Bharat Rakshak

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I am in awe of how Russia is able to take on pretty much all of NATO and still keep going. ... I can think of no other country who can currently take on the collective west and still keep going. I have to agree with you. I was thinking the same thing myself. Anyone who gets a chance to do so should...

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... The Chinese will not be under the same stress because they know that we will never be the aggressor. So, they have the luxury of rest, followed by action at a time & place of their choosing. Well there you are, you see, this is the problem. India has the reputation of being a goody-two-shoe...

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The US is losing because it's overextended. It has been locked in continuous war for 21 years. ... Iraq they lost. Afghanistan they lost. Syria they lost. Now Ukraine they will lose soon. I would say the US is losing because of its own unmitigated hubris. It was hubris that caused them to think the...

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Of all western rags, Newsweek publishes this: https://www.newsweek.com/lessons-us-civil-war-show-why-ukraine-cant-win-opinion-1764992 That Newsweek article is astonishing for the way it is willing to publish facts that would not normally be welcome to a Western audience / reader. Usually, what I ex...

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Re. the C130-J:

BenG wrote:...we have seen 2 accidents already.

Two accidents? I only remember one -- pilot error i.e. disorientation and CFIT during a night training exercise. This happened pretty early after IAF took delivery of the first batch of aircraft.

What was the second accident?

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Or the diplomatic importance of a carrier in peace and quasi peace - eg to keep potential allies or neutrals like Singapore, Malaysia etc (or even the US) from ignoring India as non consequential for them or to have them consider India as worth wooing or to prevent them from simply flopping over to...

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If (I repeat, IF) this tweet/leak/rumour about Rafale proves true, I will be very happy, of course, but I am still puzzled about the lift issue. All the persistent rumours/mutterings were that Rafale couldn't fit on Vikrant's lift, so how is it suddenly A-okay now? If Vishnu Som is saying, in effect...

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ramana wrote:Twitter handles report 81 Rafales ordered including 27 naval versions.

Ramanaji, aapke muh me ghee-shakkar !! (or at least, in the muh of whoever did that tweet).

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How does the c130J compare with an-32? We can always task c130J for the an-32 role once they all retire in another !5 years. The C130-J is bigger, heavier and more expensive than the An-32, and (not suprisingly) has a much higher max. payload. I suspect the IAF would consider it overkill to replace...

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ks_sachin wrote:The original Vikrant had a steam catapult, is it not?

Yes it did.

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Once war is over, NATO will be in Odessa. No they won't -- at least not now, having had a chance to see Russia's dogged determination and military/strategic/industrial capabilities of the last 9 months. I think they understand very well that if they do that now, they will be at war with Russia open...

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YT video from Col. Doug Macgregor : "We have lied about Ukraine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y0ixn7Cocw

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The french ... generate electricity and use electric motors to drive the propellors... How do they do that? We know what the Brits/Americans/Indians/Russians do: they take the output of the reactor (heat), generate steam and use the steam to drive a turbine. The turbine generates the motive power f...

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About time. Behind paywall: Jake Sullivan has had confidential discussions with Russian counterparts amid concerns over escalation and nuclear threats If the US is so concerned about verbal "escalation and nuclear threats", they should stop doing it. So far, the US and its chelas and cham...

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The US military doctrine has changed to use Nuclear First Strike option (as opposed to Retaliatory strike). That's not a change, it has always been the US doctrine. During the Cold War, it was a persistent "nightmare scenario" of some NATO members that the Soviet Union would initiate a su...

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The UK (or for that matter, US and NATO) are not itching to fight Russia. Yes they are -- at least a part of NATO is. US/UK/Poland are itching for a fight. The rest of NATO wants no part of it. If they wanted to, they would let Ukraine into NATO. They have no ability to do that. They would never ge...

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My mango abdul knowledge on the above tells me that a hypersonic cruise missile with a long range (minimum 3,000+ km) + a 1 ton warhead, could serve as a future delivery method to strike at Beijing, Shanghai and other population centers. This hypothetical "delivery method to strike Beijing / S...

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If the gun cannot traverse then we have a problem no? I would assume it has some limited ability to traverse -- let's say +/- 30 degrees from the longitudinal (fore-and-aft) line of the vehicle body. Making it fixed (i.e. zero traverse) would IMO be too stupid to pass even a PDR, let alone be appro...

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Just to make sure I am with the program, does "IBG" mean "Independent Brigade Group" or "Integrated Battle Group"?

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madhu wrote:The question that i have is who will be the pakistan?

Ans: Poland.

Can it afford the cost?

The cost will be paid by the US.

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Kersi wrote:What about ASRAAM ? Will it be our standard short range AAM ?

Very likely; or it may, possibly, share that role with Python-5.

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Cyrano wrote:...That article is delusional.

As is most other stuff from the Grauniad.

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It’s getting really hard to simply excuse this as incompetence anymore. If you wanted to sabotage a project it wouldn’t look too dissimilar to this. Well, let me just quote two sources here: Hanlon's Razor : Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence. and Grey'...

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Then why all the gnashing of the teeth when the Navy decided not to pursue the Tejas as an operational variant? I think the weeping and gnashing of teeth was because people felt that the Indian defence planners (admiral / mantri / babu complex) were giving a perfectly adequate Indian aircraft (Nava...

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Is he a hawk or 100% right or somewhere in the middle? Well, he is a hawk, of course, but there's nothing wrong with that -- "hawk" is not a derogatory word, IMO. But in this case, I don't know what he is complaining about. Aren't we all agreed that this latest disengagement / pullback (o...

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mody wrote:... The lifts on the Vikrant are 10meters x 40 meters.

Not 40 meters but 14. The lifts are 10 x 14 meters.

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I have a question about the border area (i.e. the LOC) between J&K and POK:- In various accounts I have read about military action between IA and terrorists/PA, I have heard two names of rivers mentioned -- Kishenganga and Neelum. My question is, are these two different rivers or two different n...

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... while on our side lutyens media will do all the randi-rona on even small losses to show how PRC is thumbing-down Modi. Sad to say, it is not just the Lutyens media who will do this. Political parties like INC, AAP, CPI etc. will be happy to do it too, and they have done it in the past. Remember...

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Aha! I now see the reason for the confusion: there are in fact, two separate India-US exercises:

Currently under way: Vajra Prahaar (in Himachal Pradesh).
Scheduled for October: Yudh Abhyas (in Uttarakhand).

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Why are we still discussing that the 160s are even coming? Because its interesting and a former CAS who has far more access to classified information has hinted it so. At any rate worth a discussion or a dekko. Well said, Karan. (thumbs-up) I too was thinking to myself "why are we even discuss...

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Roop wrote:
Cyrano wrote:Any news about Yudh Abhyas that was to happen with US forces near LAC in Uttarakhand these days?
IIRC it was scheduled for October.

Edited later:

My mistake. Apparently this exercise is currently in progress (saw it on a YT clip).

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Cyrano wrote:Any news about Yudh Abhyas that was to happen with US forces near LAC in Uttarakhand these days?

IIRC it was scheduled for October.

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Karan M wrote: ...which will be flying NOE profiles.

Are Tejas and AMCA capable of flying NOE profiles? (I'm not looking for any classified info here).

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My thoughts exactly. elensly is running out of combatants, this is a sneaky way of getting Polish troops to face RA. The Poles would be fools to agree to this, if they did. They think this would get the whole of NATO to go rushing in to Ukraine to help them, but NATO is not going to get involved in...

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The Navy now will almost definitely get the shornet. IMHO. The iaf deal though will be rafale. Skepticism aside, this is a good development for India US ties TBH this could work in India’s favor in a very major way. Congratulations to the Navy for F-18SH and the Air Force will go the way of the Raf...

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Attacks On India In Western Media Are Attacks On Conservatives He is absolutely right about this. Stephen Harper was a pretty smart dude, unfortunately for him (and the Tories) he didn't have the panache / sex-appeal to women voters that Turdo had. Harper has (in a previous Raisina dialogue) quite ...

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Let me try to illustrate why this scenario is near impossible. What people do not appreciate often is that military hardware ( and civilian as well for airline and space technology ) has 100,000s of components and 100,000s of supporting technologies for manufacturing, inspection, testing and mainte...

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Cyrano wrote:I doubt if there is anyone more qualified to comment on RA's counter battery fire capability than AFU survivors these days

Pardon my ignorance, but what is "AFU"?

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This is an excellent interview on YT "The Duran" show (Alexander Mercouris and Alec Christoforou). The guest is Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent. Johnson explains why (in his opinion) the West (NATO, US, EU) is screwing up really badly and may in fact be doing themselves permanent damage ...

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... The last few months have made it abundantly clear to me... that Western MSM has really become worse than the Soviet era Pravda. I don't say this lightly or as a joke. They have become unhinged, divorced from reality, and almost mentally disturbed. It's been striking to watch. ... This is a trul...

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