Bharat Rakshak

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Hi KP hope your PhD is going well and welcome back to the forum. Missed your detailed AI reports! Thanks Karan-ji... It's going well. A large part of my going into radar-research was the amount of interest and knowledge I gained as a poster in BRF, so big thanks to BRF for that. Sadly, this has mea...

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Sometimes the dream of Olympics will spur a child to crawl, walk and run faster than otherwise. ex: US dream of landing on moon, spurred on the US Space technology development. I hope that's true, Saar, but there's too much riding on this. Failure will turn us into a laughing stock. It would've bee...

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Karan Saar, I've lurked on BRF since 2003, and been posting since 2007. I don't have any comment on the specific action that led to Avik's comment above, but if I may offer a suggestion/comment, from when I joined BRF vs now, (a) the ban periods for similar offenses seem to be much longer, and (b) i...

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https://twitter.com/TheLegateIN/status/1469949371701936130?s=20 ---> India to have it's own Space Station by 2030 announces GOI. it's a great idea, and I'd love to see a manned module with a tricolour in permanent orbit. But it seems to me like this is something that ought to be done only after we ...

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Not using Airforce within the country is a policy decision taken by GoI long long back. We cannot have redlines defined forever. Everything needs to be revisited with current capabilities and challenges and suitably redesigned Beyond the self-drawn policy red lines, There is also a political and di...

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^^ I guess we're all saying the same thing, brar-saab? VLO fighters are big problem onlee. But, as the Kosovo war showed, anti-stealth ops involve tactics and CONOPs that go beyond brochure-figures. Hopefully our forces are well prepped in such tactics and have some tricks up their sleeve. They migh...

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AI is no longer government property saar. But who knows, maybe TASL might just do this with their new assets.

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If the GTRE had a new engine ready to be tested on an annual basis. Then a FTB might be necessary. But flying an engine every few decades doesn't require a FTB. But the statement from the GTRE boss and the offers from RR and Safaran. Show that we are reaching such a stage in the near future. We nee...

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Both the US and Israel would be planning for a S-400 equipped Iran by around 2030 and that would be a logical thing to factor into their O plans. But much like the S-300 they currently have, their S-400 batteries will likely not survive for very long if the balloon goes up and the Israelis, or the ...

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US sanctioning India has wider ramifications than just indirecting helping Indian MIC get stronger (which we all want). Careful what you wish for. The last time the US imposed sanctions and technology denial on us, Babus and military alike were forced into the unnerving situation of (can you believ...

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Force Gurkha buggy with Negev mount, in use with Para SF. Is that the power cable for the winch? Running openly next to the bonnet? Why!!! Such a good TFTA vehicle and then they add this odd looking bit which wont probably hold as well! The paras will be operating in small, independent teams. Havin...

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Kaveri is heading to Russia for flight tests in January 2022. I remember then GTRE director bemoaning during the Aero India Seminar in 2009 about how just a 100-200 crore fund infusion could allow us to create such a testing setup in India, but they hadn't been able to get GOI to fund it. I believe...

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After going through the past few pages of this thread and reading about how the LCH is struggling to get acceptance from the forces, I think 'Sangram' will be a fitting name. :(( संग्राम Transliterated version: sangram. पुल्लिंग 1. युद्ध, लड़ाई (जैसे—भीषण संग्राम)। 2. कठिनाई (जैसे—जीवन संग्राम)। Tr...

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Can we crowdfund for some face-maalish for our commanders? after 23 rounds of talks, their jaws must be sore as hell!

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^^ Ramana Saar, might I recommend upgrading that model somewhat to think of it not just as a probability value, but rather, as a random process where the probability is a function of time and place. The asymptotic probability that India and China will be in an armed conflict is 1.0, so the more inte...

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Lil Birdie tells me that project management has moved on from the traditional approach to a more hybrid approach with quicker turn around and a focus on interim MVP's that are shown to the brass. This is across the board which means we must ideally see more 'made for India' products soon. I for one...

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We can name her Taarak - meaning star/sun in Sanskrit. Like in the name of NT Rama Rao, famous late telugu actor and politician. His full name was Nandamuri Taaraka Rama Rao. Why not taaraa ? Why the fascination with NTR? Why not go with the original samskrutam word, hain saar? Actually, Taaraka mi...

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Looks like the Pak Navy is also getting in on the T-action: PNS Tughril

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As a defence brat, it was drilled into me to be careful on disclosing things I might've seen at family days, etc. For eg, i kept mum about one of our testing sites that the old man worked on for years, until my advisor (an American) told me he'd visited it and had been given a tour. On the flipside,...

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^^ Interesting... that NGO is run by an ex-Army doctor. https://webnewsobserver.com/2021/04/30/ex-army-doctor-started-a-citizens-for-green-doon-planted-60-thousand-trees-and-saplings/ Normally, one of my first assumptions in these cases is to wonder which foreign entity might be pulling the strings,...

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Low level lightweight radar specs LINK Thanks shyamd - very interesting specs! 1) GaN AESA 2) 100 target tracking 3) Passive detection (not sure if it means doppler or RWR or EO) 4) VLO tracking 5) MFR: scan, track & FCR 6) Look-up, look-down (CM/UAV detection from hills), high supersonic targe...

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The Chief himself is standing next to his son in the first picture. If there was any risk, he would have advised against taking pictures. There is really nothing in those pictures of the Rafale that will raise any alarms. Hardened air shelters of the Indian Air Force have even come up in Bollywood ...

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Rare shots of the new hardened air shelters built at Ambala and Hasimara AFS for the Rafale. This is from Saurav Bhadauria, who I believe is the son of Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria (retd). https://www.instagram.com/p/CE9HN0npLlg/?utm_medium=share_sheet https://www.instagram.com/p/CE9GbT3JNgh/?ut...

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it's actually a cat and mouse game. Better missiles will result in better defensive capabilities which will again precipitate the development of a more lethal threat which will once again be countered and so on. That happens anyway, and it sure as hell isn't going to be only because China suddenly ...

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^^ also, often, the idea IS to forewarn an anticipated opponent. Defense by deterrence.

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India-China Border Row: Beijing Won’t Budge, Even at the Cost of War I don't know how to tell. The Indian position is to return to April 2020 postions. don't give a damn about what these so-called experts say. Please don't post such crap. It demoralizes the people in India. What are your specific i...

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Ladakh 2020: Officers who served there spell reality of Chinese intrusion HrZ2bKIxa_k The map at 9:20 is excellent, and comparing it against google maps shows how much further our perception of the LAC is from even the Google Maps version. Which is also scary, because if the PLA is blocking us at t...

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The RCS could also be a reflection of the size of the airframe. A smaller non stealthy airframe built with composite materials should have lower radar cross section. As compared to a larger non stealthy airframe built with composite materials. Depends on the radar band and the dielectric characteri...

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I saw a video of J-10S crash and it seemed like it had glided down and hit the river bank. I am not very technically competent but from what I have read is that most modern fighters are aerodynamically unstable to ensure superior combat manoeuvres and its the flight computer keeps them flying by co...

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Great point, Prem.... I think our armed forces and DRDO are stuck in contrasting cycles -- the armed forces are constantly readying for immediate to near-term war so much so that they're utterly unable to think of devoting some of those resources (financial, etc) to longer-term plans. In contrast, D...

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If the IAF is going for a higher medium-heavy mix because the Chinese are doing so, I am truly baffled: 1) Pakis made effective use of WLR - so we inducted the same 2) Pakis might get Abrams, so we draft a GSQR for Arjun. When Abrams don't materialize, we put Arjun in cold storage 3) If Chinese dep...

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Just as an hypothetical situation, if IAF was not prepared to tackle two front situation & the service chiefs/MoD/PMO knew we were not. What would IAF chief say to the press in that case on two front war ? No, We're not prepared for two front war. Even in that case they would say the same - &qu...

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You think that princelings can walk for 5 kms in such altitude? They would have been sharing horses. Up until the Mana pass road was created, our Jawans would take mules up to the LAC to patrol. Same for IA patrols up from Gangotri & Badrinath. I suspect we still have a strong mule contingent f...

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Thanks Rakesh-saar! I forget that BRF has 3 subforums, and usually only stick to the Mil one

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Do we have a specific thread for Afghanistan updates?

I've been following the OSINT updates, and there seems to be a restart of the Great Game happening again, with the re-forming of the Northern Alliance, Dostum, etc. I don't doubt that Indian intelligence is playing a role, if not a major one!

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Is the Tejas' relaxed static stability in roll or pitch? I remember it was roll, but not sure.

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I'd be very curious for an official report from ADA about the causes for this incident. From the citation, it looks like the two systems that failed (FCS, pressurization) were the ones that were rectified and being tested, which suggests QA issues in the actual maintenance and upgrade, and there bei...

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Maybe GoI can start to roll back on our unilateral assent to the one-china policy. One start might be using the terms "Indo-Tibetan border" and the "India-Xinjiang border". If asked, MEA can always say these are provinces under Chinese administrative control, and leave it at that...

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RishiChatterjee wrote:I'd like to draw the attention of y'all towards this detail... They're buying 99 engines, 16 more than 83

Spares wonlee, sadly. It'd have been nice if this were 99 engines over and above the first order. Lets see. Hope springs eternal.

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^^^^ Don't believe everything that the Elongated Muskrat says, saar. Notice how he says its the only house he 'owns'. Lots of "Ashwatthama Hatho gajah" possible in there. Having worked in the company for a bit, there's a lot of interesting stuff one hears by the coffee machine that leaves ...

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