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YashG

More seriously, any updates on the Frontlines, 1) Status of battles in Kupyansk, Bakhmut , Lyman etc 2) When is predicted date for Ukrainian offensive towards Crimea 3) Will Ukraine try an Amphibious assault on Crimea or across the Dnieper There is no element of surprise here on the ukrainian offen...

YashG

No amount of misinformation will change the facts: Russia is the aggressor in its invasion of a sovereign independent democratic Ukraine; if he had been successful in his aggression, President Putin would surely have taken all the credit for his victory; now that he has been frustrated and humiliat...

YashG

$15.6 billion IMF loan for Ukraine. The IMF has never loaned money to a country at war. Until last week. Ukraine wasn't eligible. Then a rule was tweaked. Took 1 year to clear $3 billion for Sri Lanka. But Ukraine has Western allies & white citizens. And the US can clearly overwrite all ruleboo...

YashG

Because, there is some bad news as well. The IAF will not only return unused funds for 2022-23, but has also reduced the projected requirements for 2023-24 by a whopping 26000 Crores. Reason: Russia cannot supply https://swarajyamag.com/defence/iafs-budget-takes-a-hit-of-rs-26000-crore-delayed-deli...

YashG

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Committee Led by a BJP buffoon. Import lobby has bought folks from all parties. This panel is just doing import lobby's lobbying

YashG

fuel dumping and interception is something drone videos can corroborate and this feed was probably being sent back via sat links. More than that I agree US/Nato Intel has helped Ukraine plot a lot of retaliations. Not just strategic one but likely even tactical strikes, such as Himars strikes on Rus...

YashG

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It is also SU25 which will be able to take out objects of interest. But SU25 are not being abl eto operate with impunity that is the issue. Russia has good numbers of SU25.

YashG

There is no doubt NATO isr has helped ukraine do all the magic. Everyone needs to learn from this. Something that india should do out of this is large scale manual workforce that can scan and interpret sat intel. Basically how many eyes can u put over the sat images at one go simultaneously will mea...

YashG

^^^ We could say that this money be saved and buy basics. but numbers wise this deal will not materially eat into IA budgets to constrain purchase of rifles, NVDs etc. What materially eats into IA budgets are other misaligned acquisitions (like buying just 6 apaches or 10 MQ9 reapers). If we stop th...

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I agree. But some token amount of these systems like jetpacks & robotic dogs will play good for PR for external audience and even recruitments. As long as the inductions of these systems is symbolic.

YashG

ashthor wrote:https://twitter.com/ani_digital/status/ ... 3573732352

Indian Army to buy 307 ATAGS howitzers for deployment along China, Pak border

Is it the same "India to buy" 9 squadrons of Tejas Mk2 ?

Sounds so.

YashG

Kersi wrote:
Vips wrote:Wildlife Board approves IAF mountain radar in Ladakh.
As a defence enthusiast AND a nature/wild life lover i don't know whether to be happy or sad

How common or rare is that combination ?

YashG

Chinese foreign policy moves make zero sense, whether doklam or wolf warrior move.

And we keep tying ourselves into knots over wht n why they do.

Whatever makes sense, expect china to do something other than that.

YashG

Last few posts will be better for the other geostrategic russian-Ukrainin thread we have. Some of thes eposts are useful but are not war tactics but geostrategic in nature. Maybe Mods should move them there for coherence.

YashG

^^^ Did some digging in. US has approved USD 113 Bn for Ukraine till now (in tranches of 30-40Bn). This amount is to last till Sep 2023. But there is a faction of house republicans that wants to stop this. So passing the next tranche will be outright difficult. So US can only pass 1/2 more tranches ...

YashG

We didnt lose this order on basis of tech/product. Its a foreign relations failure. Koreans pulled off a better offer (might have included some US influence since FA50 has more US components, some palm greasing of right people in malaysian govt. and a bit of diplomatic arm twisting). I wouldnt write...

YashG

https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/drone-wars-cartelisation-complaints-reach-defence-ministry-on-armys-bulk-uav-purchase-plans/articleshow/98189047.cms Here we go. The one area where we were making relatively quick procurement progress. We are back to square one. Import lobby? Perhaps someone...

YashG

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/02/23/russias-vaunted-second-offensive-is-a-damp-squib Ukraine intends a counter-offensive but they do not have the ammo for it. They also fear that there is a window before Russian mobilisation and re-arming gets deployed. So US is leading some kind of fundrais...

YashG

We should definitely have 14K brahmos but not via Brahmos Aerosapce. It has 49% russian equity, so money goes to russia. It is not like we wire 49% of gross costs to Russia. Only share of net profit, and costs of any components sourced from Russia! All R&D, including for import substitution of ...

YashG

We should definitely have 14K brahmos but not via Brahmos Aerosapce. It has 49% russian equity, so money goes to russia.

YashG

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Love to believe it. But this youtube handle is not a very solid source.

YashG

A lot of narratives are same rn as they were when ukraine lost severodonetsk - media reports of ukraine running out of artillery - fancy visits by elensky and world leaders streaming into ukraine - Ukraine about to loose a city and trying to hold on. Loss of H&D - Fresh commitments of new weapon...

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I had read that we have indeigenized many al31 components in india and our engines are more reliable than russian. How much advantage we will be able to take of this work whwne we switch to al41

are we going to go through the cycle of indeginization of components again?

YashG

putnanja wrote: There are lots of EMB-145s/EMB-175s in the 2nd hand market. Wonder if IAF is looking at new build machines or lightly-used ones.

AEWs are much needed and its good to hear the sense of urgency. But Will we o for 2nd hand or new ones - depends upon where MoD babus can make more commissions.

YashG

Some nice info in this video and may be Naval LCA are ordered- 60 or So to get the HAL production ecosystem running so that the everything is place before TEDBF and Mk2 can be ordered in Nos along with AMCA. im all for ordering nlca but how much supply chain for nlca and lca is common excluding eng...

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six (6) Ex-Air India planes being converted to AWAC etc. https://twitter.com/VivekSi85847001/status/1625163162394988544?s=20&t=0LM_lqqqm9IL-NpQfh_SHA This is forum special. Netra Mk1 x 3 is on ERJ 145 Netra Mk2 x 3 is on Airbus 319 both different airframes and only 3, both will require separate...

YashG

^^^ Following up on the above. I was curious about this news and I found some smoke. In a recent nato meeting this was discussed. NATO defense ministers were also debating how to adapt the 2% spending target, and whether it was sufficient given the war raging in Ukraine. Heads of government were exp...

YashG

Rabid anti India news channel DW also confirming that the Uniformed Terrorists are arming the Russophobes. 4l3XShOfLIQ First mention at 3:35. I will not take this at facevalue. there is some fine print + something thats not being said. fine print is that european govt. are pledging money but not si...

YashG

Hope you're placing your bets wisely Yash ;) When Ukrainien forces crumble why would the Russians stop at Dneipr? Why would the Russians negotiate with untrustworthy EU after what happened to Minsk accords ? Or with US after its terrorist attack on NS and fellow NATO country? Why do you think Russi...

YashG

It is also possible that either russian offence or ukrainian defence will some day will fold up suddenly.

YashG

Prem Kumar wrote: Since the Capex budget has to be spent by March 31, hope the IA uses the opportunity to place orders (even though some improvements are required).

Unless MoD babus dont make commissions, they wont order anything. Doesnt matter if capex lapses.

YashG

https://twitter.com/livefist/status/1623309757909188609?s=20&t=9Z_6zZiIiBKy83q_tasjKw ---> Indian MoD signs ₹2585 crore contract with L&T for 41 indigenous modular bridges Bridges for the Indian Army’s Corps of Engineers. https://twitter.com/manupubby/status/1623303774612881409?s=20&t=9...

YashG

What the flying-f@$%! We have China breathing down our necks & the Forces have spent only 52% of their Capex in 2022-23. Why? Because cannot place orders with Russia Here is a novel idea - how about ordering indigenous weapons? https://swarajyamag.com/defence/defence-just-50-per-cent-of-the-all...

YashG

Jet pack i don't understand. But robotic mules make a great deal of sense. No, they don't. It has been proven conclusively that conventional mules (ie. of the horse variety) are simply superior to robotic mules in every way. IC-engine based mules make a ton of noise, and battery powered ones just l...

YashG

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60525350 very peculiar that such writings have started appearing all of a sudden even on BBC This happens whenever public opinion has to be molded in favor of sending huge arms cache to Ukraine and Ukraine is doing badly on ground. Then when arms are sent, suddenly ...

YashG

https://hurseda.net/gundem/246987-iddia-mossad-a-gore-ukrayna-ve-rusya-kayiplari.html (requires translation from Turkish to English) Allegedly, the field data of January 14, 2023, based on Israeli intelligence, is listed as follows: [ UKRAINE: The losses of 734 thousand soldiers (plus 100 thousand ...

YashG

America cannot keep its MIC going without India and they know that. Russia has China to supply. They will try everything in their power to get India to buy their wares. China dsnt blv in imports. Only Indian babus make their cuts by just importing. So when all efforts to buy foreign run out, they s...

YashG

X-Post from the Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion thread... ... And, if - as I personally expect - China, as we know it today, ceases to exist ... Interesting, this is the second time (as far as I can recall) you have spoken about this possibility. Please do tell -- explain your reaso...

YashG

US foreign policy is driven by army lobby. So we will be foolish to think they will do anything that makes sense. US industry seems like needs a war to justify itself. So Ukraine is the new afghanistan for US minus the body bags. I do think 2/3 tactical nuclear strikes will be the end game. Russia w...

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Egypt has already finalised TA50 from what I heard. So Egypt aint buying Tejas.

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