Bharat Rakshak

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Very, very interesting development - and in the right direction imvho. Should have happened much earlier, and the package needs to be larger BUT - it is a start. Don't think this will make much differnce to IAF MRCA - the IAF might be import friendly, but it won't approach a sanction-prone product ...

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NATO has a tricky situation on it's hand going forward. Elements of the Ukranian forces are likely to be hell bent on recovering all of Ukranian territory including the Crimea and if that results in a larger war involving NATO they will welcome it. I would suspect that any Ukranian push into territo...

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brar_w wrote:I wonder how ^^ will impact combat tactics for operations into Transnistria , Poland and possibly Finland/Sweden.

I know, even Igor Girkin has admitted that in the Kharkov/Kharkiv sector Ukranian Forces have reached the Russian border in places.

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https://t.me/strelkovii/2557 Igor Girkin in his latest post says that the Donbass offensive has failed. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FS4y-kiWIAEFqBe?format=png&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FS4y_lPWQAEYpZ8?format=png&name=medium https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FS4zAkkXoAExCBq?format=png&...

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. And with USSR and Russia it was also at rather affordable prices, which killed the incentive to develop locally and which is also the reason we have such a large percentage of our Armed forces of Russian origin. Even Cuba, that most Soviet of satellites, took the hard decision to wean itself off ...

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A new production system, new labor making a new product, is going to come with associated learning curve and those ahead on their curve (like Dassault's original production line) will be more efficient based on years of performance and delivery and the effort put towards efficiency over this time. ...

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.... If the cost + issue with HAL has been sorted out then that raises the problem that HAL's costs are very high as the article I have linked below states. This article is talking specifically about how negotiations between Dassault and HAL were stalemated on the original 126 Rafale deal where 108...

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How does it work against a typical ship superstructure that is moving as opposed to one loaded with containers providing more of a target face? This was an early test, actually the footage was released in 2013. From my reading the current generation of seekers in the Tomahawk & Long Range Anti ...

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You would be surprised as to how rare tests against manouvering targets are - if there is a public release about one, I would be keen to see it. Most of the information you have referenced is about getting the missile to a point where the active seeker can take over. The hard part in targeting and ...

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Unless the cost + model of HAL's licensing is abolished the Indian taxpayer will always pay the bill. Name one license manufactured aircraft in HAL's history where the Indian cost of manufacture has been lower than the price of direct imports. In the case of this latest "Buy Global, Make in Ind...

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How were these IR missiles cued? 1) By Radar for BVR targets in LOAL mode 2) By the missile's IR sensor in LOBL mode for WVR targets 3) Even with the R-73/HMS combo, I would assume the HMS simply enabled the missile to launch off-boresight in LOAL mode i.e. launching with target coordinates and not...

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From what I know, disabling Starlink will require taking out a ground station. Or did Starlink figure out something the experimental tech that would not require ground stations? Starlink sent a few 1000 terminals to UKR. The service itself was activated in Feb. Each terminal can connect with a Star...

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US Airforce NGAD systems: The Air Force’s Secret New Fighter Jet Will Be Wildly Expensive Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, in remarks reported by Defense News, told lawmakers that the crewed version of the NGAD fighter jet would cost “multiple” hundreds of millions of dollars. NGAD includes both c...

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I doubt russia for starters can even shoot down one of starlink satellite they are much smaller than Cosmos satellite they have hit before. Also the missile costs quite a lot (atleast 10+ mill) and these Sats don’t even cost 200k so Elon would love it to see Russia go bankrupt trying to knock it do...

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Will this allow Ukraine to retake Crimea or Donbass? No. The stated objective of the war from NATO's perspective has changed from the "defense of Ukraine" to "weakening Russia" (see my post in the Strat Forum). The objective of weakening Russia is best served if the war is prolo...

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Interesting opinion piece on MSNBC of all places!! It is striking that once the weakness in Russia's military was exposed, there has been no further talk of a negotiated peace deal or a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy. There was also an interesting snippet on television where Jane Fraser the CEO...

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I know that Ajai Shukla is not a welcome voice on the forum and true to form this article does have a few stink bombs thrown in. But what is interesting is the extent to which Modi was/is interested in the concept of jointness and how he has been less than impressed with the quality of the military ...

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Also who knows to what extent Putin has micro managed this war? Also I was struck by that video just before the war started where Putin had his senior cabinet ministers, FSB chief and military advisors all sitting in a row and obviously terrified to speak up in front of him. For those who speak of a...

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Yeah most of the 100 or so LW155s committed by US, Canada and Australia have been delivered with I believe two batches of soldiers trained as well. More in the form of wheeled and tracked ? Howitzers are on the way but I suppose those just have all been destroyed (even the ones not yet delivered) b...

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I wonder why the Russians waited for so long before targeting key rail transport infrastructure such as the power distribution centers that supply traction power to the electric locos of the Ukranian railways? I would have thought that should have been accomplished in the first week of the invasion....

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Boeing to Fly Two F/A-18 Jets to India for Operational Demo The aerospace giant said that it is in talks with India for the F/A-18 Super Hornet, P-81, F-15 EX, and KC-46 tanker for aerial refueling, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.......... ..........India’s potential pr...

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Heavy weaponry is pouring into Ukraine....... In the initial weeks of the war with Russian forces on the outskirts of Kiev, NATO believed that it was only a matter of time before Russia captured large parts of Ukraine and the arms supplied then were designed for an insurgency to harass Russian forc...

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Interesting article on the expected struggle of the Russian armed forces to replenish equipment lost in Ukraine. It's behind a paywall so I am posting small snippets. Russian Military’s Next Front Line: Replacing Battlefield Equipment Destroyed in Ukraine Russia’s heavy use and loss of weapons in Uk...

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If you were the IAF would you prefer to let HAL/DRDO tinker with integration on Dhruv with uncertain timelines on when the project will be completed or will you prefer to outsource the entire integration to Israel who will also supply the missile and who also have been integrating various members o...

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It's payload is over 4 tons. It can deploy multiple missiles in a single sorties. It also has the ability to operate at all operational locations of the Indian armed forces. Pratyush I am not convinced by that reason. Is it all Mi17s or select squadrons. What armr will a Mi17 in Tawang or Chabua en...

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Demonstration video by Rafael Defense Systems of the Spike NCLOS. It has an IIR-electro optical seeker and is wire guided upto 8 km at which point the wire gets unplugged and it is guided by a data link for the rest of the 30 km range. Already tested by the US from an Apache AH-64.

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Are there any videos of the first S-400 site? Photos of the command center, etc. I have heard that the S-400 is a spruced up version of the S-300 MPV...which has the Grill pan Radar. I have seen videos of how information is shown in the Isreali Green pine radars. I think India has 3 of them functio...

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F-35's with multi-ship IRST started testing this some time ago and the capability is probably already fielded - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/f-35-now-has-multi-ship-infrared-search-and-track-capability/ The F-35s would be using DAS I presume and then MADL for the data link. But the significance ...

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Hey brar_w, I was reading up on the Legion Pod and how data linking between 2 such pods allows range to target to be verified via triangulation. Would the acquisition range for these pods be comparable to the existing radars on the fighters that will eventually be equipped with them i.e. F-15s, F/A...

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The Brahmos flies at ~3000 km/hour so it will take about 6 minutes to reach it's target if the surface ship is 300 km away. Even if the ship's speed is 30 knots it will not be more than ~ 5 km from the original location where it was when the missile was launched, whether it's an air launched or ship...

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Is there a cogent reason why the Euros and US Deep State want to flood Ukraine with their weapons and prolong the war even further. This is another "half clever" scheme which is going to end up in failure and more destruction of Ukraine. A nightmare scenario for Europe will be Stingers/ A...

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Also SpaceX's ability to launch satellites at the rate of roughly 50 every week i.e. 50 Starlink satellites per Falcon 9 launch, vastly exceeds any country's ability/ASAT weapon inventory to shoot down those satellites. Already SpaceX has ~2300 satellites in orbit. Space is the wild west waiting fo...

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US is pumping more weapons - for what outcome??!! Any amount of conventional weapons can't help AFU defeat Russia now. Do your sources have a definitive timeline on when space X satellites can be expected to spontaneously begin blowing up? Talking of SpaceX and Ukraine, there is an interesting arti...

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Any records of a Brahmos being fired on moving targets- say a manouvering ship? I am also curious about this. Have not seen any of the tests specifically mention a moving target. It supposedly has an active radar seeker which will identify a target given the speed with which it will arrive at it's ...

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No less a person than Igor Girkin aka Igor Ivanovich Strelkov, (the first 4 lines from his Wikipedia entry are given below) thinks that the renewed Russian offensive in the East will not be entirely successful. And the longer the war goes on the stronger the Ukranians will become. Perhaps Deans can ...

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As Ukraine runs short on ammunition the US is hunting all over the world for Soviet standard ammunition to supply Ukraine. Including India. The U.S. Races to Arm Ukraine With Heavier, More Advanced Weaponry The Western effort is both sprawling and expensive, with as many as 30 countries, not all of ...

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A nice RUSI article. Russia Likely has Local Air Superiority in Donbas, but it May Not Matter Justin Bronk 19 April 2022 Compared to its initial operations around Kyiv and in the southwest of Ukraine, Russia likely has a measure of localised air superiority in Donbas. However, this is unlikely to pr...

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Why on earth would anyone be interested in Google Earth images that are many months old or even years old, when the cost of commercial satellite imagery tasking has become so competitive? You can task a satellite to get tomorrow's image of the location that is of interest to you and repeated multip...

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Lessons for India if anyone is listening.... Always have submarines submerged as Google chacha Is watching.. Why on earth would anyone be interested in Google Earth images that are many months old or even years old, when the cost of commercial satellite imagery tasking has become so competitive? Yo...

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Hey brar_w, I was reading up on the Legion Pod and how data linking between 2 such pods allows range to target to be verified via triangulation. Would the acquisition range for these pods be comparable to the existing radars on the fighters that will eventually be equipped with them i.e. F-15s, F/A-...

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