Bharat Rakshak

Not only is the effort admirable but one has to also admire Raj Mahindra who worked on some of this post retirement if I am not mistaken. It is sad that he did not live to see this day. He was truly the guiding spirit for Project SARAS.

When did 5 year olds get to know about "Coke bottle" 36-24-36 statistics, Whitcomb area ruling
and supercritical wing etc? I thought 5 year olds only did japam and Vishnu sahasranamam. Dont see Coke bottles anymore modern engine technology has put paid to that.

Just a remark about two explosions detected at Chaghai. I again checked the NEIC database which is maintained by USGS(United States Geological Service), Chaghai went off at 10.16, and 15.23 seconds am GMT. No other event is reported in that area after that. NEIC assigns a body wave magnitude of 4.80...

Shiv, Ramana: These discussions are bringing back memories of old days. Anyhow I just checked the NEIC data base for earthquakes for May 30th.Well, this is what the data base has, off course there are hundreds of earthquakes that day but there is one at 6.54am GMT, at surface depth zero,(nukes will ...

Ramana, the two, three peaks dont necesarily mean two or three devices, there are all types of waves coming from the source, and they arrive at different times for example compressional and transverse waves will both be created and they will travel at different speeds and arrive thus at different ti...

Sunil: The data out there supports what you write. However there are two possibilities, 1+1, 10kt each, or one design #4(China), 20kt. All this talk of 6 is just rubbish. Next Pakistan claimed that it tested all these devices in a single shaft.This is stupid. How would they get the data needed to mo...

The other shoe will also fall one day soon. That is how Los Alamos, and AWE(Atomic weapons establishment, UK) conspire to keep serious articles that reveal the truth out of the public domain, their sordidity will be revealed in full, right now they are almost naked. Now all these revelations are pro...

After Pokaran-2 I remember Vajpayee made a statement that it was detected that TSP had a test in the works so India decided to test. This was a speech given in Hindi. I suspect that if TSP had tested earlier there would have been no sanctions on it and India would have been left holding the ball. Al...

Johann I think I understand your viewpoint. By the way the Indian Ocean "flash" no radioactivity was ever detected right? Now another point, after Pokaran there was a great deal of debate and emphasis in the western media as to how because of the military being in it from day 1 and knowled...

Johann: I completely disagree. You cannot test in "secrecy". Seismic waves are completely different for earthquakes and nuclear explosions. I have made this completely clear on many occasions, things like m_b/m_s plots and other data are a dead give away. If the explosion is above the dete...

thanks for the correction.

big city re-named Sialkot----> Faisalabad(after Faisal ibn-Saud)

About Chagai on May 28th, my analysis indicates two devices were detonated, each one was a 8-10kt device, these were simultaneously detonated, spectral analysis of the seismic data from Chagai does not indicate separate events but a single blast. The Gupta paper in Current Science puts its finger on...

I have already posted a little note with links to the pertinent documents before all this. My post is the last post in the Strategic forces discussion forum. There I had given explicit links to the Wallace documents. So here we go again: http://www.iris.iris.edu/HQ/Bluebook/bluebook.html Chapter 5 c...

I remember very much the graveyard in Kanpur where the Liberators were. They were all lying an a huge field opposite the Traffic Police Lines in a part of Kanpur Cantt. called Mirpur. The bits and pieces were still there in 1959. But by the middle 60's everything was gone. Years later I visited Pima...

First of all I do not recall anywhere it being said that double explosions were a first for POK-2. The thread is full of unsubstantiated innuendos. It can be said however that there are not that many articles analysing such explosions. However, since there are so many "seismic experts" on ...

The scientific reporting in India is just<BR>stupid. A few days ago The Hindu ran an article about how a learned professor Thomas Vaddakan had successfully trisected an<BR>"impossible angle" of 60 degrees. Apparently<BR>this misguided soul was going to send his paper to the American Math. ...

Mr Zaki,<BR>Hope you checked your facts. 2nd battalion,<BR>5th Mahratta LI, is the famous Kali Panchwin<BR>or black 5th. This battalion won battle honors in Keren in Burma in WW2 and then was in Japan for about 5 years after the end of hostilities. An Internet search under Kali<BR>Panchwin will reve...

Here are some questions:<BR>1. Is Whitcomb's area ruling and Whitcomb's<BR>supercritical wing outdated concepts in modern fighter design?<BR>2.Does the area ruling concept play a particularly important role in the transonic regime? where most likely most combat action does take place, or across the ...