Bharat Rakshak

Wrote this in another thread. At the risk of getting brickbats, IA is right. Reducing weight from 68 to 65t is a pointless exercise. IA wants a T90 weight class tank. Whatever be the reason, that is what they want. So either DRDO redesign Arjun turret & hull in to a 50 tonne machine or take a em...

For which tanks would Armata be replacement for? T-72?

GOI will ask IA to replace T72 with T90. To get Armata, they have argue T90 is oudated... which leaves IA in a very peculiar situation.

IA can like any tank they want. GOI hold the money bag.

It really does not make sense to have very long range mach 3 cruise vehicle. Instead the planned subsonic cruise + supersonic terminal would be the "long ranged" Brahmos and is the ideal solution. If I have to kill something at 1000km, I would use a ballistic missile. Having said that, any...

Looks like the focus has now shifted to the Chinese border. So IA wants something in the T90 weight class, specially it is planning an expansion on the Leh border. And it is right, that it will take 5-6 years. So there are three options. 1) Arjun MK2 will be the upgrade option for tanks based in des...

So it is 450 KM from sea level. Of-course unsaid is the range when fired from say.. Batalik at 18000 feet or find a way to do it in Siachien :D One thing we should always remember is all our missiles will be fired from the beautiful mountains of Cashmere. Left direction for Pakis, on the Right towar...

ndtv NEW DELHI: HIGHLIGHTS Four sailors of Indian Navy removed from the survey ship INS Sandhayak Asked to stand in attention, one sailor "deliberately slouched": Source The ship "reported an incident of insubordination involving the sailors" How does media even get the whip of ...

Offer LM 300 f35 deal (laf + in) , instead of f16

How much will LM produce in India. It meets parikar single engine criteria as well.

Can't aerostats do the same?? They cannot carry 1-2K ranged radar and it's power requirement. Also comes with the usual issues of aerostat.. winds, maintenance etc. More importantly dont think they can be hooked to float at 18000 feet. On the other hand, in the Kashmir mountains at 15k ft, we can b...

Afghanistan is barren in most places, They want trees as cover, specially from air , when they mount attacks.

How come the thaad which is shorter and thinner than aad have these figures while we only claim 15km to 25km for aad? Does aad have a long slant range to intercepts at the 15k to 25k ceiling? Else it makes no sense to me Although the actual figures are classified, THAAD missiles have an estimated r...

The canards seems to present in Pragati, the G2G version of the missile. Must be a lesson from Barak 8 development. I wonder if this missile can be used in boost phase intercept. A big radar at 15-16k feet in Kashmir looking down on Pakistan. SU-30 with AAD intercepting missile in boost phase. We ha...

the aim at each level of the ladder is to STRIKE FIRST and then wail loudly enough to have the "world community" aka UK,USA,China,desi MSM lean hard on india to conduct a token retaliatory credible minimum apologetic strike or better yet, display statesmanship by not retaliating and signi...

I don't think India officially says that China will be targeted if Pakistan uses nukes on India. Agnis can fly west.. or east. The Chinese know very well. US had India as one of the nuke targets, because it was considered a staging area for Soviet forces post nuke strike on USSR! Such is the thinki...

chinese would simply give them ready made maal. It does not matter. Hoping India is not going to nuke China, when Pakis use the maail... well that is some trusting! No country will tolerate even a Hiroshima level strike. We tell the Chinese in simple words. Pakis use the maal, our flowers will be o...

RAJ ‏ India needs to stop overconfidence and test IMHO We should be bombing the cr*p out of Pakis at this moment or targeting their nuke establishment. Even if we test, what will do next? Twiddle our thumbs. Our testing will give them a perfect excuse to test their PU devices at home and get away w...

Iraqi F-16s have crossed into syria and struck some isis hq in al-bukamal the first major town on border https://twitter.com/pmu_english/status/835109220324237312 https://twitter.com/pmu_english/status/835108843457634306 Sigh, even a almost failed state is having fun with their jets. Pakis having f...

The nuke deterrent across the globe is akin to "apple cart". There can never be only "India-Pak nuke war". If Pak nukes us, it would be silly to assume that we wont nuke China. If we are going down, why should be let China who is the source of Pakis nuke survive? In fact our miss...

This has a very simple solution.

Every time there is a attack in Kashmir , infiltration or we hunt Paki proxies. there should be a default flattening of Paki post on LOC.

A grenade is thrown, we attack paki post.

A stone is thrown, we attack paki post.

As simple as that.

By launching 104, ISRO actually created a market on the fly !. Now there will countries/ organistation/ uuniv who would think about launching a 50k worth program instead of millions.

Gentlemen, ISRO has create a desi AWS(Amazon Webservice). The "cloudification" of satellite launch.

ShauryaT wrote:What if we focus AMCA to be an unmanned stealthy sensor detector
Thoughts?

Like this

I heard the chief yesterdin and some other senior guys - they are banking on the AMCA. I'll see if I can scan a copy of the interview published in one of the Aero Show news dailies. I want to believe it, however I cant until I see real money. Forget money, I would believe when ADA puts a proposal t...

I have the opinion, (at the risk of getting some angry responses), that IAF is not interested in AMCA.

I hear manpower shortages in ADA when we happily waste 200 million on T-50 with zero output.

Until GOI/IAF massively expands resources on AMCA, this is another wild goose chase by IAF.

Livefist reporting 2035 service entry for AMCA. This means our not so friendly neighbour to the north will have a low observable advantage for some 15 odd years unless we stop dithering on the fgfa immediately. Or go with a begging bowl to unkil for the f-35.... Read this on livefist. The timelines...

Wiki gyan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb The B61 is a variable yield, kiloton-range weapon called "Full Fuzing Option"(FUFO) or "Dial-a-yield" by many service personnel. Tactical versions (Mods 3, 4, and 10) can be set to 0.3, 1.5, 5, 10, 45, 60, 80, or 170 kilo...

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/siddharth-varadarajan/Fizzle-claim-for-thermonuclear-test-refuted/article11856261.ece?homepage=true As for the sub-kiloton tests of 0.3 and 0.2 kt of 13 May 1998, which the International Monitoring System for verifying CTBT compliance failed altogether to det...

shiv wrote:Could someone take a shot at this?

SAM batteries or multiple helicopter pads?

If we dont take out this Hafiz joker soon, in year or two he will join in the elections. Wont be surprised if he is made a minister in Paki gov.

During my reading about Barak8 one of the most interesting aspect I found was it's weight. It is around 250-300KG. That is almost equivalent to a BVR. It gives us more than 75 km in range with that weight from a ground based launcher. Imagine if we rig it to carry and datalinked to SU30? It can used...

I can understand Chinese rockets & MBRL being a threat for airbase. But how can they even accurately target land forces in Himalayan mountains? If PLA fires from Tibet, they have to consider rarefied atmosphere, targets on reverse slopes, etc. If the rockets miss even by few meters they would fa...

The Chinese will be treated to equal firepower as a compliment. But this is all theoretical. But at last count I heard that several thousand Akash missiles are being inducted and in addition there is a requirement for even more SAMs of various types. Surely we are not reserving all this for PLAAF a...

Singha wrote:Shiv what if Cheen buys this Jobaria MLRS from UAE? it is developed by rocketsan of turkey to a UAE tender. maximal things in one vehicle. each vehicle carries 240 rockets

OT, so now the Arabs don't even want to do reload ! Talk about being lazy.

IMO the next revolution in Armoured vehicles/Tanks will have to be in the situational awareness area. 360 degree field of view sensors in visible, IR and Radio spectrum with automatic freind or foe identification, threat detection and prioritization. The crew can remain in the hull and will have a ...