Bharat Rakshak

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I believe the SCOMET is because Japan is a non-aggressive post-WWII state, which is fine. I hardly doubt that the US-2 is an exclusive military machine. I believe it is more useful to the Coast Guard. Especially after 26/11 the Navy is the '"designated authority" on maritime security so t...

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A. The Cavour isn't for sale. The reference was the illustrate the cost of contracting a foreign shipyard to build a new carrier. B. The MiG-29K was a STOVL aircraft when last I checked. Check again. The VL stands for Vertical Landing. Since the IN will never give a detailed and transparent account...

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Not interested in MIT stuff. Seriously, though, you sound like someone who knows--you should make the edit effort else, we'll be quoting wikipedia and lowering BR standards and making you an unhappy camper. I didn't see Wikipedia talk about catapults being used for recovery but that was introduced ...

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You might want to go on Wikipedia and correct this. Millions are being misled. Sorry boss. Next you'll be asking me to write to Webster to redefine what "simultaneous" stands for. Do read the latest MIT Technology Review article on Wikipedia though if that is your thing. If BR can keep to...

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The take-off and landing paths intersect, so aircraft can't take off and land simultaneously On the Vicky it was never possible - heck we need to be thankful for what they made out of it. On the Vikrant, perhaps too late. May be possible on the next one, but they have to go the Cat route and I woul...

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Nobody has really answered my question about MiG's MTOW without a catapult assist on Vikramaditya. On other forums, people are saying that the MiG fighters will only offer minimal value as fleet defence fighters since they can only take off with 4000 kgs Really? What kind of answer would you expect...

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prasannasimha wrote:
SaiK wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9DcPnr9jOQ
from where did erroor get this?
I think he was on board the Vikramaditya as a reporter isn't it ?

He got it from the same place he got the NATO spying pics from. No flying ops were happening when he as there for the induction.

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You look around the world and see countries with good human rights record FALTERING when it comes to integrating women in the military. And we have INDIA where women are completely objectified, pushing for integrating them. And you think what will the outcome of this possibly be? I'll leave it to y...

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The report is wrong, DDM exists everywhere. Many conclusions drawn on the basis also are similarly erroneous. But, Free World and all that... Moving on, some trivia that might be of interest, from Adm. Sandy Woodward's book - One Hundred Days: 1. When the Falkands War broke out, 801, the (in) famous...

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Good old forum. Beliefs and Opinion above all.

http://rafalenews.blogspot.in/2012/01/v ... nding.html

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>> and the latter is done for all pilots in a squadron only by the USN. do you mean not all pilots in other carrier navies are night qualified? Absolutely, not even the French and British. Have pointed to this earlier as well that in the justified awe that we have for those Nimitz-class behemoths, ...

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I think the question is how many Indian pilots have been practicing landing on the carrier. This report states that the Indian pilot was piggy backing and did not state that he was the one who landed the plane. Indian pilots may have practiced on US carriers, but how many have transitioned to Vikra...

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The pilot who has the "con" will get the credit for the trap. Otherwise, imagine who gets the credit when a E-3C lands on a USN carrier? It has 4 flight crew and more than a dozen mission crew. No pilot is ever likely to fly it solo. :shock: E2C not E3C, and it carries a crew of 5 typical...

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The ball has been set rolling for the Army to raise a new mountain "strike" corps with two "independent" infantry brigades and two "independent" armoured brigades, totalling over 80,000 soldiers,

This part itself is just so, so wrong...

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This would only "increase" the total acoustic signature of the vessel. There are methods in which the existing signature is damped by using a phase modulated signal that is inverse (180 deg) of the one being generated to cancel out the original acoustic signature, just like a noise cancel...

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Read on from page 39 how the US CBGs used to play hide and seek with the Soviets

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I would hope India - with her somewhat advertized network centric architecture - would be collecting signature for her own library, which should contain every object afloat out there - especially in the IOR. India collects signatures of USN assets, why would it spare anybody else. midway hinged on ...

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I have some curiosity. Is it difficult for our enemies to detect position of our aircraft carriers in sea during war times? If it is easy, then is it meaningful in any way to deploy aircraft carriers by India? Big Ships, even Bigger Seas. At Midway in WWII, the USN despite having broken the Japanes...

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Lalmohan wrote:can the viraat carry on with helicopters only for a few more years?

If the INAS 300 crest on Vikramaditya is any indicator, then the question is does it have any other option?

It can contribute in a limited way but anything approaching a kinetic engagement and it's toast without its SHARs.

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What is the combat weapons load-out of the MIg-29s when taking off from a ski-ramp on INS Vikramaditya? How much weaponry can she carry while taking off from the ship? You have to take in consideration of the fuel requirements as well. Good question. Advertised combat load is 5500 kgs. What that do...

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Hitesh wrote:
Nice! I look forward to your war stories! How did you end up serving in the USN? Are you still in service?

Minor OT...but if Pranay has operated in the Indian Ocean AOR, I bet he has a "Welcome to our Ocean" story....most USN personnel do

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Does OFB manufacture AK 630 ? That might explain things a bit. And of course, Barak-1 after the Navy figures out if IAI is blacklisted or not. :lol: Navy and the other services have all figured out they want IAI...MoD hasn't. Matter of time where a compromise is set-up. Barak-8 is a whole different...

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Chestnut is Kashtan. Maybe, and I'm just speculating here, the Navy's experience with the AK630 has been better. What I'd be really interested in is seeing, at a CBG level, which of our ship classes is going to fulfill the "SAM Central" role that Aegis cruisers /destroyers do for the USN a...

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Sorry if posted earlier, Former navy chief of staff, Admiral Arun Prakash ‘INS Vikramaditya’ promises to change the balance of power in the Indian Ocean It's written for a certain audience so there is certainly some hyperbole but he totally nails it, as expected of a warrior with his pedigree. This...

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But these one-off incidents can easily happen in the maritime domain especially since unlike land boundaries International waters give a lot of leeway for mischief (and in the case of the Libyans unrelenting stupidity). While Pranay's bang on (awesome credentials, btw, BR could benefit from a thread...

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... guess what doctrinally, equipment-wise, and geo-strategically all the chips are stacked in favor of the Navy... What equipment does the Navy have today or near future to protect the southern litorals from air attack? Navy's responsibility does not mean only navy assets will be used, hence the a...

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Avinandan wrote:Very disturbing news indeed !! So gurus, what could be the implications ?

After the NSA snooping on its own citizens, Merkel etc. the only people who would big this up are DDM soaked in the Sansani school of journalism.

We do the same to the US, if it helps.

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And then there is the inevitable sub surface snooping. The propeller count/acoustic signature would be part of sonar databases across the US Navy by now. Par for the course.

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The runway has to be lengthened beyond 3500ft if the IN is to operate MIG-29Ks and heavylift aircraft from it. :shock: ...No. If in this day and age when n-reactors are being operated by India in Tsunami-vulnerable zones, an air base cannot be made resistant to such once in a lifetime events, and w...

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definitely i'd go further to say that the primary air defence of the soutern littoral should be the navy's responsibility Responsibility to guard India's airspace should remain with the IAF alone. It has the requisite numbers, infrastructure and attitude for same. What is India's airspace? If you b...

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They have and can operate out of Car Nicobar, and there were plans to upgrade two more airstrips for all weather and fighter operation. Still not the same thing as having a squadron based permanently out of the islands. If one accepts the premise that Vikramaditya will spend most of its time tooling...

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Questions the DDM needs to ask/Navy needs to brief wrt Vikramaditya: 1. What are the planned aircraft inventories for a standard patrol cycle as well as wartime deployment? 2. Are we just going to keep mouthing CBG as a buzzword or assign a numbered CBG to each of the carrier groups and create a for...

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Hmmm...if INAS 300 White Tigers fly from Vikramaditya, what will the Viraat carry?

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More Shiv Aroor/Livefist Pics-1

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Photo Credits - Manu Pubby, Indian Express

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Another Exclusive by NDTV http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/indian-warships-to-escort-aircraft-carrier-ins-vikramaditya-from-russia/297987?vod-related It is interesting to see the BIG Item reported in Both the NDTV Videos make special mention on Calories Consumption per month. 1. 1 Lakh Eggs 2....

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OK, time for all the Sanskrit scholars to take a crack at the motto...

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I remember a separate thread being opened for IAC-1. Does Vikramaditya not get one given the deluge will start from tomorrow?

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That Israeli article deal with missile-on-missile technologies - and they are right (simple math, where attacking missiles overwhelm the system). The DAS (F-35) has nothing to do with countering missiles. All it says is that it can locate sources *of various hostile fire*. How one deal with these s...

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^^^^^ That is for ballistic missiles. It is much shorter for other threats. It has been able to detect a tank firing and artillery too. Do not know the distance, but it has got to be much, much less. Nonetheless it is the best out there. And with all other gizmos the F-35 is formidable. True, with ...

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