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Fully vacating Siachen is not a good idea even if AGPL is accepted. Siachen has enabled us to develop and learn unique operational tactics. Never know when those will come in use elsewhere in future. Better to maintain the lead in operating in such conditions. Its like operating an aircraft carrier...

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I know we talk about Siachen being inhospitable… I know it is not flat rock like Tibet border is where Sugars have built good infrastructure. If we can build really comfy posts close to Siachen or some of its posts with TV and phone, oxygen tents or whatever like Sugars do and show them off then th...

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Question is, what is that 47k crores for FY22-23 going to cover by way of CAPEX projects? It suggests some big ideas at work... Does this mean that Submarines + IAC2 are both on the cards, or is it going to go towards a larger number of capital ships - destroyers and frigates, that is? I wonder what...

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maitya wrote: kprasad, you have something in your mind isn't it? Say so.

Different prasad, saar? I think you might've been referring to Prasad's comment above, but I can assure you we are two different people

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Prasad wrote:Idiots

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Yes , quite right. But India does not need to tie up its carrier forces in both coasts., if the A&N command and lakshdweep islands and provide and project significant air and missile power in sufficient ranges., the same projected from the mainland can cover the littoral IOR making it Indias ow...

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The danger of land-based AEW assets providing protective cover to a CBG is the risk to the AEW asset as it gets to the station, especially if the protective combat aircraft cover don't have as much range to get to the handoff point to the carrier fighter assets (and back). And then you need protecti...

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k prasad, as others have pointed out, the MBTs with adequate turbocharging would do that and quite a few IA ones are already up there. The light tank for IA seems a brochure pushing effort which adds combat engineering load for questionable returns. Scouting or recce can be done by more nimbler whe...

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Wonder why nobody considered having a 2 floor hangar.. I suppose WW2 might have had such a design. Makes the lifts far more complex, requires doubling of overhaul and maintenance infrastructure that'd be required between two levels, and takes up waaay more space in the ship, especially since it is ...

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Light tank is PLA's requirement, not necessarily IA's (unless we are looking at airdrop over Tibet). The light tanks make them appear competent in the mountains and also useful in future to break up any Tianenmen type rallies in Tibet. Dont know why this pops up once a while, probably some arms dea...

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US clears Hawkeye E-2D aircraft for India https://www.indiastrategic.in/topstories380.htm Indian Naval officials say that the technology onboard the Hawkeye E-2D is “very tempting” and that although neither the Gorshkov aircraft carrier which India is buying from Russia nor India’s first aircraft c...

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https://twitter.com/ReviewVayu/status/1485863072502009858?s=20 ---> Northrop Grumman has delivered the 51st U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye production aircraft, AA-52. This aircraft is equipped with the Delta System/Software Configuration (DSSC) Build 3, which provides an additional leap in operati...

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INS Vikramaditya deck is more cramped than INS Vikrant and will carry less Rafales. That's assuming they can even figure out a solution to getting the Rafales through the INS Vikramaditya's aircraft lifts. Else, Vikramaditya stays with its Mig-29Ks. As a note to my pictures above, I might have wron...

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Prasad, Can you stack the aircraft side by side on a Vikramaditya flight deck and see how they look? Offcourse approximate dimensions only. Ramana Saar... this is very very rough, and not on the Vikramaditya, but on the Vikrant (which I figured might be a better comparison since the Vikramaditya's ...

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Comparing the dimensions: Thank you for posting the info. Greatly appreciated. Glad to help Rakeshji. Btw, this link references an IDRW report mentioning estimates that Vikrant's aircraft lifts are 11.20 m x 16.5 m, which, if true, would actually be just about enough for the Rafale to get through. ...

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Agree with Aditya. But the IN had justification. The original boilers were specified with asbestos insulation. Since asbestos is not good for the environment (potential carcinogen risk during degradation,) many countries started phasing it out or banning it. That's why the IN specified new ceramic ...

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The Rafale-M's dimensions also mean more of them (14) can fit onto the deck of the Vikramaditya as compared to 10 or 11 F-18s. It also requires very minimal modification to the wheel-chokes of the Vikramaditya, which are reversible and can be de-modified, if required. Comparing the dimensions: F-18...

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Until there is a reciprocal agreement, publication of all official and unofficial chinese statements need to be banned in India, ie until somebody can show me so much as a single chinese media channel publishing a statement made by the Government Of The Republic Of India. I'm not too concerned by t...

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Shekhar Gupta has a new video on it. COAS didn't say much that isn't the existing stance, that is, demilitarization might be considered if Pak accepts the ground positions with ironclad guarantees. Which they won't do. So it's just talk with an olive branch. Makes us lose nothing at this moment. TDU...

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atmanirbharta takes time to reach, so the increase isn't unexpected. Depending on which sectors caused the increase in imbalance, it could very well be a sign of indian value manufacturing heating up as the industries invest in capital assets and machinery, which is an excellent sign for the economy...

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The illustration is representative in nature. Coming to the range part - 1. Major part/belt of Pakistan which has their main and satellite air-bases is ~250 km from the border. 2. Using an online range calculator, I get the following ranges for different altitudes: - 300+km for 20,000 feet - 250+km...

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We don't even treat our (India's) PMs and presidents as hallowed entities... except maybe for APJ.

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No need to get outraged. "likely to get" is clearly a huge exaggeration by HT. There have been other media reports citing offer of collaboration by the French. Don't worry have curry ! Sorry if i was unclear in my post, Cyrano. My fundamental frustration is the fact that such an RFI was i...

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No we don't. We expect anyone wanting to start a thread to do the work of establishing whether enough people are interested in the topic, they themselves have the motivation and proceed accordingly. Creating and maintaining the content of a thread is an exercise similar to writing a book. Mods aren...

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Requests to start threads are common. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with most of the ideas. The real problem is constructing the base of the thread and maintaining it. If the view is 'if I just start the thread, people will come', that is likely a naive approach. Please look at all the many t...

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Rakesh wrote: https://twitter.com/Kilo_Spec/status/14 ... 82657?s=20 ---> "It's Flanking Time"

A pair of Sukhoi-HAL Su-30MKI "Flanker-H" Heavy Air Superiority fighter aircraft patrolling the Indian Skies.

No armaments on either. Is that common in a patrolling sortie?

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@mods, do you think it might be useful for us to start a milhist thead about Indian defence related Wikipedia pages and editing improvements? Back when i was an active wiki editor, it was often frustrating to not have enough time or knowledge to update pages or remove misinformation. I think BRF is ...

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What is with the Chinese and their fetish for stone throwing? They did it to the Indian Army at Doklam and now they are doing the same to the Vietnamese. Do their infantry weapons not work? Click on the link below for video. Don't worry Saar... With the new ROEs on the LAC, their next attempt at Sh...

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Indian Army likely to get French ‘Killing Machine’ Leclerc Main Battle Tanks Published on Jan 05, 2022 09:16 AM IST ...With eyes set on the induction of new tanks by 2030, the Indian government sought information from 12 firms last year. The Macron government recently told the French assembly that ...

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SBajwa wrote:Can we come up with a name for Chinese Goebbels for this propaganda?

Breitfart? FoXi News? QiAnon?

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In the first set of soldiers (till 0:10 in the video), they drop it in the dugout and that is where the explosion occurs. In the second set of soldiers (from 0:11 in the video), one can indeed see the 3 - 4 ft difference. Good catch Saar. They drop it into a smaller hole, but the blast occurs in th...

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There are so many things that can go wrong in this scenario, with Chinese quality control being at the top! :mrgreen: Who knows, Rakesh-saar.... maybe the quality control is PRECISELY why they can do this. The soldiers know that most of their grenades are duds anyway. Also, note where they drop the...

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As the philippines too reportedly eyes a BrahMos deal. https://twitter.com/DefenceAviation/status/1477142643016671241 The tweet is new, but the quoted news link is from a very old report -- when MP was still alive (c. 2016, by the looks of it). Note the quote: As Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar w...

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I don't think the front top radar will be 360 degree one. Maybe 10-15 degrees on both sides to cover any gaps in front if at all. This will also allow a bigger set vs making one that is 360 degree in rotation. If they wanted to add so much complexity they would have gone with chapati rather than be...

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The sudden shifts between good Urdu and colloquialism got me every time!

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Thakur_B wrote:^^ I pity our southern birathers who won't be able to understand the language, for this is a masterpiece that can't be translated

Don't worry Saar ... Some of us southern biradars studied in KVs, and can appreciate this gem!

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^^ Even i'm surprised by this. How are you supposed to get out these 5 star facilites and fight in freezing temps and low Oxygen. This might be helpful to injured of sick folks but not sure how a healthy person can be combat ready with this. That's what I found interesting. This is clearly NOT a me...

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https://twitter.com/Chopsyturvey/status/1477212703752015873?s=20 ---> New oxygen chamber specifically built for high-altitude troops in Xinjiang. It seats eight at the same time. High altitude mountaineers will always say that the most dangerous situation when climbing is to run out of oxygen, beca...

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GaN TRMs has higher power rating. A 20W GaN TRM, if used on MK1 Uttam would technically require only 370 odd TRM, instead of 740+. The radar will become half in size! So a Uttam MK2 with 900 TRM ( say of 20W TRM) has almost 2.5 times the power output of MK1 Uttam! Theoretically it can handle 18KW, ...

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This is wonderful news and a great example of how you've used the forum to enrich your skills. Kudos. Wish you the best and if you are abroad I hope you can return to join the desi effort (though of course the decision is yours and you are the best judge of that). Once again, excellent stuff. Hopef...

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Can someone explain to me what the issue is with Dr. Sivan? I've seen a lot of adverse statements about him on this thread, and was wondering what are the issues that are directly tied to Dr. Sivan, beyond the seeming lack of progress and launches at ISRO.

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