Bharat Rakshak

Flightglobal: India details plans for indigenous medium combat aircraft


http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... craft.html

Future weapons on discovery is running a show now on Israeli ops with a lot of detail on micro tavor-repeats at 11 pm tonight.

Also I think we should also consider the FN P90, Tavor and the indigenous Zitara (Not fully sure of the last one). As these weapons are already in use by the Indian armed forces and SPG it would make interoperability, maintenance, etc. Another obvious choice IMHO would also be the INSAS carbine. Ei...

raghunath wrote:MKN resigned, accepted by PM, according to TOI report.

Cnnibn-saying the opposite.

cnn ibn appears to be confirming news of PC as HM

PC is seen as media savvy and the skeptic in me thinks they are resigned to allowing more attacks and only want a better pr man than patil to work the media after each attack.

A Arun wrote:
Only news on NDTV's ticker for the past 15 mins: Karkare's wife refuses to take compensation from Modi.

I think she refused from all politicos.... but of course this is barkhatv....

Arnab/times have done a good job and my disrespect for shiv aroor and ht has greatly decreased.......

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/28/india.attacks/art.taj.1835.gi.jpg Posting from CNN. This looks like a videshi vehicle. Is this the israeli "medical" van? Livery looks unique but our people have all kinds of fancy equipment-i thought I saw a volvo fire truck on tv

Beeb's coverage has slowed-they must be busy throwing up after being forced to deal with their pet nations rep head from the sewer line to the septic tank....but Iam sure they will recover with a gazzillion hours of airtime for their islamabad ambassa...errr sorry correspondant.

Barkha dutt is beyond belief-scary even. Am I the only one who thinks the spinning of the cnn correspondent to the unkil viewers(they bring the feed up on the international channel sometimes) is rather different to what is reported to the international channel directly .

The article also suggests that 400 million USD meant for shutting down F-22 assembly line may be syphoned off to fund four addittional Raptors. So Raptor is around 140 million per unit and taking 50-60 million USD for each new MKI, 1 Raptor ~ 3 MKIs. Cheers.... Neerajji there are plenty of figures ...

that video should not have been released. It was never intended to be a public knowledge about what a pilot at USAF thinks. Well...now its been shown all over TV....what a waste..... In any case,....whatever that guy said...he would not have said it off-hand. Su-30 is no match against Raptor...even...

Flight:US lawmakers warn future F-22 orders at risk

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... -risk.html

More on flight

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/20 ... ricks.html


This may sound very silly but is this some sort of psy-ops to get us to show more in the next cope/red flag?

Thanks Shivji for sharing that-I guess some of us(me included) got too anxious at the (false) chest beating by the yanks.

This "briefing" and its contents may have been vetted by a senior officer. A f-15 pilot is not going to be dumb enough to blow his career over this. This suggests that bitterness in the usaf establishment over cope runs rather deep.

Either the pilot is being conservative or this plane is not agile. Even a Tu-160 could out maneuver this flying brick. Cheers.... :rotfl: . All the propaganda till date has the plane doing very limited and controlled stuff-rolls etc. One wonders if the Chinese have accepted the bird with a limited ...

This is strong proof that the whipping at COPE was real and not made up to bolster the case for more raptors which was what the yankee fanboys were claiming. Any perceived gain-however minor and irrelevant -is now shouted out from the roof tops. Nice to know that the wounds are still fresh...

They just cut in to cover kumble and kirstern's press briefing

The tender for carbines is a little strange-the 200m accuracy specs seem to match the zittara and one would think it would be a no brainer. Why issue a tender?

Stealth(at least the shaping part of it) is no longer the voodoo that its made out to be by the yankee fanboys. What counts is money and time-if you have more of the former you can get away with less of the latter. Given the tools and parameters that have been developed for the Lca-it will not be to...

Flightglobal:India reveals plan to develop indigenous medium fighter

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/10/06/316782/india-reveals-plan-to-develop-indigenous-medium-fighter.html

Bharadwaj, The MRCA deal is next in line. I hope to god that the Congress loses the next elections or we will be tied to American empire for the next generation. One does get the scary feeling that MRCA is just the start of this show with hercules/poseidon being something of a teaser. Tanks,guns et...

Will uncle push abrams on to us after the n-deal? If so this may cause more trouble for the long term future for Arjun but will at least break the Russian monopoly.

What about military application of these jets.. Once the MTA gets around we will have a medium lift capability. These too could be modified into somehting different. Maybe a AWAC/JSTAR/SIGINT/ELINT platform. An awacs can be theoretically done on either Tupolev airframe but the entire R and D for in...

With the local airlines infatuated with Airbus/Boeing/Embraer one wonders what success this move is going to have. The 334 and 214 don't have a clear defense market either apart from VIP transport.