Bharat Rakshak

Badar

tejas wrote:DRDO already working on a stealth UCAV--AURA.

Unfortunately, the current state of DRDO capabilities is such that it leads to the question : "with whom?".

Badar

Also lets leave this at that, the piece doesnt deserve it

ravi_g, I agree. The only interesting point is that the piece was written at all, and what it signals.

I would just say that my own perception of the situation is more attuned with that of the PM than with BC.

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Rahul M wrote:classic ! x-posting on kitaab-e-chehra

Does BR have a facebook account? Just did a search and saw a bunch of squatter accounts.

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The other question I have is how on earth can a laser detect anything? I mean that for laser to detect anything it has to fall on it first and a pinpoint beam is hardly likely to accidentally fall on an aircraft 25 kn away, or even 6 km away. The aircraft should have been detected by other means an...

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They can detect ranging lasers. Are you absolutely sure Badar. I deal with laser range finders and they use a spot beam that is pulsed for a few milliseconds. They should be nearly impossible to detect. A range finders beam is quite different from a radar painting a target. Unless you are in actual...

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Philip wrote:It is going to be farcical to see the false smiles and hypocritical courtesies,salutes and namastaaes between Gen Singh and the PM,DM,Def.Sec. and other assorted VVIPs,VIPs from the govt. and assorted babudom at the Republic Day Parade.

Not really, You salute the uniform and not the man ... etc etc.

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we had better get cracking on the AMCA using a mix of indian, israeli and western inputs. the engine should either be the kaveri-snecma (when it arrives@maturity - hopefully in 7-10 yrs) and interim can be the M88-4 which is apprently ready for the latest block of Rafale. I dont think we'd need 2 x...

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I thought that these laser warning systems can only detect illumination by a laser beam riding type of weapon system(where the entire or at least large chunk of the aircraft will be under the laser "flash light") and not a pinpoint laser beam that a range finder (or a Hellfire type missil...

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To my view message in the write up by the “Chinese Special Representative, State Councilor Dai Bingguo” (not the ambassador, more like the ‘shuttle diplomat’ HK telling Indians what his vision for Indo-US relations would be) was reasonably clear and reasonably successful in its scope though not in ...

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Though this is unprecedented, a foreign govt. addressing the citizens of a country that it does not directly govern. Even if not unprecedented, I hope you would grant that this is not the standard practice. ravi_g, ambassadors writing opinion pieces in newspapers is hardly novel or comment worthy. ...

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Austin wrote:China Plays Rough
India breathes fire as dragon China dominates

Other than the first point, the last four hardly seem to be throwing in the towel.

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hailinfreq, yes I am aware of Chinese economic dumping, diplomatic support to Pakistan, arms supplies to naxals etc etc. An call is currently being made to improve ties; this should be welcomed and reciprocated. Yes, China will maneuverer towards its own national advantage, as will India. Either wou...

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A new life for the Rafale M F1 http://rafalenews.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-life-for-rafale-m-f1.html Oye Rakesh Koshy! Where is my Akula Jalebi? Don't tell us you have commissioned a competition to the MoD babu's to identify the best jalebi technically and will issue contract to the L1 bidder in the...

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Rahul M wrote:I have a sneaking suspicion he might resign on his own to prove his point, esp if he wins the court case.

Indeed. I am glad I am not the only one who hold a higher opinion of him that his many voluble supporters.

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ramana wrote:Badar, First the aribtray decision of the govt has to be reversed. After that its upto the General. Again he is a serving person and we should not discuss what he may or may not do. Its not germane right now.

I disagree. Nonetheless, your house, your rules.

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I did say that the right thing is for him to serve his full tenure. Otherwise the effort goes waste. His full tenure must be respected. That is only right -- any thing else is wrong. If Govt had not messed up Gen V K Singh would have served full tenure -- so if justice is done, the effect of the me...

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Kartik, another year, another review, another program restructuring and another reduced performance targets - and viola! what do you know? The JSF will 'meet or exceed' every requested parameter.

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Sanku wrote:Fully agree, if court rules in his favor, the least Govt should do, is not fiddle further. Enough damage has been done already.

And his honor satisfied, should the General then take early retirement?

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Anything else is a banana republic -- where tenures are decided on whims and not on predictable and fair set of rules. I agree. The government has full right to appoint and fire any Service Chief at any time for any reason at all. Because this is such a high profile position of high visibility, the...

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badar ji, I simply did not understand how you drew that extreme logical conclusion. here's a case of a govt employee who moves court to seek redressal about a perceived injustice. now you may think it is unseemly and against the greater interests of the army. someone else, me for instance might thi...

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nachiket wrote:The only credibility in question here is that of the governement.

Government and credibility? Lol!

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Any regime that indulges in blatantly illegal behavior must be taken to task. That is what VKS is doing and it is in the interest of the service and the nation. I could live with that. But it would have been a hell of a lot credible if he had taken a less personal issue to take the 'regime' to task...

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Yet none of your criticisms makes any sense what so ever. Apart from raising bogey men of extreme constitutional crises what exactly is your complaint is totally lost. This phenomenon is known as thread drift. Conversation started of with VKS, shifted to civilian control of military and now to cons...

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Glad to have pleased you Rahul, koti, Vinay and SaiK.

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Pranav wrote:
They will argue vehemently for what is best for India, secondarily for the services during policy making through the regular channels.
That is what VKS is doing.

I must admit I fail to see how all this is supposed to work out in India's or even the service's advantage.

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I have a question for the people who follow military personalities and appointments etc. Was there a chilling effect in the behavior of the Naval Chiefs/Service chiefs post Bhagwat? Have the naval or other chiefs started looking over their shoulders for approval from the civilian masters? Or is it b...

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if the govt of the day in all its wisdom decides to divide India into 4 independent states (say) and has the parliamentary majority to carry through this decision, should the rest of the country (which includes the military) sit back and watch ? Assuming the parliament with two thirds majority and ...

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Sanku wrote:So for country's sake -- please stop.

Righto sanku.

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People of India are the sole arbiters of national interest. Which include then men in uniform with various powers vested to them through constitution being part of GoI, a part of executive. No more and no less than elected legislature. Another part of GoI. This hype about "elected representati...

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The armed forces are not the arbiters of national interest, the elected representatives are. I have to strongly object. elected representatives cannot be the sole arbiters of national interest, because they are not domain experts. they are expected to take policy decisions but that is guided by the...

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Sanku, I am wholly in agreement with your last post save point three. If asked to disband they must do so forthwith without hesitation or argument. The armed forces are not the arbiters of national interest, the elected representatives are. On topic though, is VKS's DoB stand one of those where the ...

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Lightning hai muscular, hai popular, climb rate hai spectacular
uska ka engine tez hai, wo Japan mein craze hai,
uska RCS light hai, wo dikhat 5th gen hai,
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but lightning can't land sala

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I believe you were replying to rohitvats, I dont think he remotely implied that Army should fix civil power structure, only that Army must do its part in keeping the part of Army-civil interface healthy, with both give and take. If that is all there is to it then there is no difference of opinion h...

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Pranav wrote:Surely you are not unaware of the KGB payments?

Ah, the KGB payments. No further questions at the moment your honor.

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Why does Mugabe want to screw Zimbabwe? Why should a thriving country be a good thing if a more aware population would be less likely to put up with your loot? In the present case we also have to consider the matter of foreign intelligence antecedents. I don't know why (and if) Mugabe wants to scre...

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Raf Khan wrote:US already won the contrat for C17 : 10Md$

That sounds too cheap to be true. Surely you mean 10B$?

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That is one opinion. However, IA has already been used to fix civil issues, so clearly unless previous actions were unconstitutional, which we know they were not, we can not make the case of "must". There is a difference in fixing civilian issues and fixing civilian power structure issues...

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I dont think she sits up at night for that. I believe she is seen doing the above during day time and prefers to get her beauty sleep at night like any good ruler of divine right should. Tsk, tsk, these modern day overlords. No more dark dungeons or all leather dominatrix apparel for them like the ...

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All this hogwash of bad precendence is because the bureaucracy and netas are afraid that Chiefs will not take their shenanighans lying down in future. Fixing or fighting the civil powers shenanigans must be specifically out of the purview of the armed forces - that is one enemy they must not fight ...

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The more I read of this storm in a teacup the more I get the feeling that someone should release a torrent to clean up the festering Agean stables - Cabals of Army officers in nexus with MoD mandarins torpedoing each others promotions, COAS being nudged out because he is too honest implying his repl...

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