Bharat Rakshak

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Great stuff - nothing like having a big danda and swinging it a few times in full public view

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Excellent read Sirjee. Keep going...

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By far the single most important decision made for Indian aerospace. This is the PSLV moment. India needs a 1,000-Ghatak plan over the next decade. The Iran-US/Israel conflict clearly shows that local production = staying power, irrespective of the sophistication and "equal to western standard...

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https://x.com/ParthVa53135321/status/2037415066421870744?s=20 ---> Ghatak UCAV. BIGGEST WIN! 🔹VLO (Very Low Observable) 🔹 12 to 13 Ton MTOW (Maximum Take Off Weight) 🔹 IWB (Internal Weapons Bay) 🔹 Powered by KDE (Kaveri Derivative Engine) with 48 kN output 🔹 2+ Ton Payload 🔹 3.7 Tons (3,700 kg) of ...

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I always wondered if the GoI could pass a law "1947 Partition of India Amendment Bill" to revoke Indian Citizenship from families whose immediate family members are involved in: - spying for Paxtan - planting bombs & fighting security forces on Indian territory - funding terror network...

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In an era of first and fast mover advantage, one can no longer afford to sit back and analyse the force structure and GSQR to death. A bird in hand is worth two in the bush If the Kaveri works even for 100 flight hours, it needs to be put into mass manufacturing as rip and replaceable modules that a...

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"The P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has the capability to lay mines and is expected to be a primary asset for the U.S. Navy's Quickstrike sea mine program"., i think the INs Neptunes also have same capability [ so does paki Orions ] It's about using the right tool for the job 1. T...

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These are mine-lying craft, not mine-sweeping craft Didn't follow. These vessels are designed to shallow water anti-submarine operations. Why would they be laying mines in our own coastal areas? Defensive minefields are the single biggest deterrent to enemy submarines in shallow coastal waters. Thi...

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vonkabra wrote: ↑22 Dec 2025 12:53 Just a query, but can shallow-water ASW vessels like the INS Mahe also perform minesweeping activities?

These are mine-lying craft, not mine-sweeping craft

Mine Hunting/Sweeping is going to be offloaded to large steel-hulled crewed motherships with UUV drones

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drnayar wrote: ↑18 Oct 2025 06:41 https://www.wdmma.org/ranking.php
https://www.wdmma.org/indian-air-force.php

Globally third most powerful air force

Sirjee - Who are these WDMMA guys, and what are their credentials?

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7-8 P-17B will come - confirmed by multiple sources Modular construction means timelines are relatively quick (compared to the P-15/P-15A) But you should look at the capability augmentation. Each old ship being replaced with a P-17A/P-17B/NGC/NGMV bring a quantum leap in firepower and self-defense c...

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These pics are several years old.

Both Himgiri & Udaygiri have sailed to Vizag.

3 P-17A will be commissioned this year in total (Nilgiri, Himgiri, Udaygiri); remaining 4 will be commissioned next year.

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One stupid question. Let's say we develop tejas and enemy has gen 5 fighter but we have numerical superiority helps or gen 5 is gen 5 even if we deploy 3:1 we can't hold Reality: Enemy has 3x Gen5 fighters in numerical superiority. That's a problem only if you play the game on their terms. A stealt...

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INS Arnala has been commissioned. First of 8 ships from GRSE (a second sub-class of 8 ships is being built by CSL) 1400 tons - much bigger than the Petya / Pauk classes we used earlier SENSORS: Abhay hull mounted sonar + towed array/VDS from Atlas Elektronik + Combat Management System WEAPONS: RBU-6...

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Akash missile role in #OperationSindoor is being celebrated by Bharatiya jan. I made small contribution to it, in a moonlighting project ( I earned Rs 8000 in 1987) in the development of the Rajendra PESA radar's ferrite phase shifter. Those days it was being developed by Prof. Kaul of CARE @ IIT D...

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I came across x profile of pravin sawhney who wrote for force magazine. What's his deal ? Peddling some kind of an agenda.seems to have an axe to grind. I know some of them use to post year way back in 2000s Dudeji is pi$$ed off with India. His core audience judging by his YouTube channel comments ...

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RCase ji That is incorrect The 6 squadrons of approx 140 Su-7 were rushed into induction just before the 1971 war These aircraft carried out the bulk of A2G sorties, delivered the bulk of A2G ordnance, and suffered disproportionately at the hands of ack-ack They were also retired very early into the...

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Om Shanti.

Our deepest condolences to the family of Dr R Chidambaram.

Thank you sir for your long service in the critical area of national security/survival. Those who understand your work and our nation's history will be eternally grateful to you.

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If one were to think objectively: 1) There is an assured supply of Russian engines, and a local supply chain exists for 25-50% of that engine 2) Russian engines are less efficient and less reliable, necessitating a twin engine design 3) India is now fully capable of designing and manufacturing a del...

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Per Adm. DT in above video, the IN is going to have 160-175 ships (based on all constraints - fiscal, shipbuilding, etc.) with significantly increased combat capabilities The average size of the fleet unit will be a highly capable 6000 tons unit with combat capability in all 3 dimensions. The averag...

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Cross-posting from the Bangladesh thread: ===================================== rHt6n1qVcnY Very interesting watch - a discussion between a popular UK based Bangladeshi Islamist, and a popular Bangladesh based Bangladeshi Islamist (an academic at that) Eye opening revelations about how Bangladeshi i...

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rHt6n1qVcnY Very interesting watch - a discussion between a popular UK based Bangladeshi Islamist, and a popular Bangladesh based Bangladeshi Islamist (an academic at that) Eye opening revelations about how Bangladeshi islamists thing about the present and future: 1) The concept of Lebensraum (livi...

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Air Chief Marshal has no good words for the Tejas, how it is easy to fly, modern compared to the old Mig-21 it replaced. Ease of training pilots, modern weapons and much more in the Tejas. No praise at all, instead it is a whining session of depleted forces, hick ups in production and more. There i...

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VIDEO : https://x.com/ANI/status/1840972214096556076 ---> Delhi: On being asked about the future of the Indigenous Fighter aircraft programmes, Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal AP Singh says, "I have been associated with the Tejas programme right from its flight testing days and it is very c...

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operational jet aircraft, the He 178, was flown on Aug 27, 1939 All successful jet engines of the world are based on Hans von Ohain work and Frank Whittle is credited with Jet Engines! Hans von Ohain emigrated to the US. Almost everything the west claims as their own today is the result of stolen g...

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To be fair, Indians are justly proud of what our Parsi immigrants have done for India, not for their home country Iran. Their loyalties lie with India and not Iran. One should not expect any different from US Desis I think your aggravation will significantly reduce if you acknowledge the above real...

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This is the crap you guys are worried about, after what Biden, Obama and Garsh!tty are doing against India? :shock: This is where the phrase "Non-Reliable Indians" comes from. Sanman-ji, A couple of things to be said clearly up front. (1) Does the average NRI have a soft corner for India?...

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Perhaps, we are seeing the international manifestation of the constant propaganda against the RSS over the last 7 plus decades. Alternatively, an organisation which is connected with the group level workers and has the foot print that RSS has. It represents a clear and present danger to Islamic exp...

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What is the main air search radar?

It's not cross dome - that's been replaced with a planar array. And it doesn't look like revathi...it's something lighter

The Lynx U2 & surface search radar are now ubiquitous. Finally some fleet-wide standardization

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On a strategic level of thinking, all these 7-8 decades of maturity come from the desire to remain at the bleeding edge of military capabilities. That only happens once you experience long-term wars, death, and destruction. 1) The UK built an empire, and fought 2 bloody wars, and lost that empire. I...

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srai wrote: ↑28 Jul 2024 04:46 At 5,000t, it would no longer be a “corvette”

Sirjee,

Destroyers have gone from < 1000 tons to > 10000 tons in 100 years

Surely corvettes can make the leap from 500 tons to 5000 tons, no?

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The money will be spent in the local ecosystem in INR and will create about a million jobs as well

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Do we need a "1000-Tejas" plan for numeric parity with the PLAAF and deliver 100/year for 10 years? Switch production from MK1 to MK1A to MK2 as designs stabilize I wonder it's a question of money? Or spend spread & optimization? The GoI can easily mandate 3-4 billion dollars a year fo...

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The 76 mm is a modular mount. They tend to cycle these modules from a pool depending on what ship & module is due for maintenance. Eventually it’ll have a stealthy mount (for the most part). There are at least 3 (Godavari) + 3 (Brahmaputra) + 4 (Kora) = 10 non-stealthy modules in the pool There’...

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Sanman-ji, If the US feels it needs to intervene to prevent Quebec's UDI then so be it. There is very little that you or China or Russia (or India for that matter) can do about it. Jiski Lathi Uski Bhais But there is nothing anyone can or will do about expanding trade ties. There are only 3 large co...

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Yes. India did nothing when the Khalistan movement was at it's peak in the 1980's :roll: That's why the Khalistanis prefer to harass India from abroad, from the safety of another country's bosom. And these overseas politicians are increasingly willing to cater to them, for Vote Bank reasons. I don'...

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For US Residents, and also who have connections to Rutgers: >>>Take a minute to send an email to @RutgersU today. Oppose their decision to cave in to demands from "protestors" to display the Kashmiri secessionist flag on their campuses! In effect this means recognition of Kashmir as a sep...

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^^^ If they are going to be around for another two decades then we can assume radar, electronics and weapon package would be updated too at some point. Main weapon upgrade in my mind would be the air defense: VL-SRSAM (40km) replace Barak-1 (8km) Lots to do: PROPULSION: BHEL Boilers / Turbines --> ...

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