Bharat Rakshak

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This requires a rebuttal, maybe sink a Zulfiquar class or two.

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Why is train-18 being hauled by an engine? Minor nitpick - that is a locomotive and not an engine. There is a big difference in the meaning of locomotive and engine. regarding why it is hauled by a loco, the answer is because it is not tested for mainline tracks. One can't send an untested train on...

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How about this, a super gun (likes of Gun of Navarone, though lesser caliber) that can fire PRECISOULY at 90 KM or 120 KM, placed say 45 KM inside border (reverse slope, in caves etc. and all that), in AP, Sikkim and JK can plummet any PLA or TSPAF movement (which will be against restricted mountai...

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Agree with Haridas even meeting a normal elderly person in this case an elderly lady you wont sit on a higher sit out of sheer respect much less meeting a wife of a PVC awardee Smt. Rasulan Bibi . Its highly disrespectful of him to be sitting in the way he does and disrespectful to a soldier wife. ...

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BTW, the tank biathlon excerises are viewable via Amazon videos.

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our designers were fast asleep when this came to pass. umpteen reviews must have missed it. You cannot design for something that you dont know , The DND did not knew beyond 29K and Tejas and IAC was designed around these two types. Not just the lift but also the run way needed for take off land , b...

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It would be a very bad design if vikant's lift doesn't have room for f18 which is only slightly bigger than mig 29. Any design should allow room for growth. Weay field AW&CS in future and if F18 can't fit then surely a carrier borne awac won't fit as well.

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maz wrote:People, I need help in translating MDL's new Hindi magazine which has sections on the P17A as well as their sub programs. Is there anyone here who can do the honors?

Why can’t google do that? Google can already read Hindi from images.then copy paste and put in translate.

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not an expert, but I know for a fact that ICG is under the ministry of defence and almost always headed by a 3-star admiral. Also, ICG does a lot of exercises and intelligence sharing with the IN. So, it is not a marine BSF.

rest can be answered by an expert.

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Karthik S wrote:I don't see two locos on Rajdhanis.

it is there, in a pull pull configuration

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https://i.imgur.com/ZmO7QDM.jpg To put it in proper prespective from DRDO June 2014 newsletter at http://drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/newsletter/2014/june_14.pdf http://i64.tinypic.com/2sb8n68.jpg So even the length of this new canister is less than the earlier TCT-5 version. i.e. 20m vs 30m. So, while the...

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The biggest benefit comes in developing a network like a LAN based ethernet, where one single cable runs across the aircraft ( with a backup / redundant LAN also available ). Every single device has an IP and the LAN also has a switch that helps connect the devices and a router that can help communi...

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Singha ji, they improved the agility by adding the LERX later in 2013. If Tejas goes full ethernet in its network interface then they can shave few hundred kilos in weight. Turns out that copper wires are one of the heaviest individual components in an aircraft. Not sure, why ADA is not thinking of...

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Why on earth do we need 9000hp freight locos when we building 12000 hp ones? This is one thing I don't understand of IR, they should reduce diversification of locomotives to reduce maintenance. I could have understood if they were looking to get tech for HSR locos, but why freight locos? https://eco...

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John wrote:
Prem wrote:
Don't forget El\m-2238 radar wonder if these will get salvaged and used to replace lw-08.

That doesn't look like Godavari, but I think is INS Ranvijay. I think there is a few years left in that ship.

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Then please tell, endurance figures for Tejas vs. Gripen or if there is no such spec figure as 'endurance', then the range in km. If you can do some maths yourself, you'd be able to tell. Gripen C vs Tejas Mk1 fuel figures are almost the same, perhaps a difference of a few kgs. i.e. ~2400 kgs fuel ...

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I think ASRAAM derives initial guidance from Radar inputs because I don't think the IR seeker in the missile can lock at ranges in excess of 15-20 km, and ASRAAM has a range of 50km. So, the question is that Does Tejas, without inbuilt FLIR, can provide guidance to ASRAAM at long ranges thereby expl...

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Russian tank Biathlon - India did pretty well considering the old tanks and handicap

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0782CHL ... +biathalon

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The media with humanities background. I think what Ramana might have meant is that defence media in India are mainly obsessed with language skills instead of defence tech skills. i.e. lack of relevant experience. Not that humanities is a bad profession for journalists but it might not be the most s...

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sri lanka perhaps. i dont see bangladesh getting it. if we are to export arms, we should learn from the best how to blackbox and tamper proof certain parts of it. I don't know why Srilanka and Oman would need a AWACS, it doesn't make sense considering they have a tiny airforce. I would bet on Vietn...

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^^^^ It is possible that there are hidden aspects of the deal. There were no requirement to buy Talwars, navy could have just built more P17A for the same price. I think India makes such lavish deals with Russia in exchange for political capital and secretive technology like nuclear propulsion, stea...

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Not much updates on SCE 200 lately, last year had heard some contract with Ukraine regarding testing - but haven't seen any update thereafter. Sometimes I wonder, given how much financial troubles Ukraine is in, why can't be buy few semi-cryo engine tech from them? Same goes for marine turbine tech.

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The long awaited deal for the 4 extra upgraded Talwars having been approved is excellent news. The acquisition has taken several years of talks,etc. Desi yard full to capacity with orders of DDGs,FFGs,corvettes,OPVs,etc.,has necessitated such a move,buying a couple from abroad and building two at G...

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While the idea is interesting, I don't think its worth wasting time and money and delaying this indigenous procurement by decades.

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Jay, I think ICF is modifying existing LHB coach design to adapt for EMU kind of arrangement & LHBs have 8 wheels per coach design. Hopefully ICF design capabilities have improved but I think during mid-2000s, they tried to upgrade the old Swiss based coach (also called ICF coach) to 160 Kph sp...

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ramana wrote:Want to make it easy for hackers.

This is epic stupidity of gigantic proportions especially when it is known that yahoo has been hacked multiple times.

I bet the password is something like password123

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https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/defence ... rs-1796445

Nirmalaji rescinds the earlier order.

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A recoilless rifle is not an artillery piece, it's more like a handheld rocket, albeit slightly larger. You can shoot and scoot with Carl Gustav but can't go the same with direct fire anti-tank artillery. The best anti-tank weapons in open land are a) Another Tank like Arjun b) Helicopter with Helin...

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^^ Misleading article. I don't know which helmet Garuds use. Perhaps OR-201. That certainly isn't designed to protect against 7.62mm round. In fact, no modern helmet is designed to protect against even 5.56mm NATO round. Patka had that level of protection in its front and sides but then it was too ...

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^^ Misleading article. I don't know which helmet Garuds use. Perhaps OR-201. That certainly isn't designed to protect against 7.62mm round. In fact, no modern helmet is designed to protect against even 5.56mm NATO round. Patka had that level of protection in its front and sides but then it was too ...

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Shukla is a libtard ( self-admission ) and hence he searches for non-issues. There are indeed issues we can criticize BJP on for e.g. failure to do more indigenization or lack of R&D investments - But this is an absolute non-issue.

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Special forces can grow beards and we have seen many special forces including marcos, para's growing beards. There may be two reasons for doing so a) Blend with the local crowd b) look menacing.

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GE manufactures multiple types of electric locos.

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^^ Fine people so heavily that clean up is not required in the first place.

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Who else has the capability to pick up junk from high altitude areas? Lets us say, climbers, have junked kanchenjunga (27k ft) or even nathula pass (15k ft) , then can we send our municipal workers in that altitude to clean up the mess. We don't have civilians trained to work in high altitude areas....

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- hauling approx 30 useless tons in the lower atmosphere for 60 secs just gives a payload penalty of few hundred kilos looks weird. Sirji., Just because it appears weird does not mean it is wrong. Think about it., take any rocket launch. A 400 tonne rocket ends up launching say 4 tonne payload! Isn...

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Just read in spaceflights that empty S139 weighs over 30 tons. So, without seeing the calculations ( and I could be absolutely wrong ) - hauling approx 30 useless tons in the lower atmosphere for 60 secs just gives a payload penalty of few hundred kilos looks weird.

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Second., the payload penalty is few hundred kilograms. Not a huge deal. Of course., the next step is to replace the S138 booster with S200 and streamline the launch profile. Where did you get the info that the empty core stage weight is few hundred kilos? I thought that the core stage shell + engin...

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Any chance the block 70 F16's LCA Tejas mk II and AMCA can share the same make in India Engines Not possible brother. AMCA can probably do whatever it wants as it is in the design phase. But not - LCA. The F-16 engines are too big and heavy for Tejas, and is a lot more powerful than the requirement...

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The danger is that if solar is given too much importance, then tariff rates will become too high exceeding real income growth and inflation. Nuclear, clean coal and natural gas is the only way to go. How will tariff rates become exceedingly high when solar tarrifs have beat coal? And clean coal is ...

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