Bharat Rakshak

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It is a far fetched and unrealistic scenario. Topple a government in Canada and then flip them to be hostile to the US and then begin to arm them against the US. But YMMV.

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No idea but I’d love to see them try. :rotfl: You love to watch countries try and introduce conflict to far off regions? The point was that the hypothetical scenario was too far fetched for it to be a meaningful example. Ukraine isn’t a breakaway region or a Russian state or territory (like Kalinin...

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Which separatist faction in Russia is the US, Mexico or Canada arming ? Apologies, I should have been clearer - what I meant to say hypothetically is : "if Russia caused regime changes and then trained and armed military forces in US' immediate neighbourhood against US, how would US react ?&qu...

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Cyrano wrote:X-posting from StratForum Ukraine thread:
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How would the US react if Russia was training and arming (hypothetically) separatist factions in California, Mexico, Quebec etc. I wonder...

Which separatist faction in Russia is the US, Mexico or Canada arming ?

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There will be no Ukrainian victory in the traditional sense given their capability and shortcomings relative to Russian firepower. Politically, regime survival and keeping the larger cities in a negotiated settlement is a victory for them. To be able to do that they have to militarily keep this at a...

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I guess we’ll just end up going in circles here so I suppose I’ll concede that if a major war breaks out involving direct force on force employment in Europe or pacific the us ground forces, it’s armor, F/ADA will fold like a pack of cards. I’m not sure planners in Russia or China are drawing that c...

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We are conflating between the two situations here. The Rus-Ukr war is a force on force engagement and not yet a drawn out counter insurgency. So focusing on they you have clear campaigns and examples of such use of US ground forces in the last three decades. Mostly in Iraq (where they met their obje...

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The distinction between mission and political will and not ground force capability, tactics, doctrine or ability to integrate. No one will take the 2 decades of counter insurgency in Afghanistan as a proxy of their ability to do combined arms maneuver warfare in a NATO a-5 situation or against anoth...

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They more than make up for it with the technological dominance that their Navy and Air Force have. They can destroy infrastructure/bases from tens or hundreds of kilometers away and insulate themselves from counter retaliation. The US has done that to devastating effect. But get boots on the ground...

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*Real* combat capability comes from effective doctrine, training, morale, materials, logistics and several other tangible and intangibles. As others have noted, beyond a few things that NATO or US could help with (training, tactics and helping with C2) rest of their equipment and much of their doctr...

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Yes but relative to the US defense spending it is a 4 or so percent adjustment by Congress which is pretty standard for them. In fact the services kind of bake that in and underfund certain popular programs knowing that the gap will be addressed by Congress. There is a formal list of equipment that ...

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Those are block 20 training (not combat) F-22's and retiring them makes sense if you plan on introducing NGAD in the early part of next decade. The F-22's fate was sealed the moment the fleet was capped at 186. Small fleets, dispersed around multiple bases (for expeditionary reasons) are a nightmare...

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The F-35A purchase is now a guarantee and may even be announced in the coming weeks. Germany and Canada have made and announced their choice. Greece should be next. Canada picks the F-35 in fighter replacement competition The Canadian government has selected Lockheed Martin’s F-35 as the preferred ...

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The Luftwaffe is committed to purchasing the latest tranche Typhoons in its upcoming budget along with 35 F-35A's to replace its Tornado fleet. A follow on Typhoon order (over and above the 15 immediate purchase) is also a pretty safe bet. https://www.airforcemag.com/germany-to-buy-f-35-and-typhoon-...

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Mort Walker wrote:
I don't think you get it.

That’s probably it.

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I know what he is talking about. Ukraine must have seen the Russian build up of 200K troops and decided that it was the best time to invade those regions. Or Ukraine must have had the slowest invasion build up in history that allowed the other side to detect it,and amass nearly 200K troops on their ...

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Hardly this is one most watched areas in the world in terms of SAT imaging Come on man. Ukraine was trying to invade and Russia managed to amass 200K troops, deny that they are planning offensive ops, and invade before those territories can be invaded by Ukraine. A defensive counter invasion. I'm s...

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I am not saying that the MKI shouldn't have had it, but that its not a surprise that it doesn't as of now and that one is planned for the future. I believe the SU-35 was the first flanker to actually have it which came after the MKI configuration was developed.

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Are there pictures/evidence of the weapon storage site in the shopping mall or artillery storage in hospitals, schools etc? I haven't seen it but I haven't scrolled through this thread.

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Those sites would have been hit already given they've used more than 1,000 long range missiles already (though for some reason the Ukrainians are able to get put least some fast jet and drone sorties up even a month into the conflict). Ukraine likely has adapted its supply and weapon storage/movemen...

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Stand off munitions are great against fixed targets. Once you quickly run out of those, or if your enemy adapts (decoys, moves, relocates etc) you need real time AMTI and GMTI capability or long range munitions or strike systems capable of hitting moving targets. That is not an easy thing to execute...

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@yagnasri Yes it does not have a MAWs. I'm genuinely surprised that MKI does not have MAWS. Is the process to integrate MAWS to MKI was not technically feasible until now, or this just is not a priority for IAF's operational needs? A vast majority of the world's 4th and 4+ gen aircraft don't have a...

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Two Air Forces do F-35A elephant walks on the same day -

South Korea (28 aircraft) LINK

US Air Force (Alaska PACAF 42 aircraft). LINK

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Russia spends about 4% of its GDP on defense compared to just about 3.5% for USA, and about 2% for some of the higher spending European powers like France, UK etc. Problem is that absolute $$ begins to matter during modernization as you can't really adjust a 5th gen fighter, or a next generation MBT...

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Canada would need to up its defense budget by around $10 Billion a year to get past the 2% of GDP target. Given that they are unlikely to grow the strength, this or a large portion of it will go towards capital expenditure and stockpile of weapons. The F-35A purchase is now a guarantee and may even ...

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A Closer Look At Northrop Grumman's B-21

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Civilian / political appointees have full control over acquisition or policy decisions. The Guard needed new a/c so they went out and put Boeing on contract. Not very different from when they strong armed the USAF into cancelling the F-22 which forced resignations/firings of both the Chief of staff ...

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The F-15EX is the new USAF standard of the Advanced Strike Eagle. The Singapore, Saudi, Qatari, and a few other Strike Eagle configurations (including the upgraded USAF Echo's) are generally referred to at Boeing as the Advanced Eagle configurations. This includes Japan's F-15J's as these are being ...

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Boeing has been prepared to offer 9G capability on the SH for quite a while IIRC, just like they did with the land based Hornet. They have the test data from the original SH campaign that would allow them to lift the restriction. This was used a couple of years ago during some of their sales campaig...

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invade a country larger than France. Iraq was about 80% the size and it took months of logistical preparation, before an invasion. Apples and oranges as well. In the invasion of Iraq, the coalition forces were thousands of miles from their home so had to account for that logistically. There is litt...

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Rsatchi wrote: So before some serious intent shown we should fly some 'Khyyali Ballons' and shoot it down!!

I don't understand how 'Khyyali Ballons' here have any impact on what happens out in the real world.

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^^^^ According to that article, Taiwan isn't in threat because the US is there to back it; but Arunachal Pradesh of course is up for grabs. Like the Indian state and military are going to sit by idly while this happens. Jeez Nobody thinks India is going to sit idly and watch. This is about Chinese ...

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There’s Now A Second ‘Chrome’ F-22 Raptor Flying With Mirror-Like Coating At Nellis AFB

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You fight a war with what you have unless you expect war to run into years which might give you the lead time to produce at war footing. It is far cheaper to maintain stockpiles then it is to maintain excess/surplus unused capacity in the defense industrial base to surge to thousands of PGMs very qu...

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Brarji As Kit Saab has explained will our engine deliver be a collateral damage We are reliant on GE for Mk1a/II/AMCA If Rafale line be busy with EU back filling and or sanctions, so if there is going to be more Sukhois,?? can there be some other joint venture either for engine or aircraft?? I mean...

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Rsatchi wrote:Cross posting from India Russia news
What about FGFA
Is this the time for resuscitate this project

What has "really" changed on that program since the MOD left? Does the RuAF even have an operational squadron yet?

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Do you think logistics-related considerations were the reason IA asked for the electric drive to be replaced with a hydraulic drive? I have no idea on those systems. But decisions taking based on logistics or other considerations can sometimes appear to be weird or a step backwards when not factori...

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^^^ The German reversal on the F-35 was being talked about even prior to the Russia-Ukraine war. The current hike in defense spending is likely to revive older German-US cooperation in systems particularly around air-defense, and ground combat equipment. Also, it finally gives them the financial buf...

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Thanks for the clarification and detailed explanation, brar! I did get confused by this part of your earlier post: If you have terrain, weather, distance and quick deployment needs you will prefer to tow as opposed to an integrated system. ...hence my question. btw, first time I have ever seen the ...

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Towed is slower to deploy and is slower to move and to use the shoot and scoot tactics that might be vital to successfully employing artillery. But that isn't the only requirement and there are several situations where that need not be a units prime requirement. You might not have artillery in theat...

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