INS Vikramditya, India's second aircraft carrier, out at sea again

[Wright]

Do Indian navy aircraft take off from it regularly?

 

[Yeti]

Kuznetsov Class (Type 1143.5) Aircraft Carrier - Naval Technology


Koovie what you make of this?

The ship has a Granit anti-ship missile system equipped with 12 surface-to-surface missile launchers. The Granit missile (Nato codename SS-N-19 Shipwreck) is reported to have a range greater than 400km and is capable of carrying either a nuclear or conventional warhead.

The Klinok air defence missile system, with 24 vertical launchers and 192 missiles, defends the ship against anti-ship missiles, aircraft and surface ships. The system has a multi-channel electronically steered phased array radar and can achieve a firing rate of one missile every three seconds. Four targets can be engaged simultaneously in a 60°×60° sector. The range of the system is 12km to 15km.

The Kashstan air defence gun / missile system, supplied by the Instrument Design Bureau and Tulamashzavod JSC in Tula, provides defence against precision weapons including anti-ship and anti-radar missiles, aircraft and small sea targets.

Eight systems are fitted, combining missile launcher, 30mm twin gun and radar / optronic director. The range of the laser beam-riding missiles is from 1.5km to 8km. The gun can fire up to 1,000 rounds a minute in the range 0.5km to 1.5km. Six AK630 AD 30mm air defence guns are also fitted.

Anti-submarine warfare

The ship is equipped with an Udav-1 anti-submarine system with 60 anti-submarine rockets. Udav-1, supplied by the Splav Research and Production Association in Moscow, protects surface ships by diverting and destroying incoming torpedoes.

The system also provides defence against submarines and saboteur systems such as underwater vehicles. The system has ten barrels and is capable of firing 111SG depth charge projectiles, 111SZ mine-laying projectiles and 111SO diverting projectiles. The range of the system is up to 3,000m and the submarine engagement depth is to 600m.

 

[RAMPAGE]

@Yeti, thats understood, but what @RAMPAGE is questioning has a its own logic as in viki's stand alone capabilities.

no she'll never be alone ! what i'm saying is that the jf-17 can fire AKG from the distance of 500 km so it doesn't necessarily have to face the mig 29k's , if the carrier is on an offensive mission so the AKG will face the barak ,shtil-1 and ciws. so i'm asking if these systems are capable enough to interception a missile with 6 mach speed

 

[Yeti]

Sensors


The ship's radars include a D/E-band air and surface target acquisition radar, an F-band surface search radar, G/H-band flight control radar, I-band navigation radar, and four K-band fire control radars for the Kashstan air defence gun / missile system.

The ship's hull-mounted search and attack sonar, operating in the medium and low-frequency bands, is capable of detecting torpedoes and submarines. The anti-submarine warfare aircraft are equipped with surface search radar, dipping sonar, sonobuoys and magnetic anomaly detectors.

 

[Dillinger]

i disagree ! the fastest missile uv'e got is the shtil-1 and it cannot be used as an interceptor against AKG cuz it's speed is equal to the AKG .

Speed is not the issue. The interceptor does not need to match the speed of the high speed inbound. It needs to be highly maneuverable and the the sensors need to be capable of detecting said inbound accurately and guiding the interceptor to it. The interceptor is not trying to close in with the inbound, this is not a tale chase scenario- the inbound is as it is closing with the interceptor, the said interceptor need only acquire and engage the inbound and with nearly 80G maneuvering the Barak-2 can do that. Speed is not the issue, we have intercepted re-entering RVs with interceptors of the same speed as the Barak-2 (AAD interceptor which has repeatedly intercepted SRBMs). Think the AKG is faster than a RV? That being said the AKG while easy to detect given that it does not follow a cruise profile will still provide a short reaction time. Thus it will still pose an appreciable amount of threat and further highlight the importance of BARCAP.

 

[Yeti]

no she'll never be alone ! what i'm saying is that the jf-17 can fire AKG from the distance of 500 km so it doesn't necessarily have to face the mig 29k's , if the carrier is on an offensive mission so the AKG will face the barak ,shtil-1 and ciws. so i'm asking if these systems are capable enough to interception a missile with 6 mach speed

How will you be able to find her? do you know how hard it is to do a pin point strike in a vast ocean to target a aircraft carrier? ask the experts here like Gambit they will tell you how difficult task it is

 

[RAMPAGE]

you don't need to match the speed of in coming missile to shoot it down.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...akg-tough-job-indian-navy-31.html#post4398140


here is gambit's post

http://www.defence.pk/forums/indian...b-indian-navy-30.html#post4396974#post4397068

according to gambit,the interceptor's speed must be at least 3 times than the target !

 

[Dillinger]

no she'll never be alone ! what i'm saying is that the jf-17 can fire AKG from the distance of 500 km so it doesn't necessarily have to face the mig 29k's , if the carrier is on an offensive mission so the AKG will face the barak ,shtil-1 and ciws. so i'm asking if these systems are capable enough to interception a missile with 6 mach speed

The AKG's range does not exceed 180-200Km at max. That was established in the last thread on the topic itself. You may check the last few posts where the official info on the system was presented by your own compatriots. And the missile does not attain mach-6 nor does it do so in the form of a sustained cruise but rather only in its terminal dive at around mach 5 to 5.5- again parameters which were provided through the same Chinese source.

 

[Yeti]

This distance poses very complicated and difficult challenges for detecting, positioning and tracking the target when aiming to strike the aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles.


This is a moving target it is never static!

 

[Dillinger]

according to gambit,the interceptor's speed must be at least 3 times than the target !

If its a tale-chase not the same when you're intercepting an inbound, Defence News - India successfully test-fires interceptor missile It intercepted an inbound BM and its max speed is 4.5 mach, so let me ask you again- is the AKG faster than a RV?

AND HERE IS THE INFO

180km to 250Km as I had said.

Terminal speed is mach 4 and above- probably mach 5 if the attainment of hypersonic speeds during the dive is true.

And no the speed of the interceptor does not need to be 3 times greater than the speed of the inbound. The Aegis itself uses the RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 for intercepting inbounds up to IRBMs and its speed maxes out at mach 7, by that logic either the yanks are stupid or an IRBM is travelling at less than Mach-3. Figure it out.

 

[Yeti]

Can China Sink A U.S. Aircraft Carrier? - Forbes

 

[Agnostic_Indian]

according to gambit,the interceptor's speed must be at least 3 times than the target !

I don't think so, unless you are chasing the missile.where did he say that ?

 

[Yeti]

While it might be possible for Chinese satellites, aircraft, warships or land-based radars to detect a carrier there, it is quite another thing to continuously track and precisely target the constantly moving vessel. Satellites close enough to distinguish the carrier will quickly disappear over the horizon, planes will run out of fuel or be scared off by the carrier’s fighters, and other approaches produce similarly spotty results. China will need to invest billions of dollars over a period of many years before it has the assured capacity to find and track U.S. carriers.


China will have its work cut out trying to hit one so for Pakistan it will be a massive challenge

 

[RAMPAGE]

This distance poses very complicated and difficult challenges for detecting, positioning and tracking the target when aiming to strike the aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles.


This is a moving target it is never static!

AKG isn't a ballistic missile and it's made to destroy a moving target !

 

[illusion8]

This distance poses very complicated and difficult challenges for detecting, positioning and tracking the target when aiming to strike the aircraft carrier with ballistic missiles.


This is a moving target it is never static!

CM 400 is a cruise missile - I think.