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35 year old ncc booklet. 136*4+44 ghatak =588 soldiers Plus mmg section+ medium motor section and other support troops .Total more than 900 men. Just recollecting memory. An Army veteran read these discussions and sent me a message to post his comments here. This not a response to Sankum Ji's post ...

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[ .... 1. Forces are trained to operate under pressure exclusively. The fact that the IAF chose to operate hepters without CMs to MANPADS is a glaring operational error. Despite the fact that we had these available. 2. Attrition applies equally to all services and perhaps the most to the Army. We l...

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Rs_singh wrote:ks_sachin and KaranM,

Well fought blue, but red wins

Self declaring victory!

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KaranM, ... 1. Again, MANPAS: IAF did not see fit, nor seemed to have counters for stingers (1 MANPAD type ) employed by PA in 99. Firing rockets exceeding munition alt env against SOPs showed poor pilot performance. These are facts. CAS was extremely ineffective and did not effect the outcome of a...

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One word on pilot training in the IAF. KRC showed following flaws: 1. IAF fighters were unwilling to engage targets at close range despite being cleared to do so, as attrition was acceptable in war. Not being able to close in the target meant impact error was large and particularly ineffective at h...

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^^^ One of the tactics being employed is to make Su-30MKI look bad in order to justify the desire for a “superior” Rafale acquisition. Mod Note : srai, I am cautioning you, if you make such claims, substantiate them. Next time will not be a Caution, Everyone - This is not the MMRCA thread. You post...

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srai wrote:
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Even if we put that aside, the jets that will be up for retirement by 2030 are Mirages, Jaguars and MIG 29s...

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Non-Darin-3 Jaguars will likely be retired by 2030.

All Darin 2s except trainers will retire by 2025

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LakshmanPST wrote:
srai wrote:^^^
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Anyways, from what I read many times in the forum, IAF is not going to do CAS role and Army will take care of it...

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Folks please please do not generate such conclusions.

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IAF plans for 42 squadrons, consisting of a mix of combat aircraft in the light, medium and heavy categories. If we assume a 1/3 mix of each type, it comes to 14 squadrons each. 14 x heavy [status: completed] —> 13.5 x Su-30MKI 13 x medium [status: almost completed] —> 3 x Mirage-2000, 3 x MiG-29, ...

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^^^ Agree. Indian armed forces have been stocking up the last few years for short intense conflict. I forget but it was like 10-days or something like that. For short duration, it is possible to attain very high serviceability rates. Replacements for attritions and depleted stocks would require pla...

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Deejay sir, Intelligence and local informers as well. There is no way the forces could have eliminated so many terrorists in south Kashmir, without local intel and informers. In fact after the second encounter in which 4 terrorists were killed, there was a report of 1 local civilian being tortured ...

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Referring to some articles, when any new product is develop it is respective Governments / Forces in various countries which fund the R&D. In our country it is through the MoD on recommendations of the respective service to be released by MoF. I am at least not aware of any instance of some pri...

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mody wrote:Earlier the Nepalese army was considered to be pro-India. Has that changed and have the commies managed to purge all the pro-India elements from the army and replaced them with commie-Maoists?

Kindly wait for some time. More news on this will get us some clarity.

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One approach for such small quantities is to have a number of pre-approved suppliers who can bid and make them as required. For example, a number of casting and machine shops that are already pre-approved for capacity, quality, workforce competence can bid for the work packages. I think this is how...

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I think our forces need to learn, Lockheed Martin etc, when they invest in something like an F-22 or F-35 are assured of compensation no matter what the outcomes are, and more money is thrown to fix problems. Thats why the US has such a good MIC. We need similarly develop our MIC we need our nation...

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Another 5 terrorists killed in Shopian, yesterday. That is 14 in the last 4 days and maybe 27 in the last 15 days or so. Some serious clean up is being carried out in south Kashmir. https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/encounter-in-kashmir-shopian-terrorists-killed-1687352-2020-06-10 Let us not fo...

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My 02 bits on this raging debate: Bit 01- Forget HAL for a moment and turn attention on the competition. How good are they? I mean what are their internal stories? Bit 02- HAL needs to get Marketing and Customer Centric management for it to cross bridges with all services. Presently only navy guys h...

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i am of the considered opinion that naval budget should be reduced... and pumped into army & AF. wars in the coming time will be short sharp with AF and Army calling the shots... we are pumping too much money into an area with no commensurate returns on the battleground. Sir, we cannot forget C...

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What pains me is that defunct jet airways shows two active airbus 330 parked and number of atr42/72. Make this to good use , grab whatever you can it doesn’t get cheaper than that convert it and operate. Porkis got fried plane to work and here you have birds in your hand and you do not want to use....

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Just putting this out there - Ok Khan Sa'ab I am not going to moderate this but your post is best deleted. As per open source data not a single airline registered in India flies the A330 so your point is incorrect. Air India had A330 from 2008-2015 but it replaced those with Boeing 787s. https://en...

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What you say makes sense. Armed Forces as a whole need to take back initiative. We have been reactive and we need to move into the domain of setting the agenda.

Our adoption of tech and response in this 24 by 7 news cycle needs to be in tune with modern fog of war.

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Useless speculation. No toleration for any more of this scope creep & I Want Phasor Drive Warp III Wormhole Craft Those days are over. A good deal of this nonsense was being run out of Delhi Gymkhana and a certain ****puri. There are many otherwise honourable folks who had their paws in this lo...

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Personally, I think HAL can develop auto folding rotors and that is what the Navy wants. I don't claim to understand the reasons but they are the domain experts and I am sure they have given it adequate thought. HAL should tell Navy it will have auto folding rotors and then I don't think IN can ref...

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manjgu wrote:getting a 3rd a/c carrier seems more imp !!!

Very insightful Sir.

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^^^ What was the hold-up all these years for not getting SDRs/secure comms? From what I remember vaguely, IPKF SriLanka suffered from the same non-secure comms issue in the late eighties. There were reports of ODL contract way back in 2009. Tender was floated in 2006. Don't know what happened. Or m...

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With the ODL first going on the Su-30 and Tejas, expect them to start sneaky tactics, first and foremost. Su 30s are a natural choice given their nos and other pairing advantages like buddy refueling. Tejas of course starts to grow from here. Another 05 years and IAF won't look any further. Tejas i...

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Both CG and IN have taken 32 nos naval Dhruv manual main rotor folding version. If it is not possible to fold at sea why would they take it. The 111 nos NUH tender is for manual folding. To fold 4 blades of LUH takes 10 minutes. To fold just two blades should take 5 minutes. If IN wants they can ha...

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IAF Guns The World's Largest Helicopter, It's Mi-26, To The Top Delightful bit of information, demonstrating challenges of Indian Military operation. This video clip, below, provides an enlightening glimpse of a system being pushed to the outer edges of it's capabilities. Watch this Indian Air Forc...

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MeshaVishwas wrote:And booyeah!
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Happy weekend all!

Thank You!!! Enjoyed it.

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Great job SankuM. TBH, I was taken aback by how limited some of the arguments made by Kaypius were. For instance his claim we should revisit the amount of effort it takes to develop indigenous sensors, and then add to the costing to disadvantage local gear. Is he even serious? One would have though...

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Om Shanti. Thank You Sir!

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.. Superior but still begging: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/pakistan-plans-to-seek-2-bn-in-new-loans-from-world-bank-adb-report/articleshow/75845447.cms :lol: :lol: :lol: https://twitter.com/rotormagic/status/1263041862102740994 Only country that took “Allah ke nam pe de baba”...

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Bloody Hell! Who took this photo?

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... However, the IAF needs substantial combat punch for today and tomorrow, while the rest of its fleet can be brought upto spec, upgraded, indigenized etc. ..... These "buy" us peace for the next decade while we can continue to mature our homegrown platforms, and we are also able to go t...

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ashishvikas wrote:Removing Some Media Fallacies About The Capabilities of The LCA Tejas Fighter

By Indranil Roy

http://delhidefencereview.com/2020/05/1 ... s-fighter/

Great Job Indranil. Thank You!

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Khalsa wrote:Can I see documented evidence or a document of the final order ?
For 83 Mk1A.

Same for the Arjun. Funds cleared etc etc.
I have not seen the ink from the army.

That is a wishlist. Orders not yet signed.

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Sir, i said that it was the current GOI policy. Not that i agreed with it. I don't know about manpad proliferation in J&K as such, but low-level helicopter flying in urban areas is difficult enough. The cockpit glass might be bullet proof but i don't know about the tail rotor, fan blades, engin...

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Mug 29 is one of the safest aircraft in IA.. A look at BRFs Aircraft archives does suggest that Mig 29 seems safe. Mig 29: (18 crashes of 70 inducted) Jaguar: (56 of 165 inducted) Mirage: (12 of 60 inducted) While crashes are a natural phenomenon in all Air Force's which flog men and equipment hard...

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Recently, I saw IKN crying, may be sitting on a park bench, underneath a tree. Any specific reason? Everything good on the home front? Haven't seen/heard from Bushra bibi in ages. There was news/rumour that she contracted CV19. Is this true? No, it was a made for social media drama. This was then c...

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@nachiket @indranil @JayS @Kartik - My many pranaams to you for your patience. My fuse shorted when the first post on Delta vs Swept Wing. I was half expecting someone to ask about why do we not have an elliptical wing design on Tejas. Please do discuss dihedral vs Anhedral wing design next but folk...

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