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Akshay Kapoor

2 Front war can be fought and won today. I share a short summary of my Concept of Ops below. This is based on detailed assessments by me and some others. Have also run it by a former VCOAS and he liked it. There are some ammunition and a lot of B veh shortages but those can be made up in months chea...

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Where is the question of import or even R&D sir. We should just buy off the shelf from AL and Tata and save 18%-25% instead of buying SAME PRODUCT via VFJ. Please read again. Thats why I stay away from this forum. People don't read carefully or bother to educate themselves. Why is there a shorta...

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A concerned BRF member connected me offline and asked 'Sir, is our MMG also not fit for purpose'' ? I replied "Hain ? Yaar thats one of the only 02 reliable weapons''. He responds ''But sir, you wrote that our MMG is not good on BRF''. I said ''Partner, I have come on BRF only a couple of times...

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Tasting is in army also. Duty offr eats atleast one meal of the day in Langar and enters comments in register. Langar helpings are bigger than mess helpings. I like being duty offr. Full meal. If you happen to be in a so called 'peace station' then bachelor offrs will often go to a senior offrs hous...

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Maybe different op philosophies. I am only half joking but its good to be able to go hungry because who knows what situation you may face in ops. On a serious note its a fact that army has to be hardier and togher than Navy. Maybe you have to fight for 2/3 days without food and water. It is a fact t...

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They are called Cook Os. Navy food is better than army and the quantity is also larger! Helpings are bigger. As a young officer one would often be hungry. And we won't even discuss toilet facilities. But obviously one advantage of staying hungry is having to use the DTL less frequently.

Akshay Kapoor · Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018 शनो वरुण :

शनो वरुण :

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Rajput is nostalgic for me as well. As a child I saw a party hosted on it. Remembered lots of food (specially pulav) and thought Navy eats much better than army. Decade plus later sitting in a field area I recollected that :D Also watched Gandhi movie on Rajput as a child. Enduring memories of the s...

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ks_sachin wrote:
ramana wrote:So where do SP artillery fit in an armored formation?
K-9 will go to the Armored Division's organic artillery brigade according to Mr Vats.

Correct

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If SP Arty Viajra goes to Ladakh, it will be in support of the Armd Bde or Inf Bde but not under command. It will be under command of Div Arty or Corps Arty. In my opinion it can support both inf and tanks so just because it is based on a tracked veh does not mean it should only be for armour. It ca...

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Thank you for correcting sir. I was under the impression that only IBG's were to be structured around the area of operations and role. Ind. arrmored brigade in my mind were more rigid and hence need of IBG concept in addition to time for mobilization. You are right. When I said Orbats can change in...

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Lastly this thread is my pinned thread. Response to the Honour Code/Chetwode code invoked by those handful who I can only call either partially or fully urban naxals in uniform. Directed at Maj Gen BS Dhanoa, Brig Sandy Thapar and others.

https://twitter.com/Ak5985965/status/13 ... 95552?s=20

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Sharing some thread exchanges with Pravin Shawney. Concepts of ops, tactics, Op art, embedded in these. Have tried to teach Shawney basics but have failed. Maybe members here can benefit https://twitter.com/Ak5985965/status/1317743929215930369?s=20 https://twitter.com/Ak5985965/status/13623340678076...

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One question how are Independent armored brigades organized? 3 tank regiments and 1 SP regiment plus medium regiment? Correct, independent armoured brigades (3+1) of the Pivot Corps Wrong. 3+1 means 3 Armd Regts + 1 Mech Inf Regt. Not 3 Armd + 1 SP Arty. Armd Bdes are always 2+1 (Armd Bdes of Armd ...

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R_Singh, I am retired from BRF but in April-May 2020 I discovered that my login still worked so I checked this forum about once a week since things were hotting up and hostilities are/were/maybe imminent. I think I posted only once and that too when one of my fallen brothers was referred to in the w...

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I have been crying myself hoarse on twitter since April 'Please do not let soldiers patrol without weapons. Serves no tactical or strategic purpose'. When basics of soldiering are ignored because of faulty strategic appreciation then such tragedies are bound to occur. We still continue to misread Ch...

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Dont say Rest in Peace - if too many people say this it stops them from attaining their next yoni. Say Om Shanti. They have got Veergati. Unit will do a havan soon.

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5 para commandos killed by terrorists. This is unbelievable and surely the cost imposed will be steep. Such heavy losses to elite para are a huge failure on our part. Utter Nonsense. 2 squads were boxing in the enemy moving tactically in heavy snow after being heli dropped. Scouts plus leader of 1 ...

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Resignation - Gentlemen I have submitted my resignation as a moderator and a request for cancellation of my account to the moderators. Thank you all for the support especially those discussion we had in the Tactics discussion. My email is akshaykapoor108 at gmale for those interested in carrying on ...

Akshay Kapoor · Re: Indian Army News & Discussions - 11 June 2014 check your pm.

check your pm.

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I don't think it is worth starting an entire new thread for this because - as I indicated in my post - I would ask a series of maybe 5-6 questions that need hard (sociological) data for answers before we can establish that the premise that armed forces people are 1. Really (data wise) unable to fin...

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Rakesh wrote:Since Vidur-ji brought up the point, let us start one why not? I enjoy sociology topics. right up my alley as well.

Okay we will start another thread if you and Shiv sir are genuinely interested in it. Rakesh lets you and I moderate it closely and we will let Shiv lead and diagnose.

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If you are referring to the Sept 2016 strikes (in revenge for the cowardly attack on the Uri camp), then it was alcohol. The Major was peeved that everyone was giving him alcohol and nobody was giving him food. I read that in the book —> India’s Most Fearless by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh. The Majo...

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Prasad, in addition to what Shiv sir said, there would by hyperbaric chambers for sure in the hospital. As Shiv sir pointed out in his earlier post....just having equipment is not enough. Living a few winters, suffering casualties, evacuating them, loosing some, all is a learning experience and Chin...

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Okay quiz time : There was one thing about his welcome that peeved the Major who lead one of the surgical strike teams. What was it ?

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ramana wrote:You already are married!!!

Sir always good to check market value....

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The Economist has the Hamburger Index for relative buying power of different currencies. In Civil Service we have the dowry index - relative earning power of various professions ! Last year that for the first time IIM was bid higher than IAS/IPS - the bidder was a minister of the erstwhile UP gover...

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I was curious so read it. Some points are illuminating - I was not aware of the situation in Kashmir. His points about the bureaucracy are unfortunatley correct. T he steel frame has become a noose around the republic and unless it is radically reformed or abolished we will not achieve our developm...

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I modified my post before seeing your reply. It is okay. I agree with you that gare murde ukhadne ke koi faide nahi hai. There is good synergy between IAF and the Tejas team now. And we can leave it at that happy note. I don't intend to modify anybody's world views. I will wait for you to show me a...

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Oh damn. Sad.

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He is saying it in the same breath as calling IAF knee jerk for wanting a medium a/c for medium role - requirement approved by the govt and mandated by it for 15 years atleast ? And How can a light CAS 70 pct of Tejas do a medium role ?

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It is for the above reason that LM could churn out F-16s at the rate of 30/month in the 1980s and the same concept has been adopted with the F-35 as well. Two aircraft that are night and day in technology and even raw materials, but the production concept is the same. The same will now be true with...

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Thank you for the updates. Is there a timeline in mind? It was also good to know that the new radomes will be retrofitted to all the IOC standard Tejas jets including those delivered to the IAF already. one question regarding that was whether those radomes would be built in India or imported from t...

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How’s the ADA HAL interaction.

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All of this done without one single crash. Great safety management. Kudos to all involved. Important institutional learning that will be crucial to future projects. Is this being institutionalised Indranil. What are the mechanisms ? I believe this is an important aspect. Also as the pilots of 45 Sqd...

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It depends on whether their exports are elastic or not. If they are then exports should go up countering the GDP drop in dollar terms. But usually big currency drops are not elastic even in the best economies and Pak is dysfunctional and male nothing worth selling except terror. So my view is that t...

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panduranghari wrote:US eats the least fresh food and spends the most on healthcare.
India spends more on fresh food and spends less on healthcare.

Causation =/= Correlation.

Fascinating

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Mig21s crashed so much, BECAUSE THEY ARE BLOODY DIFFICULT TO HANDLE/FLY and I believe the IAF would send there pilots to Mig21 from intermediate jet training? that is a tall order!! hard enough to handle such an aircraft out of advanced jet training couple the difficulties of flying such a difficul...

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Mig21s crashed so much, BECAUSE THEY ARE BLOODY DIFFICULT TO HANDLE/FLY and I believe the IAF would send there pilots to Mig21 from intermediate jet training? that is a tall order!! hard enough to handle such an aircraft out of advanced jet training couple the difficulties of flying such a difficul...

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I see. The search engine point makes sense. I’ll discuss.

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