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Sandipan

Though I voted for Rafale, but just for the sake of argument I think SU 35BM can be a very good choice. I dont know why it was not included in the RFQ, but it is a single pilot fighter with lot of commonality with SU 30 MKI.

Sandipan

I really feel sorry for this man specially his family, I will try to do as much within my limited means.

Sandipan

I voted Rafale, I believe it is the best among the list

Sandipan

Who wants to survive a nuclear War. I would rather die then live to see the mess all around and then die slowly out of radiation poisoning.

Sandipan

How about U-571, its a good movie, every other day its playing in some channel. I heard that British complained on its release coz it twisted historical facts. But still a nice action packed movie

Sandipan

Shankarovsky had us almost convinced that Arihant reactor is a 190 MW russian akula reactor and Arihant is nothing but a modified Akula. Now with this interview with Anil Kakodkar saying that, Arihant has indigenous reactor and Russians were just providing consultancy, I dont know what he has to say...

Sandipan

I have a notion that its not DRDO labs but these PSU behemoths like HAL, CVRDE, BDL who are responsible for churning out production numbers are failing to do so. They have to much in their plate to chew and are not adequately manned. Their production lines might be archaic without automations that w...

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Indian army might need another war to boost its PR

Sandipan

One year before, the discussion on this thread was upbeat and everybody was more or less convinced that we are firmly behind LCA and it is matter of time before we have full squadrons of LCAs defending our country. Its just a matter of time. Now with these gloomy news of delay in new LSPs and unavai...

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If Abhay is going to be just a TD and not going to be inducted into Army when can we see the real one getting developed and inducted, I mean the FICV. If Abhay is really good as explained above, atleast if not inducted, the existing BMP-2s should be made equal to Abhay's level. I saw the Stryker on ...

Sandipan

Very Good post by RayC, what appears is that there is no straight forward band-aid solution for the problem we have with manufacture of small arms. I think as there has been a committee set up to look into the functioning of DRDO, similar step should be taken to privatize the OFB. I think it has bec...

Sandipan

From the process suggested by RayC, it seems a 5-year plan, by that time weapon selected might become obsolete. Who knows? Rahul M - agreed maybe INSAS AR may stay for a decade more but rest of the INSAS family might get replaced. Anyway apart from INSAS AR, INSAS carbine is used in limited number, ...

Sandipan

The artillery seems to be like the MRCA project, never ending!. We finalise something and again some whistle blower comes and again people start running in the merry go round. We seem have to do with the 400 odd bofors gun in the coming decade as well.

Sandipan

It seems a skirmish going on this thread. Sorry! couldnt resist taking a dig at people. Anyway, Rahul M - What I meant that from the article it seems, Armed forces have given up on OFB and INSAS family because INSAS is not only the assault rifle but a family of weapons including Carbine. So, armed f...

Sandipan

Any idea on when the second one going to be launched i.e. Arihant -2

Sandipan

Good Lord! this is the news I was waiting for, the previous page in the same thread we had a discussion on effectiveness of INSAS and can we continue with it. It seems, Indian defence planners have woken up to the situation and possibly provide our Jawans with a modern weapon for coming decades! Whe...

Sandipan

I don't agree with the opinion of some of the members that "LCA is not a potent aircraft, IAF does not have confidence in it, so it wants to hide it deep down south". LCA i think is the only aircraft ultimately to be there to used both by IAF and IN, apart from Mig 29K. IAF maybe trying to...

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Kartik and Cain Marko - I guess truth lies between what you guys have stated. We need new aircraft as well as we need to upgrade existing aircrafts like Mig 29 and Mirage 2000. I thinks that were IAF is heading

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You got to delete this post if possible and move it to Indian Naval Discussion if possible

Sandipan

What was the leaked Prachanda Video, could you elaborate?

Sandipan

Reading Hari Sud's article, one point which came to my mind is that we dont know much about the outcome of Red Flag 2008. We know bits and pieces like Red Flag Director commended IAF for its performance specially on its first visit. There were nice photographs from Kedar and Sekhon and there was the...

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Shiv - You have gone to great length in explaining the Strategic Bombing. I believe any big idea cannot be characterised black or white. Strategic Bombing as a concept has shades of grey, by which i mean it was successful in Second World War against Japan & Germany but was unsuccessful against a...

Sandipan

Military Channel had a program on Strategic Bombing, which clarified that Strategic Bombing is incessant bombing through any means whether Aeroplanes / missiles which brings the enemy to submission. Where the citizens are so petrified that they approach their government to bring an end to the confli...

Sandipan

In my personal opinion we need a strategic bomber for IAF, Why because, First of all we are trying to convert certain MKIs into strategic bombers by making them capable to carry the Brahmos. So, it is not that IAF is not thinking in those terms. If we acquire a true blue strategic bomber, need not b...

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NRao - Isn't the N011M Bars on MKI good enough so they need to be replaced by this French AESA radar? And what I read earlier was that N011M Bars if going to be replaced someday, they are to be replaced by NIIP Irbis-E radar.

Sandipan

If Nag missile is going to cost 50 lacs per peice, its hell of a costly missile and its targeting of any vehicle other than tanks wont be desirable. I think the NAMICA driver has to do cost benefit analysis before firing the missile on any target :mrgreen: . The Cost seems to be reason why even afte...

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The Logo is good, don't you think the sanksrit words in the logo should be printed in sanskrit apart from English

Sandipan

R-77 is a BVR missile, why should it be used for close dog fights?

Sandipan

Its not that Indian army keeps quiet, I was seeing a programme of Saira Khan of The Apprentice fame visiting her village in POK. And on her way to her village she came across live fire and a whole village was shelled by Indian artillery. There was eye witness accounts of village being bombed to grou...

Sandipan

I heard somewhere that orange INSAS were for Indian army and black are for Nepalese army

Sandipan

RayC

I have seen those chillies during my childhood days in Assam. I think we used to call them "Naga Marich". I can wonder what will happen to those who will be on the other end of the grenade.

Sandipan

Reading the posts above,I feel disected like a frog on a wax tray. I guess RayC appreciates my sincerity. I have been reading his posts for months and years now. He responds to queries and tries to answer to the satisfaction of the member asking, without bothering about their hierarchy. I gathered c...

Sandipan

RayC & Srivastav, thanks for your informative writeups. I have no wish to engage you in a lengthy debate on a subject on which lot of analysis i think might have happend in the past. So it may amount to paralysis of analysis. But, I am reminded of words of Dr Abdul Kalam, he said something like ...

Sandipan

Srivastav - Nothing Personal, From your words it seems, you are taking an extreme position. First of all, I believe if given an option all soldiers will prefer a full auto gun. It does not mean they want to spray bullets like John Rambo. And moreover, I have heard this reason before is that INSAS is...

Sandipan

I have a question for RayC, I being a civilian has a feeling that our army is very ill equiped as far as Personal Defence Weapons are concerned. Our Soldiers in 21st century still use an INSAS rifle which is not a full auto rifle and with parts made of wood. Whatever we may say about it, still it is...

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Hello Webmasters, I visit the site almost everyday, in between my work and leisure when i get time. This is my favorite site so to say, but i have one complaint. The data on the site is not added to often enough, there are few new articles or data added. We need more data and information. We need mo...

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Anupmishra - Thanks for your links and sources. The more i read, greater it seems the thirst. Archaelogy site of which you gave link had few errors in my opinion. Firstly, I belive this Aryan concept is really hogwash. There is nothing called Aryan civilisation. This concept of Aryans coming from so...

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I dont know whether this is the right thread to post it, Can we not have some information on ancient Indian Ocean expeditions to different corners of the World. Few months back I was seeimg a History Channel report saying that Chinese might have visited America well before Colombus did. I had read a...

Sandipan

This thread seems to be attracting the Whos who of the Bharat-rakshak. A Namaste to All.

Sandipan

Mr Narayanan, you being the moderator has the right to do whatever you need to do with the site, maybe. But changing after 40 pages of discussion appear strange. In my own opinion, it hardly makes a difference whether you keep this thread here or shift it anywhere else because people are anywaygoing...

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