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UCVA? any specific details?
The HS-06 that have 4.000 km range and 35 hours endurace, along with UAV-04.

They can be fitted with air-to-ground missiles/bomb, much like the MQ-9 Reaper. Or be fitted with a warhead and become the suicide UAV.
 
The HS-06 that have 4.000 km range and 35 hours endurace, along with UAV-04.

They can be fitted with air-to-ground missiles/bomb, much like the MQ-9 Reaper. Or be fitted with a warhead and become the suicide UAV.
ah you mean that one. got any schedule when the bird makes debut in the south china sea?

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Why India needs to ramp up its token training of Vietnamese Submariners

Published September 3, 2016
SOURCE: DAILYO


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On August 31, the first batch of Vietnamese navy submariners finished a six-month course at the Indian Navy’s premier training school, INS Satavahana in Visakhapatnam. These personnel, 20 officers and 40 sailors, will go on to man the Vietnam Peoples Navy’s six Russian-built Kilo class submarines. This bit of military diplomacy comes just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi lands in Hanoi on September 3 for the first state visit by an Indian PM in 15 years.

Foreign secretary S Jaishankar told media in New Delhi on Friday to expect “strong outcomes” from the prime minister’s visit. There is speculation about military hardware sales like the Indo-Russian Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles and patrol craft.

There is no sign, however, of India undertaking what could be a potential game-changer: advanced submarine tactical training for the Vietnamese.

This is because the present training course is nothing more than a token exercise. The 60 Vietnamese navy personnel, the crew strength of one Kilo-class submarine, were only given a basic training course at INS Satavahana. Most of it was in classrooms to understand the structure of the submarine and familiarise navigators, engineers, communicators about the onboard systems.

To use an air force analogy, it would be like the first stage of ab-initio training using piston-engine trainer aircraft. Except, there is very little exposure to an actual submarine. What the Vietnamese People’s Navy really needs—and this has been borne out by recent visits to Vietnam made by Indian officials — is training in advanced undersea warfare. Vietnam’s 2009 decision to buy six Kilo-class submarines from Russia was influenced by China’s muscle flexing in the region.

Submarines like the Kilo class armed with torpedoes, sea mines and anti-ship and land-attack cruise missiles, are lethal steel sharks. They prowl undetected as they perform sea-denial missions or prevent the enemy the freedom to use the sea. Submarines allow smaller navies to tie down larger navies and are a bit like guerillas of the sea. This would seem like a natural choice for the Vietnamese whose nimble Viet Cong guerillas inflicted military defeats on three of the five Permanent Members of the UN Security Council, including China in 1979.

But operating submarines is a far more complex game than running fleet-footed guerillas. The Vietnam People’s Navy, essentially a gunboat navy that has never operated submarines, is attempting one of the biggest capability leaps by any global navy in buying these complex undersea platforms.

This is where the Indian navy, that has operated Kilo-class submarines in tropical waters for over thirty years, fits in. It needs to provide Vietnamese submariners with the tactical training to exploit the sturdy Kilo class submarines to their maximum war-fighting potential, particularly the second, six-month advanced phase where crews spend 45 days on board submarines at sea. At the end of this one-year course, the crew are presented with the prestigious twin dolphins which qualify them as full-fledged submariners.

In the advanced course, crews are taught to stalk enemy warships, mine harbours, snoop on the enemy, hunt submarines and, crucially, how to use the formidable 220-km range “Klub” cruise missiles to attack targets on land and at sea.

In short, this is the training that will ensure the Vietnamese People’s Navy can inflict heavy losses on a maritime aggressor and even take the fight to the adversary’s home turf. An undersea Viet Cong force that is also an excellent opportunity for India to put some steel into its “Act East” policy.


Source: https://defence.pk/threads/why-india-needs-to-ramp-up-its-token-training-of-vietnamese-submariners.447543/#ixzz4JO2m7Vdd
 
Yup, Department of Green Tea it is :p::p:
Oh man the green tea people are tough. Ok how about this news: I read we have begun to modernize T54 tank to T54B by ourselves since upgrade by foreigners is too expensive to afford. How much is the truth in that rumour?

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Oh man the green tea people are tough. Ok how about this news: I read we have begun to modernize T54 tank to T54B by ourselves since upgrade by foreigners is too expensive to afford. How much is the truth in that rumour?
Not T-54B, but a modernization program based on the T-55AM variant which reportedly called T-54/55AMV.

Upgrade package includes new FCS with wind sensor and laser rangefinder, thermal sleeve for the main gun, indigenous ERA, new engine to compensate for the additional weight from ERA blocks.

I'm not sure how many tanks will be upgraded this way.
 
Not T-54B, but a modernization program based on the T-55AM variant which reportedly called T-54/55AMV.

Upgrade package includes new FCS with wind sensor and laser rangefinder, thermal sleeve for the main gun, indigenous ERA, new engine to compensate for the additional weight from ERA blocks.

I'm not sure how many tanks will be upgraded this way.
Sounds good. How's about ammo for the main gun? Anything special for example new armor piercing shell?
 
ah you mean that one. got any schedule when the bird makes debut in the south china sea?

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Now if they can fit an early detection radar or Brahmos missile on that. Too slow to weaponize. If fitted for Kamikaze it will never make it pass a ships first line of defense.

If they can triple the range it's perfect for SCS reconnaissance.
 
Now if they can fit an early detection radar or Brahmos missile on that. Too slow to weaponize. If fitted for Kamikaze it will never make it pass a ships first line of defense.

If they can triple the range it's perfect for SCS reconnaissance.
Mate, it's an rc toy; just look at its wing span and guess how long it can be.
 
Sounds good. How's about ammo for the main gun? Anything special for example new armor piercing shell?
Nope, it's still the same 100mm main gun with latest ammunition. The upgrade package improves the "first shot, first hit" capability instead of armor penetration.

Also, some maneuver over the SCS.

Now if they can fit an early detection radar or Brahmos missile on that. Too slow to weaponize. If fitted for Kamikaze it will never make it pass a ships first line of defense.

If they can triple the range it's perfect for SCS reconnaissance.
HS-6L is a SIGINT/ELINT UAV. No one would fit a BrahMos onto this UAV ever. Better arm it with light missiles like the MQ-9/Hellfire combination.

Meanwhile the UAV-04 can carry SAR and other stuff.
 
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HS-06 is a SIGINT/ELINT UAV. No one would fit a BrahMos onto this UAV ever. Better arm it with light missiles like the MQ-9/Hellfire combination.

Meanwhile the UAV-04 can carry SAR and other stuff.
Hellfire or Spike antitank missile. But the question is would the US administration approve such lethal weapon sale?
 
Mate, it's an rc toy; just look at its wing span and guess how long it can be.

Its seem you still like to show off to people when you dont know anything eh ? RC toy ? Oh you happen to be on the development board of HS-6L or director of some UAV manufacturing companies ? If so let me ask you about the wing span of the MQ-9. Can you provide some comparison between the wingspan of the VN UAV wingspan and the MQ-9 Reaper ? You seem quite passionate about the wingspan since you use it to decide which is a RC toy right ? Just for your "ultra limited" brain, HS-6L has the wingspan, or sải cánh in Vietnamese, of 22 meters. The MQ-9 UAV only got 20 meters. You can google all of this on the Internet but no, you gotta show off something just for the heck of it. Or we commonly call "ném shit hội nghị". Or if you prefer, we will go deeper and see what are the criteria for you to decide if a machine is a RC toy and not a UAV. Hope its wont turn out like the silly crap you have about the Thailand Armed Forces.

A bit of international news, Philippine president has done it again. President Obama has cancel a meeting with him because Duterte has directly insult his counterpart right before it. I gotta say 1 thing: Is this guy high or something ?

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/09/05/world/asia/ap-as-obama.html?_r=0
 
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