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by Cain Marko
09 Mar 2024 09:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Replies: 2209
Views: 769530

Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021

Thank you Admiral saar. Im guessing they plan to upgrade only a few of the birds. 80 engines will do it for about 2 sqds.. Wow! Any confirmation of this via other sources? This link is a regurgitation of the news reported in the main stream media. See some other sources below... Official MoD Press R...
by Cain Marko
07 Mar 2024 04:19
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Replies: 2209
Views: 769530

Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021

IAF Approves Multi-Million Initiative to Enhance MiG-29 Fleet with Improved Engines and Extended Service Life https://defence.in/threads/iaf-approves-multi-million-initiative-to-enhance-mig-29-fleet-with-improved-engines-and-extended-service-life.3919/ 24 Feb 2024 Wow! Any confirmation of this via ...
by Cain Marko
25 Feb 2024 02:48
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Replies: 3952
Views: 1525625

Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

Damn. 3 awacs lost. If that happened to desh in a 2 front war, we'd be up a creek.
by Cain Marko
21 Feb 2024 07:48
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
Replies: 3965
Views: 1165960

Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion

Given that they are scrambling now, it means that their thinking was wrong. Its hard to understand how an S-400 + Rafale combo will give you full air picture, guide fighters etc. Plus we dont have enough of either to assume we have achieved area denial versus even Pakistan Its unfathomable how ofte...
by Cain Marko
20 Feb 2024 00:12
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
Replies: 3965
Views: 1165960

Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion

My guess is that they preferred s400 + rafale combo over force multipliers. But they could have easily ordered additional 3 Netra systems IMHO.
by Cain Marko
18 Feb 2024 00:31
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion
Replies: 3965
Views: 1165960

Re: Airborne Early Warning & Control: News & Discussion

Effing criminal negligence here by the powers that be. Can't believe they didn't order more Netras. IAF top brass should be taken to task.
by Cain Marko
13 Feb 2024 12:07
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
Replies: 332
Views: 117790

Re: Renewable Sources of Energy

Has anyone looked into the work of toroidal plasma generators for increasing efficiency and reducing emissions? It seems the Indian govt and the Navy is possibly interested in this tech that can be retrofitted to regular fossil fuel fired engines but only emits about 20% oxygen and zero carbon. Base...
by Cain Marko
09 Feb 2024 13:14
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Ancient Egyptian machining tech?
Replies: 1
Views: 894

Ancient Egyptian machining tech?

[youtube]https://youtu.be/QzFMDS6dkWU?si=2jNH7NnsopsmBFQh [/youtube] Is this for real? I have very little knowledge about machining, tolerances and such, and I rarely post here. But, this video series caught my attention because of the historical implications of might have. The premise is that ancie...
by Cain Marko
08 Feb 2024 04:28
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Replies: 2209
Views: 769530

Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021

Did'nt UAE also have a bunch of Mirage 2000s? High standard too IIRC. IAF might want to grab every air worthy frame at cheapo prices of available. Just to maintain squadron strength through this decade.
by Cain Marko
08 Feb 2024 04:22
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Joint Military Exercises: News & Discussion
Replies: 598
Views: 195161

Re: Joint Military Exercises: News & Discussion

Check out the aircraft that is being armed :) https://x.com/IAF_MCC/status/1755048009543614899?s=20 ---> Unseen, but undeterred - the magnificent men behind our flying machines. Exercise #Vayushakti24. Admiral saar, WTF is that? Really curious. I can't think of a single bird in IAF livery with such...
by Cain Marko
08 Feb 2024 04:18
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
Replies: 855
Views: 2896960

Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022

My other question does that the MK1A loose 1 pylon for a CCM when carrying the SPJ's or will it still have the ability to carry 2 CCM +4 BVR missiles with SPJ's Can't the pod be carried on the pylon reserved for the LDP, at least for a2a work? Unless of course they plan to use the LDP as an irst as...
by Cain Marko
31 Jan 2024 07:38
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: VayuSena Rafale: News and Discussions - 17 Oct 2016
Replies: 4656
Views: 1449790

Re: VayuSena Rafale: News and Discussions - 17 Oct 2016

After elections eh? This is sounding a bit like the m2k deal during 2005 election year. Everyone was so sure of India shining team with George Fernandez and ABV winning, and we all know what happened. M2k "done deal" became mmrca, which became sef, which became mrfa with no phyter in sight...
by Cain Marko
27 Dec 2023 13:16
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Replies: 2209
Views: 769530

Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021

The Parliamentary Committee of Defence :roll: has suggested that the Govt should acquire 5th generation fighters for the Indian Air Force! Here we go again! :rotfl: https://x.com/alpha_defense/status/1737503137244889407?s=20 ---> The committee suggested that Government should consider buying 5th Ge...
by Cain Marko
08 Nov 2023 05:44
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - 24 July 2021
Replies: 927
Views: 416954

Re: Su-30MKI: News and Discussion - 24 July 2021

^ I thought mki sqds numbered at 18 each?
by Cain Marko
08 Nov 2023 05:43
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: MRCA (Many Rakshaks Choose Aircraft) Contest - Episode III
Replies: 2935
Views: 693877

Re: MRCA (Many Rakshaks Choose Aircraft) Contest - Episode III

I guess the Russians have gotten wind of the F-15EX becoming a "major contender", and have now upped the ante by offering the Su-57...the circus goes on.
by Cain Marko
24 Oct 2023 08:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Here is a reading of the tea leaves: This is simply a way to neuter Iran before they Ayatollah's secure a nuke or two. A nice GWI style Operation Desert Storm II will do it: NATO Israel Gulf and Arabs states All hate Iran. It is the only one along with Turkey to whine about IMEC. Russia can be bough...
by Cain Marko
16 Oct 2023 11:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

sir, there is a concept of abrogation while understanding quran. you need to read that too to make since why meccan verses are not to be used now. Uhh - how is a conversation about petra being the qibla even remotely following conventions of Islamic reading? IOWS, the conversation from its very inc...
by Cain Marko
16 Oct 2023 11:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Don't want to de-rail this thread on topics like qibla but here is one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGH_5d6ltmE . Note that Petra as it is known today may have had another name in ancient times. Petra was a thriving booming metropolis during the birth of Islam, a beacon of wealth, trade, and cul...
by Cain Marko
16 Oct 2023 03:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Apparently there’s a version of Quran written on animal skin still preserved in one of western Saharan mosques but no one wants to check it nor allowed to just the Xtian and the King James Version noo Any source that I can explore? What I find very very interesting is that in both the Quran and the...
by Cain Marko
16 Oct 2023 03:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

For ex. First qibla was never Petra but Jerusalem. Cain ji, I am interested in definite proof that first Qibla was Jerusalem (Easwar-alayam). The Al Masjid Al Aqsa was a story concocted after 200 yrs of PBUH prophet death (in the 800s) that PBUH ascended to Allah from Jerusalem. However there are h...
by Cain Marko
16 Oct 2023 02:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Nothing much happening Israel's intention is not to block these basic utilities, but at this point, they don't have much cards to play. This is one of the negotiation card to release the hostages. They are not in hurry to attack, once the hostages are released they will intensify the fight. Till th...
by Cain Marko
16 Oct 2023 02:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Is Israel Gaza conflict because of Islam - ex muslim Sahil explains mentality of muslims. The mentality of destruction of the non believers is engraved in their belief system. Islam positively commands its adherents to impose its religious law on all peoples, believers and unbelievers alike, whenev...
by Cain Marko
14 Oct 2023 04:25
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

[ however, you need to acknowledge that none both Jews or christens do not use there scriptures the way Muslims do to justify there act. many of them that i have spoken to (only christens) would agree that there are many things are there and they don't agree with it. they prefer only the ones that ...
by Cain Marko
13 Oct 2023 08:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

^^^ Harvard students are freaking out after a truck is driving around the school, displaying names of students who allegedly signed a letter blaming Israel for Hamas’ terror attacks. The digital screen on the truck says “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites” and named the 34 students who claimed Israel wa...
by Cain Marko
13 Oct 2023 08:09
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

CMji here's a bit of Jewish Tradition: The principle of kevod ha-meit [treating the dead with honor] underlies several other important issues with regard to the disposition of the body. In general, Jewish tradition forbids autopsies on the grounds that the body is sacred and should not be violated ...
by Cain Marko
13 Oct 2023 08:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

... The last thing India (or anyone) would want is US boots on the ground in Iran. And there are already shrill cries for exactly such a war. That is where "world family" will be really in trouble Manishji. And my skepticism about the egregious beheading thing stems from that concern. Ima...
by Cain Marko
13 Oct 2023 07:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

... Read my response to Roop (to which you took umbrage) carefully. I stood against dissing the the icon of a religion dear to millions in India as someone who "mandates" the beheading of children. How is that legit? It is legit because it's true and relevant to the topic under discussion...
by Cain Marko
13 Oct 2023 07:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

The beheaded babies has been doing the rounds for a few decades now. Except for one journalist who has picked it, I dont think there is a lot of confidence in that view. I hear its more to dehumanise the enemy than anything else. But a lot of the videos are shocking and morally depraving. That was ...
by Cain Marko
13 Oct 2023 07:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Sir, who is being referred to as PBUH in Roop's post? And what do you think Indian Muslims sentiments are about said PBUH who "mandated" the beheading of babies? If attacking the icon of a religion does not constitute attacking said religion, what does? This is pure Nandi droppings. It's ...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 10:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Guys, While it's all good to believe that an Enemies, enemy is still my Enemy. The current situation is requires flexibility to think about selective friendship. Sir, for sanatanis the whole world is one family (one home), so what affects one will affect you.... for the Abrahamics the world is one ...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 09:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Why the Taliban, now even Hamas is denying that they beheaded babies or molested women. Here is a quote from.President Biden. He has seen the images. https://twitter.com/therealmrbench/status/1712232097824506336?t=s4Ua5fX3_AKisg8T2z41Jw&s=19 A note Ramanaji: There is a clarification from the WH...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 09:52
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

1. Ridiculing/dissing religious icons that are shared by millions of patriotic Indians of a different religion is in bad taste. Period. I'm not sure what BRs official policy is on this but I have had similar spats with posters before and the mods have always, without exception given me no reason to...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 09:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

1. Ridiculing/dissing religious icons that are shared by millions of patriotic Indians of a different religion is in bad taste. Period. I'm not sure what BRs official policy is on this but I have had similar spats with posters before and the mods have always, without exception given me no reason to...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 09:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

@Disha and the rest: Let me clarify. I seem to have given the wrong impression. I DO NOT doubt the barbarity of Hamas types. That should be obvious by now. What I do doubt is the veracity of the claim - who is putting it out other than IDF and Western press and establishment? Like they don't have an...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 09:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

There are 14 American (maybe Israeli -Americans) hostages with Hamas. Cain Marko, Biden said he saw the images of the beheadings. Sir, there is still fog of war in this. US intel, political rhetoric and media have been "mistaken" in the past. Let us see. This is very reminiscent of that y...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 06:38
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Coming back to topic - yes, Hamas needs to go. But this makes one wonder: 1. How will you make hamas disappear - billion dollar question? 2. Occupy a city of 2 million? for how long? Will that work? 3. More importantly, who is propping up Hamas (remember ISIS and Keeda also need to go, but ultimate...
by Cain Marko
12 Oct 2023 06:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

You have a problem with Hamas that's fine. No need to attack the religion of one particular Indian community. Seriously. Take a breath. And how much of this baby beheading thing is verified news, and how much of it is white helmet stuff? Cain'ji, it is the Hamas and ISIS types and all the mullahs w...
by Cain Marko
11 Oct 2023 08:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Anyhow the big question is how do they fix Hamas if: A. They don't really want to (see above) B. Even if they truly want to, how do they separate Hamas from 2 million Palestinians in Gaza? Is this even possible? There is no fixing Hamas. Either you obliterate it into the ground and lose your soul d...
by Cain Marko
11 Oct 2023 08:13
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

Atmavik wrote: 11 Oct 2023 08:04 ^^^ its a big if but what if this was planned and had support from Doha ?
It almost certainly did. But qatae hosts a huge US base, and had tons of $$, so rarely is called out. In fact via it's mouthpiece al Jazeera, it has been given a free hand to sermonize to the ROW
by Cain Marko
11 Oct 2023 07:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
Replies: 1225
Views: 1579512

Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023

I expect Israel will occupy Gaza till it is deHamased which might take a hundred years (three generations). The Hamas folks can go to Qatar or Turkey. Always think of Shiv's oil droplet model. The hard-core jihadis have to be excised if the moderate Muslims are to have a chance. That seems like the...