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- 27 Dec 2023 06:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Houthi/Iran drone strikes on Gulf shipping
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20835
Re: Houthi/Iran drone strikes on Gulf shipping
As others have mentioned, this attack on India bound shipping could very well be done by the pukis. It's true that the location of the attack that close to India's coast is too far for the houthis to manage but perfect for the pukis. It looks like it's time for "houthi" attacks on puki bou...
- 29 Jun 2023 15:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2731
- Views: 1137554
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
The engine part of the Indian origin fighters need to be "modularized", if you will. We should be able to install our own engine, American, French or British engine as needed. This way we won't be dependent on a single source and be arm twisted.
- 02 Mar 2023 06:24
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
- Replies: 4234
- Views: 1249649
Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
If LM & GOTUS have been so adament about providing F-16s over the many decades to the pukis, it is understandable that India doesn't even want to come anywhere near touching the F-16 for its own use. So that makes sense but why would India still provide aid and comfort to LM by having procured C...
- 08 Feb 2023 06:24
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MRCA (Many Rakshaks Choose Aircraft) Contest - Episode III
- Replies: 2937
- Views: 735868
Re: MRCA (Many Rakshaks Choose Aircraft) Contest - Episode III
Making the same mistake as in the SE contest i.e. upselling to the wrong customer (the Govt), when they should be catering to the real customer (the IAF). After all these years, they still have not learnt their lesson. Triple missile launcher was there in the SE contest as well, which the Gripen di...
- 05 Feb 2023 15:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
- Replies: 4497
- Views: 1380166
Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Pervez Musharraf, great son of Pakistan, who won the runners up trophy in Kargil war, passes away. May his wisdom be never forgotten, he stood as a beacon of light for women's advancement and gave them this advice: "A lot of people say that if you want to go abroad and get a visa from Canada o...
- 14 Dec 2022 09:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Naval Aviation
- Replies: 2818
- Views: 898846
Re: Indian Naval Aviation
How did it get this far where they built an entire AIRCRAFT CARRIER with lifts not big enough for AIRCRAFT? There must've been thousands of people involved for many years in the entire design, review, approval, and building processes, and not one person raised their hand and said hey, wait a minute,...
- 12 Sep 2022 11:28
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Pakistan Armed Forces: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2344
- Views: 1036975
Re: Pakistan Armed Forces: News & Discussion
Biden just gave $450M sustainment aid to Pak F-16s. This means they don't have hope of F-21s for MRFA and most likely F-18s. Well, true. Whether they had any chance at all before was up to a debate, but now there's absolutely no chance at all. I expect an announcement soon from the Indian Navy abou...
- 03 Sep 2022 07:32
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Naval Aviation
- Replies: 2818
- Views: 898846
Re: Indian Naval Aviation
just curious... why were the lifts on the IAC Vikrant designed with such dimensions? Was it only designed with Mig-29K and NLCA in mind with no thought to other contemporary naval fighters that are available? According to Rakesh's post above, the Super Hornet would not fit in the lift even with its ...
- 15 Aug 2022 11:40
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 822
- Views: 742809
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
^^^ We've been unfairly critical of Indian media at times as to the intent. Look at the headlines ('procure') vs the content that is being reported ('response to tender'). That it happens in English media is even more baffling. That's pretty bad journalism and writing. They can't tell the differenc...
- 02 Aug 2022 15:51
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2283
- Views: 886494
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
I echo all of the members sentiments about the armed forces' brass have been and still living in a world of delusions. The aversion of the air force and navy to LCA, the army with Arjun and generally all indigenous weapon systems. Switching to indigenous weapon systems should have happened in earnes...
- 02 Aug 2022 07:28
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
- Replies: 6393
- Views: 2102247
Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
arvin, These 747-400s are for IAF already allocated before the sale to Tatas. Its DRDO will get the flying test bed so can be used across entities. This is great news! May I please ask that - Can one of the talented graphic artists on BRF please do a drawing of what these ex AI 747-400s would look ...
- 30 Jul 2022 06:03
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 822
- Views: 742809
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
There is no need for the AM to fly in a MiG-21 any more for any reason. I agree with other members here ...he should fly Tejas of all varieties to show his support for indigenous products. Although an IAF MiG-21 did take down a PAF F-16 in the recent past.
- 15 Jun 2022 13:43
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: VayuSena Rafale: News and Discussions - 17 Oct 2016
- Replies: 4661
- Views: 1594890
Re: VayuSena Rafale: News and Discussions - 17 Oct 2016
For every M2K in our inventory + every Rafale that we will eventually have we need to order at least 2.5x the number of Tejas. This will allow us to retire the MiG-21's and Jaguars. Re-engining and upgrading the avionics on the Jaguars is ultimately good money thrown away on dying or dead platform. ...
- 16 Jan 2022 16:51
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Siachen News & Discussion
- Replies: 3050
- Views: 512411
Re: Siachen News & Discussion
Why is Siachen even a cause for concern for the pukis while their economy is tanking? Why is India even entertaining their overtures on this? Tell them to go away and stop bothering us with this.
- 12 Dec 2021 11:49
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3363
- Views: 908857
Re: Military Flight Safety
Synthetic vision technology could also prevent such accidents in IMC in the future.
- 09 Dec 2021 14:41
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3363
- Views: 908857
Re: Military Flight Safety
Saddened to hear of this crash and sorry to say this but that helicopter had no business flying in that bad weather condition with such VVIPs on board. As mentioned here by others...this is more common than people think. VVIPs - gov't, military, or celebrities always demand that pilots fly them to t...
- 21 Nov 2020 05:52
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
- Replies: 3325
- Views: 778017
Re: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
^^^
Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!
Thanks guys! “India One” aircraft looks Grand in the 747-8 livery!
...and the Tejas escort....Magnificent!
Harshal, Wonderful work!
Love it, Love it, Love it!!!!
Thanks guys! “India One” aircraft looks Grand in the 747-8 livery!
...and the Tejas escort....Magnificent!
Harshal, Wonderful work!
- 16 Nov 2020 12:43
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
- Replies: 3325
- Views: 778017
Re: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
Air India One arriving at Fort Worth today from San Bernardino after getting this incredibly dull, bland, uninteresting livery when they could have done a much MUCH better job at projecting the very best of India :x Humbly requesting: Are there any artists on BR who can do some Photoshop livery des...
- 09 Sep 2020 06:58
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5269
- Views: 1823651
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
On an esoterical but never the less might be a valid point...for our discussions on this forum at least, can we please not call the Chinese army "PLA"? That name has been used by the chicoms for propaganda reason as ostensibly this army being the liberators and protectors of the Chinese pe...
- 31 Aug 2020 09:42
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3965
- Views: 1226302
Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
Blacklisting should be banned! We do this again and again .... and cut off our own legs. Blacklisting, banning....blah..blahing only hurts us and our military-strategic preparedness. We have to be pragmatic, not be emotional at every incident.
- 14 Nov 2019 05:17
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Helicopters
- Replies: 5318
- Views: 2348689
Re: Indian Military Helicopters
The Gov't should tell the forces that if you want helicopters or jets or any other weapon systems ... you tell us how many and we'll order them for you ....from locally available sources and technology. Only time foreign defense products will be imported is when there are no local alternatives. No a...
- 04 Nov 2019 05:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Ladakh Union Territory- 2019
- Replies: 129
- Views: 54853
Re: Ladakh Union Territory- 2019
People of Ladakh have been loyal, peaceful within the Union of India. So even after this conversion to UT, we need to hear their grievances and concerns and make things right for them. We should have Gov't offices nearby so they don't have to travel long distances for gov't services. We should also ...
- 23 Oct 2019 07:05
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
- Replies: 3885
- Views: 1896643
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
HAL's strike now 8 days on is making little headlines.The IAF owes it a huge amount of money and as the 20K workers keep up their agitation, the entire indigenisation programme of our aircraft and helo industry is at risk. HAL was not a loss- making co. It was making a healthy profit.Are firang OEM...
- 21 Oct 2019 06:51
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
- Replies: 3885
- Views: 1896643
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
^^^ If one looks at the long term viability of the fleet...it does not look rosy with a fleet largely flying on American engines. Based on the numbers that are known, this is the scenario that the IAF is looking at; 40 Tejas Mk1 : F404-IN20 83 Tejas Mk1A : F404-IN20 200 Tejas Mk2 : F414-GE-INS6 AMC...
- 16 Oct 2019 05:16
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
- Replies: 3325
- Views: 778017
Re: Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Armed Forces
I'd say it's a fan art because "Fishbed" is a United States/Western designation for the MiG 21. I doubt that USSR/Russia or any air forces that use MiG 21 would use that term or have patches.Kakarat wrote:Has anyone seen this patch in use or is it fan art?
- 09 Oct 2019 06:44
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
- Replies: 3885
- Views: 1896643
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019
I hate it whenever this 114 number comes up. There is no way we can afford 114 Rafales. And the thought of buying yet another type just makes me want to bang my head against a wall. The current order for 36 Rafales is not enough. We need to double that order to 72. We need a high performance fighte...
- 18 Sep 2019 13:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
- Replies: 4234
- Views: 1249649
Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
I have been saying this for some time, we need more capable light fighters, places like Gaggal airport having 6-8 fighters for CAP will be very useful. The biggest mistake that day is we did not predict the Paf game plan and were stuck with ROE, even if 1 SU30MKI and had come fast and High and laun...
- 16 Sep 2019 17:19
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
- Replies: 4234
- Views: 1249649
Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
Next time something like this whole episode happens, we need to have our surveillance apparatus such as Falcon AWACS as well as ground based radars fully ready expecting them to react. As a matter of fact our surveillance should be stepped up many folds and be on continuous alert from this time forw...
- 27 Aug 2019 06:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
- Replies: 4234
- Views: 1249649
Re: MiG-21 Bison shoots down F-16 in Kashmir
^^^ Agree with the above, the Americans were too quick verify that all Puki F16s were accounted for. They just couldn't believe and take it that their vaunted F16 that had "so many kills without even a single loss to enemy action" was downed by a "lowly" MiG 21. So they had to ke...
- 27 Aug 2019 05:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
- Replies: 4118
- Views: 1248669
Re: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - August 9, 2014
I think the current order for 36 Rafales is not enough for a 2 front war with the Pukis and Chins. There should be a follow up order for another 36 Rafales for a total of 72. That would a formidable fleet of high end fighters. (Where is this new number of 114 is coming from, is it for Rafales?) The ...
- 20 Aug 2019 05:25
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
- Replies: 4382
- Views: 1495738
Re: J&K Union Territory-2019
Sweden? - They must have a death wish in reference to their Gripen for our MRCA program.Rony wrote:Remember these anti-Indian countries who supported Pakis
China
UK
Turkey
Malaysia
Bosnia
Sweden
- 10 Jun 2019 07:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3363
- Views: 908857
Re: Military Flight Safety
I think IAF should implement some sort of real time flight monitoring of all of their aircraft at the IAF headquarters in Delhi. Transponders fulfill this function. This year (or was it last) IAF released a detailed video of radar plot of precise coordination among multiple aircraft with varying sp...
- 08 Jun 2019 06:22
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3363
- Views: 908857
Re: Military Flight Safety
In cases of our aircraft going missing like this An-32 in the north-east and the one flying from Chennai to the Andamans a while back, I think IAF should implement some sort of real time flight monitoring of all of their aircraft at the IAF headquarters in Delhi. So we'll know immediately and the ex...
- 23 Dec 2017 20:37
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Military Helicopters
- Replies: 5318
- Views: 2348689
Re: Indian Military Helicopters
LCA, ALH, LCH .... All well and good....our great efforts and and good success at viable aircrafts. But we need to stop using the term "Light". Everything we endevour to make for ourselves is called Light this and Light that. "Light" somehow denotes less capability. Why can't we ...
- 29 Oct 2017 10:47
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
- Replies: 5424
- Views: 1241182
Re: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
Why can't the Gov't order the 3 services to induct indigenous weapon systems in fair numbers? The Gov't needs to tell the tri-services that you will only get weapon systems from foreign sources that are not at all available indigenously. We can get a fair number of Rafale fighters from France to kee...
- 26 Sep 2017 20:52
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
- Replies: 5424
- Views: 1241182
Re: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
We must reject the F16 at all costs. We have to make it costly for the Americans to continue to produce spare parts and subsystems, even full air-frames for that matter to continue to supply their current F16 customers, ESPECIALLY THE PUKIS. The Americans are being all too clever to dump the F16 pro...
- 03 Aug 2017 07:01
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: Intelligence and National Security Discussion
- Replies: 979
- Views: 250001
Re: Intelligence and National Security Discussion
Hi All, I find that the removal of Nawaz Sharif in Pukistan very suspicious at this time during the Doklam crisis. Is the Puki army preparing to create a 2nd front in the west against India in coordination with the Chinese? The Puki security-state establishment sees the civilian PM/politicians with ...
- 24 Jul 2017 08:51
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
- Replies: 5424
- Views: 1241182
Re: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
That guy is an EDITOR? :eek: Is Chinese Shengyang etc, really "illegal copies" or just repainted, renamed, license-produced craft, same as the original? For example, was the HAL Ajeet an Illegal Low-level Copy of the De Havilland Gnat? If the made-in-India Su-30MKI is given an Indian name...
- 22 Jun 2017 20:58
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
- Replies: 5424
- Views: 1241182
Re: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
Lockheed Martin spilled the beans on their own brochure ... http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/aero/documents/F-16_Block_70_Executive_Summary_2017.pdf On page two of this above brochure it says F16 Block 70 becomes the new F16 Baseline. Guess what that means? ....Everyone (incl...
- 22 Jun 2017 09:34
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
- Replies: 5424
- Views: 1241182
Re: 'Make in India' Single engined fighter
Lockheed Martin spilled the beans on their own brochure ... http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/aero/documents/F-16_Block_70_Executive_Summary_2017.pdf On page two of this above brochure it says F16 Block 70 becomes the new F16 Baseline. Guess what that means? ....Everyone (inclu...