Bharat Rakshak

Czech Republic has an impressive R&D/industrialisation drive when it comes to jet engines for drones. PBS has been producing decent engines for drones

https://pbs.cz/en/our-business/aerospace/aircraftgines

IR sir general question how is ADA ensuring that all these learnings are recorded for future generations(reminds me of what Gen.VKS said recently about Marut design docs) They do document it. But documents hardly teach you to design an aircraft. One learns with designing an actual aircraft. As a yo...

26/11 was wake up call for Indian military establishment as it exposed the gaps in security of littoral waters (w.r.t. asymmetric warfare) while we were pursuing dreams of a blue-water capability. I guess for all the three forces the rhetorical question remains ... should military be task-oriented o...

RAF Tornado GR4 fighter jets retiring after glorious service. They have evolved over the last 4 decades. I wonder why IAF never considered Tornado jets. Magnificent machine for ground attack!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sF7NaTEIQo

Interestingly Romanian Air Force operates both upgraded Mig 21 Lancers and F16s. The Migs have glass cockpit upgraded by Israel

Rolls-Royce pulls out of Turkish Fighter TF-X programme. BAE systems is still engaged and will be involved in production of TF-X. BAE might not be a good choice for vetting AMCA design given the fact that Turkey is pretty close to Pakistan. https://www.ft.com/content/164c5ee0-3d1d-11e9-8c2f-30761f19...

From flightradar... 8 hrs back Notam news —Pakistan says it attempted to open one eastbound and one westbound transiting airway through Pakistani airspace between the Muscat and Mumbai FIRs (Notam A0258/19), but reciprocal connectivity was denied by Mumbai FIR (Notam A0357/19). Good strategy to sta...

The Mig 21 is claimed to have come down at Horan Village. Does anyone have coordinates of it? From the Indian side the villages close to where this action happened is Bohani, sher makadi in Naushera. This video link has some details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2iwpeSC_Q Horran Latitude: 33° 1...

F16 drop tank

My read is pakis are beinging too clever by half and intentionally kept the east west movement closed on their airspace to deny overflight for westbound traffic of the north indian airports and vice versa. This will increase the fuel cost of all airlines that are using those airports and flying to,...

We have all been talking in conjectures what could be done in the future conflicts and future scenarios. It is better to decouple the weapons/platforms development from domestic military tactics or operations and be treated as any other commercial entity to compete in the open market with autonomy t...

What does this even mean ? Doesnt make sense Usually, just detecting an aircraft on radar doesn’t mean having a ‘firing solution’. In order to have a firing solution, you need accurate azimuth, elevation and range/velocity data. Unlike ground radars, aircraft radars aren’t stationary. Also our airc...

Getting an approval for IAF strike took us decades. 5 decades to be precise. That too under the "non-military target", "we don't want to escalate" buzzword Sir this is pure retaliation against hostile behaviour. Do we need babudom and netas to approve and underwrite? We should h...

I have always wondered if the Mi17 is suited for combat search and rescue role ... if the mission was to pull out our Wg Cdr from hostile territory

First thing, we were not at war with Pak. So cannot shotdown jets flying in PoK. If we want to shoot them down, then a no fly zone policy needs to be declared before hand. Sir with Pakistan there should be no protocol. Just like the hot and cold LOC on the ground .... if they fire a round we fire 1...

^^^ not so sure. they get penetrated deep, then H&D forced them to throw the best they had into a desperate dice roll move and they did the least they could do to show their mardangi and not only did they not hit anything but lost a top of the line F16 and the best they can show for it is a luc...

There has always beeen a great deal of resentment amongst PAF ranks that whenever it came to military engagement with India the Pak Army had always sidelined them. It seems this time it was entirely a PAF led attempted strike. This could only bolster their fortune in the future and they will definit...

and if due to that unplanned fight crossing a civilian air lane a indigo flight with 130 onboard crashed with all onboard fatal, all the internet kamandus would pin the blame on IAF and namo. pls do use your common sense and refer back to my post showing that 5 civilian flights would usually be in ...

Description of the engagement. https://www.livefistdefence.com/2019/03/tally-and-locked-abhinandans-last-radio-call-before-he-fired-f-16-kill-shot.html If Indian PM had given a free hand to our armed forces not sure what prevented Su30 MKIs to take down few PAF F-16s after all those hot and cold mi...

villagers are all clear on one thing, they heard explosions. so unless the ones that fell outside exploded and ones that holed the roof all did not explode.... Sir that could be even sonic boom. If I remember clearly from the circulating clips the villagers reported loud explosive noise not flashes...

perhaps some MEA mandarin forced to use smaller munitions for "optics" and "minimum apologetic non-military damage" :) I would have used a barrage of brahmos missiles at 12 noon. Sir AFAIK Spice is a guidance kit. Even if MK84 like bomb was used with Spice 2000 the explosion wou...

POK is also Indian territory. How does crossing LoC and RoE logic apply. It is not IB that there could be other ramifications

I have been thinking about the so called PAF BVR missile hit of Mig 21 bison for a while. The Mig was in hot pursuit of the F16 (assuming it was a high speed chase). It was precisely at that time the Mig was shot by another PAF a/c supposedly BVR strike. What is the probability of surviving such a h...