Bharat Rakshak

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Per SIPRI,40 Harpy's.

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All the same computerization of inventory, manuals, sharing fault analysis via the net, incident reporting can be much improved. Peeyoosh, The entire IAF logistics line is being computerized by Bae -Hal.The process began sometime back,iirc. They're also planning to extend this to the smart card fun...

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Sunil, thanks. Aditya, Guys a new Super a/c like the MKI will have its share of bigwigs for the intital phase.But thereafter ,the IAF wont send only its finest to the MKI and drain others squadrons.The other squadrons all have their combination of experience and rookies.In fact the 21's already have...

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Jagan sahab, Time permitting hope we can work out two projects.One on flying hours we discussed and perhaps this new attrition one?If they meet the std,perhaps they can remain as BR 'marked. :) Peeyoosh, Please go through the entire thread to understand what we are getting at. Unacceptable attrtion ...

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A request to everyone on this thread. Lets concentrate on the message more than the messenger,including whatever complaints we may have against StarTV or Barkha Dutt,even the chap(who is it anyway,artillery or Frontline chap?)who wrote that fallacious article. This way,imho,our point will be better ...

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Jagan, Mushaf Mir,iirc,didnt mention Fighter attrition per se too.He said record was something like 2/10,000.So if the overall rate is compared,we would still be on par or below PAF rates. Also i believe yes,fighter hours *have* increased since 1998.I have been told Flight Safety mentioned the exact...

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Puar, First which Sawhney are you talking about?From what i know this is the Frontline chap.Read his articles in IDR before being too concerned.He writes worse than this about the army and the artillery. :D :p :eek: Or is it the artillery chap? Either way,what he wrote was wrong.Period.If you wish t...

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Vishnu, This is the *exact* text from your article: The loss of yet another aircraft and indeed the loss of innocent lives on the ground is another embarrassment for the Indian Air Force which has a reputation of having some of the highest crash rates in the world. High crash rates with relation to ...

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No faulty spares used in MIG-21: Govt

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=28863590

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Originally posted by John Umrao: All journalists who write about IAF and or defence related matters are just dorks. Pure and simple. IAF is fine shape all that needs to be done release the funds and buy genuine spares. Everything else is fine as a fiddle. Umrao sahab,are you in your sarcastic mode ...

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Hi problem with that bubble thing is that we dont have the assets and time for 24/7 round the clock ops like the USAF.Far too many needs.
Hence the hard kill remains a necessity,ie knocking off the detector,rather than masking oneself.

Regards,
Nitin

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Agave radar isnt bad,agreed.But as usual,the IAF wanted more.The MFD 66 was definitely on the IM bird/s.The pic was labeled for the same. [Tingudu,give me a week or so. :) ] What we can infer is that *some* Jags,namely the IM's,have had a few tweaks. :) I dount the Jag/wing info is online.It hasnt b...

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Johann, Will get back to you.Even open source will do,i'd wager. :) Rajit, Dont buy the aircrew myth.The Syrians were decently trained.SDo were the Egyptians in the previous 'war of attrition' that the two duked out.Tom C has done some refreshing and pioneering work in this regard at Acig.org.The gr...

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Rudra,
To summarise any action is dependent partly on political exigency,partly on timeframe considerations and lastly on what the intention is-slap or KO.
Depending on any of these,you wargame and move forth.

Regards,
Nitin

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Pakistans long range radar n/w is very much overstated. Dont underestimate the IAF ability to "surge" force levels and keep the unwashed at bay. During Safed Sagar,despite pak claims no paki plane apart from a couple of incidents,came within even 15-20 km of the Yellow Sea.Our Air Superior...

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Ramana,Johann.
Exactly.What prevents the IAF from creating black holes in their AD structure for strike a/c to ingress/egress as well as maintain localised Air Superiority?

I'll also address the sortie generation and PAF counterattack bit,pls give mea few days time.

Regards,
Nitin

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Harry the COMED is,in asense, a very limited display!All it has is one frame of reference and can only display one map ata time,in a limited manner.Hence the move to dedicated map display generators for both the 27 and The Jag.Good thing for us is,that the LCA ones might again be used. Anyway,COMED,...

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Originally posted by Subra: Nice to see the link. Rakesh the References seem to have gone AWOL. I will resend the reference list later. One note- I wrote this article more with respect to what might have been if our politicians and military brass had no lost their collective nerve. I think that is ...

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Ramana, Succintly said.Hence i believe IAF will not degrade *all* of the Paki n/w but create gaps and enforce the same(preventing mobile coverage from compensating).Thinking out loud here. The reasons will be twofold ; let PAF retain some punch(and they will hoard to begin with like 71 enddays) and ...

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Rajit.

Exactly.Any future conflict will be decided in the first few days itself.The pace will have to be bloody and speedy.No time for weeks together softening efforts.

All or nothing.

Regards,
Nitin

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Ok.Thats the compact laser warner made by Lastec.Can be clipped onto your belt and worn.Basically infantry application.
I was wondering about the range of vehicle mounted LWR's we are now inducting.

Regards,
Nitin

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Kaps,
Finally!

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The MiGs are optimised for a Wild Weasel role and there are never enough of them to go around in exercises Righto!Where does that leave us! :) Tingudu, Was the Laser Warning Device a vehicular one or an infantry mobile one(compact laser warner).Could you describe the shape,size and any other detail...

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Sawhney does it again... The top IAF sources said bit comes directly from the Defensenews report circulated last year.Sigh. And then we have the usual PAF saga to hear. There are a lot of inaccuarcies in that report as well.First the pilot to airframe ratio is nowhere as high as the PAF claims it to...

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Harry been done.Otherwise that fancy radar gets to waste,with only hud.

Yes,it-c/p upg will be continued for the entire fleet upg,
I thought,from SIPRI,the no. of Elta radars was 10.
Damn good one.Has a wonderful slew of air to air modes too.

Regards,
Nitin

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Hi Rudra,
Jeez you're asking for too much arent you?

Regards,
Nitin

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Originally posted by Surya: It is a shame that Vishnu Som of all people had to author that stupid Jag piece. The last crash was a sad affair and the IAF lost a extremely talented pilot due to a terrible emergency. The pilot did not abort a take off. What hope do we have for the Hypes etc? Indeed.Th...

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The best part is the IAF is proceeding as per what Ramana noted in another thread sometime back.Telling what it has and what it can do,keeping the unwashed wary and watchful. :) Note that this time around,the IAF has admitted that it went around cataloguing each and every one of the paki radars in t...

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Ghosh, We arent the USAF ; nor do we have the plethora of assets they can deploy piecemeal as tehy see fit. The only F15 that comes close to the MKI is the E version and its variants thereof.I think we know what the E does. The MKI was ,from day1 ,intended as a *multirole* a/c with a self escort cap...

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Harry, M2K..RDM.The RDM for ours was specifically outfitted with a continuous wave illuminator and made 530D compatible. Not the RDI but a pretty good radar from all accounts. The Dragons have the Elta radar with a SAvionique MFD to use the same.A few other tweaks too.HAL has released pics of the sa...

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Su-30s are not a cost optimal solution to sead mission -they are way to expensive and their role in any future air combat will be quite different -airspace control and dominance Au contraire.The MKI will be the IAF's preminent strike bird.The air superiority role will be one of many hats worn.The a...

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Originally posted by davidn:
OMG!

They weren't kidding when they said minimal damage, that pilot must have been one hell of a flyer.

Right on.The pics are superb,are they not?

Regards,
Nitin

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Shiv, Thanks!The original story was itself hair raising.All kudos to the gutsy pilot SqnLdr Palit :) and the HAL techs without whom the plane would have been lost. Would love to see more articles like this.All this investigation of minute facets of the a/c by Indian specialists is always ignored and...

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KGoan, After all, Chinese civilisation is based on Indian civilisation just as EVERY Asian nation is This is priceless!Classic i say! :D Inscrutable orientals,daft indeed!They have made their share of mess ups and embarked on maverick,unreasonable hot headed actions...but lets try telling that to SP...

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Acharya, Thanks for the erudite response.Food for thought indeed.The authoritarian regime and loss of face factor makes a lot of things fall in place! Daulat, No intention to cross swords per se. :) Thing is,the mere size of India necessitates that our neighbouring countries are sometimes economical...

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Acharya , Thanks,precisely put. Ramana, I think that China has really hitched onto that "inscrutable orientals" bandwagon as far as perception goes.Western analysts-as far as the ones i've read-love to talk for hours about Sun Tzu and how the Chinese would win a war without fighting it etc...

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Daulat, No problem with the "it takes two hands to clap" theory or that border conflicts are inevitable-in a sense-when borders arent delineated.The thing is,Maxwell and co make it appear that India initiated the conflict whereas China played the cool headed chap.... This ties in what all ...

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Originally posted by Bir Bikram: The link that I posted was shown to me by a Chinese guy. Is there anyway that I can prove to him that the author was wrong? You can tell him Neville dearest is a jackass and known as such in India.And that Rediff is not representative of India re:this war by any str...

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Here we see the first victim of Neville Maxwell and Rediff mythmaking!Zindabad.

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Jagan, I believe Xinhui is preparing an Orbat of the Chinese side for Orbat.com,Rikhye has mentioned it before ; The Sino Indian War Webmasters are also iirc working on the same. The casualty figures wagehra-from the Chinese side-are greatly exaggerated against India.The usual, xxxxxx people killed,...

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