Bharat Rakshak

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A couple of aviation SMEs (incl Angad Singh) have stated that the drop tank is a PTB-800. It is a 800 Litre Centerline Drop Tank.

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It's not uncommon to see even RR patrols in sensitive areas with Crl Gustav type weapons. It's common for J&K Police personnel deployed in CT ops to sometimes buy weapons seized from terrorists. Lots of strange guns can be found in homes of such officers. Army men commonly use such weapons in t...

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samir (seems from other side of border) came up with this geo location of the drop tank

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D00WzQ8WsAEM_Bk.jpg

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https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20190325-balakot-airstrikes-pulwama-terror-attack-abhinandan-varthaman-narendra-modi-masood-azhar-1478511-2019-03-15 This article says 1.Pakistan, on its part, exhibited the wreckage that it claimed was a MiG 21 engine. However, after a close anal...

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In the balakot complex, that big building is supposed to be a lecture hall... at 3am that place would be likely empty with both trainees and trainers fast asleep in their accommodation.

Why would the IAF strike that building at 3am if its purpose was a lecture hall?

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habal wrote:both Haider & Ali are usually names sported by shia.

So the NLI who were not acknowledged in Kargil were Shia

and if the reports of the shot down pilot being WC Haider Shahbaz Ali is true, it will mean again a Shia was not acknowledged

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Is Haider Shahbaz Ali a Shia name..?

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The Dawn Newspaper of Pakistan has published this article which quotes US Ambassador to Pakistan - Anne Patterson - as saying "“ Pakistan’s shortfalls in training and tactics multiply India’s edge ,” Ouch... Link https://www.dawn.com/news/1468323/deal-allows-pakistan-to-use-f-16s-as-deterrence-...

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I guess air space restrictions means they can fly their AWACS and refuellers without transponders... and ensures trigger happy SAMs do not create a Malaysian Airlines like incident

Has anyone seen their AWACS flying on flightradar?

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In the air raids, the PAF targeted a Brigade HQ, A Battn HQ and a Ammo Dump..

As per the twitter user bababanaras, recently a PA Ammo Dump was destroyed by Arty. Not sure how reliable this is.

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The jets may have crashed before that... the jet was hurtling down very fast... and parachutes take time coming down...

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Bhatinda is the HQ of Indian X Corp. That Corp would be a good candidate for cold start since it is reputed to have 2 RAPIDs (as per open source info) and an Armd Brigade. The total armoured regiments in that Corp would be equal to an Armoured Division if we calculate If you look at the distribution...

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https://twitter.com/Noetic_Karma/status/1105138793617768451 Is WC Abhinandan in this vehicle? In the back seat do you see a guy in the middle I checked another video of him in the car (which i will not post) where the guy in red is sitting in front and a guy in black is sitting on the right side of...

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Bhimber district is shown in this image. Horran - where the Mig 21 came down - also falls under this district. The Indian areas of Jhangar, Bohani and Khamba where the Indian eye witnesses saw a jet come down is also adjacent to it https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Bhimber_Az...

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The f16 crashed under Bimber police station of POK very likely

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/b ... 2019-03-11

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If he is sure of the area just looking at the position of the parachute in the air, then it must be a neighbouring village or town. Given the F16 was hit first, would it have fallen more closer to the LoC than the Mig21? Need to look at villages on the east? Indian civilian eye witness say a jet ca...

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At 4sec in https://www.samaa.tv/video/2019/02/watch-a-kashmiri-civilian-narrates-how-he-caught-indian-pilot-abhinandan/ he says something like "chatri hawa me ghoom rahi thi... teen chatri.. ak chali gayi XXX ki tarfa.. ak hamari gau me giri hai..." What is XXX that he said? His gau is Hor...

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Yes, I think he says Horan Kotla. Assuming the drop tank was found around the same place and the man say he saw 3 parachute, the F16 must have fallen somewhere nearby. WC Abhi fell 300 mts near the debris and ran off towards a stream. So there must be a stream nearby. It should help us pinpoint the...

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D07ROfRW0AEDBT0.jpg This is from twitter... the text says "Seeker of a R-73 missile found next to Wg Cdr Abhinandan's MiG-21 wreck." From https://twitter.com/Aditya_G_Social/status/1103049256435372037 This video of the crash site has a white object like in this...

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Ah.. the old man said "Horran Kotla" not "Udan Kotla". Horran is the place where the India Today team video was on. So we may be able to locate the place where the other two PAF parachutes landed. The old man gives some clues. Additionally the India Today team says WC Abhinandan ...

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Here is the first video that came out. He says the place is Udan Kotla, which is north of where mig21 fell. Even kotli is north of the site. Do you have the coordinates of Udan Kotla, it is not showing up in google map/earth The old man says 3 pilots paradropped. Keep in mind the IAF says the PAF j...

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The Mig 21 is claimed to have come down at Horan Village. Does anyone have coordinates of it? From the Indian side the villages close to where this action happened is Bohani, sher makadi in Naushera. This video link has some details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2iwpeSC_Q

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https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/e ... 2019-03-07

This video shows the claimed spot where the Mig 21 came down... one can see the surrounding area quite clearly

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Would an F16 going into a dog fight keep its drop tank or jettison them?

If it is conformal then it cannot be taken off i believe

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AVM Kapoor in the Joint Press Conference specifically said the drop tank was not of a Mig 21.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hypnYPsPh-w around 17 minutes in

It maybe best to focus on that aspect. Shivs video does that

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No Saar, all Pakistani F-16s use the Pratt & Whitney F100 engine. Even the ones bought from Jordan use the P&W engine as well. And as per picture below, the P&W engine has a honeycomb structure. See below... Thank you for the clarification. So, it seems most likely that an F-16 was not,...

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India-Pakistan dogfight: A minute-by-minute account of Abhinandan's air battle https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/india-pakistan-f16-mig21-dogfight-minute-by-minute-1472548-2019-03-07 10:08 AM[/b][/color]: Wing Commander Abhinandan fires his R73 missile and successfully hits the F-16, bringing i...

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https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... y-5616595/

This article quotes unnamed officers to indicate the warheads had 70-80 kg explosives.

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https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... 1-5614615/

The americans seem to confirm that such large AMRAAM debris means it missed target.

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34.4635716,73.3184342

I believe RajFortySeven is looking at this

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Karan M wrote:
ranneel wrote:Flightradar24 tweet: Pakistan has again extended the general closure of its airspace for additional 24 hrs till 6th March 08:00 UTC.
What are they gaining from this?

It likely means they can shoot at any aircraft which enters their airspace.... and also saves fuel...

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https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... e-5611162/

Indian express has this account of someone who was in Balakot training center

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Rakesh wrote:And then this....

https://twitter.com/SherrySays1/status/ ... 5491435520

Possibly Shahzad ud Din does not exist but Shahzad-Ud-Din does

?

He used the latter in his first two tweets and the former in his tweet correcting it

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https://twitter.com/gypsy_heart6/status/1100315978183909377 This twitter user says "So a friend from the area has confirmed that madressa Taleem-ul-Quran (it’s board says run by Hazrat Maulana Masood Azhar) at Mansehra (Balakot) was hit, & there are ~10 ambulances around. But the area is no...

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An aside question: Why did they call a Mach 2 elegant plane, called The Pencil in Poland, a BISON ? Who came up with that name? It is 90 percent of the bad press that this terrific plane gets from ungrateful Indians (I mean the public/media). Bison = son of bis. The Mig 21 Bison is upgrade of the M...

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Actual Satellite Image analysis of Strike on Jaba Top, Balakote The full analysis ( has this been posted?) https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/were-indias-airstrikes-in-pakistan-a-strategy-for-public-approval/ The bad news is that this piece of evidence doesn't go in our favor but it looks a very sol...

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posted by BRF Member arun ---------------------------------------------------- X Posted from the Terroristan thread. US seeks information on potential misuse of F-16 by Pakistan. It will be interesting to see if the “Semiannual inventories of all F–16 aircraft equipment and munitions” by the US wil...

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https://twitter.com/tukupanti/status/11 ... 7914770434

This is a good analysis of one of the debris which fell in POK which indicates it is a F16 purchased from Jordan

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I have a question on the Rashtriya rifles. Are the men deputed to the RR, culled from the authorised strength of the regular army formations, or is it an additional resource available to the army, in addition to its regular strength. Thus if 5 RR is affiliated to the Jat regiment and half its stren...

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