Bharat Rakshak

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This US having unlimited budget might be theoretically true, but in practice, you hear a lot of whining about budget cuts, depending on whom you dint pay off at the Hill. They have so many competing tech programs that it sometimes works against them by cannibalizing each other's funds. Particularly...

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The AWST article is what I was citing. Interestingly, the Aegis + SPY radar + SM series missiles have had a good run against ballistic targets. In contrast to the other all new missiles being developed under BMD. The advantage of starting late- like India has- is you can see what works and what does...

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Needless to forgot that system like Sword Wish received Israel assistance and same goes the case with France with Master-A. So who said otherwise? :) There may be many more components as well, but the design and verification has to be done inhouse. Check MEADS for instance: It will have two radars ...

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If they keep the momentum up, and undertake a similar design process, I think we can field a THAAD eqvt or even better all the way to ICBMs as well According to Wiki THAAD missiles have a range of 200km and intercept upto analtitude of 150km. PAD's intercept height is in the range of 50km-80km. Wha...

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US works on virtually unlimited budgets and have the liberty to test on system and gradually build up the whole system plus their requirements are different from us. Difficult to compare and say we did it in one test and they took xx to do that same , since both systems are different and so are the...

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Vsudhir, thx. Like I said earlier, the caveat is that the THAAD engages to a higher alt/ speed envelope than the PAD, but then the Indian program is not just one missile but two, which makes the overall effort quite substantial. This photo. Both have a separate kill vehicle, capable of Hit to Kill (...

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And what Arun S had pointed out - check the contrails! PAD Contrail: http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/723/7db3.png THAAD contrail: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Tems11.jpg During test flights at White Sands Missile Range, the missile undergoes the THAAD Energy Management Steer...

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I was reading about ABMs and the PAD/AAD test successes are remarkable, given how incremental other countries testing has been. APJ Kalam once mentioned India tests for maximum effect whenever it can, with as many parameters per test as possible. And so it did. The THAAD is more capable than the PAD...

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Discussion- Missile Thread pls. Plus, that bit is clearly referring to an image in the article. But two of them evade detection and head for the capital . ...followed by: As they arrive 30 km above Delhi, the Indian Army launches another barrage of interceptors that successfully bring down the remai...

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Kersi Thats a very good point, from this angle, the Tusker and ALQ 101 look very similar. And after all, the Tusker is the Jags pod. The items on the overwing pylons (imo) are Sidewinders w/o fins. The starboard outer on one of the Jags could be a Phimat (chaff + flares). But what makes me think thi...

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Just look at the cammo and the US ALQ 101 EW pods on the outer pylons. Those are RAF Jags IMO.

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Guys guys discussion to the Missile Tech thread. Leave this for articles

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The LRTR and MFCR combo are meant for this, to distinguish decoy from real warhead.

The datalinks are designed to be hard to jam.

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Please excuse repeat posts: Link [quote] Indiaâ€™s interceptor missile test yields new surface-to-surface missile as a spin off Indiaâ€™s interceptor missile test yields new surface-to-surface missile as a spin off December 12th, 2007 - 9:23 pm ICT by admin - Email This Post New Delhi, Dec 12 (ANI):...

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Thats not the radar picture..but a GUI which just plots the ballistic path of each missile. Remember, they got to know the test was successful from the LRTR plot which showed debris.

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I think the time has come to share this.

In 2003, DRDO published about its radar efforts.

And this was also there:

The array and more importantly the facility speak for themselves.

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Given this scenario, what chances does a Prithvi interceptor flying at 500 metres/ second stand against an incoming made-in-China Shaheen whose velocity is more than 3,360 m/s? But the tested interceptor can indeed block M-9 and M-11 class of missiles that Pakistan and China possess. Could Arun S w...

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Another technical factor the Lt Gen is talking off is the difference in scale between photos and the maps that led to imprecise identifying of the intruder positions. He isnt quite happy with the PGMs used. Ramana, he is alluding to the fact that the PGMs werent used in sufficient numbers to make a...

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SwamyG, dhimmitude is the primary cause of Indias strategic lassitude. It may not be the only cause...Hinduism has always had a very strong streak of self abnegation, which incidentally was the one thing that survived - with more taboos added- since it didnt upset the rulers cart. And why dhimmitude...

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If that is the case, then Hinduism can be manufactured to be Hip, Modern & Current. Positive psy-ops is needed to raise pride in our own culture to tackle Islamism. Yes, but it will be a very uphill struggle, which imho will not occur easily because of a variety of factors: - JNU sociologists a...

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I think Brahmo Samaj was the last...but it wasnt a concsious one. The British had introduced a lot of ideas and thoughts, some of which were necessary and some which were subversive. Many of us would find that era very hard to manage, with gradually entrenching taboos about caste, widow marriage, an...

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My question is were they being dhimmi while deluding themsleves that they were Modern Macaulayites who were beyond all this dhimmitude? Exactly. In the view that was propogated, religion was an artificial fancy..used by fuddy duddies to spread discord, superstition...all our books were full of refe...

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As Shiv pointed out immediately the Hindu is branded an Hindutvadi, an RSS sympathizer, a BJP supporter. This upsets several Hindus and now they take a step or two back. It is my opinion that Hindus should reply "Yes, so what!". But the Kafur Doves never want to acknowledge the Kafur Hawk...

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Acting (because women should remain in their houses and male actors dressed as women are haram) is against sharia. Music is also against sharia. And Mohammed wasn't too fond of poetry either... Well, he was fond of war and women...thats about it. Not much to go on for Muslims if they take him as an...

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Nasreen spoke about the plight of Hindus in Bangladesh. MF Hussain and others did nothing of the sort. They got into trouble because of their depiction of Gods and Goddesses in quasi/sexual acts. TN otoh merely criticized Islam. Hundreds of people, critics criticize Hindus in writing but no rowdyism...

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They all came to a singular conclusion: It is not possible to create such a complex and high tech product as a fifth generation aircraft engine with the required characteristics by the efforts of on Russian enterprise. Therefore, it is necessary to create a pool of Russian motor builders. If anythi...

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Never heard anything about this radar called Bharari before. Can anyone shed some light on this? MNK, thats the Bharani 2D Low Level Light weight radar. Developed by the LRDE for the IAF/IA.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRDO The 2D Low Level Lightweight Radar(LLLR) for the Army, which require many...

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I am going by the events rather than on papers. Also its easy to blame everything on Gandhiji. Ramanaji, if a compact was made, whom would it be made with? Too many players, and who would enforce it? IMHO, the simplest explanation is that the Congress identified Muslims vote as a bloc, encouraged h...

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This is a compact with the IM elite soon after Partition. Ramana, I havent come across any evidence that such a compact was made and signed or agreed on apart from the fact that the elite was too fragmented anyway, for such a coherent understanding to be hammered out. Its actually (imho, of course)...

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people seem to have accepted Shiv's contention that India is dar-ul-islam light. So here is a questionnaire for you: Name the Islamic countries where muslims have been killed by non-muslims because they were muslims (never mind the cause behind it) Indonesia, several countries in Africa..Christian ...

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I agree not all is black or white, but apparently IAF is becoming more receptive of indegenous techs. Akash, LCA and AWACS are the examples that I know of, maybe you know better, a bigger picture even. To be honest, the IAF and IA have a long way to go before they reach the level of the Indian Navy...

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K Mehta, all three services have problems with indigenous products and successes as well. Its just not all black or all white. Re: Future MBT, 40 tons is very very untenable... there is no frigging way, with current tech that a 40 ton MBT with a classical layout can withstand current munitions alone...

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Key avionics details of the PAK-FA at MAKs ( thanks Pit )- Show reveals details on key T-50 systems by Piotr Butowski : Summary: On display were parts of the Tikhomirov NIIP radar design bureau's Sh-121 radar set, a mock-up of the Tactical Missile Corporation's (TMC's) Kh-38ME tactical surface-to-ai...

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Please provide a source when you quote one. While your statements above may indeed be good in theory, its a fact of life that the S-37 has had issues with certain flight regimes and is hence relegated to test flying. And irrespective of personal belief, there is no indication or report from the Russ...

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I think T-50 is not the aircraft that will become Russias 5th generation aircraft -it will be most likely the Golden Eagle with its revolutionary forward swept wing and AL-41 engines and maybe plasma stealth technology .Plasma stealth needs lot of power and hence the need for extra powerful engines...

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OFB was filled with pro-commie types. These commie unions stopped the functioning of the ordinance factories during the 1962 war when the nation urgently needed ammunition to fight the chinese invasion. Only after the BMS stepped in that some order could be restored in the OFB factories. The BMS et...

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Rahul, time will tell. I had given up on the OFB!!

Imagine, how many decades after OFB was set up, they took this basic step.

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The Kabini was first tested at CIAM in Mid August '98.

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492 crores Barely $ 100 Million..with Battery radar, Central Acquisition radar, C3I posts.. Compare with: HAWK SAM: Development Cost $: 146.000 million. in: 1965 average dollars Patriot MIM 104 A: Development Cost $: 2,210.100 million. in: 1982 average dollars. AMRAAM- used as the basis of the Humr...

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Yeah, thats the same thing moreorless.. DRDO guys are very reluctant to mention anything about any kind of difference, word is that initially the IAF was fully on board for the AWACs design and everything went well. Once everything was well underway, the usual gyaan of lets get something bigger and ...

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