Bharat Rakshak

RohitAM

There's no question a more stable and prosperous Pakistan is vital for South and West Asia, for China and for the world. But it's far from certain that CPEC will produce one. I disagree - a completely destroyed, fragmented, and wrecked Pakistan which no longer exists as a country or a coherent enti...

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Yeah, and more than half of that money will go into enhancing jihadi-producing training centres and associated infrastructure. Someone should tell the Pakis that when the ADB says that the loan is for infrastructure development, it is for the building or improvement of public infrastructure supposed...

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I certainly agree with the sentiment here. Its about time that we declared Pakistan a failed economy (basket case) and a terrorist country, cut off absolutely every tie with them (close their consulate and throw the Paki ambassador and his staff out), and enabled the military to have a full hand in ...

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Would the DGMF like their DRDO-designed new tank (or Arjun Mk-II) to be like the USS Defiant in dimensions with Borg-defeating USS Enterprise technology, while they themselves import the equivalent of a transport freighter with sub-warp capabilities and obsolete technology?

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From what I know and what I've read, after the Japanese, it is the Chinese who are most fearful of "losing face" in any situation, regardless of how they might behave at the high table of nations such as the WTO, because they always keep a clear undercurrent going with the other members th...

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At this rate, in about five years, we can change the official name of Pakistan to "Kangaalistan". I doubt that even China doesn't have the economic bandwidth to take over Pakistan in its entirety - the bad debt "black hole" which its nationalized banks exist in would not be able ...

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I honestly think that we should start thinking "tactical depth" for cross-border firing and punitively punishing the Pakistanis in general. If we are manufacturing almost 5k Pinaka rockets every year, I think we can bring to bear 1-2 regiments of Pinaka on a regular basis to hammer Pakista...

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I agree. In the case of a "hot" war, the Indian Armed Forces can bring a lot to bear on the Tibet/China border and immediate hinterland in terms of military resources and strength. A sudden "Cold Start" doctrine implementation, if successful, can probably see a lot of our forces ...

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chola wrote:
RohitAM wrote:^^I can completely agree with that, Shiv. Thank you.

Why are you thanking him for? I made the same argument years ago.

Calma, saar, calma...I might have missed your earlier posts on this...

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Just a poonch, can we build artificial Islands in Bay of Bengal at the edge of Indian Maritime boundary and use them as bases like the Chinese are doing in SCS? I don't think the IN intends to do that, simply because it is much more feasible to use land/A&N-based assets to sanitize the Bay of B...

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The forces just take what they can get as soon as they can get it. They are neither paid to nor can they 'push for any specific item'. That is how convoluted our system is. This is OT for this thread, but in the case of Arjun vs. T-90, the IA definitely "pushed for a specific item" while ...

RohitAM

^^I can completely agree with that, Shiv. Thank you.

RohitAM

Why is an IndiaChina comparison needed on the China mil thread? Shivering thread or IN thread is for that. One, this is not "dhoti shivering", since I don't believe in that. Realistically, right now, we have enough assets tasked to the IOR to deal with anything the Pakis and Chinese throw...

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The PLAN easily has at least 35 known active or under construction DDG's (Most of them are pretty recent with commissioning dates on or after 2000). Considering that their major threat is on the Pacific seaboard rather than the IOR, and the fact that the Pakistan Navy has no DDG's (and can't afford ...

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Its a chicken-and-egg situation all over again - the private players cannot be given orders because they don't have the requisite capability, and the private players need orders to invest in developing said capability. Someone, somewhere, has to put their foot down and take a stand on what needs to ...

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Beating their chests around the "Arjun is overweight" and " we don't have the supporting infrastructure for it" and "we are standardized on the T-series (so were cassettes, but we moved onto CD's and iPods and what not)" should ideally not get the Army anywhere, especia...

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Welcome to the illogical world of Defense business. FYI, we already produce world class BPJs, vests, helmets et all, and supply to many countries including European and the US. But apparently they are not good enough for our own soldiers and Policemen. Not enough of a cut for the middlemen and the ...

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What I fail to understand is as to why at least the bigger players in the local defense space - L&T, TASL, and Reliance - cannot either get into co-development/ToT deals with foreign OEM's for at least the low tech items. Things like bullet-proof helmets, vests, even side-arms and rifles, should...

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I think when we are discussing the potential threats (PLAN and PN) and their projected force structures, we should keep in mind the timelines that we are addressing, as well as our overall force structure. Gurus have mentioned 2-3 AC's, 40-50 subs, around 20 DDG's, 30-40 FFG's, and several smaller s...

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I personally think that we should take all the CBM's that we have with Pakistan and tell them to shove them where the sun doesn't shine - and add a couple of big bombs to light them up... But all in all, a rapid and incisive conventional first strike capability with the supersonic Brahmos would be a...

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The Armor Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) seems to be a smaller numbered, optimally organized way of looking at a traditional Soviet Motor Rifle Division, with emphasis on IFV's and Infantry compared to Tanks. Of course, within the ABCT, the US Army's networking and organizational system come into play, ...

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I don't think we will settle for just 2-3 AEW&C platforms. If HAL can produce them, we might eventually see 6-8 (or even more) of these smaller "Mini-AWACS" in the IAF inventory, especially since the cost of flying these aircrafts would be far, far less than the Il-76 based Phalcons (l...

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We might eventually be looking at the Army unleashing massive cross-border fire using the MBRL's, targeting the senior HQ's which are usually located outside the range of artillery guns. Any guru has an idea if Prahaar might have been inducted and can be used for this kind of long range precision ta...

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Given our military size, we should be inducting up to 10x that number (360 per annum, not 36), and finish equipping almost all artillery regiments in around 5 years, fielding over 2000 guns...we should be able to bring to bear unprecedented firepower on to the enemy as and when we want to.

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I think this accounting demand by the State Bank of Pakistan should be used as a case study in business schools - how to fudge accounts over a period of 70 years, inclusive of calculation of original principal, overall interest payment calculations, and classification of assets (and their valuations...

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The economics doesn't add up - China must have lost at least $200-300m total on those two subs, even if these were Foxtrot-era submarines. How much does each Kilo cost us from Russia?

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I honestly think that while a lot of us think that the moves being made by the government through the disclosure scheme and then this, are targeting the external black money and counterfeit currency users (salaried class, businessmen, politicos etc), I rather think that the next step in this entire ...

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Stating that this move will devalue the INR is illogical; as a matter of fact, it will strengthen the currency internationally because of a better track of the cash liquidity existing in the Indian market - the government has specifically mentioned that the 500 and the 2000 notes will not be printed...

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Honestly, I would rather that the GOI told the DGMF to shove off and accept the Arjun in large numbers, while the infrastructure and support equipment is being put into place for the concerned tank regiments. They should've also forced the Army to buy the support equipment for the Arjun from their o...

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Pakistan's Debt and Liabilities Profile Cwapistan's Total Debt and Liabilities (I +II) : End June 2016 = Pak. Rs 22,461.8 Billion @ US$ 1 = Pak. Rs 104.6978 Equates to US$ 214.54 Billion Cwapistan GDP End June 2016 : Pak Rs. 29,597.9 Cwapistan Debt & Liabilities to GDP Ratio : 75.36% If additio...

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I have a feeling that the LCA will be the last "indigenous fighter" manufactured by HAL (the FGFA will probably be the last collaborative fighter manufacturing venture as well), and that the PSU will be asked to concentrate on the non-fighting air units (transports, trainers, AEW's) and th...

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I honestly want to know as to what the Army sees in a foreign tank which was beaten black-and-blue by our indigenous tank, after accusations by DRDO ensured that Arjun tanks would not be sabotaged further in field and user trials. I hardly believe that the Army can be so blind so as to select as its...

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Indeed we did set up manufacturing for the Jaguar, and that's allowing us to be able to upgrade and modify it in any way we want - but we never seemed to have transferred those skills to successive generations. The M2K was a more modern aircraft at the time, with a newer manufacturing line, as well ...

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Have there been any updates recently about our own Thorium-based AHWR? It seems to have completely disappeared off the radar after allegations during the UPA regime of the government selling Thorium deposits away to private players to salt away even more money into their Swiss-Italian accounts. Is t...

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The J-20 clearly lacks the smooth aerodynamic design which the Raptor and the PAKFA bring to the table. It is definitely more angular and bulkier, on the lines of the MiG-31, than the comparative 5th Generation fighters it is supposed to go toe-to-toe with.

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To be very honest, while the IAF might have improved its network-centric war fighting capabilities significantly, we are still far away from being able to bring to bear the kind of technological overload that the US can in a conflict, and this is when we are not even considering the kind of sensor f...

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Three points here. 1. The AMCA will in all likelihood IOC around 2035. I think it would be reasonable to expect it to match a 2020s F-35A. 2. F-16 or F-35, the space for the AMCA in the IAF inventory would remain the same. It would be replacing retiring Su-30s rather than MiG-27s. 3. The success of...

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The entire T-90 fiasco is in the public domain for people to read, and it is abundantly clear that there are elements in the Army (starting with the DGMF office) which have sold themselves hook, line, and sinker to the Russians. Even after the CAG report on the Arjun vs. T-90 field trials went publi...

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The F-16 will not be a full production line to start with either. We'll just be assembling it from SKD/CKDs for a while. Later we can build the airframe and perhaps assemble the engines, but bulk of the value-addition will still remain in the US. We have the option of progressively manufacturing th...

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Ideally this gap should have been filled by LCA. But even this does not happen, still IAF is well short of full Sq strength and going by the increasing Chinese threat we should be aiming for upwards of 50-60 Sq. So LCA MK2 has still a lot of space to come in in numbers. Then why GOI is not ready to...

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