Bharat Rakshak

I dunno if Pakdef is right, but they did <BR>mention that T-80UDs _were_ present in the<BR>Multan corps too. someone who knows the <BR>orbat and the regiment #s of t-80s might <BR>match.<P>dont forget further to the south. they have<BR>been setting up to cause a lot of mayhem <BR>in the kutch area, ...

<A HREF="http://www.webspawner.com/users/andrewkcartillery/index.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.webspawner.com/users/andrewkcartillery/index.html</A> <P>maybe PAs next standard APC. <A HREF="http://www.webspawner.com/users/andrewkcafvapc/index.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.websp...

The key to a strong army is a strong automobile industry. Every great producer of<BR>tanks (us, uk, france, germany, italy, japan)<BR>has a mightly auto industry which ensures<BR>design skills, engine, transmission, suspension, assembly line & supply chain.<P>India govt must give all boost to au...

Both CM and BM are at the moment too expensive for India to use in conventional role except some very special roles against<BR>static targets like GCI radars, C&C complex etc.<P>Also unless you come up with a 9000t sub with<BR>80-100 weapons, the 8-10 CMs a typical sub<BR>can carry is meaningles...

I spent the weekend locating and reading all<BR>the pakdef archives. a few points:<P>- they very proud of Multan based strike<BR>corps, rating it as best non-NATO/non-israel<BR>strike corps. equipped with t_80, t_85,<BR>a beefed up ATGM force and Cobra helos.<BR>They are confident this can stop the ...

All said and done the Al-Khalid ~45t and<BR>T-98 is 48t. same for T-90.<P>So you can guess how much protection and<BR>redundancy they can have compared to <BR>NATO sized MBTs. the smallest among the<BR>biggies starts around 56t. The obese M1a2 sep<BR>comes in around 68t.<P>

Yah! tell that to Sumair...he wont believe you.

Over at tanknet, there a discussion of the <BR>similar looks of the new PRC heavy-ATGM<BR>called Red Arrow 9 to the Israeli Magat (?).<BR>Both are tow_2 derivatives designed to do<BR>better than tow_2. A big dog of a missile.<P>May not be long before PA starts on it, as<BR>their TOW inventory is alm...

How did you arrive at this conclusion? Pakistan could not make that deep a penetration in previous wars (Chamb not withstanding because of wrong calculations by our war planners and lack of intel) when they had superior weaponry. <P>>> you mean t80u and al-khalid is worse<BR>than pattons ? it does n...

But then again...whats the pressing need to <BR>have them all operate together ? <P>they might just let loose a pack of armoured<BR>brigades all over the place to confuse and<BR>hopefully draw much bigger indian response<BR>while keeping their ARS and ARN as main<BR>strike spears a few day(s) later....

it will take time , money and willingness to<BR>sacrifice some territory in the short term<BR>if IAF is to be the main force to deal with<BR>their Strike corps.<P>I fully support this strategy instead of<BR>devoting our own strike corps to a reactive<BR>mode trying to block or deter their armour<BR>...

afaik, whatever problems were there in <BR>initial M1s were meticulously fixed since<BR>time & expense were not a problem. I think<BR>PA had some sand ingestion problems during<BR>their trials (yah, those were the days for<BR>PA, M1A1s in pipeline, f16s in the skies, <BR>yindoos set to be thrash...

defensive stuff like small ATVs, ATGMs and<BR>AT mines are usually purchased under the<BR>radar screen without any hype. <P>We need pinaka with AT bomblets for tanks<BR>and HE bomblets for anti-arty mission mated<BR>to fire-finder radars. I wonder how the <BR>proj is moving along ? no news for many ...

<A HREF="http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/china.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/china.html</A> <P>Calvin, if you read the para under "electricity" seems to indicate that<BR>they are power surplus in atleast some areas<BR>wherein older, sick plants were actual...

It must be said the super-powerdom does not<BR>happen in a decade or in 5 decades even.<P>The industrial revolution took off in<BR>right earnest in USA around 1850s when civil<BR>war placed great demands on industry. USA<BR>had the benefit of unlimited resources and<BR>no hostile power trying to kee...

acc. to a post by Sandeep Unni many moons back there is a multi-pronged 'course' for<BR>budding defence journalists wherein they<BR>are also given run of place to ask and<BR>look around. He himself attended it.<P>But looks like its not a compulsory course.<P>

FAS is no more a relevant resource. Its out<BR>of date.<P>A SLCM similar size to a torpedo would be <BR>most versatile as all our subs could be<BR>modified to fire it. They would need some<BR>gear to program the CM but storage and firing<BR>would be same. This is used by LA and Trafalgar class boats...

>>Trishul--> so successful that Barak has been bought just to fool the Pakistanis<P>I believe it was designed as a missile for <BR>IA & IAF and the anti-missile naval role<BR>came along much later.<P>It does not need to intercept anything <BR>except Mirages to enter into IA/IAF service.<P>There ...

>>which will likely meet an ignominous end such has befallen Trishul,Nag and the rest.<P>??? James, spill the beans old boy, what<BR>did you learn from ...

to fire a laser from space, they need a huge platform. the YAl-1 is based on a 747 for a<BR>good reason I think.<P>the KALI thing looks more interesting. probably a hi-flying UCAV that lets loose<BR>KE darts to down missiles.<P>the other KALI is acc. to reports being<BR>used to harden many products ...

the worlds most prominent user of cruise missiles seems to have sacrificed raw speed<BR>first for range and now stealth. this is a <BR>good strategy if one wants 2000-3000km range<BR>within a small <15ft (5m) package like the<BR>T_Hawk. I saw a photo in AWST of a boeing ALCMs being mounted on the ro...

Babui it came in media. his name was Subhash<BR>I believe and the whole encounter was described. iirc he bagged 3-4 in same encounter.

AFM mag had a photo of a Su32 iirc with a <BR>Yokhont on ground near it (static display).<BR>both were huge, so both looked small!<P>the article said su3x could manage 3, Mig29M<BR>could take 2. but probably with a range penalty.<P>these are total waste as ASMs, Klub is enough. better to dedicate as...

during kargil a grenadier sniper did indeed<BR>"bag a few" at around 1000-1200m in poor <BR>light firing up/down slopes which is tough.<P>dragunov was used.

israel has been using snipers in gaza to<BR>selectively deal with certain people. TiMe<BR>mag had something on it recently.<BR>

Tipnis being these is probably just basic<BR>interest and courtesy. No real need to <BR>rake up imagined controversies.<P>I did not understand Arun_S arguments about<BR>prithvi being more suitable than PJ_10 for<BR>nuke delivery role. Our thermo nuke is <BR>about 400kg is it not ? and our fission<BR...

maybe its some sort of protective condom for<BR>the sensitive nose during the launch?<P>with this in service, the prithvi pgm has<BR>no real selling point, it can be retired and<BR>the 333 reg issued this weapon instead?<P>also where does this leave Dhanush ? or <BR>is dhanush brahmos and the aborti...

>>http://www.warships1.com/Weapons/WMRUS_ASHmis.htm<P>Above link gives entire history of the P-series. I figure this kitty is a mod- of<BR>the mighty P-1000 Vulkan a hypersonic heavy ASM that russia wanted to probably deploy on their bigger ships and subs.<P>At this rate, they should be relegating U...