Bharat Rakshak

Aditya G

Dear Ulan Batori....... It isnt easy to cover up a shootdown & death. The pilots wife would have a family & social circle of her own and those interacting with them would have noticed. The pilot's child would be going to school and his classmates and their families would have noticed. Socia...

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Singha wrote:Only on first morning these two strikes came in newsx and ither channels and then vanished

https://twitter.com/Aditya_G_Social/sta ... 0601789440

Aditya G

For all we know the extra R-73 pieces could be from one of the drones which Su-30s shot down.

saip wrote:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D14kFXFWsAACqjg.jpg:small

This is the link to TWO missiles posted on 17th. In four days ther bred two more? Breeding like rabbits, sorry being pakis i should have said pigs.

Aditya G

.... And by firing multiple BVRs, they did attempt to hit us. But we did not hit back. Not even later. So that’s a bit of muddled messaging. If our ROE during the PAF raid was not to be the first to fire if Pakis were in their airspace, then our ROE did not change in the subsequent days as well. In...

Aditya G

The IAF delivered a landmark and successful operation in Pakistan by striking Balakot. The PAF retaliated the next day with a failed mission but secured a face saver. But also got lucky and our pilot was captured. If Wingco Abhi was not captured, even if he was shot down the exchange could have cont...

Aditya G

Intriguing. Though a SF prahaar does have 1 man with RL duty. It's possible they got him to attack all 3 bunkers. Vayu Sena email and website is - defunct - to put it plainly. Happy to talk through here or SM :-) Aditya, good finds. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/the-courageous-acts-of-12...

Aditya G

Am guessing perhaps this was the anti BAT op for which the soldier mentioned previously got SM and Rajnath Singh said 3rd op. https://twitter.com/gauravcsawant/status/1079640510111854592 There are 2 operations which we know could be the 3rd SS: https://twitter.com/Aditya_G_Social/status/11043382409...

Aditya G

Even today I am missing a technical briefing from the Air Force on operations on the 26th and 27th. When Sqn Ldr PK Bundela shot down the Atlantic there was a press conference by the air force i remember and the air force statement was typically military like and leave no room for doubt: http://vayu...

Aditya G

..... I am pretty sure, if India had NOT announced the Balakot strike, Pak would have hidden it! .... If memory serves me right, that day it was ISPR who announced the strike first - India announced it later via a terse message at 11ish AM. The same day Pak DGMO did not pick up the phone call from ...

Aditya G

Reg rumours of Brahmos use:

Indian forces have always shown a calibrated selection of weapons to suit objective. Why use a 300 Km range brahmos when there are other (cheaper) weapon systems available?

Aditya G

... If this was a full blown out war, some of you would get a brain clot and die from a stroke when attrition reports start coming in. This is how war is conducted. You will lose personnel and equipment. Stop expecting perfection. And we have an enemy whose entire nationhood is based on lies, false...

Aditya G

.... The PAF - like their PA and PN counterparts - have proved that they can come up with a half baked tactical plan, but have no strategic outlook. They were hoping for a shoot down to reclaim their lost honour - IAF Mirage 2000s entering their airspace, while they were helpless to stop it. Pakis ...

Aditya G

I support a pro-active management of the LoC, however at the same time, it should be questioned whether there are strategic benefits from the daily war of attrition unless that achieves aims. Pakistan covers up most deaths very well - even officers. I cannot say for sure what is going to happen at &...

Aditya G

.... As far as the license production of AK is concerned, the army gets the comfort of reliability and ruggedness of the Kalashnikov that they apparently love, and the politicians get off the hook by giving the OFB a piece of the pie. F....HO And with a state owned Russian firm the decision will no...

Aditya G

Is there any comment by PAF? on the air battle? Even an offical word that JF17 shot down the Mig21? (and Su30 as claimed) Or R77 being fired by India and it's superior technology nullified it? Something like that. I have hardly seen any comments. Other than that PA news reader guy on tweeter. So mu...

Aditya G

We have bagged another air to air kill

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/m.econom ... 258500.cms

Edit: a drone over Rajasthan

Aditya G

FWIW only .... What has happened yesterday (as per one of my IAF friend)..Minute by Minute details 9:52 AM – Indian Netra and Northern Air command detected ten F16 took off from 3 Airbases from Pakistan. They came in 3 groups and merged in attack formation near POK. 9:54: AM – India scrambled 2 Mig2...

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arun wrote:Reliance Naval and Engineering (RNEL) launches 105 meter 3,000 tonne displacement Indian Coast Guard Training Ship Varuna. This happened a little over a month ago:

Reliance Naval launches training ship for Indian Coast Guard

Whatever happened to the 2 NOPVs they launched?

Aditya G

My dream class for the Indian Navy is something that will be; - built in large numbers (2 dozen or more) - reasonably cheap - reasonably capable on all domains - long range - Has high indian component To this end, the config of this new "Nilgiri" class will be as follows: Propulsion: - Die...

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abhijitm wrote:Hi. is there a website which lists yearly all terrorist encounters by indian army? Thanks.

SATP

Or, go through all tweets by Northern Command for Op Rakshak

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The Navy should realize that achieving both qualitative and quantitative expansion is not feasible in the current scenario. It has happened in the past but not so at the moment. IN is chasing an uber carrier with 3 squadrons on afloat - imho wasting their time while PLAN is building multiple simulta...

Aditya G

MiG-29K availability issues aside, it is an in-service aircraft whose net availability can be boosted by acquiring more of the same type. If IN wants to operate 3 carriers then the best bet would be to acquire 2 more squadrons of Fulcrums and 1 more Vikrant carrier. NLCA may come along in the meanti...

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I have formed an opinion that IN needs a modern day equivalent of Leander class frigate. Not too big, some capability in all areas incl ASW and long range. Built with local content in all spheres move, fight, float etc.

Sadly project 28 did not yield such a ship

Aditya G

The advantage of buying more Krivaks was the win-win factor:

- We get new frigates quickly
- We get new frigates which are already familiar to IN and doing well.
- Russia gets to offload partially built up ships which could not be completed due to Ukrainian components

What have we done here?

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Kashi, There is a distinction between classified and black ops. Even a normal operation could be classified, for eg the movement of a submarine. The submarine still bears the colours and the pennant of the Indian Navy while the surgical strikes to eliminate a terrorist leader would be black ops sin...

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These things will happen any which way since everyone wants to make money. The MoD should come up with a system where everyone gets some piece of pie irrespective of who wins the order since that would be incentive to not block the entire process for all involved. In this particular case, I believe...

Aditya G

Direct hit by BSF. I am guessing they employed a 76mm weapon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... 4KqVfSDKdU

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I say any option is better than no option.

Pak Navy has purchased second hand Seakings ... We could have done the same. Recall talks to buy Canadian samples ... What came of that?

Aditya G

Can these withstand high sea state and have good sea keeping qualities in these conditions , can the metals on these ships withstand small arm fires and have longer life in sea conditions ? Commercial ships might be built to a standard that may not meet mil ones. Problem is that MoD is unable to co...

Aditya G

We should have taken the 2 Russian Mistrals when they were available. /my 2 paise

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Thakur_B wrote:After NSG, CRPF too adopts the SHerpa.

NSG reqd Sherpa for assault ladder platform. Pray tell why CRPF and CISF need such an expensive platform? I am all for forces to get the right kit, but should be for a purpose.

Aditya G

I think the GSL Nopv design is a qualified success which has also been exported, and set the basis for ICG Samarth class ships. The most important KRA from these ships should be their sea time given their mandate to patrol the seas. The record for sea time was a Nilgiri class frigate. The ships do f...

Aditya G

It will be interesting to see the configuration of the new missile craft.8 BMos one presumes along with a BPDMS , perhaps a gun/missile mount like the navalised Pantsir. The Talwars would have the VLS silos for Klub replaced with BMos but the Delhi's would need the inclined launchers. I would go fo...

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Austin wrote:Well if L&T is rejoicing over something Brahmos Corp or DRDO did 15 years back then good for them ! Inclined launcher were the first operational brahmos on any IN ships

The real story is that these launchers will equip ships. Which are those ships?

Aditya G

Unlike IAF, PAF directly controls the design iterations and production of the aircraft. PAF is thus heavily invested into JF-17s success. Seems to be the centerline hardpoint. JF-17 does not have any intake pod https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Dy4Vr0c37d4/WWSdBi8x6eI/AAAAAAAABeE/PhwLnjhpAeQb5352xEheg98rFR...

Aditya G

The quad launcher angle must have been carefully selected. Probably impacts range of the missile. I think their plan would be to replace 8 urans with 4 brahmos. The launcher would be forward facing and canted outward. If you observe INS mysore has large missile shields which were rumoured to take th...

Aditya G

This broken record wants an order for a 2nd Vikrant class. This way you can at least share the air wing between the 3 ships.

Aditya G

Should fit well on Delhi class: https://scontent-dub4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/11856489_1007551669289073_6308496090359918004_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=fd1a13052ca1551cf2b444a33bc4fef4&oe=5B8C40F3 Comparison with 2x2 installation on Rajputs: https://www.defencetalk.com/military/images/brahmos-on-raj...

Aditya G

After ASW SWC the next big thing from IN force levels perspective is going to be NGMV or NGC program. I think that should lead to a dozen hulls at least

Aditya G

The same week Kulbhushan Jadhav tape came out first. X Posted from the Terroristsn thread. Note spin fed by the Uniformed Jihadi’s of the Mohammadden Terrorism Fomenting Islamic Republic of Pakistan which has been italicised: Pakistan delivers medical assistance to Indian fishermen stuck at sea By H...

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