Bharat Rakshak

John

Assuming your quoted source is accurate and RA gained "just" 165 sq km territory in July if in the process they inflicted 10s of thousands of troop casualties and destroyed lots of irreplaceable game changing equipment not to speak of morale - then are the Russian gains still = no progess...

John

I was referring to your "stalemate" remark. One incident here or there is cherry picking in favour of the side you or I may be rooting for and 99.99% of them are not tipping points so largely irrelevant wrt to the overall picture. But somehow you seem to find them satisfying and comfortin...

John

The amazing thing is that the French are offering a paper submarine that is a diesel electric version of a nuclear submarine. But Indian Navy cannot think in terms of designing a diesel electric version of Arihant. It's not going to be any different from the last 2 times. Because for things to beco...

John

John, thank you for bringing some humour into this thread. No need for pointless one line comment if you are don’t contributing anything. That second video was from Russian sources so I don’t know how it is humor. There is lot of ?? over it, Russian source say it was naval exercise and likely one o...

John

Seriously. The nation can build nuclear submarines. But needs technical assistance for building diesel electric submarine. That is after building 2 seperate European submarine classes over the last 30 years. Problem is we always want gold plated submarine that’s reason why we never bothered reverse...

John

I wonder when this stupid war is going to end. The entire world's economy is being held hostage to these warring white factions. Stupidity of the highest degree. Irony of it all is that Asians and Africans are continuously demonized as uncivilized and unsophisticated heathens, when it is the Wester...

John

Looks like Ukrainian Neptune (others say Ukrainian drone strike) hit a Russian navy Project 22610 boat very unusual to put a patrol ship with mounted Tor SAM system in front line.

https://twitter.com/covertshores/status ... Vs03-_YJ9Q

John

Interesting dynamics playing out Azerbaijan is taking advantage of the conflict and launched an offensive. If you recall Putin was able to get Armenian to concede in previous conflict promising his Russian deployment will prevent any future Azerbaijan attacks but I doubt he can do much with his forc...

John

^ Conflict has more or less played out how I expected with defenses holding up in east and almost stalemate on both sides now after initial Russian gains. Inspite of all reports Ukrainian southern offensive IMO won’t start till fall similar to northern offensive in March trying to take advantage of ...

John

Ukraine was supposed to take Kherson and also trap around 1000 Russian personnel. It apparently also had destroyed or closed off for heavy traffic the only 2 bridges to the area. This was as per reports a few days ago. Note that news item seems to have vanished… That’s why you cannot take any claim...

John

One bit of Jugaad the Russians are reportedly doing against HIMARS in the Kherson region is using the S-400 radar with the S-300 missiles. the success rate in intercepting HIMARS is improving with experience. Could be due to issues with S-400 missiles.. That said I haven’t seen any actual intercept...

John

So much for a three carrier navy :roll: https://twitter.com/TheLegateIN/status/1551184169836785664?s=20&t=veG0zcfo94iRFaIs6I1tzg --> Report: Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya will be out of use for some months and will require repairs. At this point Vikramaditya might just be one expensive writ...

John

Looking at the time Vikky spends on port for repairs why not transfer the entire Mig 29k complement to the new Vikrant and say NO to the F-18s? I don’t believe Navy is looking to continue to operate Mig-29k from carriers IMO as I mentioned in other thread this procurement is aimed at slowly replaci...

John

From what I have put together no other explanation makes sense i.e F-18s don’t bring anything new to table that Mig-29ks cannot do. Only explanation that make sense is navy doesn’t seem to happy with Mig-29k I know serviceability has improved but it feels like there is still teething issues with pla...

John

IMO I highly doubt we will see supersized P-18s anytime before 2035 more likely next evolution IMO will be P-15 based DDG fitted with MT-30 which itself will be complex engineering feat.

John

More than likely they are better at building boilers than Russia. I believe the Vikramditya's boilers have materials of Chinese origin in them. Not sure if they were ever replaced. There was claim from Russians that they sourced fire-bricks from China and those were defective but not sure what else...

John

Fighters is easy, pilots, war time ATC, air command, AD, tactics etc are not , especially when Russia already enjoys air dominance on most of the Ukranian territory. Yet another brilliant game changer idea, yawn ! Not sure what you mean by air dominance as RusAF doesn’t really go after Ukr Fighter ...

John

Pratyush wrote:How come the PLAN ship dosent catch fire with this regularty?

More than likely they are better at building boilers than Russia.

John

Looks like Himgiri was spotted during Dunagri’s launch seems to be on schedule, still haven’t seen any pics of Nilgiri which should be in sea trails in order to meet 2022 commissioning timeline? https://twitter.com/defencematrix1/status/1548548080580317184?s=21&t=ND4GvijzI8g1edPI1sSKSg I do thi...

John

Looks like Himgiri was spotted during Dunagri’s launch seems to be on schedule, still haven’t seen any pics of Nilgiri which should be in sea trails in order to meet 2022 commissioning timeline? https://twitter.com/defencematrix1/status/1548548080580317184?s=21&t=ND4GvijzI8g1edPI1sSKSg I do thin...

John

Russian report state this is Su-35 shot down by friendly fire (Ukr are claiming their AD shot it down but that seems suspect as it is well inside Russian controlled area). HIMARS might have forced Russians to activate S-400? resulting in two losses that’s the theory I am hearing right now. https://t...

John

^ That’s not HIMARS and Wagner telegram group already confirmed that as well. That channel has been as good as Igor in Russian side in terms of accuracy and calling out any fake or inconsistency. https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1549141309880995846?s=21&t=X-YGZLsiG4yaYMo9UHRIKw Ukraine attempt...

John

After weeks we have very first confirmed shoot down of an AC in the conflict looks like a Su-34 was brought down by friendly fire in Alchevsk. I believe there HIMARS attack in that area but idk how you can confuse a Su-34 with a rocket so not sure if it’s friendly fire as claimed. https://twitter.co...

John

In all, the following targets have been obliterated since the beginning of the special military operation: 253 aircraft, 137 helicopters, 1,543 unmanned aerial vehicles, 355 surface-to-air missile systems, 4,060 tanks and other combat armored vehicles, 746 multiple launch rocket systems, 3,147 fiel...

John

We are using MF Star on so many of our ships. Any reason we have not been able to fit it onto Vikrant yet ? MF STAR is FCR radar for Barak-8, I am guessing the radar was delayed (I know order was placed only couple years ago) or construction delays and timeline for trials meant forced them to push ...

John

Vids from Russia (RT) during the Hostomel attack from start of war, pretty good insight into their planning and strategy.

https://twitter.com/ralee85/status/1547 ... 68ehgO9fvA

John

John, What part do you have exception to? The gun or the chassis. The optics are inconsequential as they can be mated to a small vehicle as well. Plus optics and range are two separate things. Range in a tank gun is dependent on the chamber pressure the barrel can bear. Optics allow you to see clea...

John

I know lot is made on supposed western Intel helping Ukraine find these depots but looks like some of depots that where hit apparently where shared in Russian and seperatist telegram channels. Most often with geocoding information not even scrapped allowing them to easily be located. An important le...

John

Russian analysis on telegram have noted that Ukr are mixing up MLRS strikes and strikes themselves are mix of Ukrainian Smerch/Uragan/Vikhil rockets with HIMARS and Tochka missiles. Russian SAM system seem to struggle as per their analysis when dealing with different targets (not sure if this make s...

John

So I have to cite my sources and explain the very things you should have known yourself before you made such claims? Please first figure out what a SPJ does. The SP - exists for a reason, its self protection. Next, look at the bands it functions on, after that, go check the bands typical ground bas...

John

Unf for Russia export sales of Flanker variant meant very little effort was spent on developing a stealth AC or even a sophisticated jamming system (see Spectra). This kind of off the cuff, poorly researched statements unfortunately detracts from the quality of the forum. Do you realize the Spectra...

John

Massive hit in Nova Kakhovk. Russian telegram reports state 50 fuel tucks and countless Smerch missiles where stored in location. This is newly setup base by power plant but locals have been sharing pics of troop movement and base likely helping with targeting. https://twitter.com/jimmysecuk/status/...

John

Notwithstanding what I said about the Russian AF, I am disappointed (and I agree with what John is implying) by the overall performance of the RuAF. I think they started their campaign with too few sorties (200/day when they could have done 400+) though they ramped up to 300 before settling to a 20...

John

In his latest broadcast Ghirkin went off on S-400, apparently from last attack S-400 failed to intercept any of HIMARS and they supposedly moved there to stop such attack. This rises questions about S-400 ability to intercept ballistic missiles (or drones) I brought up a few times earlier in this th...

John

More Ammo depots where hit but this appears to be huge explosion. Supposedly per FIRMS it’s appears to be one biggest explosions seen to date even compared to ones from past couple days. This is from #Shakhtarsk https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1545963914252505102 IMO Overall TB2 & other dro...

John

Is there a possibility that this is deliberate? If they show how to SEAD of Ukraine that uses Russian systems, tactics and doctrine aren't they instructing the west on how to do the same to Russia itself if this conflict escalates? If S300s etc can be located and taken out and the west develops tac...

John

Can any knowledgeable members reassure my troubled mind that... correct, seems like a grand decade long plan for import lobby. Not sure you can blame the import lobby as apart from P-75 they are all local stuff. All parties stand responsible like SYs, Navy and MOD dragging its feat on decision maki...

John

Will be more than simple switch to different gas turbine and will likely use CODLOG config with electric motors similar to RN Type 26. Don't think will make a jump to integrated electric propulsion given the challenges with that. Probably will incorporate some design changes as well like a larger m...

John

It is doubtful if a NATO air force would have performed better. They have not fought a war against any country with a real air force, or a good SAM network. Ukraine pre war, had upto 250 S-300 long range launchers, upto 72 BUK-M1, 9K33 (Osa) & new 6 * 9K330 (Tor) (medium range) mobile systems a...

John

why does Russia need to maintain CAP all over Ukraine when Ukr sends maybe 2 - 3 planes up each day for maybe an hour of total flight time. So Russia needs to spends hundreds of engine hours a day just to block an imaginary attack maybe twice a day. anytime Ukr sends up a plane, within the next 24 ...

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