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- 15 May 2021 20:10
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
The unmanned era is upon us.UCAVs," loyal wingmen" etc.,etc. Ru has displayed a prototype of an unmanned AV, but lotsa work reqd. as the battlefield is another terrain altogether. Nevertheless, it's far cheaper making drones, kamikaze drones, in large number to use against ground and mobil...
- 12 May 2021 22:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3238
- Views: 2388220
Re: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
Which system has the 48km,longest range? The Dhanush?
- 12 May 2021 22:53
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
- Replies: 4118
- Views: 1247517
Re: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
Cutting one's nose to spite one's face! Dispassionately,we should examine the various upgrade options,assess the pros and cons,not get subjective ranting and railing at the Russkies who in the first place have given us the MKI,the backbone of the IAF! To jog the memory,got the better of perhaps ever...
- 12 May 2021 22:43
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
- Replies: 2810
- Views: 1680168
Re: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40539/the-end-of-iraqs-f-16-fleet-is-a-real-possibility-as-lockheed-contractors-prepare-to-leave The End Of Iraq's F-16 Fleet Is A Real Possibility As Lockheed Contractors Prepare To Leave Without U.S. technicians, the fall from grace of the Iraqi Air Force’s Vi...
- 12 May 2021 20:14
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
- Replies: 1703
- Views: 823918
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
https://eurasiantimes.com/indian-navys-new-alh-mk-iii-helicopters-to-be-equipped-with-homegrown-anti-submarine-sonar-reports/ Xcpt: Indian Navy’s New ALH Mk-III Helicopters Ready For Anti-Submarine Warfare With Indigenous Technology – Reports By Ayush Jain May 11, 2021 Some of the Indian Navy’s adva...
- 12 May 2021 19:57
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
Prat,around 24-18 months ago,the then DRDO chief spoke about the IA's wishlist for the FCMBT whatever,the bells and whistles asked for, plus weight to be around 50t+. The CVRDE/DRDO said it was impossible for all the paraphenalia to be accommodated in such a low weight and the IA had to firm up its ...
- 11 May 2021 18:55
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
As a counter,MIG-29 vs M2K, upgrade costs,64 nos. of 29s cost just under $1 B at around $13/14M a pop,whereas 54 M2Ks cost , staggering $2.5 B , that's around $50M a pop,more than a brand new MIG-35,Tejas,etc., with HAL demanding extra labour costs over and above hhat figure leading to a spat betwee...
- 11 May 2021 13:08
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
- Replies: 4118
- Views: 1247517
Re: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
Tejas production has to hugely perk up if it going to be the future backbone of the IAF.The 270+ MKIs and after the extra 21,around 80+ 29s ,plus 100+ Rafales and M2Ks will be the sharp end of the IAF's stick. The 120 or so Jags also lend useful support. At the current rate of production, by the end...
- 11 May 2021 12:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
Look,let's not go over "terrain" on Arjun debated for a decade+ now.Numerous generals of repute,who headed the mechanised corps, plus media reports stated that the tank will be based in the desert as the infra in other areas did nor permit its easy operationsl use. My positive attitude ,wh...
- 11 May 2021 12:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
- 11 May 2021 10:01
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5267
- Views: 1819506
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
I thought we did that decades ago with the Siachen ops! There are helipads available globally for Arctic conditions,etc. Having crippled the country through bio-warfare tx to the China Virus, we are behaving like a scaredy cat. The MEA has no ghoolies, so too fin. min., can't even stop Chin goods fr...
- 11 May 2021 03:54
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
If Arjun as the brigadier said was developed for the deserts,there should be good export potential for it throughout the ME. Right from N.Africa, Egypt, through the Levant, Iraq, Gulf and Arabian peninsula,desert terrain predominates. Most of the nations in these regions also have good relations wit...
- 09 May 2021 23:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2862732
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Friends have been sharing the Ivermectin/ Budenoside asthma drug effectiveness for months now! Our la-di-da " hexperts" of the ICMR and entrenched babudom in the capital are allegedly sabotaging any out-of-box standard medicine efforts/treatments for reasons best known to Big Pharma. For o...
- 09 May 2021 22:57
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
- Replies: 1703
- Views: 823918
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
How minor? Fortunate that the carrier was in harbour.
- 08 May 2021 22:13
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Arihant: News & Discussion
- Replies: 467
- Views: 247701
Re: INS Arihant: News & Discussion
Since details and pics of our N-subs are virtually non-existant in open sources,perhaps this excellent vclip about RuN Akulas may give us some idea of the what we may find aboard our N-subs,the Chakra (Akula) and Arihant,etc. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26261/video-takes-you-inside-russias...
- 08 May 2021 22:09
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
- Replies: 2093
- Views: 644359
Re: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40503/russia-just-accepted-its-new-super-quiet-cruise-missile-packed-submarine-into-service Xcpts: Russia Just Accepted Its New Super-Quiet, Cruise Missile-Packed Submarine Into Service It’s been a long wait, but the new Yasen-M subclass should help revitalize t...
- 07 May 2021 10:27
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Arihant: News & Discussion
- Replies: 467
- Views: 247701
Re: INS Arihant: News & Discussion
The banks of decoy tubes, resemble free flood holes and would cause a degree of extra noise that could've been avoided by a simple flush cover. The sub also requires a hard-kill anti- torpedo option as well as smart torpedoes have extra endurance to make repeated attacks if the miss the target due t...
- 07 May 2021 10:21
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8954
- Views: 2601795
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Human Rights Watch history ,... EC a recipe for friction from the start. It's going to be a rocky road . Expect even more pressure upon us to abandon Ru arms and become a US catamite like Pak,making use of our current CV crisis. Like the LBJ blackmail over PL-480 shipments, CV related essential mate...
- 07 May 2021 10:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 321763
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
In TN,the seats the BJP won were due mostly to strong AIADMK support. On their own they would've lost all. In Coimb.South,Vanathi S won v.narrowly over Kamal H because of the v.strong AIADMK votebank in the city and the western region of TN. Now KH has fallen out with Dr.M,his party Sec.,who has res...
- 07 May 2021 09:44
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2281
- Views: 881890
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Some v.sad news.AM PM Ramachandran former vice-chief of the IAF passed away in Chennai.He was 86.A v.distinguished career.Awarded the Shourya Chakra in '61 for destroying the Portugese patrol vessel NRP Vega and other ops. He was also the first pilot outside the USSR to fly the MIG-25 Foxbat in 1979...
- 06 May 2021 16:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India’s Ocean Territories (Andaman Nicobar & Lakshadweep)
- Replies: 267
- Views: 118561
Re: India’s Ocean Territories (Andaman Nicobar & Lakshadweep)
Some quick facts and thoughts. The PRC is attempting to outflank and encircle India via the BRI,Central Asian road/rail link to Europe through CA states and Iran.$500 B deal with Iran to sweeten the same.,including a new port facility for logistic access to its naval assets.Our long-delayed Chahbaha...
- 06 May 2021 10:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1809530
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
True Vivek, but China with 1.5B+ people,don't care a fig even if 100M KTB ( kick the bucket), that too most of them elderly.A grand way of easing up on food sourcing.In fact the geriatric Chin dead can be processed as food for the masses like Spam. They could call it Cham! :rotfl: The Phillippines s...
- 06 May 2021 02:28
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
The Chins have realised that their LT with a 105mm gun is outgunned by the IA's T-72s and T-90s with their 125mm guns in the Depsang sector and have reportedly reinforced their forces with their heavier T-99 MBTs.Around 350 tanks have now been deployed by the PLA. Inthe light of this,how urgent is t...
- 05 May 2021 23:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1809530
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/05/indias-neighbours-close-borders-as-covid-wave-spreads-across-region The slimeball Chins have been proactive organising a S.Asian jamboree without India,in an attempt to get our neighbours close borders because of the pandemic running riot in the country....
- 05 May 2021 02:06
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
Vips,any commonality of components with the K-9 would be a plus point for the K-21. At only 18t the Sprut could be improved with ERA plus an APU within another 4-5t. Arjun 1A with 60 odd improvements added just 6 to 8t. If after evaluation all the contenders make the grade,cost will be a factor at s...
- 04 May 2021 20:45
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
- Replies: 2093
- Views: 644359
Re: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
https://www.thesun.ie/news/6937858/putin-launches-submarine-nukes-russia/ Xcpt: RUSSIA is set to launch a new submarine with nukes capable of wiping out US cities in a chilling warning to Joe Biden. The launch of the Kazan sub is part of a long-running campaign by Vladimir Putin to modernise Russia’...
- 03 May 2021 16:28
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
Adm.Filipov,Ha!Ha! "Part of the deception scheme".Gents while it humours me, pl. don.'t give me such enormous ability to influence decisions.I'm merely an observer,analyst and postman of the scenario.I offer my views based upon facts of the matter available. All I further wish to say is th...
- 03 May 2021 15:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
- Replies: 4538
- Views: 719997
Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
Cross-posted in the Indo-French td.
https://mediaindia.eu/business/jaitapur-nuclear-france/
Time for India to cancel Jaitapur nuclear power project
France keen on flogging its ‘messy’ tech to India
May 2, 2021/ By Ranvir Nayar / New Delhi
https://mediaindia.eu/business/jaitapur-nuclear-france/
Time for India to cancel Jaitapur nuclear power project
France keen on flogging its ‘messy’ tech to India
May 2, 2021/ By Ranvir Nayar / New Delhi
- 03 May 2021 09:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 321763
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
Warning. The TOI in a report notes that in TNadu, rabble-rouser one Seeman,film director, who used to tout LTTE propaganda, most vociferous voice of Tamil nationalism ( against Dravidianism) , has garnered 8% of the popular vote,up from 4% in 2019! While winning no seats,coming 3rd. in many,this is ...
- 03 May 2021 00:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 321763
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
Take a walk down Park St. In Cal. The crowds of youngsters checking into the disco-bar at the Park Hotel, crowding the Wok this Way Chin cafe tucking into non-veg dishes with gusto shows you what the new generation of young Indians enjoy. International junk food chains and multiplexes with their car...
- 02 May 2021 23:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 321763
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
If that is so,massive undercurrent against Dravidian parties, why are the results so? I studied inTN and experienced first-hand the anti- Hindi riots in the late '60s. On the contrary there is a v.strong dislike in general for the BJP seen as a north-Indian Hindi chauvinist party. Ask many AIADMK pa...
- 02 May 2021 23:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 321763
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
In the south where few know Hindi,"vikas, swatch bharat ( is it an Indian made Swatch watch someone asked me!), aatmanirbhar,maan ki bhatt ( sounds like monkey bath)", and so many central govt. schemes are completely lost upon the man in the street,many of whom are illiterate or semi- lite...
- 02 May 2021 21:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Five State Elections
- Replies: 1447
- Views: 321763
Re: 2021 Five State Elections
Bengal: A stunning victory for Mamta,Nandigram defeat notwithstanding.I spoke yesterday to a close friend ,BJP ex-MP, who told me it would be a close fight. Why then this most unexpected result? First,the high parliamentary voteshare % that the BJP got has fallen .It shows that the Indian voter more...
- 01 May 2021 19:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Cyber Warfare Discussion
- Replies: 383
- Views: 136112
Re: Indian Cyber Warfare Discussion
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/suspected-chinese-state-hackers-target-russian-submarine-designer/ Xcpts: Suspected Chinese state hackers target Russian submarine designer By Ionut Ilascu April 30, 2021 10:09 AM 0 Russian submarine Hackers suspected to work for the Chinese government ...
- 01 May 2021 17:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Sri Lanka - News and Discussion- Post PM appointment crisis
- Replies: 1756
- Views: 426135
Re: Sri Lanka - News and Discussion- Post PM appointment crisis
The recent visit of the Chin Def. Min. has seen joint statements by both sides as to the " primacy" of their relations above all others,plus the GOSL shunning any attempt to join an anti- PRC grouping promoted by " outside forces". The die is cast. SL must now be considered as an...
- 01 May 2021 17:25
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
- Replies: 2093
- Views: 644359
Re: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
Tx,went through the details. The TOS appears to be a shorter ranged MBRL unlike Pinaka and other systems. I couldn't find min. range details for P, unlikely to be spelt out.
- 01 May 2021 12:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
- Replies: 2093
- Views: 644359
Re: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
Tx. V.interesting presentation. Does Pinaka have TBrounds too?
- 01 May 2021 12:07
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
- Replies: 1703
- Views: 823918
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
"The future is unmanned",US statement,both for its air force and navy. Given the size of hangars aboard our main surface combatants,plus high cost of new imported one-for-one replacements,a fast-track acquisition of UCAVs operating from naval platforms must be initiated including CVs. For ...
- 01 May 2021 11:34
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
- Replies: 2093
- Views: 644359
Re: Russian Weapons & Military Technology
Any idea of the range?
- 01 May 2021 11:23
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2338
- Views: 840380
Re: Armoured Vehicles: News & Discussion
In the current pandemic/ eco crisis,the Armata may be far too expensive for the GOI unless budget strings are substantially loosened,as likely as Pak with sincerity passing the " peace pipe"! Barring the LT req., I don't think that beefing up the armoured corps even more will happen in the...