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Just select the Tavor or X-95 and be done with it. I dunno how long will this farce play. Multi caliber can come later with add on kits.

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Apparently Zaid Hamid has been arrested in S Arabia for inflammatory speeches against the house of Saud he made during his trip there.

6 yrs prison and 1200 lashes have been prescribed as repentance.

There goes my weekend comedy...sigh...

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Karan, The Honeywell INS is manufactured by Tata SED and is meant for Land navigation purposes. It is a standard with US Army also. Most likely it would be integrated for Armoured/Mechanised Veh and Artillery units and probably with a BMS at a later date for individual blue force tracking. Honeywell...

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I was wondering where Field Marshal Klaw had been hiding!! Col. Rathore's achievements are well known, what does Klaw bring to the table apart from an ex-wife famous in the dilli partay circuit. Unlike Klaw, Rathore has been a blazer and sword of honour both at NDA/IMA. He has always been a sportsma...

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Nitin Gokhale: An Excellent Indian Army Operation Overshadowed by Poor Communications Excerpts Overshadowed by some ill-advised pronouncements by ministers and an even sillier questions posed by ill-informed television anchors. UndieTV While junior ministers went a little overboard in claiming the ...

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1. It has embarrassed Burma, many informed do care about how the messaging is done, for in their view it makes a difference. e.g: read what G. Partha said in a TV interview yesterday. I do share the view that the messaging could have been better managed and coordinated. 2. Why did the IA first say,...

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I think the Congi media will try and play this up as another ''Fishing Boat'' episode.

Already there are multiple propaganda articles that the camps were empty.

Implying all this foo-faa was for nothing.

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There is something seriously wrong with the dude to begin the article with allegations which have nothing to do with Indian SF even per his own account. But Karan Ji, Porky MilSpox trumpet SDRE Int chaps. OTOH...I am more vexed by the silence from Field Marshal Klaw, who i expect will any moment sw...

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Porbeen Swami.....Need i say more!! Excerpts: A short history of Indian Special Ops The dawn would have illuminated the pools of blood, as the villagers emerged to count their dead. For all of the night of February 24, 2000, residents of the hamlet of Lanjote had bunkered down, hoping not to be hit ...

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The mystery as to what air assets were used continues. Now I read somewhere that Dhruv was used to transport. So, what is it, Mi-17 only or Mi17+Mi-35 or Mi-35 only or Dhruv + mi 35 or Dhruv only or Mi-35 + SF crossing border on ground. I am ruling out the no air assets option as almost all the rep...

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@SpokespersonMoD
A Clarification: MoD has NOT issued any photo relating to Indian Army action along Indo-Myanmar border in the North East, so far.

Prestitute Pubby gets caught peddling old photograph as the real deal...

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21 Para SF........Waghnakhs.

True to their name!!

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I think the first photo is of the lone militant they killed. In the other, you can also see sandbags across the vehicle floor. *Langar Gup Alert* The CO was on leave when the unit was deinducting to the rear. If true, most shameful. There were maximum guys in the first truck against all regulations ...

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^^ The insignia on their coats is Bangladesh SSF.

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Rather than the tank what would be more worrying will be the new tracked and wheeled Kurganets and Boomerang IFV's. The Russians will lobby extremely hard for them. They fall just where the IA has eyes for the FICV. 7-8 troops, ~25 tons, amphibious, decent protection and fair bit of commonality betw...

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While there could be multiple reasons for the attack. Typically, Army units which give these factions trouble do face heat as their own tenure ends when these said units wont be able to retaliate much. Where we can begin is start detaining their money-pushers and bagmen, they will really feel the he...

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26 Sector has always been a tricky one as it controls the border also. IIRC, 26 Sector has some 5 Assam Rifles Battalions there besides the Infantry Battalion---6 Dogras in this case. Good thing is Gen Suhag will know the area well as ex 3 Corps Commander. They need to sort these chaps out soon. For...

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The thing is small arms is just one of the things ARDE is involved in and one where they have had marginal success. ARDE's failure with the Carbine and LMG is also well documented. Possibly some good will come of OFB taking control a la Dhanush if you will. This is also one of the only industry wher...

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abhik wrote:Nuclear weapons can be used to deter conventional attacks not just nuclear.

Why do we need to pay for a military in that case??

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Three militants killed in Kashmir encounter A vicious encounter is going on since hours between special forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district. Heavy exchange of firing is underway from both the sides. According to reports, five to seven militants entered illegally in Indian T...

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Bharat Karnad is a dinosaur who has had the hotts for Roosy maal like no other. He cried rivers when the Mig lost the MMRCA downselect. His prediction during the MMRCA was...... Whatever the merits and demerits of the aircraft in the fray and the other allurements offered by the supplier states, the...

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Rahul,

The original Sundarji plan called for 54 Div to be the converted to an air assault or rapid reaction role. That however never picked up.

Possibly one of its other brigades is earmarked in an air assault/ air landing role and the other in an amphibious one.

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Shaurya, I dont think the Air Assault Divs would be conceivable in the current environment, where we are struggling to even meet the actual numbers. IIRC, They have 91 Inf Bde (ex 54 Div) as an amphibious ops capable. Besides, they already have 108 Bde as part of Andaman and Nicobar Command (ANC). T...

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105 are good guns esp the LFG with its lighter alloy barrel. However, they cannot use a whole gamut of modern more accurate rounds like boat tail, extended range base bleed to gps ones to give varied trajectories for which these guns are charge case dependent in addition to being man intensive. On t...

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vina, Have they accounted for hypersonic lift at high altitudes in the ballistic computer? At high altitude due to the lower air density the shell acquires more lift based on the Mach number at that time. Solution is reduced charge to slow it down or fire short projectiles as its length dependent a...

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The young officer mentioned in the NDTV article is what inspired the cliff face assault in a famous movie... His citation: Lieutenant Neikezhakuo Kenguruse, 2 Rajputana Rifles, was the Ghatak Platoon Commander during the attack on Area Black Rock on the night of 28 June 1999. Lieutenant Kenguruse vo...

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Parajumping at sea is quite a risky exercise...

As my dad told me...you have to let go of your chute at the right time; to high at you risk hurting yourself bad and too low and yu run the risk of getting entangled in own para chords and drowning..

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Ohh...Wish they just get the Tavor and end this tamasha!! Indeed. Tavor 7.62 mm NATO variant is already in works and 7.62x39 should be totally doable. The X95 is already modular with 5.56 NATO, 5.45x39 and 9 mm variants in production. Not to mention that a full sized rifle comes in the size package...

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The Pakistani Army has inducted the Chinese HQ-7B short range air defense system. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif inspected the unit yesterday, witnessing training activity that included missile firing. The export system is designated FM-90 in Pakistan’s service can engage aeri...

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Wonderful Campaign e-book taken out by IA for WW1 celebrations!!

Lots of archival snaps...World War 1-Remembering the Sacrifice

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Aditya G wrote:ID the paratrooper unit:

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(Op Maitri, Nepal)

252 Parachute AD Battery

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Under DTTI, the project is being called Uniform Integrated Protection Ensemble - Increment 2 (UIPE I2), and will see US companies collaborating with an Indian partner for the new-generation clothing for soldiers. UIPE is primarily CBRN clothing part of the Soldier Integrated Protective Ensemble (SI...

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Ohh...Wish they just get the Tavor and end this tamasha!!

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LoL......Through all these years have always wondered how Sucklaw managed to keep his 'flamboyant' cavalry side quiet in the civvie street....This man is one sly operator. They used to call him ''Sweet Knife''........ :mrgreen: Karan, Did LutyensMasala mention Gripen and Sucklaw??...Cnt locate the t...

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Avik, The Engineer Regt will all be of different types. Armoured Divisions have Armoured Engineer Regts while others have a Gen Engr Regt. Corps Engineer Bde will have something like an Pontoon Bridge Regt (PMS) an Assault Bridge (AM 50 Mobile Bridge Launching Vehicle) Regt etc. IIRC, they are relat...

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Been saying it from the beginning, 8 hours endurance will just not cut it especially as they replace the searchers. If you look at the parliamentary committee report, IA just placed an order for 1600crs for Herons last year.

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YIP Saar, As always superb analysis. I was unware of Kapil Vij's role in the whole affair. He was very highly regarded in the Armoured Corps circuit and is a Rimcollian to boot. I think the Pivot's own armoured bde and RAPID now form the IBG. Rohit did mention it in passing once. The rate of urbanis...

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I don't want to discuss military tactics in this thread. No matter what Indian Army does w.r.t Pakistan it would be crossing the "ever-changing" nuclear threshold. Indian army sitting in its own barracks itself is not good for Pakistan. 1998 proved that all Indian army can do is to protec...

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Couple of points; The idea with Cold Start is to achieve political and military gains in the shortest possible time, before Pakistan can bring foreign actor into play. The difference between our previous doctrines and Cold Start essentially is to attack first and mobilize later. The Pivot Corps depl...

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HAL has been manufacturing Dhruv since 2002. It handed over the Mk1 helicopters in 2002 itself to the four services IIRC. The 159 Mk3 contract was supposed to run till 2015 after which the Mk4 was to be manufactured. According to the parliamentary committee they had only managed to produce 78. What...

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