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Project 15-A guided missile destroyer INS Kolkata(D63) steaming alongside Type 45 air defence destroyer HMS Defender in an exercise [3788 x 2525]

u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 7 hours ago
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Guided missile destroyer INS Chennai (D65) fires her CIWS as a part of live-fire exercise Malabar 2020, in the Arabian Sea [2315 x 1921]

u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 15 hours ago
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The Delhi-class destroyer INS Mysore (D60) and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) transit through Malabar [2644 x 1712]

u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 1 day ago
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Guided Missile Destroyer Ranvir, some time in late 2025, having completed 39 years of service to the IN. Among the first ships in the navy to be integrated with BrahMos, and the first to test-fire it. [1928 x 1728]

u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 5 days ago
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Vietnam Slated to Order BrahMos and Naval Vessels from India, courtesy Naval News (link in comments). Pictured, an L&T High Speed Patrol Boat, 12 of which were delivered to them in 2022.

u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 6 days ago
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The Kilo-Class/Sindhughosh-Class diesel electric submarine, INS Sindhukesari, at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her armaments include Klub/Kalibr cruise missiles, Type 53-65 Fizik torpedoes, and SA-N-8 MANPADs. [1550 x 1078]

u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 6 days ago
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Air defence is crucial in even modern naval combat, and has been since the cold war, "the missile age". Why do almost all major AA of ISDs seem to be lazer turrets?

Now they're better than modern guns, maybe, but in accuracy, range, even a modern day S-400/SM-6/HHQ9B outranges most engagements we see and read in SW (correct me if I'm wrong).

The laser AA we see appears, as famously known by now, more like accelerated plasma discharges than the modern day microwave weapons used to dazzle electro optical drones and soft kill missiles.

So, why no longer ranged AA? A tie doesn't seem to be any harder to track than a conventional modern ballistic missile?

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u/Arquitens-Class2314 — 12 days ago