Bharat Rakshak

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Katrina made her excuses to the two tough looking men as her father sat downcast. "Girl things" she smiled and fluttered her long lashes, and got them to agree to let her go upstairs. As she turned the corner up the stairs, her pouting smile was replaced by a sterner visage and hardened ey...

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bagha wrote: I can imagine how difficult it must be to write an entire book. Must take tremendous discipline.

it is easy onlee - visualise own booted foot, moving rapidly towards Mushy-tushy with deadly intent... suddenly it all begins to make sense!

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someone like you or daulat or anyone else with better knowledge of small arms and CQB work could rewrite the part from where they enter the compound to make it better. :D fell free to kick some paki butt anytime. shurely saar, shum mishtake is there onlee? the only cqb i am familiar with is with la...

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wyu - the franco-prussian war would have been a full on war after the american civil war where a lot of technology was deployed (big guns, some rail mounted) and the prussians almost took paris. the boer war was more akin to a guerilla conflict with a powerful well organised (but badly led) army aga...

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enquoob - i think that whilst most of the horse back stuff was for pre-battle mobility, particularly for the strike controllers, there was atleast one engagement where the NA actually charged taliban t55's on horseback. the logic would be that in narrow valleys, tanks have limited movement and gun t...

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MT Singha, two years ago a DARPA program was initiated to create adaptive & swarming mine networks. Each mine, as you point would have sensors and the ability to relocate themselves physically, but would also monitor geolocation of targets and adapt their layout pattern accordingly... one softw...

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pmangalik - you are not way of. what you describe is analogous to a very lean just-in-time production system that is heavily dependent on production information (and predictability) and the critical logistical chain. one screw up and the whole line goes down. expensive and messy. the comms will have...

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Rien - this is off topic, but a while ago I had found an article on the Polish lancers in 1939. <snip> btw - the Northern Alliance and US Spec. Forces very recently charged tanks in Afghanistan on horseback and won. They won? How on Earth is that possible? I don't see how any weaponry outside of a ...

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Rien - this is off topic, but a while ago I had found an article on the Polish lancers in 1939. They knew damn well they had no chance against the tanks, but they had no option, so went down fighting. They did launch several successful attacks against german infantry and support troops in the forest...

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Tim - i think Sunil explains my concept of 'extended deterence' desi style pretty well. i don't think its about actual deterence, but the threat of a threat - just enough to deter Pakistan from thinking itself to be too big for its boots. the US doesn't believe Iran to be rational, but they are - th...

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i think that the Iranians are pragmatic - IMO they really do not fear nuclear attack from Israel or indeed the US, even the most rabid neo-con will opt for conventional war with Iran. No - the real worry for the Iranians is the Sunni-Shia divide and the role that a nuclear armed Pakistan might play....

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daulat, Hvve you read the writings of an expert on Shia-Sunni relations called Vali Nasr? He postulates that the Shia are on the rise and Iraqi Shias would give a boost to Arab Shiaism. And that would cause backlash from the Sunni leadership. no - but i am familar with the concept ;) KSA and other ...

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is the strategic agreement between India and Iran basically putting Iran under Indian nuclear protection if Paks or Saudis (can you tell the difference) do some misadventuring? Or atleast a signal in that direction? and actually iran is not really developing anything (anyway - it is years from weapo...

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Ramana i maintain that mushy and xerox-bhai were running a double scam. they were selling the ummah-bomb concept to win ummah-brownie points, but also selling dubious kit to make money on the side. where required, they sold bomb designs (libya) to impress. they concluded that the customers would nev...

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shiv - i agree with you 400% onlee, however i was getting increasingly hacked off with esteemed colleagues ranting on and on about pilot failure, ground crew failure blah blah - all dhimmi style failures of short dark rice eating IAF onlee and so wanted to present some plausible mechanical failure s...

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from the news reports it sounds like the following happened 1. at some point close to lift off, something drastic happened to the nosewheel 2. debris from the nose wheel flew off, probably got sucked into engine immediately and started causing serious problems 3. pilots judged that safest thing to d...

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vksac - well done for your suggestions. i think you might find that much of what you say is already standard practice in aviation circles.

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i didn't give an excuse - i gave a reason. the tests you are talking about are not routine, they are done during more exhaustive investigations and not on the line. the type of problem may also be a new one, and the procedures may not include looking for it - because no one knows what it is as yet. ...

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it does'nt speak well for the ground staff at all. period. the very fact that a couple before this one had suffered from landing gear problems meant that the Mirages should have been inspected thoroughly. after all, these are among the most expensive fighters in the IAF inventory. no excuses can be...

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If anyone has the AFM (or other) accident report - can they run a quick analysis on M2000 crashes? Has there been a recent upsurge? if bolt corrosion is a problem - it may be Indian conditions that make it worse than in other countries. a combination of 20 years of monsoons and lots of (takeoff and ...

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the 100 guns concept is not straightforward. if you have pre-located guns with enough stores to keep going thats one scenario, but you're losing many tactical advantages. if you dynamically cluster the guns as per need, then the logistics chain is complex. i dread to think how much transport and 'fe...

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what does mission commander status actually mean?

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Originally posted by Gerard: [QB "Clinton came as close as I had ever seen to blowing up in a meeting with a foreign leader," Finally Clinton threw in the big punch. He said he would call the press and lay the entire blame for failure of the meeting on Pakistan, and for good measure add t...

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One option for the IAF is to go the US/USSR route of tactical air and strategic air forces tac-air can be organised as per the army commands and be locked in to supporting each theatre, with 'swing capacity' to redeploy against other theatres as the situation warrants. strat-air, say the M2k(N-equiv...

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midas c of g is not an issue, fuel would be moved around to balance out, and the automatic trim would kick in to keep the midas steady. i cannot imagine that something as big as the midas will not have auto trim

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smaller span a/c like jags could be adversely affected by the wake turbulence from the midas, hence centreline position may not be an option for them. larger span a/c like the Su30's can probably manage ok on the probes question - someone was saying recently about French tankers having different fee...

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wyu - good points as always. I personally would like to see a discussion on UN peace keeping operations and how to make them successful. When I have some head space I'll start a new thread! Also, could forum members point to any analyses of Indian Operations in Sierra Leone and any comparisons to Rw...

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i am guessing that alternate routes would be hyderabad --> singapore(?) --> surabaya (landing rights?) --> (many storms) --> manila --> taipei (bad bad bad and big detour around China) --> seoul/tokyo (more storms) --> vladivostock --> elmendorf quite possibly a longer detour compared to the Europea...

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wyu - appreciate your insights on rwanda. this is way off topic, so lets park it here, but i agree - the whole episode is utterly shameful for the international community. dallaire himself comes in for (unfair?) criticism - he talks of lack of mandate and no interest from the security council... any...

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wyu - not sure about the belgians in rwanda as an example, as far as i recall, those poor buggers were out on a limb, no one could have helped them. not even the rest of the contingent... (happy to be corrected) as a contrast, read linda polman's account of a tanzanian company (UN) manning a refugee...

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well Niranjan, we need then to distinguish between strategic punitive action and tactical. In the latter, we destroy posts, perhaps slightly larger bases. for this only SF and arty are required. perhaps not all that different to today. for the former, we need something more devastating, like trappin...

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So, the IA with large manpower and some of the networking capability could operate a slightly different model, where command can be devolved partially, where firepower can be coordinated lower down and where the unit could work to a partially preassigned plan (not totally fluid) in the same way as S...

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the PLAAF can focus a core of high quality opposition and the rest of the 'peasant airforce' can make an awful mess by being up there in vast numbers with their pitchforks to unhorse the knights...

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Niranjan Rao CS goes beyond that. "Safegaurd" has been re-defined as if we need to we will cross the border and do whatever it takes as long as the nuclear threshold is not crossed. CS is more than a military "response". It puts a lot of pressure on countries (like Japan) to pre...

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niranjan rao's prethink concept is important, shift to cold start thread? (see my point there)

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Originally posted by wyu: This modification is radical ... for the Americans but the British and Canadians have been doing this for a very long time. Essentially, there is a push downwards from brgiade to battalion as the main combat echelon. is that because of the increased lethality of weapons de...

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Originally posted by ramana: I recall reading somewhere that there was a mutual 150km air exclusion zone near the LOC. I believe that wont be honored anymore. IMHumbleO there should be IAF redlines, on crossing which anything 150km of the LOC in that direction is fair game. i suggest the threshold ...

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can we reasonably conclude that in future cold start/response to kargils, we would automatically involve an air component to any response and not dither about the escalation problem?

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drogue fairings have soft edges since there is bound to be some banging around. lots of wake turbulence behind the tanker. wouldn't surprise me if things hit now and again

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does not surprise me that guard was let down. we are too trusting onlee. this is why abv has not forgiven muskrat

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