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When this Air Chief held the rank of Air Vice Marshal, … Focus on Tejas. Rakesh Ji Great points as always and right on the money. Hopefully the IAF HQ have the foresight to give the Atmanirbhar programme a chance to take foodhold and thereby contribute to more advances. I am sure with the backing o...

150 + 180 Tankers would require long range AAM (which we will have shortly) to keep them away and it will require complete Air dominance to enable the to operate freely near the border. We will surely get 300 - 600 such missiles + a few more to drive the AWACS and other support aircraft away. Pleas...

One basic question Why do we need to pay an arm and leg for LCA's which are manufactured by our own PSU's? something like $35-$40 million a piece? Isn't the GOI paying the salaries ? GOI owns major share in HAL right? Am i missing something? The question shows an ignorance of accounting. Regardless...

The MOD/IAF inked a contract for 83 MK1As just this calendar year. This is more than 2 times the number of aircraft that they ordered from Dassault. So there shouldn't be any doubt that they do not want to operate the Tejas in quantity, and in much higher numbers than any new foreign MMRCA at this ...

Click on the link below ChanakyaM and then go to the " Specifications " sub-heading and look at the variety of warheads that the Agni (from Agni-I to Agni-IV) missile can carry. Agni-P can also carry a conventional warhead. All is good :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agni_(missile) Thank...

Check out the missile thread. The creation of the Rocket Forces command is to formalize the use of ballistic missiles for conventional strikes vs the previous doctrine of utilizing them purely for the nuclear delivery role. And you need mass i.e. China has an estimated inventory of 2500 short mediu...

Check out the China after the 19th Congress thread in the Strat Forum. China's objective for the last 20+ years is a unipolar Asia and a bipolar world. Clinton almost gave China this position without a fight when he wanted to give them carte blance to "manage" the India-Pakistan conflict ...

Ok, you declare NFU is junked. Then what? Will Pakis and Cheenis change their attitude overnight and stop CBT or retreat back? Will equipment shortages disappear? Your week got off to a bad start man, please think through and post some meaningful analysis instead of knee-jerk rants. vow strong word...

Now that we've , the Chinese are back to their old tricks, with some new lessons learnt 1) Probing movements like the one above 2) Digging their heels in with more shelters for their troops 3) Overcoming their Air Force disadvantage by constructing new air-strips & hardened shelters 4) Reducing...

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great points

If we remember- PLA was threatening DBO. With the actions taken including infrastructure development, things are different now. I hope we are not suggesting to sit and wait till PLA and its cronies make the next move. What happened to taking back POK? They have now officially made or making POK as ...

We did not `capture' anything. We occupied our own territory. In the process, we got the PLA to vacate the finger area and significantly disengage from Hot springs-Gogra. The question to ask is what did PLA achieve after moving 2 divisions, 2000+ km and making them stay over a year, at a multiple o...

Why the rhetorical question? a Question to a Question I posed does not offer anything? What was the objective in relinquishing positions that were captured in the offensives? I am aware such things are not discussed in open but there are many contributors here that have more knowledge than me and s...

How are we different from what the chinkies are doing by just show casing stuff. What have we achieved by stepping away from the strategic heights captured and by not making the chinkies pay for their transgression? This just seems a show for the aam janta and for some thigh slapping We did not `ca...

How are we different from what the chinkies are doing by just show casing stuff. What have we achieved by stepping away from the strategic heights captured and by not making the chinkies pay for their transgression? This just seems a show for the aam janta and for some thigh slapping Can you please...

Impressive, but what is the objective? just show casing? all show and no action does nothing good. Its like the massive build up we did during Sri Vajpayee's time only to pull back. What is the objective you are looking for? How are we different from what the chinkies are doing by just show casing ...

Indian Army tank drills in Ladakh today. https://twitter.com/livefist/status/1433467280843685889?t=NerVtLOk_-fr-ihxENcUEA&s=19 Impressive, but what is the objective? just show casing? all show and no action does nothing good. Its like the massive build up we did during Sri Vajpayee's time only ...

Pratyush wrote:Not without India. Afganistan in the absence of trade with India through the land route can simply be bypassed.

CARs are much more important than Afghanistan.

Time to take back POK may be to shut it out (?)

I think with Taliban in control and deal in place with chinees the silk road is viable again

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chola wrote:^^^ What?! When the hell did this happen?

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thats a steal by chinks if it did happen. We couldn't afford 1.5 billion USD?

I think China will actually fight a war with India... For a country to be taken seriously, it needs to fight an actual war... If Xi really wants to prove that China is a military power that means business, they need to fight a war and win it... Fancy parades, polished equipment or propaganda videos...

By painting a picture of intrusion, Chinese have set themselves up for a fight. They have to show victory now. So straight option is to fight India and push it back in the intrusion area. But even if they don't fight there but occupy some other sector - they will still need to show victory and henc...

This is not true at all. While certainly not as easily covered as Pakistan, China has several major targets in the range of ~1000 km . Chengdu is around 900km from Dibrugarh, Chongqing (also written Chungking) is I think around 1100 km. Chengdu is a major military centre. Chongqing was developed as...

American THAAD is still in Israel. In all likelihood we can see a THAAD in action in Ladakh and that will be a strong message to the dilly-dallying Russians. A simple compare of THAAD and S400 shows the deficiencies of THAAD, so what additional help do we expect by trying to deploy THAAD?(if the am...

Just a curious question How would these be comparable against the S400's? None of them are comparable. The s400 has better range numbers than even the best s300s, let alone Chinese clones. Aforementioned Chinese Sam threats can be neutralized by brahmos. Probly by newer kh31s too. More challenging ...

Thanks. That is a pleasant surprise. I was not following it closely. It's got a range of 100 km so fairly decent. It would be a good surprise, if Israel sends across the ER version, which has got 150KM. Fundamentally Barak8 with a booster. Everything else remains the same. A couple of tests with th...

Does this mean if Modi (or a later Congress Government) wants to ram through any other substantial Constitutional Amendment dealing with say distribution of power between Center & States, they can: 1. Get it approved by 2/3 majority in Parliament. 2 . Declare President rule in enough states so ...

Newbie here but wanted to ask a simple question Bharat is currently importing 18Billion USD worth of military hardware from US so why should it be bothered about the ES 4 hundred which is crucial to Indian Airspace security. Do they have any system that is comparable to the ES 4 hundred. I am not su...

One further might be concerned about there being an asterisk on the record of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman, because the F-16 shoot-down apparently cannot be confirmed from currently publicly available information. Not to worry, earlier in this thread it has been established that the US takes...

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CNN News18 reporting Massod's death news...

If true,this is a wonderful outcome...

Me on cloud 9 !!!

This is superb news indeed

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@Maroof_Raza - does not show the Army Major who appears on the TV shows, is the profile correct?

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