Bharat Rakshak

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Massive fire in Bryansk Russia in oil storage facilities in two locations, refinery and military base. Could be accidental or Tochka attack. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1518384718592548864?s=20&t=2Kc4g096XWyc9xx_wf1lPA Russia confirmed 2 fires/explosions. Even though it was 100-150 km or...

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Looks like a Su-34 went down in Kharkiv Oblast (video and photos of crash site in link below).

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1518540895058120704

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Didn't even embed Indian test pilots or engineers into the program and testing so probably a good thing to walk out and wait for it to be mature and fielded in numbers closer to 2030 and use as a backup 5GFA.

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Looks like the stealthy escort tanker idea (for the next air superiority fighter mission) can be safely put to rest - The last three heads of Air Mobility Command have speculated that the KC-Z might be a significant departure from the modified-airliner approach taken with the KC-135, KC-10, and, ove...

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The logic behind a LO counter to a LO in the air domain is that you erode the advantage that the enemy has with LO platforms by now forcing it to go on the defense to hunt for other LO platforms, and by denying it the ability to pick you at long range and get several shots in (basically dictate the ...

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Here's an interesting data point in Aerojet's press release regarding comparison of their current generation scramjet engine on the USAF-DARPA program (HAWC) and its first generation scramjet engine used on USAF's X-51 demonstrator - An advanced Aerojet Rocketdyne scramjet engine powered the success...

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None come back to the US (I suppose Canadians ones may). Users can access the globally dispersed depot footprint (even US jets in Europe and Pacific will use that) or can spend more to replicate that in house via their own industry partnering with Lockheed Martin (negotiated on behalf of all mission...

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Official audited data - The F-35A rate declined from 76.07 percent to 68.8 percent from 2020 to 2021 as an increasing number of F-35s came due for their first big engine overhauls. https://www.airforcemag.com/fighter-mission-capable-rates-fell-in-2021/ MCR is the metric they aim to boost or maintain...

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F-35's with multi-ship IRST started testing this some time ago and the capability is probably already fielded - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/f-35-now-has-multi-ship-infrared-search-and-track-capability/ The F-35s would be using DAS I presume and then MADL for the data link. But the significance ...

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F-35's with multi-ship IRST started testing this some time ago and the capability is probably already fielded -

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/f-35-no ... apability/

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Given that Ukraine has enjoyed a 3:2 advantage in troop #'s from the start (which has now grown to 2:1), they have infinite supplies and vastly superior technology at every leve l, from anti-tank weapons to MANPAD's to drones, even better communications, night vision gear, real time ELINT & sat...

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3 T in the 80s would be worth more than 10T in todays money. We’re talking about nearly 30% of worlds GDP as it existed then (for just 5% of the words population at the time) so not really a great comparison in terms of resources available and relative spending power (it went a lot farther then).

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Looks like Poland is donating its its T-72s tanks to Ukraine and the Dutch are sending more than a dozen PzH 2000 howitzers. While the initial focus was on ATGMs and MANPADS the UA demand for the next phase seems to be for Artillery guns, shells (possibly precision guided) and loitering munitions. I...

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Apparently there’s a forcefield that prevents the tens of thousands of Ukrainian or Russian weapons on the battlefield from making their way into the black market but apparently the soon to expire stocks or older variant ATGMs or MANPADS being transferred by US and EU will. Let wait for a single pie...

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Russia realizes it is futile to waste a USD 25 Million 2 stage ASAT rocket on a $250,000 Starlink satellite. All based on fake news (also poster here) that Putin had ordered the destructing of starlink under the assumptions that Russia could even pull such a thing off. I mean talk of completely mak...

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[Brar_w ji, If I understand you correctly, US has not really assessed accurately AFU's position in this conflict and determined what weapons package is needed to be delivered where, and that AFU soldiers will be able to use them optimally to result in a decisive victory for Ukraine at the earliest ...

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Not sure I follow you. I think you do. We’re here trying to caution others or buying too much into a narrative while pushing fake news sourced from dubious SM accounts so it doesn’t mean much. :-? As far as the straw man, I don’t think it’s worth indulging in that because an invasion and denial con...

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US is pumping more weapons - for what outcome??!! Any amount of conventional weapons can't help AFU defeat Russia now.

Do your sources have a definitive timeline on when space X satellites can be expected to spontaneously begin blowing up?

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Runway denial is a constant and not a one time mission, especially not over a country as large as Ukraine. Anyhow, we should see western 155 mm systems show up in Ukraine in the coming days. The US has transferred 18 LW155's, and another 72 are on the way. Canada is also preparing some LW155's for t...

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China Test-Fires New YJ-21 Hypersonic Missile Naval News regular contributor and analyst H I Sutton identified the missile as the hypersonic YJ-21 anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), based on the CM-401 design. The YJ-21 characteristics are unknown because there has been no official notice of the t...

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A good explanation of the Sikorsky Defiant design for the uS Army's FLARA (Blackhawk replacement) effort. The Defiant X has some subtle survivability and aero changes over the currently flying defiant but they are largely similar. Its an upward battle against the V-280 which has knocked it out of th...

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Admiral, what you describe is an application of comprehensive data gathering, data mining, data matching/analysis using AI/Machine Learning and real-time updates correlating with Big Data processing. None of these are beyond the scope of Indian Navy but needs focused funding. Only problem for the I...

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You go by what has been submitted in terms of performance and test results and use your experts to make up you mind. Only a handful of missiles can provide real world data of live fire tests against supersonic full scale targets using countermeasures, yet operators around the world evaluate systems ...

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US Air Force (Pacific Air Forces) has finished the F-35A bed-down at Eielson air force base Alaska. The base received its 54th and final aircraft earlier this month to complete fielding of the first two operational squadrons for PACAF. Eielson completes F-35A Lightning II fleet https://www.eielson.a...

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So Google just did this: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/04/18/google-maps-removes-blurring-for-russias-military-sites-a77397 On my spare time, I like surfing on Google Maps and I'm usually looking at the volcanoes in Kamchatka, so I tend to browse into Petropavlovsk. I can clearly make out the...

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That's some logic.

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There is nothing really stopping them from carrying two pods though the F-15C's are mostly for air-air work and so will the F-15EX once it replaces it (though the platform is a multi-role system).

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X-Post from the Indian Army Aviation thread.... The reason why the US is remanufacturing its AH-64 force to the Echo (version 4-6 in particular) is that they come out as fully digital systems capable of conducting manned-unmanned teaming missions which is what John was referring to. No more matter ...

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Brar_w Are you able to shed some light on US Army recruitment. Specifically how long do soldiers serve? Are they on contract? At a battalion level how does a CO maintain cohesion if GI’s serve tours of duty I.e. short stints or r on contracts? I am by no means an expert on recruitment but generally...

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X-Post from the Indian Army Aviation thread.... US is retiring 100s of ApacheD helis to replace them with ApacheE attack helicopters. UAVs have their place but dedicated attack helicopters have their place. I never saw this argument when Apaches were ordered by India only for indigenous Swadeshi LCH...

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How hard is it to produce PGM? By now they should have started producing such munitions and becoming more effective on the battlefield. Depends on the PGM and what production systems you designed for them and their various efficient and maximum production rates. Depending on these rates, you then b...

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Read somewhere that a Turkish commercial vessel was close and could have rescued some of the crew as they abandoned ship. Perhaps this is an image from that (still waiting to see credible technical analysis to establish authenticity) given the missing rafts in the photo. If that is the case, we woul...

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Please use some basic filters and checks before posting unverified information being posted on social media by supporters of either side as there is plenty of unverified crap flying around. Just on last page we had a fake Duma page claiming that Russia will begin shooting down Space X and declare wa...

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No one cares about the principles part. The decision would have consequences and will unfold once put in place Typo as I meant principals involved here as in the decision makers. Neither you nor I can predict what they will be. But status quo after decision will be different. True. Which is why we'...

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NATO and Russia have never gone to war, and the same was true for any FSU and NATO conflict. Let's get back to your reasoning once that status changes. Are not NATO nations supplying weapons and stealth people in this war? Tis breaking all your reasoning so far. The sides have never ever been in di...

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bala wrote:
brar wrote:completely ignored by those with any sort of decision making authority in Finland, Sweden
Yes, that is why we have wars to decide.

NATO and Russia have never gone to war, and the same was true for any FSU and NATO conflict. Let's get back to your reasoning once that status changes.

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There was talk of no fly zone in Western Ukraine and around Odessa on CNN, wonder if the CVN and CBG are going to the Black sea CNN doesn't decide that. There is no legal basis for NATO to pursue that and members, including the US side, would not agree to this unless Russia attacked Poland, Romania...

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tis a myth and the quicker nations in Euro realize the better. They seem to have experts and make their own calculations so I suppose they've made the determination that it does provide them security. So your point of view is definitely being completely ignored by those with any sort of decision ma...

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Saar I am reminded by the phrase.. My point was entirely about the claim that was made that the entire point of joining NATO would be to have its nukes based there. As can be clearly seen based on NATO's current posture, only about five of the dozens of European member states actually house NATO nu...

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Neither Finland, nor Sweden would have been discussing NATO membership, or been weeks from putting in their official papers, even 3 months ago. Something must have happened that triggered this. Maybe some intelligence chatter about Russian contingency plans for an invasion of Finland.....Norway can...

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