Bharat Rakshak

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Kartik, Rakesh, thanks!

It was pointed out on Twitter that the Dassault-RDL JV was signed in 2012, before Modi even took office. Also, good point about the Meteors!

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I wrote a piece on the contrived nature of the Rafale scam for Newslaundry: https://www.newslaundry.com/2018/02/09/ ... y-dassault

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What range can these drone swarms operate at? 20 minutes of endurance isn't much. They might prove useful in attacking targets at or near the frontline, but anything deep in the interior would be out of reach, wouldn't it? Couple that with their limited payloads, and you see that they may not amount...

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But we have carriers and the battle group needs a protector like the Ticonderoga cruiser that the USN uses at the core of its CBG’s defense. The Ticos were for defence against massive (division-sized) SNAF raids, which were expected to launch more than a hundred supersonic cruise missiles at NATO c...

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Akshay Kapoor wrote:I would now like serious posters to show us how all of these principles were followed in that classic prepared defenses company battle – xxxx

The Battle of Longewala

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How on earth does a open hatch happen in a billion $ N-sub when when a simple car has a alarm for a open door or hatch? It probably wasn't a hatch, but a valve or vent of some sort for the heat exchanger. Pubby contends that water could have entered the piping. An open "hatch" would see i...

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Karan, my guess is that the SARH seeker makes it easier to upgrade the batteries that have already been deployed. You could swap out the seekers in existing missiles and still use the remaining support systems. Also, it's likely enough for a 25 km range missile. For an Astra that needs to hit target...

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I guess that would depend on whether this new RF seeker is passive or active? It will have less dependence on Rajendra's capabilities if it is an active seeker. Karan M and other gurus, is my understanding correct? It is most definitely an active seeker. And you are quite correct it makes the whole...

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Funny thing is, Gupta published the Su-30 story just a few days back, and used it to argue that the Rafale deal shouldn’t be questioned on the basis of BS claims. And now Pubby comes out with this…

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That story is BS. Why would Eurofighter offer a price that's €59 million lower than the Rafales? They've obviously excluding items that the Rafale contract contains. Like weapons, spares, sustainment, etc. etc. It's evident from Ajai Shukla's report that the planes themselves cost €138.9 million - a...

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What is HAL supposed to do with those 404s when the airframes they're supposed to power are still in production?

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I mean think about it F-16 maintenance is 3 hours per flight hour, Gripen's 6!!! Who writes such stuff? If IAF did this in an official reply, it will be a shame! They seem to be quoting LCA's endurance on internal fuel only. That too realistic numbers with reserves etc. If LCA could only fly 59 min...

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Hi Manish, was the book "Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties and Equipment Losses in Modern War", by Col. Trevor Dupuy?

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Very interesting post. This encourages me to put a point that I have been thinking over for a while now, which I didn't dare putting on BRF before looking at how even Doval was poopooed when he said that tank battles is a thing of past (to be frank even I was not convinced at that time about what h...

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Interesting that you mention the "Ek goli, ek dushman". How does it apply to automatic assault rifles that IA wants to procure ? The motto isn't to be taken literally. It showcases an emphasis on individual marksmanship, but marksmanship is not seen as a substitute for sustained suppressi...

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Bharat Karnad is no better than Prasun Sengupta. Most of these so called defence consultants make friends with PRO of services, DRDO, DPSU & MoD during press meets, events like Aero India and Fleet Reviews, and they try to get information over drinks. I discovered his depth when he posted INS A...

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Ramdas, first of all, that was then, this is now. Today, a tested, weaponised design exists. Even if it is not multi-megaton thermonuclear bomb. Even so the Shakti tests were expensive for our economy. While aggregate growth might not have faltered, some sectors of the economy suffered. For instance...

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Our leaders are not. They strike a very sober balance for the sake of the nation. Modi visits the US and embraces folks who literally hold him & his party, his people in contempt. All he cares about is what his nation gets. He eats with Xi, plays the gracious host & then we don't budge on D...

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Is nuclear inferiority vis a vis a rabid TSP acceptable ? If not, we have to do what is to be done to redress that imbalance. If a 10-15 year recession/period of low growth is what we get for this, we should push ahead nevertheless, or risk living under TSP military hegemony. In other words, we sha...

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Even a 80-90% reduction in GDP due to sanctions is a price worth paying to avoid being under the shadow of nuclear dominance by TSP. It is a different matter that such a price won't have to be paid. The most that will happen is a halt to economic growth for a few years- 10-15 at most. WTF is this n...

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Marten, gotcha, thanks! Class C ODC is disappointing (requires authorisation from the Railway Safety Commissioner), but it's probably not across all routes. The major ones should take it as Class A ODC. Do you know if the BFAT is being modified to transport the Mk-II as well? The original 61 ton rat...

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I think another issue raised was the possibility of Arjun mounted flat beds scrapping against passenger platforms? Per the above diagram, I think the dimension of 3175 mm represents the max allowed below platform level. I don't know how tall the IR flat bed wagons are from rail track level and if m...

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Ramana, the problems with assessing the T-90's combat performance are twofold. One, it has been used only sparingly - both in Syria as well as in Ukraine. So there's very little data to work off, and certainly nothing on the basis of which any real conclusions could be reached. Two, it's hard to tel...

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By the way please to post the details of this field of study since you seem to post about it with so much authority Here . Feel free to get an M.Tech in Mechanical or Civil engineering and then come educate us about bridge fatigue. before you respond make a list of bridges their age and then tell m...

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I don't know about others man but whatever little bending moment problems and point of contraflexure problems I solved in first year of Engg tell me the weight bearing rating of a bridge is a function of time; now it has been more than a decade when jokers started with this line of argument that br...

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otherwise this rail road infra talk is putting me to sleep. :roll: https://www.livefistdefence.com/2017/03/big-new-hurdle-for-indias-arjun-battle-tank.html Even if all goes well, it is now clear that the Arjun Mk.II will only be fully deployable if the government beefs up road/bridge infrastructure...

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Negi, I don’t think you read my post. If you weren’t denying that logistics were important, what was all that rubbish about a wagon being a mere “platform with some wheels” or heavy Arjuns being unable to traverse bridges and culverts in aid of? Logistics are the number one driver of acquisitions. S...

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Marten, interesting points in both of your posts. I'm regurgitating second-hand info (mostly) and studies/results from a different age, so I'm not as knowledgeable as I appear, and certainly in no position to rebut it :) But I definitely need to revisit some of my earlier arguments now. In the meanw...

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Negi, the Abrams makes it to Top 5 lists on the web, but so does the T-90. That says nothing about it's ability to fight within a given system. The Abrams works for the Americans because they can support its logistical footprint. Even then, they ran into cost and performance issues in deploying them...

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Maybe a mix is good to add two more regiments of Arjuns to existing 2 regiments. +1 I believe some here (Rohit Vats?) proposed issuing the Arjun to holding corps in the desert. There aren't many bridges or culverts to traverse in the sector, and the Arjun's low ground pressure would open up many ne...

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"Degraded engine performance of T-90s, the mainstay of India’s tank fleet, is a concern for the army. The tanks are unable to operate for sustained periods in high temperatures due to radiator problems, revealed a report by the army design bureau earlier this year." The reporter is writin...

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Ramana, glad you enjoyed it

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Hi Rakesh, see the post right above yours. The unreliability seems to refer to the mechanical aspect only. The thermal camera and DFCS were also notorious for packing up in the heat, but they were fixed around the 2004-05 timeframe. I wish I had hard numbers to substantiate this, but I do not. My po...

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There is no hard evidence; it's all anecdotal. A major problem area seems to be the wheels and tracks. The tank regularly throws its track, and bogie wheels shear off at times.

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Ours were mostly upgunned with the PT-76's gun, weren't they, with a few vehicles also fitted with the CN 75-50?

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Sardarji tankman's armour held up, and that's good. But my point is that armour didn't win that engagement. If the armour was inadequate, we would have perhaps lost more tanks but still won . If that weren't the case, then the 4 Mountain's obsolete Shermans wouldn't have smashed an assault by Pakist...

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In my view, India won the Battle of Asal Uttar for the following reasons: 0) The 4th Grenadiers RCL guns of which Abdul Hamid PVC personally accounted for 7 Patton tanks which was 10% of the Patton tanks destroyed at Asal Uttar 1) The flooded sugarcane fields and the double horseshoe formation by L...

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These tests are of the initial batches circa 2014. Guess who makes the Akash motors? Then you can figure out the rest and questions about velocity, this, that in production models when tests webt ok BEL and BDL are the integrators for the missile. The report also notes that the IAF didn't store tho...

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IIRC, during last year's biathlon, the ZTZ-96 appeared to show a superior fire on the move capability than whatever mark of T-72 the Russians had brought with them. Where the T-72 had to practically stop and fire, the ZTZ only slowed down, shot off a shell, and took off again.

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India should start making demands that are way over the top, like: Stop bissing in Manasarovar. Kailas is ours. So is Lhasa. Vacate Aksai Chin Hind. There's a small village called Minsar beside Manasarovar that for several decades was a Ladakhi enclave within Tibet. India has a very strong claim to...

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