Bharat Rakshak

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This "book" is trash!! It's available online for free. I won't dignify it with a link on the forum. It is hundreds of pages long and having scrolled down it skipping tens of pages at a time, I found the following gems: JFK and his brother RFK were Russian spies transmitting the daily Presi...

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The Putin-Erdogan power play on display at the recent tripartite summit in Iran. Erodan made Putin wait for 45-50 seconds and Putin is seen as visibly irritated, shuffling his feet and pursing his lips. This footage including closeups was filmed by the Turkish Government news agency Anadolu and dist...

ldev

In terms of using island bases, a good solution will be to have basing rights in Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius and Reunion Island and base a squadron of fighters at each of these locations with P-8s and aerial refuellers. That will cover the Chinese threat in eastern Africa. Underscoring the impo...

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Even after the latest round of military talks PLAAF jets have flown close to the LAC on multiple occasions prompting the IAF to scramble jets in response. PLAAF flights (including an excursion across the perceived LAC over Indian troop positions) started on June 24-25 and have continued since includ...

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I am quite sure that the PRC has not artificially limited it's capacity by limiting the internal weapons bay to under 50% of the F35. My guess is that it is part of evolving PLAN doctrine. Besides it's internal weapons bay, the J-35 has 6/8 external hard points. China would have also learned lesson...

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First high resolution image of China's J-35 stealth carrier fighter. It was known as the FC-31 during it's experimental phase but looks now to be offically known as the J-35. Appears to have twin domestic WS-21/13E engines replacing the Russian RD-93 engines used during early test flights of the FC-...

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The first time any Soviet/Russian pilot ever landed a conventional takeoff plane on an aircraft carrier was a test landing done on November 1, 1989 with a modified SU-27 which was then developed into the SU-33. (Before that they had VTOL Yak-38s) By that time Indian Navy pilots had been landing on t...

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https://twitter.com/AartiTikoo/status/1549108570813112320?s=20&t=oh9P5bsXiwP6HW9MlSXs3w : CIA killed India’s nuclear physicist Homi Bhabha and Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri—confessions of Robert Crowley, the second in command of the CIA's Directorate of Operations (in charge of covert oper...

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^^ it's a design that SMIC copied from Taiwan's TSMC. They have already been sued by TSMC for patent violation and are of course under US sanctions. Meanwhile Samsung has begun mass production of 3 nanometer semiconductors last month. And IMEC the body where TSMC, Samsung, ASML, Cadence and Synopsys...

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One Navy admiral suggested to reverse engineer (& modernize/update) the steam catapults from the original Vikrant for the next aircraft carrier (INS Vishal). DRDO is also working on EMALS type catapult as well. But since projects move painfully slow in India, it will not be ready in any practic...

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It seems like the exercises with the Americans have had a big impact on the IN psyche... They saw US Supercarriers dominate the seas with their CBG's, a extremely capable fixed wing force and decided this the way to go for India too But we simply don't have that requirement from our Navy... We're n...

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^^^France is not ready to share IP with Germany which will put up tens of billions of Euros over the life of the FCAS project and a fellow NATO member. That is the root cause of the FCAS dispute. What makes you think that France will share any IP at all with India, for a couple of billion Euros for ...

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Imo, Russia is not going to be a happy camper if India becomes an expeditionary force. May tolerate a French product, I think a US one will cause major indigestion. Agree, Russia will be very unhappy. Only Russia has the right to an expeditionary force into Syria to protect India's interest in Syri...

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As I had stated in the MRFA thread, the dispute between France and Germany on the FCAS 6th generation fighter is serious and unresolved. If I remember correctly the estimated development total cost of the project is ~100 billion Euros. If Germany reduces it's financial commitment because of workshar...

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SH: Internal fuel: 14,700 lbs + 2X1000 lb Paveways = 4000 lbs + 2XAMRAAMS + 2xAIM9X = 1400 lbs = 20,100 lbs Rafale: Internal fuel: 10,500 lbs + 2x2000 liters drop tanks = 7000 lbs + 1x Exocet ASM = 1700 lbs + 4x Mica AAMs = 1000 lbs =20,200 lbs For the SH, do you mean 2x2000 lb Paveways = 4000 lbs?...

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KSingh wrote:[

Can you breakdown the weights you’ve calculated a little more, 2x1000=4000? I’m sure I’m missing something here.

My mistake, I have amended my original post for the correct read, highlighting the change in red i.e. It is 2x2000 lbs=4000 lbs

ldev

https://twitter.com/AnirudhGB/status/1484597332297588741?s=20 ---> Rafale M spotted carrying: • 2 x 2,000 litre drop tanks • 4 x MICA AAMs • 1 x Exocet anti ship missile. Not too bad considering it took off from SBTF at INS Hansa which has a inclination of 14° https://twitter.com/Dish_Troyer/status...

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so that is theoretical, given that India does not deploy any CATOBAR carrier!! What is the actual payload with a ski jump, comparing the Rafale to F-18? I guess that is what these trials were determining. If you go by one of the photographs which shows the Super Hornet taking off with 2x Paveways, ...

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Commonality in engine for TEDBF and SH is definitely a plus but everything else is not really in SH’s favour. Rafale-M is something like 95% in common with the Rafale B/C so it’s not 46 but 250++ (with nearly 100 on order) Only Dassault and operators will know the true degree of commonality. Accord...

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India & Ru set to trade oil not in US $$ but UAE Dirhams https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-russia-seeking-oil-payments-india-dirhams-sources-document-2022-07-18/ :wink: https://twitter.com/maphumanintent/status/1549419864074371073 Original tweet dated Feb 28, 2022 This has, perh...

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^^Yes, it looks like the Russians shot down one of their own fighters.....SU35S according to reports.
Another video of the shoot down:

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1549477940500594696

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https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/south-koreas-kf-21-completes-first-flight Congratulations to south korea for first flight of KF21. Impressive pace at which they developed this plane. Block 1 is supposed to have only air to air capability with Meteor and Iris-T missiles in...

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Firstly we have NO idea about the solution(s) Dassualt has offered to be compatible with Vikrant, ............ My bad. According to IDRW LINK Dassault's solution was NOT a detachable wing, but removal of the wingtip missile rails every time the plane had to use the elevator. The other factor favori...

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SH’s STOBAR performance is not unique- Rafale M was at SBTF a few weeks before and demonstrated their ability to do the mission All reports that I have read say that the Rafale could not fit into the Vikrant elevator. Dassault's solution was to redesign the wing and make part of it detachable!! If ...

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Putin Thinks He's Winning Interesting guest essay in the NY Times by Tatiana Stanovaya of Carnegie: To summarize, why does Putin think he will win is divided into 3 grand pieces: First, because his immediate military goals have been reduced to capturing the entire Donbass region which he believes w...

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The lack of a CATOBAR carrier will handicap both the Rafale and the Super Hornet in terms of the payload that each is capable of carrying via a CATOBAR assisted take off as opposed to a ski jump. For reference given below is a picture of a Super Hornet taking off from a US carrier, loaded to just sh...

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Mk1A and Mk2 won't just be the cheapest to buy but also the cheapest to operate and upgrade and yet we're only planning a total of 12 squadrons of them... That's less than 1/3rd of the supposed 42 sanctioned strength. I would imagine that the IAF does not view these purchases purely from a cost sta...

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It looks like there have been multiple instances of PLAAF fighters coming across India's perceived LAC in recent weeks. One instance is specifically mentioned in the ET report where a PLAAF J-11 flew for a few minutes across the LAC and the IAF scrambled Mig 29s in response. This Chinese air activit...

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Yash bhai, the problem is Rafale can't fit on our aircraft carriers. Unless IN wants to modify its carrier lifts, buying Rafale is pointless If this was true Dassualt wouldn’t have spent millions sending their Fighters to test at SBTF along with all the simulations done internally.; + let’s not for...

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Also unnecessary. Their planes are spread across their wide country with multiple combatants from SK, Japan, USN, Taiwan, Vietnam etc to deal with. Even if they move all of them over to our border through some extraordinary feat, they can only operate as many as their forward infrastructure allows....

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India stations Rafale fighters at Leh, sends tough message to China https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/international/top-news/india-stations-rafale-fighters-at-leh-sends-tough-message-to-china/na20220713181330366366234 13 July 2022 I am always amused by headlines like this. PRC today has ne...

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Since the MRFA thread in various avatars has been making the rounds on BRF for more than a decade I thought it's time to evaluate the planes by a different metric....musical, film based and artistic based on the country of origin and the draw that it holds. Watch/listen to all of them and then decid...

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NASA released some more images from the James Webb telescope today. The resolution and fidelity is startling: NASA’s Webb Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution, Black Holes Five galaxies in close proximity to each other, 290 million light years away. They are known as Stephan's Quintet https://helios-i.ma...

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I agree with your arguments. However, I am still trying to ascertain what did the UK send to Ukraine. IF what Kyle is stating is true, that the UK made a separate deal than the US AND the UK did not extract any assurances from the Ukrainians on targeting Russian territory AND the UK Def Min is for ...

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Kyle Anzalone, of antiwar.com, is reporting that Ukraine promised NOT to use the HIMARS to target anything within Russia itself. However, the UK gave Ukraine the M270, which uses the same rockets used in the HIMARS, BUT - per Kyle - the UK did NOT ask/get any assurance from Ukraine that they will n...

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Absolutely stunning!! The first image of the early universe released by NASA taken from the James Webb telescope now parked at the 2nd Lagrange point, 1.5 million km from earth. If you held a grain of sand up to the sky at arm’s length, that tiny speck is the size of Webb’s view in this image. Imagi...

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Europe's achilles heel is not oil but gas. Oil is fungible and transportable, gas not so much. And the infrastructure for large scale import of LNG into Europe does not exist as of today. In 12 months, based on the crash construction of LNG terminals, including floating terminals, Europe will just a...

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Igor Girkin reacts to the strike on Nova Kakhovk^^. There are some suggestions that the Ukranians in targeting these ammunition dumps are launching a combination of Grads, Tochkas and then finishing off with the precision Himars making it virtually impossible for the Russians to intercept the salvo....

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In his latest broadcast Ghirkin went off on S-400, apparently from last attack S-400 failed to intercept any of HIMARS and they supposedly moved there to stop such attack . This rises questions about S-400 ability to intercept ballistic missiles (or drones) I brought up a few times earlier in this ...

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It happens in war, in relatively unarmed Iraq there 1 million civilians killed as collateral damage, there were cases in Kosovo war. The truth will come at the end of the war. Till then propoganda will dominate Hitting that shopping center would happen because of one of two reasons IMO: One, is tha...

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