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Thanks for the pics. Through those pics, I think we just got first glimpse of formation sign of 71 Mountain Division. The formation sign on the main entrance gate - black background, red ball with a 'sword' in upright position - may be the formation sign of 71 Mountain Division.
jimmy_moh wrote:some pics of AP border
courtsey : Dr:Afzal of BCM
Thanks a lot for the images, appreciate your effort and that of the original poster, the place is so surreal and pure, no doubt the Chinese fools have their eyes set on it, after destroying what they had in their own country.
Does the serial no. give any hint on the number of units produced or at-least a ball park figure? Since it is randomly picked from production lot
Also the cameo on the missile looks geared more towards western sector than North East. At-least from an amateur's POV. Would like to know what the gurus say
Google Image search has a nifty feature whereby one can upload a picture & it will give you other places in the Internet where the image is avaialble. Works in most cases, more so if the pic in question is old, which in this case, it is
^^the top picture L to R:
1. Either a Martel ARM or Sea Eagle AShM - a glance at the lower fuselage will tell us whether there is an intake (Sea Eagle) or not (Martel).
2. Super 530D semi-active BVRAAM
3. Matra 550 Magic II
these indeed look like the 530D & Matra 550, though it appears the dummy weapons have a stubbier nose cone [or it could just be the viewing angle making it look stubby] http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Image ... 30D-2.html
Those are representative loadouts for a LCA mockup that was shown at Aero India many years back. The first two are a Sea Eagle and a Super 530D (one of the BVR weapon in IAF inventory at that time, apart from R-27R/ER for the MiG-29s). Both are dummies. Third is a Matra Magic 550 - II. Its an actual missile, even if an inert round.
That bomb is a Matra BGL-1000 LGB. We imported those for the Mirage 2000 to be used with the day only Atlis-2 Laser Designator pod.
so these weapons shown aren't going to be certified for launch from the LCA. No wonder each time i looked up the weapon listed on the LCA's wiki page for visual similarity with the photo, none matched.
Also, if one could tell, what the green thing thing in the background is [upper portion of the photograph]? is it a drop tank or an unguided bomb. If a bomb, which one?
Jaeger wrote:^^the top picture L to R:
1. Either a Martel ARM or Sea Eagle AShM - a glance at the lower fuselage will tell us whether there is an intake (Sea Eagle) or not (Martel).
2. Super 530D semi-active BVRAAM
3. Matra 550 Magic II