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Prem Kumar

That's great news!!

Hopefully the 20m accuracy is only for civvie purposes and our missiles will receive sub-meter level accurate signals

Prem Kumar

Good point. As you say, leasing might be a politically correct way of buying something without "buying". However, I am trying to understand - in that case, why didnt we lease an SSBN? One reason could be that it would cause too much of a political flutter - Unkil wont like it one bit. He w...

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Ravi_ku: not sure I understand. I was not proposing buying any nukes (by nukes I think you mean nuclear missiles). I am only proposing that we should have bought an undersea nuclear delivery platform. Even the Nerpa is technically a nuclear delivery platform (they apparently are loaded with nuclear ...

Prem Kumar

The IAF stance is understandable. Also explains why the IA wants its own Air brigades. Cant wait for the day when LCHs enter service in large numbers.

Prem Kumar

Why should we buy SSBNs when ours is nearly ready? Better to develop in house capabilities the hard way rather than getting it easy now and struggling later. Also, if a lease involved so much drama over all these years, cant imagine how long a sale of a SSBN will take!!! :-? I think it comes down t...

Prem Kumar

I have a question for the learned saar's here For e.g. lets take an AAM with a publicised range of 100 kms. Now does mean that the missile can go from a static point A to a Point B 100 kms away or does that 100 Km range depends on the 'n' speed of the moving launch vehicle. Also does variables like...

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NRao - same question that I had asked a couple of days ago. How can you test seekers when the target is imaginary? Perhaps, a maneuvering flight profile was fed (pre-programmed or real time) to the missile and it was tested whether its electronics and guidance could kill the target in spite of the m...

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Can we use Nerpa in the event of a war? Absolutely. Also, if we plan to buy them eventually, how does this fill our deterrent needs? The Nerpa will be used more to familiarize the Indian Navy on how to operate a SSN, than anything else. I doubt the Russians will allow us to put nuclear armed missil...

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Can we use Nerpa in the event of a war? Also, if we plan to buy them eventually, how does this fill our deterrent needs? This is an SSN but what we need are SSBNs (till ATVs become operational). Does MTCR prohibit sale of SSBNs (even without the missiles)?

Prem Kumar

The details of how the terrorists got lucky due to the guide losing his way, the air-dropping behind enemy lines, how the SF got spotted during the air-drop etc were all new, at least to me. I havent seen these details in any other news report.

Prem Kumar

Cross posting from SF forum. An interesting blog read which sheds more light on the Kupwara encounter where we lost many of our SF. This is the first time I am hearing about "Headlines Today": does anyone know more about them or this author? http://headlinestoday.intoday.in/index.php?optio...

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Posting this here and in the Indian Army forum. An interesting blog read which sheds more light on the Kupwara encounter where we lost many of our SF. This is the first time I am hearing about "Headlines Today": does anyone know more about them or this author? http://headlinestoday.intoday...

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Pentagon official charged for selling secrets to a Chinese agent

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Pent ... 526239.cms

Prem Kumar

Yep - he is the same. I read somewhere (TOI I think) that his grandson was granted bail for the funeral. So, not sure if potah kuttah is in massaland or jail

Prem Kumar

RIP Adm.Nanda.You played your part well in '71 and the IN was covered with glory in its achievements on both the western and eastern fronts. Coming back to Navantia.As I said earlier,the Juan Carlos amphib vessel which Oz is buying is best suited for the IN's purposes,as it has an extra deck when c...

Prem Kumar

The news report on Astra test-firing said that it was launched at an imaginary target. If so, how could an Active Radar seeker have been tested? Dont you need a real target for that?

Prem Kumar

So, is the argument that LRSAM is not necessary since we have aircraft? Isnt the "we have interceptors" line of thinking that led to our serious shortage of a quality SAM network? I am not saying that it is an either-or type of situation. But an extended kill-zone provided by an LRSAM netw...

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On a different topic, I read this paper on the Cold Start doctrine. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1769/Ladwig,%20Cold%20Start%20NPS%20Paper.pdf As expected from most Western authors, there is some blathering (especially the last chapter) on why this is all a bad idea. But setting that aside, it does po...

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Ms. Roy believes in the "we are all brothers, so lets all make love not war" line of thinking. And by the way we are "all" not brothers - you have to exclude the corporations, who are the enemies. She lives in her own cuckoo-land utopia. Plus she needs the attention since the &qu...

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Paki Al-Zarrar tank disabled/destroyed by Taliban.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9fZIR7H ... re=channel

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Do we know "under what conditions" does Astra have a 80 KM head-on and 20 KM tail chase range? Found this interesting article describing how these numbers are inflated by missile manufacturers and are achievable only under "ideal" conditions - like high altitude, non evading targ...

Prem Kumar

Hmmm - citing nationalism as the cause for opposing the nuke deal and turning around and pitching NPT will be one hell of a trapeze act by the Left. Not that I put it beyond them. Its amazing isnt it - the # of "levers" everyone else has within India: Red, Green, you name it. Only to be ma...

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Another factor is the left parties. The U.S would like to steer the new govt away from any leftist dependence. Expect "suitcases (from the U.S.A with love)" once the horse trading begins post May 16th

Prem Kumar

Arun Saar To play devil's advocate: even though PAD may have a long range a/c interception ability, I dont get the feeling that its going to be very useful in that role. Its still a modified Prithvi. From an operational deployment standpoint, it doesnt seem to belong in the same class as an S300 - t...

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I am not sure if our foreign policy has been strategically brilliant - examples? But in this case, they have definitely done a class act by putting Prachanda in his place. And the timing is great too - before the Sino peace treaty crap is signed. We should press the matter further and ensure that Ch...

Prem Kumar

IMO a very good stance. We have to realize that we also have the U.S by the short & curlies. Now that the nuclear trade door has been opened & the Russians and the French have come through it, it will be extremely difficult for the U.S to close it shut. Plus they will piss off their GEs and ...

Prem Kumar

This was in one of the comments by Prasun Sengupta on his blog - is there any truth to this? "As regards the nuclear weapons deployed in Pakistan I'm not too worried about them at all since all of them and their delivery systems have been supplied by China off-the-shelf and are therefore under ...

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Oh ok - I had read the first sentence incorrectly. Also, I read further that TecSAR is also capable of electronic beam steering, which is used for its "mosaic" mode (would be surprising it the Israelis couldnt do it). It seems that the TR modules of RISAT-1 will give it the same capabiliti...

Prem Kumar

Interesting - so, as you had said earlier, this could be a dual Optical + SAR satellite!! Also, what does the active antenna & 288 TR modules mean? Is RISAT-1 going to have electronic beam steering along the lines of AESA as opposed to physically steering the antenna in the case of TecSAR?

Prem Kumar

I hope so. But I dont know if its feasible - the swath width of RISAT-2 is 100 KM. This seems like a very "narrow strip" compared to the surface area of the ocean to be covered

Prem Kumar

Thanks Anujan-Saar. Btw, another article in Deccan Chronicle Risat-2 will bring down infiltration http://www.deccanchronicle.com/sunday-debate/%E2%80%98risat-2-will-bring-down-infiltration%E2%80%99-007 Valid requirement from the Navy IMO. We definitely need dedicated satellites for naval recon, give...

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A couple of questions to the gurus. As much as I find the political slant of the article disgusting, it does raise a couple of questions. Dont want to throw the baby out with the bathwater: a) Do any of our satellites like Cartosat have the ability to do imaging in the UV and IR spectrum (like the a...

Prem Kumar

Exactly my sentiments too. The phrase "fatal attraction" is mentioned 3 times without once explaining why this attraction is fatal!! Typical commie style propaganda - always hint at an issue without having the b$#@s to name it. But again, what do you expect from the rabid pro-commie Chindu...

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Raising profile as a maritime power in East Asia Interesting article, though towards the end I felt the author meanders along without making a point. I always read Hindu articles looking to filter out its obvious "pro-China & pro-commie" tilt. Its gotten significantly worse & the ...

Prem Kumar

S^3 saar - glad to know we have a knowledgeable insider who can give valuable gyan :D The most recent news report where I read about Cartosat 2 "having problems" is in the link below: http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Indias-200M-TECSAR-Satellite-Purchase-Launched-05386/ Quote: The count...

Prem Kumar

S^3 - thanks for the clarification.

On a related note, is it true that the CartoSat 2's performance has not been satisfactory, as mentioned in some news reports? Or is it plain old-fashioned DDM?

Prem Kumar

Something interesting I noticed when looking up the specs of TES (the experimental spy satellite that ISRO launched in 2001). It had a panchromatic camera (with the 1m resolution) and an X band antenna.

What was it - a radar satellite and an optical satellite rolled into one? Very intriguing ....

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40 infiltrators killed in Kupwara, Gurez: Army http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/26/stories/2009042658190100.htm Interesting - the #s seem to be higher than what was published earlier (even admitting that 6 pigs died in an avalanche). Great work by the IA, especially the SF. Or perhaps this report &...

Prem Kumar

Notwithstanding some phenomenal successes of ISRO, I do have a gripe with them. They seem to have drunk quite a few 12-packs of their own "we are civilian only" kool-aid. The ratio of civilian:military satellites that the ISRO launches is too skewed. Which is very sad for a nation that is ...

Prem Kumar

The whole "number plate" thingy sounds like a big FUD factor (fear, uncertainty and doubt). Some smart alec Amrikaan must have coined the original term long ago and every DDM reporter has faithfully aped this as the ultimate benchmark for satellite spying. Question for the gurus: can the R...

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