Bharat Rakshak

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What is amusing is that both sides are coming up with similar daily casualties figures of the opponent!

Yet both sides continue to fight on

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Looks like the IA’s ATGM vehicle mounted requires a 3-man crew.

Appropriate sized vehicles to accommodate 3-troops plus reload ATGMs would rule out small ATVs.

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Ukraine’s MIC expanding to $20 billion capacity but the government only has $6 billion in funds for 2024.

They are going to come out as one of the top defense exporters.

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Oleksandr Usyk (Ukraine) Undisputed Heavyweight Boxing Champion https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRiGxdsbVUZiv6KXzrxgNYf5AVTlJUjk5QZK4AZpAH-4Gi254dOtoxzego&s=10 https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1cvas94/ukrainian_boxer_oleksandr_usyk_defeated_tyson/ These people are f...

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AFAIK, last minute request was for Software Defined Radios (SDR)

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Next evolution of drones … autonomous hives Hives For U.S. Drone Swarms Ready To Deploy This Year … technology for the military to operate mixed swarms of small drones with minimal human involvement. They are integrating battlefield drones with a system known as a Hive which can launch, recover and ...

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This is slow walking into WW-III. Didn't US-Vietnam start the same way? We are potentially looking at a 20+ year engagement. For the US, war is a money making business … https://usafacts.org/articles/how-much-money-has-the-us-given-ukraine-since-russias-invasion/ … Will Ukraine have to pay the US b...

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^^^ Typical production ecosystem lead times of 12-36 months have come to pass. NATO now should be able to produce quantities they have promised. AFAIK, there are two artillery 155mm ammo initiatives: NATO -> 1 million rounds production Czech Plan -> 1.5 million rounds purchase worldwide There is ac...

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Let’s put it though many rounds of trials
summer
winter
desert
plains
high altitude
hot
humid
dry
wet
flood
mud
water fording
et al

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As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine NATO allies are inching closer to sending troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a move that would be another blurring of a previous red line and could draw the United States and Europe more directly into the war. Ukraine’s ma...

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Typical production ecosystem lead times of 12-36 months have come to pass. NATO now should be able to produce quantities they have promised.

AFAIK, there are two artillery 155mm ammo initiatives:

NATO -> 1 million rounds production
Czech Plan -> 1.5 million rounds purchase worldwide

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Freeze the Mk1A design. Mk1A was quite a major upgrade and testing of some subsystems still ongoing.

Let the production continue and stabilize over the next few years.

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One very surprising revelation is that Russians don’t seem to have hardened aircraft shelters on their airbases! https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRaAAVi2Mw3Ky9U_O1CBRcAUEmZUno0ogJ_OA&usqp=CAU https://www.rferl.org/amp/crimea-russian-air-base-attacked-satellite-images/3198254...

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I find it strange that the RM is talking about building 5-6 carriers when we don't have a destroyer pipeline (not to talk about submarines). What timelines are we talking here? Is this a 50+ year vision? Current position (last few decades) has been to have 3 carriers - 2 active and 1 in refit/reser...

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Has HAL been paid yet by the IA/IAF for those 15?

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+1 for lives and morale of troops!

Often, it seems decisions are instead based on “penny-pinching” attitudes on small things that do matter.

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Maybe RAW agents could pose as foreign defense consultants/contractors and praise indigenous products as “state-of-the-art” (brochure-worthy) in their meetings with IA top brass

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^^^ The whole system needs to act in unison with weapons “auto” aligned. Manually, not that easy for each individual to shoot down these drones. Sure, the system should be detachable and applied as per threat density. How much cost should be allocated to safeguard a $4 million dollar MBT? Similar qu...

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Every tank needs to have an anti-drone EW jamming for soft kill as well as hard kill mechanisms (laser, gun and APS).

If can’t afford to, then have less tanks but have them well equipped.

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To take a city the size of Kharkiv, it is estimated Russia will need at least 300,000 troops.

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Russian Defense Minister Shoigu is out. Apparently he had been in that position for almost 15 years.

FSB head has also been replaced.

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Yes takes a long lead times to set up production ecosystem and scale up from orders being placed. Usually it is anywhere between 12 months to 36 months.

And sometimes even longer when original vendors go out of business.

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There would also be a need to at the minimum license manufacturing of core replacement parts for regular wear and tear. For example, gun barrel.

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Excellent summary of drone warfare in the Ukraine-Russia war GAME OF DRONES … Next-generation drones with AI In response to the increasing challenges posed by EW systems, both Ukraine and Russia are racing to develop drones guided by artificial intelligence. These drones identify and lock onto their...

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FPV drones https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT9xqwpIhbOZ3cvJWabVMM2ethjbxkqewb02VVx__dgUzsWJ2oRGYX2t-s&s=10 https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1bi92lw/evolution_of_fpv_drones_in_almost_two_years_of/ Plus, there are also big multi-use rotor drones. Maritim...

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Real combat product R&D with very rapid inception-to-fielding and continuous iterations.

By the end, Ukrainian drone manufacturers (200+) will be one of the top exporters for drones. It will be similar with the Russians. You can’t beat “combat-proven”!

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Evolving weaponized drones https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNAUBTWW8AAcr63.jpg https://twitter.com/bloombergblower/status/1787951066232881168 https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNb5VUKFSDd4SkpUhuD2rhD9n8vUQ_jKOEGuXxXG2pFDtNTSTwYBBQD53A&s=10 https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1...

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It has also come to light that $28 billion of the $61 billion US military aid package is actually for replacement of US stocks for previously donated military equipments/weapons.

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Too much dependence on US F-404/F-414 engines!

Even if India doesn’t want to invest in its Kaveri program, it should at least diversify its engine imports to mitigate the impacts of potential sanctions by any one nation.

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^^^ Apparently, the aid artillery rounds have started reaching the front lines. Let’s see what happens. Rest of 2024 for Ukraine would be to stabilize their frontlines. Russia has had the initiative for the last 6-8 months. There have been talks of Russian summer offensive from the north towards Kha...

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Vehicles for troop transport need to have some level of bulletproofing.

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Many “red lines” have already been crossed

UK has now removed restrictions on its Storm Shadow LRCM being used against military targets inside Russia. France has mentioned they will send in troops if Ukrainian lines get breached.

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If they are going to be around for another two decades then we can assume radar, electronics and weapon package would be updated too at some point.

Main weapon upgrade in my mind would be the air defense:

VL-SRSAM (40km) replace Barak-1 (8km)

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Update on Ukraine F-16s. First lot will be 12 pilots and 6 aircraft (of 45). Pilots, comprising both experienced pilots and young pilots, have undergone 6-10 months of intensive crash course in half the time. 21VPAwpFS-A Ukraine to protect future F-16 fleet by dispersing it in underground bunkers Uk...

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Looks like emergency highway landing airstrip

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I meant to refer to anti-ship role, not anti-sub. Apologies for not being clear Agree. At 11km in anti-ship role, not enough distance from naval ship SAM systems, especially during its most vulnerable parachute deploy slow down phase. Maybe useful for targeting naval merchant supply ships that oper...

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Standardizing on “universal” 155mm size better for obvious reasons. Easy to import and export.

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Better to move politics to the other Geopolitical thread. It’s a never ending circular arguments that convinces only those who are already convinced ;) Getting back to topic of military combat tactics and tech… Developments going on both ways: Counter Drone Counter-Counter Drone Ukraine rolls out do...

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No side is an “angel”

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Afghanistan
Georgia
Syria
Ukraine

… plus African countries with mercenaries like Wagnar

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