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Great to see someone in the media unequivocally criticizing these nonsensical QR's. CVRDE should refuse to participate in this wild goose chase. Nor do I think setting these types of QR's is a result of benign incompetence, because if the QR's are impossible to attain there is a 100% chance of event...

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Too many fires being lit??? Manoj Jarange-Patil to launch fresh agitation . Who is this new character on the ground? He is not new. Has been agitating for Maratha reservations for a while. In short he wants reservations for all Marathas under OBC quota. Currently only Kunbi Marathas (a sub-caste) g...

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Nachiket sir also it depends one where the M population is concentrated, that decides how many seats BJP can wrest, if M majority is concentrated on few seats then lower vote share of BJP will not matter as the other seats would see counter polarization among Hs, just that these Hs stop looking at ...

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When it comes to jet engines there are no shortcuts. For all their "reverse engineering" prowess, the Chinese have spent enormous amounts of money on their engine program and they still struggled for years to even match the AL-31F. Only now after all the billions spent and years of toil ar...

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I don't know what goes through the mind of Hindu Bengali male to keep voting for Mamta. WB has 30% Muslims and in 2021 it is said around 90% of them voted for Mamata. Her total voteshare was around 48%. So she needed barely 30% of the Hindu vote. Majority of the Hindu vote went to BJP (~55%) and th...

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4 men 3 different calibres. A logistical nightmare. These men are not from the Indian Army. Most likely, they are Russians Russians wielding Israeli Negev and American SIG-716? They are Indian. The uniforms are of the new IA camo pattern. Not sure what unit though. From the kit they do not look lik...

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When the flood gates are opened, you will get raw sewage mixed with clean water. If you try to stop the sewage at the source, you will also inhibit clean water. If BJP says no to these defectors now, it will effect people who are thinking about joining BJP This metaphor does not work. It is absolut...

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Apart from a few misfires, many high-profile turncoats (Sarma, Scindia, RPN Singh, Prasada, Adhikari, RPN et al) have been put to productive work in the BJP. The party doesn't "need" any of these people at the moment, so anyone applying will be expected to deliver many things as well as e...

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Vile characters like Kamal Nath should not be allowed within a mile of the BJP office. Or is the plan to make Bharat "congress mukt" by importing the whole of the congress party into the BJP? I fail to see why the BJP even needs him after soundly defeating him and the congress in the recen...

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Can't these Jags carry more firepower ?.. with just 1 Harpoon, it seems to be too lightly loaded.. On an operational mission they'll be armed with at least 2 ASRAAMs to provide some self-defence capability. While I know that this is standard practice I wonder how useful those ASRAAM's will truly be...

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In this particular case, you make a fair point, and I agree that my post in question was a bit of a reach. Granted that we don't *have* to get defensive about our faith and try to justify it on scientific grounds. Having said that, if there really is a valid scientific basis for a particular belief...

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sudarshan ji, I posit that Archaeoastronomy is a pseudoscience. It is a fool's errand to prove anything going back to thousands of years, leave alone tens of thousands of years. Please consider this. 1. It is a multibody problem which is chaotic. 2. From the boundary conditions , i.e. now, we want ...

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I remember the Qatari mirages being a point of discussion when I was still an enthusiastic youngster eager to make his first post on BRF. All these years later...and we are still discussing the Qatari Mirages. I wonder if any other country handles its defence procurement this abysmally.

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The ambitious mission took advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets before continuing its journey into interstellar space. What's that? Rare alignment of outer planets? This is basically a horoscope, right? Maybe at higher resolution than dividing the ecliptic into 12 regions (zodiac) or ...

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Guys this is the Assembly elections thread. Gay marriage discussion is irrelevant here. Please desist.

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The NDA got 251 seats with a lead of over 10% in vote share (typically over 100,000 votes). This 251 includes 18 seats by Shiv Sena in Mah and 6 by the LJP in Bihar. I assume they will be part of NDA in 2024. It excludes 10 seats won by JDU (over 10% margin) and 2 by Akalis, since they are not part...

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There was this video posted below of a Kuwaiti guy ranting against Palestinians (and comically Netanyahu too, for being too nice to Palestinians). His comment about Palestinians siding with Saddam and looting all local businesses and Kuwaiti homes was spot on as per eyewitness accounts from some fa...

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67119233 Hundreds dead in a blast at Gaza hospital. Israel has denied it was involved. This is the worst possible scenario for Israel - highly public casualties even before its invasion has begun. Very possible that Hamas/Hezbollah did it themselves...

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If Muslim countries accept Palestinian refugees. Then they are accepting a dilution of claims on the land. By keeping people in place, they're creating a space for the future erasure of Israel from the map. That is one aspect of it and the ostensible reason the likes of Egypt and Jordan are providi...

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The IA has lots of M-46 bought in the 1990s. The gun carriage is very robust and can handle the new barrel. .... So most of the M-46 will get the upgrade. It is very affordable and even better it works. Ramana ji, the Sharang upgrade was ordered for only around 300 guns not the entire inventory whi...

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i think the idea would be to depopulate the Gaza strip and raze most of the buildings and find and destroy all the tunnels., the Israelis are in for the long haul. No half measures. For Bibi and Israelis the job has just started. No one is saying the ground invasion is easy but its the only way. Ga...

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I really want to see what the IDF's plan is going to be in their response. Till now it is their usual tactics of bombing known Hamas targets inside Gaza. But since all of them are in civilian buildings, they have to warn the residents to leave with a dud bomb/missile prior to the actual strike. And ...

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Thought this discussion from the 1965 war thread was relevant here as well. Shiv has tweeted the balance of forces in 1965 https://x.com/shiv_cybersurg/status/1703229747764101623?s=20 Nice. In addition to qualitative superiority in armour, pakis also had qualitative superiority and quantitative pari...

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Th Official War History by MoD states 75% of all casualties were caused by Pak.artillery fire. Something to ponder. We as a nation have had innumerable lessons on the importance of artillery on the battlefield dating all the way back to the first battle of Panipat in 1526. We shouldn't need new one...

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Wonder how the IAF is looking to expand its airlift capabilities., are they looking at C 295 -> 7 to 9 tons ; C 130J -> ~ 19 tons IL 76 -> 60 tons God knows how long the IL 76 can soldier on with parts availability in question ! A400 -> 47 tons payload does not look like the optimum replacement ? ,...

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Shiv has tweeted the balance of forces in 1965 https://x.com/shiv_cybersurg/status/1703229747764101623?s=20 Nice. In addition to qualitative superiority in armour, pakis also had qualitative superiority and quantitative parity with India in Artillery. This is an excerpt from this article on the Bat...

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X-posted from J&K thread. Lots of information in here कारगिल युद्ध की अनसुनी कहानी | Sensational Podcast With Vikram Jit Singh, Journalist In this episode of Mor Talks, Watch Mr. Vikram Jit Singh, a Kargil War correspondent who witnessed the war firsthand. Vikram shares his experiences of the wa...

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British cruise missiles were used in significant Ukrainian attack on Russian submarine https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-strikes-russian-submarine-and-landing-ship-in-audacious-assault-on-crimea-naval-base-12960336 Some perhaps relevant information for us here. The Storm Shadow missiles used here ...

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Tanaji wrote: ↑14 Sep 2023 19:04 Genuine question: if this is a ARM missile that homes in on radiators like antennae, which radiators are inside bunkers?

You can have two different variants of the same missile. One an ARM and the other a bunker busting or standard air-to-surface variant with a different warhead and seeker.

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ramana, orders for basic equipment (or even heavy vehicles/artillery) will be in public domain. We are not talking about strategic forces here.

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Sachin saar, thank you for that comprehensive explanation. Clears up a lot of questions I've had for a while.

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Thakur_B wrote: ↑17 Aug 2023 08:54 No orders have been placed .... What a criminal waste of national resources while the requirements are screaming in the face.

Unfortunately you could post this part in just about any thread in the Mil Forum and be equally right.

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Thanks sanjayc, that is mostly what I had figured as well. If we ever have any serious police reform in India an overhaul of the criminal investigation process seems to be imperative. CID needs to be hugely expanded and needs to take over every murder case for a start. One would assume any murder by...

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Sachin, I have wanted to ask this question to someone who knows about police procedure in India for a while. In US crime dramas (including the more realistic ones), the way their city police departments seem to be structured is that they have a central CID unit run out of Police HQ which has various...

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Sirji, with dual rack pylons are going to be available soon, so this should not be an issue. I get that sir. What i was wondering was why not a dedicated under-nose hard-point The Tomcat had such an arrangement for the IRST IRST is a passive system that cannot interfere with the radar. The SPJ on t...

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So, how does ATAGS’s “shoot & scoot” ability compare with the Bofors in service with the IA? I remember it was a key criterion when Bofors was selected There are less than 200 of the original 400 Bofors guns left in service. For the first time we have multiple locally designed and produced alte...

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Cybaru wrote: ↑19 Jul 2023 08:53 - Payload for Sonam Point: Given the engine above, we could easily get a cool 2000 kgs, made up of 300 kgs of crew, 700 kgs of fuel, and 1000 kgs of payload (rough calculations)

For heaven's sake why do you want this thing to fly to Sonam point? Has such a requirement been specified by the IAF/IA?

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Trying to build a helicopter that can comfortably replace the Mi-17 while also having a version that can do the job of an SH-60 seems like a dicey proposition. All major ASW helos in the world are in the 9-11 tonne range and none of them even without their ASW equipment can do the job of an Mi-17. T...

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Aditya_V wrote: ↑01 Jul 2023 12:09
Rakesh wrote: https://twitter.com/alpha_defense/statu ... 82624?s=20 --->
Is this an Asraam CCM on the Tejas MK1A?

No that is a smoke generator for displays.

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I agree and that's why I feel it is no use blaming either the Generals or Baboos beyond a point. The blame has to fall on the people who have the power to do something about it but don't. But this discussion is getting too political now and we may have to move to strat forum.

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