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Anantz

The article is kind of shaky! I mean American ‘Bell Helicopter’ and Italian ‘ Agusta Westland’ have withdrawn their bids for the 197 Advance Light Helicopters (ALH) :shock: seriously? And it has been well known that only Kamov and Eurocopter had sent their aircrafts for field trials which was done a...

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Anantz - another set of brilliant posts. Thank you for sharing the information about the geography in the area. As for the Oct-December period - IIRC, that is the time IA mounts the Operational Alert on the border. Thanks Rohit Sir! :) I am sure they do it then, like I said most of the fighter sort...

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I am not sure either party will be in a favorable position then. The only option for RECON can be SAR sats such as RISAT I guess. With the Tibetan terrain pretty much denuded of any inhabitation or Vegetation, it could be easier to spot anything there. On our side, we have a National Park right upto...

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Do you remember lot of mil activity during the years 1986, 1987 and 1988. what was the activity in the Arunachal area. What is terrain on the other side. We need details about the Tibet area. Sorry sir, I was too young to understand anything then! :) My memory stretches back till around Mid 90s. I ...

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What is terrain from Sikkim to Lhasa. Where are the difficulties and what is alternate route from Tawang. What kind of force is required to reach Lhasa if Air Dominance is achieved. How far can Indian forces cut off the supply lines feeding the PLA garrisons/supply depot in Tibet from Chengdu and e...

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I am no expert on the matter, but I am from the North East and I am pretty much aware of the IA ground positions there and the nature of the terrain. First and foremost, the terrain in the Himalayas is unforgiving. Doesn't matter if we read about Tanks being deployed in North Sikkim, the part where ...

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Hi Yantra, I didnt take the Y-5 into factor because it is an almost obsolete light aircraft useful mainly for communications purpose, with a useful load of 2140 kg and at the max 12 passengers I didn't factor it for military airlift. Also the 10 figure for IL-76 MD, is what i have taken from SIPRI a...

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As per current assessments, PLA has the capacity to air transport approximate a division plus (15,000 troops) in one go and air drop a regiment worth (3,000 troops) in a single airlift. Its heli-lift capacity is nearly two battalions in a single lift. This capability was on display during exercise ...

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Ok for the sake of convenience I collected the data on the internet and as per SIPRI this is the total Mi-8/17 series helicopters that we have procured so far. Mi-8 – 1971-1972: 20 Mi-8 – 1979-1982: 80 Mi-17 – 1984-1989: 53 Mi-17 – 2000-2001: 40 As per ‘Warbirds of India’ the total known helicopter ...

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Singha wrote:I dont recall usaf F16 coming to india for exercise.

Have u forgotten Cope India 2006 Singhaji? I think we were hosting close to 12 at Kalaikunda then!

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Notice the new landing gear for Naval LCA, I hope these are the new high strength light weight ones which are gonna help bring down the Empty weight of the LCA!

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In fact during operation "Poomalai" I think it was called when An-32s airdropped supplies into Jaffna in 1987 or whatever and the Mirage 2000s that provided support had just their internal cannons and maybe heat seeking missiles!. I think they used only Magic Missiles because they were ca...

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The IBG was taken to mean Integrated Battle Group, since when has it been rechristened as Independent Brigade Group? AFAIK, the IBG was assumed by most to be a somewhat Division sized force (Eight in total), raised to deliver multiple cuts inside Pakistan. Here in the above article he has taken the ...

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Saw about 5-6 Fighter may be more, not sure but not looking like MKI or MIG-29 or Mig-21. Look like Rafale to me, lots of clouds unable to get the clear view. Those were F-16s, a total of 6 of them took off this morning around 9 am. It was reported on BRF that they had landed yesterday at around 2:...

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ANyone in Bangalore spotted this Bird. I did, I did! :mrgreen: Saw it take of... followed by another bird. This was preceded by a flight of another LCA. Shortly after the first one, two LCAs flew with the LSP-4 in the lead, took of and vanished away. Also caught a Jaguar doing a round, probably an ...

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I am not a guru.. but AFAIK a WSO is not a pilot. He is just that, a WSO, and does not normally have wings. And in most cases, for dedicated two seat attack fighters, the rear cockpit have their control sticks removed to be replaced by weapons controls. Atleast it is the case with F-18F as per comme...

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@ Stan In Sikkim, bhutias were always a minority, right from the first census held in the independent kingdom, the Nepali speaking population of Sikkim was almost 70-80%, and it has always been such. The Bhutias were the minority ruling elite of Sikkim who migrated to the lower himalayas from the Kh...

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where are we looking at airlifting 3-4 divisions and their equipment at short notice to build up local superiority? Well we did airlift a division worth troops in 1987 over a short period of time didnt we? And that was over 2 decades ago, when things were much more different. Today with Cold start ...

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India already has a formidable Airlift capacity. Gilles, considering the highly technical info that you normally post on BRF, would you care to elaborate how having 17 IL 76 bestows India with a formidable Airlift Capacity considering we have a 1.4 million strong army? U surely are using this argum...

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Man this new look sucks! Can we please have the old look back... The older one looked pretty formal and that was what held BR forum above the rest of the other forums. Please please revert back to the old look!

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May 8th is OK for me too... Lunch would be fine for me.. but no issues with dinner too...

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The bird flew at around 10:25; was followed by a chase aircraft, sounded more like a Jaguar, but could also be another LCA, didnt get a good glimpse of the 2nd aircraft. But the first one was definitely the LCA. Lets hope we hear some good news soon. Oh and it hasn't returned yet and it already been...

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Caught the LCH doing a couple of rounds above HAL airport just now. It was accompanied by a chase Dhruv. After 3 - 4 rounds, the Dhruv gave way and the LCH started flying solo, it flew a circle towards Leela palace side and turned around towards the airport. Was an awesome site... The chopper sure l...

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I am in! Please count me in and just lemme know if I can be of any help!

Cheers,
Anant

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rohit, could you help us identify IA's amphib units, if there are any that train for that role regularly? There is one Infantry Brigade tasked for amphib. role and one more was to come up in Trivandrum...I don't remember the numbers...let me check The brigade was mentioned as 91 Infantry Brigade ba...

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If India sends the Indian Nepalis back to Nepal they will fight and throw out the Nepali Maoists there. Pardon my ignorance, but what on Earth do u mean by sending the Indian Nepalis back??? Indian Nepalis are by Nationality Indian if they are suppose to go back, it would be to India and not Nepal ...

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Tension boils as police lathicharge pro-gorkhaland student outfits in Siliguri!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 536969.cms

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@Bhayana: Kindly type your statements outside the [quotes], from the above cant make the difference which one is quoted and which one is your answer.

Cheers!

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@ Rohitvats Compairing both the M777 and the SLWH Pegasus, which one do you think would be more ideally suited for IA requirements? While the M777 would be light weight making it able to be carried into battlefield most probably by even the Mi17; the SLWH is a tad heavy only able to be carried by th...

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Saw it too, was doing really tight turns over the HAL area. Seemed more like scissor maneuver! But it was awesome... n really quick!

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lakshya yinjin /= nirbhay yinjin. Hey guys I was comparing the Lakshya's indeginous engine and the jet engine used in the Tomahawk cruise missile. These are the figures for both the engines as per wiki and an old Hindu article on PTAE-7 (used in the Lakshya PTA) PTAE-7 (Lakshya) F-107 (Tomahawk) Th...

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I doubt China will ever will be able to take over the Andamans just by deploying some ships and submarines off of it. For one, the ships will be cannon fodder for our Sukhois based out of Car Nicobar, not to mention their subs ambushed just at the opening of the Malaca Straits by our fleet of relati...

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Well I get the point Sum-ji.... I was just pointing out something that didnt add up in Shiv Aroor's report. As far as availability of Operational subs are concerned, yes I agree they are quite different from what is there on paper. Especially factoring the serviceability of various subs in the IN fl...

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IL 76 MF has a payload capacity of 60 tonnes, C 17 Globe master III - 160000 pounds (72 Tonnes) Don't just go by the numbers alone, elsewhere in the forum, there has been a detailed discussion on the same. For instance, the C-17 can haul an Arjun MBT all the way to Leh which cannot be achieved by e...

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In the Indian context, where Tankers will not be operating too far away from forward bases that too well within defended airspace, it makes more sense to have more number of platforms with slightly less offloading fuel than less number of platforms with large fuel capacity. I read somewhere, that th...

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The IN has mentioned "operationally capable" SSKs(not just number of subs) and is clearly not including SSNs/SSBNs which interestingly is mentioned as only 1 in service in 2015, which would be the Akula meaning the Arihant is unsure by 2015?? ( as per the IN doc shown on TV):-? I beg to d...

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The math seriously doesn’t add up. As per the India Today article, if we start retiring the Kilos as per 2013 date for the oldest sub(which was inducted in April ’86), the average life would be 27 years for a single Kilo. At that rate, by December 2015, we would have only 5 Kilos left (Since 2 each ...

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Yup it was doing multiple low level and tight passes over the HAL airfield... That too with quite a loud bang! Surely must have pulled some pretty high 'G's as the radius was quite short and at quite a good speed. Reminded me of Aero India... Hope we hear something big soon!

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Please tell exactly what are the dramatic improvements that had happened to C-130J compared to C-130 - a transport plane with a cargo hold, cockpit, tyres and engines. Well if you haven't checked the specs mentioned for the C-130J that India is buying, its EW suite and its avionics, it is more akin...

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