Bharat Rakshak

Prem Kumar

I dont think India can use cluster bombs unless China uses it. Ground forces - yes anything goes. But air armaments - they will match China on heavy weapons IMO Are we matching the Chinese on artillery? If they open up & we don't have matching armaments, we will have to bring in the IAF (or suf...

Prem Kumar

I wish those who made that 5.56mm decision are asked or named for posterity. This is a proof that the decision makers in the IA believe in foreign-studies & brochures rather than their own experiences in COIN! Absolutely disgraceful. Its like the Panchatantra story about the "Brahmin and t...

Prem Kumar

vivek_ahuja wrote:Quote from the above link

I have highlighted the bold part again to emphasize the context within which the homegrown UAVs exist while we hear about armed drones being imported by all three services.

Same story, different thread.

Imagine how valuable these would be at the LAC today?

Prem Kumar

Actually the best thing to come out of this is the fact that we are fighting an enemy in our weight category. Pakistan is relegated to a place where they belong - in the trash bin - in the mindspace of Indians. Bharat Karnad said in one of his speeches (I'm assuming its his own quote): "A natio...

Prem Kumar

GOI has given full authority to local commanders to take whatever action is necessary - no more going back to check with higher ups. This reflects the seriousness of the situation.. Does this include the use of artillery & tanks? Pro-actively or reactively? My suspicion is that the Chinese, com...

Prem Kumar

I think the "they fired shots first" is not just a whine from the butt-hurt (which means we did something right), but is also an excuse to go up the escalation ladder. Typically, powers that wanted to start a war, create an 'incident' that they blame on the other side, so that their act of...

Prem Kumar

Agree with SSridhar. At a minimum, we should abandon acknowledgement of the One China policy. Logically, even without Tibet/Taiwan, why would we acknowledge this policy when they have been holding our territory for decades? The One China policy (especially when they don't demarcate their borders) is...

Prem Kumar

Is the 8 launch tubes for Arighat a typo?

12 K-15 or 4 K-4 means four launch tubes, unless they mean 12 K-15 plus 4 K-4! That'd be great news, but wouldn't it also mean that the loadout can be 12 K-4s potentially?

Prem Kumar

Karan M: regarding Nirbhay, a few observations: 1) The news that it was nothing more than a tech-demonstrator was news, at least to me. It came about only recently. Till then, most people were under the assumption that these were trials for a to-be-inducted system 2) From its early days, Nirbhay had...

Prem Kumar

My hope is that they actually switched to something more secretive and longer range. Something they would not reveal publicly yet. But it will become public when IA units start getting equipped with the new weapon. Plus it has to be tested, no? So why the secrecy then? Vivek you are right. Nirbhay ...

Prem Kumar

Vivek Sir: 1) Shaurya is not inducted. Project scrapped, or rather let to die without a whimper 2) Neither is Pragati, Pralay or Prahaar. Somewhere in the dev-trials, user-trials black hole 3) Nirbhay was scrapped as a tech-demonstrator 4) Brahmos Extended range is getting mixed news. Some reports s...

Prem Kumar

From an ISR perspective, this standoff presents a unique problem with hardly any parallels in the world. Just like with Kargil & 26/11. How we tackle this will be studied by other militaries. For starters: given the wide area of action, terrain and short time durations, satellite imageries will ...

Prem Kumar

There are many ways other than blacklisting to "rap the knuckles", while allowing critical equipment purchases to continue. For example: Embraer could be told that they will be taken off the blacklist provided they pay a penalty that will be offset against the price that we will pay them. ...

Prem Kumar

I hope this dies an MMRCA-style death and we just induct 6 more DRDO AIP enabled Scorpenes. Post-which, we design & build our own SSKs

Prem Kumar

Second that! I had watched this sometime back. These are must-watch videos to understand the depth of pro-Islamic, anti-national rot in our political leadership, bureaucracy & Mumbai police. The true extent of insider involvement in 26/11 is still not known. RVS Mani is doing his best to bring o...

Prem Kumar

Cleanup continues. 3 JeM pigs & 3 LeT pigs halale'ed in last 2 days. Sadly, we lost a jawan and a sub-inspector in these operations

Prem Kumar

Sir: its news to me that the IAF wanted more Netras. I've only seen news from day 1 that the order would be limited to 3 airframes, which caused a lot of justifiable heartburn here at BRF. The IAF wanted to curtail the Netra program citing some yada yada limitations & set their sights on the &qu...

Prem Kumar

There is a Malayalam saying: "Thooran muttirappol param-anveshikkannam"

...roughly translated as "Starting to look for a bucket of water only when you need to go urgently"

Prem Kumar

Great start - keep them coming!

Prem Kumar

The DGMF swings from "best of brochuritis" on one extreme to "we will fight with what we have" on the other, with nothing in-between (the in-between is where common sense might reside)

Prem Kumar

The problem is also the "anticipated use of tanks" that keep changing & the IA falling for the latest brochuritis. The theory that was doing the rounds for some time now is that tanks have to be heavy to fight in urban built-up areas against proliferation of MANPATGMs & RPGs with t...

Prem Kumar

Several reasons why today is different from 2002: 1) Back then, the ruling NDA was much weaker. C-system was much stronger than today 2) Generally, the pro-Indics were much less vocal than today. Thanks to social media & some pre-Indic channels/outlets, this has changed 3) ABV himself sent a wea...

Prem Kumar

There's certainly bandwagoning, no doubt. But after decades in the doldrums, thanks to new algorithmic breakthroughs and computing tipping points, we have a situation where some real AI applications are possible (example: look how good Google Translate is). Sooner or later we will hit the limit and ...

Prem Kumar

I think its a very important signal from the CDS, mainly for Indians but also for the Chinese. Indians: because there will be a crowd that'll moan why we started a pre-emptive war. Unlike Kargil, where things went kinetic very soon, there has been too long of a lull here. So, time to wake people up ...

Prem Kumar

A noob pooch. The recent article (quoted above) talks about ATAGS having a self-propelled speed of 20 Km/hr. But isn't the "T" of ATAGS stand for "Towed", which implies there is no self-propulsion.

Is it a misquote or am I not understanding correctly?

Prem Kumar

Its definitely a hit job because the *real news* was the forward deployment of Tejas. That's made to look like a side-show with the focus on "operational issues", as if its something unique to Tejas. As posters have stated above, these are teething troubles that every aircraft/air-force go...

Prem Kumar

Regarding Facebook, BJP as usual, has been caught like a deer in headlights. They should have instituted parliamentary proceedings against Twitter, FB etc for bias, false/malicious reporting, Cambridge Analytica etc. Their ability to manage media of any sort was, as usual, pathetic. Now Rahul is fir...

Prem Kumar

How much can the CBI uncover now, given that the Mumbai police has likely destroyed evidence? They can get non-destroyable things like call records. But physical evidence like the room where the death happened etc are all gone.

Prem Kumar

A couple of questions about the forward deployed Tejas: 1) I am assuming it carries Derby and not Derby-ER as the medium range AAM. How does it compare with the F-16 Amraam? This is an area where the R-77 came up short 2) Does it have SDR (software defined radio) to protect from jamming & losing...

Prem Kumar

Frankly, I don't understand the delay in kinetic action, especially if our forces are itching for it. We must exhaust options, alright. But its become very clear that the Chinese are here to stay into winter and beyond. The signal couldn't me more clear. The question is: with each passing day, does ...

Prem Kumar

A simple confident statement from Govt that "In War, There will be captures/losses and we will not stop till the victory is achieved" would turn the narrative quite opposite and the same people would have mentally stronger. In the background same thing had happened. I don't really even im...

Prem Kumar

Thanks for breaking out the details tsarkar sir. But the larger point is that, even without A2G mode of Uttam: 1) The Tejas had one of the best range scores in A2G missions in exercises 2) The Litening pod is mighty effective in favorable conditions 3) Barring the Rafale, none of the other fighters ...

Prem Kumar

Thanks for the details about A2G modes, k prasad! I'd like to understand the risk, if any, of inducting MK1a with Uttam (without the A2G mode). There are no AESA aircraft in our inventory, barring the Rafales. So, what's the problem in inducting Uttam in 1 mode, ironing out issues and add the A2G mo...

Prem Kumar

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/hal-helicopter-not-for-us-indian-navy-doesn-t-want-psu-to-be-part-of-3-bn-chopper-deal/ar-BB182ERx?ocid=msedgntp Navy objects to HAL entry in NUH project. The things just don't change. Proof-of-pudding moment for RM Rajnath Singh. If he wants to demonstrate inte...

Prem Kumar

SSS CEO said in an interview that they are from Day 1, looking at the international market because the domestic market has too many forces arraigned against a private player like them. In China, someone like SSS would've had a different trajectory. The PLA would have (apart from sitting in their boa...

Prem Kumar

And yes, if we had inducted 500 Shauryas, the Chinese will fear that if they hit our airfields hard, we will hit back harder. Anything within 1500 Kms would've been within striking distance, including their airfields.

Prem Kumar

Going back thru my old files, Helina is dead. It was replaced with Dhruvastra which was supposed to complete (PDC) 23 Jan 2021. I don't know whats the differences between Helina and Dhrubastra are? It's the constant tinkering with completed projects that delays the adoption. So what are the differe...

Prem Kumar

Why is the wife of a Defence Secretary launching a Coast Guard vessel? I thought only the wives of Naval officers do

(ok, an exception in the case of Mrs. MMS for the Arihant, but that's understandable)

Prem Kumar

These "product launches" are a babu way of showing "we support ArmaNirbhar onleee" just like "we supported Make in India onleee". As nachiket says, just place the bloody orders for LCH, Namica, Helina, Tejas, Arjun to show you mean business, rather than all this tamasha

Prem Kumar

Fanne ji: no disrespect, but my question was for Hari Nair sir If war breaks out tomorrow at the LAC and the IA asks a jerry-rigged LCH + Helina combo to be made ready ASAP, how much time will it take? The reason for my question is this: 1) I think the Helina is ready. There has been enough successf...

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