Bharat Rakshak

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The beam won't be very narrow. A general laser scan in the general direction will kill the optics.. A general laser scan cant kill the optics. The effective power density will not be enough to do the job. Normally a general scan is used for detection, ranging, while the system goes to full power fo...

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>>However, given our small strength in submarines, I have to say its going to be very much less than our Red Comrades, even though this is an oversimplification of matters. I am pretty sure we would have conducted far more patrols than the PRC. They are still getting to grips with sub ops, we have a...

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[quote="ShauryaT"]What I seek to do is differentiate and not generalize. The question is, is the label of religion, the best way to accomplish the same? It is more than just labels and terms. I also seek to make a case that this differentiation of labels, will help setup new frameworks. Th...

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Shiv: Hindus are masters of the profound and blind to the obvious. The profound Hindus will not survive.They do not have anything to protect. They are too well protected by their profound philosophy. Indian secularism thrives on such timeless and unprotectable philosophies while Hinduism dies. Only...

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Raju- please. This is a serious thread and please dont bring in all this stuff. Anyone can point to this thread then and discredit all the effort that has gone into it from Airavat etc. All these topics are worthy of debate in nukkad, not here.

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Luckily for India, Hinduism does not ask for the conversion of Muslims and Christians. Seen from the narrow prism of the definitions of Hinduism as a religion the above is true. If one sees, Hinduism not from the narrow prism of a religion, but as enunciated by Justice Verma in the 2002, Supreme Co...

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What else do you expect from Mittal. The column is ridiculous and citing Romila Thapar as an expert on Indian history to boot. Gee wow. Who's next, Karl Marx on India? And note the elitist contempt for Gujaratis, both about their identity and Somnath. What a jerk.

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Just as a reference figure, the current figures for local sourcing are 30-35% of defence budget, and R&D is at 6%.

US puts in around 14% of budget into R&D. PRC around 15-20%.

Indias status quo is favourable to everyone but our local MIC, since it ensures we will always rely on imports.

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2 reports and they paint a completely different picture. Which report is true? Kalyan Ray regularly writes on science and technology matters , so his report may be correct rather than the DNA one. Same thing, different focus by different journos. DRDO project Rs go into three heads: Mission mode (p...

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Sanjay Dutt may have learnt his lesson but Mahesh Bhatt hasnt. I think a 10 year mandatory sentence in the lockup is good to educate Bollywood about their love for jihad.

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ARMADA INTL, APRIL 07 Assault rifles in a 5.56 mm evolution: the fielding of new designs and the upgrade of existing weapons will ensure that 5.56 mm remains the predominant assault rifle calibre. The perceived shortcomings of the 5.56 x 45 mm Nato SS109/US M855 round in the US armed forces-led camp...

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Rethink Russia ties - C Uday Bhaskar. Whatever these rtd navy types in think tanks say...do the opposite. Somehow, while the Navy itself has the most fwd looking people, when they retire, the weirdest get into writing and bar the occasional Arun Prakash, the rest seem to become flag wavers for Uncl...

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K Mehta, INVAR is none other than the Refleks-M for the T-90S. The kits supplied by Russia were defective, they were returned, repaired and are now being supplied. Some 900 rounds were due to be given to IA by this year end. Konkurs-M is the tandem warhead version of the 4 Km Konkurs, with additiona...

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K Mehta, Yeah- I was in a bit of a hurry so left the rest. The NBC orders are particularly heartening. Rs 2000 Crores is a substantial sum. The scale of DRDOs efforts is quite large, given they recieve ~5-6% of the defence budget. The US's figures are ~14% and the PRC is stated to be around 15%. App...

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The tube arty saga in India is a tortured one, since no overarching program (like IGMDP) was launched to build competency. DRDO began with the 105mm LFG produced by the OFB. While the gun design itself was ok- the end product was initially let down by the hit and miss production quality at OFB @ the...

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AUCRT trials are not yet over. Thats what it says if we assume the remaining 12 tanks will have AUCRT as well. Or, the alternative is that the AUCRT are indeed over (with a sample size of two tanks picked randomly out of the 14) and this is breaking news. This is the latest newsletter and I think i...

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Yes, the Pinaka buys and Smerch buys compensate to some extent for the tube arty, plus the 180 plus 155mm upgrades to the 130mm guns. I do wish that the Tatas or L&T had tied up with IMI or Denel or Bofors for a 155mm design.

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JCage, What is this TCS (Trajectory correction system) for the Pinaka that they are talking about? I was under the impression that the standard on-board computer on the launch vehicle measures atmospheric conditions like wind, density and so on and along with the geographical data for the target th...

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Vivek Ahuja will find this of interest: Armaments The Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL) has successfully gone through troops trial and has been strongly recommended by users for induction into services. The modifications suggested in Modern Sub-Machine Carbine(MSMC) have been carried out and the ...

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Handing over of 14 Nos of MBT Arjun to the Army Combat engineering has always been a major field of work for DRDO to meet the requirements of our services. Numbers of equipments have been successfully developed and delivered to users. Army has placed an order for 124 Nos of MBTArjun with the DRDO i...

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For once someone got to it before A Sharma, :) DRDO Newsletter Jan 08 http://www.drdo.com/pub/nl/2008/jan.pdf DRDO Newsletter Dec 07: http://www.drdo.com/pub/nl/dec07/dec07.pdf The Jan 2008 issue has the 2007 round up by VK Atre. Good stuff: Samyukta deliveries almost complete: Handing over Samyukta...

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Multi, I didnt because frankly, I know little of what goes on within the BJP or not. I havent been a very ardent supporter/ follower of the BJP to be honest, so I wouldnt know the details. But it seems very unlikely that Advani is Nehruvian..he was quite frank @ one time, though I could be wrong. Va...

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A lot of people are saying the same thing. He goes off on a bit of tangent vs the BJP- I really doubt whether Advani et al are Nehruvian in any manner. But anyways, the preceding part is spot on. If an erudite man can write this open declaration of whats going on in India, how long will it take the ...

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Link [quote] The new battle ground 24 Dec, 2007, 0355 hrs IST,ANIRVAN GHOSH, TNN A million dollar facility, nestled in east Bangaloreâ€™s upscale Indiranagar locality makes helmet-mounted night vision devices, laser guided target systems, and state-of-the-art defence equipment for electronic warfar...

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Shiv,

You are absolutely correct. The only problem is the patience required for the process of de-dhimmi-izing such gents/ladies.

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MK Dhar: Q: It is commonly said that there is no political will to fight terrorism. A: No political party will dare to (upset) Muslim sentiments...We must understand that India is a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-lingual country (what a lot of words to say dhimmi!) . What we...

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Old news about DRDOs UGV efforts..interesting. This is real good stuff by VRDE. The Defexpo ROV is by R&DE! That is already in trials. [quote]Pune, December 16 2005: THE secret is finally out. The Unmanned Ground Vehicle being developed by the Ahmednagar-based Vehicle Research and Development Es...

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A S, that seems more like what Zen has stated it can produce probably as offsets or TOT if deals are signed. Gripen is on offer for the MRCA and iirc Javelins to the IA. The one thing about the SAMTEL stuff is like the Russians they are using COTS displays and ruggedizing them. But they did have pla...

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But he has a point. Its a fact of life that whenever insurgency or viva le revolucion begins, the idiots in New Delhi then flood the area with money, macadam and manpower. Till then, they dont G.A.S. as the saying goes. With Maoism on the upsurge, I wonder which states the IA will be sent to next, a...

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I do not think it is a case of "opening the eyes" large sections of the society already know what islamists are all about. No they dont. They claim they do. But any small thing and they start wailing. All it takes is hardline decisions against extremism by any elected official and the dhi...

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Awesome channel for updates on Russian stuff on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RussiaToday

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ripHZ58Jp-w&feature=related The S-400 claimed capable of intercepting targets at upto 4.8 Km/s. But wonder whether those PESA radars have sufficient range against low RCS targets to provide the necessary time. And whether the missiles now have active seekers or sti...

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Hope to see longer detection ranges. We need baloon/aerostat based detectors. Can see through horizon and can change location, can be manouvered to particular location and can be deployed at will. I believe the interceptor hardware is within our control, our radar detection capbility is foreign har...

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We can import non critical system or rely on it because of economy of scale or cost effective reason , but for any critical system even it means investing $$$ we got to indigenous it The problem is that we dont have the facilities and resources to dedicate to an abinitio program to indigenize certa...

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Wow! $ 55 Million for one test! They shoul ask India how to keep costs down. :shock: :P :P http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=3256380&C=asiapac Japanese navy destroyer shot down a ballistic missile in space Dec. 17 in a test over the Pacific, a first for a U.S. ally, a witness said. The medi...

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Hinduism is an assimilative philosophy and survived the tide of time because it is a philosophy and not a religion. Wrong. Hinduism has survived because it is a philosophy AND a religion which its adherents believe in strongly and BECAUSE its adherents defended their right to believe in it, to the ...

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Its worth revisiting R Prasannans article from a few years back. It was initially brushed off as moonshine, but for Ramana who asked folks to treat it more seriously. And apparently with good reason. Even if the exact programs dont go forward - the intent and the options explored deserve mention. Th...

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Ldev, good points. I was aware of the GBRs since I had looked through them earlier- radars like the PAVE PAWS etc are amazing in terms of range & ability (and cost no doubt). But I was wondering more about the sats part of it. IE how does the US plan to track real time ICBM/IRBM launches using s...

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Better to be rich than poor. I wouldnt even want unlimited funds, all I want is that programs like the LCA, Arjun etc be backed to the hilt come what may, and follow on programs launched if the first is hit by service disinterest because block 1 was 80% not 100% or whatever. The problem is that we h...

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An interesting contrast one can draw is the confidence that enables them to integrate and test as much as possible in one go. Now contrast that with the LCA program, wherein knives are always out by the usual suspects and so the development and testing has to be in very small increments. A single f...

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