Bharat Rakshak

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This is big. Didn't see much coverage so far. 'New All-Arms Brigades Being Formed': Army Chief Announces 'Rudra' On Kargil Vijay Diwas Under this, new all-arms brigades named ‘Rudra’ are being formed, and I approved it yesterday. This will have fighting components like infantry, mechanised infantry,...

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^^^ Only in Indian defence procurement will we see “moving closer “ and “end of financial year” (9 months away and for a critical item) without a sense of irony.

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If only they mandate video recording of cockpit…

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How did they figure out that the captain seat moved ? That wasn’t in the AAIB report

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Only two questions:
- Is it possible to turn off both fuel control switches within 1 second of each other ?
- Is it possible that the switches turn off automatically (without manual intervention) under some circumstance?

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This is a literal gold mine. Role of Army during Sindhoor. Has everything from ASLV, armor, IFG, 130mm (thought they were all getting upgraded), anti drone systems.

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Some thoughts and analysis … 1. The Baki penchant for saving H&D is a huge weakness. What we claimed officially as the bases hit were only a subset of what we actually did. We don’t know how many LOC posts were destroyed, for instance. This opens up a huge opportunity for covert ops that cause a...

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Always wondered about these bike-mounted assaults by Russians. Looks like it is catching.

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Amber G. wrote: ↑18 Jun 2025 00:50 FATF condemns Pahalgam terror attack.

“Such incidents couldn’t occur without support”.

Now that they have condemned it, they have taken adequate action and so likelihood of Bakis going to grey list is remote

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Pakistan to drop nuclear weapon on Israel if Israel nukes Iran, says Rezaei https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/pakistan-to-provide-iran-with-nuclear-weapons-if-israel-uses-one-iranian-official-3202916 Well, do your thing Israel! Very difficult to say which of the two is more probable - Iran lying ...

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Why does the US Army march as if they are sleep walking ?

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Latest open source theory is that the Ram Air Turbine deployed which brings speculation back to dual engine failure and causes of that, because that is supposed to be extremely rare.

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^^ I presume this would have an SFDR motor to increase the range (like Astra Mk3). And a dual-mode seeker (like Stunner missile).

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I don’t understand the conspiracy theories. Having watched dozens of Air Crash Investigation episodes, there are only a few occasions where malice caused a crash. The Swiss cheese theory says there are usually a lot of process failures that leads to crashes like this, and not a single cause. Hope th...

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I saw one video which said that pilots could have retracted flaps by mistake instead of landing gear

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We should have had more faith in Paki-ness.

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I was looking up the Kishenganga project and I was struck by an idea: since the Kishenganga water is diverted into Jhelum and to Wular lake, can't you just increase the capacity of the Wular lake ? Like take up desilting etc. And some Google searches later, I found that someone has already written a...

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^^ I don't know if the 105mm light gun is relevant anymore. I've been following the Ukraine conflict and it looks like anything till around 10km is taken over by FPV drones.

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Looking at his Twitter timeline … I wish he could get deported to UK or Canada …

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The more I read about Hydrogen, the less I'm convinced about the logistics. I think it might be much better to convert "Green" Hydrogen to a more storage friendly form such as "Green" Ammonia (if it is possible efficiently) than use in the raw H2 form.

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An efficient nuclear battery would be ideal for submarine AIP.

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They want mineral deal with Trump in return for more alms. They know they are better beggars than Ukraine and avoid mistakes of Zelensky

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I always thought that Akash NG was a desi version equivalent to Barak 8, with all Israeli components replaced with desi ones.

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^^^ Which expenditure do they need to reduce to balance the reduction in receipts ?

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One set of sanctions go and another set comes in ... Proposed US restriction on AI chip export threatens India's AI hardware plans: IESA The US administration has proposed a new framework that restricts the import of artificial intelligence chips due to national security concerns about the technolog...

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Yes in this case the cost of the missile will be very low - the seeker is a miniaturized seeker and will use target matching algos to perform a proximity kill. Something as simple as a closed loop chip with a optical sensor is good enough for this. Considering the range at which it shall operate it...

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^^^ To put it in chess terms, the Jeans-gate was a gambit opening from Carlsen, which put FIDE on backfoot since most people sympathized with Carlsen. Then, Carlsen fell into a trap by accepting the piece sacrifice by FIDE and lost tempo. Now, everyone is wary of Carlsen's influence on world chess. ...

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UKR introdues powerful EW to counter Russian FPV drones. Russians already have drones with fiber optic links, but not in numbers. Terminal autonomous homing is the way I see this going forward.

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The reason that Mk2 is being questioned today is because there was never a case for it. Mk2 happened because supposedly because Mk1 was too heavy and therefore it needed a more powerful engine. That would make sense if the Mk2 had the same or near the MTOW as Mk1 but that didn't happen. Mk2 is MWF w...

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Two British Indian community leaders stripped of honours by King Charles; One had shown support for Bangladeshi Hindus, the other “accused” of supporting PM Modi https://www.opindia.com/2024/12/british-indian-community-leaders-stripped-of-honours-by-king-charles-amid-free-speech-row/ I'm really cur...

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^^^DAC only saar not yet at CCS level

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I don't understand this tradition of "calling the result" by the media, and one of the candidates conceding the election.
Doesn't the US have an independent election commission to announce the results?

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Why do I have a feeling that they will only want it to supply Ukraine?

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What we have now is indeed an imploded Pakistan. We don't want that cess pit to explode and splash all over us. Actually, I'd be ok. Let it implode first, we can handle it. I don't want the fear of "what are we going to do" to stop us from giving a nudge to them to implode quicker when th...

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Reading up on all the fake bomb threats to the flights esp Indian carriers, which results in massive waste of time and money, I'm wondering: historically, how many of the bomb threats have turned out to be true ?

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Awesome interview with founders of SSS Defence

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I'm trying to find a suitable WW2 parallel to the Kursk attack. Is it ... a) The battle of Kursk (original edition): where Wehrmacht attacked a fortified region, fell into a trap and lost its combat potential and opened itself for counter attack ? b) The battle of Bulge: the last gasp of a dying arm...

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We missed the bus in 1971!! I dont know if I am right but maybe we should have integrated the East Bengal into India instead of un official infiltration into India. Paki+Chini must be celebrating. Paki anlcysts on Al Hijra pontificating :rotfl: :rotfl: The bus we missed in 1971 was to keep the Chic...

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Not sure about the LCA fitment but its time to move beyond the fact that the RD-33 engine is very smoky. Improvements and refinements have significantly improved the engine smokiness, the same are manufactured in India. I see it repeated again and again and wanted to call it out. Anyone pitching RD...

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I'm deeply concerned about the democracy in America. This attempted assassination is the latest in a series of political intimidation of the opposition leader that is vehemently opposed to the ruling regime. This and the fact that only two parties are favored in the political process raises grave do...

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