Bharat Rakshak

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Rohit, are the Armoured regiments to the east of the ridge or are located to the west of the ridge. Also where are the 4 infantry battalions located. Are they dispersed to the east of the ridge, on the ridge or between the Canal & Ridge.
The ATGM battalion I presume is on the ridge.

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bmallick - To given you an example, the DCB and Canals in case of India and Pakistan run parallel to the border. But that does not stop the Strike Formations from both side to launch assault in these areas. Since, the Strike Formation is crossing the Canal and DCB at its place and time of choosing,...

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if Red is planning an offensive from there, how come the Canal there is not acting as a barrier to them. Which means that either the Canal is not there or the Canal has good bridge system which can support a full fledged offensive operation. Interesting question. But I do not want to make any assum...

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t'll still be next to impossible to engage a moving target. Consider this, even if at the max RADAR range of 50 KM missile homes at a ship that has moved 6 KM away from the original location, now the missile has only 1.4 seconds left to detect, track, calculate trajectory corrections, correct for o...

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Q: The reinforcements of Red Forces, ie RRN. which are engaged further north, are how far from the Gap. Is the distance between RRN & the Gap significant enough. Are there gaps in the line, or is it a continous line. If there are gaps, are these gaps between the mountain & the IB. Do these ...

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Lets move backward from taking the town to the gap to the canal to the DCB. Lets see how much force is required at each stage & what needs to be done to attain objective for that stage. This way we back calculate to what needs to be the objectives in the previous stage. First lets set the object...

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On the PRC carrier, the first sentence reads: "A commercial satellite operator says it has captured a rare image of China's first aircraft carrier as it sailed through the Yellow Sea, after going through an exercise that's the 21st-century equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. " O...

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Few more questions Rohit sir. 1. What is the source of the water in the canal. Is it a dam from a river further north. If so its location viz-e-viz the gap in question. 2. You said "this breaching can be undertaken only in one portion of the sector. Any breaching in the sector can allow BLF to...

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Few more questions Rohit sir. 1. What is the source of the water in the canal. Is it a dam from a river further north. If so its location viz-e-viz the gap in question. 2. You said "this breaching can be undertaken only in one portion of the sector. Any breaching in the sector can allow BLF to ...

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Congratulations Vivek Sir. Wishing you all the very best with the endeavour.

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Those bombs are designed to penetrate earthworks and explode and destroy the material inside the cavity those earthworks are protecting. And they were surprisingly good at it, as we found out in the Kuwait War. But are these of any use whatsoever for moving large masses of earth aside or they just ...

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apparently DRDO has created a small explosive device for clearing Bunds.
http://drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/techfocus/oct1999/bund.htm

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Shiv sir, a good solid earth bund should be difficult to break using 1000 lbs bombs. 4000lbs bombs may do the trick, however don't you think that the heavy bomb apart from breaking the bund would cause a decent a size crater too, which would then fill up with water from the ditch. However the bund i...

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Shiv sir, in your scenario we we have the "Fog of War" quite literally

. This should make the situation grave for all concerned.

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modern GPS guided weapons like AASM/GBU/SDB/JDAM pointing at fixed strongpoints in a small area around the proposed canal crossing beacheads should make short work of any concrete bunkers. even a small SDB makes a mean punch as youtube video of it taking out a HAS shows. coming to the trench lines ...

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bmallick Saar, you are saying that mountainous == extremely cold & foggy(even snowy). Is this always true? Doesnt specific area(or geography) play a role? JohneeGJi, Shiv has specifically mentioned, Winter as the season and fog. Moreover, do you expect that the mountains have altitude of 3000-4...

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The replies that "my" scenario attracted are interesting. I see no point in quibbling over details - especially because some of the replies have been very detailed. The question that comes to my mind is "Why did I not plan or say anything in the original scenario about what I would d...

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Assumptions: - Enemy forces are alert and expect an attack, but don't know exactly when. - Blue forces have a fair idea of the enemy ORBAT and eORBAT and their disposition. Red forces don't (they are aware of the holding units but not the assault and exploitation unit details). Red forces HUMINT un...

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The destruction of the wall, bridging of the canal, destruction of the defenders and subsequent breakout would be a very long bloody affair. It is possible but at enormous costs. Eventually it would boil down to who has the resources for a long drawn out battle. This would be a case similar to the B...

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Secondly, the mountain terrain on the attacker side means that his lines of communications are limited. Hence I would use my long range MLRS systems, like smerch to hit those sections. Infact I have another idea. I would ask some of my artillery to deliberately not hit the 10 km wide stretch, but ra...

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PS: Nitpick, I would consider it unfair to add additional information after an approach is specified. Neither the minefield nor the video cameras monitoring equipment mentioned in the OP. Bolasani, one never has full information of enemy Orbat or equipment or preparation before commencing operation...

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yes. better sensors and stabler firing platform. a helo itself is no slouch and can go close to the ground to avoid being shot at. plus these days there are all kinds of A2A missiles available at their disposal. an attack helo has phenomenal nose pointing ability and some versions (like the ka-50 v...

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The late world war 2 designs of Torpedo Dive bombers like Fairey Spearfish, TBF Avenger,Grumman AF Gaurdian and later designs of Alize, Gannet, Skyraider etc, had 2-3 people on board, internal bay for weapons/torpedos and good range. Such designs served a very niche requirement and probably lost out...

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I think we should avoid design creep at all cost. The idea should be affordability. Modern AD defenses are strong. But such extensive arrangements are generally around fixed important assets behind enemy lines. We are not going to use a turboprop to hit behind enemy lines. We are going to use it for...

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Rahul M wrote: sorry boss, what are you smoking ? AEW and ASW from a single seat 10 t prop ?

Not smoking anything Rahul. Please read up about Fairey Gannet & Douglas skyraider, 10-11 ton turboprops having AEW version.

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Yup. Agree with you Bala. Two engines, really good range, has lots of hard points. Since its a really really old design, maybe we can buy the design straight away from Lockheed. Or else we can look for similar designs. Or design something on our own. Get a design. Use a turboprop. Hell talk with Tur...

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You mean P-38 Lightening??

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Taking forward what I said earlier, I would like to propose a aircraft below. Turboprop. Max take off weight : 2000-5000kg Range: 1000-2000km Endurance: 2-4 hrs at a distance of 200-300 km. Crew - 2 STOL, (If possible take off and landing within 220, basically if possible take off from our carriers)...

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well a super tucano type would have a rough time against the manpad/radar guided aa gun threat, not to speak of roving helicopters with aams. and their payload would be too limited...a helicopter gunship would do better things and mount more sensors. Singha sir, for CAS support even a helicopter gu...

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Bala & Singha sir, I think IAF would have less problem if IA keeps its fixed wing plans limited to propellor driven aircrafts. Its probably the encroachment into the jet domain thats sends shivers down the IAF spine. A jet attack fighter with the IA would mean IA can theoretically start interdic...

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Question: Maybe this should be in the newbie thread. With modern radar arrays, we do not need a rotating antennae system. So we are seeing this antennae unit as a piggy back long this, kinda of like a cylinder. Now the question is wouldn't it be possible to have the array in the tail of the aircraft...

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Wow.....Kodus to DRDO and Embraer. Question: Currently the aircraft is using a dummy antennae on its back or the one made by DRDO has been integrated. What I had heard last was that DRDO has delivered a dummy antennae unit to be put on the aircraft by Embraer, using which they would do testing and t...

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I saw a iaf Mi17 today morning and it struck me that not withstanding khan posturing, it really is a better design for a army helicopter than the SH60. my reasons. - using the rear ramp you can load a jeep or 105mm gun, the Sh60 can only sling a load which may not be possible in high winds and sure...

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IAF’s ‘Heli-Teli’ to track terror over Delhi and Mumbai Why cannot a UAV be used for the same purpose. As per the news the helicopter has "advanced FLIR (forward-looking infrared) imaging systems and CCD (charge-coupled device) sensors to enable "live streaming video footage'' from the sc...

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Gaur sir, I concur with what you are saying. So if soldier familirization is what is needed, then wouldn't it be better to have a family of assault rifle with different calibers, rather than have a single rifle with changeable barrels. Because it would not be a simple change of barrel, but some of t...

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I have question to the gurus with regards to this new desire everywhere for a single rifle with inter-changeable multiple calibers, that is being touted around not just in the news report mentioned but also by manufactures all around. The questions in my mind are: a. Would the common infantry soldie...

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CM sir, I believe the need for internal weapons carriage & long range invariably means a volume centric design. Thus necessitating big aircrafts, which invariably means more inertia which has to be over come to ensure agility. Thus wouldn't it be better to have one A2A, much lighter decent range...

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But for the future.. should we stick with mutirole? Or should we too take a leaf out of the gyan that aharam has posted and make dedicated small, agile interceptors and larger dedicated attack aircraft separately? Maybe this is a topic for the "Design your fighter" thread. Shiv sir, why d...

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The advantage seems to be that they do not have to uncover/remove the airbag (could be a tricky procedure), but at the same time it seems a bit risky to rely entirely on the rockets to keep the rover fully balanced and horizontal and on a very slow descent. They must have tested the system thouroug...

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that kind of IIR would be massive in size and cost for a fighter...I think the cancelled YAL-1 laser ABM system on 747 had such a platinum std IR sensor on the roof to spot missiles against the space bkground. Singha sir I think you miss understood what I meant. What I mean here is that the missile...

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