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by pgbhat
11 May 2025 14:35
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

High time all CAPFs be equipped with anti-drone equipment to handle drone swarms.
by pgbhat
11 May 2025 10:44
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

I think the actual damage to Pak infrastructure for most folks side on this of border does not matter as much as a hit to the Pakjabi Pride and bombast to celebrate every defeat as victory... there is a feeling that benchmark has not been reached and hence there is :(( :((
by pgbhat
10 May 2025 18:20
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

pgbhat wrote: 10 May 2025 07:02 typical paki army tactics ...send jihadis and fizzle'ya before surrendering.
Quoting myself. 8)
They will re-arm now... for next round.
by pgbhat
10 May 2025 08:23
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

are the maroos baniyan pilots found dead or search still continuing?
by pgbhat
10 May 2025 07:02
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

typical paki army tactics ...send jihadis and fizzle'ya before surrendering.
by pgbhat
09 May 2025 23:06
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

they are needling India to launch air strikes with civ air craft still in airspace. probably running out of their CAPS budget.
by pgbhat
09 May 2025 20:28
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

Looks like we are desperately trying to hand Pakistan an offramp, which they are refusing to take. The entire initiative seems to be sitting with them. They can choose to prolong or end this conflict at the time of their choosing. Hope I am wrong and govt has something up their sleeve. These animal...
by pgbhat
09 May 2025 18:17
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2898
Views: 374513

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

Tanaji wrote: 09 May 2025 18:10 Was there a confirmation of Awacs shootdown or any naval action at all?
Nope. Anyways Pakis will try to do something before the weekend. Munir's position is untenable. They cant claim victory for anything like last time around and take an off-ramp and downhill ski....
by pgbhat
08 Jan 2025 21:46
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10430
Views: 3792538

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

We are probably seeing Monroe doctrine implemented in real time with Trump Jr talking about buying Greenland, Trump Sr talking about annexing Canada and Elon going after Starmer.
by pgbhat
21 Oct 2024 19:45
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
Replies: 483
Views: 342499

Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018

R&AW must answer why it tolerates poor tradecraft, recruitment standards, officer oversight - Praveen Swami Former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer DSP Ajay Kumar Bassi alleged in the Supreme Court that his agency had intercepted conversations between former R&AW chief Samant G...
by pgbhat
07 Oct 2024 21:47
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5274
Views: 2261491

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

Loving the Pakistaniat being spread by Pedo lover Zakir Naik in Pakland. They need more and more of this islam. :mrgreen:
by pgbhat
24 Jun 2024 10:33
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
Replies: 483
Views: 342499

Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018

Kid's choice once they are older.Anyways a lot of Chinese Communist Party member kids immigrated to the west. Doesn't mean China is playing second fiddle to west. We have to find our own way around this.
by pgbhat
19 Jun 2024 19:33
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
Replies: 483
Views: 342499

Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018

Thats pathetic device security. Even sub-par security standards implemented by banks have their devices locked out of any possible unknown downloads and instead are allowed to download only from corporate software center. And this is DRDO. Thats a joke if this was allowed so easily. hmm..not saying...
by pgbhat
21 Aug 2021 11:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
Replies: 3096
Views: 1021259

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016

Taliban is not what it was 20 years ago. Paki and chinese apologist (A)bhadrakumar has started his service of lifafa journalism. Check what the chuitya has written: "Taliban has transformed into an incredibly diverse movement that made inroads into all communities and ethnic groups ( Yeah chec...
by pgbhat
18 Aug 2021 14:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
Replies: 3096
Views: 1021259

Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016

So was wondering with this invasion of Afghanistan by Pakis is the Durand Line dispute settled or more is yet to come?
by pgbhat
09 Jul 2021 22:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

https://twitter.com/NEJM/status/1412882866971635713 In a study involving 10.2 million participants in Chile, the effectiveness of an inactivated, China-developed #SARSCoV2 vaccine was estimated. Effectiveness was 65.9% for infection, 87.5% for hospitalization, 90.3% for ICU admission, and 86.3% for ...
by pgbhat
01 Jul 2021 20:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

pgbhat'ji, lot of this developments are learn as you go. We desis are extremely thin on patience, easily go into a rona-dhona mode and matrix comparison and quick to jump and point out lacunae to get unnecessary attention. CoWin is a winner when 50+ countries want to adopt it. Some 1st world nation...
by pgbhat
30 Jun 2021 23:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

The problem is deciding on software architecture before you decide what should be the work flow which would be beneficial for target population and would ensure effective delivery of vaccine for a given age group in a particular geographical position. Vaccine delivery and logistics would not be then...
by pgbhat
30 Jun 2021 12:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Step 3 is a problem. People cannot keep doing that. CoWin needs to offer push notifications of availability so users can pick from what becomes available. Is any sort of notification mechanism available ? Users can perhaps choose venues and pick 'notify me when available here', then pick from dates...
by pgbhat
08 Jun 2021 11:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Waiting for opposition to come out and ask mudi-ji to rejine as they want vaccine to be delivered home where as mudi-ji is asking people to stand in hot summer sun in long queues to get vaccinated.
by pgbhat
07 Jun 2021 16:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

^^^^ why not just pass time with chai-biscut negotiations and wait out . Our production capacity will increase onlee. And then one fine day kick them out. Yeah. This will most likely what will happen. Also Government can create an ad-hoc inter-party committee to study the "requirements" o...
by pgbhat
04 Jun 2021 10:41
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Terroristan - April 15, 2021
Replies: 2853
Views: 1079332

Re: Terroristan - April 15, 2021

^ Apparently rumor is Jernail's wife was wheelchair bound so could only aim at musharraf.
by pgbhat
04 Jun 2021 10:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media Entire thing is a good read. One important piece was an extensive Medium post by the Canadian longevity entrepreneur Yuri Deigin that discussed RaTG13, a virus Shi Zhengli had revealed to the world in a February 3 pa...
by pgbhat
28 May 2021 19:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Regarding the Initial Non-Authorization of Covaxin in Brazil Portguese Translated to English. From 31/03/2021 Regarding the data analysis, it is noteworthy that the technical report on the evaluation of the vaccine issued or published by the health authority of India was not presented, in disagreem...
by pgbhat
28 May 2021 17:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Social Media Watch Thread
Replies: 2031
Views: 903440

Re: Social Media Watch Thread

Governments have accountability, platforms have none: Sridhar Vembu on India vs Big Tech Ta-da. Cogent statements. :) ........issue is that platforms like Facebook and Twitter or even YouTube, are getting themselves the power to determine what is acceptable speech. And they are doing this across th...
by pgbhat
21 May 2021 16:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 2090
Views: 765834

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

I don't know if its still true but until few years back Palestine had the highest population density in the world and also the highest birth rate in the world beating countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. You would think when you are short on land you want to be careful about producing m...
by pgbhat
10 May 2021 11:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Suraj - Zy-Cov-D will not solve any problem because they have almost no production capacity due to lack of financing. Zydus can produce 200 million vaccines a year and it is a 3 dose vaccine. So, basically a drop in the bucket. This situation will only improve once Biological-e's vaccine + covaxin ...
by pgbhat
08 May 2021 10:00
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

BTW those in Bengaluru, Kerala good news is 45+ vaccination slots do not seem much like a problem. I see it open at least in a few places when I login to CoWIN daily. My dad got his second dose yesterday from a govt hospital. My mom is due for second dose as well soon ( she is now in 6-8weeks window...
by pgbhat
06 May 2021 11:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

It is NDTV, but helps to know how are cases being admitted to Hospital. "If a patient has a fever, and I know he's sick but he's not requiring oxygen, I can't admit him," he says. "That's the criteria. People are dying on the streets without oxygen. So people who don't require oxygen...
by pgbhat
04 May 2021 15:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Not to denigrate folks making models but it is just a reminder that mathematical models are just that models. It may take time to get it right and is probably a good academic exercise at this point. From Feb Chindu A recent surge in infections notwithstanding, India is unlikely to see a “second wave...
by pgbhat
03 May 2021 22:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Probably the worst time to shit on any vaccine maker for any grievances imagined or real.
by pgbhat
03 May 2021 21:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

I really do think national lockdown now is not a bad idea. It is necessary. Carry it on for next couple of months at least. Continue to review the situation meanwhile and ramp up production of vaccines. We cannot afford more mutations of virus either and end up with vector based vaccines which would...
by pgbhat
03 May 2021 20:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

SII is now saying that vaccine production will not increase until July. Earlier it was May, then june and now July. I think there are problems with the ramp up and may be linked to his move to London. India’s Covid vaccine shortage will continue for 2-3 months, says SII CEO Adar Poonawalla He said ...
by pgbhat
02 May 2021 23:22
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Replies: 5339
Views: 2223409

Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2

Did NSA Ajit Doval meet Pakistan ISI chief in UAE last year? Bajwa may have a vision to see India and Pakistan as trade partners, but he is due for retirement next year and there is no guarantee the next General would share his dream. Bajwa said his children too have warned him that he might not em...
by pgbhat
30 Apr 2021 13:01
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

So what's your solution? Indians are only like this and throw hands in the air. And to be clear, I disagree with your assessment. I think it's the tired old spiel that people always say to leave things to karma and not take any action. People can be convinced with awareness campaigns. Not by allowi...
by pgbhat
30 Apr 2021 12:55
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

For all the blame we put on local & central gov, how many in India have the civic sense to take a pandemic seriously? The worst are the educated ones. Until it effects our personal life, the people in the country don't a damn. There was a video of a high middle class chap telling a doctor to st...
by pgbhat
30 Apr 2021 12:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 3438299

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Anti vaccine campaign shouldn't have stopped the Govt from fast tracking vaccine orders and stockpiling them I used to think this way, but realized that this would not have made much of a difference. Since there was no additional capacity available, about the only additional vaccines that might hav...