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- 08 Nov 2020 19:56
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
- Replies: 3885
- Views: 1875600
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
With winds of change blowing in the geopolitical front, HAL should qualify a second non-US jet engine for Tejas. There should be an alternative to GE404 and 414s.
- 08 Nov 2020 15:04
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Biden Presidency impacts on India
- Replies: 256
- Views: 57424
Re: Biden Presidency impacts on India
What will be the effect of Kamala Harris ? any inputs ? Close to zero for US VPs have minor political power except in case of ill health of President, Biden is oldest POTUS and in many ways of poor health. When it comes to policy making, knowing the ambitious person Kamala is, she will influence Bi...
- 08 Nov 2020 01:34
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Biden Presidency impacts on India
- Replies: 256
- Views: 57424
Re: Biden Presidency impacts on India
More Rafales for India in the interim for sure
- 07 Nov 2020 03:40
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3965
- Views: 1216534
Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
Understand that there is embargo for Embraer ERJ 145 purchase. Does that apply to second hand/nearly new airframe of ERJ 145s from open market as well? There must be a way around and structural modifications can be done by a third party - part of aerospace MRO chain globally.
- 22 Oct 2020 23:27
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1264019
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Just like the Kilo class, the Swedish Kockums Gotland class also has a reputation .... but exercises are scripted anyway
- 22 Oct 2020 22:00
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1264019
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Unless there is design and structural changes the improved Kilo class will have a well-known acoustic profile. Precisely the reason why Soryu class evolved to larger Taigei class with structural changes to reduce hydrodynamic noise further. Added to the fact that the new Taigei class will be entirel...
- 22 Oct 2020 17:45
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1264019
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
First nuclear SSN hull will be ready in the next 2 years. India is committed to spend $14 billion on this programme. Why go for old Kilo class diesel electrics? For littoral waters the existing + new Scorpene + project 75I should suffice
- 21 Oct 2020 20:52
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1264019
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Soryu class is very interesting as it evolves with a more efficient snorkel system. The latest Soryu boat has got rid of Stirling AIP and embraced Li-ion batteries making it even more silent. That should free up section 9 & 10 in the cutaway diagram.
- 21 Oct 2020 00:27
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1264019
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Project 75I .... it is kind of sad that Saab (Blekinge class A26 Kockums) pulled out. Such a versatile platform. All OEMs will look out only for their interests. It appears that Saab felt that it was not financially feasible to invest the money into the competition, only to lose to more established...
- 20 Oct 2020 04:09
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
- Replies: 3611
- Views: 1264019
Re: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 03 July 2018
Project 75I .... it is kind of sad that Saab (Blekinge class A26 Kockums) pulled out. Such a versatile platform.
- 30 Sep 2020 03:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3873
- Views: 1091847
Re: International Naval News & Discussion
German engineering is very neat. The U-32 boat
- 27 Sep 2020 22:01
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3873
- Views: 1091847
Re: International Naval News & Discussion
Most Russian nuclear submarines including the recent ones use a variant of OK-650 reactor rated at 190MW
- 27 Sep 2020 00:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3873
- Views: 1091847
Re: International Naval News & Discussion
Yasen M class
- 25 Sep 2020 01:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Arihant: News & Discussion
- Replies: 462
- Views: 244281
Re: INS Arihant: News & Discussion
May the departed soul attain moksha ... Dr Sekhar Basu
Nuclear scientist Sekhar Basu dies of Covid-19
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 297285.cms
Nuclear scientist Sekhar Basu dies of Covid-19
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 297285.cms
- 23 Sep 2020 03:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
- Replies: 4374
- Views: 1439271
Re: J&K Union Territory-2019
Schinnas/Nachiket, watched about 4 episodes so far. Not too bad, but couple of comments because what was depicted is something that we, at least I gnaw my teeth on most of time, especially the discourse after 26/11. This is the period after 4 Pakis managed to enter such a high security military bas...
- 22 Sep 2020 11:21
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
- Replies: 5322
- Views: 1838509
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 15 Dec 2016
There is one and it is casting shadow
- 19 Sep 2020 23:32
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5266
- Views: 1802190
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Once winter sets in, majority of PLA will go away. We should use our snow leopards to move the LAC as much as we can for the Spring!
- 07 Sep 2020 17:57
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5266
- Views: 1802190
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020- Part 2
Or even 155mm artillery air burst will do
- 07 Sep 2020 17:54
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5266
- Views: 1802190
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020- Part 2
I myself haven't read the report but someones commentary on the same. Tweet has link to the report https://twitter.com/FrontalAssault1/status/1302824570403975174 More than 10000 PLA troops alongwith ICVs present near flashpoint of Southern Pangong to Spanggur & Rechin La. Most dangerous buildup...
- 03 Sep 2020 12:08
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1607778
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Keeping this alive for a long time will not help us - even preparing for a war and being in a state of preparedness means we are burning money. A live LAC means this will impose a recurring expense that will result in an exponential rise in the army’s revenue expenditure. That could be a strategy of...
- 02 Sep 2020 20:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1797160
- 02 Sep 2020 03:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
- Replies: 2810
- Views: 1488914
Re: International Aerospace Discussion - Jan 2018
Greece to acquire 18 Rafales. Buy 10 and 8 donated by France!
https://www.pentapostagma.gr/ethnika-th ... zontan-gia
https://www.pentapostagma.gr/ethnika-th ... zontan-gia
- 01 Sep 2020 22:18
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1607778
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
J-20 is not 'stealthy' at all. The neutral experts have ratified this time and again. And stealth is the biggest hoax .... a 60s Soviet era Buk could bring down the F-117A! Neither of these comments is accurate. The J-20 is def. capable of being stealthy in specific sectors (frontal) if the canards...
- 01 Sep 2020 18:16
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1607778
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Indian Army will only go offensive where it can hold land and not retreat after counter attack - therefore anti-tank mines will hold good in certain areas where we do not wish to alter the LAC ab-initio IMHO. It can slow down any PLA armoured thrust!
- 01 Sep 2020 17:55
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1607778
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
So now you know the quality of their stealth. We don't need radars, even our media can detect it. :) Let's not get carried away. Stealth aircraft routinely carry "Luneberg Reflectors" which are expressly for the purpose of making them non-stealthy. The idea is that your enemy should have ...
- 01 Sep 2020 17:52
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1607778
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
the chinese will now make a move in despang area. that is the only area left for them to make a move. drive straight through and try to cut off DBO road ahead of burtse camp as the road climbs up to the despang plane via qizil langar. the only way we will be able to stop them is by firing first. if...
- 01 Sep 2020 04:15
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1607778
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/china-r ... topstories
If J-20s are supposed to be stealth, how is it that mainstream media is able to detect them?
If J-20s are supposed to be stealth, how is it that mainstream media is able to detect them?
- 30 Aug 2020 16:27
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3965
- Views: 1216534
Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
The problem can be addressed very easily. For acquiring a commercial platform like Embraer, GOI instead of using it's own procurement apparatus should issue a RFQ with private players in India like Tatas, Mahindras etc to procure Embraer's and do some basic integration work together with DRDO. This ...
- 30 Aug 2020 15:59
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 582433
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
To add: For those who are interested in scientific understanding may find this interesting..Those who find such post offensive please ignore.. here is some orbital mechanics in picture.. (Anyone can use well known tools to draw the following - the following is based on what I put here in brf last y...
- 30 Aug 2020 15:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1797160
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Tibet will be free soon from the Han occupation!
Chinese leader tells senior Communist Party officials that Beijing must plant 'seeds of loving China' among Tibetans
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/ ... 15848.html
Chinese leader tells senior Communist Party officials that Beijing must plant 'seeds of loving China' among Tibetans
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/ ... 15848.html
- 27 Aug 2020 18:49
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3965
- Views: 1216534
Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
So two new PHALCONS
- 25 Aug 2020 13:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 582433
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
Chandrayaan-2's OHRC and NASA's LRO are completely different scientific payloads for different use cases. If people expect OHRC to return LRO like imaging then that is a wrong assumption. It is not a question of which camera is powerful, but both have different mission profiles. OHRC was to provide ...
- 21 Aug 2020 00:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3219
- Views: 2091530
Re: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
Bharat Forge is a very engineering excellence driven company. Not only Babasaheb but his son Amit too is very hands on engineer. I have never met an industrialist who is such hands on and with such thorough knowledge in manufacturing technology and process. Their products are extremely well-engineer...
- 18 Aug 2020 14:57
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
- Replies: 1463
- Views: 499192
Re: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
In other news in the middle of a global pandemic Amir Khan and his wife have traveled to Turkey of all places to shoot a new movie. While in Turkey Amir Khan met President Erdogan's wife Emine Erdogan. The hypocrite Khan has no problem travelling to and meeting the leaders of a country that openly ...
- 14 Aug 2020 01:56
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2184072
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
He is also an accomplished singer in Indian classical music tradition. Here is a nice rendition in Dhrupad which was originally composed by Swami Vivekananda himself
- 14 Aug 2020 01:51
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2184072
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
After Yogiji another monk, Swami Kripakarnanda Maharaj, a cardiologist monk of the Ramakrishna Mission order to be projected as the BJP CM candidate of West Bengal according to some media reports. Swamiji (Debotosh Chakraborty) has an impressive academic record. He ranked 5th in secondary board (Cla...
- 10 Aug 2020 19:10
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2731
- Views: 1119984
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
TRLs 1,2,3 is still by Chalmers and industrialisation (higher TRL levels) is handled by Saab. Here is an interesting presentation
https://ftfsweden.se/wp-content/uploads ... and-EW.pdf
https://ftfsweden.se/wp-content/uploads ... and-EW.pdf
- 10 Aug 2020 19:01
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2731
- Views: 1119984
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
Saab GaN AESA radar is a continuation of Ericsson Microwave Systems radar family. Ericsson Microwave Systems was transferred to Saab (both companies are owned by Wallenberg family) sometime back and the core research academic partner is still University of Gothenburg and Chalmers. So Uttam cannot be...
- 09 Aug 2020 14:51
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
- Replies: 5242
- Views: 1535865
Re: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
MBRL Pinaka system has imported components like the Sagem Sigma 30, different warheads, minelets etc for which desi import substitutes will be procured IMHO
- 09 Aug 2020 13:39
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1323121
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Who makes the decision as to where the aircraft will land? Is the Captain authorized to divert to another airport if landing conditions are not ideal (i.e. daylight, no rain, no wind)? Pilot-in-command if the flight is airborne and in such emergency situations depending on the situational awareness...