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Er... how come people missed this little line in the Frontline article?<p> <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Adding to India's missile strength in the near future will be Agni-III. It will have a range of 3,500 km and its first flight may take plac...

Or, as Umrao John implies, that's probably just a blurred image of the same missile.

It seems to be the Agni II with the second stage removed (Agni II- ?).<p>It's interesting how no public source was able to conceive of, let alone predict, the development of this version.<p>Compare this missile with China's M-9.

From paragraph 24:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>As the Government approval for induction of 124 tanks has now been accorded, all the committed expenditure so far for limited Series Production (LSP) tanks will now be transferred to the sanc...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> From a negative rate of growth of minus 11.7 per cent in 1996-97 and minus 34.9 per cent in 1997-98, upgradation of highways led to increase in growth rates for the roads sector to 47.6 per cent and 68.6 per cent ...

In the December 2000 Jane's Intelligence Review, Steven Zaloga says that the Club-S, like the Club-N, is the supersonic version of the missile. The subsonic version remains under development.<P>Can anyone confirm (?) this, since I was under the impression that the Club-S carried by the Kilo subs is ...

Here are some PJ-10 details gleaned from Jane's website:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>A collaborative project by India's Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Russian design and production company NPO Mashinostroyenia...

Does anyone have pictures of the BrahMos PJ-10 on display in Moscow?

<I>the PRC has a nice dagger pointed at chicken neck near siliguri as their territory extends deep between sikkim and bhutan.</I><P>AFAIK, it's all uphill for them and downhill for us in that area. So the advantage is India's.

To add to what Sanjay wrote, I was told after the Kargil war that the PA was very worried about an Indian assault a-la 1965, since its armoured formations were in poor shape logistically.<P>More recently, a Pakistani journalist told me that the budget cuts have seriously affected the PA's routine op...

<I>More to the point manpads do not provide an effective deterrent agasint air ops. I would have thought Kargil demonstrated that.</I><P>Hmm. I thought Kargil actually showed how effective manpads are. The IAF was forced to strictly control the flight paths of its strike aircraft, and to make sure t...

Alternatively, is it at all possible to have a moderated thread? Questions could be emailed to the moderator who then chooses which ones PKI or whoever should respond to.<P>The moderator could for instance be given the ability to lock and unlock a thread, and would be the only one posting.<P>Sounds ...

The article was hysterically funny! But it did clear up the HJT-36 pricing issue. Rs 19 crore =/= $15 million, that's for sure. The HJT-36 is apparently in the $4-5 million range.

That's incredible, from seven to two hours!<P>How do they plan on keeping cyclists and pedestrians from crossing the expressway at will? I know they have subways every few hundred meters, but how about barriers?

CRPF and other paramilitary organizations depute people to the NSG. Hence the possibility of a CRPF member being an NSG sniper.<BR> <A HREF="http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Special-Forces/NSG.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/LAND-FORCES/Special-Forces/NSG.html</A>

What's interesting is that the Onyx/Yakhont appears to be derived from the SS-N-7 (at least according to FAS). What an interesting coincidence! The SS-N-7 equipped INS Chakra back in the 1980s.<P>Oh, incidentally, a US admiral (they have dozens, don't get too impressed!) told me back in 1995 that th...

That's probably the nose cover ejecting to reveal the nose intake that will allow air to flow to the ramjet. This lends support to the PJ-10 = Yahkont theory. The missile <I>does</I> resemble the Yakhont in Vishnu's clips.

The potential market for the LCA includes all the MiG-21 and F-7 customers who can't afford F-16s, Mirage 2000-5s and Gripens. That certainly rules out the wealthier E and SE Asian countries. Vikram's idea about Iran is very good.<P>I would be concerned about product support if I were buying an Indi...

I'm a tad concerned about the short time between the first flights of the LCA technology demonstrators (TD series) and the actual prototypes (PV series). TD-2 is expected to fly in a few months' time, and PV-1 is scheduled for its first flight by the end of this year, with PV-2 and PV-3 flying in 20...

If I correctly recall a <I>World Air Power Journal</I> article a few years ago on the MiG-23 and its ground attack variants, the IAF MiG-27s are given the same designation as Russian MiG-27s (i.e. MiG-27ML) but are in fact inferior in a couple of aspects.<P>One of these is the type of laser ranger i...

A Gnat flown by Air Chief Marshal LM Katre is located at the Doon School in Dehradun, his alma mater.

Yes, I realize the debate is over pods, not LGBs! I just threw that in to add to vverma's comment about IAF LGBs.

The <I>Aviation Week</I> cover story on the IAF a few years ago said that 315 Paveway II laser kits had been ordered. So we have a <B>minimum</B> of 315 laser guided bombs. Other sources like Russia and France have certainly been tapped. French Matra BGL-100 LGBs were apparently used in Kargil, acco...

FWIW, an armoured corps Lt. Colonel told me last summer that a 20 kT bomb would destroy one armoured squadron at most (that's 15 tanks, right?).

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I've always wondered why the Akash had the complexity of an airbreathing stage.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>That's because the missile is derived from the Russian SA-6, which has airbreathing propulsion. The Trishul is simi...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>However explain how a matra armed jaguar/Mig-27 would be an easy kill for the upgraded PAF Mirage.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>As Vikram pointed out, the answer is <B>energy</B>. The Mirages will "bounce" the Jagu...

Wilson John isn't a particularly reliable writer IMHO, as the Prithvi on Su-30 and Jaguar claim makes obvious!<P>But so far as the 400 nuclear warheads claim goes, apart from the Jane's Intelligence Review article (which was written IIRC by WPS Sidhu) I believe that one of the Pokhran II tests inclu...