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Talking of Capt Vikram Batra, PVC (post)....this from his twin brother... ' When I talk about Luv, I dont know where to begin. Capt. Vikram Batra PVC (posthumous) is Luv, and I, his younger twin, Kush. His identical twin. Ours was a childhood spent in the hills of Palampur making the most of our ide...

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ranganathan wrote:Paki air defences are rudimentary and not a big threat.

I wish!

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Arun_S wrote:
vivek_ahuja wrote:Hmm...Long time since this thread was seen alive. Time to open it up again with some new stuff...

Lovely pics - ... brings back memories!

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Ved wrote:So its over! Well done, by all accounts.

I'm sure our boys are looking forward to being home, after a brief 3 day stop at Saudi Arabia for a mini exercise with those guys.

Sorry - I meant UAE!!

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So its over! Well done, by all accounts.

I'm sure our boys are looking forward to being home, after a brief 3 day stop at Saudi Arabia for a mini exercise with those guys.

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vsunder wrote:Ramana, Tank was a superb engineer.

Many years back I heard that Tank was involved with designing the Messerschmit (sp?) 109, Luftwaffe's famed fighter of WW2 - is he old enough?

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Sid wrote:
Venkarl wrote:

One fascinating aspect is the diagrammatic depiction of an air sit during a combat debrief - accurate and very enlightening!

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Did the Maruts ever get used in action? .... A Marut flown by Sqn Ldr KK Bakshi of 220 Squadron also shot down a PAF F-86 Sabre on 07 Dec 71 (Flg Offr Hamid Khwaja of 15 Squadron PAF). http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/Aircraft/Polly-Marut.html -Vivek Live & learn - thats something I ne...

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Singha wrote:looks like they are flying missions late in the night and recovering around dawn.

bang on!!!

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jahaju wrote:Pity those kinds of jackets are still not availbale in India with IAF logos, sqn names etc.

Actually, the IAF has had a neat black, leather jacket, for about 2+ years. I'll see if I can find a pic somewhere - maybe on the IAF website. Badges etc would have to be put on by the user, obviously.

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Congrats to all of you!

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Shankar wrote:
The First Women Pilots in the Brazilian Air Force
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.... similar to the IAF's experience, where, as we know, they have been flying for a number of years.

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Women would be as good as men in the fighter cockpit, in terms of ability. However, and I've said this before on this forum, one good reason why we cannot afford to have women as fighter pilots is that they would not be able to withstand 'G' forces during their menstrual periods - under G, your weig...

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Jaeger wrote:^^ we don't have the facility to access the data on the FDR?! is that a fact? does anyone else find this a little ludicrous?

Not yet, presumably.

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[quote="John Snow That brings us to the question, 1) Service schedules were not followed by IAF a) components that need to be serviced were not b) components were not stocked to replace those that need to be. c) improper training 2) If above is true then its derliction of duty. 3) If the above ...

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Arun_S wrote:Ved sir, the above are not my words.

My apologies - I screwed up there!

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[quote="Arun_S"][quote="rakall"][quote="sum"]Slowly, the dirt starts coming out from behind the curtains...But IAF says that ever since their induction, the trainers have enjoyed a low serviceability rate of 40 per cent. .....â€œThe Hawks are not flying around much as t...

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[.....plenty of times - Pilots tend to have more faith in thier flying and handling skills rather than in the ejection seats. You can call it overconfidence to an extent. It also has something to with the false sense of security that being seated in the cockpit environment gives to a pilot. .... Wh...

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.......Pilot Officer O M Nirmal Kumar, with barely 200 hours of flying experience, nearly pulled off an improbable forced landing of a crippled jet. .......To put things in perspective, the elapsed time between the bird hit and the ejection was mere 100 seconds......... M P Anil Kumar is a former M...

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Lockheed Martin, Wipro To Light Ambar Jyoti In India

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pradeepe wrote:....is this what happens just when you engage after-burner. Seems like pure fuel injected into the last chamber...

Essentially, this is what an A/B is!

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Though I admire the Russian engineering genius that has produced these beauties ....... You havent seen anything till you've seen the old Mig-23MF's (Rakshak) nozzle - no controls, free floating, takes the mean position dictated by inside and outside pressure - and delivers (or rather, delivered) a...

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Kartik wrote: .....and whats this nonsense about the Wing Cmdr having to drive tanks in the Thar desert ? and why on earth would he have to do that to talk about aircraft ?!

That's what I thought too.... guess I missed the sarcasm bit as well!

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......I am usually very wary of technological advances which their creators plug as revolutionary. I have never seen an example of any technology having anything more than an incremental effect on the battlefield.. Not really, if one sees the tremendous impact on the battlefield of various RsMA ......

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shiv wrote:....This is the first one (on Flt Safety) - written by a Gp Capt Valluri - whom I do not know personally - ....

That's 'Nalluri', more commonly known as 'Motilal', a Test Pilot.

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I recently got an enquiry from the daughter of a 9 sqn pilot, trying to trace him - can anyone provide a clue? I quote.... 'Could you please help me. My father Jeff Robert Bearcroft was a Wing Commander with the 9th Squadron (we think) in 1945. He was killed in an aircraft accicent (when flying for ...

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Leader in Indian Air Force to speak at Strategic Space and Defense 2006

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Interesting, Ved, can i ask a related question? One can appreciate Nachi's stand in firing back at his pursuers - but is that the recommended action? What are the IAF's directives to its downed pilots when they are cornered - should they fight, or should they give up? A downed pilot is to try and g...

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surya, Was there a firefight as was the case with nachiketa? it also beggars the question - why was nachi spared? Pure luck! The men who got him were restrained by a sensible officer, who just happened to be there - luckily for Nachi! The main issue about doing unto the enemy what he does to his vi...

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It is great to hear that IA is gentlemen first.... officer next... But what of Shaurab Kalia, and SqLdr Ahuja... who suffered so much in their hands? The hallmark of fine sense is the adherence to one's own values. Do we need to match the bad examples, or wouldnt we rather set a few good ones of ou...

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[quote="Vivek_A"]DRC report. Take it with a pinch of salt. Kargil military inquiry proposed Musharrafâ€™s court-martial: PML-N ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) said on Friday that a military inquiry into the Kargil operation in 1999 had recommended the court-martial of G...

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RayC wrote:
2).......At the age of 55, what do you expect them to play? Rugby? .....

That was GOOD!!!

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Lalmohan wrote:
er... IAF dropped LGB's on Tiger Hill amongst other places, ...

Right. The Mirage for example, had them.

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Found this after some looking around , Don't know how authentic tribune's source was ! Napalm attack on infiltrators DELHI, June 2 â€” Going into the eighth day of air strikes, the Indian Air Force (IAF) today took to intensive measures, pounding the last few positions of the infiltrators with extr...

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Napalm needs a lot of air to burn. Any studies of how napalm performs at 18000 feet? All descriptions of Siachen speak of weak, slow burning kerosene flames from lack of Oxygen. Burning Napalm would flow down slopes so I guess it would not be useful to try and hit Bakis sitting on mountaintops if I...

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Napalm bombs when dropped along low level attack profile, slide along the ground and incinerate the area as it slides along and also spreads. (I have not seen a napalm strike to be honest, but I have seen such attacks in training films). One wonders how effective it would be on mountain tops and al...

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On a similar note, it can't be that difficult to simulate the trajectory of ordinance, given the fact that ISRO routinely performs these for ite space crafts. It is comparatively easier to calculate the trajectory of something that is moving directly 180 Deg to gravity, than at near horizontal to i...

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Walked over tiger hill ??? With all due respect tiger hill was one of Kargil's costliest assaults . I am one hundred percent sure that the Sikhs and grenadiers did not just walk over tiger hills .This message from army HQ needs to be verified . I'm only repeating what was said - BGS 15 Corps, I thi...

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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. ......While the army may have been late to realise that the peaks were occupied , the op vijay was carried out brilliantly . .... ...

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Two aircraft, 1xCheetah and 1xMi-8 are known to have been lost to enemy fire in Siachen in different incidents ....." Besides the choppers, it is wrongly assumed that 2 fighters also went down to Stingers. Its an academic point, but only the MiG-21 was actually shot down by a Stinger - he inad...

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