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What will BSF do with Hellfire??BSF doesn't operate any attack helos or UCAVs.
There's a ground launched version too.
Do you guys know (not specifically you Parikrama, but all people commenting on this thread) what Aegis is? It isn't the battle management software, ABM or BMD (or ASU and ASW) alone. It's a package that includes hardware like radars, software like Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense, and weapon systems like MK41 VLS:
- Will such system like Aegis and SM(X) missiles transfer will be agreeable/approved by Senate.
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Here, I wrote this for another person who mistook the SPY-1 as Aegis, but it's applicable on this thread too as I feel too many people will (and have already begun to) misrepresent what Aegis actually is:
Aegis isn't the radar specifically, though the SPY-1 series is part of the Aegis system. Rather, Aegis is an integrated combat system comprised of multiple interlinked parts including the Aegis Command System:
The Aegis Weapon System is a combination of ship-borne and friendly munitions and launchers, which are localized into Aegis components including the Aegis Anti-Aircraft Warfare sub-section:
On this Ticonderoga Class Cruiser we have two Mk41 VLS systems, Twin quad-barrel RGM-84 launchers, two Mk45 5 inch guns, twin Mk38 25mm cannons, twin Mk32 tri-barrel torpedo launchers, twin Phalanx CWIS and a myriad of .50 heavy machine guns. The AAW component handles much of the MK41's payloads, while the ASW component handles a few others like the torpedoes and ASROC:
All of these comprise the Weapon System component for Aegis, as does friendly munitions coopted by the Aegis Weapon System for vectoring or routing. These could be surface launched cruise missiles, air launched PGMs or friendly SAMs fired by other ships in the fleet, but cued through another ship's Aegis system.
While the SPY-1 series radars are an integral part of Aegis:
They aren't the only sensor and are joined in the Aegis Combat System by fire control radars and illumniators like the Mk99 FCS and Mk62 SPG:
Additionally, Aegis' scope can be expanded with software and hardware upgrades including the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense suite, which has been incorporated into a fair number of Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers and Ticonderoga Class Cruisers. The Aegis BMD system utilizes a number of the systems already found within the Aegis Combat System including the mk62 illuminators for the SM-6 and SM-2 missiles when used in a BMD capability.
Using Aegis for initial fire control operations, SM-6 can then be linked to other assets such as additional Aegis equipped ships within a fleet or command and control aircraft like the E-2D for Over-the-Horizon and even over-land engagements - this is called "Cooperative Engagement Capability:"
The Aegis BDM capability has allowed Aegis equipped ships to be able to engages ballistic missiles of all classes and even satellites utilizing the SM-3 missile with only software updates:
Aegis is more then just a radar. It's an integrated combat system.
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So is India ready or willing to go with Aegis? Will it buy the radars and illuminators needed to go along with the weapons systems? What baseline of software? ABM too? What weapons? Is the IN willing to junk the Barak-8 in favor of SM-2? Is the US going to integrate Barak-8 or Brahmos into its Aegis control software? Is the IN really interested in overhauling its ships to fit American combat management systems?
Of course not. Not on any point. But that's not my point either. My point is that too few people understand what Aegis is. It's not just a software package, it's an integrated combat management system that includes hardware and software and supporting systems.
There are only a very few combat systems which can compete with Aegis and getting hands on this for the existing and new ships will be a major development and a significant improvement for Indian navy.
And one hell of any overhaul when they already have their own radars, battle management software, launching system, weapon, etc.
For new ships, maybe. For existing ships? Years long refit.