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http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/15/stories/2008071555210900.htm Fighting Pakistan’s ‘informal war’ Praveen Swami National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan calls for retaliation against the ISI. Last week, infuriated by mounting evidence that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate organised ...

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Sadly, this chap is absolutely right. But it was not any normal hostage situation either. These were Fiyadeens, came here for the purpose of dying. Israelis are yet to encounter such rare species, as they are used to suicide attacks only. He might be right technically,but he certainly isn't helping...

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http://ibnlive.in.com/news/terror-attack-in-mumbai-2-hotels-under-siege/79122-3.html Petrol pump blown up, RAF may storm hotels CNN-IBN Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 23:56 Mumbai: At least four people are reported to have been killed and 15 are injured as unidentified groups of gunmen opened fire in at least...

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What are the words with which Ara(b)altic is formed?

Arabian [sea] + Baltic [sea].

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If there is so much money to be made in commercial space applications, the best option would be to free ISRO of it and have a commercial entity deal with it, or else ISRO will end up being another PSU entity in the space business. Not a great long term plan. Frontier areas of exploration will alway...

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Do we have a shuttle carrier or AVaTaR carrier aeroplane in mind for the manned missions (space/moon)....something that could take the spacecraft to 90,000 feet [Two Stage To Orbit plan] ? If yes,that's just great!! We'd hit two birds with one stone by having a heavy multi-role strategic lift airpla...

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Re-posting from Archive: http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/Default.aspx NATIVE RESIDENTS and the general public of Andaman & Nicobar Islands on Tuesday organised a rally at Jantar Mantar to draw attention of the Prime Minister on the issue of reservation of employment for the Islanders. They also...

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Army gives Israeli twist to Arjun tale Wants machinery to be improved as suggested by Israel Military Industries .... For the first 62 tanks, the army chief suggested several corrections based on the findings of the army team, which carried out exhaustive field trials of the tank. But what has adde...

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You have a point there. But how exactly? And we should also be ready to face the backlash if things go wrong the IPKF way. The how answer calls for a lengthy post...best left to shyam sharans,narayanans and singhs....but I'll try. :) Clearly,politics won't work here...in fact,it would be disastrous...

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Admin Saars(respects to new ones!),

I would like to know whether a new thread could be dedicated to Obama effect and India or would it continue under the present presidential elections thread.

Regards

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m 3.2 ? :eek: that was mig-25, not mig-23. my apologies.Mig-23 has reached speed of mach 2.3...got figures reversed :oops: anyway, gate guardians is on the other hand the best thing that can happen to an a/c. that way they will survive for a long time with their identity intact. most are scrapped f...

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thats why spending indian money on pakfa is a big mistake. all the pakfa tech will be sold to prc in due course. we should buy the al41 engine and gearbox thats all. but being a A2G bird, MCA would as well work with 2 x ge414 / ej200 engines. saar,doesn't that make pak-fa an even more important too...

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What is the retirement plan for the MiGs. Are they going to be used as supersonic trainers or as testbeds? Gate Guardians and Museum displays That's a bit unfair to an aircraft that has reached mach 3.2. Perhaps they are too less in number for any other role. Isn't any rich ex-Soviet state [e.g. Be...

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The two countries share a 90-kilometre unfenced border along hilly and porous terrain. "We don't know whether they were killed by the Myanmar border forces or local people from Myanmar, but it appears that the four bodies had been tossed over a hill about 1,000 feet (300 metres) high," sa...

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In one of the articles, it is mentioned that the No.224 Sqdn flies the Jaguar now( after retirement of MiG-23MF s) and that the No.2 Sqdn was number plated years ago. What is the retirement plan for the MiGs. Are they going to be used as supersonic trainers or as testbeds? In case of communication ...

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:shock: :shock: :eek: Skher Saar are talking about converting the Saras into a thrill seeking adrenaline junkie sky diving platform??? If so count me in... :mrgreen: ahem, skydiving and russian roulette platform. my bet is 20% of the passengers dropped upside down are going to be parsed by the two ...

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These crafts can be most economically killed IMHO by howitzer fired shells (that carries a seeker kill vehicle) fired at high inclination, after reaching apogee the kill vehicle can de-spins and extend small wings that then steeply dives down to kill its prey (gravity powered flight). Again a optic...

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This vertical pic gave me a very,very horizontal idea :idea: . Can such an aircraft perform complete somersault...flipped full 180 on belly? If so, is it possible to still have passengers on board who could parachute down just by using the earth's gravity (assuming upper fuselage has a big open door...

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Sirs, Are there any job opportunities for psyops personnel here? Also,is there any job profile that would suit a journalism graduate like me in Armed Forces/DRDO/DPSUs in Short Service? I tried many sites couldn't find any info....sorry to bother you folks again. PS:My engg. friend would like to tha...

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Sirs, what are the prospects of a freshly graduated journalism and mass comm student from a pvt. institution? What all would they be trained for and should be ready for? Also,no information is given about entry and selection procedure into DIP and DESIDOC. I was also informed that the Apprenticeship...

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Earnestly grateful for your prompt reply. However,after reading your reply my friend changed his direction a bit.....he finds focusing on DRDO Junior Fellowship research/teaching a far better proposition....it's easier,more exciting and without the hush-hush operation of Signals. Well,to each his ow...

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Govt rejects Mahindra's JV with BAE Systems Wed Oct 8, 2008 7:19pm IST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The government on Wednesday said in a statement it had rejected Mahindra & Mahindra's proposed joint venture with BAE Systems for land mine protected vehicles. Mahindra was to hold a 51 percent stake, w...

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Sirs, one of my friends is very interested to enlist as a Short Service Commission officer in the EME Corps.(as he's interested in Telecom/embedded systems R&D,amongst other things) via the Direct Entry scheme for Technical Graduate Candidates(TGC). We tried hard and looked at various websites f...

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In other words without knowing what the IAF's exact requirements are how come we on the forum are searching for exact An 32 replacements? Do we have information that this is exactly what the IAF wants? Where has that information been made public? What are the reasons that make us say that an MTA mi...

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did we sign any agreement on joint development of SAM with France

Yes,the maitri LLQRM Surface To Air Missile.

But,iirc PM's visit had nothing to do with it....this agreement was signed quite sometime back.

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The size of a tactical Air Force needed for this job to be done "easily" is way beyond what India has right now or will have in the near future. Since we don't have that amt of resources for a conventional strike,it'd have to be the world's largest Unmanned/Remotely Operated War wherein t...

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War inside Tibet-now here's a challenge worth the mettle of the world's best infantry. Removing a neighbouring country's border completely (India wouldn't have China as a neighbour anymore IF we're successful) and replacing with a UN mandate. OT....What do we do abt Kashmir then? As is clear from th...

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skher, are you referring to home-on jam ? yes, ala ALARM/ AGM-88 HARM . Perhaps,Astra can address the range issue with a parachute like the ALARM . Can the seeker problem be addressed partially via DRDO's new laser fuze addition? Is an imaging infrared version in the docks also? Passive radiation h...

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Amazing...everytime BR has a heated and long discussion on something, that thing invariably hits the headlines..!!!! Sir,the magic is because of Google....DDM just follows the linkcounts and publishes. plus if your enemy's air force uses green flying suits, you do not want your pilots ejecting in e...

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Can you please explain what you mean when you say that the Russian PAK FA is late while the Indian PAK FA is on time, since Indian PAK FA will come later than the Russian PAK FA. All time is relative. Thus,with respect to Russia/Soviet Union,the PAK-FA project has been a delayed one - it was starte...

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May you inspire a billion more hearts to serve their nation with courage and honor. As he rightly surmised once: "I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla f...

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In the US, the chances of getting caught are quite high. And if you are caught, the trial, conviction and punishment happen relatively swiftly. So the risk/ benefit ratio is much higher than in India. in the US, it is called lobbying (for the higher ups)...other folks usually dont ask for money; bu...

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vsudhir wrote:
csharma wrote:Does anyone know if DRDO's allocation went up in this year's budget? And how much is it now?
Read somewhere itsb Rs 33 billion (3300 crore).

Is that 3300 rupees crore or 33 billion dollars??

This mixed system is a tad confusing.

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Sirs, The "New Topic" option posted on any given thread opens up a new one [i.e. a new thread].I would like it to continue as a special post in the same thread. In my case,I wanted to post,with a poll option (gr* new feature), a New issue WITHIN the India and China - New Directions Saga th...

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Um,wondering if time is ripe to start a blog feature associated with the forum.
It would help me, a newbie, write better and clearer.

Also is it possible to rename me from "SonarDeshi" to just "sidhu"?

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JC saar, I've tried hard but couldn't find any mention of any Vedic conversion ceremony anywhere. Is there any site where the details of such a conversion ceremony is given? How does one become Hindu other than birth in Hindu family? The only conversion/initiation ceremony I know is mundan . Arya Sa...

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If you deny that there is religion in Hinduism, you are in effect discharging the electrode by grounding it, so that the gold leaves fall back and do namaste even when the charged rod of Islam/Christianity is nearby. Hinduism is an assimilative philosophy and survived the tide of time because it is...

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A Sharma wrote:DRDO DEAL page updated

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SAR Image Processing (SIP) Software has been developed in Visual C++ in Windows NT environment.

Doesn't this create a security risk....MircoSoft/Visual C++ guys snooping around to help American g-men?

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Unmanned bomb detector ready to roll A Remote Operated Vehicle, which would detect nuclear radiation levels and extract hazardous material or bombs, has been developed by the Defence Research Development Organisation. Called Daksh, the vehicle has an onboard gun to blast through locked doors, break...

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BJP(Nitish Kumar) started an excellent project to link Baramulla with rest of the country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_Railway The first portion to Udhampur was actually sanction by Indra. The full phase was sanctioned by Jaffer Shariff way back. Vajpayee gave it national project status. N...

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