Bharat Rakshak

Prem Kumar

Nice gesture, NRao!

As someone said on Twitter, "unknown gunmen" are taking Narayana Murthy's 70-hr workweek advice seriously!

We have had successes in extradition/grabbing from UAE, Nepal, Thailand etc. But botched up the Mehul Choksi op. Hope we have assets in Qatar.

Prem Kumar

Manu Pubby reporting that the light tank developed by DRDO and L&T will begin trials by end of the year. Its not based on Vajra chassis. Will have a US engine, 105 mm main gun, APS and integrated UAV The induction plan, if this report is true, is baffling to say the least. 59 to be ordered right...

Prem Kumar

God alone knows what's cooking on the MANPAD front

ANI News reports that DAC is in advanced stages of giving the go-ahead for Nirbhay (or Nirbhay-class missile) induction. No dates or commitment yet. So, take it FWIW

Prem Kumar

BJP should go hammer and tongs on this: Liquor Scam , followed by Tihar Jail Scam - portray them as the scam-successor to Congress Portray their broom symbol as sweeping their corruption under the carpet Their only plank was anti-corruption, where they used & discarded Anna Hazare. Now, even tha...

Prem Kumar

Hope we make it clear that follow-on orders of MQ-9s, P8Is etc are all dependent on delivery of engines

Prem Kumar

For imports, all is forgiven. Crash-prone Hermes, Heron without satnav, etc But 1 crash by Tapas & everything grounds to a halt till root cause analysis is done, problem fixed & all tests repeated. And no, we wont touch Tapas if it falls short of the service ceiling by 2K feet or endurance b...

Prem Kumar

Loitering munitions & swarm drones are areas where the IA Aviation has shown good support for indigenous systems. But emergency procurements seem reserved for imported systems. Tapas is being given the cold-shoulder. And though the ADE deserves the bulk of the blame for inordinate delays in its ...

Prem Kumar

On cue, Pralay was tested a short while ago. Encouraging signs that induction is imminent

Look forward to the day that user-tests happen from their production-stocks (like Brahmos)

Prem Kumar

vijayk wrote: ↑04 Nov 2023 21:24 Can someone from RJ, CG and MP give some perspective?

I hear CG has changed from CON party comfortable to very close ... Raman Singh is unpopular. That was the reason for BJP's performance in 2018

Why was Raman Singh unpopular?

Prem Kumar

Very good news! 1 unit of Pralay (120) was ordered in Dec 2022 2 more units (250) were in advanced stages of procurement in April 2023. Don't know if orders have been placed Hopefully the 370 Pralays get inducted ASAP & parallel orders of Agni-P-conventional get progressed too. We need these in ...

Prem Kumar

Lazy media reporting - which is par for the course Iron Dome is not even remotely comparable to Kusha, which is similar to the S-400. Not saying one is inferior to the other. But each is designed with a different objective/threat in mind This over-awe about things Israeli needs to stop. The Hamas te...

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BenG is a troll. Don't feed the troll

Prem Kumar

The # of Indians living in Canada is 3X that of Indians in Qatar. They send same/more money home as remittances than what the diaspora in Qatar does. If we can show these White-Pakis their place (them being even more closer to the Anglo world than Qataris), then we can do the same to Qatar as well. ...

Prem Kumar

Nice to see new names being given to these vital systems: Angad EW suite & Virupaksha radar With Angad, Virpukasha & Astra, the Su-30 MKI fleet will be a beast! Like it mentions in the report, we can aggressively go after the export market. Offer several packages: light/medium/deep upgrades,...

Prem Kumar

The PG-HSLD looks like a JDAM kit to convert dumb bombs into smart ones. The earlier Sudarshan attempt was a failure due to aerodynamic issues

Hope they succeed with the new one, because its a game-changer, considering the huge inventory of dumb bombs we have

Prem Kumar

Wish they had a contractual stipulation (when Mk1a was ordered) that locked in the price for follow-on orders, adjusting for inflation for X number of years. We could be shaving off a year of babugiri

But then, who am I kidding .......

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Titash: happy to see your arguments. But you are wrong on at least 1 count. The IA has not ordered 307 ATAGS. You, like Lt Gen Ravishankar, are mixing up potential orders with actual ones.

Even the FARP had grandiose plans. Most did not materialize

Prem Kumar

Great going! If induction of these missiles is a separate affair, then the increase in range is not just a "software upgrade" as was commonly thought. If that were to be the case, then all existing inventory can be software-upgraded in batches Also, the LRAShM test either happened & ke...

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The DG Artillery has put a hold to large volume acquisitions & are having their famous re-think in light of the Ukraine war On cue, DGMF will watch the Hamas drone mission-killing a Merkava and will re-think tanks till they arrive at 27th generation warfare Meanwhile, China-Pak will wait till we...

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Shiv has posted this on X from Haaertz https://twitter.com/shiv_cybersurg/status/1711738365434081457 The usage of cheap drones & loitering munitions to kill soldiers, crippling remote-monitoring-stations, disable Merkavas etc are a paradigm shift in asymmetric warfare. Beggar states & entiti...

Prem Kumar

Another fallout of this is that the SC will be emboldened in their overreach. The attack does not reflect well on Netanyahu & the "internal rift" over the attempts by his Govt to curtail the Israeli SC powers that led to street protests (which might have been astroturfed) We can expect...

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Pakis will be watching. They have 2 perspectives now: 1) Pulwama was stupidity. They got pulverized in Balakot and it helped, at least a bit, in propelling Modi in 2019 2) OTOH, an attack like the Hamas one might cause disaffection among the populace, dent Modi's strongman ("no terror attack du...

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"We will fight with what we have"
"What we have is what we can import"
..... hmph!

Prem Kumar

In MP, I don't know what more the BJP can do? Mama is showering the state with freebies, Karnataka style. Plus all the central schemes (Jal Jeevan, Ujjwala etc) over the years After all this, if the people there vote for the Congress (using some vague thing called anti-incumbency), what should one d...

Prem Kumar

All the above goes to show how far we are from "Congress Mukth Bharat" Its a deep-rooted virus, both in terms of its organizational strength, its C-system and the sickness in people's minds where they vote for this pestilence of a party for a few breadcrumbs It will be a long, long time be...

Prem Kumar

No official news. Some handles tweeted about it

Prem Kumar

Then we will lose the war with PRC. Yes. And the rot in Armed Forces leadership is so bad that they will let it happen. Or continue to live in la-la-land that the Great Powers (read U.S.A) will intervene and stop any war from lasting beyond 1 week (because they are not prepared for more than 1 week...

Prem Kumar

Glad to see PM Modi unequivocally call it out as a terrorist attack & express solidarity with Israel. In the past, we have dilly-dallied because of 150 Million jihadis in our midst. Massive intel & across-the-board failure in Israel. Loss of face for Mossad. Hamas has 50+ hostages at the lea...

Prem Kumar

Sure, let the IA keep delaying the induction with moving targets, while Cheetah/Chetak copters continue to under-perform and crash

This after HAL manufactured LUH's with their own budget & without an order on hand

No concept of tranches and iterative improvement

Prem Kumar

We have the NASM (SR, MR, LR) series of subsonic anti-ship missiles in the works. One was tested earlier this year. Can be carried by helicopters and I am sure, fighters as well

Smaller, cheaper, lighter and deadly

Prem Kumar

Sidsom: 1) Beggar Pakis ordered 500 AIM-120C's in 2006 itself 2) We had BVR edge over them in Kargil in 1999. They learnt that lesson and filled that gap. We were sleeping at the wheel 3) Our R-77 does not match AIM-120C performance 4) Our Sukhoi pilots employed better tactics, jammers etc to render...

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Yes, but we dont operate AIM 120D. We were outranged by it during the Balakot conflict. Astra-Mk1 will match it and Mk2 will exceed it

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IAF to induct Astra missiles by end-2023 https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/iaf-to-induct-astra-missiles-by-end-2023/article67372583.ece/amp/ 02 Oct 2023 Order placed for 248 missiles in May 2022. 1st batch by Dec 2023. Full delivery over 6 years by BDL. Good to see progress on this front, thou...

Prem Kumar

True. Looks like RNS gave a kadi-ninda to the IAF Chief and what we see are the results

Prem Kumar

I love the curves of the Tejas-Mk1 trainer more than that of the fighter

Prem Kumar

The asymmetry is like this: since most parties, including many NDA partners, are corrupt and opportunistic, the alliance becomes flaky and BJP has to constantly look over its back. We see how uncomfortable BJP is when it comes to social/Hindu topics, even when they have an overwhelming majority. Ima...

Prem Kumar

Since its fairly obvious to everyone that any MRFA has to be Rafale, why is the IAF going through the MMRCA-style tamasha again? If squadron number depletion is a serious, time-pressing concern, why not go G2G for MRFA, 110-kn-turbofan etc and be done with it I don't think that they are doing it to ...

Prem Kumar

Many in my friends' circle think 2024 is a cakewalk for Modi. I don't think so. The suicide-gene is strong in us. After 10 years of great governance, we may decide "We have eaten healthy for 10 years. Lets eat some trash now, to balance things out". Happened with Vajpayee. At a more tactic...

Prem Kumar

X-Post from the Air Force Tejas Mk1A thread.... ==================================== Let him do that and if he manages to ensure signed contracts for many of these items, he'll deserve all the accolades that he gets! Today, he says they are also talking to OEM vendors for 6-7 squadrons of MRFA, wit...

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https://www.firstpost.com/india/big-ticket-weapons-in-mega-iaf-list-of-desi-projects-worth-over-rs-3-lakh-crore-13195262.html This is massive news coming from the IAF Chief! If it materializes, he is committing Rs 3 Lakh Crores ($37 Billion+) on Atmanirbhar programs. If he signs of on the big ticke...

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