Bharat Rakshak

Mihir

Pratyush wrote:Have we seen any reports of the indian army expressing interest in 6.5 mm rounds. As intermediate between 7.62 and 5.56mm.

No, that will happen after they induct 100,000 7.62x51mm rifles.

Mihir

Let us go back to the famous saying: Urban legend. NASA used mechanical pencils in 60s. The non urban legend version is that Fisher invested something like $1 million of his own money into the R&D. The Soviets were so impressed with the Space Pen that they ordered ~100 for the own space program...

Mihir

Point 11 - All the above requires serious infusion of cash. Increase the % of GDP in relation in defence and R&D in defence. At what cost, though? Defence spending is already more than 17% of total government expenditure. Are we willing to make drastic cuts to personnel numbers so that more of ...

Mihir

... Saurav Jha‏ @SJha1618 21h21 hours ago More Seriously, India's main problem vis a vis China is the pro-Beijing business lobby which is propping up ignorant arseholes in think tanks. Saurav Jha‏ @SJha1618 21h21 hours ago More One think-tanker piece of shit who doesn't know his hand from his arse ...

Mihir

New theory that the Nazis lost the war due to German "Inefficiency",their tanks kept breaking down! Qite relevant today when easy to operate and maintain "rough and tough" eqpt. is needed instead of very expensive difficult to maintain super-spec eqpt. This isn't a "new&quo...

Mihir

Neshant wrote:Draw bridges are not new.

The technology is hundreds of years old.

Never mind planes, trains literally go over them.

... when they're lowered. Not when they're raised!

Mihir

The moving ramp could have self attuning PID controls with adaptive mechanisms depending on environment and sensed weight of plane and its velocity. Not to forget, parallel synchronized sensor fusion from outboard conformal synaptic networks with dynamic holo haptic input for the operators. We need...

Mihir

The next logical question that anybody should ask is: We know that the longest range of a projectile is when the velocity vector is at 45 degrees to the horizontal. Why are ski jumps at 14 degrees then? The "45-degrees" reasoning is true only if the speed at which the projectile exits the...

Mihir

The problem with India’s naval build-up http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/itCxLclcVmVqEu3rbEMaSO/The-problem-with-Indias-naval-buildup.html By Abhijit Iyer-Mitra : senior fellow at the Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (IP&CS). Naval build-ups, because of their capital-intensive nature, a...

Mihir

Future of CAS is a HTT-34 with weapons and an integral cannon for plinking tanks. Yes. That fixed wing component should be under Army command. A HTT-40 kind will have a range of close to 1000Km. Need not be based in forward areas and will have great persistence if based there. An integral cannon on...

Mihir

Why is it BS, Aditya bhai? I have heard and read this argument a million times over last 2 decades that maiming/injuring a solider not only neutralizes him but also ties up four more to take care of him, increases logistic footprint and brings the morale down for entire army/group. Think about it f...

Mihir

I'm an idiot. I understood "this is huge" as "this missile is huge", lol!

Mihir

This is HUGE! I have not seen this picture before, so forgive my excitement!!! :) Enjoy Jingos...if you already have not seen it! Do not forget to click on the magnifying glass on the top right hand corner of the photo. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipN5N3D0VNDTtR19X8XGsjnc7mwb8GOF3CW_91MG4GL...

Mihir

At least part of the problem is serviceability. http://www.timesnow.tv/india/article/from-sukhois-to-awacs-auditor-finds-strategic-holes-in-india%E2%80%99s-skies/24896 The CAG report, tabled in Parliament on Friday, said the AWACS were "high value national assets" that could be "a dec...

Mihir

Singha saar, I remember one tank guy telling me that the blast door protecting the M1's bustle ammo isn't as useful as it first seems. His argument is that if an AP dart/HEAT jet significantly overmatches the frontal armour, it's going to go straight through and penetrate the blast door as well. And...

Mihir

The Abrams has six rounds stored in the hull. http://imgur.com/a/GZ2bR

Mihir

Rakesh wrote:Indigenous Medium Power Radar ARUDHRA, in service with the Indian Air Force
https://twitter.com/livefist/status/824544609682329601

Oh boy! I'd love to rub this photo in Prasun "Arudhra is EL/M-2084 onlee" Sengupta's face.

Mihir

Ajai Shukla finally confirms the rumors of a Pinaka prototype being used in Kargil. https://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-lethal-pinaka-scores-bulls-eye-in.html While the television crews covered the GRAD BM-21 rocket launcher hurling its fiery bolts towards Tiger Hill, the Pinaka --- more acc...

Mihir

I wouldn't put it past an ill-trained crew to keep that door propped open for convenience. Operating it with the knee switch and extracting a round at the same time is known to be a very awkward procedure.

Mihir

The only problem is that while elevation and depression are built-in features of artillery, side-to-side traverse is not. The gun position would have to be "re-laid". So that means that unless a tank just happened to be sitting static in line of sight of the artillery piece it would not g...

Mihir

I see from pix that ATAGS apart from having high angle fire (haubitze) also has low elevation D-30 type direct fire (field gun). I read it has a thermal imager also. hopefully IA will not put in a req that it needs a FCS to hit on the move targets like a tank can do. its direct fire mode I see as a...

Mihir

It may just be a tender to avoid a single vendor situation and also to get a better price from the Israelis. The GoI can later say, we invited tenders, Israelis turned out to be the cheapest ones (or even the only ones) and hence we chose it. MoD/GoI is not entirely stupid. If you think that corrup...

Mihir

Kartik wrote:Jaguar with Python 5! Whatever happened to the ASRAAM deal with MBDA?

I think those are Python-4. It's impossible to tell the difference, though.

Mihir

Their approach is more defensive then offensive, Indian Army on other hand focus primarily on mobility of solider and demand on light equipment. The difference is clearly can be seen in even small formation of both armies, One use MG3 other use bren MG, In Indian Army individual solider from squad ...

Mihir

You're displaying exactly the same behavior as the designer(s). Before you made the above statement, do you think you exhausted all the options to answer the problem? I'm not attempting to arrive at a design solution here. I'm trying to show that Gp. Capt. Bhargava's understanding of the problem an...

Mihir

Sample this: I asked SC Das to design the sheer pins so that during ground roll they would sheer off at 90 knots, the speed at which it was permissible to use the ejection seat... But during towing an aircraft at FIS, the canopy flew off due to a minor gust of air. A little later exactly the same t...

Mihir

That is why when the Americans offered the F-16 to India in 2016 , the offer was considered as India was still trying to make a success of the Tejas via better engines. But the Americans refused to sell engine technology for the Tejas because it was far more profitable to sell the F-16 as an entire...

Mihir

Kartik wrote:“A preliminary explanation is that they were no longer receiving fuel.

So initial reports that the aircraft simply ran out of fuel seem to be true.

Mihir

Shiv Aroor, well I don't have a very favourable opinion of his stance. To me, he typifies the gullible reporter who can be made to report very favourably on foreign imports, and generally has been very critical of local programs without bothering to examine what may be the issues they face. His new...

Mihir

What's the problem if they're doing so with full disclosure? Unlike babus and politicians, they aren't spending taxpayer's money on these junkets. And for all the insinuations about him and others pushing favorable stories, the best "marketing pitchs" for the Tejas and Arjun have come from...

Mihir

The Russians have deployed gun-launched ATGMs since the sixties, when their 125mm gun was the most powerful tank gun in the world. It is not intended to overcome the shortcomings of the two-piece ammo (they've understood that nothing short of a new design will resolve the deficiency), but to give th...

Mihir

^^^Is the picture of Arjun Mk2 in the info-graphic accurate? If yes, this looks like a pretty sleek and compact design. And given the armor+ERA panels all around, this thing could literally smash its way through Pakistani armor. Now pray and hope for order of 500 tanks! Nope. That picture is of a J...

Mihir

Sudeep, I thought you meant putting all ammunition in the bustle and designing a new autoloader to extract it, like in the Leclerc. If you're envisioning something more limited like the T-90MS, then yes, it is certainly possible. Also, I'm not sure of the feasibility if implementing a T-80-esque mec...

Mihir

Okay, let's take an example from your post. Say you want to install a ready rack for ammo in the bustle and do away with the rotating cassette below the turret. It would require a new autoloader, as there is no space for a fourth crewmember in the turret. This autoloader would have to be crammed in ...

Mihir

You probably typed before reading AND understanding my post, my friend. The question is - if like Mihir states that the Arjun's gun is more powerful than what the tincan hull can support, then why not go for the more powerful gun on the more powerful hull - i.e. the Arjun. Because a tank is more th...

Mihir

Tank-Ex was a tech demonstrator. As I understand it, it did not carry all the systems that a production MBT does (imagine the challenges of taking the chassis of one tank, the turret of another, and redistributing their internal and external components so that they worked together seamlessly) engine...

Mihir

The real scandal is the inability of Avadi to incorporate Arjun technologies (the suspension, the longer APFSDS, the FCS, the muzzle reference, the APU, the bustle with blow off panels) into the base T90 design. Aside from the muzzle reference system, the rest would be impossible to do without a ma...

Mihir

tsarkar, good post, and I agree. The more I read up on the Arjun, the more I realise that the IA's requirements branch screwed up big time in defining the requirements for the tank. They got unduly worried about the Abrams and demanded a tank that would perform extremely well in a handful of very li...

Mihir

Vivek, have you read Hitesh's post on the ancillary costs of introducing a heavy tank fleet? The Arjun might be cheaper per unit, but the overall costs of upgrading road and rail infrastructure to support it would have been huge. You're right about the low ground pressure being an advantage in the s...

Mihir

Pratyush, that infra argument is limited to Punjab. Where in Sindh or the rest of that country is this infra issue present? And other than bridging equipment, what specific infra is required for tanks? I presume we are not relying Pak Railways to transport our tanks. This is correct, but the claim ...

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