Bharat Rakshak

samirdiw

Having Expressways ways doesn't mean small towns are not connected. Pretty dumb to think that way. Usually, there are smaller roads connecting to the expressway that takes to the towns. Think more fishbone than a worm. Taking it further a cross-grid type express network on a country wide scale would...

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1. Government is inefficient., cite crony corrupt leaders to prove the point. Is the vision around infrastructure spending sound? Are they spending where the return on investment over medium term is the best there can be? E.g Spending money over the last 3 years building 4 lane highways without bit...

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How many Tejas IAF wants in a year? As per the chief, as many as they can deliver. So apparently HAL can go to 16 per year. Maybe with more funds, they can do more like somebody else mentioned in partnership. HAL not understanding speedy delivery for a long time is their own fault of course. Only w...

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How many Tejas IAF wants in a year?

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Has the IAF just put out this tender by consulting GoI? How can the GoI allow this debacle to take place? Seriously a separate Defense Procurement and Manufacturing Ministry must be set up. The armed forces provides them the specifications (within range) and criteria why and the new ministry consist...

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It is time for the govt to support specific industries(where we don't have much base currently) and make them competitive wrt to China and rest of the world. While with better taxation and removal of red tape many industries would automatically come up there is a need for focused support by govt. Th...

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What are the performance characteristics that IAF is looking for wrt the single engine platform? The electronics and stuff can always be enhanced.

Can someone post a link if its already mentioned somewhere?

samirdiw

China wasted several decades in not coming to an agreement with India, Regarding India - China has been phenomenally stupid and India will make China pay for stupidity. In the 1950s I can understand Mao's paranoia about Kuomintang and Japan. But the victories in the east and the stalemate in Korea ...

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In the end, India will still be trapped in debt Massive administrative reforms would be needed to cut corruption and waste. here is a hidden disease eating into India's Budget and it is quite incurable. It is called a "debt trap" and its cause is simple — greed. Media chatter over the upc...

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We wouldn't need to go around "managing media" if we have taken our overwhelming forces and rolled into Tibet, taking back everything lost in 1962 and then some. We exchanged a historic, clear cut military victory and territorial gains for a hope that the world sees through the PRC's lies...

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi today said the 73-day stand-off between India and China in Doklam ended after India withdrew its troops and asked New Delhi to "learn lessons" Without the pressure of the Brics what would the China have done? Would we see a restriction on Chinese imports n...

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As the BJP rejoiced the end of the Doklam standoff and hailed the Narendra Modi government’s diplomacy, a cautious Congress posed several questions for the ruling establishment. The principal opposition party has sought to know if there was any explicit or implicit assurance that the Chinese side w...

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Why aren't there clear statements after the withdrawal by India and Bhutan that the Doklam area is "integral" part of Bhutan like China is still claiming this area as undisputed Chinese territory even after the "agreement"? We all know that before 2009 Bhutan was the status quo c...

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Samirdw, You're first line seems like an oxymoron. I apologize for using that term. If India has agreed it is Chinese territory then how can we tell them what to do or not to do on their territory? By telling them categorically - no, nyet , nahi, wenda, beda, voddu etc to their road building. We ba...

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This seems to a layman like India agreeing that Doklam is mainly Chinese territory and only has a problem with Road construction. What if this agreement was at the cost of building up infrastructure in other disputed parts like Ladakh and Arunachal? None of the maps (other than Chinese) showed this ...

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LCH not as good as Apache's is beside the point and misses the forest for the trees. Can it function sufficiently in partnership with our tanks? If yes then it should have taken on the heavy gunship role and a future version made that can swap out the earlier ones.

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So now they will patrol all the way to Gipmochi?

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If IA/IAF need heavy gunships in large numbers, they can ask HAL to make one. Exactly! Where is the request by army asking Defense ministry for A heavy gunship? How many years did it wait after that? What were the timelines it gave GoI? How many years in advance does it give the govt before it beco...

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regarding 2-engine LCA, AMCA is definitely the way to go. with the caveat that AMCA Mk1 should not have any dependency on tech we don't possess right now. just re-size the LCA to accept 2 engines (F-414 if that's all we have) and re-use whatever subsystems you can from LCA. forget all unobtainium t...

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Given the statements issues by both sides, it is not clear to me how India has won or even managed a draw. Optics may not always reflect reality but they sure as hell paint a picture. How about the MEA issues another statement emphatically rejecting what China is so bluntly claiming? Incidentally, ...

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Right now we're militarily unprepared for a long war. Efforts to close the gaps are being taken on a war footing. Postponing the inevitable clash benefits India more than China. Thanks Philip. This does make sense. Taking a step back to take two steps forward in future can be a reasonable strategy....

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The main Indian complaint was about Chinese road-building in Doklam. If the Chinese have assured to desist from doing so in the immediate future, then Indians don't need to be deployed there. The road can be a problem only if it is NOT Chinese territory as per India and Bhutan. India never objected...

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For immediate threats India needs imports because in home projects can't always deliver what is needed. Cain, do we really need the best of the best of the best. Isn't something good enough sufficient enough and with numbers be more than enough? Quantity also has its own quality. Considering our im...

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The issues delineated above have been deemed rectifiable by those in the know. But it seems outside consultancy support will be needed for the same. Why do they keep saying this shit? Why not just say it needs ~X funds and ~Y time to fix it internally. Constantly needing outsiders to fix our intern...

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When it comes to any military platform the fundamental thing to keep in mind imho is one should build as per one's capabilities and not as per one's dreams ; latter are good for science projects so yes I would love to have lot of Skunk Work type labs working on whatever is the latest in a given fie...

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Got it that AMCA needs an engine that does exist now. While that gets built/bought/designed/takes ages how about going for a twin engine fighter (not AMCA but a 4/4.5) for now using Kaveri(with the basic issues mentioned above solved) that will be able to take on a good portion of Chinese AF? As the...

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China can possibly undertake intrusions in sections of its borders with India, where it enjoys logistical advantages How could Chinese have logistical advantage on parts of this border (only 8 possible areas of conflict) so so far away from their mainland and so close to ours? Doesnt even make sense.

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Why didn't Sri Lanka have the Chinese build Hambanthotta using BOOT (build own operate transfer) from the outset itself instead of going for debt? It could have perhaps got better terms than the 99 years/70% now. Why take all this risk? A lot of the infrastructure built inside China is using this me...

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UB : it is all about SE fighters now. It is the flavour of the season :) Vips : Obviously HAL wants the SE contract. They will not get it, but that is a different topic. But HAL raises a good point. What experience does Adani or Tata have in assembling fighters? They will have to poach from HAL. Wh...

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Yea buffer state is an old world concept. Generally a more aggressive power will grab these buffer states when they get a fair chance and then we are back to square one. Yep something that PRC did and we should have met them half way. Unfortunately, at that time Nehruji was more involved in bitchin...

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Shiv, leaving aside the central portions of Tibet for now what will it take to control areas upto Yarlang Tsangpo and Indus joining near mt Kailash thus controlling our water sources? Does our current military capability support that?

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Sorry I meant Tajikistan. Technically this is part of Xinjiang(Uyghur) edges along with Aksai but in the same contiguous mountain area(Kunlun Mountains) of Tibet. Control of Utsang-Tibet not only controls source of our rivers for ever but also makes it extremely difficult for China to target this Ta...

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we can divide up tibet perhaps into a south tibet republic allied to india and a 'democratic' north tibet vassal state of the han. 50-50 in the spirit of panchsheel and asian brotherhood they so loudly proclaim. this was exactly what banditji should have done. and this is what was done by wiser hea...

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Have you looked at the geography of Tibet (North Dharamshala) and why on earth we would want to build roads via North Dharamshala to reach central Asia? The roads to central Asia are Afghanistan/Pakistan. PoK and Gilgit is what we need to get What gave you the idea that controlling Tibet would gran...

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Whats preventing us from striking first and grabbing land up to Brahmaputra(Yarlung Tsangpo) and the Indus origin rivers? Is it political decision only or current capability limitations also? Isn't far easier to defend across the river and flatter land than the steep slopes on our side? We can alway...

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But Tawang and Ar.Pradesh is the great prize given the huge importance and stature of the monastery there next only in importance to Lhasa and the Potala palace.Set up centuries before the British arrived by a former Dalai Lama, with the current DL regularly visiting it,where he escaped from Tibet,...

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Instead of us, getting surprised over seeing their planes over our head, we should be prepared and place web of anti aircraft guns there, and they should be surprised to get trapped in this maze. Mayday-ing few chinese birds over himalayas, would kill the spirit for their ground troops. Its better ...

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There are some achievements mentioned. Well presented by prof Nalapat.

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Really like how the young man presents the Indian side.

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Can a corps HQ and majority of its men be stationed outside of its command area during peace time?

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