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Avinandan

This is not new. IIRC, US Army started making them in 2004 and called Land Phalanx Weapon System IMVHO, even you install 1 phalanx system per HAS, the threshold that the Phalanx can withstand and repel simultaneous done attack is 80. So 85 drone attacking all from frontal 180 degree of frontal view...

Avinandan

Dear Sirs, What could be our preparation to prevent asymmetric attacks on our deep airbases - similar to what we saw in Russia in "Operation Spider Web" or the Israeli strikes on Iranian Air assets from within the Iran itself. This is a concern, since many of the IAF's airbases have vast ...

Avinandan

Heck, even AMCA is single-engined and is "Medium" class, like Tejas-Mk2. IMHO, it was a dumbass decision to design an AMCA - it should have been an F22/F-35/J-35 class heavy fighter/bomber because the internal bay nullifies the advantage of being a medium-class fighter. But when we realiz...

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It would bump up the combat radius probably by another couple of number kms

Avinandan

Food for thought: Though LCH Prachand is lightest of the military attack helicopters, it also suffers from much lower ferry range of about 700 kms ( much lower than compatriots of ~ 1100 kms). HAL designers could have extended the engine overhand to the mid body area to get more space in the fuselag...

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Why do we waste time in looking for aircrafts elsewhere. We have 4 of them for Airforce VIP transport. Just use them up and replace the transports aircrafts with some other aircraft which are cheaper to operate. Reference : https://khalsavox.com/news/two-decades-on-iafs-embraer-jets-to-get-complete-...

Avinandan

IMHO, India is quite far below in AD network per Km2. It has currently about 1200 launchers. Compared to that China has about 6000 and US About 3000. Ukraine has about 1000 Launchers and about 5 times smaller in India, yet struggling to cover his air space. In spite of this, as per chatGPT, it ranks...

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On the hind-sight, I am a bit disappointed. I hoped MRFA would have been scrapped altogether. With the ACM recent anguish, I thought LCA Mk2 would have been priorised and ramped up with Pvt sector involvement to make up the numbers. Unkil with GE dependency has put a lot of uncertainty to our curren...

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It is surprising unbelievable that I had forecasted a similar crude version in the newbie thread few days back. Would appreciate if people could comment there by dissecting it , elaborating the flaws , fine tune it with insights gained from this Ukranian attack and improvise it a near fool proof sce...

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A bevy of brahmos unload, with their AD disabled would be a quick victory. A free Tibet would unravel Pak completely and most of the border issues with China will disappear. Bala Saar, I beg to disagree. China has lent export copies of their military hardware so let's atleast not undermine their ba...

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https://x.com/writetake/status/1927078471072632928 120 kN desi engine set to fuel #AMCA dream 🎯 A proposal for a 120 kN engine to power the #AMCA, in collaboration with private firms, has reached the pre-sanction stage. What would be the realistic Thrust to Weight Ratio for this 120 Kn engine? Kave...

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“It will take at least 7-8 years , if not more, for the first MCMV to roll out after the contract is inked,” a source said. .... The acquisition case for 12 MCMVs had begun way back in July 2005, which eventually led to Goa Shipyard tying up with South Korea firm Kangnam to build the specialized ve...

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Pakistan planning to buy SiPer AD systems from Turkiye https://zeenews.india.com/hindi/zee-hindustan/world-news/pakistan-trying-to-get-siper-air-defense-system-after-fail-of-hq-16-and-hq-9-against-india/2772313 As per the news, it is arguably better than Chinese AD Systems and works well in EW Jamme...

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But are using fibre optic cable drones which cannot be jammed. Does India have capability to produce Fibre optic or Non-Jammable waypoint based small 500gm payload based Drones with about 1 km range? I had posted a Special ops based scenario ( https://forums.bharat-rakshak.com/viewtopic.php?p=26493...

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I don't want to undermine our AD capabilities in the first 2 nights however did we waste our Ammo on dummy drones ? The next step would be a way to distinguish the type of drone to avoid ammo wastage. Pakistan deployed attack and surveillance drones hidden in swarms of basic drones : https://indiane...

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I initially wanted to put this Operation Sindoor based threads, however this might be considered as OT, hence putting in here. I was looking at various Major Pakistan AFBs in Google Maps (e.g. Sargodha). The HAS are precariously near to public roads and fields within 400m to 1 km. Could we not as sp...

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Assume 50% of the missiles /MLRS will be intercepted. Russia intercepts over 80% of HIMARS/Scalp missiles on similar high value targets. Assume our own missile launch sites will be hit. We need a combination of long distance drones, missiles and EW to take out radars and SAM and then airstrikes on ...

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We probably could do some activity to identifying the Pakistani Targets and associate with Weapons Of Choice (More economical the warhead the better). Starting with PAF and its Assets ---------------------------------------- Refer List at the end post to get all 33 AFBases in Pakistan (Flying and No...

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About hundred MOABs to wipe up the cantonments preferably bombarded at Day Time. The blasts and Mushroom clouds would be etched forever in Pakistani People mind.

The only trouble is to identify a vehicle if delivery which is cheap and expendable

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Ashok ji, I humbly disagree. 1. India should show live feed of Pakistani attacks at India to the world 2. Followed by a Shock and Awe of attacks using conventional methods using long range cruise missile attacks to about 500 targets 3. Give ultimatum to Pakistan to publicly issue apology and request...

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Shouldn't India insist that the Pukes have to vacate PoK/Gilgit Baltistan which is a UN resolution. This should be minimum for ceasefire. Remove all the artillery guns from PoK, which has killed many civilians including one high ranking official in Poonch/Rajouri area. Kashmore is the contention an...

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Pakistani Attrition and Cost Summary which we know from reasonable sources: 1) 400 to 500 Cheap Songar Drones (capable of firing small firearms) 2) Few ( Less than 10 ) Bayratkar Drones 3) 1 HQ-16 based AD system at Lahore 4) Few ( Less than 5) Fatah 2 Missiles 5) Few AAM missiles ( no confirmation ...

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Any idea about the type and unit cost of the drones used by Pakistan. We could extrapolate when they would be confident for the next misadventure. India should have demanded a recorded request from Pakistan Prime minister for apologizing for 1st Night attacks and then requesting for deescalation. Th...

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Kartik Saar, I was alluding to single seater Naval Tejas (minus Levcons, but retaining drooping nose and with regular landing gear). I am assuming the second cockpit area would be reused for fuel and other uses (OBOGS, etc). Benefit would be much more commonality with respect to the panels and compo...

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Trainer version silhoutte definitely looks sexier. Is there any performance penalty for the trainer version ? If not, I wonder why we didn't opt for a trainer version regular Tejas fighters based with single seater ( like Naval Tejas minus Levcons plus retaining the drooping nose )

Avinandan

https://youtu.be/1r-O7QGwScM Gurus, I am referring to the initial 10 minutes talk by Indranil Saar. I have few rants: 1. About 2 decades ago, HAL had good references to copy/inspire from IJT trainers to design upon. All the designs have tail well extended beyond engine . Refer https://forums.bharat...

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The torpedo extends well beyond the landing wheels. I don't it is realistic probably early ideas and feasibility studies are on going.

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Manish_P wrote: ↑11 Feb 2025 22:20 Happy for the Uttam. Feel a little sad for the Tejas being detected at 100 plus km despite being so small

Saar, not just 100 km rather 140 kms!
I wonder if we have figures from EL 2052 in public domain to compare.

Isn't such sort of information sensitive ?

Avinandan

Brahmos does the S maneuver in the terminal phase, however here the guided rocket is doing just after few seconds from the launch. I doubt that it is a programmed S maneuver, probably some path correction once it clears the peak of the hill.

Avinandan

May be HAL should think about Blue Edge Helicopter blades now.

Avinandan

^^ We have invested in Jaguars for so long and so many times. My only worry is if we can salvage the Jaguars once they get retired in a decade time. Hopefully by then we might be able to convert them as drones or at least use the engines and other parts for making new cheaper drones. The HAL-IAI NRU...

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Dilbu ji , we need you urgently !!!

Avinandan

chetak wrote: ↑24 May 2024 23:27 Top World Central Banks performance:
US FED - $118 Billion LOSS
UK BoE - $86 Billion LOSS
IND RBI - $43 Billion PROFIT

Small nit pick saar

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UK BoE - £86 Billion LOSS

Avinandan

Looks like a much more advanced version of A100 (Export versoin of WS series MLRS)

Avinandan

Hat Tip to IAF for supporting Indigenous platforms. When the current chief took over 3 yrs ago, all we heard was MRFA. Now he looks to be the biggest supporter of desi platforms. Great day for our MIC. Frankly speaking, I don't trust him. He has given a lot of Heart burn to me and there was a tecto...

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Long back Indranil had suggested to convert Avros to mini tankers such that each fighter squadron could have couple of them , which would be a tremendous force multiplier.

Do we see any merit in this in 2023 and does HAL have the capability to covert them ?

Avinandan

^^ status of Mig 29's paint is an eyesore of this otherwise awesome photo !

Avinandan

^^
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Correct link -> https://www.dawn.com/news/1739964/in-ve ... nvironment

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