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Has someone authored a piece on COIN operations? Kindly gimme a link. Thanks

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perhaps other things...?

I hear you, fellow jingo

My personal wish is to see IAF deployed with NATO forces in A'stan

Waise i think the closest we have worked with them is in Congo (ONUC and MONUC). Ivory Coast is a potential area for collab. With RAF we had Op Khukri in Sierra Leone.

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I am asking this cause we have seen pictures of visiting forces where their personnel guard the equipment and aircrafts. Are you sure? I dont recollect any images of armed guards from visiting AF in India. Though possibly some ground duty staff always stick around the bird 24x7 Daulat, IMHO AdA is ...

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This one is a Su-27:

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The problem was the evaluations, it was solved with SLPRM mission recording system for french side, and Indian side GPS recording plus Otaris software aboard a E-3F AWACS which recorded every radar signatures.

ACMI?

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Rajiv,

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Surya and Dev, I posted it not for the 'news', but for titbits of information it contains; (a) Flying of aircraft on VIP sorties by senior IAF offrs - now prohibited for safety reasons (b) IAF standard to rate 'currentness' - 45/60 days (c) Pilot rating requirement for flying VVIP aircraft no consip...

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They dont get paid - but otherwise they wear the Lt and Capt rank badges.

Hmm, I thought a army Lt. is actually paid less salary than his JCOs. This is due to the sarkari system in India where pay increases with service years.

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One of the problems in this is the educational standards. Some of the JCOs come from very rural backgrounds, and the education level may be not upto the mark. Putting them on higher level courses may be problematic for them. How ever this problem would go as the nation's educational standards go up...

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http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20021217/cth1.htm IAF top brass barred from ‘unauthorised’ flying Vijay Mohan Tribune News Service Chandigarh, December 16 Following the incident of an IAF transport aircraft being piloted by an Air Marshal straying into Pakistani airspace earlier this year, which re...

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> Interoperability

i think this is the first time we are using that term to describe our exercises. So uptill now we have practiced AAR with;

RAF - VC10 (loooong time back)
AdA - KC-135
SAAF - B707

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New Indian Express Short on men, IAF to promote JCOs instead Saturday November 1 2003 00:00 IST NEW DELHI: With its officer cadre dwindling and fewer people joining the services, the Indian Air Force has decided to look inwards. In the past six months, the IAF has closed doors on short service commi...

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The original role of JCOs has expanded from times of the Raj. They are now expected o take charge of small actions. JCOs can take charge of platoons and section size missions if a officer is not 'around', while the Indian officer necessarily commands a Company and upwards (IIRC). They are now expect...

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The author expects too much from the media. There was a piece recently that went like "earlier it was MiG-21s, now it is helicopters", "IAF has lost xyz heptrs over 5 years " and what not. The prize went to IndiaDaily "MiG-16 helicopter - accident or shotdown?" :roll: A...

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extract from Gaurav Sawant's book on Army Aviation Corps:
http://vayu-sena.tripod.com/kargil-sawant.html

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IIRC in fighter aircraft small intakes such as these feed air to the afterburners. APUs also require a separate intake. But the positioning of intakes in IJT seems odd for these appliactions.

Intakes for cooling are generally seen in AWACS/ELINT aircraft.

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what are those small intakes on the HJT-36?

have they taken Su-30s canopy!!

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What is the DW 47 just above the landing gear?

Construction Number or "C/N". Something like the chassis number in your car.

DW47 has to be a civilian prototype (wheeled landing gear), since N901 has a different nose job.

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Viraat coverage seems to be from the "Day at Sea" organised by the IN in March. Saw coverage of that in Sainik Samachar;

http://mod.nic.in/samachar/april15-05/body.html#l11

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I have the BR News section bookmarked separately and go there often

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Extract from "The CIA's secret war in Tibet". Interesting early history of the ARC.

http://vayu-sena.tripod.com/other-cia-tibet-conboy.html

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http://www.acig.org/exclusives/viraat/P ... _drill.jpg

Note the booster rockets, needed for deployment on Sea King.

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Can anyone draw up a scenario of strike on Gwadar?

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Ajai Shukla of NDTV has joined Indian Express. Read a very good piece on Siachen written by him.

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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200505220330.htm CRPF to supervise security of Srinagar Srinagar, May 22 (PTI): The Centre has decided to hand over the security arrangements of the city to CRPF replacing BSF and has sanctioned the recruitment of about 5000 youths in Jammu and Kashmir in Cent...

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All the best to both of you!

Misc Ques: Is the "Pilot Officer" rank allotted to cadets in the academy?

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Aditya you are wrong. These institutes are meant ONLY for children of ARMY personnel, not even for Navy and Air Force. I think a couple of seats are kept for civillians, but it's not confirmed Hmm, the Army institute of business admin in Greater Noida is run like any other institute. I can confirm ...

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Anyhow.. what the devil is the Army Institute of Fashion Technology?? The Army has in the recent times, opened a very large number of educational institutions - in every field. These are open to the public, with perhaps a quota for defence wards and personnel. An example would be the new army medic...

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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/05may07/national.htm#10 Assam Rifles reading itself for greater role in NE ... "So we will be giving security to the Tipaimukh Dam and also clearing the NH to facilitate vehicle movement [ROP] which will bring development in remote areas," Lt Gen Singh sa...

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Was the article finally prepared? Link? thx.

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67 AR insignia; http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/Temp/kya05-02.jpg Why this peculiar shape for fuel tanks? http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/Temp/kya05-04.jpg Below is a picture of Army Day celebrations in Bangalore that Shiv had posted sometime back. Is the gun from the "333" Missile Group? http...

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In the age of long range missiles, very sort range weapons like guns dont find useful place in the air tactice. Much like dagger has lost relavence in ground warfare. ... The air engagement would have long become decisive before it comes down to the option to wield the gun. In Indian context pehaps...

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Deleting the guns on a strike aircraft has to be the most 'radical' thing I have ever seen

IIRC Vanilla IBs have only one 1 cannon rather than the usual two on IS.

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Kargil war — Indian Army admits making blunders http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.as ... 005_pg4_24

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And there was lack of initiative at the JCO-NCO level
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-2-2005_pg7_35 Kargil not a failure for Pakistan’s military: Indian academic By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: Kargil may have been a diplomatic and political failure for Pakistan but it represented “significant successes,” for the Pakistani military, ...

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Media representations of the Kargil War and the Gujarat riots By Subarno Chattarji http://www.sarai.net/journal/04_pdf/14subarno.pdf I have'nt read this piece yet, but the following lines caught my eye; .... Star News projected Kargil as a just and necessary war against intransigent intruders. It a...

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If educating people is the goal, on a mass scale, make the site on the track of Learn about kargil war in 4 hours or Kargil war for Dummies. War History is serious business. It aint a bag of popcorn. If you are earnest in your effort then you will not find it interesting. The existing BR content an...

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Good. I have noticed that over time many parts of the website have been converted to a PHP + database format; Officer Data, News, IAF awards. This is a step in the right direction and it improves BR as a searchable research database. I suppose Jagan will make kill listings in database form too somed...

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http://mod.nic.in/samachar/June01-04/body.html 59th RR Battalion (Assam) Raised The 59th Rashtriya Rifles Battalion (Assam) was formally raised at Assam Regimental Centre, Shillong recently. This is the third RR battalion of Assam Regiment. Brig WJB Sturgeon, Commandant, 58 Gorkha Training Centre, u...

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Army ready with J&K downsize plan Troop cut: Some 9,000 men may relocate to Himachal, no change in LoC strength, order soon SHISHIR GUPTA Posted online: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 0142 hours IST NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 15: Moving on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s announcement of troop reduction...

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