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- 14 Oct 2021 19:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1793384
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
We are seeing more and more propoganda videos being deliberately leaked by ccp related accounts. I wonder why ADGPI is holding back. We all know there is plenty videos out there of us holding Chinese soldiers captive. What kind of moral science lesson are we holding on to in trying to still keep the...
- 07 Oct 2021 16:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6211
- Views: 1790975
Re: Internal Security Watch
Controversial or not but a demographic change is the only way to solve this issue, else the local rabids will keep running amock. A great step was taken in removal of article 370 but now this has to be followed by Gaza type settlements. These will have to be protected by the army and steadily expand...
- 02 Oct 2021 21:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
- Replies: 1463
- Views: 494998
Re: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/01/erdogan-sick-lead-turkey/ Erdogan Might Be Too Sick to Keep Leading Turkey Evidence is growing that Turkey’s president is ailing—and that could be bad news for the country’s politics. https://imgur.com/CnbktS5.png I'm the event that erdogan drops dead or quits t...
- 26 Sep 2021 02:42
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Terroristan - April 15, 2021
- Replies: 2853
- Views: 821270
Re: Terroristan - April 15, 2021
India treats Pakistan with disdain it deserves at the Unga. The PM almost never makes any mention directly and leaves upcoming diplomats to reply. All this just goes to show that Pakistan means nothing to India now beyond terrorism and infiltration issues. It is a cancer and we treat it as such, whi...
- 21 Jun 2021 02:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2826744
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Have noticed over the past week how we the people of India are in large part responsible for this spread. There is negligible Covid appropriate behavior in flights, markets, malls, offices or anywhere for that matter. I expect the third wave to equally bad as the first one and it to come sooner than...
- 03 Jun 2021 01:50
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
- Replies: 3219
- Views: 2052552
Re: Artillery Corps: News & Discussion
OFB is well responsible for its own poor reputation. Arty is the most basic and critical piece of equipment that we will need in a two front ground war, much more so than gold plated fighters and ultra high speed brahmos. The fact that private sector is still not involved enough and arty is not on o...
- 27 May 2021 14:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India’s Ocean Territories (Andaman Nicobar & Lakshadweep)
- Replies: 267
- Views: 116892
Re: India’s Ocean Territories (Andaman Nicobar & Lakshadweep)
Absolutely, we must relavent old hags like him from our setup. On everything, he had shown more propensity to do damage rather than good
- 27 May 2021 08:53
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2274
- Views: 864378
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
The mig 21 has 4 active squadron in service and all of them are soon to be retired. Yes, there has been a lot of poor planning leading to loss of lives, but we finally have a path forward. Biased articles such as these, peddling foreign wars, should now very much be treated with the contempt they de...
- 05 Mar 2021 19:43
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Project 75I - It Begins
- Replies: 1843
- Views: 589017
Re: Project 75I - It Begins
We find ourselves in a similar situation here to the one in mmrca 2.0 and rafale jets. The solution is out there but babudom will drag their feet for no good reason. We can easily order another 3 scorpene and retrofit them with drdo AIP. Then subsequently focus on developing our own conventional sub...
- 03 Mar 2021 01:20
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Project 75I - It Begins
- Replies: 1843
- Views: 589017
Re: Project 75I - It Begins
If only the peddling of Russian wares were not so blatantly shameless, there would be merit in taking this discussion forward.
- 14 Feb 2021 23:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3023345
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Agree with that, putting an over eager 21 year old harmless student behind bars is boy going to accomplish much apart from damaging the reputation of the government. If they truly are serious about curbing these sort of activities, a much more broader strategy needs to be put in place. This would in...
- 10 Feb 2021 18:01
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Seems disengagement is underway for armoured vehicles on both banks of the lake simultaneously.
Keeping fingers crossed and I'm sure the administration is keeping a hawk eye on those snake oil merchants
Keeping fingers crossed and I'm sure the administration is keeping a hawk eye on those snake oil merchants
- 07 Feb 2021 08:28
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3023345
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Let the farmers rot at the border. Agriculture has held the country back for far too long? It's time to mainstream the activity and mainstream it.
- 04 Feb 2021 11:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3023345
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
With every passing day, the noises will drown out on their own and national and international media will frankly get bored and move on. All reforms come at a cost and honestly, nothing needs reform nor than agri. imagine 50% of the workforce contributing to 18% of the economy. That just screams refo...
- 26 Jan 2021 22:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6211
- Views: 1790975
Re: Internal Security Watch
This will set the Sikh community back 20 years. There will be backlash- in employment, educational institutions, government jobs. I foresee social boycotts, economic pressures by consumers. Thanks farmers of panjab. Enjoy your alcohol and drugs bought with public subsidies. No such thing will happe...
- 26 Jan 2021 20:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 14901
- Views: 3023345
Re: 2021 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Might be an unpopular opinion but agriculture dependency and glorification have held India back for far too long. The entire sector has been glorified without reason, while in truth it is just another commercial activity. There is massive cartelisation, over employment in this sector. These farmer p...
- 25 Jan 2021 19:42
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
China will keep pushing for a quick win of some sort, just to show its audiance that they managed to grab something for all this wasting effort. An amicable settlement will be a huge loss of face for the president and the country and that too a second one, after doklam. One of these minor incidents ...
- 14 Jan 2021 12:03
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 04 January 2021
- Replies: 1533
- Views: 699127
Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 04 January 2021
Huge huge day for Tejas and hopefully the first of many to come. What a long journey it feels like, right from tracking the daily test flights on the Ada website almost a decade back to this day. Many congratulations to the scientists and even to the BRFites who kept the faith all these years. Onwar...
- 01 Jan 2021 19:58
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Pakistan Armed Forces: News & Discussion
- Replies: 2342
- Views: 1022234
Re: Pakistan Armed Forces: News & Discussion Thread
True that they won't make a significant difference in ejection but these component uses also reinforce what we already knew about the substandard manufacturing of these jets. They are likely to have a very low availability rate with extremely high maintenance requirements. The more pakis invest in t...
- 01 Jan 2021 19:54
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
I hope he dies on the operation table because that is probably the only way out of this situation. The hans have no reason to stay in such a desolate area anymore, now that all possible objectives have failed. The only reason they are still there is Xi's ego. While this increases the burden of opex ...
- 01 Jan 2021 19:49
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
- Replies: 4374
- Views: 1431041
Re: J&K Union Territory-2019
A citizen granted domicile was shot dead by terrorists today and I'm not sure that the establishment has taken this seriously enough. If they are serious about making the UT truly secular like the rest of the country, then these acts just cannot happen. It shows that terrorists still have a foothold...
- 03 Dec 2020 09:37
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 832405
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
Even if we have one carrier operational at the time and that seems to be the new strategy now. How much time would it take for that CBG to deploy from say the Gujarat coast to the Malacca straights post receiving emergency deployment orders.
- 28 Nov 2020 11:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Naval Aviation
- Replies: 2818
- Views: 885634
Re: Indian Naval Aviation
This is a disaster and the procurement of additional mig 29 will be even more of a disaster. Young, well trained and highly capable pilots are being lost to the engine issues. Even the CO had to punch out of this junk yard dog not too long ago. At least the mig 21 was a reliable jet and it's attriti...
- 27 Nov 2020 12:17
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Naval Aviation
- Replies: 2818
- Views: 885634
Re: Indian Naval Aviation
The mig 29 has serious issues in reliability, time on station and overall sortie rates. It completely beats me why we are looking to order more of these for our Air force
- 26 Nov 2020 22:15
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
- Replies: 2896
- Views: 832366
Re: CT & COIN Operations in India: News, Images and Discussion
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/nov-26-jk/story-pxBuxz1KvUYNSKPMzIDepK.html Two jawans KIA and attained veergati in an ambush by terrorists in Srinagar. 3 Terrorists escaped in a car and a cardon and search is on to nab them. This may be JeM work to mark 26/11 anniversary. This is disgust...
- 21 Nov 2020 19:06
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Reading the recent TOI article on how the jaish terrorists were planning the attack in Kashmir makes one realize just how readily disposable these random jihad fanboys are. Their life means nothing to their handlers. Like a few people have posted above, we need to go after the paki infrastructure, a...
- 13 Nov 2020 19:53
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
We must look to leverage areas where we have clear superiority against the pukes. The use of stand off weapons like pinaka, air strikes from stand off range, targeting deeper and deeper into pok and increasing the body count of the officer class which cannot be hidden. The losses absolutely need to ...
- 06 Nov 2020 00:57
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2179412
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Hardly makes it any less dumberAditya_V wrote:Every state has passed such laws, no real impact.
- 03 Nov 2020 11:05
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
All talk here of India doing anything in GB is the same hot air as the talk of India marching into Lhasa in the starting days of this thread. You can't have such grand plans when you are making emergency purchases of rifles and clothing to fulfill basic needs. Uri & Balakot had set the bar for ...
- 23 Oct 2020 23:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
We will be evenly matched soon enough. Perhaps IA sees no good reason to disengage and will use the opportunity to build a road and rail network all across the LAC and only when we feel confident that we can out mobilize the Chinese at the border, will we bother to move back. Maybe it'll be 5 or 10 ...
- 30 Sep 2020 12:15
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
- Replies: 5960
- Views: 2330055
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Live fist reporting that we have just successfully test fired a Brahmos ER. Any idea on how much is the extended range.
A 600 km missile will give it some real teeth
A 600 km missile will give it some real teeth
- 29 Sep 2020 20:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1793384
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
Now china can openly announce that it does not recognize the UT of Ladakh. The least we should do in time is an official recognition of Taiwan and noises with respect to Tibet.
- 28 Sep 2020 12:50
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5265
- Views: 1797229
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
A basic acknowledgment of a birthday greeting from the Taiwan president would have gone a long way sending a strong message to China. What did we have to lose anyway.
They already call an Indian state as their own and openly back terrorism from Pakistan.
They already call an Indian state as their own and openly back terrorism from Pakistan.
- 22 Sep 2020 16:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1793384
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
One thing that I cannot get my head around is that if China is such a long term strategic thinking, why are they hell bent on pushing conflict in India, given our deep connections with Tibet and the sheer size and scale of the region. Do they think if it's as that peaceful a country so as to rest as...
- 03 Sep 2020 19:35
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 832405
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
As someone mentioned, thank god for India's natural geography and the A&N islands that present an omni present unsinkable carrier. As I read recently that the GOI intend to further develop the bases on these islands so at least that becomes a tool of strategic advantage and dominance, which are ...
- 31 Aug 2020 12:24
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1604532
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
OSINT accounts on Twitter are hinting towards PLA causalities. Though they should be considered less reliable at best.
- 31 Aug 2020 11:50
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1604532
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
Fresh clashes being reported on the night on 29/30 August between Indian and Chinese troops. I'm sure the details will come in due time but the government has been quick to release a statement.
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- 22 Aug 2020 19:07
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1604532
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
5 pak intruders shot dead in punjab (armed with ak 47, cocaine and currency) trying to enter via the Punjab border, a day after SMQ meets Chinese minister. Seems to be too much to be a coincidence. We will definitely need a long term strategy of border management along both sides. Perhaps more frequ...
- 22 Aug 2020 01:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
- Replies: 2848
- Views: 948497
Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Every two bit 'Anal'-'List' on the Saudi relations https://youtu.be/hJ-3Y8Fz5tQ https://youtu.be/n_jN3DKCodk https://youtu.be/AumpDpXOlXM All trying to put a positive spin and suggesting that Paxitan moving away from Saudi/Unkil axis and towards China/Turkey. If they move away then who will provide...
- 22 Aug 2020 01:15
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
- Replies: 8042
- Views: 1604532
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020
It's true that calling us 'deployed' all along the lac is a strech but I do get the larger point. Winter will throw up a lot of very interesting possibilities. Staying and being capable of fighting in those regions at that time is a lot about the sheer power of will and God knows our men do not lack...