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I totally back KSingh here. IA should be sole custodian of helos. IAF can have for CSAR/SpecOps etc. IMVHO, of course.

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~~If we do not use this opportunity to roll the K9 chassis into a CV family... light tank + ICV + APC + mortar carrier + SPAAG + command vehicle...~~ sorry I meant to say let's order 36 Spruts for now then throw open an RFP for 64 'Make' category light tanks and then sit for 15 years...

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Russian Sprut tank is only 20 tons and has a powerful 125mm smoothbore gun Why go for heavier K9 with 105 mm gun ? Wouldn't it be nice to not have a salad bar inventory? Imagine the K9-based SPG + LT + ICV + SPAAG + APC + Mortar Carrier + AECV + ATGM Carrier + Command Vehicle... standardised, reaso...

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Khalsa wrote:Why is the a/c on the right hand side looking bigger to me ?
The spine behind the canopy looks bigger, the shoulder looks bigger. Perhaps even the wing area.
Obviously an optical illusion or I am just thinking its bigger because its a 2 seater

It's lifted on jacks. See the nose / outer wing area.

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sanjaykumar wrote:Feed the lad cornflakes. And attach wires to his satanic nether regions so that any fond recall of the halftime show rings a bell in the master bedroom. So the christians can rush in to save his eternal soul.

I’m not making this up.

Heh. Kellogg's wholesome history.

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srin wrote:What's wrong with using BMP-2 design as baseline and updating it where required ? I quite like it.

Only that using a 70's design as a baseline for a FUTURE Infantry Combat Vehicle is somewhat... odd? Otherwise nothing.

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Looks like Abhay FICV reborn. The gun looks like derivative of 40mm Bofors gun. ARDE had developed fsapds ammunition for it. The 4 km missile neither seems to be milan nor kornet. Overall seems to adhere to KISS philosophy. Not like Abhay sir. This honestly seems more like a late 1980s Warsaw Pact ...

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MiG-27 as gate guardian in Mumbai. @ Kartik, if you are reading this....please confirm that IAF MiG-27s had serial numbers starting with SM. I thought only MiG-23s had serial numbers starting with SM. The MiG-27 all had serial numbers starting with TS, no? And the UPG variants were TU, correct? Adm...

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chetonzz wrote:one is bison, other one is BIS or FL???I

FL. Note cockpit canopy.

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^ Indian railways to float global tenders for procurement of 100 new trains. We are actually witnessing the destruction of indigenous know-how and capability on the level of Marut if not more. 40 Years from now our children on BR will be wondering how their idiot parents were OK with this happening...

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Indranil wrote:Nirbhay is being scaled down slightly:
Diamter: 505 mm
Length: 5600 mm
Weight: 810-975 kg

Optimising for torpedo tube launch? Specifically Scorpenes which have Western sized tubes? Or for air launch optimisation?

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Lalmohan wrote:Are some of you making the arguement that africans are naturally inferior? Just so i am clear on what you mean?

That's what "Rationalisation of Failure" sounds like to me, yes.

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This is a deeply depressing and dangerous development. Please read Mr. Mani's blog and you will understand how hard certain vested interests have tried to kill this project. With his retirement, the hyaenas have begun to tear at the threat to their gravy trains. (No pun intended).

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Can someone with connections in HAL please tell them to buy the rights to these images and use ONLY them for Dhruv/Rudra marketing efforts and not some rubbish images taken by PR Dept.? These are amazing and I'm enjoying this powerful visual representation of Indian engineering and firepower.

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Lol. Yes back in the day when a manly Spartan warrior could just oil his six pack, f*ck his 12 yr old ' trainee warrior' in the ass and spear one of his slaves to death for no reason. Then bitch with his buddy Menander about how the evil Athenians had introduced a 12ft Dory for their hoplites but so...

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btw, the mh60 helicopters primary role is troop transport, search and rescue, and other standard roles. The indian networks are billing it as an anti-submarine helicopter. I think you may be confusing the MH-60R with the MH-60S. We're getting the R, which has Active Sonar, Sonobuoy launcher, Mk54 t...

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This is basically a slightly modified vertical launched ASRAAM. Soft launch and pif paf in the tail for direction. The sea version is quad packable in the SYLVER vls. Derby and python will not do the same dance because they have slewable launchers and no pif paf.

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but we need the teeth because for every ship that IN brings to the fight, PLAN will bring 2 , of similar or bigger size and packed to the gunwales. wasting valuable foredeck area for RBU shows a timid design approach though. these smallish defensive weapons are best kept amidships and near the hang...

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1. I'm pretty sure that's an LO 127mm housing looking at the scale and shape. 2. If we delete the RBUs and use UVLS for all missiles including LRSAM then there looks to be capacity for 48 cells easily. If we figure out quad packing for the SAMs then it will be a generously equipped ship. 3. Taking a...

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Karan M wrote:
Which brings me to this program!

http://pibphoto.nic.in/photo//2018/Jan/ ... 120251.jpg

The MPATGM will also allow DRDO some critical building blocks for launcher tech!

What program is this? Like a mobile flycatcher type setup? IAF colors? Haven't seen this before.

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ramana wrote:From Sanjay

On the artillery thread - could you educate posters that the gun most recently posted was a 75/24 pack howitzer that was used in the direct fire role during Kargil.

Very interesting. Was not aware of this piece of ordinance. Information online seems thin on the ground. Many thanks.

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shaun wrote:Please id the below image and whether its still in use.

I think it's a 25-pounder or possibly a Yugoslav 76mm Mountain Howitzer.

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Stalin told Tupolev to clone the Superfortress in as short a time as possible instead of continuing with his own comparable ANT-64.The reverse-engineering effort involved 900 factories and research institutes, who finished the design work during the first year; 105,000 drawings were made.[9] By the...

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Yes that's what I meant inflatable life boats. And shiv saar, learnt that the hard way - ages ago was invited with family onboard a CG OPV (forget which class, but had a manual 40mm bofors upfront) and there were these white drums near the stern. Commando Comics training kicked in and I asked the sa...

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4: Life rafts, I think.

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May be a dumb question, but why do we insist on using 20-round mags for our standard ARs? I can understand the weight issues for the 7.62x51 FAL, but why on the 5.56 INSAS and now the Excalibur?

We use AKs and Tavors with 30-round mags, so why 2 round for INSAS? Is there a logic to this or...?

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So I've always wondered - why doesn't the Vikrant have a bulbous bow? Overall, we seem not prefer bulbous bows in our indigenous design - even our bow sonar installations - which are making an appearance only on our latest designs - seem a little more conservative than others'. Compare: P28: http://...

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^Nope, there may be a crew chief, but there is also space for an 8 man squad.

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There's provably some form of communications hatch between the 8 man cabin at the back and the pilot's cockpit. So that's prolly the door gunner.

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It's very hard to tell what's going on there. For one, that isn't a Saudi ship in the beginning, its a UAE Baynunah (CNM Combattante) Class missile corvette. There's a RAM launcher on the rear superstructure, and there's no slewing/launch to suggest that the ship is being attacked. At around 01:50 t...

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C-130.

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Is this the one that's being built at HSL? There was a 10,000T being built IIRC...

edit: srin, that's the one I'm talking about too.

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If this is true, it's perhaps not terribly wise... Though the article is by Suhasini Haider, so then again....

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^That's a Kilo. Hull-mounted diving planes, as opposed to sail-mounted. Also, there is no evidence of silos behind the sail, which is in the center as opposed to being towards the fore-end as it would be on the Arihant.

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That's in Russian. Other than Phillip, who is going to understand it? Is there one with English subtitles because this also has only Russian subtitles... it seems interesting for sure.

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I have to say that the Nepali dark matte green looks sooooo much better on Dhruv. I'm really not a big fan of the glossy finish on our gear.

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Err. They make the resources happen. Pawning jewellery, borrowing from moneylenders, family, etc. etc. This is their one chance out. Alternatively, the "agents" in connivance with the local Gulf contacts ensure that their salaries are effectively gouged for as long as possible while they'r...

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^^Of course, it's obviously idiotic behaviour... but I have to wonder what were the conditions at home that they would travel to a place like Yemen to work in the first place? These people pay obscene amounts to "Job Agents" to get their jobs and probably spend their first few years earnin...

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@KaranM -- Unfortunately few news editors would fault his usage today. I guess whatever works though...

It's a beautiful shot that also gives some idea of how packed this baby is - it's streets ahead of the Erieye or any other vanilla balance beam equipped aircraft.

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Singha wrote:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBS6ijrVAAAkaS1.jpg

And that, Singha, is the 1st TOS-1A MLRS I've seen in action. Wiki says the Iraqi army has 4 such systems...

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