Bharat Rakshak

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Yes, Ramana ji. Was aware of that. Was referring to the recent concerns, of non suitability (reason said to be quality issues) for the Sig 716, which led to (or is it might lead to) importing of this ammo from abroad. IMHO if the root cause is indeed quality issue, then it is surely a in-house solva...

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Nice.

Fingers crossed for the quick local solution of the 7.62 x 51 mm bullets for the Sig 716 issue.

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... Of the 275-290 fighters that the Egyptian airforce possesses, more than 200 are F-16s given by the US since 1980 under the Israeli-Egyptian peace accords of 1979 for which Egypt has not paid any money. (Egypt continues to get annual military aid of $ 1.3 billion from the US)... Thanks for the i...

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I still don't get how egypt has the money for as wide a zoo as ours. Mirage 5s, MiG 29s, Mirage 2000s, F-16s, Rafales, Su 35s...

PS oops just saw same question asked by another poster

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RKumar wrote:
AFG were quick to get their revenge

Unlikely. Looks like a more entitled RAPE raped (and then killed) a less entitled RAPEtte

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These are not civilian engineers. These are PLA in mufti. No one in his right mind would arm and untrained civilian with firearms in case they get attacked. The skinny one in the glasses does look more of an engineer/contractor than a soldier. Going by our MSM one would think all Chinese soldiers a...

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Khalsa wrote:....this is proof that Felon is not working and they come up with another single engined product from the same house.

That would be stretching things a bit too far sir.. by that logic the F-22 was a failure because the Americans followed it up with the single engine F-35

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The cross section shown didn't look like the traditional shaped charge, hence my query.

As the other poster has said, it is probably the high explosive which makes the fragments pierce armour (of thin skinned personnel carriers, light tanks

), provided the explosion is close enough

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^ Armour piercing?

As in penetration of lightly armoured personnel carriers?

Useful bit of kit.

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bakis sure must be looking at this jet and Russia will not think twice before selling this jet to bakis. Just why will the Chinese pay the Bakis to buy Russian jets? Now a coup-paranoid Sultan Erdogan might want to do a barter deal - Turkey finances the jets on lease basis, Pakistan supplies the pi...

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Some initial release info (perhaps Gurus might be able to compare with the Su 30 / Su 57 and compute some back of envelope guess-timations about the MTOW, thrust?) Putin hails Russia's air power as new fighter goes on view The prospective warplane, marketed under the project name Checkmate, has one ...

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Well he is a full paki and a Canadian.. What about the american citizen Daood Sayed Gilani aka David Headley?

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Understood. A succinct explanation. Thanks.

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A pity. We could have helped them (as much for themselves, as well as for our own benefit) effectively if we were not ham-strung by altered geography and lack of our own Mil-Ind base.

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That agreement, my friend, I believe is the second most closely guarded secret in Bakistan, after Gen. Bajwa's religious affiliations. Nothing pops up if one googles "CPEC agreement" or "CPEC Defense Pact". If the details were ever to be made public (about CPEC, that is) the pak...

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Oh, yes. Completely skipped thinking about the quality assurance and maintenance parts in the excitement of the new launch. Maybe partly because I somehow don't expect the design parameters to be as tight or the tolerance levels to be as low as the US F-35. But still Mea Culpa. With regards to the d...

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... This at least keeps them in the competition as the MiG-29 and Su-30 programs give way to something more modern. There was a risk of Chinese trying to corner that market with its smaller aircraft 10-20 years from now. Though how much of those combat aircraft are replaced with cheaper UCAV's rema...

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Their PR video showed whom they think to be the target Customers. They still seem to consider India as their best bet. Even after the FGFA saga. It is another thing that we seem to be quiet confident about the doability of the AMCA (be it a different class) and will not even look at this bird unless...

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brar_w wrote:... If it is actually built, I suspect it will primarily interest those who can't get or can't afford the F-35 or those existing Su-27 and MiG-29 family users who don't require a larger, heavier and more expensive fighter.

Brar_w ji, Also those who can't afford Rafale's

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The northern command had a few months back floated rfp for procurement of ammunition from private sector. SSS defence has tied up with Brazilian ammunition maker for setting up ammunition manufacturing line in India. Change is on the way at a glacial pace. May the pace quicken fast real soon, well ...

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Ah that old OFB bug bear.. I suspected it might be partly QC but didn't imagine it would be to this extent :( While it is a major problem, at least it is still a solvable one. The government hopefully will eventually succeed in belling the lazy OFB cat, but maybe for now some private players may be ...

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I don't think we stopped completely. Possibly reduced significantly since we shifted to other caliber for our assault rifles. Hence my query that can't we re-tool our factories back to manufacturing of this caliber. It might take some time (a few months, a year?) Or is there any clause in the deal w...

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Surprisingly the fliendship pact does not allow PLA to take over development sites. Each project (Gwadar, for example) has required a separate "arrangement" between the pakis and their short friends. Besides, stationing PLA troops in PoK will violate UN norms. ... Hmm interesting point. I...

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^ sir, surely we can restart manufacturing the ammunition, can't we?

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The new Russian bird looks beautiful. Hope the program sees eventual success. What a sea change of difference in reception from just a decade ago ! I remember those heady days in BRF, just before the release of the PAK-FA.. that thread would move so fast as we eagerly waited for pics and details :)...

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I always thought aircraft designers were crazy but some design concepts really show how crazy they are

Identify the below whacky concept... which understably never got built

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... a) To show who is the boss b) To deliberately spend as less money as possible for security c) Local fights about who is getting paid off and who is not Now, we could analyze the latest vacuum bulb blast in Dasu and see deep planning like a false flag operation. But it is likely to be one of a) ...

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... As part of their report, the chinis will now officially require greater protection of their workers by their own PLA conscripts if the bakis wish to see SeePack succeed and, thus, pave the way for a full-time chini garrison in occupied cashmere. ... Anup ji, isn't there a tallel and deeper frie...

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Sheikh Chilly has just confirmed our suspicions with this statement: 15 Chinese officials part of Dasu incident investigation: Sheikh Rashid Anup ji, the unusually blunt (almost bordering on accusatory) tweet and the large presence of Chinese officials in the investigation could also indicate that ...

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Pakis set off a bomb blast to kill French engineers because France did not give kickbacks in the Agosta submarine contracts. French intelligence broke the knees (not exaggerating, actually broke knees) of the Vice Admiral and ISI jernails involved in the attack. We will know soon if China is in the...

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Well.... after looking at the below photo it seems that the Zephyr rendering might be more closer (especially about the intakes) https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fimageserve%2F60f1f1b5fe2cd662b6ca741a%2F960x0.jpg%3FcropX1%3D0%26cropX2%3D748%26crop...

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How good is this Zephyr guy? Does he (they) have design experience or are they kind of like fan art guys...

I ask because their rendering looks close to some fan rendering of a future MiG single engine fighter...

IMHO I think the hushkit rendering seems to be more probable.

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Everything murky is possible in Jihadistan. Looking at the unusually sharp Chinese reaction, one can't help but wonder if the ever-suspicious Chinese think this to be a ISI plotted Op to get them to give more money to the Pak faujis for 'protection', while at the same time sending signals to the Ame...

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Not social media but a big (data) company. Sarkars all over the world can and will always find ways to tighten the screw on baniyas, when they so choose.. be they Ma (jack) or Baap (bezos) US sues Amazon for selling dangerous products The US Consumer Product Safety Commission says Amazon is selling ...

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^ And the proposed Mach 3+ replacement of the MiG 31 will (if it happens) probably be an evolutionary upgrade.. and not the hyped hypersonic fighter it is being made out to be Is the MiG-31 even in production? If not then they may just overhaul and upgrade existing aircraft to keep them going for a...

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^ And the proposed Mach 3+ replacement of the MiG 31 will (if it happens) probably be an evolutionary upgrade.. and not the hyped hypersonic fighter it is being made out to be

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Some chinese style sneak peek 'photos'

Apologies for the large image (don't know how to resize them)

From the rear?

Shape Comparison (not to scale)

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^ Thanks for the info Thakur ji Am quite surprised to know that chassis is the component. A couple of years back there was a very informative post on this forum (perhaps by Brar_w, NRao or KaranM) about how the Russians had fallen behind, and were being sneakily kept behind (via tech denial), in opt...

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^ that's interesting. Would Optics (specifically night enhancement kind) be the major component being bought?

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That's true. But you could see the recoil even in the single shot and the rapid fire single shot modes. And the recoil was approx the same with comparative rifles like the Scar 17. In any case our boys who are drilled hard on precision firing will rarely be doing the pray-and-spray suppression fire ...

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