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by Klaus
15 Apr 2019 20:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
Replies: 6200
Views: 1119171

Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion

https://www.opindia.com/2019/04/75-year-old-narendra-modi-fan-killed-by-congress-dmk-supporter-in-tamil-nadu/ 75-year-old Narendra Modi fan killed by Congress-DMK supporter in Tamil Nadu This person was quite vocal on WA video a few months ago against the agenda of various anti-Sterlite groups &...
by Klaus
05 Apr 2019 06:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
Replies: 6200
Views: 1119171

Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion

naird wrote:
That sounds illogical. Manu was the one who broke the scam !
Change of heart. Pangs of conscience!
by Klaus
04 Apr 2019 18:57
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

I do not think the Akhnoor dagger poses any threat to India anymore- this is not the 70’s or 80’s when the only lifeline to J and K passed within arty shot of this dagger. Nowadays it is a convenient bulls eye area for Dhanush and Pinaka. Which is why I would be very surprised if India did salami s...
by Klaus
04 Apr 2019 18:20
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

Looks like Operation Cold Wave is a Special Forces driven op:

Link
by Klaus
30 Mar 2019 12:32
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Forthcoming Book - Two Front War in 2022
Replies: 91
Views: 22883

Re: Forthcoming Book - Two Front War in 2022

Ordered paperback. Just curious if the characters have same or similar personas & psyche as their real life inspirations?
by Klaus
27 Mar 2019 18:04
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian ASAT Test
Replies: 872
Views: 206502

Re: Indian ASAT test

Just wondering aloud if the IN will be involved in any future ASAT ops as it opens up a whole range of possibilities to counteract PRC's C3I & space infra over the open ocean. Any of the new DDG's or upcoming SSBN's can accommodate BMD's in their silos? I see the next step as a user-trial which ...
by Klaus
27 Mar 2019 17:01
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian ASAT Test
Replies: 872
Views: 206502

Re: Indian ASAT test

It’s declared today... which may not mean that it actually happened today. Can anyone look into NOTAM issued indicating this test? No NOTAM needs to be issued for a test like this. Might have been necessary if we used the IAF's services to carry out the test, like the Americans did. I think the PLA...
by Klaus
25 Mar 2019 22:05
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

But why B'mos? Line of sight it's 350 km from the coast. And about 450 km from Jaisalmer border. What am i missing? It does not make sense to me to alert the opposition to the fact that i can breach their secure facilities of we make only a token strike. Either we destroy everything our do nothing....
by Klaus
25 Mar 2019 17:38
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

Mukesh.Kumar wrote:
Sir what's the source for this?
Possible 'accident' in nuke weapons storage facility

Date of event is uncertain though, burn marks on the ground are not.
by Klaus
25 Mar 2019 11:44
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

Multan is 75% a military airport packed with hardened shelters I suspect the Indian objective is to bomb the shelters in order to negate the air-delivered nuke option as thats the only credible deterrent left with TSP, having ferried all the missile warheads to Barbaria. IAF alongwith IA is creatin...
by Klaus
25 Mar 2019 09:48
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

Babaji uvacha: Looks like a JF-17 has been shot down by Chinese air defence system over Multan & NOTAM was subsequently issued :)
by Klaus
12 Mar 2019 10:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards
Replies: 831
Views: 226435

Re: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards

PoK has a lot of landmines, some old, some recent. Its going to be a nightmare situation for cleaning up and sanitizing the entire strip of land. Not entirely true in the case of Gilgit-Baltistan though.
by Klaus
12 Mar 2019 10:07
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Australia News and Discussion
Replies: 2236
Views: 459857

Re: India-Australia News and Discussion

NT state govt blunders its way forward, signs away Darwin port to PRC's Landbridge group for $506 million Another feather in the cap for PRC's OBOR/BRI/String of Pearls or whatever else they choose to call it. Its being projected as a strategic blunder but PRC is aggressively buying up northern Aus...
by Klaus
12 Mar 2019 01:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards
Replies: 831
Views: 226435

Re: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards

A failed TSP with a dismantled TSPA will be more like Mali/Sierra Leone/Liberia with UNHCR and health workers from various global orgs crawling all over the place thanks to the explosion of pandemics like ebola, all mosquito borne diseases, AIDS and other STD's. We will need private militias and war...
by Klaus
11 Mar 2019 16:32
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards
Replies: 831
Views: 226435

Re: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards

SpecOps forces will need to take out all nuke storage sites/silos, enrichment & processing facilities as well as start removing/dismantling as many tactical nukes as possible. India & Israel need to jointly work on this. Multiple teams need to be working simultaneously and independently to ...
by Klaus
11 Mar 2019 10:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards
Replies: 831
Views: 226435

Re: Endgame of NaPakistan: How and what afterwards

SpecOps forces will need to take out all nuke storage sites/silos, enrichment & processing facilities as well as start removing/dismantling as many tactical nukes as possible. India & Israel need to jointly work on this. Multiple teams need to be working simultaneously and independently to a...
by Klaus
02 Mar 2019 20:09
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

These farts are written to unsettle folks like you and me who look up to the goras for the *truth*. There was one famous Indian handle who wrote on twitter as much ... some thing to the effect "I don't rely on the Indian or the Baki accounts .. Give me some dope BBC/CNN" IMO it was Nikhil...
by Klaus
01 Mar 2019 19:09
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

ER501/SEP501- Serene Air Isloo to Karachi also just took off, all of these flights running hours behind schedule.
by Klaus
01 Mar 2019 18:59
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

ER550/SEP550- Serene air from Karachi to Peshawar also popped up, just took off from Karachi.
by Klaus
01 Mar 2019 18:51
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

There is a PIA Boeing 777-340 inbound into Karachi- no call sign, just popped up 5 mins ago on FR24, probably switched on transponder as they prepared for landing.

Edit- callsign PKAPBH
by Klaus
01 Mar 2019 18:28
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Replies: 5107
Views: 1367937

Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion

pralay wrote:enemy awacs patroling with transponder on
https://www.flightradar24.com/DG44/1fa8898d
Looks like it might have stopped over in Sargodha before proceeding to Isloo
by Klaus
28 Feb 2019 18:47
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BRF Information Warfare & Social Media Cell
Replies: 55
Views: 15298

Re: BRF Information Warfare & Social Media Cell

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=7665&start=2200

Relevant for this thread as we are unwittingly retweeting without checking Twitter handles origin & veracity.
by Klaus
28 Feb 2019 18:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BRF Information Warfare & Social Media Cell
Replies: 55
Views: 15298

Re: BRF Information Warfare & Social Media Cell

Also follow @KalavaiVenkat (not a BRFite) @greatbong (not a BRFite) @SnafuForEver @_NAN_DINI (have a sneaky suspicion that this is a BRFite) @RajivMessage (not a BRFite) @RamKumar1133 I still follow @MehtaRahulC even though the bloke's had his ongoing gripes with us. I also follow banned member @cha...
by Klaus
28 Feb 2019 18:36
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BRF Information Warfare & Social Media Cell
Replies: 55
Views: 15298

Re: BRF Information Warfare & Social Media Cell

Follow: @PunyaPrakop (need to verify if on BRF) @Editor_Orbat @LenteCurrite @dikgaj @gus_brf @a_sandhan (need to verify) @bennedose @kapilrdave @amitava_brf @vikasraina @saumitra_j @HarfanMaullah @merlinwmeister @vickynanjappa (not on BRF afaik) @khatvanga @malleshwara @PerennialCold @SJha1618 (not ...
by Klaus
28 Feb 2019 17:27
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: Terroristan - October 8, 2018
Replies: 2857
Views: 800718

Re: Terroristan - October 8, 2018

OT but I'm getting too many tweets from TSP handles thanks to our folks retweeting them without checking.
by Klaus
28 Feb 2019 16:47
Forum: Military Issues Archive
Topic: Indian Forces Strike Pakistan - News Only
Replies: 338
Views: 136307

Re: Indian Forces Strike Pakistan - News Only

asinh wrote:Wingco released to Red Cross?
From Twitter? Not seeing this news anywhere else.
by Klaus
19 May 2017 11:13
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian Strategic Long Range Bomber
Replies: 273
Views: 58175

Re: Indian Strategic Long Range Bomber

Isn't it simpler to recruit Pakistanis, give them each a soosai vest and ask them to fly this contraption into LaHore? The Ekramoplan is at least a few decades too old. Since about 1970, ppl discovered that unless u r going supersonic, and if u r flying low, high-bypass turbofans beat the heck out ...
by Klaus
14 Jan 2017 07:05
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Ship and Sub Recognition
Replies: 46
Views: 10001

Re: Ship and Sub Recognition

Rakesh wrote:Hint: What is unique about this boat is what lies under the waterline....
oil drilling platform for ultra deepwater ops, got a riser and heavy pipe handling systems apart from fluid and cement systems, heaviest vessels around.
by Klaus
02 Jan 2016 10:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Sahel-Maghreb-coastal africa : news and discussions
Replies: 62
Views: 10065

Re: Sahel-Maghreb-coastal africa : news and discussions

The region of Western Sahara between Morocco and Mauritania is an ungoverned region and is also been historically unstable. It is not recognized as a state by the UN and it is quite likely that IS and AQAM have deep roots here even before they were addressed by such terminology. There is a contiguou...
by Klaus
02 Jan 2016 06:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: What Makes Pakistan tick? Discussion thread
Replies: 158
Views: 29986

Re: What Makes Pakistan tick? Discussion thread

The schizophrenic state/society ticks solely for the euphoria it enjoys as a result of its schizophrenia, i.e its a vicious cycle where the cause/effect (schizophrenia/euphoria) feed & sustain each other. You will need something truly disruptive in order to be able to destroy the equilibrium and...
by Klaus
27 Oct 2015 23:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Dawood Ibrahim & Underworld Watch Thread
Replies: 444
Views: 73378

Re: Dawood Ibrahim & Underworld Watch Thread

I was wondering on this. CR is RAW man is in my opinion speculation. CR may have been used at a few occasions possibly but keeping him as a permanent RAW asset seems far fetched. On similar lines I was wondering what will the Pakis do now? They are so convinced CR is a RAW man that his arrest will ...
by Klaus
12 Oct 2015 12:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)
Replies: 4033
Views: 429859

Re: The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

if at all ISIS goes down, they will make their last horse cavalry charge, black flags fluttering in the dry wind and curved swords gleaming in the winter sun around Raqqa and the area to the south of it. More likely to be Tikrit (Saddam's birthplace) or Fallujah in Iraq as the last stand. Raqqa is ...
by Klaus
12 Oct 2015 12:23
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 1772
Views: 564165

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015

Putin's already met with deputy crown prince & DefMin of KSA, IMO moves are afoot to get KSA to break the petro-dollar hyphenation. I've always wondered what awaits bankers and people in the financial services industry in general if the USD does lose primacy & plunges the world into depressi...
by Klaus
02 Jun 2015 15:46
Forum: Military History Archive
Topic: Brig. RayC RIP
Replies: 90
Views: 34176

Re: Brig. RayC RIP

Used to visit BR Archives to search for his posts, may he attain moksha!
by Klaus
29 Apr 2015 13:05
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14
Replies: 3962
Views: 543866

Re: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14

^^^ If 2.3 m dia is maintained for VLT's in all SSBN's (both Arihant class and subsequent ones), then its truly multi-role.
by Klaus
26 Apr 2015 17:26
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14
Replies: 3962
Views: 543866

Re: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14

Thx Kanson. If its a 2 m diameter for a proposed sub launched version, then it means a different design for VLT's & hence a new class of SSBN, after S4 & S5.

Same would apply for land silos too.
by Klaus
25 Apr 2015 13:42
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14
Replies: 3962
Views: 543866

Re: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14

Questions arise about the underwater version of A6, will it have the same dimensions as the K4/K5? If not, then it means a new class of SSBN (similar to how the USN developed the Polaris, Poseidon class leading to the Trident class subs due to first-strike and counterforce compulsions).
by Klaus
16 Oct 2014 21:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Who are the fronts and behinds of the ISI(P/S/?)
Replies: 161
Views: 16852

Re: Who are the fronts and behinds of the ISI(P/S/?)

Ramana ji, exactly. Usurpers posing as revisionists. Remnants of R-F are the Alawites and Lebanon now, not Iran as is commonly believed. Objective critics would not even title Sher Shah's decade old rule in India as a Caliphate, so if the same yardstick is applied here then we could have a whole new...
by Klaus
16 Oct 2014 19:29
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Who are the fronts and behinds of the ISI(P/S/?)
Replies: 161
Views: 16852

Re: Who are the fronts and behinds of the ISI(P/S/?)

ramana wrote: Are the ISIS just revamped Kharjites? The ones who killed Ali.
I suspected since Gaddafi's fall that 'Arab Spring' is just a Ummayad-Ottoman hybrid which has successfully pre-empted/held at bay a Rashidun-Fatimid redux in the region.