Bharat Rakshak

Lalmohan

The BBC story has a lot of psy-ops. First of all Indian soldiers did not sing up to fight fascism. They were in the Army when the Viceroy declared war on Germany and the troops were sent to fight. I have read a number of books where the motivation for the many young indian officer volunteers (after...

Lalmohan

indeed not, but even with extra long runways, the payload capacity will not be fantastic, and these a/c are not really pgm capable, so their real threat remains as air defense on the otherhand, if we go back to the PLA doctrine discussion from about 2 years ago(?) then front line units of the PLA wi...

Lalmohan

seems to me that given the operational limitations, the PLAAF will primarily focus on air defense over tibet since the IAF enjoys a clear advantage in the air. PLA would have advantage of attacking in numbers from a secure and easier supply chain (which IAF will be trying to disrupt) compared to IA....

Lalmohan

came across this... seems to be a series of clips from a documentary about british troops on active duty in helmand. real war up close and personal

Ross Kemp in Afghanistan

worth looking through them to get a sense of what's happening on the ground

Lalmohan

chinese a/c could also take off from lower level airfields with higher payload and refuel in flight before crossing the mountains, but this will be limited to far fewer numbers

Lalmohan

CRPF could play a very important rear areas security role, supporting the BSF who are further forward, who are watching the gaps between army deployed areas. the roles need to be quite different, and it will take a lot of C4I to make it effective and a huge training step up for the BSF and CRPF (and...

Lalmohan

GDP/head and not PPP

and why can't UK be ahead of US? Is there a law against it? or just the opinions of the NRI-in-amreeka?

Lalmohan

i believe UK GDP/head has overtaken US GDP/head recently... although PPP wise US remains ahead

UK economy has been slowly slowly growing and delivering more or less stable life and attracting a lot of migrants

Lalmohan

ashdivay - read Gurcharan Sandhu's books on warfare in ancient india - you will find all you seek and more

Lalmohan

On Composite bows: I think Sandhu talks of Composite bows being around from Scythian times. I seem to have read that elsewhere too. The Huns apparently had them too, so by medieval times they should have been well known even in the hinterland of India (where invaders came less frequently) On Ancient...

Lalmohan

IA, IAF and MOD procurement babu's need some management courses on iterative development, incremental technology, continuous improvement, etc., etc.

seriously

Lalmohan

If I am not mistaken, Rajput women would sometimes ride out with the final sally out of the gates with the men rather than commit jauhar. So it is not entirely out of the Indian context. There are many other examples of Indian women in historical combat - the famous Rani being the best example. i th...

Lalmohan

what has this additional violence meant for US troops in Afghanisatan? Better or worse? Given that the lalmasjid clearout seems to have been clearly signalled by Beijing - was this a calculated move to make Unkil's position in Afghanistan as difficult as Iraq? the brave kammandu in the middle just h...

Lalmohan

Gurcharan Sandhu's books on Indian warfare in ancient and medieval times touches on these battles. It says that Chauhan had Mahmud on the run and could have wiped him out in his camp - except that Rajput ethics prevented him from doing so. A few days later the same Mahmud fought Chauhan again in ope...

Lalmohan

I think this thread has 'served its purpose', everyone now automatically connects terrorism and pakistan without a second thought - maybe admins should consider changing tack on this theme? Sorry Lalmohan - did you actually have the time and opportunity to ping "everyone" on the issue? Th...

Lalmohan

i hear you!

Lalmohan

I think this thread has 'served its purpose', everyone now automatically connects terrorism and pakistan without a second thought - maybe admins should consider changing tack on this theme?

Lalmohan

relax dude, TOI reporting that its back on and leaving on schedule

Lalmohan

this is a good article, but was posted before on BRF.

again the paks claim that siachen is not strategic, ok, fine - then you give up and go home and everyone is happy, na?

Lalmohan

with all the advances in CGI in movies - Troy, Lord of the Rings, et al., it is about time we had an authentic Indian historical military movie on an epic scale... (not just DD Mahabharata!)

Lalmohan

it struck me recently that there is a dearth of pictorial evidence of arms and armour from the early periods of Indian history. I wonder if the chinese first emperor's terracotta army arms and armour are comparable to their Indian peer group, give or take the vaguaries of temperature, etc.? it is a ...

Lalmohan

most special forces guys are thin and wiry. they have to have huge endurance and running ability - to keep going and going and going. big guys with huge biceps can't usually do that very well. i met a marcos officer once, he looked much slimmer than i was expecting... but then he could do insane phy...

Lalmohan

how exactly is TACAN used for air-air refuelling?

Lalmohan

SaiK wrote:some nice video presentation of Rafale (M?). Lots of shot on the avionics. Plus a kill on the mig29!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf-jQWHZ5es

ah yes, but did you notice the smoking engines near the end?!!

Lalmohan

according to Der Spiegel ... it started as a 'normal beer tent fight' - although there is some suggestion that this was the first deliberate provocation, but then when the indians left the tent they were ambushed by a mob of quickly mobilised right wingers who then besieged the restaurant and there ...

Lalmohan

eastern germany has a record of racist violence in recent times. also in germany there is a political resentment backdrop of jobs being exported to india. put the two together and i can see how local jugend might get carried away when beer is involved. either way there is more to this than meets the...

Lalmohan

the interior of the engine chambers are burning hotter than the flame on the exterior, and as shiv says, the fuel is heading away from the aircraft

Lalmohan

was kitchener developing delusions of grandeur based on his command of the sword arm of the raj? the british hierarchy would have been acutely aware that the excesses of the east india company's army a few decades earlier had almost cost them the entire colony - therefore would have been keen to ens...

Lalmohan

OT but in case of regime collapse, the PAF will prefer to save their assets by flying them to China or Iran. Other routes are likely to be blocked by IN/IAF it is unlikely that they will fight a last ditch battle to the death - hoping instead for others to intervene and save the day. and even if the...

Lalmohan

ACARS huh? I thought that was a civillian thing. Did not realise that IAF or any other AF used those... perhaps it also listens to NAV transponders?

Lalmohan

now you don't suppose that BAe sponsored award was handed over together with a nice glossy brochure on the Typhoon and a little booklet on how to open swiss bank accounts so that *ahem* funds transfers for project expenses can be made?!?!?!

i.e. there is a hardsell on with Typhoon for the IAF

Lalmohan

exceptionally used means 'used only exceptionally' or 'used without exception'?

enquiring minds want to know...

Lalmohan

typhoon is the first serious opponent the sukhois have had so far. F15C's and F16C/D's aren't really all that difficult, nor are the M2K's in France which are similar

Lalmohan

enqoob

much as i like your hypothesis, we need to bear in mind the article in the pak thread that talks about FAE difficulty to ignite.

local cells seem to work very autonomously. the key is to find the code signal that said "go forth and terrorize on this date"

Lalmohan

when genghiz arrived on the indus he did so having exhausted his army in defeating the khwarazm shah. lines of comms extended, exhausted and undermanned force with a large persian empire to consolidate and faced with a powerful indian army, genghis decided not to pursue the defeated jehangir the cro...

Lalmohan

Singha wrote:Bomb found and defused in central london

singhaji,
you have mail in usual place

Lalmohan

would the composite bow not have reached India with the Shaka/Scythians, way before the Huns appeared on the scene?

Lalmohan

A modern road running all along the border inside Arunachal Pradesh with manned checkpoints and camps along it like the Chinese have in Tibet would make the right statement of resolve and provide the Chinese with a Lakshman Rekha to cross. If we are not prepared to defend it, we should save the tro...

Lalmohan

the only place INA could get new recruits was from the Indian diaspora in Japanese held Asia, which meant Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaya and Burma. Many Malayan and Burman Indians did join up, but the bulk of the force were the POW's from Singapore you also have to remember that Japan then viewed India...

Lalmohan

sorry, none of this stacks up with anything else I have read about the INA and Bose from diligent researchers

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