Bharat Rakshak

Links to these stories will be appreciated In Batalik sector a Pakistan Army Aloette and a Puma helicopter with an underslung load were sighted. Three igla shoulder fired missiles were fired at them without success . http://vayu-sena.tripod.com/kargil-summary1.html Would you be referring to these j...

The army generals who've got millions of $$ worth of land..land that will be worthless if it glows in the dark. As opposed to having an Indian Tank parked in their frontyard .That would do wonders for the real estate value . I think the generals would prefer the nuke as no one really stays in the l...

I dont think the Pukis are stupid enough to use nukes. The pukis comprise of the Army , The mullahs , The isi each vying with each other for control . which segment do you feel is not stupid enough ? The paki army has repeatedly threatened to nuke india if we cross the LOC . The mullahs / mujahidee...

Ray Sir,
Could you please tell me what is the maximum range (distance ) of a laser designator ? And does the target have to be "lased" until the bomb hits ?

jager I can have any soldier do the lasing - why a SF guy??? in this case it is not a behind the lines, it is an exposed ridge and therefore no need for SF - in this case it is not a behind the lines, it is an exposed ridge and therefore no need for SF - Agreed . Just thought in some cases it might...

jager Using commandos (SF??) for lasing is a waste of their skills. Using them as conventional infantry is an even bigger waste . BTW most wetern countries use their commandos to do just that . Lase up targets of importance for their airforce to blow up . mountains close by where we had control and...

Could you tell me how you will lase upwards (enough for it be picked up by fighters coming in from the top) or the other side of the mountain where the supporting infrastructure would be?? These tasks can and should have been done by Commandos who can get close enough to actually lase the target , ...

how heavy is a laser designator? what about its batteries? What about recharging? How heavy is that? how much can a man carry above 15000 ft? Compared to what our troops carried with them during Kargil , a laser designator would not be any great load , specially if they have a designated person to ...

jager - you really should read the BR pages more carefully! Will do the answer is yes, the problem is alltogether different and it involves human beings being able to exist above 15000 altitude This does'nt sell much . Why couldn't infantry / commandos guide LGB's onto bunkers a few 100 metres away...

Rakall / Lal mohan , Do we have the kind of missiles that are guided in by infantry men on the ground , with the laser designators and stuff . I read in the paper's some time ago that the army was working/developing/buying "smart " artillery rounds , guided in by lasers again ? Does anyone...

rakall wrote: its all there on BR.. read, boys, read.. read & google before you surmise & conjecture...

Gotcha ! Maybe i should visit the airforce and navy threads too ocassionally . Thanks for pointing out .

Lalmohan wrote:[quote

er... IAF dropped LGB's on Tiger Hill amongst other places, you can see the video on youtube.

Lal Mohan ,
Were these guided in by laser from the air or from the ground ?

RayC wrote:t;]
And would your choice be an indicator that you love the country any less?

IF i chose an MNC over army for money
Would it make me less of a patriot ? May be not

But less of a person ? Yes

Negi , LGBs are laser guided bombs . They are bombs that are guided on to the targets that are lit up by a laser either from the ground or from the air . AFAIK India does not have these bombs (Airforce Experts help?) I would say smash those mothers with artillery and mortars . Nice localised and a c...

While soldiers win the war generals get to play Golf is universal truth Of which universe ? I don't suppose you've heard of any of the following names - rommel , keitel , patton , arora or sagat singh ........... Do all the strategic issues and tactical plans magically form by themselves whilst the...

'We delivered thousands and thousands of pounds of bombs. Only two didn't explode,' said an air force officer. 'How many of them contained petroleum jelly?' I asked. 'None,' he replied, giving me a long look. 'We don't use those things.' In the early days of the war, a senior army officer at Army HQ...

Found this after some looking around , Don't know how authentic tribune's source was ! Napalm attack on infiltrators Napalm attack on infiltrators From Girja Shankar Kaura Tribune News Service NEW DELHI, June 2 — Going into the eighth day of air strikes, the Indian Air Force (IAF) today took to in...

Ray sir , An aiforce chaps perspective : http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/may/31kash8.htm An Excerpt : A few hundred well dispersed infiltrators do not really provide a very good target for air power. Worse, conventional weapons such as free fall high explosive bombs and strafing attacks with rockets...

Excerpt from Gerard's link : As an army officer how do you react to the presence of American soldiers in Pakistan? We have no American soldiers on our land. Our army is carrying out operations against militants. US soldiers are not in Pakistan but are present on the Afghan side. But you did give the...

ASPuar wrote:
If I may be allowed a nitpick, they were PAKISTANI ARMY REGULARS, not militants.

My Bad . I will now go and write "they were paki army regulars " a hundred times .

Touche` ! Ray sir , Very well put . Loved your retort , specially the last para . One more point to ponder for all of you guys who scream that "IAF won kargil " . Take a look at how many militants were killed by aerial bombardment and compare it to the number killed by infantry assaults . ...

However, the most telling effects on the ground were from intercepts of enemy radio revealing severe shortage of rations, water, medicines and ammunition. Losses due to airstrikes and inability to evacuate their casualties were also mentioned in the intercepts. This was the actual manifestation on ...

couch in as many as words, till IAF stepped in our army brass was clueless as to how to get the peaks back while young officers were being sent like lambs to slaughter. Snow , you must be off your damn rocker to actually write ridiculous stuff like this . While the army may have been late to realis...

Hey BRF ites , I'm in Allahabad sce right now , and after five gruelling days of heat and dust , i'll know the results tommorrow at general conference . It's a killer crowd that's gathered here from so many backgrounds and we counted 22 states in our ssb board . So wish me luck , pray for me whateve...

I should add that its not the Chief of Army sTaff's business to monitor what patrols are doing - . But jagan when so many of these patrols went missing and almost every clue pointed towards hundreds of armed intruders invading indian territory it was about bloody time General Malik took notice ,yes...

hey everybody ,
i have cleared the CDSE and am up for my ssb interview this may .

Any words of advice from any of the vets would be appreciated , particularly about the medical tests .

Mail me at :

falshirmjager@yahoo.com

Dear Manav and Adi ,
I would very much love to know the answer to the question that manav asked does RAW recruit from upsc ?
otherwise how dos it recruit ?
Anyone who knows Please mail me at the follow :
falshirmjager@yahoo.com

gentlemen we forget the late induction of artillery power in the kargil conflict . This could have been a more influential factor (in the high casualty figure ) rather than the late induction of airpower as artillery is in so many ways superior to aerial bombardment in a conflict scenario like kargi...