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Jagan

Rahul

Thanks for those great pictures of the war museum. The museum seems to have a surprisingly large number of interesting armour and field exhibits. but the condition of them is a bit depressing. Anyway hope they are able to bring them up to shape.

-Jagan

Jagan

Lohegaon has only one usable runway. The second cross runway has been in disuse for years - remember the parked Su-30Ks that were there for half a dozen years. they were all at one end of the disused runway

http://g.co/maps/f2teq

Jagan

rajeshks wrote:[

Will this ejection affect his medical category and there by career/promotions?

Not at this advanced stage of his career - but thats a pretty senior rank to eject.. cant think of any earlier

Jagan

That Bharat Defence Kavach Video Links are awesome. Especially liked AM Dewan and B K Bishnois interviews.

Loved the fact that someone reached out to all those senior planners of the war way back in 1997.. that time BR was still in its (internet) Chaddis...

Jagan

chiru wrote:vintage IAF ad
http://s1.hubimg.com/u/702588_f520.jpg

More of them here

Jagan

But the pilots were putting on a show for the photographers - by retracting the u/c at low level.. not normal sop. (read that bit on airliners)

Jagan

Hiten that is some gold you are digging up every day - keep going!

Loved the clip of the AFA Jodhpur - of the 53 Pilots Course. at 1m04s is Kapil Bhargava - a great friend and contributor to our site. I have passed on the link to him!

Jagan

The MiG-25 Pilot mentioned here is Y.K.Suri nicknamed Yuri,one of the pilots of the Islamabad sonic boom fame.Never knew he is into acting. Found a nice pic of V.S.Pathania & Trevor Keelor perhaps immediately after a mission in '65. http://gnat50years.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/vrcs-pathania...

Jagan

Rahul

Twitter @ https://twitter.com/#!/vayusena

BR-IAF FB @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bharat-Ra ... 5408094246

Jagan

Nice Rare clip Hiten, I posted the link on BR FB page - Should turn up on our twitter feed as well.

Jagan

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Database/17150 With regret I informed you that Gp Capt A Perumal, SC, (17150) (Retd) passed away early hours yesterday in Salem, TN (about 155 kms from Coimbatore / Bangalore). He was with his family at a picnic with his school mates (Sainik School, Amravithinagar) ...

Jagan

that looks like Miandad..

Jagan

shiv wrote:

Admit your mistake with humility eklavya. This is the real Islamic bum
http://www.thehotspotonline.com/moviesp ... naABum.JPG

OMFG is that for real?

Jagan

Yes. Someone did mention to me that this was a deadly cannon. Here is a video although the explosion is fake (for Rajiv Gandhi). But this is a MiG 23 BN with 23 mm cannon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHV_I47uSHQ yHV_I47uSHQ Shiv , this video seems to be a later 'patchup' but I can confirm that th...

Jagan

What is obvious from the pics is that this is from a personal trip..kids belong to families of afsars from IN. Pics taken for personal use should not be put on blogs or forums like BR. There are not many such pics of SF, and especially MARCOS, in the public domain. Rohit, I would agree if this was ...

Jagan

, if I am not mistaken....the serial numbers are painted on the fuselage and you can barely see their outline right under the drop tanks. Ah, thanks for pointing that out.. I was thinking that some numbers were missing.. the drop tank config is a new one.. (Underwing Drop tanks are very rarely seen...

Jagan

Never seen MiG-29Ks with drop tanks along with the standard centre line APU. Beautiful birds...the Navy needs to complete its own MMRCA program (not sure what the progress on that program is) and transfer all these MiG-29s to the IAF. Not sure on how they plan to maintain three different set of com...

Jagan

Would love to know more about this young pilot - who was he? Wht hapened to him?

Jagan

Shouldnt this thread be in the Military Forum? (71 war related, Bangladesh and all that)

Jagan

But its a legitimate point and concern that I raised and which you cannot suppress. Just a few months back there was a case of Gen. Avdhesh in land grabbing scandal in Kolkata, how about that? You can speculate all you want. Irresponsible speculation will end up earning you warnings. Just be aware ...

Jagan

rajanb, ACM PC Lal writes about the fight you witnessed in IIT Khragapur in his memoirs available in google books. See page 133. Ramana, unfortunately he did not write much about the combat.. just a line or two. But it was good in a way as that generated our curiousity and ultimately led to the bes...

Jagan

Naah leave him alone.. some of us havent seen them the first time around.

Thanks for the post VInay G but a link to the original source would be good..

Jagan

This is for the first Crash - not the rcent one.. Just to refresh memories... http://www.stratpost.com/sukhoi-crash-caused-by-pilot-error The crash of the Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft on April 30 was caused by pilot error. StratPost has learned that the cause became clear within 3-4...

Jagan

the first Sukhoi loss was due to Human Error. The pilot switched off the FBW trying to switch off something else and the ac went out of control. There was a report that went into the causes etc at that time. The 'fix' would have been to make switching off the FBW in flight impossible or difficult - ...

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they have depicted 4 jags there, the 2nd pair following few seconds behind the lead pair...terrain looks like POK/aksai chin/tibet. the artist derek bond has a website http://derekbondart.com/ yeah but the artist is Derek Bunce .. http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galleries/2238-2/1947-Tempest.jpg ...

Jagan

Nicely done shivgaru. I remember that Cooke's Gun Camera film is shown in "Salt of the Earth" (though not exactly afzal khan';s sabre, possibly the second or the third one). This was there in one of your videos - I think that shows V K Neb's kill or the Boyra Kills. cant find that right no...

Jagan

How to start posting pictures from your computer onto this thread: 1. Go to http://www.imageshack.us 2. Click the "Browse button" 3. Select your image file from your computer 4. Click "Host it" 5. Wait for uploading to finish and the new page loads. 6. Click in the box with labe...

Jagan

+1.. the author of the Ekka Article is a former Bangladesh Army Officer - with a Bir Protik award - one of their Vir Chakra equivalent awards..(as noted in teh comments)

Jagan

Al Jazeera documentary on India's Silent war against the Maoists. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EW06kd_up8 Special treat from 26:50 onwards ;) Edit: I have now replaced link with the link from Al JAzeera youtube channel thanks to Upendra. I think the correspondent is in a habit of asking too many...

Jagan

Mr Karnad in his recent speech says the swac commander went to russia to find a squadron of backfires painted in iaf livery ready for him to take delivery of after 71 ? And we didnt take it! South Western Air Command was raised in 1980, long after 1971. yes but... it was an Operational Group before...

Jagan

Thanks Rajan - Amazing read and a wonderful Historical material.. This must be the sight that awaited you all at the place it crashed... http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Galleries/3645-2/Afzal_Sabre.jpg This F-86 Sabre flown by Flg Offr Afzal Khan of the PAF was shot down near IIT Kharagpur by a Hu...

Jagan

Great first person narratives - its a fantastic first person record - both of you thanks for sharing It occured to me that that ******** paf pilot, Afzal whatever, must have deliberately guided his dead plane into this small hamlet to cause maximum damage on the ground I assure you pilots in the thi...

Jagan

Another old tale of an aircraft accident I mourn for Karthigeyan That is a gripping write-up of a sad story. I think that for jingos and armchair marshals on BR the story shows what great detail is considered in an accident investigation. The particularly galling accusation made on here that the Ai...

Jagan

Also Number ranges seen till date

SB001 to SB018 (Ks)
SB019 to SB066 (MKIs)
SB101 to SB161
SB303 to SB324 (assume that it started from SB301)

Jagan

I got a pooch.. does the "61" in SB161 look funny to you? it looks funny to me in both the pics out from TarMAKS blog...

Jagan

aditp wrote:So many BRFites are engaged in the IT sector, is possible for some of you guys to develop a BR forum Android app? That could make mobile browsing of the forum so much better and free us of in office restrictions. Cues may be taken from the team-bhp app.

^^^^second that.....

Jagan

From the latest Vayu. For the jingos. Sorry about the cellphone image, but I am sure you will guess what I am trying to show. :mrgreen: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a11/cybersurg/wotsit/phone-mig.jpg same one here that is clickable.. its an old pic, not seen regularly enough.. Though there are ...

Jagan

sorry guys, i meant the gurgaon highway.

Jagan

I agree that the aircraft flies out once in a while. How do I arrive at the conclusion ? - just look at the historical imagery in Google Earth. The only way to prove it is not flying is to say that it is being moved in and out of the hangar frequently which really doesnt make sense! There is still n...

Jagan

Dont know about the Jet but thats one fantastic ejection seat/system in action.. AC going straight down, pilot ejecting parallel to teh ground..and surviving..amazing..

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