Bharat Rakshak

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Some previously unknown info here Shekhar Gupta: What the IAF PAF dogfight reveals Whether the Rafale deal is a scam or the best thing for India’s defence is for more eminent people to debate. Let me, meanwhile, list four facts emerging from the February 26-27 air skirmishes to bring the story of wh...

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Rahul bedi mentioned in janes "Manufacturing of the first 36 units is expected to be completed by December, while another 48 guns are set to be delivered in 2020" https://www.janes.com/article/86615/indian-mod-approves-local-production-of-114-dhanush-howitzers I hope the producton figures...

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Also, the rhetoric and the war mongering from the announcers is ridiculous, even by TSP standards. They’re frequently referencing “recent conflict”. How I wish we had downed their F16 over our territory. They need another lesson.

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Anyone watching Pak military parade? Maj Gen GhafooL and ISPR have tweeted a link. Right now Paki fizaiya is doing acrobatics with Bandaar and the announcer (a Group Captain) said that PAF is the only Air Force in the world to manufacture a high tech aircraft like Bandar. The Turks and the PLAAF als...

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RIP brave soldier and may you return to serve Bharat again. Somehow, it feels like a personal loss - only happened twice before - APJ Kalam and Atal.

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https://twitter.com/NayanimaBasu/status/1105896735300378626 >>India's statement after China's backing Paki Terror<<< (I am fairly happy with India's statement.. specially the last para -- India will do it's thing with or without China) Disagree. This statement was very weak. "on account of a m...

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Our casualties are salaried professionals while theirs are not. So a thousand cuts has worked. They had a long term vision and they executed. Engaging in a dog fight, POW exchanges, Conventional hostilities elevates their status as equals. A single war will never be enough to fix things, its just a...

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Economic Times - Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his address at a function in Vigyan Bhawan on Wednesday and rushed to attend a meeting to review the security situation arising out of Pakistan's attempt to violate Indian air space. Modi was replying to the questions from youngsters during the...

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This is a terrible outcome for IAF today. First the helicopter crash and now a downed jet with a captured pilot. I think GoI statement must be imminent.

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DGISPR having a press conference and repeating claim about IAF pilot shot down. They’re showing pics of pilots belongings. It would be very foolish for them to go out and announce this without having the pilot. Hope God gives strength to IAF pilots.

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Flight radar shows several international flights to Europe turning back over Rajasthan because Pak has closed airspace

https://www.flightradar24.com/FIN122/1fa272ab

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AEW flying over Bathinda after close trip to LoC

https://www.flightradar24.com/SONA/1f9efcca

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Vishnu Som: Strong reports of IAF strikes on Pak targets in the early hours of the morning. Crucial for official reactions. Pak also confirms we hit.

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Update from Jarnail:

Indian aircrafts intruded from Muzafarabad sector. Facing timely and effective response from Pakistan Air Force released payload in haste while escaping which fell near Balakot. No casualties or damage.

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Not sure where else to post this, but I was disappointed that the BJP didn't invite key political figures from other parties to attend the opening of the National War Memorial. We have several living defence ministers, many of whom have sent men and women in harm's way, surely those could be invited...

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Can any gurus enlighten why India got into a seemingly unequal treaty? 25% water share with >80% population share? There must be more to it.

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UNSC issues statement condemning Pulwama, names Jaish; China Opposed It. NEW DELHI: In a significant statement on the Pulwama terror attack, the United Nations Security Council has condemned the suicide bombing in which 40 CRPF soldiers were killed, and named Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Pakistan-based te...

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Nikhil T, point out the instances of bigotry etc and we can take action, delete the posts etc. Otherwise, please dont engage in these shoot and scoot tactics of tarring and feathering the forum based on your POV. That's as unacceptable as any bigotry etc in itself. You could have reported the speci...

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Mods - I've read all 38 pages of this thread and I'm sorry to say I'm disappointed in BRF. Far from actionable suggestions, we are discussing petty politics, turning Kashmir into a prison camp and anti-Muslim bigotry. (Side note: since when is this blatant religious bigotry allowed on BRF? We have s...

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One pilot confirmed dead. Om shanti.

It’s a repeat of a similar incident in 2006, which caused two fatalities. Hope the second pilot makes it.

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RIP brave 5 soldiers who lost their lives today. Om shanti. The vermin Ajai Shooklaw is spreading anti-Modi venom as usual. I seriously think he has lost his bearing. From his Twitter: Three days after Pulwama, two "facts" and a question: Fact 1: Pakistan Army and the ISI were behind the c...

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Hindu: Rafale deal not on ‘better terms’ than UPA-era offer Wow. The Hindu has put up the entire 8 page dissent note submitted by three members of the Indian Negotiating Team. Regardless of the concerns raised, the MoD is leaking sensitive docs like crazy. NaMo has certainly upset some very powerfu...

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Air India gets DGCA nod for ‘secret’ Caribbean flight

Seems imminent.

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Never seen an article like this in Economic Times. Let's keep a pin on this .. Air India on a top-secret mission? Intense speculation that Air India could be readying a mission that involves sending a long-range non-stop flight to bring back a highvalue target early next week swept aviation circles ...

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Leh and Kargil finally connected to the National Power Grid NEW DELHI: More than 70 years after Independence, an engineering feat by state-run transmission utility PowerGrid has made it possible for India’s northernmost areas in Jammu & Kashmir to plug into the national electricity network to b...

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HAL Can Match Dassault’s Delivery Time for 100 Rafale Jets: Former MD’s Message to Govt HAL still takes 2.2x man hours to make Su 30 MKIs and the retired MD is claiming he would match Dassault’s productivity with his 50% arakshan work force. He should also know that the MRCA contract had 1.9x man h...

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^Pure PsyOps. They don't have the money or the relationship to get the T-90. Russia would be foolish to choose to sell to Pak, when they know that India can just as easily shift it's purchases away from them and to the West. I won't be surprised if this news came from the our Russian friends, to cre...

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A record leap: LPG cylinder now used by 89% households in India NEW DELHI: Nine out of 10 Indian homes now use cleaner cooking gas, a record improvement over just about five in 10 homes four years ago, as a result of the Modi government’s relentless effort at popularising cleaner fuel and subsidisi...

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A "Surgical Strike" Unit To Fight Behind Enemy Lines: Government Sources NEW DELHI: The government is planning to set up a "surgical strike" force comprising the best soldiers drawn from the three branches of the military, a senior government official told NDTV. This special uni...

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Since when did the Russian become good at rail? I've never understood why we partner with different countries on similar projects. Each country will push their own tech and we'll end up with a rainbow of equipment to operate and maintain. Instead, China standardizes on a tech and churns out product...

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The US Navy said there is no way for anyone to properly train and crew that many destroyers in such a short span of time. So we know their strategy is not better warfighters during combat but greater numbers during peace. But it won’t hurt them if they don’t have to fight. And in peace time they pa...

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RIP brave soldiers.

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Another Raymond Davis blood money opportunity, hainji! I'll say this is Pakis new strategy to get some $$$ in the foreign exchange reserves.

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How much LAHAT was must requirement specifics when IA drafted gsqr? I think we have to workout on new needs as we proceed. All range and weight requirents can come in subsequent upgrades and tranches. Let's get Arjun Mk2 in 1000 numbers and in tranches. IA must move on. Arjun should have been bough...

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^Not sure why this news is gaining so much attention. All it does is gives the ANC C-in-C explicit power over officers from all three services. This was always the case, atleast on paper. The ANC C-in-C is a three star officer who has three one-star officers from each of the three services reporting...

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^^^ This year, the Indian Air Force doesn’t have enough funds to pay for past purchases Friday, March 09, 2018 ... Enough said. 42 squadrons is a pipe dream with expensive imports. Hopefully, realization is dawning among the decision makers. True. Both IAF and MoD must share blame in this. The J-10...

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The news report is wrong. Its the Govt., that hasn't got the funds. IAF does not have its own treasury. What can be done to fix this? The parliamentary standing committee(PSC) on defence, headed by BJP veteran Maj. Gen. (retd) B.C. Khanduri, has been a strong advocate of creating a non-lapsable, ro...

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I find it hard to believe that any firm will enter this competition, given the fiasco that MMRCA was. Now that we have the Rafale, why is there a need for a new face-off between single-engined and twin-engined fighters, given that SEF competition alreaady exists as well as the future IN TE competit...

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Aircraft carrier Vikrant to only be commissioned by 2020 NEW DELHI: The delay on part of Russia in supplying aviation items has impeded the commissioning of Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) Vikrant and the warship is expected to be commissioned by October 2020, a senior Navy official said today. V...

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shiv wrote:Nirmala Sitharaman is new raksha mantri

Excellent choice! India's second woman Defence Minister (IG was the first).

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