India Gets First 'Stealth' Warship

AP | 19 June 03

[RussianConservative]

Now India can sock terrorist Pakies easier...good.

[Gary Boldwater]

That thing doesn't look stealthy at all.

[steve8714]

That's OK as long as a Kali cult doesn't gain control of India.

[Tallguy]

Doesn't appear very "stealthy" to me. In fact it kinda looks like a "Burke".

Until very recently, Russian surface combatants have had very cluttered decks which would indicate a very large radar crossection. Given the difficulties involved in maintaining stealth aircraft (special hangars, buttering the seams, etc.) I think that naval "stealth" is pretty much limited to contouring the hull & superstructure. This Krivak doesn't look special in that regard.

[msdrby]

ping

[RussianConservative]

I served in army, know little about navy.

[PatrioticAmerican]

It good to see commerce from Russia. It may be a warship, but the more they sustain themsevles the less problems we will have over here.

[Snickersnee]

there are "stealth" suface combatants in the works but this isn't one of them. Krivaks have been around for goin' on three decades now.

[PogySailor]

A Krivak? Wow, India sure is getting cutting edge equipment /sarcasm.

[PogySailor]

They should have held out for the Udaloy......

[Oztrich Boy]

Krivaks have been around for goin' on three decades now.

But the Talwar seems to have only the hull and engines from the original Krivak design.

And it's a stealthy as most warships being built currently, and a lot stealthier that the orginal Krivak design. I think it looks kinda neat.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Looks like the Russian swabbies are in for a lot of scraping and painting.

[Snickersnee]

Yeah, seen from that aspect, it does look considerably modernized.

[Brellium]

Looks like a frigate to me.

[Norse]

Russia - the next superpower? We can only hope!

[The Pheonix]

Russia the next Superpower ?

Maybe

but seems like she is willing to sell arms to almost any customer who has the $$$$$$$$

[Cronos]

Should be good for both sides and for the US. India seems to be moving towards the US camp and will definitely be able to wean the Russians away from the french and Germans by boosting Russia's trade with non-EU countries which are friendly to the US.

[RussianConservative]

Russia also arm India as counterweight China.

[Cronos]

As a counter-weight to China. Hmmm. that would be good, so a US-Israel-Russia-India axis against the EU-slam-China.
I like the odds.

[RussianConservative]

There also Japan, S.Korea (?), Taiwan, Austrailia, Phillipines, Vietnam who hate/fear China. On China side is Pakistan, Indonesia maybe others.