Bharat Rakshak

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Regarding the Jaguar re-engining, there were originally two in the fray - Honeywell F125 and Rolls Royce Adour 821 (i'm not able to get the specs of this). But Rolls royce got kicked out because the IAF wanted a new engine and not an updated one. Once that happened, we lost all leverage and are now ...

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looking at small weight (if 130kg be true) and low height my guess - thermal imaging not optical telescope. maybe be useful to monitor underground activity in afpak/cheen looking at heat signatures at night. both tactical and strategic target surveys. these are from a/c but you get the idea https:/...

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I'm a bit puzzled. Obsolescent components, stronger windshield, etc can easily be handled in Mk1A. Can we just get the FOC for Mk1 done ? If they are so critical, why are they brought up now ? If they aren't so critical, why the rush to fix them for the 40 Mk1 when you can fix them for the larger nu...

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https://defenceupdate.in/army-air-force-discussing-control-of-attack-helicopters-bipin-rawat/ Rawat said that the army is trying to explain to the IAF on how future battles will be fought. “Because if you are going to use the Apache, it is going to be in our support… Its for the mechanised formatio...

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What’s a high speed railway gun? Dorky misinterpretation of rail gun? Or actually a gun being pulled around on HSR (we don’t even have any yet but I know we are working with the Japs on this.) The new Mumbai-Ahmedabad HSR being built with Japanese help is going to be integrated with the 155mm Dhanu...

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We can now afford 36 more easily, they will cost only about ~5B now, including weapons. A lot of us have been professing buying 2 more Sq since the moment this G2G deal was announced. That will bring down unit cost from 1600Cr too, reducing impact of Pappu's lies. :P :rotfl: :rotfl: Don't discount ...

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What about the gun ? IIRC, it got moved out of FOC, so is it part of Mk1A ?

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Out of $39.83 bn, debt repayments of energy and infrastructure projects amount to $28.43 bn, the daily reported, citing documents of the ministry of planning and development. The remaining $11.4 bn will be paid in the shape of dividends to the investors, according to official estimates If they alre...

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^^^
Please re-read the Ajai Shukla blog on this. He mentioned that Elta won the deal and Elisra wasn't allowed to contest.

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WTF ? Who to believe ? :shock: Israeli firm bags electronic warfare suite deal for LCA Tejas Israeli firm Elisra has bagged Rs 178 crore deal for developing the electronic warfare suite for the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas Mk1A aircraft being built for the Indian Air Force . The Isra...

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Interview with HAL CMD R Madhvan http://www.businessworld.in/article/-HAL-Is-Working-To-Deliver-Remaining-Tejas-To-IAF-By-March-2019-/26-12-2018-165552/ Presently, production of LCA Tejas Mk-I in Initial Operational Clearance (IOC) configuration is under progress at HAL. A total of 20 aircraft are t...

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^^^^ Reading all the epithets for IPS officers in the past few posts, I wonder who is our enemy - those across the borders or ourselves ? It looks like AF vs IAS, IPS vs AF, and who knows what else. How many of these epithets would apply to, say, an IPS Officer like our NSA ? How many would apply to...

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^^^ That makes a lot of sense, AmberG. Much appreciated. I didn’t get the full picture of the factors and trade offs before.

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Interesting that Gujarat has come up and not say, Kulasekharapattinam that has been in news as possible second location. I read somewhere (and the physics of it still escapes me) that polar launches are more efficient from high latitudes.

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We need dashcams for trains now

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The Netra is one beautiful bird. Is there any space that isn't covered by antennas ? If it was used in Cope India 2018, then it shows the IAF confidence in the system and that it is fully operational. It is sad to have the kickback allegations. While we wait for the bigger chappati shaped AWACS, it'...

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If indeed the IAF wants Meteor for Tejas, then we'd have an RFP for radar+BVR combo. Or atleast an RFP for very long range BVR missile requiring integration with the Tejas radar. Outside of Rafale deal, I haven't seen anything to indicate IAF is going to procure Meteor. And it's too premature to fin...

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From the HAL RFQ for the Tejas Mk1a radar: Vendor shall be responsible for integration of AESA radar with third party BVR missile as per LCA Mk1A requirements. Full text: http://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2017/01/dissecting-rfqs-of-halardc-for-tejas.html (mods, not sure if this site is okay to be ...

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While it is true that we don't have the expertise and that it needs to be built, there could have been a better way of going about it. Here's my solution (not just for the FICV, but also for say, MMRCA etc): 1) The foreign vendor - Roe, Rheinmetal, GD - needs to establish a fully owned subsidiary in...

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it seems vijaypat singhania gave away his 1000cr stake in raymonds to his son on retirement, onlee to have his son go after his retirement duplex and harass him away https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/why-yesterdays-tycoon-vijaypat-singhania-is-a-sad-man-today/articleshow...

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Nitin Gokhale interviews Gen. Rawat.

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The optimum scenario for India is HSR for diamond quadrilateral and no more, semi-HSR for intercity and slow trains for more stops in quad tracks on trunk routes, RRTS is for suburban. Not convinced about the viability of the pan-gangetic and East-Coast HSR routes. HSRs work best between dense urba...

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Dhanush in production

Btw, this is how it looks (video of an older launch):

Which ships in the IN can actually carry it (other than P51 - INS Subhadra) ?

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This is from "Times of Israel" Sky Capture is a command and control platform, which transforms the customer’s existing air defense systems into “highly accurate and effective”ones, with advanced command and control capabilities as well as information based on multiple sensors, including a...

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beautiful pic of QE2 showing its fabled width and roomy deck space . we should use this kind of design when upsizing to 65k its shorter than Nimitz class but equally wide. even the huge merlin helis on deck look small. the deck edge lifts can bring up 2 X JSF / F18 / RafaleM side by side , armed an...

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The QRSAM looks like Astra mostly but has two differences that I can see: some kind of small canard near the nose (the pic is pretty low res, so I may be wrong) and smokey propellant.

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Donno about you guys, but this looks like a hit job. The elephant in Isro’s room: the inside story of jumbo satellite’s recall The Isro decision to bring the satellite back was then attributed to prudent precaution, especially since the space agency had lost contact with another satellite — the GSAT...

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^^^ Exactly. Really concerned that all these changes - canards etc - means it'll have a very long testing cycle and hence delays. Delays result in vicious cycle - users want more advanced capability (stealthy intakes, fly-by-light and other AMCA stuff) - and that would result in more delays and so o...

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souravB wrote:^^ is this NAG from Rudra? looks so.. Satisfying..

No mid-body booster, so not Nag. Helina or SANT ?

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Wow - supermicro ! The implications are just mind-boggling. Supermicro is a really big deal when it comes to network appliances and also servers. Two of my old companies used supermicro chassis - one for a network security appliance and another as a datacenter server (Supermicro is way cheaper and c...

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I wonder why they didn't declare an emergency. I've been binge-listening to ATC recordings and transcriptions here - https://www.youtube.com/user/victor981994/videos - noticed that less serious issues got the pilots to declare an emergency (I guess to get priority on airspace movements and landing).

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In the meanwhile ... Mauritius and Britain’s fight over the Chagos Islands shows the toxic legacy of colonialism The International Court of Justice has just heard four days of arguments as it weighs the legality of a hugely contentious colonial act: the UK’s decision to separate the Chagos Archipela...

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^^^ Was that really the P8I ? Must have been flying really low and slow or must have some amazingly stabilized zoom camera.

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https://www.oneindia.com/india/dac-approves-procurement-of-equipment-worth-rs-9100-crores-2778045.html Pursuing the goal of indigenisation and self-reliance, the DAC approved procurement of two Regiments of Akash Missile Systems under 'Buy (Indian)' category from M/s BDL. Looks like 2 regiments of ...

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Given the tortured history of Nag and its seeker (capable of detecting very small temperature differentials), do we really need to use it for bunker-busting roles when there are wire-guided (and presumably cheaper) Milan missiles and also RCLs like Carl Gustavs for short-range targeting ?

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Long interview with the ISRO chairman. https://www.frontline.in/science-and-technology/article24801393.ece?homepage=true Thank you very much. That was very informative. Sorry for the noob question, but the talk of mini-PSLV (for launching 500kg sats) triggered a thought if it would be possible to l...

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I don't know why we have to go to these lengths - Vijay Mallya's cell to have TV, toilet, washing area and sunlight: CBI submits video in UK court "The UK court wanted to see if Indian jails are hygienic. We have given them proof of the hygiene level and medical facilities available in jail. In...

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Many roads to Kodagu have gotten blocked due to landslides. Civil defence etc have been activated (I'm tuned into activity that a bit as a ham). Yes indeed. 40 Civil Defence wardens are on the way from Bangalore. Again most of them are HAMs (and I am one too). The NDRF, IAF and IA units who are pre...

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While the attention so far has been on Kerala, the situation a little north - in Kodagu - is getting critical. Many roads to Kodagu have gotten blocked due to landslides. Civil defence etc have been activated (I'm tuned into activity that a bit as a ham).

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Rafale deal: Internal notes flag loss of L1 status if plane was made locally “By applying a factor of 2.7 on the man hours quoted by Dassault Aviation and EADS, the ratio of Net Present Value (NPV) based total cost of acquisition as on November 2011would have undergone a material change to the exte...

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