Bharat Rakshak

P Chitkara

In terms of ease of reach for the jehadis, India is a far easier target than continental US. Yes, I do agree nukes falling in the hands of jehadi will may make uncle do something. But, nevertheless threat to us will be far greater due to geographical proximity - we do not rank much far below uncle i...

P Chitkara

Shiv, To give my perspective on it - how does the prospect of nukes in the hands of pakis and the jehadis look like? What would stop elements in the pukistan use this as a cover to again target India like 26/11, this time with a dirty bomb? I am under no illusion - all nukes with pakis are aimed at ...

P Chitkara

Then what is the collab with Snecma about?

Added later: Ok. So it is the SCBs we are after.

P Chitkara

Today's TOI says the porkies plan acquiring 10 P3Cs. That is a substantial num considering the size of their coastline. How many will we eventually have including the p8s? The destroyed baksheesh will be replaced by uncle..there should be little doubt on that. On a serious note, it is matter of conc...

P Chitkara

What is a ballistic flight test for an A2A missile?

P Chitkara

With the LCA, we have/will soon have handle on most other things except the engine. IAF has indicated it's preference for a 100% desi engine on more than one occasion. Does the study cover engine requirements and means to achieve it locally? Any links to what will be covered in the study phase of ar...

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He said the aircraft would be fully funded by China and it would help bolster Pakistan's defence and add to the tactical capability of the Pakistan Air Force. Beggars are not choosers. They are getting it for free..they are just reaffirming their claim to the spot of #1 international bhikari. :lol:

P Chitkara

The IA plans to procure over a 100 LCH. Let us hope this number increases to strengthen the air component. This in itself will be a good improvement over the puny number of attack helis that we currently have.

P Chitkara

Is there any info on the degree of networking within and across the puke army and fizzle ya?

Disruption of whatever networking is there within and between them must be part of our battle plans as well.

P Chitkara

Inter service rivalry can get down to ridiculous levels sir... Let us leave it at that.. OT

P Chitkara

Last I heard through the net chatter - it will be a light(er) tank. This again is a deviation from what has been accomplished through Arjun. How will it be able to give the same protection or firepower that is available in Arjun today - please enlighten me if there is some new super duper brochure t...

P Chitkara

Any news on how the army finds Arjun now that it is in the field. Would like to hear something about the operational experience of the army with them.

P Chitkara

Would anyone hazard a speculation for the follow on orders of MkII?

P Chitkara

Talking about political will - what would one suppose be the risk taking appetite of people in their 70s or 80s compared to the ones in their 50s? That is precisely the case with people in power here. Remember 71 happened when IG was in mid 50s.

This may be OT and should be taken in lighter vein

P Chitkara

Interesting to note crew protection is a high priority item for this new tank. I don’t think it was a very high priority item in earlier T series (to the level of western tanks) - open to correction here. Does that mean increased weight or some other out of the box solution? One can only speculate t...

P Chitkara

A noob quesiton -

K9 >> Kabini core
K10 >> Snecma M88 core
What is K11?

Speaking of Snecma - any updates on the JV?

P Chitkara

I agree - not all would have been that bad. But, consider this - you are giving a couple of new products to a new customer. Some of the initial one's fail or perform below expectations. It is not difficult to imagine what it will do to the customer's/stakeholders confidence. This is now veering far ...

P Chitkara

Would you go out and fight with a NVG that can hardly distinguish between the terrain and the vehicles or that fails very consistently? That can certainly not be called mark I - mark I is where at least some of the baseline requirements have been achieved. I am all for the block/mark dev approach bu...

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As has been stated innumerable times, problem with the fauj is, and I don’t completely blame them - they do not see themselves as a stakeholder. This arty fiasco will hopefully force them to see it that way. The reason I don’t completely blame them is, in the 80s and early 90s they were passed on so...

P Chitkara

OBL being caught deep inside pukistan exposes their worst kept secret. Wonder whether it is the promised baksheesh or the danda that made pakis give US the access to OBL.

P Chitkara

Just curious - how are they testing new missiles every now and then? Who is supplying them with all this stuff?

P Chitkara

One can only hope people signing on the dotted line for the FGFA take these incidences into consideration. We will be spending a hell of a lot of $$ on it.

P Chitkara

Does any source confirm that Kaveri-Snecma engine will be used on the AMCA or is it a speculation?

How much growth potention will that engine have?

P Chitkara

Do we have any sources(panwala/chaiwala) that give out f/b on Arjun by the Army after it's induction in the western sector?

P Chitkara

A question to gurus - how capable are the chinese subs being acquired by pak?

This is wrt to the augosta 90 that they already have - how much of a capability boost do they offer over the augosta?

P Chitkara

Any such intervention by pukes will reinforce their reputation of being a country more comfortable with dictators, in addition to incurring the hostility of the population of KSA.

They will do anything for $$s wont they

P Chitkara

Pakis will jump in if the chinese ask them to do it in case of hostilities with us. Does anyone think china is not pragmatic enough to avoid jumping in if the pakis ask them to do it? One thing we can do is, convey them that in case of any hostilities, their troops in pok suffering causalities will ...

P Chitkara

Typical fauji I would say.

P Chitkara

If anyone wanted proof that two front scenario is a real possibility, it is there for all to see.

P Chitkara

Come on, does anyone seriously think tricks of the trade will be passed on to them. Even at different military schools there are many sessions that are strictly Indian officers only.

P Chitkara

We keep on forgetting a couple of things while asking a speed up of the process. This is our first attempt at a contemporary fighter - lack of past experience Processes are not yet fully mature Any major failure/incidence was/is just not an option - overcautious maybe, safe definetly The actual spee...

P Chitkara

Saw it yesterday - was awesome! They will cover the arty in next episode. Arjun probably was not given enough exposure due to lack of numbers?? An officer was commenting when he saw the tank for the first time, he was taken aback by the sheer size or something to that effect. Another thing that was ...

P Chitkara

So, they want more F-bakhsheesh in spite of proclamations that the bundar is this, bundar is that. Speaks volumes about the bundar.

P Chitkara

Its no sense to compare the Navy's approach to indigenous development with IAF's or Army's. In all the wars except one incidence Indian Navy has ruled the water practically unopposed. Indian Navy still enjoys the luxury to experiment with unproven platforms and bet on it. That may not be true with ...

P Chitkara

As someone said - this news is a sign of maturing of the organization. More like doing your homework well before embarking on the project.

This will definitely be a contributor in ensuring that the deadlines will be met.

P Chitkara

Has any information emerged as to what will we be contributing and what will we be gaining out of spending billions of $$? Or, are we being had...again. I sure hope the lessons learnt on the stealth aspect are applied to the AMCA and improved upon and that it has the effect of lessening the timeline...

P Chitkara

Not sure where you get these specs from, but the ones I know is atleast 100 km for 5 m sq target, that is pretty normal even in 1985. Followed by As also the Phazotron N019E Sapfir 29 in the MiG29 delivered late 80s / early90s to guide the SARH R-27 to 70 odd km. tsarkar, so the timelines are shift...

P Chitkara

Can someone corroborate tsarkar's comment about the radar with 100 Km search and 70Km tracking range on M2K that we bought? When the M2k was inducted in the early 80s improvements were done only later on - there were deficiencies in the early aircrafts. It will definitely be interesting to know, in ...

P Chitkara

Looks like the armoured corps chaps are in a comfort zone with the Txx series and don’t want to get out of it for a desi product. All rumblings about past failures, logistics are but the manifestation of just that. Fact that Arjun had issues earlier and received colossal amount of bad publicity didn...

P Chitkara

Why shouldn’t it be our (govt/society) moral responsibility to take care of the family of people who take care of us when they are gone on active duty? These people put their lives on line so that we may live free. Why should their families suffer because they gave away their lives while protecting ...

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