Bharat Rakshak

SidSom

Any news on the Derby Firing...?

SidSom

Shiv the problem of determining the angle of attack from that picture is that we need to have the profile of the plane to determine the actual long axis chord of the aerfoil and the flow direction (relative wind). So when angulated you will have an error due to parallax. So since the plane has been...

SidSom

Oh Wow... Am I really going to attempt this... (Please be kind, I am no expert on this). The vector defining the air flow direction is simple to define from the foto. But the zero angle of attack line/wing chord line itself is not simple to define. This many times is not parallel to the wing as the ...

SidSom

What I found interesting in the commentary was the details he was providing on what the pilot was doing. Like square loop "pilot holds the stick..... wait for it. Now pull the stick back". Or even the slow pass at 110 mph and switching on of the AfterBurner after that to go into vertical c...

SidSom

SaiK... towards the end of the coverage Team Tejas were trying to line up for a group foto. During that time these 2 lines were uttered by one of the self appointed "Co-ordinator" .....

Was overjoyed listening to our very own Kannada on Bahrain tv.....

SidSom

shiv wrote:
JTull wrote:Beautiful! Thanks for posting the link.
Kicking myself. Was paying bills online while the display was going on. 350 meters turn is terrific.

Shivji .... any idea on the turn radius of Bhandar in meters or Kms...

SidSom

^deejay... I have put the article up above..

What I did find interesting is that M Parr has got initial reports of foreign interest in the plane......

SidSom

"Ondhu Line alli banni......." "Ishtu Barala Basss(Boss)"

SDRE to the core...

SidSom

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/full-scale-production-of-tejas-by-next-year-defence-minister-manohar-parrikar/articleshow/50668656.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said full-scale producti...

SidSom

Commmoder Jaideep Maolankar & Gp Capt Madhav Rangachari will fly the Tejas at the Sakhir in Bahrain later today

Arn't these the same guys who worked on the 8g+ tests. Great to see the snippets of the displays. Sad to see no news of this on any desi 'News' Channels....

SidSom

Singha wrote:its quite normal to cover the canopy even in india.

Maybe mistaken..... I dont ever recall seeing Tejas with canopy covered

SidSom

Interesting to see the EuroCanard in a Bhurka in Bahrain. Tejas seems to not mind the elements so much. (Dunno if that is good or bad....)

SidSom

From the Group photo, I count 7 'Test pilots' (old eyes could be decieved easily). It is interesting to see so many for this exhibition. Looks like IAF may be slowing toeing the line and committing more TPs to the Tejas sqdr.

SidSom

No Intelligence, Is really a hard pill to swallow. By the information from Kasab and Haqqani, a lot of these initial and military training camps are held in publicly known areas. Why is there no option of missile strike on the camps... Maybe a few brahmos (armchair-giri pls pardon) to do the trick. ...

SidSom

^ Any luck with the Zuhai airshow ?? (Nov 2016)

SidSom

^+1

I think we can also add LCH, Rudra, LUH, Arjun, NAG among others

SidSom

Guru's. Why the decision to fire Derby with old Radome. Will there be any difference in missile integration due to radome diff ( in case of mid course corrections being sent from Radar to missile). Will there be another round of tests with new radome ?? Any chance we will see Tejas on 26th Jan parad...

SidSom

Has Tejas reached BIAS yet... First onsite posting ??

SidSom

Whole Hog or Just Hogwash...? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pathankot-attack-Pakistan-acts-on-India-leads-arrests-some-suspects/articleshow/50531146.cms ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities carried out raids at different places following attack on the Pathankot airbase in India, lead...

SidSom

1) Terrorists breached border security. 2) terrorists breached air base security and entered despite the alert. 3) terrorists spent 4 days in base causing disruption and loss of life. 4) despite such audacious attack, India has not retaliated so far, thus exposing India's weakness. I 100% share Shi...

SidSom

btw they did try attacking a police station in dina nagar ps attack. Can't say for sure if that indeed was their target. All they got for that was even the ps peon firing a few bullets their way. So that didn't go well. Now they are trying to attack exclusively military installations to see if that...

SidSom

so more details coming out .......i will stick to the technical aspect “In many other countries,” an NSG officer said, “this is a task that would be done by robots, or personnel using highly specialised bomb-disposal equipment. That kind of equipment was not available with us.” DDM but he is not th...

SidSom

It would have been a wonderful sight to see a full battalion of Infantry being called in full gear for combing, MPV and APC and what not. The pigs would have just given up......mentally at least. Sigh, I guess prudence is better than theatrics...

SidSom

Shiv, you keep bringing terrain, jungle, hide and seek etc. Isn't India considered one of the best in the jungle and mountain warfare? Would the combing operation require scanning every inch by human eyes? Don't we use Perimeter Surveillance Radar? India is supposed to have 1400 of BEL Battle Field...

SidSom

SidSom, the mission may have been well planned but these jokers lost their nerve and hid. Its not part of some super plan IMHO. The pattern repeated in 26/11. Even though they have been trained enough & some may have been combat experienced (eg booby trapping bodies) the 26/11 incident also sho...

SidSom

Hindsight is always 20/20. Had the op been given to Army... things may have been diff, good diff or bad diff. The decisions taken did not seem wrong at the time when they were taken. Yes 150 NSG to secure the assets seems like the best thing to do. Garuds to secure the base also seems like the best ...

SidSom

2 More.... these guys have turned our air base into a pig sty... :( Ideally Night would be great for recon with IR sensors. Am sure the pigs know how to mask their heat sig to hide. Seem well trained to do all this. There was not too much in the way of words before the border crossing into Myanmar.....

SidSom

http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/punjab-air-force-base-terror-attack-2-terrorists-killed-gunbattle-on-1261437?pfrom=home-lateststories The National Security Guard or the NSG has been called in for help. Helicopters have also been dispatched to the area for assistance, senior police officials have sai...

SidSom

National Security Guard commandos landed in the state by around 9.30 pm on Friday to track down the alleged terrorists, believed to be in hiding in Pathankot's hilly terrain. Are there two different terror attacks? I thought it was the IAF base that was attacked and that the attackers had been boxe...

SidSom

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pak-fidayeen-in-Army-dress-kill-1-in-Punjab-hijack-senior-cops-car/articleshow/50411744.cms ritsar/Chandigarh: In an attack strikingly similar to the Gurdaspur terror strike five months ago, armed men struck at two different places in Punjab's border distric...

SidSom

http://www.bahraininternationalairshow.com/trade/Content/Aircraft/5_7/ Lists LCA Tejas (2 Flying) under DRDO. Strangely AEW&C (which I believed was the EMB 145) is listed under IAF..... Is there something we dont know about the EMB145 ?? Show goes on on 21-23 Jan. LCA should depart maybe a week...

SidSom

Surprise Surprise......

We all know why this is in LCA thread...

http://indiastrategic.in/topstories4208 ... ospace.htm

SidSom

More JSF problems...... http://www.janes.com/article/55987/wing-spar-cracks-found-on-usn-f-35-variant Key Points Pentagon testers have discovered cracks in a main structural element of the F-35C's wing Government and prime contractor engineering teams are formulating a solution, and retrofits are pl...

SidSom

People who believe that French would learn their lesson should look at home. Did India learn its lesson after 26/11. MMS was still trying to be pally with Pakis, MSM giving them certificates of innocence, Diggy calling it RSS Saazish while aam abdul was obscenely happy to host Paki cricket team in ...

SidSom

2983rd flight on 25 Aug TD1: 233, TD2: 305, PV1: 245, PV2: 222, PV3: 387, PV5: 110, PV6: 34, LSP1: 74, LSP2: 314, LSP3: 257, LSP4: 167, LSP5: 290, LSP7: 147, LSP8 : 145, NP1: 43, NP2: 10 2985th flight on 30 Oct TD1: 233, TD2: 305, PV1: 245, PV2: 222, PV3: 387, PV5: 110, PV6: 34, LSP1: 74, LSP2: 314...

SidSom

^^^Reducing weight by 1,000 kg? And I think they're talking about the Israeli AESA Radar. Even if they manage to reduce about 400-500 kgs, it will be no mean achievement. Hope all this gets sorted out in double quick time. betting on the Typical over commitment on the 1000 Kgs..... :( As per Wiki A...

SidSom

JTull that was trigger happy

SidSom

Time to put this thread back on the front page with this explosive........ hoping this takes offf...

India to induct Tejas Mark 1A fighter

(Edited to make it a URL)

SidSom

My Koyal Aunty told me ..... She refused to give numbers to the kill ratio, but said this. The key learning from this exercise was... 1. IAF has a lot of similarities wrt RAF in terms of culture, same is not true of USAF. 2. IAF has evolved tactics and ops to a higher degree in most areas. 3. IAF us...

SidSom

The inlet has not changed. There is an extra fairing for the MLG to retract into. The Models on display at the DRDO also showed significant "swelling" just behind the inlet opening. It could be just the Fairing to accomodate the heavier LG but it surely "looks" more than that. I...

Search found 147 matches