAF plans to induct more than 100 bunker-buster LGBs for its Jaguar warplanes to destroy strongly fortified enemy targets.
"We have emerged as the lowest bidders in the deal for supplying LGBs to the IAF. We have offered our Paveway II LGBs for the Jaguars and contract negotiations are on in this direction," Lockheed Martin India head Roger Rose told PTI here.
TEL AVIV — Israel last week unveiled an improved precision, bunker-burrowing weapon, the latest in a series of operational upgrades aimed at honing what one official here labeled “a very credible military option” against the Iranian nuclear threat.
Built by state-owned Israel Military Industries (IMI), the 500-pound MPR-500 is an electro-optical or laser-guided projectile that can penetrate double-reinforced concrete walls or floors without breaking apart. It is designed as an upgrade to the U.S. Mk82, thousands of which are in Israel Air Force stocks, and can use Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits or Paveway for guidance.
In an operational test video released March 6, the MPR-500 is seen penetrating four reinforced concrete walls, with fragmentation from the explosion limited to a radius of less than three meters.
“The lethality, precision ... and relatively low weight enables its use against multiple targets in a single pass; an element that increases the operational effectiveness of attack,” according to IMI.
The MPR-500 bridges an operational gap between the 250-pound U.S. GBU-39 small-diameter bomb — 1,000 of which were approved for sale to Israel — and the 5,000-pound GBU-28.
In parallel, the Air Force is planning to enlarge its Boeing 707-based aerial refueling tanker fleet.
Once deployed, the expanded tanker fleet will be capable of providing nearly 2 million pounds of fuel, allowing dozens of Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighters to carry more weapons for long-range strategic bombing missions.
The Israeli daily Ma’ariv newspaper reported March 8 that Washington had offered to augment Israel’s aerial refueling and limited bunker-busting capabilities on condition that Israel refrain from waging an independent attack on Iran this year. An Israeli security source denied that report, insisting there was no “quid pro quo” linkage between the timing of future Israeli operations and additional capabilities that may be forthcoming from Washington.
A U.S. government source confirmed that additional GBU-28s were a subject of bilateral talks. However, he insisted that beyond the 100 GBU-28s authorized for Israel in 2005 and another 50 approved in 2007, there have been no new notifications to Congress regarding potential sales.
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is expected to discuss options for enhancing Israel’s so-called qualitative military edge in meetings with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, scheduled next week in Washington.
Very Credible Option
Despite continued disagreement in Israel about the need for near-term unilateral action against Iran, the security official here insisted that Israel will have “a very credible option” should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu order such an attack.
“If we have to act militarily, we will do so well beyond expectations in Washington and especially in Tehran,” the official here said.
Speaking in Washington March 6, Netanyahu evoked analogies from the Holocaust when he told a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC): “Never again will we not be masters of the fate of our very survival. Never again. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.”
In an interview after respective AIPAC addresses by Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, the Israeli security official praised Obama’s firm determination to act, militarily if necessary, to prevent a nuclear Iran. He also hailed Obama’s affirmation of Israel’s sovereign right to act in its self-defense.
But the official cited the differing sense of urgency driving potential operational timelines in Washington and Tel Aviv.
“The Americans want to wait until they have evidence of Iran’s decision to assemble a bomb. But we say that’s part of Iran’s strategy. We say Iran will continue to enrich uranium, harden its facilities and add redundancies that will allow it to break out or sneak out with nuclear weaponization,” the official said.
He added, “At that time, for us at least, it will be too late.”
In a March 6 White House press conference, Obama insisted sanctions against Iran were starting to have an effect.
“And so this notion that somehow we have a choice to make in the next week or two weeks, or month or two months, is not borne out by the facts,” he said.
However, Obama also said, “Israel is a sovereign nation that has to make its own decisions about how best to preserve its security. And as I said over the last several days, I am deeply mindful of the historical precedents that weigh on any prime minister of Israel when they think about the potential threats to Israel and the Jewish homeland.”
In a closed briefing at the Institute for National Security Studies here, a former senior defense official said both countries would act according to their essential interests.
“At the end of the day, there is an understanding in both leaderships that there is a point where you go by yourself,” the former official said.
He also described Israel’s military option as credible, adding, “Just to remind you that the Israelis surprised the world in the past with capabilities that nobody [knew] that they could do.”
In 1981, Israel attacked Iraq’s nuclear reactor and in 2007 is widely believed to have destroyed a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is among several leading security experts here disputing Netanyahu’s view that Iran is a threat to Israel’s existence.
“Terminology is important,” Halutz told participants at last month’s annual Herzliya Conference. “Iran is a severe threat; not an existential threat ... and one shouldn’t use this as an excuse to attack Iran.”
According to Halutz, a normally passionate advocate for strategic air power, “The military option should be last, and it should be led by others.”
He added, “We need to squeeze every last drop out of other ways before entertaining military options.”
Israel Unveils New Bunker Buster | Defense News | defensenews.com
Lockheed Martin bags deal to supply laser-guided bombs to IAF - Economic Times
Lockheed Martin bags deal to supply laser-guided bombs to IAF
US defence major Lockheed Martin has bagged a deal expected to be worth over Rs 100 crore for supplying laser-guided bombs (LGBs) for the Jaguar fighter aircraft fleet in the Indian Air Force (IAF).
The IAF plans to induct more than 100 bunker-buster LGBs for its Jaguar warplanes to destroy strongly fortified enemy targets.
"We have emerged as the lowest bidders in the deal for supplying LGBs to the IAF. We have offered our Paveway II LGBs for the Jaguars and contract negotiations are on in this direction," Lockheed Martin India head Roger Rose told PTI here.
TEL AVIV — Israel last week unveiled an improved precision, bunker-burrowing weapon, the latest in a series of operational upgrades aimed at honing what one official here labeled “a very credible military option” against the Iranian nuclear threat.
Built by state-owned Israel Military Industries (IMI), the 500-pound MPR-500 is an electro-optical or laser-guided projectile that can penetrate double-reinforced concrete walls or floors without breaking apart. It is designed as an upgrade to the U.S. Mk82, thousands of which are in Israel Air Force stocks, and can use Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits or Paveway for guidance.
In an operational test video released March 6, the MPR-500 is seen penetrating four reinforced concrete walls, with fragmentation from the explosion limited to a radius of less than three meters.
“The lethality, precision ... and relatively low weight enables its use against multiple targets in a single pass; an element that increases the operational effectiveness of attack,” according to IMI.
The MPR-500 bridges an operational gap between the 250-pound U.S. GBU-39 small-diameter bomb — 1,000 of which were approved for sale to Israel — and the 5,000-pound GBU-28.
In parallel, the Air Force is planning to enlarge its Boeing 707-based aerial refueling tanker fleet.
Once deployed, the expanded tanker fleet will be capable of providing nearly 2 million pounds of fuel, allowing dozens of Israeli F-15 and F-16 fighters to carry more weapons for long-range strategic bombing missions.
The Israeli daily Ma’ariv newspaper reported March 8 that Washington had offered to augment Israel’s aerial refueling and limited bunker-busting capabilities on condition that Israel refrain from waging an independent attack on Iran this year. An Israeli security source denied that report, insisting there was no “quid pro quo” linkage between the timing of future Israeli operations and additional capabilities that may be forthcoming from Washington.
A U.S. government source confirmed that additional GBU-28s were a subject of bilateral talks. However, he insisted that beyond the 100 GBU-28s authorized for Israel in 2005 and another 50 approved in 2007, there have been no new notifications to Congress regarding potential sales.
Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is expected to discuss options for enhancing Israel’s so-called qualitative military edge in meetings with U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, scheduled next week in Washington.
Very Credible Option
Despite continued disagreement in Israel about the need for near-term unilateral action against Iran, the security official here insisted that Israel will have “a very credible option” should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu order such an attack.
“If we have to act militarily, we will do so well beyond expectations in Washington and especially in Tehran,” the official here said.
Speaking in Washington March 6, Netanyahu evoked analogies from the Holocaust when he told a gathering of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC): “Never again will we not be masters of the fate of our very survival. Never again. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.”
In an interview after respective AIPAC addresses by Netanyahu and U.S. President Barack Obama, the Israeli security official praised Obama’s firm determination to act, militarily if necessary, to prevent a nuclear Iran. He also hailed Obama’s affirmation of Israel’s sovereign right to act in its self-defense.
But the official cited the differing sense of urgency driving potential operational timelines in Washington and Tel Aviv.
“The Americans want to wait until they have evidence of Iran’s decision to assemble a bomb. But we say that’s part of Iran’s strategy. We say Iran will continue to enrich uranium, harden its facilities and add redundancies that will allow it to break out or sneak out with nuclear weaponization,” the official said.
He added, “At that time, for us at least, it will be too late.”
In a March 6 White House press conference, Obama insisted sanctions against Iran were starting to have an effect.
“And so this notion that somehow we have a choice to make in the next week or two weeks, or month or two months, is not borne out by the facts,” he said.
However, Obama also said, “Israel is a sovereign nation that has to make its own decisions about how best to preserve its security. And as I said over the last several days, I am deeply mindful of the historical precedents that weigh on any prime minister of Israel when they think about the potential threats to Israel and the Jewish homeland.”
In a closed briefing at the Institute for National Security Studies here, a former senior defense official said both countries would act according to their essential interests.
“At the end of the day, there is an understanding in both leaderships that there is a point where you go by yourself,” the former official said.
He also described Israel’s military option as credible, adding, “Just to remind you that the Israelis surprised the world in the past with capabilities that nobody [knew] that they could do.”
In 1981, Israel attacked Iraq’s nuclear reactor and in 2007 is widely believed to have destroyed a suspected nuclear site in Syria.
Retired Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, is among several leading security experts here disputing Netanyahu’s view that Iran is a threat to Israel’s existence.
“Terminology is important,” Halutz told participants at last month’s annual Herzliya Conference. “Iran is a severe threat; not an existential threat ... and one shouldn’t use this as an excuse to attack Iran.”
According to Halutz, a normally passionate advocate for strategic air power, “The military option should be last, and it should be led by others.”
He added, “We need to squeeze every last drop out of other ways before entertaining military options.”
Israel Unveils New Bunker Buster | Defense News | defensenews.com
^^ Those are bunker buster bombs (.. and laser guided too, off course).
Sudarshan laser guided bombs are not bunker busters.
Sudarshan laser-guided bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In any case, this is old news .. not a just revealed thing.
Sudarshan laser guided bombs are not bunker busters.
Sudarshan laser-guided bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In any case, this is old news .. not a just revealed thing.
Kesang
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The bomb resembles the Matra BGL series a lot.. probably had inspiration from it.
Pakistan's first locally produced PGM was rolled out in the 90's.. based on a South African design.
Can be spotted in a few rare pictures and videos.
Another version is a reverse engineered but cruder version of the GBU-12.
Pakistan's first locally produced PGM was rolled out in the 90's.. based on a South African design.
Can be spotted in a few rare pictures and videos.
Another version is a reverse engineered but cruder version of the GBU-12.
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MATRA and BDL in India have a long-running JV manufacturing missiles and various munitions. However the guidance system have Israeli inspiration.
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HaHaHaHa. Nothing Russian in the Sudarshan at all. Read the above to understand.
While the ASTRA is already operational with AAD Regiments of the IA and AD of the IAF, the BVR version is still a 'work in progress'.
Think before spewing something, I understand though that flatulence can be rather troubling.
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