Bharat Rakshak

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Vinod, Indian Army T90s neither have Shtora nor any APS. The report is also wrong. We dont field any MS. Third, the Catherine TI has had a very high failure rate in IA service because of which the IA is looking for air conditioning and an APU to power it. Fourth, the T-90s original ERA is limited a...

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How can guys not like the lines of the MiG-29 Upgrade, it just looks so deadly. Looks like my friend who went to the gym and only exercised his back and shoulders. Talk about The Hunchback of Jamnagar... Question - how come the MiG-29K has a similar range to the UPG but doesn't have the ugly hump?

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RVV-BD is an export variant of R-37M operation on Mig-31M for some time , There is not much difference other than RVV-BD is range restricted to 200Km over 300 km plus range of R-37M. RVV-BD has dual band seeker ( X/K ) and Dual Propulsion Motor Thanks for the clarification. Given that there's still...

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Austin wrote:At MAKS 2019 , RVV-BD LRAAM and R-77-1 BVRAAM on Su-35 Wings

Very interesting - first I've seen the RVV-BD on a Sukhoi. Is the missile actually in production let alone operational on the Su-35 or is this another "run it up the flagpole" exercise?

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Trump against EMALS:
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/wil ... w-setback/

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New silos on the INS Kolkata:
https://twitter.com/PremJoshi300/status/1118452514918002688

Any ideas what they might be for?

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Philip wrote:The Goa design is an improvement but it has no anti-missile defences of note, no SAMs and partial ASW systems.The 8 SSMs would be better located amidships and the space vacated for SAMs.

Whatever happened to the NGMV corvette program?

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From the Week's interview with Dr Christopher: What about the towed guns? The army has not had a gun in the last quarter century. There are issues over range and accuracy, when developing a gun. If you ask for extended range, you have to be prepared to dilute on other factors, like accuracy. We made...

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JayS wrote:I saw the video until the first part. All credit to Zee for showing this. But I am disappointed a bit. It could have been far better report. The report by local BLR channel last year was much better.

Check the video from 1.05 onwards...

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Austin wrote:INS Kalvari S-21 SSK's On-Board Systems & Fitments

Excellent find. Also confirms that the Scorpene's have a towed array sonar.

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Defence Minister Sitharaman okays Russian Klub missiles for the Navy http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/nirmala-sitharaman-klub-missiles-navy-defence-acquisition-council/1/1057551.html What is the logic of putting Klub on older ships and Brahmos on the new ones? Is it cost or is there some other ra...

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Rifle 5.56x45 mm INSAS: several million ordered. Nearly all major users hold a grudge and want a replacement. Mediocre Pardon me, but I don't buy into this narrative of INSAS being an utter failure. Other than some foreign media sites (and Indian news sites which have taken taken their cue from the...

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shiv wrote:The only IAF stalls calling for recruitment have been in th ADVA area - not the business area. Did not go that side this year.

Visited ADVA this year, couldn't see any stall - might have been too well camouflaged though

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Does any one know why none of the branches of the armed forces ever have recruitment booths at Aero India? There are lakhs of people attending, a fair proportion of whom are youths who are evidently interested in flight or the armed forces, yet the armed forces don't seem to bother trying to attract...

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i never new these "Transition .." series of books are available online !! here https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/content/books Many many thanks. If we could have a "Page 1" ref for Navy threads like the shitistan threads - this should go on there The formatting of the ebooks is scre...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Scorpene-documents-leak-What-is-it-about/listshow/53868221.cms "The documents that have been posted ... have been examined and do not pose any security compromise as the vital parameters have been blacked out," the defence ministry said in a statem...

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Drone imports from the US can lead to an interesting scenario. If we import Predators and use them to target terrorists in Pakistan, how will they figure out whether its the CIA or RAW who is responsible?

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Per The Hindu, Mazgaon Dock has commissioned a second assembly line for Scorpenes (the first line is for the original 6) and the DM has stated that the government would order 2-3 additional Scorpenes to keep the production lines running: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/scorpenes-to-become-navy...

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Fewer crew members reduces MBT size allowing for greater armour.mobility,weapons and defences to be installed against both land and air threats. No doubt that's why the Armata is about 1.5 times the size/ weight of the T-90. On another note, in the video all 4 crew members of the Arjun Mk2 seem to ...

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During WW2,Germany lost the " Battle of the Atlantic" for two principal reasons.First,the Brits had broken the German code and knew exactly where German subs were operating.Using this info they sent their warships,subs and aircraft to sink the U-boats.Secondly,Hitler gave enough importanc...

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A naval battle on the other hand will be completely decisive by choking off energy imports, trade and international economic activity that keeps India/China humming as a going economy. It is on the seas where the question of Asian power will be decided. I've heard this popular theory before, and it...

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Some thoughts: 1. The S400 is a mobile system, so systems facing Pakistan can be moved to the China front and vice-versa as per threat perception (a poor analogy, but Bofors artillery units were moved from the China border to the Paki front during the Kargil war). The Andamans will probably never be...

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Ukraine Pitches To Break Russian Monopoly in India. “We have now managed to make a breakthrough,” according to the Ukrainian diplomat, who added: “India has now decided not to buy [the] electronic support measure system used to detect and track stealth aircraft and Vympel R-27 medium-range air-to-a...

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The Scorpene doesn't seem to have anechoic tiles. Or are the tiles not noticeable?

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Large new structure is coming up next to existing LCA production facilities in the HAL airport. Sign of production capacity ramp-up?

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CNBC-TV18 ‏@CNBCTV18Live 8m8 minutes ago just In: Rel Defence & AlmazAntey To Manufacture Missiles & Radars : Pipavav Defence 100.25 +19.99% Newscast mentions its for manufacture of TOR-1M missiles. Didn't know India had a requirement for this missile. Unless the plan is to export it from I...

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Just a thought, but it looks like China might deploy stealth fighters before the AMCA materializes and the same will probably be sold to the Pakis as well. Given the S-400's claims of anti-stealth capabilities, could there be some thought of providing a counter-balance for the interim period till th...

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Gen Kalkat in a news programme said that IA was prevented by political leadership to go into Lahore and cut up Pakistan. the political leadership of the day did not know how to handle a divided pakistan... the political leadership did not want to deliver a death blow to concept of pakistan. Doubtfu...

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Any update on the Prahaar? Seems to be a studied silence around it for some time now.

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deejay wrote:^^^ Wrote to the PM on the Arjun yesterday. Surely, they are watching. More needs to be done though.

Done. Tried to upload the BRF discussion on the Arjun as well, but couldn't do that due to proxy restrictions. Maybe someone else can try that as well.

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Rahul, this is the least I can do. Unfortunately, I'm just another it-vity type, although with an engineering background, and so do not possess the deep knowledge that others bring to the topic. What I can do is to create a public area to collect and collate this knowledge and disseminate it using ...

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The first AI I attended was in 2007 and got to see the MiG-29OVT doing the Cobra. Not to mention a fly past by the Tu-142M. Since then infrastructure (food court and rest rooms) has improved to some extent, but overall the show has become much more crowded and unfriendlier (not to mention the parkin...

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And it only costs $70 million...
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/taiwan-launches-its-first/1546182.html

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Never miss Beating the Retreat and IMO, the more Indianized edition this year was EXCELLENT. The Air Force-Navy band slipped in a boogie-type piece followed by Raghupati Raghav which gave me goosebumps. The Drummers Call was probably the best I have heard. Photography was also a huge improvement. T...

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Personally I think the standard of Republic Day parade has been declining over the years. Maybe equipment was inferior in the old days, but the scale of the parade was far larger. To take one example, in the 1980s the parade usually started with a what seemed like a regiment of T-72s, followed by th...

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The glacis plate of the Arjun Mk II displayed in the Republic Day parade has some interesting rectangular indentations. Could they be placeholders for additional ERA bricks to protect the tank front? On another note, it was interesting to see the multitude of desert camouflage schemes on display on ...

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The Godavari class are getting the Barak to replace their SA-N4s. Don't think the navy would be doing that if they intended to decommission them any time soon. The the Brahmaputra/ Kora have the Uran, so the capability to upgrade is definitely available. Why they weren't upgraded long back is the ot...

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Are there any plans to upgrade the Styx missiles on the Godavari's/ Khukris? These ships still have a long way to go before being retired and it seems strange that their main armament has not been upgraded. Considering the age of the missiles, even their functionality is open to question.

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Pakistan to renegotiate its Drone Strike Contract with the US:

http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2013/12/12/pakistan-to-renegotiate-drone-strike-contract-with-america/

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Is there any update on Prahaar? I haven't seen any news about it since the successful launches in Jul-2011. There wasn't any info available at the AI DRDO stall either. Rather surprising considering it's potential to be a game changer.

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