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Prem Kumar

Btw, if they tested AD-1 and AD-2, then its a counter against IRBMs (upto 5000 Km class), not ICBMs as claimed in the PIB release

If the anti-ICBM claim *is* true, then DRDO has tested a new missile altogether

Prem Kumar

The PMO disgraced itself by tweeting about the induction of these screwdriver-giri Belarussian drones as a great "indigenous" achievement They got fact-checked and insulted on Twitter! It shows the extent of rot all the way to the RM & PM. Modi and Rajnath are clueless and being taken ...

Prem Kumar

Kudos - wonderful achievement! Induction is the real deal. So far, neither BMD-1 nor BMD-2 have been inducted. Announcements & tests mean nothing without orders There is just so much to protect: cities, infrastructure (Munir openly threatened Jamnagar Refinery), armed forces HQs, logistics/ammun...

Prem Kumar

Unless the DGMF is court-martialed and PM Modi personally steps in to monitor Defence R&D and Procurement (like he does for Gati Shakti), there is no hope Wholesale sacking of an entire senior officer class & senior MoD babus is needed But knowing the tinkerer that he is, Modi will do no suc...

Prem Kumar

If we don't get carrier-operations experience via TEDBF, the AMCA-N will also be stillborn

Prem Kumar

Our Generals will turn up their noses with "Do you want our boys to die while using substandard Indian equipment? We want only the best"

Then turn around and keep their boys under-equipped & let them die in substandard/obsolete foreign maal like Chetak, Cheetah & Mig-21

Prem Kumar

The BHIM saga is a sordid one, like with everything in Indian Army Artillery. Something has been very rotten for very long in DG Artillery

The only good news is that, at least now, they are ordering K9 in significant numbers

Prem Kumar

They will have to find the next strong leader for UP and pull Yogi to the center soon in that case. But Amit Ji is also excellent choice if that does not happen. Yes, backfilling Yogi in UP will be a challenge IMHO, Amit Shah is not PM material. He is a backroom operator and the best HM India has e...

Prem Kumar

Post-Namo is key Yogi seems logical. He has nationwide appeal. Hope Namo doesn't pull a Gandhi and veto him because he isn't "Westernized" enough in his monk robes. I hope Yogi also feels like he belongs in the highest office BJP, without charismatic leaders, doesn't have the same appeal t...

Prem Kumar

Yes indeed There are other tricks up their sleeves too. After claiming they are waiting for Rudram-2/Rudram-3, they will suddenly claim that these are too heavy for Tejas. So, can DRDO shave off 0.5 tons from the weight so that the missile is compatible across platforms? Place a token order to equip...

Prem Kumar

Isn't MP CM a new promote-from-within guy from the Sangh Parivar - a new face? If he is already in mafias, then something is rotten in the BJP/RSS org Yes, I have also been hearing rumblings that the CMs of the above states + Dhami in Uttarakhand are duds People compare them to Suvendu, Himanta &...

Prem Kumar

Perfect excuse for the IAF to not induct Rudram-1 .... because they are waiting for Rudram-2

Astra-1 redux

On cue, Israel will reveal its equivalent ARM missile & IAF will make emergency procurement to "gap fill" while Rudram-2 completes its trials

Prem Kumar

If UP votes out Yogi and listens to that $hit-head Akhilesh (like they did in 2024 LS), then God help them. We truly are a basket case Like I have said elsewhere, a Hindu has a 100 knobs, all of which has to be tuned to the right frequency for him to vote the right way (caste, jobs, inflation, water...

Prem Kumar

Army Chiefs have blood of their men on their hands!

LUH won't be ordered but they will allow their boys to die in aging Cheetahs/Chetaks

Prem Kumar

Read this excellent piece by Swarajya https://swarajyamag.com/defence/the-pentagon-has-stopped-buying-weapons-it-is-buying-production-capacity The Pentagon has revamped its procurement doctrine while Kadi Ninda is still deciding which orders can be given to private industries, how to differentiate b...

Prem Kumar

K. Annamalai could be best choice for defence minister. Your thoughts please. Annamalai is needed in TN to grow BJP. This is what he is uniquely suited to do & would have done, if not for the colossal screw-up by Amit Shah (who listened to RSS idiots like Gurumurthy and back-stabbing losers in ...

Prem Kumar

Our Army seems more keen on rotating the tires than fixing the puncture How about equipping our soldiers with good BPJs, rifles, ballistic helmets, artillery, tanks, AFVs etc. Every single one of these are made IDDM by Indian companies to world-class standards. But no orders. But hey, lets do ORBAT ...

Prem Kumar

If voter fraud & non-SIR was the reason BJP lost WB in 2021 (& hence the country endured 5 more years of demographic assault), shame on Modi & Shah. By 2021, they were already in power for 7 years and would have known the nature of the green problem at an intimate level of detail

Prem Kumar

Against a jihadi state like Bangladesh, time to abandon this non-lethal policy If Assam & WB start deporting crores of people, there will be large-scale violence. Even without that, there is ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Bangladesh Time to take gloves off that sewer-state and rack up the body co...

Prem Kumar

That's where the new PFBR comes in. Per Swarajya, the PFBR, which doesn't come under the IAEA purview, can produce enough plutonium for ~40 weapons per year, marking a significant up-shift in capability

Prem Kumar

Probably Agni-6. Unclear why they otherwise have a need to announce this, given the following statement. One announces the first of something, not the second. But also true that Agni-6 will be a technology demonstrator as the K-6 SLBM will be the deployed version. With this successful trial, India ...

Prem Kumar

Ground report from WB, people are absolutely fed up and if there's free and fair voting TMC will be devastated. The point is that 'if'. If true, then, with all the Central Forces and ECI/NIA/IB at its disposal, it will be criminally negligent if Modi/Shah cannot ensure a free, fair & fearless e...

Prem Kumar

Bengal results and Assam results will make or break NE! One loss could be serious but loosing both can be devastating for not only BJP but for the whole nation!! Modi/Shah/Doval should unleash the beasts of war in Assam & WB, irrespective of whether they win or not They have a responsibility to...

Prem Kumar

My biggest fear is AMCA suffer from the same drawback as LCA, in terms of the "smallness" of the airframe Tejas: beyond bragging rights & some RCS reduction, there isn't much advantage in building the smallest/lightest aircraft. It makes the design complex, adds unnecessary miniaturiza...

Prem Kumar

Modi sarkar has displayed zero Kshatriyata on many fronts. Specifically dealing with Internal Jihad (street level violence), ruthlessly destroying the C-system & letting Bengali Hindus (& his own RSS/BJP workers) die at the hands of TMC goons He cannot show up during elections, scare Hindus ...

Prem Kumar

Rather than as a Spike/Javelin replacement, it might be better to think of DRDO's MANPATGM 1.0 as a replacement for our massive holdings of Konkur, Milan and Kornets. Otherwise, it will get into unnecessary arguments about weight Our total holdings of Konkurs, Milans and Kornets is upwards of 80,000...

Prem Kumar

I hope we get to see at least 1 photo with the engineers & technicians with their planes/helis, instead of some random babus and management types

Prem Kumar

A malnourished person is debating whether he should eat more proteins or carbs. He is lacking in both That's our pathetic state, but Generals are busy arguing whether my ground-launched-missile is bigger than your air-launched-rocket Neither arm (Artillery or IAF) has covered itself in glory when it...

Prem Kumar

If Arihant undergoes an SSGN conversion & a parallel line opens up, nothing like it! This can keep churning out nuclear attack subs while the 200 MW beast is getting constructed. Same approach as SSBN - crawl, walk, run. Learn how to operate a fleet of SSGN while giving the country first strike ...

Prem Kumar

Once Rafale deal is signed, the camel now has 3 feet in the tent. The French will pitch their UCAV & say that the Rafale is compatible with *only their UCAV* and nothing else. They will refuse to share codes for inter-operability - screw whatever they signed as part of the deal (or the IAF will ...

Prem Kumar

Rocket Force, irrespective of whose command its under, is long overdue. It can decisively tilt the nuclear balance in India's favor, by taking out PAF on the ground. But hey, the IAF jocks want their A2A battles, not actually win the War. The IAF dreams of short-n-sweet wars because they are not pre...

Prem Kumar

Another leg of the triad which has strengthened its importance, is the stealth bomber. Once in the air, its impervious to interception Its vulnerable only when its on the ground. So, if we invest in an "always X aircraft in the air" doctrine (which the US and USSR did), its a highly surviv...

Prem Kumar

GE will deliver enough engines to keep hopes flickering, so that we don't abandon and go full Atmanirbhar on Kaveri But will delay enough to stall/kill the Mk1a, Mk2 and AMCA programs The only way out is to triple-down on homegrown Kaveri (not the Snecma carrot-joke), make it a national mission and ...

Prem Kumar

1) For long range missiles (BMs, Cruise Missiles etc), we have a sophisticated INS/MINGS systems which does course corrections. Plus ITCM is supposed to have DSMAC for scene matching. So, all these provide redundancies. But still, NavIC's crippling makes them less accurate & more reliant on unre...

Prem Kumar

Drive from Palakkad to Guruvayur is a depressing scene. We used to once see Temples

Now, every 1 Km, its either a spanking new Church or Mosque

Gelf money or Missionary money

Prem Kumar

If & when Op Sindoor 2.0 happens, we need to take out PAF, their primary nuke-delivery mechanism. We let them off the hook this time because our civilian & armed forces leadership's overton window hadn't shifted to think of this possibility But to do this, we need to have several things in p...

Prem Kumar

If we are smart about it, we should induct the 120-150 Km interceptor with its radar (or integrated with existing Akash/MRSAM radar) as soon as it clears trials. It will deliver a huge jump in capability while also helping resolve teething issues in Kusha As & when new interceptors, radars are r...

Prem Kumar

Nice try Amber G, trying to burn a strawman. No one here says NavIC cannot (or should not) be revived. In fact almost unanimously, everyone is clamoring precisely for it - and asking that military space programs be prioritized, instead of vanity projects But NavIC is currently dead/crippled. And its...

Prem Kumar

Good article, SSridhar Ji! The Dept of Space, the PMO & ISRO all need a collective kick in the butt. They need to cancel all "pride" programs like Shukrayaan, Gaganyaan etc and focus entirely on military requirements for the next decade. That's how far behind we are Also, just because ...

Prem Kumar

“Nonsense” is dismissing the basics. A degraded NavIC isn’t “useless”—loss of navigation ≠ loss of function; satellites can still provide timing and messaging, which are operationally relevant. And no, the Agni series isn’t a plug-and-play satellite launcher. Push back is fine—but it should be grou...

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