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My dumb question 8) why do we need 20+ commissioned officers in a 'regular infantry' battalian? is it a good thing(for the country and officer cadre) to have more than 5 senior officers(15+ years exp Lt Cols) in a unit. did army explore the possibility of building a better JCO cadre to takeover many...

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If the scenario happens before 2014 election and Pak joins the war, is it not a good idea to allow places like south block/race course road etc to be nuked by Pakistan. atleast after all these years its one good thing pakistan could do for the people of india.. may be as a CBM

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and help even somalian navy(

) to find the location of our navy ships..

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2 Gun Brigades (3 Regiments each)
1 155mm tracked SPHs
2 motorised 155mm SPHs
3 155mm towed howitzers

dream??

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The small lane leading to the house of Captain Harshan, Ashok Chakra..

Unfortunately this is the only memorial for him in the home town outside the military cantonment..

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What about hitting 3 Gorges with Agni II with conventional war head. It wont destroy the dame but will send a message strong enough to stop further escalations. You hit me again, I will take out the dam and a dozen of your cities will be washed away.

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AFAIK he is with the TA 122 Infantry battalion based in Kannur Fort which is close to his native place. Actor Mohanlal is also attached to that unit.

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Ajmal Kasab hanged at Pune's Yerawada Jail this morning

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 303820.cms

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ajmal ... eststories

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ASPuar wrote:Hooo boy.... some heads are gonna ROLL!

Like this:

Will this ejection affect his medical category and there by career/promotions?

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If any mobilization happens, the Trivandrum based amphib. brigade (part of 54ID) should come into play. Also, it will be interesting to see from where the 54ID elements are airlifted. It is exactly for situations like these that we need to have an airmobile Bde. sized Rapid Reaction Force available...

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FORCES ON STANDBY FOR OPERATIONS IN MALDIVES. 54TH DIVISION WILL LEAD THE OPERATIONS. 2IL 76 AND SF COMMANDO TEAM ON STANDBY what happened to hyped C130J for SF.. may not be range issues, maldives is just 30-40 min from SAC.. trivandrum has a sizable maldive population(~10k) who come here for treat...

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so the bodyguards should be unarmed ?? :roll: and how will they protect the VIP if a terrorist attacks ? think a bit before saying meaningless things. Rahul, I was talking about the guys in the immediate vicinity of VVIPs. I remember reading about an approach to make the outer rings fool proof so t...

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was wondering why do they allow armed men near VVIPs.. i thought they stopped that after the assassination of IG. a highly trained person with an automatic weapon and the entire leadership of nation in front of him.

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OK. Time for quiz - what was unique about the Infantry contingent during this years R-Day Parade? Noticed a few things.. donno which one you are looking for :) 1. Lead by Para SF 2. Mostly mountain regiments ie; Gorkha, Kumaon, Assam.. 3. Officers were wearing regimental caps 4. Only infantry offic...

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There has to be trust between the Army Chief and the government. At this point the trust has been broken, endangering India's security. The Army Chief must demonstrate 100% of the time the discipline to take orders from the government and act on them without reasoning why. (He can perhaps express h...

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At the same time Govt has every right to tell them to go if they wish to do so and if they loose confidence in these person who serve them at their pleasure . Unfortunately this time it is the 'person who serve them' and the nation lost the confidence in 'them' (the government). If it was porkistan...

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Saw the ship this weekend.. and so i dont understand the claims on security part..

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There was a counter terrorism drill in office today involving NSG and IAF. An IAF heli(MI-8?) did few dry runs(touch and go) on top of one of the buildings and then finally dropped some NSG personal. NSG gear was not that great.. the same old heavy BPJ and one guy was carrying a sterling gun also. o...

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Would it make sense for India to acquire AC-130 type gunships for mountain warfare? My take on this is that if provided sufficient aircover, the AC-130 with 105 mm howitzers can pick out targets that are hard to reach for ground based howitzers, also they could stay out of range of potential MANPAD...

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er quality of life==quality of accommodation? This is OT but it is a really big deal. Even the number and type of family accommodations in peace stations(a desperate shortfall) matters. SF acco. too gets competitive and is a headache. I have seen the peace station accomodations for both officers an...

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From tsarkar link While major trade unions such as the CITU and the INTUC had understood the ‘sensitive' nature of the establishment, the BrahMos Employees' Union affiliated to the AITUC launched a series of baseless campaigns against the company, said sources in the BATL. “The BrahMos Aerospace ha...

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Pargha, that's why a permanent amphib rgt is needed if army is to hold on to those skills, rotating battalions won't make sense. I am not sure of the need for navy to raise a marine just because that's what everyone else does. land warfare is what army is good at and they will find it easier to cre...

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Wasn't 54 supposed to be an air mobility division during Gen Sunderji's days? Oh! that was typical of General Sundarji. He announced the converstion of division with-out assets in place. Yes, the Army Plan 2000 called for 2 Arimobile divisions and MOD/GOI signed on the plan but as we know, nothing ...

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^^ And what makes you think that the newly commissioned Officers are just sent to operations to be slaughtered by their callous COs? Do you think that the senior Officers are so dumb that they don't understand the disadvantages of inexperience? That they don't even "brief their men properly&qu...

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A hero's death, indeed.. My condolences to the family.. A quick question though, don't the officers generally come to Kasmir for COIN after serving 1-2 years in their parent arms?? I feel its the wild enthusiasm of war/encounter combined with inexperience that drives the guys to take risks and in t...

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In the 2G din, how many mourned this martyred soldier? Commissioned on March 20, 2010 to the Army Service Corps, the young officer was attached to the 18 Grenadiers regiment. Born on August 28, 1985, at Sangwali village in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, two of Lieutenant Khajuria's brothe...

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If you see the above pic, the troops sitting in Stallion are most probably from Madras Regiment (which one of the report clearly says are part of the brigade) and their vehicle also has same tactical number as BMP-II (268). So, my guess is, these BMP-II are integral to these infantry regiments. May...

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^^^^ Reminds me of my college days.. one person writes the C program and others copy that.. replace variable names and some extra blank lines here and there makes it a new program.. hmm..

Read another version of this story with Iran air defence and American F15s..

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I wonder why IAF is so late to procure long range Air to air or surface to air missiles. It should have possessed them readily by now. If it is sending RFPs and RFIs now, when does it get them and when does it induct them? where was the multi billion budget going all these days. Spending on kicked ...

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Today's OTA Passing out Parade photos.. http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4837/dscf3355j.th.jpg http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3509/dscf3274y.th.jpg http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6595/dscf3345m.th.jpg http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/5489/dscf3340.th.jpg http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9163...

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India takes steps to address shortage of officers in Armed Forces “All officers, including those in the Short Service Commission (SSC), are now eligible to hold substantive rank of Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel after two, six and 13 years of reckonable service respectively. The tenure of SS...

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I find this article a bit intriguing , why would DRDO expect NPO-Mash to alone foot the bill , when Brahmos is a JV company with a separate JV , so the bill should go to Brahmos Corp and not NPO alone. For redesigning the MKI , the IAF should foot that bill since its an IAF aircraft and they are en...

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Marten wrote:
rajeshks wrote:
Cute frog, but we've seen this before.
Could you please either register the domain or switch the image hosting service provider? Thanks.

done .. i changed the pic.. but was this pic posted before?

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tripoli airspace is closed by qadhafi regime. I suspect most indians would be in and around tripoli. a half dozen large construction firms were doing big projects in libya. if airports like benghazi in rebel held territory could be deemed safe, i am sure AI will fly in there. the kind of sitatuon w...

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nothing sensational about their testing.. Only thing important in what I said was, there was a new commanders sight..

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sum wrote:Praying that this succeeds and IA sees some much needed SP artillery...

DRDO lab in Pune is working on the 155 mm gun for BHIM. They had a model of BHIM for display. I will upload photos.

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It was not boxy but cylindrical. it looked more like a airborne sensor (but upside down).. The DRDO official didnt mention its model or country.. he simply said it provides Day/Night vision plus laser range finder.. country name I got from someone nearby so it may be wrong.. i was wondering why they...

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I visited the Indian Science Congress exhibition yesterday and got a chance to talk to a senior official(dont want to mention his name here) from CVRDE-DRDO about Arjun tank. 1. I asked him about T-90 vs Arjun and he said T-90 cannot be even classified as a MBT. So no comparison. 2. ERA, 1500 hp eng...

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