Bharat Rakshak

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The coming strides in arty are not going to be in the number or even length of tubes, rather smart fuses, rocket assisted projectiles, connected fire direction centers, and closing the sensor shooter gap. Looks like the IA is making strides in all areas.

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The pneumatic rammer in the Sharang is really important.. Otherwise they would have problems ramming the 40+kg round when the tube is at high angles.

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There is a second reason for the interest in 'super guns'. Think of low level conflicts like Afghanistan. Right now, the only option to provide air support to troops is through a drone or an F18, or a B52 carting JDAMs or SDBs. If you have an artillery piece with a range of, say 300 kms, and guided ...

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Killing innocent youths, five of them, in cold blood after abducting them under a major general’s supervision can’ be excused on the basis of intenseness of the theatre. Being in battle is not a joke.. At the end of the day, being in an armed service is a job of human butchery. You identify an enem...

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Is the S400 going to be customized with Indian radars? Is there any contribution by DRDO into the deployed systems such as seeker heads etc.? Will the IFF be customized to India? I am at a loss to understand how we can have an adversarial relationship with China, yet share the same air defense syste...

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The golden age of the ATGM is past us. Active protection systems will render most of these obsolete within the next 5-7 years. The golden age of a sensor fused, drone integrated, 2 or 3 person tank is still ahead of us. for the current designs, possibly. APS have a limited protection bubble, of a f...

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This is not a 2+2 dialogue.It is 2 telling another 2 what to do, "sign on the dotted lins or else..."! ... There will be definite concern with the Russians as this commns. agreement could compromise their milware. It may also spur them into providing Pak with extra Ru weaponry which the C...

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Military Capacity: 1. What new shiny toys do we get 2. Does it lead to improvement in Indian MIC? Wrong question to ask. Modern military power is about a system, not about any shiny toy. It will definitely lead to improvement in Indian MIC. We can fabricate and system integrate at an international ...

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The golden age of the ATGM is past us. Active protection systems will render most of these obsolete within the next 5-7 years. The golden age of a sensor fused, drone integrated, 2 or 3 person tank is still ahead of us.

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If there is a next generation of MBTs with larger 140mm canons, a human loader will not be able to manhandle those rounds anyway. So its most likely that next gen tanks will have a max of a 3 man crew and the loader will go the way of the 'radio operator' in tanks.

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https://www.quora.com/How-do-soldiers-withstand-the-intense-heat-inside-a-tank How do soldiers withstand the intense heat inside a tank I served with 2nd Tank Battalion (US Marines) as a Forward Air Controller/Air Officer in 1998–1999. One of the greatest tours I did, by the way, fantastic group of...

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The Army will not accept the Arjun, it hasnt accepted it for 15+ years and wont do so in the future. Ultimately, the customer is right, especially this customer as he puts his life on the line, and the DRDO/ARDE better focus their energies on a new design rather than beating the same dead horse. So...

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The Army will not accept the Arjun, it hasnt accepted it for 15+ years and wont do so in the future. Ultimately, the customer is right, especially this customer as he puts his life on the line, and the DRDO/ARDE better focus their energies on a new design rather than beating the same dead horse. Wha...

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sell the 29Ks to the iaf and buy rafales. Pay dassault to do some folding wings, or a removable part in the outer wing. :-(

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I wonder if a Brahmos can be used as an ultra long range SAM against tankers and awacs. If one fires a spread of Brahmos like a spread of torpedos, conceivably, the no escape zone can be reduced to nothing. The huge warhead means even a miss by 100 meters would end up peppering the target with holes.

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If there is a war, India needs to plug into a large armory. Europeans states can not be relied on to maintain large stockpiles of missiles/bombs etc. I recently read a report that the German airforce had only 4 Eurofighter Typhoons ready to go into combat! There is only one game in town when it come...

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Matrix sheet of Jaish Coded matrix sheets: How terror groups use it differently https://www.oneindia.com/india/coded-matrix-sheets-how-terror-groups-use-it-differently-2382316.html Got it. Thanks. Sounds like one time encryption pads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad In cryptography, the ...

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Any sources on T90s being moved from the West to the China border? As far as I know, there are only a couple of places that are Tankable on the China border, and we dont station frontline tank forces there. As far as I can tell, these new T90MS tanks are to operationalize Cold Start and will be stat...

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Project 17-A frigates that will soon go into production. That is almost double Yantar’s Rs 3,425 crore price for each Grigorivich-class vessel. Can anyone in their right mind compare Gregorovich to Project 17A? Two choppers vs one, Barak 8 vs a missile of questionable capability, project 17As displ...

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Willing to bet this MKI to tejas comparison is not an apples to apples comparison. Its the same old T90 shell vs a fully equipped Arjun comparison and the Russian ape is flinging shit as usual. Added later: Checked out the Rajya Sabha TV program with AVM Bahadur and the two journo types unloading on...

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Looks like kevlar fiber.. Only the bulletproof patka is 'proof' against 7.62x39. Kevlar helmets are lightweight but only stop 9mm and arty fragments.

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Why don't you ask any general in Afghanistan on how many bullets of 5.56 or 7.62 caliber is required to make sure a Taliban is dead? Whatever they take it before fighting but they sustain on average 10 rounds of 7.62 and 16-20 rounds of 5.56 caliber body shots before death. :rotfl: Someone doesnt k...

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not honoring contracts, threatening law suits and "I'll take the ball and go home" blustering may have worked in NY real estate. not sure if that's how you can shakedown china. Its much harder to find new markets for your products than to find new suppliers for your market. China has the ...

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With 1 m resolution, Pak gets its first spy sat. There is a lot of skill involved in analysis and I expect itll be a few years before this sat and the analysis team looking at its pictures is fully operational.

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The best way to salvage something out of the Arjun fiasco is to use some of the Arjun technologies to make the locally produced T90 and T72 fleet better. A better autoloader, a bustle to store the propellant, modular armor will all improve the T90 significantly and also make that fleet a lot more su...

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While it shares information from the Pakistani side, the narrative of history is selective - suppressing facts about Hindu majority Jammu and Buddhist majority Ladakh and the research is shoddy For example, from page 38 India’s enhanced military strength, together with men especially trained in sno...

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Sudeepji, NZ has written that she is a friend of Ms. Shireen Mazari! What else do you expect from her? Gautam I find myself in the weird position of having to defend a Bak nationalist :-D I think, among that crowd, she is not in a complete fantasy world that say, madam tractor trolley inhabits. Yes...

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Link to Nasim Zehra's book. I am about 50 pages in and the whining about Indian perfidy is never ending. This is perhaps understandable since she was likely to get shot if she did not provide cover for herself by cursing at the wicked Indians. Yet to get to the juicier parts about the actual operati...

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Every state has rules to protect vulnerable classes. There are similar rules about land ownership in Himachal, in UttaraKhand.. there are laws that prevent sale or transfer of land owned by SC/ST to a non SC/ST. One could argue about the ethics or constitutionality of these laws, but they are prefer...

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^Shanmukh: I think your data points are correct. What we saw in 2014 was a polarized electorate with the valley voting for soft separatists. The failure of this alliance is also a failure of governance and both parties are responsible for this failure. IMO, along with Mehbooba Mufti, Rajnath Singh ...

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What with this usual rona-dhona.. Something to cheer you up, apologies for the haram twitter link.
Tral encounter scene, final moments:
https://twitter.com/SuddhanSadaf30/stat ... 3881765889

You will never guess what happens after the soldiers say, 3 seconds! 3 seconds!

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1) UN Report on "Human Rights Violations" in J&K, from a pure Hurry-rat/HM/LeT perspective, as ventriloquized by "Amnesty International". 2) Report of similar tone and content in National Geographic magazine in US, which in general steers clear of political stories. Oh yes. ...

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Cant help but chuckle at Shujaat Bikharis murder. Watching his twitter feed, I think he criticized some murders of local Kashmiri policemen/armymen during eid and that was reason enough for some jihadis to spray bullets at him and his security detail. The hate spread by his fellow Islamists and Kash...

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Army men trying to convince the family of a terrorist jihadi to persuade him to surrender. I dont understand why this kind of people are not sent to Pakistan where they can continue to engage in jihad to their hearts content.

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https://i.redditmedia.com/hld0JmLknoGtSieFF9lwpGaJWJPWckYnMUeuSyfQKJE.jpg?w=997&s=b152e5e3d362797cc066780b58ae8da7 Battle scarred T72. Note that the side ERA has take a hit and while one tile may have worked as expected, the rest of the tiles are ripped off by the explosion, leaving that side v...

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Possibly two or three tonnes can be reduced by replacing steel wheels with alloy, replace regular steel in trails with ultra-high-strength steel or titanium. More than that is simply asking for trouble. Meanwhile Pakis have inducted Panter in numbers.. 155mmx52Cal Turkish artillery that outranges a...

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Of course the army knows what such a gun should weigh. Let’s not believe the numbers on a media report. The knowledge of our reporters to interpret technicalities is subhanallah! This is the 4th or 5th time this information - ATAGs is overweight, army wants a 12tonne gun - has been reported, each t...

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Possibly two or three tonnes can be reduced by replacing steel wheels with alloy, replace regular steel in trails with ultra-high-strength steel or titanium. More than that is simply asking for trouble. Meanwhile Pakis have inducted Panter in numbers.. 155mmx52Cal Turkish artillery that outranges an...

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Shots on target, finally DefExpo stars: Dhanush by Ordnance Factory Board, and M777 by BAE Syst Enthralled with its performance during trials, the defence ministry has decided to procure the first lot of 40 guns for the Indian Army. But, the Army wants the weight of the gun to be reduced to 13 tonn...

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Brahmos directors have made these claims, but the proof of the pudding is in eating it. I'll believe these claims when they actually fly it. Otherwise the next gen of Brahmos is always, just a few years away.

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