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Akshay Kapoor

Not a bad solution. We do carry LMG spare barrels so its certainly feasible if the number of shells fired after which barrels need to be changed is reasonable. What is your estimate on number of shells fired after which barrel will need to be changed.

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Re making bridges, the problem is that this often happens as an abdication of civil administrations role. They can't keep shying away from their basic duties and keep calling the army in. And then they want to lord it over the forces as a 'superior' organisation - as Vidurji say's they have 'power a...

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Vivek K wrote:India SHOULD not open its software in export versions. That is foolish and will lose money. India has had to go through painful experiences with integrating other stores on M2K etc.

There are serious espionage concerns as well....software must be absolutely sacrosant.

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Why all this open source business. We have IPR and product and should sell it as well as r AMC or ekse we are fools. Was wondering if there was any strategic advantage to this 'open architecture'. Can't see any either. Infact my view is that we have proved our capacity in overall design, aerodynami...

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India is the only country in the world to have all 3 of the 4 big cats in wild - Lion, Tiger and Leapord (Jaguar/Panther - restricted to the americas). I would also credit this to the divinity of the animals to choose themselves to be born in this country. Lion and Tigers are vahans of the Devi. Be...

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Quiz - which Indian comic character wears an orange shirt and blue trousers and was the son of a criminal.

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Kashi wrote:
vipins wrote: No Hippos in Kaziranga!!
No hippos in wild anywhere in India for that matter! Hippos are native to sub-Saharan Africa.

Thanks gents. Quizmaster stands corrected....and resolves to do more research next time !

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VKumar wrote:
arshyam wrote: Thanks for the danda saar.

Chacha Chowdhury, who else?
ARVIND KEJRIWAL?

Hahaha. Its Chacha Chowdhury of course.

Akshay Kapoor

Pathik, I want you to post one story about a real life good role model. Not Namo or politicians. Will make all our days and yours too.

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Okay folks. A decision has been taken that this thread will be only positive. Post about the million different facets of India - culture, food, wild life , nature, monuments , personal interest stories , real life hero's , epics, poems etc but everything happy and positive. Any post not doing that w...

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Kaziranga. But happy to be corrected if wrong. Extra marks for correction.

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Inf Div has 3 inf bdes, one arty bde, 1 ENGR Regt, ASC Bn, Signals and sometimes an Armoured Regt. In Plains AD regt could also be there. Moutain Div is the same but its arty is lighter and more mobile and it doesn't have an AD regt.

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Dear Mr. Akshay Kapoor, I think you deleted my comment, made earlier, in response to the post you made about not tolerating anyone calling army officers jokers. At least I am not able to find my comment after having searched for it a few times already, yesterday and today. Or it seems to have myste...

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Oh dear. Saw this thread and thought there might be some nice info. Like wildlife parks or culture tidbits I didnt know about or some nice nuggets about our country and culture and history We need to do something about this thread. Will discuss but for now guys do try posting some real nuggets about...

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And what was Bravo Coy doing ? They hear fire and make no attempt to find out from BN HQ what's happening ? Remember they are in advance and were not expecting contact so soon. So if contact has happened they need to find out why and where. Especially if they are line abreast because they need to kn...

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Some comments. First every platoon and should have a radio set so one break down should not cause a big problem. Second every officer has a runner/sahayak/buddy. The primary op role is to carry messages. So again this shouldn't happen in Indian Army. Lastly support from the other company is usually ...

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Welcome shiv sir. Not a digression - you have made a very important point. How to maintain communications within the companies during advance and defence and how to maintain cohesion. If you can get us some info on the tactical situation we can also look at battle. What were the tasks of each compan...

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How's the tax base increase post demo and GST looking. Suraj some analysis of that would be quite useful espeicllay wrt to enforcement measures using data collected from demo.

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Will this be part of FCI ? How do we ensure it doesn't become a scam at local level.

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We have done a bit of batallion tactics as well. And we have also demonstrated the different tactics flow from the operational imperative of different terrain and the type of operational situation. This grounding was very important to have an appreciation of what works and why. Without that apprecia...

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I think Arjun can have a role in strengthening up the RAPIDs pivot divisions. These have dual role of holding and strike as needed. IA has armoured divisions,. Infantry are two types Pivot Strike No, that's not quite correct. We have 2 types of Corps - PIvot and Strike. Strike Corps have an Armoure...

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Akshay sir.. reposting.... The Arjuns are deployed in the desert rather than Punjab and south J&K. In the desert the armour advance will be in line abreast formation rather than deep echelon formation like in Punjab and Chicken Neck. Advancing in deep echelon formation across Cholistan doesn't ...

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The whole problem is this divorce between the long term perspective plan, 5 year defence plan and annual budget. As Vidurji has said many times, even CCS clearance means nothing because fund actually come from annaul budget which bears 0 relation to 5 year defence plan and much less to long term pe...

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No every tank does not need a mine plough but some do. In a regt of 45 tanks I think 4-5 are enough. Large scale mine sweeping will be given by Armd and assault ENGR regts of the Armd Div (remember there is 1 ENGR regt in every Div). So there will be a troop of that regt with each armd regt. I thin...

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Anyway the fact is that IB across from Jammu and LoC is a no-go area in Pakistan - in particular for media and as you correctly say the casualty count is being suppressed. Sialkot is not really a no go area, it's one of the larger urban settlements in Pakistan with quite a few factories producing s...

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Re ^^ funding article posted by Philip sir.Great, we never seem to run out of reasons to not fund defence....so now a banking scam is the reason.

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The Talwars regularly won naval trophies for best warships.Their size and capability are ideal for fleet multi-role workhorses.They will carry BMos,SAMs,either Shtil or B-8,gatlings,anti-sub torpedoes,MBUs,plus an ASW/AEW helo,main gun and effective sensors for the same.They are not outdated by any...

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Does not include murder of Hindu activists. http://www.5forty3.in/gaze_articles.php?articalid=205 So its not a dramatic fall then. I read in zee news a couple of days that WB Govt is trying to close hundreds of 'RSS' schools. Violence comes in many forms....conversion and intimidation like this is ...

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That wont work because the logistics chain has to be the same in case of break downs tread sheding etc. No harm in having a few Arjuns tanks with mine plows. In the solution I suggested the tank regt will have no mine plows but the Armd Engr Sqdn will.

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1st solo can mean many things, the VERY FIRST solo is probably the most nerve racking... see here from 21.01 mins, how the RAF does it. "very big step" If you watch the whole episode the old instruction techniques as demonstrated by 1 of the instructors are no longer acceptable. I think t...

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That's incorrect Shivalik cost around 600 mill USD (2400 crores 40-45 USD conversion at that time) in 2010. But Imo we should have continued building them but navy was hesitant due to price tag and wanted a better bang for buck and went with P17a. If shivalik were built now with Barak-8 and Brahmos...

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No every tank does not need a mine plough but some do. In a regt of 45 tanks I think 4-5 are enough. Large scale mine sweeping will be given by Armd and assault ENGR regts of the Armd Div (remember there is 1 ENGR regt in every Div). So there will be a troop of that regt with each armd regt. I think...

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This could also be a Maskirovka. Read Nitin Gokhales account on how disinformation was sowed lulling Pam into a false sense of security before surgical strikes . More I think about it more it makes sense. Let’s hope this is true.

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Now its clear why its easy to say that we should trash/invade Pak etc but people who think so are a clear minority even within the armed forces apparently Can only imagine the tough job for modi even to get a moderately tough stance to be adopted by all folks in the higher circle How can you make t...

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There is a lot of sense in building bridges with China while not showing fear because there is a civilizational convergence which is not there with Pak. Pak is a civilizational enemy. We must have that dialogue with china including the danger they face from Christian missionaries and Islam. However ...

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Ever since Babur at Panipat, artillery has been a weakness for Indians. In fact Brirish Indian Army was allowed to raise artillery formations only just before WWII. After initial 75mm pack and 105mm howitzer, IA has ensured no Indian development of artillery with their attitude. You can't innovate ...

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sum wrote:Shatrujeet reporting 155mm pounding pak positions in last couple of days and the first 155mm firing since 2003.

Good news if correct. I was under the impression only 105 mm were used and that too sparingly.

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Thanks Shameek for linking this.

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If someone can link the articles again I will be grateful. Because it’s too depressing to do so again. I wince everytime I see them. Going to drown my sorrows.

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No. No one gives a damn about soldiers and their families. I have linked Gen Hasnains article from SWARAJYA many time where he shows why URI happened because of no NVG and exactly as you say no wall and no HHTI. As Bde Commander he initiated case for wall, didn’t happen. As Dic commander he did so -...

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