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rajeshks

$10B is not big for uncle sam and party whose Defense expenses tops $2T The last time I checked the USA defense spending for the fiscal year 2010 was 663.7 billion dollars Mostly due to Afgan war.. and think about the total expense/damage done by Al-kazhutha & osama.. will be in trillions.. he ...

rajeshks

Well the exaggeration is in assuming that the F-22 is invisible. The point being made is that the F-22 outranges every other aircraft i.e. it sees its adversary long long before showing up on anyone else's radar. May be my ignorance but I still dont understand how will it happen?? If F-22 wants to ...

rajeshks

The only way out then, to make both IAF happy and for GoI to fulfill its aim of leveraging this deal for geopolitical advantages, is to escalate the total price of this deal to close to $18-20 billion. That would get IAF the number of airframes it wants, and would allow GoI complete freedom to choo...

rajeshks

Xposting. Not recommending the C-17, but the NEED for a strategic airlift : Former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash said it was absolutely essential that the navy built up the capacity to transport a brigade- sized group across the seas. "We have 1,200 island territories. We have energy investm...

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There is some difference between being corruption free and being honest. Antony is free of corruption but that doesnt mean that he is completely honest. For that matter no politician can be. We have seen too much of his political plays during the infamous congress I-A group politics in Kerala. What ...

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All detained Bangabandhu killers executed.. http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=21883 Five detained killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were executed at Dhaka Central Jail shortly after Wednesday midnight. Mohiuddin Ahmed (artillery) was first to be executed at 12:05am...

rajeshks

Is Brahmos capable of sinking a ship of the size of 40000 ton?

rajeshks

price for peace i guess... Still cheap compared to the price europe paid for peace.. two world wars, 50 million lives, lost all colonies... if brothers take arms against each other then the price is always high... starting from kurukshetra. the reality is we live in a world were everyone is pushing...

rajeshks

So now instead of claiming that the Indian procurement officials are fools, you're claiming that they're corrupt, working against Indian interests :roll: You realize that is in fact a more serious charge. Not just the officials but the politicians too, as in the case of most countries in the world....

rajeshks

Because some people seem to think that the US will cut off spares for any little petty offense , which is clearly not the case any little petty offense?? What do you mean by offense??? Even the 'biggest offense' for US, nuclear test by india, is not an offense in the eyes of anyone here. So do you ...

rajeshks

George, the question is whether the machines are flying or not. it doesn't matter whether its sanction or delay tactics or some excuses to stop spares. i wont blame russia much, after all mig 21s and mig 27s are still flying with IAF even after it stopped flying almost every where else, and it does ...

rajeshks

We still supply F-16 spares to Venezuela, and I can assure you they don't do everything the US wants them to do Venezuela bought F16 from US 25 years back. And the current state of VAF F16 is 1. Only 14 out of 21 operational. 2. Due to the overwhelming support from US they had to go to Belgian SABC...

rajeshks

British were very successful in projecting a good boy image. I got an opportunity to read books from the local county library which has more than 1000 books on military history most of them by british authors. One thing that is common across authors, all bad things are done by enemy soldiers and bri...

rajeshks

The US stockpiles MASSIVE amounts of spares for its fighters. If you get the SH, you can piggyback off its logistics support and guarantee availability of parts for decades to come. ... only if India agrees with everything US does and do everything US want India to do. This is exactly the scenario ...

rajeshks

singha ji, the number would be closer to 2000 now I think. rohit can answer better. if there's a situation/sector where PLA can deploy tanks and we can't, only then something like the NAMICA as a stand-alone option is a possibility. but newer tactics would be needed to exploit its shoot and scoot p...

rajeshks

I think 3500 tanks is too much for India unless we are going to invade big country. We have enough to handle pak and for the eastern sector we can use tanks in not many places. For the eastern sector what we need is APCs with say 50 cal guns for rapid movement + light artillery + CAS in the form of ...

rajeshks

I was reading few books on World war II Japan. I was wondering, Indian soldiers fought Japan in our eastern borders and in Myanmar for british. On the otherside Subhash Chandra Bose was helped by Japan to fight for Indian independence. I owe anyone helping my nation but fighting the 'enemy' is a sol...

rajeshks

sachin, Names are not the point here. Its about the party which is openly supporting anti-india activities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Achuthanandan As per wiki page on V.S, he was demoted in party for donating blood for indian soldiers. What a party it is. after the disciplinary action he a...

rajeshks

Sorry for the OT post... Since some semi-political discussion was going on thought of posting my comments also.. will delete it or mods plz remove if you feel so.. I just saw this in wiki page about CPM.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_India_%28Marxist%29#Split_in_the_Communist_Part...

rajeshks

I was wondering about the new IMA song "Bharat mata teri kasam...". Can anyone send me.

Thanks

rajeshks

I was reading this book... Few photos, didn't get a chance to scan, so used my camera.. http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7069/dscf0630j.jpg http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/8272/dscf0629.jpg http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/4084/dscf0628e.jpg http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8792/dscf0622r.jpg...

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Some thing had to be done –some thing drastic and in a big scale even before the news reaches the big bad world and more importantly the old men in Politburo. He knew his his time was fast running out unless some significant victory can be snatched from the mouth of spectacular defeat. He picked up...

rajeshks

Sankarji, IAF Southern Command is in Trivandrum. So will it be a better scenario if SU 30 MKI tookoff from trivandrum rather than from chennai to intercept Chinese flankers? I think IAF had some plan to base fighter aircrafts in trivandrum. Last year there was some exercise to simulate similar situa...

rajeshks

.. but the above photos shows that there is lot of room for refinement. errr...in what way? And how could make out from just 5 pics? They lack the sharpness or the killer looks of NSG/Marcos. Guys in NSG gain that through their tough training and the high standards they have to maintain to continue...

rajeshks

I am not writing here to insult anyone in the Indian Military , but rather to help the Indian taxpayers, who in a democracy are those ultimately paying for the airplane, not be insulted in their intelligence with sales pitches about false performance claims as the Canadian taxpayers were. The real ...

rajeshks

Commandos of Maharashtra state's newly formed elite special commando force, "Force One" display their skills during their inauguration ceremony in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. The elite force was formed for the security of the state on the lines of National Security Guards in th...

rajeshks

And nor have I claimed to know anything about it. If it is my statement (reply to post by rajeshks) that you are taking about, well, it has nothing to do with 21 or any other Corps. It was a reply to the grand statement the gentleman made with out bothering to check the context (about deploying for...

rajeshks

er, strike corps are used for making thrust across the border when attacked. They are the ones who will take the fight into enemy territory( pakistan or china) as opposed to holding corps, which are defensive, in the sense that they hold the defences when attacked to prevent the enemy forces from g...

rajeshks

Strike corps dont have any business inside Indian territory, in that sense all 3 are for overseas/foreign deployment only.

It is good that our defence establishment also started thinking big. We have a lot of economic/political/human interests in Indian ocean region countries, so better be prepared.

rajeshks

KiranM wrote:^^^ An accidental discharge to his head is more 'problematic' than one to his leg.

Regards,
Kiran

I would prefer the first one...

rajeshks

C17 may not be for the NE theatre. MTA is for that purpose, afterall 10 or 20 MBTs airlifted by C17s wont have any significance in a war with China. I think its main duty will be to support an overseas deployment. With 3 million Indians in Gulf countries such a need can come anytime. IA has one stri...

rajeshks

http://www.armada.ch/07-6/02_Aircraft_S ... ection.pdf
Good document on Aircraft self protection.

rajeshks

is there a huge diff in ground pressure between a (heavier BMP + its thin tracks) and a (lighter wheeled IFV and its 8 tyres deflated appropriately for soft terrain) ? Singhaji, Please go thru the link i posted in prev page. http://www.comw.org/pda/0007wheels.html Relevant to off-road mobility, whe...

rajeshks

I don't think Prithvi in any manner can complement Brahmos. My reasons are not technical but political. While Brahmos will always be taken as conventional, nuke threshold will be very very low in case of Prithvi. The moment Prithvi launch is detected by the enemy it will be taken to have nuke wareh...

rajeshks

it is likely that prithvi will be used in high value strikes like runway denial, against hardened shelters, C4I nodes and so forth. Rahulji, does Prithivi has that kind of accuracy ie: couple of meters accuracy? If it has then it can complement brahmos very well. I read in BRF that in our eastern s...

rajeshks

nrshah wrote:Can radar of one MKI guide a missile fired from other? Else no reason for that no more than 12, i guess

-Nitin

SU 30 MKI can act as mini awacs so it should be capable of doing that.

rajeshks

manjgu wrote:nitin, i think a enemy when painted by a SU radar wont know how many hard things are still on hard points ) so it still has value.. !!

It wont even know that its painted by SU radar. Could be any enemy radar.

rajeshks

Something doesnt seem right. If the Pakistani establishment arranged for the Indian embassy to be bombed, via the Pak-Taliban, why was the Pak Army attacked by the Pak-Taliban too? IVHMO, this is the typical jousting for influence between different interest groups across Taliban, ISI, Pak Army, pol...

rajeshks

Simply India dont have the resources for this, not even for the last part. This would have been possible if we are talking about a Maruti Car. But for a fighter plane i really doubt. What resource you feel we don't have? If it is monetary, we have enough funds. We are spending 12 Bn USD for MMRCA. ...

rajeshks

Many years back when i was just out of college and started working for an IT company, i had a crazy idea. The guy sitting next to me was working for GE AE. I used to wonder if we have so many guys working on GE AE - IT dept why cant we steal engine technology related docs from their servers and give...

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