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alcoholic friend who designed out our nuclear submarine - and our stealth fighters and our stealth frigates and our supersonic cruise missiles - and sober friends who still not have agreed to most guarded technology even when offered a 10 billion dollar deal Agreed, but you also need to know that R...

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(though highly unlikely) I hope our babus and politicians know what may be the implications of these actions....we should not end up loosing our only "historically proven" all weather friend (one who is still giving us technologies no one else would) to those who see us in the same light ...

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Perfectly fine. Since its all comms stuff, we would definitely want to use our own equipment there rather than rely on bugged hardware/software. There is one issue with putting Indian stuff and i.e the Americans don't allow their equipment to be upgraded by anybody else which also includes the cust...

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Also the RCAF has very few SAM's. AFAIK they only have a contract of 6 PAC systems of which some 3 are delivered so far (Not sure). A country like Taiwan should have large number of SAM's as it is a defensive Nation facing overwhelming odds. SAM's could be a real game changer ! Oh I thought you were...

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@Mr Bala Vignesh
Oh right, thanks !

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@Bala Vignesh
WSI is meant to be a gunship, it will do jobs of troop insertion along with attack. Quite similar to the Mi-24.

@henrik
Dhruv costs just under 9 million $ so expect the LCH to cost 12-14 million $.

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One more Airavat Image:

Does anyone know what happened to the prototype ?

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Probably, we may have deployed Mig-21s to avert any Suicide Air attack mission, but these Bisons aren't equipped with any Air to Air Missiles rather they seems to have pressed on with cannon fire to down enemy air attack. According to reports Su-30MKI's are being deployed to protect capital air spa...

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If the GE-414 is adopted for the LCA, the prices of the twin-engine Super Hornet and the single-engine Gripen could come down by as much as 12 per cent, making them more attractive when the commercial bids for the medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) competition are evaluated. http://www.teleg...

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chackojoseph wrote:Got this via mail:
Speeding Ticket
Kingsville, TX

ROFL

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True.. But do they require to be refueled in air at all??? I mean they have enough range with internal fuel to cover the entire length of the country on internal fuel alone, with full payload... I mean its useful if you have an expeditionary role but i don't think they'll be earmarked for that kind...

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@vic
din't GE already acquire approval from US govt ? American companies don't participate in tenders if they don't get approval, right ?

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ohk! my bad !!!

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^^^nice

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Indonesia is not a threat to India and its armed forces, as a matter of fact Indian Air Force personnels recently concluded training of Indonesian pilots on Su-30's. Expect them to depend on us for spares.
Indian Air Force concludes Sukhoi Su30 training programme for Malaysian pilots

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IAF can kick out the Il-78 by tweaking the requirements in RFP, they should just add the requirement of "boom" on the aircraft to refuel the P-8I's and the C-17's.

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The Lavi has canards. The F2 and F-16 are almost the same - teh F2 was derived from the F 16 the following Wiki illustrates the differences http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/F2andF16.png Thanks for the comparative image, never knew that the F-2 was bigger in size than the F-16 !

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It's GE F-414 for LCA Mk-II; EJ-200 loses the race in photo finish

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Both the American Minesweepers in question are barely 13-14 years old, I wonder why the USN decommissioned them within a decade of induction.

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Thank you for the wonderful image, I can see the co-pilot sitting in the back that means the co-pilot has a really good view of the front. Many of us believed otherwise.

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@ Carl_T, indranilroy, Nachiket Su-35UB has canards like MKI. The only external difference I know of is the small difference in the design of vertical stabilizer of the two aircrafts. http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7069/su30mkitail.jpg http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/1475/su35ubtail.jpg Beaut...

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10 Phalcons + 15 Desi AWACS should be the IAF's strength by 2025. Will allow great coverage and added capability in multi-front war/ multiple battlefields.

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Is the airframe for the next AWACs going to be the Il-76 or has there been a change of plan? IAF is buying the same stuff, all the follow on orders will be based on the IL-76. The last Phlacon has a few updates which are likely to continue. I have started having a feeling that our defense procureme...

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I don't think IN would prefer to buy a completely shore based AWACS when it has a choice of carrier based E-2D.

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2 more Phalcons for IAF !

That brings the total to 5 ! So how many Indian AWACS will the IAF order ?

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indranilroy wrote:Thats not a super hornet ... It was one of the PAk-FA line drawings circulating before the PakFA was actually unveiled

Yes, its not a SH but the front half of the drawings looks quite similar to SH. As for the entire drawing no such aircraft exists.

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The problem I think lies in the manufacturing process. We have seen many user trials ending up in an embarrassment but have achieved a great deal of success while conducting development trails. It seems like the missiles don't have long shelf-life ! SFC and other bodies should take a good look at th...

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neerajb wrote:Shiv Saar I didn't want to cheat but the URL spilled the beans.

Cheers....

Neeraj, you and I can identify the Bundar even with our eyes closed !

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A great comparison of the Su-47 and the PAK-FA http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/935/t504yq1.jpg Sir, the aircraft on the right is not a PAK-FA ! There is no gap between the two engines. Its looks like a Super Hornet to me. PAK-FA http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/203/pakfadiagram.png

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F-35 Variants
F-35A

F-35B

F-35C

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Mirage Series fighters, they are probably the most difficult to distinguish. Last four images for some reasons are not working, click on them to view. http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/3650/mirageg83v.jpg http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6763/mirage2000c3view.gif http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/...

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Gaur wrote:Which weapon are the MARCOS personnel carrying? Looks like mp5 to me but the barrel seems to be a little weird.

It is probably the Naval variant MP5SD-N2. Not sure !

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Knocking off 2-3 bridges is all that is required to block land routes. They don't move, don't hide and your enemy has them marked. Knocking down bridges will slow down the transportation not stop it completely. Just a small correction, the Mig 21s willl stay on beyond 2020. May be even till 2025. I...

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@Shiv The last para of your post is what I am trying to say, its better to use the road/rail networks than the air-route because the air-route is a bit "more" risky and is used for other things. I will agree that all the routes are risky be it on air, land or water but a train or truck con...

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The only reason why the production of the first 40 fighters will be slow because the HAL would like to have a assembly line running till it gets a larger order of Mk-2. You can expect the production rate to well above 30units per year.

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yes it is the extreme case, I am not able to understand the logic behind this discussions and what we are discussing about. I basically think that transporting via air should not preferred over road/rail. Thats it nothing more.

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So you think leaving a T-72-Akash or radar on the site where it can do nothing is safe ?? What if the airfield is bombed during the time, wouldn't you have preferred to have the whole unit to fight the attackers or not have it over there because there is no reason to believe that it won't be bombed ...

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How about 2 or 3 flights to carry all the stuff? After all carrying one tank is also equally useless and if we wanted to carry 20 tanks we could choose 20 Il-76s making one flight each or 4 Il-76s making five flights each. The same argument can be made for transporting iron ore or crude oil or even...

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Even if the Il-76 can carry the T-72-Akash still I won't think its a smart thing to do, cuz one 1 Il-76 could carry only 1 T-72-Akash which doesn't make any sense, they will obvious need more than that do anything meaningful. Second thing is the radar which is also based on the T-72(for army) will b...

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Have you read this? http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/History/1990s/Bewoor.html It wont be easy, at best, but it can be done if the weight is at that of the T-72. Having said that, why would the Army want to air transport Akash around anyways. The T-72 means its clearly meant to accompany armor for...

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