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On Board India's Deadliest New Warship: 10 Facts

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The MFC is optimised for surface warfare and terminal defense. For air search, you can see a 2D radar aft. The 100 KM detection, and 100 KM intercept by barak is highly exaggerated, as these are just theoretical numbers. Air targets are sitting idle. The MFC can theoretically have an instrumented range of 240 NM, but any low level aircraft approaching the ship will not be detected, hence this radar is horizon limited to 20 NM in low level regime, the largest vulnerability. With a saturation and way point attack on the aircraft, its defences will be quite challenged. However, the real vulnerability of this massive beasts in sub-surface, where the Hull mounted sonar will be useless against the littoral sound propagation challenge, and will only detect the heavy cavitation of torpedoes at terminal ranges, bringing the focus to terminal defence than long range air defence
 
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