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A questionable decision at best if it has been decided to delay / scrap IAC 2. Don't quite believe it though. Questionable cause - Puts paid to all capability at Cochin. Come 2025 when we plan to build the next one, people would have retired, gone away and we shall be on our way to acquire some oil ...

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What are the advantages of 7.62 mm rifle versus 5.56 mm? What has changed Army's outlook towards 5.56 mm ? -way operations are being conducted, weapons possessed by adversaries..!!

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getting L&T and Bharat Forge to make parts for the Dhanush & ATAGS and even parallel production lines is the only way forward if we want to develop pvt sector for defence and MII. just reserving 100% of the malai for fat cat OFB to do as they please is the kind of regressive step that shows...

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Jay - You are right. Real support Yes. But, perhaps tied up in trials and more trials in controlled situations? Should not we arm regiments with Dhanush .. ATAGS .. others in whatever numbers possible and get field feedback, not in tailored scenarios. Subscribe to the thought of incremental.. field ...

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OT but relevant. We seem to have lost focus on supporting home grown products after Parrikar left. He wanted to move on but don't know if something else precipitated it. Non defense example on imports for a program of national importance - we are now importing 85% plus of Solar power equipment from ...

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Great that daily nourishment of LCA news / discussions is back.

Close up of NLCA from AI17. Beauty.

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Should DRDO or any other govt entity even spend time on smaller drones? Shouldn't private sector be given the contracts? Remember seeing pictures in ToI of a few young guns (all of us here too are young guns :)) carrying drones at some Policing Exhibition in Delhi. Dont know if people have been trie...

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First flight in 2024 or 2025! Didnt know that Tejas Mk 2 is already flying. Anyway, if production starts in 20236, that is a leisurely 30 years of design and development. We seem to be taking LCA experience in an entirely different direction i.e., take as much time as possible. Lets hope things are ...

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Want to provide competition to HAL? Ask private party to assemble LCA in addition to HAL. Find this talk of developing local assembly capability only through assembly of foreign fighter very facetious. OT here. Should getting funds for AMCA, Ghatak be difficult given that we are splurging 1000s of c...

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If we have to fight the Single Engined program, so be it. For the sake of indigenous programs and for those who have toiled all these years. Been peppering PM / DM with messages on twitter. If it calls for street protests, we should do it. Tejas needs as many hands on deck as possible, within the pr...

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'Which we will then lose...' Come on! Take a break! If nothing else take inspiration from Kidambis and Sindhus who have beaten the Chinese best at their own game. All they do is drive vehicles across the flat dust pan of Tibet. Engage them in mountain warfare and they shall feel the air or lack of i...

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time is ripe to humiliate and punish china now that their paws are inside the cookie jar. we must not let this opp go to make them lose face. east asia is watching keenly. whatever they have built in encroached areas must be demolished under the glare of NDTV cameras and Hindu reporter flown in for...

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Is the dock self propelled? Does it have self defence capability? For vessel this size and capability, acquisition price mentioned seems low.

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Khalsa wrote:Its like a cloud... its taking over all threads... honestly i would not be surprised if it gets a mention in the Arjun thread.

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From the above article -- "Having designed the helicopter, there is very little else that HAL has on its table, except setting up manufacturing facilities. Even the avionics of the IMRH will be imported," said Vijainder Thakur, a defense analyst and retired Indian Air Force squadron leader...

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Fantastic Fantastic achievement this. In post launch credits on telecast on DD, almost all scientists said native design, materials, manufacture, execution. True Made in India. Its been a long journey from Glavkosmos, sanctions. Recall reading interview of some French scientist years ago.. who said....

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If wreckage is scattered in that big area, can we rule out mid air disintegration of the plane. From the few air crash investigation episodes I saw, when the plane is shot down, the wreckage will be scattered across large area. Not suggesting that, need wait till black box is analyzed. Cannot be ru...

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Pilots didnt survive. Sad.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 931422.cms

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http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/indigenous-black-boxes-for-mi-17s/407714.html Indigenous black boxes for Mi-17s The Air Force’s Russian built Mi-17 helicopters will soon be equipped with indigenously developed electronic black boxes in place of the existing older technology. These helicopte...

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Any chance Chinese bringing down SU-30 ? It is highly possible. Anything is possible but highly unlikely. Doimara in Bhalukpong being given as the location where wreckage has been located in almost Assam. If it is Chinese shoot down must have a SAM with range of 100 km .. extremely accurate. More l...

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I understand even in intense wars like 1971 or nowdays in Syria, average sorties an aircraft undertakes is 1 to 2 only per day. Though not right comparison but even in Indian commercial aviation, DGCA says Pilots can do up to 3 landings on domestic flights everyday. 1 or 2 sounds low for a war scen...

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Bheeshma wrote:Bunkers were being done 15-20 years back when musharaff came crawling for ceasefire . The mehran base like attacks are what is missing.

++ Acknowledge.

Meant that Bunker Busting was good enough for that time. Hope that the path and time to The base wont be too long, if need be.

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+108 Ultraviolence & 10X overmatch are the only languages Pakis understand. The brutality should be so painful that they wince when even thinking about it ++ that.. Think its time to move beyond destroying bunkers along LoC. Bunkers are as expendable among assets as they can be. Time to strike ...

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Indian Army Conducts Counterstrikes Against Pakistani Posts Along The Line Of Control By Saurav Jha - May 23, 2017 http://www.delhidefencereview.com/2017/05/23/indian-army-conducts-counterstrikes-against-pakistani-posts-along-the-line-of-control/ The Indian Army (IA) in an official statement has co...

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I'm a bit peeved at this celebratory mood on twitter by all defense bloggers about the first two M777s arriving and also some patronising headlines by news websites. Didn't see such jubilation for Dhanush or ATAGS. What can I say, I'm still just a desi khadi lover. Right On. Another illustrious cha...

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GSLV becomes the next PSLV. Wonder what shall happen to it?

Anyway, congrats to all. DD had begun playing images around 5:20 pm. Guess the launch was kept so as our mandarins wanted to play the first visuals in front of videshi netas, which Mr Kiran Kumar did.

Now wait for GSLV MkIII.

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Guys, I don't know about you, but its one thing not to be able to respond to TSP's brazen provocations, but I am sick and tired of BJP spokesman harp on the following to points, laughable were it not tragic: 1. That TSP is isolated. Are these BJP spokesman smoking some high octane delusional hashis...

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Its good that Udan services are being planned for new destinations across the country. But dont quite agree with how we are trying to go about i.e., without seriously upgrading the facilities at those airports. Had we channeled even 5k-10k over one to two years in upgrading / creating new facilities...

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Any recent news, photos of SP 4, SP 5 etc.? Things seem to be a little quite.

Been sending tweets regularly to our PM, PMO on need to go full throttle with LCA (vis a vis imports) besides other programs. Given that GoI does read tweets, think they have some food for thought.

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GSLV Mk 2 launch scheduled for May 5th when GSLV 09 will boost GSAT-9 aka South Asia Satellite into Geo Stationary Orbit: ISRO to launch South Asia Satellite on 5 May, Pakistan not on board Sadly no mention of a launch date for the GSLV Mk-III aka LVM3 in the article :( Been looking forward to Mk I...

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1000 years of moral and mental servitude is not going to disappear so soon. Perhaps going to take a generation more. I say - lets call for all defence imports to be stopped. You find capability in India and build whatever you want. But no imports. All the talk of holes here holes there has been prop...

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NRao wrote:Vishal to receive EMALS and AAG. Done deal.

General Atomics receives export approval for EMALS+AAG to the Indian Navy

Now, only if we have ambition to plan for staggered - by two to three years - production of three to four (in time for Vikramaditya to retire) of these types.

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Putin ji nods his head! Huh. The junta (pun intended) who shall go there for Ka 226 training shall be elated (read as tax payer sponsored sojourn), as those who shall unscrupulously divert spares to Iran shall be rubbing their palms (pun intended) in delight etc. But I have faith in our bureaucracy ...

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Agree on the numerical part. But qualitative edge is still there. Anyways. Think that, given the length of India's coastline, our proximity to major global trade / oil routes, the nature of our adversaries, and likely help adversaries could get we should have five carrier groups. Two to guard the we...

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http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/china-s-2nd-aircraft-carrier-coming-this-month-india-loses-edge-117040100987_1.html Half baked Indian capabilities considered lesser than half baked Chinese capabilities. Was not able to find solid reason why 'India Loses Edge'. The gentleman ...

Rishi_Tri · Re: Indian Military Aviation - 21 Sept 2015 Thanks.

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What might this be? Some testing going on over skies of Bangalore. Picked it up late night on FlightRadar.

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Austin wrote:HAL finalises major plan to manufacture 1000 military helicopters and over 100 planes

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/art ... 839082.cms

Interesting report this. Does not mention LUH. Might be convenient or accidental omission.

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Good number of Ambassador / Padmini generation has blazing confidence and fierce independence emanating from memories or stories of pre independence. Yes, for those on payrolls of Brit masters - armed services were always them - all phoren was fantastic. LCA for all practical purposes is by Ambassad...

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Tejas cockpit - pic.twitter.com/IBx67fnu8d - is smart balance of form and function.

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