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D.Mahesh

gakakkad wrote:why hasn't Russia been able to establish air superiority?...

Wrong. RuAF enjoys air supremacy. There's no Uk ADef worth the name, than in the pages of Vogue.

D.Mahesh

Atmavik wrote:^^^ looking at the pic looks like this machine is designed to rule the valleys of Arunachal

So AAC is also going to call this Prachand?

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Prachand - Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Construction Number ... Serial Number ... Aircraft First Flight ... Pilot(s) • TD-1 ... ZP 4601 ... 29-Mar-2010 ... Wing Commander Unni Krishna Pillai (retd) and Group Captain S Hari Krishnan Nair (retd) • TD-2 ... ZP 4602 ... 28-Jun-2011 ... Wing Commander ...

D.Mahesh

... Let us assume for a moment that 114 order is given today... The IAF needs to establish an IAF design bureau like the Indian Navy (established in '65). The only thing I agree is none of the engine tech nations are going to part with engine technology for India to own. That is a pipe dream not wo...

D.Mahesh

Let's do a Bruce Lee style Jeet Kune Do now after 6 months and frame general lessons about war
Borrow/Learn the best from others
Throw out the worst you have
Get better at what you do best

Thouhgts?

D.Mahesh

Please make it clear that we only want the land and not the people.... We don't event want those lands. These lands, out of Chinese occupation, should act as buffers between China and various nation-states such as us, Myanmar, Russia, the Stan states et al. Of course, Ladakh, Shaksgam, Barahoti are...

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Came across this interview between Maj Arya and Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain.... HaYLgDn10Ik Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain is amongst the wisest men... I tried to watch the opinion piece by Lt Gen Panag on print channel on youtube... the decline of a man who had served the nation with distinction. Gen.Panag i...

D.Mahesh

Soviets stopped planning for direct engagement soon after the Korean War - or at least less and less of it. Except for those massed armour drives thru Thrace Gap or taking over W.Germany. And once nuclear was well established, with boomers, it was enough to deter. Have enough quantity to hold off wh...

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TSP MIL is primarily a politico-Feudal force ensuring the perpetuation of a new fundamentalist elite. With the TSP MIL running a vast variety of businesses, the industrial sector too is now run by it. In military terms its forces are entirely defensive in nature. There is realistic offensive doctrin...

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When I last visited ADA, Murgeshpalya in 1990, all it had was then cutting edge HW - VGA, lots of 386/486 (4381? also) - and the most motivated technical men & women ever in one place - still using reams of paper, pencil & their ingenuity. 11 years later the LCA made its 1st test flight DAMM...

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Particularly important as Massa's MIL is still planning for direct engagement in battle - though for USAF it will always be in situations of overwhelming geo-pol+strategic+tactical advantage.

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brar_w wrote:The USAF specifically also has a rather... The IAF/IN are in a different boat. They want more...Its a fundamental difference...

Lots of light here. Good!

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This is non-serious thread - on this page. Mods delete th entire thread plase

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DDYM8qXRRZQ Quite plainly the Chinese Himalayan adventure was to contain India in its northern front and not to expand in the sea ., read if there is no expeditionary capability envisioned for the Navy ( as in an Aircraft carrier group for example) as a result of this they have won Surprised how li...

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Despite numerous articles by "experts".... From the article At this time, Beijing longs for foreign policy victories and has no appetite for any perceived defeat or transgression, for fear of domestic discontent , which was already high due to the COVID-19 crisis. Actually Russia has litt...

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John wrote:Not suprised they willing to swallow this and move on because they sense a bigger opportunity at land grab elsewhere. As I been saying I expect China to turn its attention on Russia they realize Putin is venerable in post Trump era.

Are you crazy? Putin isn't. And Eleven definitely is not.

D.Mahesh

Re media. Our DDM Angrezi media is completely compromised. Just to be sure DDM Angrezi media is now just NDTV. All major broadcasting TV channels (Nt counting print media, blog types) - Zee, Times Now, India Today, Aajtak, Headlines today etc. are pretty much in sync with GoI mostly. Angrezi Print ...

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IIRC, Lt. Gen Panag(?) ...GoI told Indian media to knock it off. Check out a recent vid from the Print, with Lt. Gen Hooda. For what it is worth Irrespective of how & when they do it, if the PLA is going back... Whatever be the reason, this is humiliation of self styled "super power" ...

D.Mahesh

It would be a mistake to underestimate... The PAF has a very significant number of AEW/AWACs..The engine RD-93... The Chinese have a large variety of ...will get the job done. Also, like the IAF, the PAF has... It's always a mistake to underestimate anything anyone. Indian MIL never does. Indian in...

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Picturec2 and 4 are stone sangars. Not the much vaunted luxury accommodations touted by Indian press and some veterans. On direct hit from 155mm would blow them apart. Shabby, poorly trained & officered & equipped. For Chicoms, this is way worse than Cuban crisis was for CCCP & Krushche...

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There may.... I don't think there would have been.. Only emotional are our posters who pass of their opinions or fears as facts. One can have opinions but one can't have own facts. I grant one can arrange the facts to make own narrative aka dot connecting, but realize such exercises will be futile ...

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...won't get any F-35s from Unkil. https://mobile.twitter.com/AceJacee/status/1343410475674042368 AceJace Flag of TurkeyFlag of Germany @AceJacee #Turkey/#Türkiye: Erdogan and SSB CEO Prof Dr Ismail Demir said Turkey is working on making 3-4 Supercarrier‘s for Turkey after... This is a non-serious ...

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Gagan wrote:Check this out...!
Put her in charge of PR d Media releases please

Rare to see such a serious discussion on technical matters on any US channel program featuring women.
Excellent

D.Mahesh

A titbit from IDRW.IAF MIG-29 UPGs are equiv to block 52 F-16s ... Astra-1 is equiv. to Paki AIM-120 AMRAAMs. That's why it should have been called operation Swift Retreat, after a few minutes PAF retreated and PA.... Training, Op Readiness & Ops costs money - Lots & lots of money. In a spa...

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basant wrote:Probably the first talk of Shiv?

Excellent

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Some Useful Periods Wasted
We have not eaten Raw Marbles

Although SUPW entered CBSE after I finished +2 thanks to that Raw Marble business, I know a thing or two!
I am moving on!

D.Mahesh

BRF is badly missing the ruler and discipline of Dr.Shiv

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bharathp wrote:
ramana wrote:How many Naval LCA planes are there? Two?
Sorry what's SUPW?
more like a craft project that keeps kids busy but the end product usually ends up in the trash..."

Yeah that's the IN is getting ASTE to depute the world's best test pilot to put the NLCA thru its paces.

D.Mahesh

IAF's experience with TVC is >> & prob'ly greater than that of all other AFs combined. 100x150x15 flying hours with at least 10% of that in TVC. With so much in the logbook, IAF is not going to talk about it. It's one thing for Massa & AlLies blanket the skies of some poor sod's land with ov...

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Wishing all on BRF and the forces the very best for 2021! Just read a projection of the PLAN's ..... About 100 nice juicy targets! Milord, IN since the time of Adm.Chatterji has been pursuing the vision of dominating the seas by fighting above in the air and below the waters. Given the pathetic sta...

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He mentions BharatRakshak between 30-31 minutes for the article on Fairchild C-82 Packet!!! And, from the way he nonchalantly mentions BR, he appears to be a long-time lurker. Aside that, it was a nice summary covering all apsects for a layman. There were also some interesting tidbits. Didn't know ...

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shyamd wrote:I'm told CCP is dishing out subsidies to cover off increases in duties to chinese companies supplying India. War is on every front.

This is a game that CCP can only lose

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It's taken a lot to -re-institute the office of the CDS. Powerful incumbent service-specific lobbies, thru political insiders, kept the old system going ad infinitum - with incumbent in each branch pursuing his own hobby horse
And NO, it's not only one branch - all 3 have played ducks & drakes

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Gokhale filed this report only yesterdin from Ladakh on the LAC situation ... https://stratnewsglobal.com/ladakh-standoff-india-negotiating-on-equal-terms-with-outfoxed-china/ Ladakh Standoff: India Negotiating On Equal Terms With Outfoxed China As usual, Crooklaw is spreading FUD... Ajai Shukla is...

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mihir.mehta wrote:From today's Business-Standard :
Peoples Republic of China Government sources...

There was a time when BRForum posters set the news agenda. 2 many dude posters now (deliberately making a spelling mistake) who simply post random BS (I mean Business Standard) clips here.

D.Mahesh

Sanjaya Baru 58 years later, India-China relationship has changed. Inequality has grown Fifty-eight years ago, .... Important differences. This regime has assumed power with v.v.different framework of thought, purpose, goals. It's rumoured that ABV ordered to organise a PNE within hours of his 1st ...

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The lesson that has got embedded in GoI (irrespective of the party in power) is was that not that Chinese will intrude again, but that they will leave after asking for some local changes (stop water supply, some hut or bunker etc). Or like Doklam, enough chai and biscuit will melt Chinis hearts... ...

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C Uday Bhaskar... On the Modi watch, the China issue morphed into a problem over the Chumar intrusion (September 2014) and festered through the Depsang-Doklam-Galwan continuum. In retrospect, it is not evident that Nehru’s policy errors were rigorously internalised by the current dispensation. Henc...

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Admiral, please!.... Missing in all this 5G 6G Haan-Ji talk is is any discussion of doctrine, strategy tactics etc 100% true that Massah has spent millions of manhours to get here. Russia, if nothing, has spent incredible amount of time thinking thru the VLO business in actual battle scenarios. The...

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The USN is calling these CVs " Lightning" CVs,and pointing to the role of the Essex escort CVs in WW2 which played a v.important role in the Pacific theatre. A large CV costs $15B.The US thinktanks say that a 30K t light CV would cost only $1.5 B, be built rapidly and as assets are spread...

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