Recent content by Tank131

Missed the PN part

As a replacement for DA-20 Falcons?

Damn! Was gonna post this myself! Anyways i agree with people saying Pakistan does need longer range missiles, but what it really needs is satellite launch capability. ICBM tech can be developed from SLVs and that really is the order of the day for Pakistan. It needs better regional satellite...

What would it take to make it feasible?

Agree with the idea to set it up, but does this capability exist currently?

What is the capacity in Pakistan to produce military ship grade steel? Does Pakistan even have the capability to produce the steel or is it something that would need to be sourced?

Honestly, if this the JCF has only 16 cell VLS when you have a design like AS3600 out there already based on MILGEM, i will be truly disappointed. JCF at 3300t should be able to house a 32 c vls or it should be made larger. A 32 cell MILDAS would probably enable quad packing of CAMM-ER provided...

Agreed. Im not suggesting turning around and doing it tomorrow. But food for the future. The other situation is the CIWS. I had been confident that the Gokdeniz or other CIWS was going to be installed soon along with other weapons, but have started to wonder if the reason for not having one...

Ideally they will use the AS3600 as basis for JCF which would give tremendous flexibility in a small"ish" platform.

A rough check on the top down image shows that 4 mildas cells (on the Istanbul class) are roughly the same footprint as 6 GWS.35 Cells. If the Turks can arrange for 4 cell modules of MILDAS, and Pakistan can get CAMM-ER certified to fire from MILDAS (with MBDA/Italian permission), then these...

What you say about US Tracks is so true. There is a lot of politics in the building of rail lines in US and we have ver limited passenger use of rail so their is no incentive to update the lines for high speed transit. Cargo companies care more for efficiency than speed (a train can move 1 ton...

While yarmook b2 are often shown with RAM style launcher, i very much doubt PN will go for RAM. Its more likely going to be Gokdeniz to start and possibly converted to Roketsan or Aselsan Goksur PDMS when they are available. As for the Baburs, i am sure they will get CIWS soon.

Honestly, even a 32 cell system can be appropriate if you have quad packable weapons and cells. The MILDAS seems to be equivalent to the Sylver A50/A70s. That should allow quadpacks of CAMM-ER if PN can get it certified on MILDAS. That would allow 8 cells for 32 MRSAMs and allow you to use 8...

Remember, that deal also included rights to the project including blueprints, modification rights and future rights to sell those modified designs. So the $1.5Bln isnt all tied up into those 4 ships.

The rationale behind this deal was good, the initial execution of it (OPV 2300/Yarmook) was dumb as all hell. From a financial standpoint, the HULLS cost only $50M from what I understand. That is the reason behind the deal. You get a frigate sized vessel for cheap then can arm it with indigenous...