Bharat Rakshak

why do we want any air-air capability in a mig 27? if we have to spend on it, lets give it better night attack and stand off attack capabilities, there will always be a Su30 to watch its back

joint operations is a must if we are to get real synergies. i note from reading a report on the recent shoot down of a british helicopter in iraq that it was being crewed by 2 RN, 1 RAF, and 1 RM and taking the new RAF CO around on a familiarisation flight of his new "base". I think it was...

baap re! Dileep, you clearly have been psychologically profiling venerable forum members! now the CIA and ISI will be after your profiling skills!

Al Q detontating in the US will be as the start of the global end game strategy, i.e. when the mullahs are convinced that gog and magog are on the prowl and the mahdi is coming to cleanse the earth small matter that all remotely islamic centres will thereon turn to carbon... but hey, will eventually...

how about - "Fly over enemy territory and smash windows in Pindi HQ buildings and be home in time for chai biskoot!"; now that I would pay for!

Kernail to Sepahi Abdul: How many halikaptar you saw? Abdul: 6 Saar Kernail: how many missile you are shooting? Abdul: 7 saar Kernail: how many dirty kaffir dushman you are killing? Abdul: er... Kernail: must be 6-7 isnt it? Abdul: ji huzoor (thinks: now please approve my home leave away from this i...

jagan will know!

hmmm... in an open society like India, 6 helicopter losses would have been widely reported

did i miss something or is the good general smoking some of afghanistan's finest?

Does the IAF and IA have some form of combined command structure for Siachen Ops? Or does IA tell IAF what and when?

well Shiv - you are right, however - i would like to see UCAV drones flying a grid pattern over sensitive areas almost permanently. Certainly once intrusions have taken place, we will also need an offensive capability. We cannot hermetically seal the border afterall Who the 'eck will pay for the de...

well Shiv - you are right, however - i would like to see UCAV drones flying a grid pattern over sensitive areas almost permanently. Certainly once intrusions have taken place, we will also need an offensive capability. We cannot hermetically seal the border afterall

i would like to see a special ultra high alt derivative of Dhruv/LAH to be developed, or perhaps better still, a UCAV that could do a similar job and weapons that can be used to target these penny packets at very high altitudes

no one has these yet... but where there is a will...

there is also the problem of political consolidation. the longer the paks were on the heights the bigger the barking out of islamabad would have been and more points scoring. there was a need to exert pressure quickly - and ofcourse the problem of the sanctity of the LOC. RayC - I understand the nee...

just as the paks think that a thrust along akhnoor will choke the kashmiri chicken... :shock: there must be a geographical feature - perhaps a valley or pass, whose occupation will permanently choke off the muzzaffrabad end of POK and all the northern areas? (and i don't mean haji pir pass) whilst t...

aditya - don't mean to doubt you, but how does an IRBM perform a dog-leg manouevre?

frankly dileep - you need to make this a proper novel and get published! don't waste your talent on freeware!

there was a book called "Night runners of Bengal" by a British author who painted a fictitious account of a 1857 battle - it was quite even handed from what I recall - it may provide some input into the style of battle

Simple shoot nbagga down :x this is simple mishtake onlee, i can categorically state that it was in fact Irish rock band U2 being shown live on MTV on satellite channels all over India. The show lasted for 30 mins, therefore - there was U2 in Indian skies for well over half an hour shoot em down an...

as a counterpoint, the zulus at isandhlwana had only a few rifles but had much superior numbers and knowledge of terrain to the british - who also used poor tactics. however the british did have light artillery and rockets which killed hundreds of zulus as they advanced across open ground, but they ...

i dont think the State Dept. asks permission from the UN for anything - more the other way around, but other than that, nice story development

Purely as a theoritical exercise could a regiment of 18 x 105mm modern light artillery have swung the tide in the major battles seen in northern india invasions ? without question - since armies tended to mass in the open. but then so could proper deployment of contemporary artillery, or proper dep...

the mongols did not invade india under the khanate. genghiz had enough recon and intel to know that the delhi sultans had massive military power. he had already exhausted his armies in subduing the kwarazm shah and his son jehangir. the kwarazm forces were large, well organised and equipped and also...

aryan invasion can be replaced with aryan migration perhaps - the latter involving assimilation with indigenous peoples. the dasratha war seems to be generally agreed. it seems to me that it is the genesis of the mahabharata story the indus valley people were displaced by someone - perhaps over a ve...

well with the east bengalis there was also little deployment of "shiv's islamic lance" unlike the west punjab, hence the SDRE delta landers did not think they were arab/turks, unlike their overlords from the west wing who seem to like the fact that their ancestors had to do lots of GUBO at...

there is absolutely no question that IAF bases need more aircraft protection. more dispersal into tree lined areas and also big huge earthworks to take the aircraft out of harm's way. these need not cost the earth, and either way would be cheaper than losing the planes dig down, use the soil to buil...

review of the alexander movie by a historian Review of Alexander the movie blends several episodes into one, the battle on the Jhelum didn't quite happen as per the movie! Becuphelus was killed, but Alexander did not charge Puru, etc. Another account of the battle has been pieced together by Major G...

Pune airfield is fairly well concealed from the ground and abdul would struggle to get into anywhere really dangerous - and the IAF police and field security are definitely on their toes. however, the aircraft are certainly visible when you fly in. jingo hearts swell at seeing the numerous MKI's, MK...

to all detractors - lay off and let the authors enjoy themselves! atleast thank them for taking the time and energy to do something

shankar - nice as always. however - it is oryx not onyx, or gemsbok in afrikaans (pron: hemsbok). also, cheetah are too timid to hunt anything but the smallest of gemsbok calves, and they wont normally since the mothers are seriously dangerous to all living beings in proximity to their calves. cheet...

anoop think again about my point about pak delivery capability. what if every corps has a truck n-bomb attached to it at HQ. when that is about to be overrun, the fidayeen unit detonate it and take 000's of kafir soldiers with them...? ofcourse it wont work that way since we are unlikely to be very ...

all roads lead to Cold Start... i was feeling the same way. as for BCE attacks - i think that regardless of platform, their impact will be localised, and perhaps managable it is primarily N that has to be catered for - in the military scenarios, the NFU and assured retalliation outcomes work well......

you need to categorise the WMD types 1. Nuclear 2. Biological 3. Chemical 4. Ecological - ability to cause flooding, etc. and likely mode of delivery 1. conventional weapons - artillery 2. rocket/missile weapons 3. unconventional delivery - terrorism some of these scenarios only have strategic respo...