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Out of around 30 classmates in my school class whatsapp list, two of them responded vigourously in support yesterday...rest all quiet....a few sikulars probably vaguely disapprive of such violence but not saying it at the moment. The stupidity inertia and lack of awareness of a hood section of midd...

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At some times these analysis will trend away from mirroring pointless smartphone comparisons and actually consider tactical performance and mission specifics :) Bullshit sir! Everyone knows that all fighter combat occurs one-on-one at 15,000 feet and at standard temperature and pressure. Fighters d...

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" The Javelin will not hit either the home-grown Nag or the Israeli Spike program, as there is room for all these ATGMs ," the MoD source added. Bhonsle said," There will be a time lag between induction of an Indo-American Javelin, thus Spike will remain on the acquisition book, Nag ...

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V_Raman wrote:Will Buddha smile again?

Yes, a nuclear war is what we really want, isn't it? I can see how we all would benefit.

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Someone should start a hashtag #WeDontKnowJackShitYetSoShutTheHellUpAndDOntGoOverboardWithTheRhetoric

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Shiv, the F-35 does not have thrust vectoring. The nozzle remains fixed except when the plane is landing.

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Hence instructive and not illustrative. :) Obviously there's a myriad of mission types; very few of which need long-range bombers to carry out. What the graphic shows is that using stealthy aircraft with precision munitions cuts down on the support assets that need to be deployed in order to enable ...

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This graphic is instructive.

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As a side note, I remember to have read an article by an IITB mech engg who was in manufacturing sector from something like 70's till date. He gave an interesting perspective. According to him the 1991 opening of market proved detrimental to whatever innovation we had in machine tools in SMEs parti...

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shiv wrote:3. At the end of the video right wing was slightly down.

Saar, we at BRF were perfectly happy towards the end of that video.

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Karan M wrote:Each Agni has a Greenpine on it.

I think you're confusing the Agni with the nuclear-capable Akash.

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The IAF exercises with the Israelis too.

When did this happen? In a hush-hush manner out of the public eye, I presume?

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Karan, could you comment on this bit? https://hushkit.net/2015/12/18/typhoon-versus-rafale-the-final-word/ In terms of weaponry, the Rafale is severely limited at long ranges in the air-to-air arena by having to rely entirely on the MICA which is not credible beyond 20km due to being essentially a s...

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Karan, excellent posts! Funny thing is, pilots did their best to avoid close turning fights even in World War II. The preferred method was always the surprise, slashing attack, and the aircraft that attacked first invariably won the fight. If you compare the Bf-109 with the Spitfire, you see that th...

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Karan M wrote:The Gnat will just shoot down any missiles that come towards it, with its flak cannons.

brb, out to patent my idea to equip the Gnat 125 with Phalanx CIWS

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Shiv, the table you posted a screenshot of states that "On average, U.S. pilots detected enemy aircraft on their own radars at 42 nm and launched missiles at 10 nm." 10 nm is equal to 18.5 km. That's pretty far out. And it's the average distance from which all missiles were launched, inclu...

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However we have reached a point where a majority of air battles will be fought using BVR missiles. BVR might not get you a hard kill every time, but firing off a salvo of long-range missiles at an incoming strike package would certainly cause them to jettison their loads and scurry back to base. Vi...

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Having said that Prodyut Das is right in pointing out that BVR is not there yet. This vague terminology causes unnecessary confusion, IMO. What exactly does Prof Das mean by "not there yet"? What is "there"? If he intends to say that BVR hasn't reached a place where fighters wil...

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There are no hard data on the efficacy of BVRs. "When confronted with data I don't like, I shall ignore the data." The Guiding lights of the ISRO programme, with the humility of the truly wise ignored Critical Technologies and set about with humble programmes for people building - Range s...

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tsarkar wrote:^^ R-73 pylon adaptor

Did anyone notice the new low visibility Indian roundrel?

The Navy has used these roundels for several years now. This photo was taken in 2005: http://www.acig.info/exclusives/viraat/ ... 3_prep.jpg

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but the IAF will be using slow flying aircraft (helicopters - possibly Mi 17/LCH/armed Dhruv) to chase drones Yup. People love to discuss at length the anti-tank capabilities of the LCH, but fail to notice that every time HAL puts up an LCH poster for display, the first mission listed is air defenc...

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People need to stop living in the past. It's 2016 and there hasn't been an air-to-air gun kill since 1965, Really? Shiv, the last A2A kill reportedly happened in 1998, when an Ethiopian Su-27 shot down an Eritrean MiG-29. There were a handful of kills before that (An USAF A-10 shot down an Iraqi he...

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A little late to the party, but here goes nothing! The dogfight is not dead. Fighter aircraft will be designed to win the air to air. However these constitute only perhaps ten per cent of all sorties (and combat losses) flown. The main task of combat aircraft is close support and strike duties in VF...

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Brar, Karan, Viv, thanks! So the missile essentially behaves as a command guided missile for most of its flight and flies under it's own active guidance for only a short portion of it. Interesting. The bandwidth required by the comms system when dealing with a propah swarm attack must be immense!

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Interesting discussion. The UHF radar is certainly impressive, but how useful would its low-RCS capability be in actual operations? Even if it manages to detect low-RCS cruise missiles and missile carriers, those targets would still be difficult for your air defence missiles to acquire. So you would...

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The Marines are the US Navy's Army. Wait till you hear about the Airforce that the US Navy's Army has. :-P Ah, like the People's Liberation Army Naval Air Force . One of my friends suggested they reaise an affiliated military police unit as well. They'd be called the People's Liberation Army Naval ...

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Perfect, isn't it? Couple this with the Pinaka II and let mayhem unfold whenever they get uppity.

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On my personal wishlist was a cheap 100 km range trajectory corrected rocket with a warhead like this to take out terrorist training camps. Much better than hot pursuit. AWMTA :) A few months ago, I wrote a piece in IDR arguing that artillery strikes against Pakistan would be the most effective way...

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Out of production now AFAIK. Best bet would be a specialized type developed by ARDE (possibly based on GSh drawings) or a customized variant of the podded 25 mm GAU-22/A. In either case, for tank busting, you're still better off employing a PGM (preferably from standoff ranges). The Tejas can take ...

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^^ You're thinking (correctly) in terms of range safety, but maybe you might want to think in terms of Kargil. Inadequate precision was a real issue in Kargil, where "a miss by a foot is a miss by a mile" or something like that. So if these bombs are fitted with proximity fuses and set to...

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Superb photos, ruined by terrible post-processing. The liberal application of HDR makes them look cartoonish.

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Unable to follow what you mean. Why should movement of the ship be a problem if the missile is tracking the ship or the ship's position is updated. In fact a ship moving at say 20 knots would have moved 1 km in less than 2 minutes and no one claims that Brahmos can reach its target from 300 km in l...

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Yes, hosting quality rebuttals somewhere is a good start. We can use forum members to also show strength. For example, I write a rebuttal somewhere (say frustratedindian) and post the link in the comments section of the news. Then, notify forum members of the comment, who in turn visit the news pag...

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Karan, I was just asking for the source of that particular photo

Agree with you about the situational awareness et. al. What a beast!

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Karan, sauce?

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Shreeman, it is one thing to write an article that simplifies the material down to the point that the lay reader can fully grasp the nuances. Ajai Shukla, for all the criticism that gets heaped on him, does precisely that in his Broadsword columns. And he's very regular too. But this piece by Sushan...

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From IDRW... not sure on how accurate it is ... Mods - Remove this if this is wrong thread for it It's from Sushant Singh's report in IE. It's a very, very simplistic overview. But then again, he doesn't write for a nerdy audience. Nevertheless, this bit rankled. Aviation expert Angad Singh says th...

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True, but the last of the three A-50s were delivered more than five years ago. And if the IAF lacks operational experience, those birds should be flying harder than ever on training missions and exercises.

When was the last time we saw photos or news snippets of the planes, I wonder?

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Indian Army went without parachutes for over a decade: CAG The country’s top auditor, separately, also slammed the Indian Air Force for sub-optimal utilisation of operational capabilities of AWACS (air borne warning and control system) aircraft purchased in 2004 for Rs 5,042 crore and has said shor...

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How about they define "aircrafts that they deemed momentous to HAL/India"?

Surely the MiG-23 qualifies with its... uhh... glorious record in the IAF? Look at the sheer number of airframes on display all over the country.

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