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A picture of the Brazilian corvette Barroso which is an improved version of the Inhauma class corvette cruising along with INS Deepak and INS Delhi from the recently concluded IBSAMAR III naval exercise that involved India, Brazil and South Africa.

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Prototype MiG-29K Fighter Aircraft Being Tested In The Soviet Union [Photographs]

Not Really, Only 1 of that Camera+Lens Set-up is mine


The 500mm F4 alone is $10.5k (that aint mine)


Sena Bal 748 @ DEL



Came across this interesting photo on Canadian Joint Operations Command's Flickr a/c :


Mohtarma Chindits' Photo:



Biggest Shockers of the day were these & just checkout the Kick-Ass Inglees:

'Shocking' rather not so much for the image itself but, the party hosting it: MEA !!

The Anti-Photography Government of India has finally made its debut on the Worlds Largest Photography Website!
True to tradition (0 PR skills), no one knows its there.
Only reason i even discovered it - was by accident i.e., my Search for something else matched a few words in one of the photo in there ^

I researched a bit to see if that ^ really was the case or if its just me who had missed it.
Most photos on there have at the most 2~5 hits on them (these will now go up after this post), results of MEA staff clicks (probably)

edit: one of the few photos that caught my eye & probably the only 2 photos on there with more than 100 hits, you guessed it :


Nov 10th, Maun Mohan Jee in MY City:
https://twitter.com/PMOIndia/status/267199413372473345 (< Great English there again)
I was heading to one of our spotting locations 2 hours before MMSji's arrival. The flock of Spotters already there called & told me to keep away as the Cops were massacring all in the vicinity.
We learnt of the reason later in the evening ironically, upon seeing this very tweet.

Dont know if i posted this before, Western Navy Media Day

Is that a Yak-38 in the foreground?

Yes it is.

My Latest Photo:
Checkout the Brilliant & Disciplined Routine of the Pacific Air Forces PACAF F-16 Demo Team as they dispatch the Fighting Falcon
⇒ http://www.airliners.net/photo/2189634/L/ ⇒ Rate & Remark

These guys were stationed well away from the crowds yet they kept practicing their thing in the sun.
The whole routine, synchronised walk-back to position, gesturing, dispatch, salute etc was Incredible!

Felt sad for them as only a few people close to the action were privileged enough to see this.
Besides being thorough professionals, they were an Awesome bunch of people, will post more photos of them soon.

They'd pro-actively go & reach-out to people especially kids, talk to them with a smile, distribute minor PACAF goodies like stickers, patches etc...... Readily pose for photos for ANYONE who'd ask, take the crowd's camera & click whatever photo they wanted with their crew.

Slightly like this:


Almost no other aircrew's attitudes came even close.

November 26, 2012: Desi Babu Pimped-Up AW 101 | Yeovil, UK

HI-RES

they usnavy blue angles have on the air shows have their hornets flying 1 and half feet apart between them? any pics to show this? interesting show on the mil channel, they respond to one lead, who keeps talking to them.. and that is how they get to turn either slow or fast.. so if he talks about turning left slowly, tuurrrnnninnnng leeeffffttt, then on the same speed of his voice, does others. that is interesting., and they have devices connected with sensors, that it would not turn otherwise faster or slower to correspond to the controls. did not get it clear.

Well the Blue Angels pilots and ground crews during their practice season used to come by the fence to chat.

I was referring to the ones at Aero India 2011.
Blue Angels Pilots are known for their way with the crowds afterall, they are the most Prominent Ambassadors for their force.


See 2:04



If you're Talking Blue Angels, then you NEED TO see this Brilliant Documentary > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119595/
PS: Tom Selleck is the Narrator - if that counts for anything

Similar pic, cheaper zoom lens... mine

Nice shot..

I thought two countries are on a divergent path because of the recent GMR issue

np yaar, aisa khali lagta hai! Quick moving targets are difficult to shoot even with pro gear









< looks like Ricky Ponting na?

For more, pls follow The US Navy & The Blue Angels' Flickr Pools

photos from EKUVERIN-12
http://www.aame.in/2012/11/exercise-eku ... dives.html

Mrs Mankekshaw


via http://www.aame.in/2012/11/siloo-maneks ... diers.html

Dear BRAdmins, whoever is in-charge of maintaining the IAF website is plagiarizing content from BR. Quite certain it ain't the other ways round because of these sentences
BR Site

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Perso ... C-Lal.html


IAF's website reads


http://indianairforce.nic.in/show_exchi ... d=19&ch=16

do verify if the others too have been similarly lifted. Sad.

Marshal Shaposhnikov. Is it normal for warship to have wall with such surface finish? or is this one especially bad?
http://www.rusembassy.in//images/articl ... G_9238.jpg

thats quite normal. Not everything remains spic and span after a patrol or two.

how can a patrol or two makes such condition of build quality? I think Soviet never bothered about the surface quality as long as the primary purpose is met ...

My Latest Photo:
Check this out, this is BRILLIANT!
Everyone except the PIC taking a photo of ME as they taxi past, Co-Pilot included!
HAL/Dornier 228 ⇒ http://www.airliners.net/photo/2194527/L/

Rate & Remark

LOL, that's an interesting experience

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Jet-Airways/Boeing-737-71Q/1326833/L/

I noticed that there is a Kingfisher aircraft in the background with three engines at the end. Is it a Boeing 727? Just wondering if they are really operating a 727 currently or is it a different one?

That's the personal jet of Vijay Mallaya...

You can get more of that registration here..

http://jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?reg ... &view=true

INS Sindhurakshak - Indian Navy's Kilo-Class Submarine Visiting Malyasia

via http://www.aame.in/2012/12/ins-sindhura ... -kilo.html


U.S. Navy Sailors Saluting INS Sahyadri [F49], Indian Navy's Shivalik-Class Frigate [Photograph]

via http://www.aame.in/2012/12/us-navy-sail ... yadri.html

Entering that harbor must be a real trick for a submarine commander..and its crew...

Yesterday:

HI-RES


Quick Q:
Is there a salute etiquette? As in, i see all 3 distinguished saheb's hands at a different angle.
Same goes for the two behind them, which one's is 'correct' ?

I know they're all equally respectful

They are all doing it right (In the IA and IAF, the palm whould be facing outwards. In the IN has the palm should be facing down).

http://www.bharatdefencekavach.com/News/6470_The-tradition-of-a-salute-in-Indian-army.html

^ I thought IAF should salute same as IN ?! No ?

-Ankit

Thanks Man

PS: The Naval Officer behind जोशी साहेब seems to be using his hand as a sun visor rather

No. The IAF had the same salute as the IA. They have new directives from 5-6 years back. They now salute at a 45 degree angle.

Vishalji - are you referring to the link above? The naval officer in the link is former CNS Admiral Arun Prakash who was a naval aviator and busted up "The Right Stuff" Paki ass licker Chuck Yeagers private aircraft in 1971

The origins of the action of saluting actually are related to accepting and shielding oneself from the brightness of the superior's presence so if it looks like a sun visor it is exactly the right context.

The IN salute is more compact (I was told that it is because there is limited room on ships to execute a IA style salute).

The restricted space on ships has led to some relaxation of the protocols for saluting; I don't know that it was the reason for the different angle of the hand.

I have heard (from a service officer, but can't actually vouch for it ) that the historic reason for the different angle in the Navy (going back to RN times) was an unannounced visit by a monarch to a ship, the crew of which had been hard at work scrubbing the deck and all had grubby palms - so they held their palms downward, so as not to let the monarch see the dirt .

No idea of authenticity

Rgds

Oops - just saw that the same story was in the link posted by Vishal - apologies!!

Btw, 'ware adminullahs - doesn't all this count as discussion, on a forum thread where there shouldn't be any discussion?

Shivji - He doesn't look like the person in the photo of Adm. Arun Prakash from Wikipedia.

he was referring to a different link....
this one
http://www.bharatdefencekavach.com/News ... -army.html

It is Arun Prakash. Check the nose

see this pic as well from Aero India 2011
http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/media/Aer ... i.jpg.html