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One of those articles which slipped through the cracks, but provides very significant details on CSD et al.... http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NEWS/newsrf.php?newsid=16829 the Indian Army has been forming an Integrated Battle Group to be deployed at eight locations along the Pakistan border. The group...

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a fall back place if India ever has to endure Islamic hordes running amock over our lands.

harbans ji: what does the above mean?

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From now on, there will be no concentration of the strike corps on the border. Instead, the pivot corps will knock the door down and then a pass-through maneuver (as being rehearsed in this exercise) will be used to let loose the strike corps into the breach. YIP: The IA had a version of this all t...

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We could go with something similar to Mini-Shinkansen. These can run at high speed but also run on feeder routes. An occasional specially designed local train is allowed to enter the high speed system. I agree with this. In fact, I would go a little further, and say that our high speed railway netw...

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Simply because I was a bit lazy to put all the information on paper and just subdued everything with re-alignment does not necessary mean that I don't know what it takes :D Do you really want me to spell out the whole 9 yards, :roll: !!! Sigh !!! These days people don't go by the poster value and e...

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For instance passenger train would run back & forth from Tirupati-Arrakonam-Kanchipuram-Chengalpet stopping at all the rural stops. Passengers would transfer to trunk line @ Arrakonam or Chengalpet. Theo- Thats the North-South alignment. So, what happens to commuter services on the East-West al...

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The passenger services will have to use branch lines, which they do anyway. What branch lines are you talking about? Let me take a few examples- New Delhi-Agra, Mumbai- Vadodara and Chennai-Bangalore. So, if a passenger has to travel between Faridabad and Mathura in the New Delhi-Agra section, what...

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Once the regular lines are freed up, then I guess we should start realigning the tracks for high speed travel. That should be more cost effective than creating a brand new elevated corridor. What do you guys think??? Well the existing railway lines cater to large number of passengers from Tier II, ...

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^^^^^^ In the main, Fareed Zakaria says a lot of things that reflect well on India. He is pro-India, and part of the Washington establishment. He may occasionally say things that we take offense at or doesnt reflect reality from the Indian perspective, but in the main, he is pro-India. So, why this ...

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Hopefully this will complement the border roads infrastructure... http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/plan-panel-pushes-for-early-completion/453022/ The railway projects include the 125-km Rishikesh-Karanprayag railway line involving a project cost of Rs 4,295 crore, the 154-km Rs 2,791-cror...

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Induction of LCH and Rudra would come as a short in the arm for mounting offensive operations through the multiple axis identified.

We need artillery above all ..155 mm and MBRLs...

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but I doubt 19 ID has only three bdes 19 Div indeed has three bdes. Are you sure 28 has four bdes? Induction of 27 MD not-withstanding, XV Corps used to command the AOR between Dhemchok in southern Ladakh to 25 ID in Rajouri. It is only in 2005 that 25 ID went to XVI Corps. This my friend is untrue...

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FAIK, XVI and XV Corps have 16 infantry brigades between them (please correct me if I'm wrong). There are 7 inf bdes in 15 Corps and there are 7 inf bdes in 16 Corps; 16 Corps also has an armd bde. So, that makes it 15 bdes. I am possibly missing one bde. 39 Mountain Division is Northern Command re...

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I suspect XV and XIV Corps to get additional divisions to bring them to three division structure.

Rohit : XIV Corps- yes, very likely.

XV Corps - Unlikely. It has two divs + i indep inf bde + 2 RR forces. Both the RR forces have wartime roles; in 'non-wartime', they are in any case deployed.

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ORBAT.com talks about adding a new Corps in kashmir by bifurcating the XVI corps I thought this was done, and hence, we now have IX Corps alongwith XVI Corps and also about creating a new command called North Western command facing the pigs. First, there has to be a Corps HQ for Ladakh. NW Command,...

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my point is that what do we have these 600bns of CPMF's for then? Apparently, they are "not trained" to do CI work (and apparently they dont want to be trained for it also). BSF was pulled out of CI ops because it was "not their core work" (as though it is the army's core work)....

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Who is the current army commander of the Northern Command?

Lt Gen KT Parnaik.

Hasnain is GoC 15 Corps....

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That, I accept completely

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Besides, people tend to forget, that the sacking of Admiral Bhagwat caused the NDA government to collapse, when J. Jayalalitha withdrew support of her MP's over the issue. Its not such a simple thing to sack a service chief, no matter what the Babu's might like to imagine. Puarji: This is a bit ove...

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What can a Corps accomplish? An Indian Strike Corps can theoretically isolate and destroy a Pakistani armored division in detail (a complete functional-kill, not a mission-kill on paper). Keeping this in mind, are you sure an Indian armored division can do the same to a Pakistani armored division? ...

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Austin wrote: For eg the Armoured Division , Regiment equation would have still remain the same had we been a only T-72 force or say operated most type of it, what impact does qualitatively better systems like Arjun Mk2/Mk1 or even T-90 have on the number and force structure since you can achieve m...

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^^^^^^^ Sridhar K: The second car segment is still a very minor segment of the market. Very few cars in India, if at all, are launched targeting just the second car segment- at best, its an add-on. The Nano, as it was positioned during its launch, was supposed to be a mass market car. The second car...

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^^^Where did you hear that about 7 ID? Chaiwalas/panwalas/their cousins? hain ji? Having said that, expect Arjuns to be deployed south of Punjab in formations from Fazilka-Abohar to Gujarat (as may be pertinent) Yup..masala-chaiwala. 7 Div is expected to follow 4 Div. I am also intrigued by X Corps...

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rohit, 43rd and 75th are in same RAPID ? Not that I know of. At last call, 43rd->24 RAPID and 75th->12 RAPID. But this is based on pics of Arjun with formation sign of 24 RAPID and these are a bit dated. You never know about these things unless something appears in public. Rohit: The first batch of...

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The main problem with the Nano happenned with its positioning. A car, in India, is an aspirational product, and Nano's association with terms like the low cost car, the cheap car, the 1 lakh car etc, while correct literally, massively hurt the aspirational desire for the car. The same problem happen...

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1. The accident board determined it was an error by the Captain of the merchant ship which caused the incident. So there is no question of "allowing" anything. 2. No Capital ship was "rear ended". There was a collision incident caused by Paki misadventure. But nothing could be &...

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This tendency to draw a very thick line between IA command and GoI to show one as a good cop and other as bad is laughable Sure...but am wondering if you would extend the same logic to the Navy allowing one of its ships to sink at harbour or allowing a capital ship to get rear-ended by the Pakis? W...

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Also, btw the Ghatak platoons are the QRT teams in the infantry bns. They are not SF, just quick reaction, and are typically commanded by the second junior most subaltern...

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Rohit, A questions of IA Special Forces... Are all IA Special forces within 50 (I) Para Brigade? or do we have them within other formations? Are Ghatak Commandos considered SF or just Kammandu? Dont want to step on RV's toes, but here's what I know.. 50 Bde has 3 battalions; sometimes its all three...

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The JF 17 seems to have similarities with the Northrop F -5 Tiger. The fuselage shape and air intakes seem to have close resemblance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_F-5

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Nope. It does not. The unit may move/shift to new formation across India and take up tactical number alloted within that formation. Rohit: Have to call you out on this one. The tactical number allotted to units within formations does change every three years or so. So, lets say, you have an engr re...

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I was thinking about what Shiv had posted a couple of pages back, about Pak Fauj smarting under the Abbottabad insult and planning some strike to restore its H&D... If we were to consider India as an obvious target, would Paki Fauj attempt a full blown confrontation a-la Kargil? Perhaps not, giv...

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rohit don't be impolite. Knowledge confers special responsibilities. Ramanaji: Not taking up cudgels on anyone's behalf, but lets put a stop to nonsense from self styled yellow journalists as well. The shallowness and sheer errors in some of the "writings" spouted by some characters would...

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Yup..those T 55/54s are from the Armd Div Engr Regt...

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for those who have served with men it is easy to understand the "bonding" which is being jocularly dealt with here. it is this "bonding" between officers and the men they lead that takes a unit through its difficult and testing times. in field and operational area that "bon...

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How was osama's body taken from near Islamabad to USN Carl Vinson which was positioned somewhere in the Arabian Sea? (hopefully, in international waters) It cannot be taken by a chopper as there is none that can travel that much distance (more that 1100 kms http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/d ....

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The Barrielly squadron is a dedicated R&S unit, wih the planes equipped with SAR sensors, mostly Israeli...this unit replaced the Mig25 squadron based there for the same purpose.. The other Su30 sqdns would not be equipped in the same configuration.. Not really true. What Bareilly airbase reall...

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