Bharat Rakshak

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going to starch my dhoti/lungi then..

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It’s truly mind boggling that this nation was and is purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms while totally bankrupt. Fauj above everything else. not too mind boggling if you consider all the kickbacks and bribes involved. the mangos get their jingoism fulfilled with the toys (even ...

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from the same link: While talking about HAL’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project, the HAL chief stated ,”We are also a design partner in building prototypes in this project. In another five to six years, the product should be available.” is the prototype available in 5-6 years (most plau...

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vande bharat trains makes realize how much ground we lost during the lost decade (2004-2014)
this train should have happened late 2000's or early 2010's

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sorry but the above brought back the painful memory of hoping to see the aircraft on aug 2022. Still no news on the full scale model and/or flight testing. Hoping to see some surprise soon. I truly believe with Mk2 will be the GOAT. There has been news on the prototype rollout, you just missed it. ...

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sorry but the above brought back the painful memory of hoping to see the aircraft on aug 2022. Still no news on the full scale model and/or flight testing.
Hoping to see some surprise soon. I truly believe with Mk2 will be the GOAT.

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nuggets from the rest: The 40,000 vacancies released to recruit Agniveers under the government’s Agnipath scheme last year will not be adequate to match the annual retirement rate of approximately 60,000 soldiers. There are also plans to outsource administrative services for static units, such as ca...

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also: “I asked her to send an IMF team for the completion of the pending 9th review of the programme so that the next loan tranche is released. She assured that the mission will visit [Pakistan] in the next two to three days,” Shehbaz had said. However, in its statement to the media, the IMF spokesp...

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1611368611678937088

how to embed a teeter video?
above video shows: Pak factories not getting orders because folks placing orders know factories dont have $$ to import raw material. not even 500$ is being released now by SBP

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Pindi chana at its finest apirl 9 2021 was like the peaks of covid - we became the second most infected country in the world in the middle of april 2021 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9259553/#:~:text=India%20became%20the%20second%20most,as%20on%20April%2012%2C2021.&text=The%20num...

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Ramana garu: https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2022/nov/26/grse-partners-lt-shipyard-for-building-warship-parts-2522303.html CHENNAI: Public sector undertaking Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) is partnering with the Larsen and Turbro shipyard at Kattupalli for part building of ...

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from oct 22's link: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indian-army-eyes-major-firepower-upgrade-to-counter-china-101664280649581.html (posted in this thread a few pages back)here is a starting point for tracking dhanush/sharang and others k9 vajra 100 inducted 100 more to be inducted Dhanush ...

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need to get those monies back with interest
the people who made the rules must be brought to book (And made to pay)

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should it not be easier to orchestrate even more (qunatity and quality) reciprocal low level gift hampers? an easier way would be to keep them occupied instead of having to overtly act on items that are easily deniable plausible deniability is notjust one country's baap ka jaagir overt actions requi...

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why do we want to disturb our economic rise with silly tactical geenius gains like felling a ship which can be built again? unless there is a strategic, long term gain of some value, gaining an upper hand technologically (decoys/scrambling EM waves near the ship etc to distort the signals it is reci...

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So, the p@ki army can't win wars, can't stop floods, can't get enough baksheesh, can't even bump off pesky opponents :P So, what are they good for? Collect water bills, acquire corner plots, open franchises? Thoo! What is this world coming to? fooling pak awam getting someone else to beg for money ...

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doesnt landing NLCA count? or is that "test pilots" and hence technically not navy pilots?

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https://www.indiatvnews.com/business/news/rbi-digital-rupee-launch-on-november-1-2022-for-wholesale-segment-2022-10-31-820228 digital rupee to be launched on NOv 1 The use case for the pilot is settlement of secondary market transactions in government securities, the RBI said in a statement on Monda...

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nachiket wrote:
bharathp wrote: my jingo mindset wants the Tejas Mk2 to be rafale-ized
Hain? What does that entail?

saar, pls dont read too much into this
all I meant was Tejas Mk2 to be a strong contender to replace Rafale at some point

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kit wrote:Hope down the line., the Rafale progressively gets MKIsed with Indian sensors and weapons

my jingo mindset wants the Tejas Mk2 to be rafale-ized rather than the rafale being MKIsed -
but agree that if rafale is MKIsed then all the toys from different vendors can play together

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@pratyush
the road corridor would have designated spots for aircraft operations - which would mean they are specific/immovable locations (hence a target for missiles/shells)
but a truly mobile floating airbase would be a nightmare to plan for?

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gurus, a question: is it possible to have a "floating airbase" (a-la aircraft carrier) but for ground based operations? something like a knocned down kit of -ready to build airbase the STBF Goa facility type where we 1) could install an ATC (maybe truck mounted etc) 2) a short run way (whi...

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couldnt help remember an oldjoke:
singapore ka PM bola lalu se: tum ham ko 3 saal ke liye bihaar dedo hum usko singapore banadenge
lalu bola: tum 3 din ke liye singapore hum ko dedo hum usko bihar bana denge aur itna mehnat ke baad yaha bhi wheel chain mein baith jayenge

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this has some markings of how east pakistan was not allowed to form a govt despite being in the majority - here kaptaan actually does have the majority but the zamindaars and feudal laards (read DHAs) dont want to upset the status quo. kaptaan is an equal opportunity enemy creator and has simultaneo...

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really hope some day we wont have to import critical parts for atleast some of the systems. its getting to a point where for everything we get to 90% -95% indegenization and have someone holding us hostage by keeping those "critical parts" as a leash.

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is localisation and indigenisation same? or is this new dadagiri of screwdrivergiri?

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k9 vajra 100 inducted 100 more to be inducted Dhanush 1 regiment (18) inducted 1 more regiment (18) to be inducted by mar 2023 Sharang 3 regiment inducted raising 4th and will have 15 in total, range 37 km Pinaka raising 6 more pinaka with 48km range

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Pratyush ji, I do not see any other player willing to partner with India to develop cutting edge/bleeding edge tech. I would say, even if its one gen behind, but works for our AMCA, take it and then use the knowledge to go up in Gen ourselves. the longer we wait to get "cutting edge tech onlee&...

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my 2 cents - if the issue was indeed ammo, then its probably not something we can blame on the t-90 anyways however, even if the issue was with the t-90, its still understood that there will be issues with any machine the difference is, if it was ahome grown machine, we would have the in house skill...

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not sure why we have to pick on the naming. I am happy its an Indic name. this is the meaning:

अति उग्र, अति तीव्र।

अत्यधिक गर्म।

not sure how this can be weak.

I am sure the exploits of the system will give added heft to the name "prachand"

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^^ what exactly is 4"km" of endurance? isnt endurance amount of time a heli stays afloat with with its fuel? shuoldnt it be a measure in time units?

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which terrorrists need to be fought with F16s?
flip that question around,
who is being fought with the given f-16s?
even after clearly showing that the f-16s are being used on only one adversary, khan wants to keep the f-16s going to aid TSP in fighting this "terrorist"

bharathp

i would rather have them doing the guess work as to "when the temperature will go up?" game. salami slicing does not have to be one way street

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the fallback option whenevr an obvious flaw is pointed out in the aassssmaani quitab: "Adv Muchhala: Al Quran is Arabic and the courts in India are equipped to adjudge. Even average Indian Muslim reads Arabic as is without the meaning. Thus, in such cases the court should not embark upon the ex...

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also for low intensity ops which can take the load away from ALH/LCH

0.5 front or the red corridor types may get more active
north east

could also be used for training? this part I dunno how feasible - possible LIFT type for Helo?

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** sanjay garu. Taiwan to China and TSP to India is just not the same at this juncture and rapidly deterriorating. In mushy days where TSP was puportedly stronger with khans full backing and India relatively weaker with mourn vrat and coalition dharmists at the helm it was probably a headache, right...

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India should protest, and condition some of its cooperation against total stop on any military aid to Pak whatsoever. And threaten to break the purportedly US brokered cease fire in J&K unless this happens. instead of protest, I would ask whats the point of QUAD/AUKUS hocus pocus if they contin...

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is it possible to set up/raise an RSS type Hindu Unity society in Pak and organize aid through them? first help the Pakistani HIndua (they are Pakistani after all) stating that the Muslims are already taken care of by Pak's multitude of mosques? after all, khalsa has an aid/help arm so does the chur...

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complete noob pooch
cant the ghatak be taken forward? we have the base design - think of it like Mk0
we can iterate to Mk1 and then Mk2 in next 15-20 years?
that should/could be our strategic bomber?

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sivab wrote: https://twitter.com/HTT40PRASHANT/statu ... i2mpcrAAAA

Fairly good chance Mk2 will roll out before Aug 15 or end of this month.

hoping for an awesome independence day.

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