Bharat Rakshak

Prem Kumar

Why do short range AAMs have to be IIR? Any reason why a radar seeker won't work?

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Did we take out an ammo dump, Brahmos or otherwise?

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RD Ji: my thoughts exactly! I had posted on one of the threads a while ago that India is more likely to fight a Two front sub-conventional war than a two-front conventional war. What we have shown is the capability to do exactly that, not just militarily but also diplomatically. Manjgu: we don't kno...

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Pardon my ignorance, but I thought satellites, if they are launched at multiple orbits, would be launched at increasing altitudes. But per the report above, the highest altitude launch happens first and the 3rd orbit is the lowest one. Is this how it happens normally? P.S. Great to know the urgency ...

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Tarmak has 2 videos: day launch & night launch. In the videos, its clear that there is an initial booster to get the missile to clear the launch tube, followed by the main booster. For the initial boost, we can see a smaller flame in the musharraf, compared to the main booster. In the daytime la...

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I like khan logic. MA being thrown under the bus may have been communicated to Pakis by the Chinese. Could be the reason for their "he is very sick" claim. They can drag this along for a couple of months (LS 2019) and either quietly stop talking about him (if Modi loses) or declare him dea...

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UlanBatori wrote:In the absence of IAF confirmation, I HAVE to ask why BRF postors keep parroting the Paki line that they shot the MiG down

Wogay. I am happy with this theory. Sounds plausible.

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Abdul e-R73 Musharrafi

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If this hypothesis is true, it speaks volumes about our physical & electronic countermeasure capabilities, not to mention pilot situational awareness. He is chasing an F-16 in a vintage aircraft, while another is sending an AIM-120 his way (he was probably a sitting duck). He shoots down the F-1...

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Its possible that WC Abhi employed countermeasures and AIM-120 fell for it, but it might have exploded close enough to cause enough damage that he ejected. Might explain why the plane was more or less in one piece when it crashed.

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Thanks rkhanna! Very interesting report.

What irritates me is that the GOI gives a first-dekho to this rabid Modi-phobic, Hinduphobic channel. *Facepalm*

Prem Kumar

Excellent piece by Sushant Sareen. A must read! Regarding Modi's benchmark setting for future potential, non-BJP government, I have my doubts. Obviously, people will expect air-strikes & the like, as a response to major terror attacks. But ISI-controlled Congress can deflate the mood inch-by-inc...

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The "minute by minute" dogfight description, with fancy maneuver terms, was circulated in WhatsApp more than a week back. India Today just copy-pasted it.

I seriously doubt its credibility.

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If we are creating a new-gen of ASMs and SSMs, I would humbly submit that we build one like what Singha (I think) posted sometime back. An MIRV missile with conventional warheads Example: the Prompt Global Strike concept, modified for a different use-case. Take one of the K-series missiles, launched...

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It might also have to do with the confidence in R-77 in long range engagement & the need to preserve missiles during CAP as parshuram mentioned above.

All the more reason to induct Astra in numbers right away!

Prem Kumar

Anti-radiation A2A sounds like an interesting idea. It can sneak up on a fighter or AWACS without itself being detected. Similar to IIR, but operating at a longer range. However, if the radar has a good resolution, the incoming missile will be detected by the radar itself. Then its a question of the...

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Injury count is now 28! This could very easily happen in a Thanjavur bus stand also. Considering the population density of India, the sheer # of brainwashed Muslims, the presence of Pakistan & the wide porous borders, I am speechless at what Doval has achieved. 5 years and no terror attack in th...

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Actually such psy-ops is good for us too, if it can cut our red tape and make inductions faster. Remember how the Arjun program was launched in response to the Abrams threat? Here is another prediction: Pakis will beg for HQ-9's from China to plug their air defences. We should up the game, if such a...

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must be a anti awacs/cap sniping plan. but considering they do not trust the pl12 over the older amraamc5, i wonder how good it will be. none of their fighter radars have the range to target anything @ 150km though. Their Erieye might be able to provide data-links, assuming the Pakis are capable of...

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Hope Astra induction happens in double-quick time. Following the mauling at the hands of IAF, the PAF has gone ahead and ordered PL-15 long range AAMs from China. No idea if it works as advertised, but it has a 150 Km range.

The enemy has made his moves. We must make ours pronto.

Prem Kumar

In light of Balakot, I hope we expedite a lot more of the following: 1) Garuda & Garuthma: induct in the 100s, if not in the 1000s. GPS independence 2) Tejas-MK1 & MK1A: numbers! 3) Akash & MRSAM. Can't be relying completely on fighter scrambling to defend a massive border 4) More Netras...

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Thanks Ramana, Kakarat & Karan M for the insights about Spice

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Looks like the entire top brass of JeM were at Balakot, to give a rousing speech to the new 107 recruits! Must be some sort of initiation ritual. The intel was simply brilliant and so was the timing, choice of weapons and decoy tactics. Military & Intel agencies from around the world will be ana...

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Spice's USP is it works in GPS denied space. Interesting. Does it use INS? Scene matching can kick in when its close enough to the target, not when its launched. I guess, once its fed the GPS coordinates, it sets itself a guide path. It tries to take GPS coordinates mid-course. But if GPS is denied...

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A few observations: 1) Its a top-attack munition with pre-fed coordinates, imagery & other params like type of roof etc. The imagery from the top would've been supplied by our spy sats and fed into Spice for scene correlation matching. All this must've been done either long ago or in the days af...

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Yes, but it is unlikely the Su-30s or Herons with their SAR package went to Balakot during or after the strike for confirmation. Herons might have. We don't know. There was one report that said a Heron did battle damage assessment. But given the amount of disinformation the last 2 weeks, we can't b...

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Iyerval has his strengths - war-gaming. But he is now pontificating on all military matters like some kind of expert. There was an interview of him with pgurus (Sree Iyer), where he was happily mixing fact with fiction. When referencing Kargil, he mixed up Sq Ldr Ahuja with Capt Saurabh Kalia. There...

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A :shock: from the Indian Express article. It said that there were 107 new recruits in the JeM camp when we halal'ed it. If this is true, we have an insane amount of HUMINT or other forms of Intel, deep inside Pak. We see this level in the Kashmir valley, when an Army spokesperson would casually say...

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If it 'exploded' would ejection be still possible? Both the pilots appear to have ejected and landed 'safely' only to be killed later by pakis. Might have exploded post ejection. The R73 might have taken off a part of the F16 and the pilots might have had just enough time to eject before it disinte...

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SAR implemented on RISAT-2 did find YSR helicopter wreckage in AP jungles very quickly, this means it has the resolution. There is reason to conclude it was used to identify the damage to the structure(s) in Balakot post mission. The situation might be different here, compared to YSR. Per some acco...

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RISAT pairs are long dead!! The newer ones are yet to be lunched or we might have already put them on orbit using foreign vehicles which too unlikely given the sensitive nature of the payloads. ISRO launched Microsat-R in January 2019. Built by DRDO. Very low earth orbit (274 Km) - purely for high-...

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If Abhinandan & Co did not chase away the F-16s, they would have bombed our Army base. That would have been suicidal ..... for Pakistan. India would have just bombed them to stone age. I recommend that both India & Pakistan give awards to Abhinandan. For saving Pakistan from annihilation We ...

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BBC is repeating DG_ISPR's lie. We will know soon enough if they will have egg on their faces.

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ANI retweeted DG_ISPR's baloney. So, don't know how credible they are

If Mi17 was downed by a missile, we will know when the debris is analyzed

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Pakis should have phoned hotline and said "Let us bomb some forests inside India", go back safely, claim success and preserve our H&D.

Instead they came unannounced. Now, this is gonna give them Musharraf burn

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Most likely Pakis are claiming 2 kills, both of which are lies

1) An Mi17 crash near Srinagar due to technical glitch
2) An F16 shot-down inside POK

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Methinks, they will intrude, drop bombs on random unpopulated places, claim they killed 100s shot-down a couple of MIGs and go back to rewrite their history books. They will not dare engage with the IAF. This way, their domestic audience is happy. And if they don't hit anyone on our side, our IAF wo...

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has briefed both the President and Vice-President about the Indian Air Force strike at JeM terror camp in Balakote. Genuine pooch: the President is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, no? So, shouldn't he be at least in the loop on the Surgical Strikes too (inclu...

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A little blast from the past (AI2017) https://www.livefistdefence.com/2017/02/how-a-secretive-drdo-lab-is-saving-the-iaf-su-30mki.html Do we know if the new DARE Jammer made it into the Su-30 MKI's? Also any relation between this jammer and the self protection jammer under development? Lots of inter...

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Plus, how many more Helina tests are required? We've been hearing about Helina successful trials for a year now. Just fast-track it and fix bugs as you go along.

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