Bharat Rakshak

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In 1950? I don't know. In 1962? Most definitely. Especially since 9mm & 7.62mm SMG ammo was also used with service pistols such as the Browning (used by US-equipped NRA forces in Burma) and the Tokarev (Soviet-supplied to PLA). I'm practically 100% certain that these examples represent the detri...

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In fact, in the NRA you would not be surprised to find German-trained regiments equipped with stahlhelms and G98 rifles fighting alongside Brodie-helmeted regiments equipped with Springfield M1903s.

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^^Err or actually it could be mean that the PLA was still using small arms captured from the Kuomintang at the end of the Civil War, including the arms "liberated" from the Kuomintang forces that fought in neighbouring Yunnan/Burma right up to 1954. The NRA used small arms from Germany, Ru...

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americans seem to have made the jump directly from this primitive looking honest john system to the modular MLRS system without a intermediate product like the Katyusha rocket? soviets had katyushas working in WW2 already...my commando comic memories do not show a equivalent american or british roc...

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^no takers on the 636 theory?

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^^Well joo kaffirs can use SDRE 'nets' to catch joor fish. TFTA mard-e-momeen only use AKs and Dynamite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg4bcaIXKHU

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Y'know, there was a pic somewhere of one of the upg Kilos, and the silvered sonar done was redone in black. Here's a thought though - the sub on the right of the image did look a little longer than the one on the left, but the sail doesn't have Arihant's dive planes and doesn't generally fit the bil...

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OK here goes... Form factor: Composite/GRP Hull Trimaran hullform for volume & speed, with propulsion units in outriggers Sensors Hull sonar Towed Array sonar UUV with passive arrays to 'swim alongside' convoys/flotillas or to be 'dropped off' at specific points for loitering surveillance while ...

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^So how are they fitting SIX onto one TEL? Are they using a mega-sized MAZ/MZKT chassis? If you look at the standard Tatra TEL for the Prithvi, then you can see that forget 6, even *2* Prithvis is a stretch... I have to ask this - if it's solid fueled with different dimensions, weights, warheads, TE...

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Video of Shia killing in Parachinar. Not high quality, but every instance of "minority" bashing in the Land of the Pure deserves highlighting...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PCzFzT9 ... re=related

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Singha, that's the rear of the tank... the turret was usually set a little more forward.

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Here's a little something to enjoy while flying around in circles...

Bird & Fortune on the Eurofighter

Enjoy.

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How about this then? Lada The new PLAN sub looks like the an evolutionary model based on their 636 Kilos - similar to the Russian Lada/Amur developments. My bet is that it's a Diesel-Electric with some form of AIP (with plenty of Rubin help). One of the big differences between this & the Lada is...

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^^amen to that.

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X-post from Pic. Thread, WRT to T-55s... they were retained as support in inf div IIRC. OK so if they're with Inf., are they actually being used as 'Infantry Tanks' as defined in 30s-40s military terminology? Ref: Infantry Tank If I'm not mistaken, our inf. divs. don't use APCs of any kind: neither ...

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^^T-55s... I was under the impression that they were already phased out? Obviously that is wrong... However, they are fitted with anti-mine rollers, so perhaps they are only used in auxiliary roles?

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cross post: Closer look at Chopper tail rotor Closer look at Chopper tail rotor 2 Closer look at Chopper tail rotor 2 1. Doesn't remotely look like anything you see open-source - not MH60, not CH47, not OH58 and not vanilla CH53. 2. Looks like like a 5-bladed tail rotor - again, none of the above ha...

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x-post: Closer look at Chopper tail rotor Closer look at Chopper tail rotor 2 Closer look at Chopper tail rotor 2 1. Doesn't remotely look like anything you see open-source - not MH60, not CH47, not OH58 and not vanilla CH53. 2. Looks like like a 5-bladed tail rotor - again, none of the above have a...

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Closer look at Chopper tail rotor Closer look at Chopper tail rotor 2 Closer look at Chopper tail rotor 2 1. Doesn't remotely look like anything you see open-source - not MH60, not CH47, not OH58 and not vanilla CH53. 2. Looks like like a 5-bladed tail rotor - again, none of the above have a 5-blad...

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^^Shiny toys, but I would much much rather that in the absence of an indigenous alternative we get the Pantsyr for our SHORAD requirements. Gun+Missile, with track & cueing radar based on the Zhuk fighter radar IIRC + a scanning radar + EO guidance. Probably won't cost as much as the PanzerFlieg...

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^^Sorry, I think he is only doing what MANY OTHER TFTA security services organizations are doing. How many times have gear-heads drooled over tacticool images of 'spec-ops' teams standing around looking cool without any indication of how effective they actually are in combat? Remember that image of ...

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Pah! You guys are so behind the scene. In BLR, the 'Umble Farmer's son's house has a white Maserati parked there. At the end of the road from his house a JLR dealership has opened. Very convenient I suppose to stock up on a couple of Jag XLRs and Land Rovers in case he wanted a few. Just last night...

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Indian Military Wants Quick Solution as PAD Tests Continue "Testing in a controlled environment is different from a real-time one, and there is much that would be required to be done to gain this confidence." No Induction Date As there is no set date for the induction of PAD, analysts are...

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^^Singha, in fact the 2S6 Tunguska's 9M111 missiles are NATO-designated SA-19 Grison. The 2S6 Tunguska is a replacement for the ZSU-23-4 SPAAG, both of which operate as low-level AA defence for mobile Armoured or Mech. Inf. columns, which is why both are mounted on tracked high-mobility platforms th...

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^^There is way, way more to this 'target drone' business than meets the eye. High-G maneuvering at low altitudes. Autonomous way point navigation with GPS updates. They also looked at its ability to fly programmed low-altitude flights in both clean and tow body configurations, and to perform high-g ...

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Saw the trainer on landing approach from over Koramangala this morning ~10.40am. Cockpit 'hump' was quite distinctive.

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^^Interesting. The column on the right have AKs and the left column have INSAS. I wonder what the basis of allocation is...

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Link changed, thanks Shiv.
What can I say, my eye just always ends up at the musharraff.

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^^Quite a few interesting changes... Compare Old With New Visible differences: 1. Engine inlets 2. Engine exhausts 3. Tail landing gear fairing 4. EO sensor fit - the older example seemed to have an Apache-style TADS/PNVS system, with separate optics for WSO and Pilot. The newer one has a single EO ...

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^^Nope, it's 50,000 crores. Which is more or less $11Bn. It made me wonder too. I mean, almost 2Bn per sub? WTF is going into these things?

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^^This is increasingly looking like sabotage, plain and simple. Whatever the IA picks, well, there's going to be a problem with it... 20-25 years of blocking. It's not a one-off effort but a broad, sustained campaign, aided internally by vested interests. In the MoD? Quite probably. In the IA? Well ...

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^^Overall, I'm inclined (and hopeful) to think that option 2 is the likely one. In which case, AoA!

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^^There is a distinct possibility of this report being somewhat accurate - I definitely remember a prototype of an FH77B re-barreled to 45cal. by OFB and offered as an upgrade - was it at Defexpo? There could be couple of interpretations of the DDM-lingo: 1. OFB will conduct in-house upgrade of exta...

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^^Or wait - Nirbhay at 1000km range with a mini-nuke payload? The "least vulnerable" clause could be fulfilled if the Nirbhay is something like this: JASSM or ASM

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^^rakall - Brahmos 2 hypersonic with a mini-nuke payload? Interesting. It has been mentioned before that Brahmos 2 will be hypersonic, while retaining more or less the same dimensions as Brahmos 1. However, it has also been mentioned that range will remain <300km because we are SDREs onlee. :twisted:

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When in a zoo, don't feed the animals. When on BR, don't feed the trolls.
Ignore an ignoramus for whom ignorance is bliss.

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nor a basic 155mm to begin with Oh but we do. we have denel's work to begin with. And don't be so hung up on 155 mm in any case. Artillery of several calibers has been demonstrated including 155 mm with the M-46 upgrade. I'm not personally hung up on 155mm. It's not like I have a fetish about 6 inc...

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Also, it seems to be using turbo-props wit 3-bladed propellers... I think the mock-up depicted internal combustion units with 2-bladed props? I could be wrong...

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Of course we are using what we have. The issue is that a] the numbers are not enough and b] what we have is not of the calibre that we (the IA) self-avowedly want to standardise on: 155mm.

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For the record, We have developed and mass manufactured 105 mm weapons, created prototype 185 mm weapons in the past, upgunned M-46s , have an upgrade for the Fh-77, mounted denel on arjun which by the way did involve some ToT for the gun itself. Not to mention developed a 120 mm gun for the Arjun ...

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