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- 22 May 2018 22:57
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: BR Forum Feedback
- Replies: 1178
- Views: 335255
Re: BR Forum Feedback
Here is a board warning issued to me by Karan when I pointed out that he was spamming a thread along with Philip. This is misuse of admin privileges and a delusional accusation that I am trying to support Philip. He accuses me of wasting forum bandwidth by ONE post ignoring a series of posts he mad ...
- 22 May 2018 22:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
ShauryaT - my trying to rebut Karnad will not improve his knowledge or change mine. That quote is full of bitter polemic and accusations. If you agree with them fine. If I agree or don't agree I will say so - but frankly Karnad does not interest me in the least bit. I never read or listen to him. I ...
- 22 May 2018 09:38
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
- Replies: 4456
- Views: 1037116
Re: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
Would it be possible for Philip and Karan to stop spamming this thread with..
-Post edited to remove meaningless drivel. Don't repeat this sort of behavior.
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-Post edited to remove meaningless drivel. Don't repeat this sort of behavior.
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- 22 May 2018 07:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
This oneramana wrote:8 inch M 203 howitzer?
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- 21 May 2018 20:10
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Aircraft Recognition
- Replies: 1014
- Views: 297500
Re: Aircraft Recognition
https://twitter.com/Aviationdailyy/status/998349327104921601 ^^The plane is NOT an F-5 as I thought - it is an NF-5 https://www.turkyildizlari.tsk.tr/en-us/About-Us/About-the-NF-5-Aircraft NF-5 aircrafts, which have been in service at Tuaf since 1987, are preferred as the most suitable aircraft for ...
- 21 May 2018 11:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
. (I am no nuclear weapons expert - just a nuclear physicist - but I don't think *any one* has a gun-type mechanism in any of *modern* arsenal) Speaking of guns - you must have seen that video of the single one-off test of an atomic artillery shell. I was watching that video again and suddenly some...
- 21 May 2018 09:57
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
- Replies: 4649
- Views: 1804573
Re: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
I think the Chinese know damn well that their J-20 is perfectly detectable from some aspects and less so from other aspects. Saying that they were detected gives them zero information because they won't know the methods and ranges and angles from which they were detected. Dhanoa may well have been i...
- 21 May 2018 06:50
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
We are actually jackasses because no one asks the geneticist which genes code for language. When you ask them they will point to linguists/archaeology papers and say 'Language migration has been demonstrated by linguists who tell us that PIE was in steppe and those people moved to India and Iran, c...
- 21 May 2018 06:23
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
- Replies: 4649
- Views: 1804573
Re: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
It does not. We may simply not be saying it.kit wrote: +1 . Frankly baying from the rooftops saying we see them also tells them when we are not as well
- 20 May 2018 11:30
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
- Replies: 3909
- Views: 1460254
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
Made for each other. Ajai Shukla reports and we believes.
- 20 May 2018 08:37
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
- Replies: 4456
- Views: 1037116
Re: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
OEM spares not available..Karan M wrote: If cost was the only criteria, then why is the IAF not flying Sopwith Camels??
- 19 May 2018 17:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
HEU derived gun design is very unlikely because of the size. One of my professor (quite famous - who actually worked in Manhattan project) remarked that accurate word for the design should have been " cannon design"...the mechanism is definitely cannon (too big to be called a "gun&qu...
- 19 May 2018 05:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
On Twitter, manastaramgini: Indo-Aryans: If we go by mainstream indological models .blah blah blah The "we" always tickles me no end - especially when used by an individual. This is not a royal we, it is an ass covering we. It always reminds me of that song "Inhi logon ne" from ...
- 19 May 2018 05:39
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
Could we stick to deterrence please? There is a separate India Nuclear thread for lamenting about the state of the civil nuclear program
- 18 May 2018 20:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
- 18 May 2018 14:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Anshuman Kumar ji, other than me and a few other mice no one has attacked linguistics yet so there has been no sustained attack on linguistics. And as far as my knowledge goes no one else has launched as much of a tirade against linguistics as I have done so please don't imagine things. That we must...
- 18 May 2018 11:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
You mean megatonne languageRoyG wrote: BK needs to chill with the megaton language.
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- 18 May 2018 11:11
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
I think you have got it wrong about subkiloton and sophistication. It requires great sophistication to squeeze 10 kt out of a 30 cm diameter missile. It is the diameter that is the problem. Plutonium has to be squeezed efficiently from all directions to get the maximum yield. Or else it will be sub...
- 18 May 2018 10:07
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
In fact this is what I mean. It is possible to publish honest stuff that goes against the crap being thrown at us. But trying to use western portals, western validation and western peer review will not work. We have to use our own portals to have our voices heard. That bolded part is so important I...
- 18 May 2018 06:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
^^ I am reminded of a quote from Sir William Osler that was part of the classic surgical textbook edited by Bailey and Love IIRC (Shiv can pipe in with more on this I am sure): " He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not...
- 18 May 2018 06:37
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
- Replies: 3909
- Views: 1460254
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
Typing out relevant excerpt from Airborne IRST Prepares to Leap into Uncharted Territory - IHS Feature Report, 2009 (ihs.com): The PIRATE sensor head is mounted above the Typhoon's radome ( the optimum position for IRST air to air operation ) and slightly to the left of the airfcarft centerline (al...
- 17 May 2018 22:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
This also fits in well with the Chinese connection where flying would be frying rotiramana wrote:I think in honor of Pakis begging for roz ki roti whe should call the it 'flying roti' concept.
- 17 May 2018 22:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Tradition is questionable. While this is fundamentally wrong what is the argument you have to offer against it? The problem is that tradition is malleable. But one should be able to show consistency, e.g., if the archaeologically established material culture and the content of the texts and the tra...
- 17 May 2018 19:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Rg Veda, the evidence of the antiquity of which is not written material, but its content, and tradition. I am working on an article on ancient India-Iran relations for Infinity foundation and I am reading even more material about Iran and Zend Avesta than I did a few years ago when I started readin...
- 17 May 2018 10:14
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
Not really, you could cold test the flying plate design. DAHRT can probably help. Regardless, I don't think Pakistan would ever use it against Indian forces nor would India think about seriously launching incursions past 15-20 km. They probably reached some sort of city buster threshold which Massa...
- 17 May 2018 08:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
It only means the Paper is neither here nor there. It subtly raises the question on association of R1a/R1b to the so called IE languages and also shows that the Yamnaya through the Maykop have probably southern ancestry as MayKop Y Haplogroup profile is very similar to the southern contemporaneous ...
- 17 May 2018 08:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
This is what I meant when I said that we need to use that model. Stand on whatever post/pedestal/tower you get and jerk off and let your seed spread far and wide. This is the way of science now. Or else the baton of science and knowledge-production is ripe for being grabbed back from the institutio...
- 17 May 2018 08:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JNY4IY8u2bcmpiUzZaMDk5aUE/view?usp=sharing This is an image of the blast effects radius of a 15 kiloton bomb https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JNY4IY8u2bLVdvZkY4MUU1TEE/view?usp=sharing This table shows blast effects from 0.1 kt onwards https://drive.google.com/fi...
- 17 May 2018 07:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
Shiv: saw the video. only comment: very good. Also please see, if you have not, the paper I posted for tanks ( http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a112303.pdf ). The data is old but still very valid. (we can fairly accurately model the effect etc without trying an actual bomb) Modern tanks are ...
- 17 May 2018 07:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
Shiv ji: A couple of comments. The paper below estimates a yield of up to 10 KT within that 30 CM frame, based on the W-33 design. Since much of this miniaturization needs advanced designs, which requires testing to be credible, we can probably discount the sophistication of Pakistani TNW and IMO, ...
- 17 May 2018 07:15
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
- Replies: 3909
- Views: 1460254
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018
IRST is a tool. Mounted on top it will see forward and up. Mounted underwing it will see forward and down. Every a/c does not need to be IRST equipped - but the one that has IRST in an underwing/underfuselage pod can serve as an IR early warning system by flying separately at high altitude away from...
- 16 May 2018 22:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
- Replies: 5459
- Views: 1138736
Re: Out-of-India - From Theory to Truth: Part 2
Reproducibility is the ability to test a result using independent methods and alternate choices in data processing. This is akin to a different laboratory testing an experimental result or a different climate model showing the same phenomena etc. Replicability is the ability to check and rerun the ...
- 16 May 2018 21:21
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
- Replies: 4456
- Views: 1037116
Re: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
This? May not be Indian
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- 16 May 2018 21:17
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015
- Replies: 4456
- Views: 1037116
- 16 May 2018 20:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
https://twitter.com/bennedose/status/738307011339640832
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Chart shows the damage radius of nukes of different yields. Subkiloton Tac Nukes <1kt not even listed
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- 16 May 2018 20:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
I had done some reading up and did a video on the proposed use of TNW by Pakis in a video. This included my analysis of what their use would do to tanks but my assumption is a TNW yield of about 0.2 kt. Please seen and comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxJvLNrZzdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxJvLNrZzdU
- 16 May 2018 06:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence
Data point for my own future reference (cross post from mil forum) http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/the-cold-start-hypothesis/587347.html Analyst Vipin Narang, MIT-based nuclear analyst, writes that even as the majority of Pakistani strategists see the TNW mindset as providing ‘full-spectrum...
- 14 May 2018 15:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Deterrence
- Replies: 5130
- Views: 922266
Re: Deterrence6
Karnad knows less than me about nuclear physics or bombs and I am no expert
- 13 May 2018 23:07
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Helicopters
- Replies: 5318
- Views: 2122286
Re: Indian Military Helicopters
The left skid is broken and resting next to the rear MAWS. But it'll be a minor repair. Major concern is whether electronics like Compass EO is affected by the impact. Should be fine. The impact doesn't seem to have been too hard. There is absolutely no buckling visible on the airframe other than t...
- 13 May 2018 19:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1791554
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
It's all here - watch 2 minutes from the point linked belowSSridhar wrote:The fishing port that may become a $10 billion Chinese debt bomb - Bloomberg
https://youtu.be/UPWq32DP7u8?t=385