Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Military

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 23 May 2010 06:13

Bolasani wrote:
Could somebody please identify the birds in images numbers 3 and 6.

My salaams to you saar for putting your money where everyone else's mouth is. Thanks.

3 is a chetak
6 - I have always been intrigued by the huge box like underbelly thingy that 6 carries and I have never been able to identify it although I have seen it a dozen times.

dipayan · Post by **dipayan** » 23 May 2010 06:24

No. 6 is a Beechcraft Super King Air B200 operated by RAN AIR SERVICES

source: dgca.nic.in/caris/reg-Nov07.pdf

dipayan · Post by **dipayan** » 23 May 2010 06:25

ran a google on the Tail number of the a/c

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 23 May 2010 07:06

dipayan wrote:No. 6 is a Beechcraft Super King Air B200 operated by RAN AIR SERVICES

source: dgca.nic.in/caris/reg-Nov07.pdf

Thanks for the Chankian detective work. That allowed me to compare with other pics on the net. This machine does seem to carry a weird rectangular underbelly add-on pod that I have observed many times. I believe the plane resides in the capital of Kerala, Bangalore. The fact that it is taking part in this show (if it is) makes me suspect that our desi skunkworks are using it for some SDRE testing.

Bolasani · Post by **Bolasani** » 23 May 2010 09:02

shiv wrote:
Bolasani wrote:
Could somebody please identify the birds in images numbers 3 and 6.

My salaams to you saar for putting your money where everyone else's mouth is. Thanks.

I am not sure what you are referring to here, but I will take it as a compliment. Thanks.

And thanks Shiv and Dipayan for identifying the birds. The chetak is what I see the most often. I am guessing its some kind of test bed too.

Bolasani · Post by **Bolasani** » 23 May 2010 09:22

The LCH with Dhruv pics though blurry is a great catch.

I need to buy a better lens,

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 23 May 2010 11:00

Bolasani wrote:
I am not sure what you are referring to here, but I will take it as a compliment. Thanks.

And thanks Shiv and Dipayan for identifying the birds. The chetak is what I see the most often. I am guessing its some kind of test bed too.

Compliment. Everyone is talking photos. Only you took them.

I suspect that white Chetak is an HALhelo that circles all the time as a safety bird when there are takeoffs and langings at HAL.

Kartik · Post by **Kartik** » 23 May 2010 12:43

great pics ! good to see plane spotting catching on !

Kersi D · Post by **Kersi D** » 23 May 2010 14:43

shiv wrote: I believe the plane resides in the capital of Kerala, Bangalore.

Capital of Kerala, Bangalore ?????????

K

PS Should I go to my school geography classes ?

rsingh · Post by **rsingh** » 23 May 2010 16:00

Kersi D wrote:
shiv wrote: I believe the plane resides in the capital of Kerala, Bangalore.
Capital of Kerala, Bangalore ?????????

K

PS Should I go to my school geography classes ?

No no you are right. There used to a Baki poster who portrayed himself to be from south India. But as you know "once a Baki always Baki"...........he started shitting around. He maintained that he is from true Indian from Bangalore, capital of Kerala. His cover was blown. Since then this is used as a joke from time to time. So relax

Jagan · Post by **Jagan** » 23 May 2010 17:17

shiv wrote:[ I suspect that white Chetak is an HALhelo that circles all the time as a safety bird when there are takeoffs and langings at HAL.

http://www.rwsi.org/aboutus/ihScene.pdf VT-EIV belongs to the HAL's Rotary Wing Academy. Could be training flights.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 24 May 2010 01:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjACMr8zekw

For the layman's understanding, a good view of SL Airforce MI 17 maintenance activities

MI24 in SLAF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xGie8d ... re=related

Surya · Post by **Surya** » 24 May 2010 06:47

No picture does justice to the LCH

You have to watch the video of it on a large screen

Oh what a beauty - moi in love

madhusudhan_r · Post by **madhusudhan_r** » 25 May 2010 17:33

found another video .. has LCA landing and Hawk taking off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phj4ZchMBMI

Raja Bose · Post by **Raja Bose** » 25 May 2010 22:36

Kersi D wrote:
shiv wrote: I believe the plane resides in the capital of Kerala, Bangalore.
Capital of Kerala, Bangalore ?????????

K

PS Should I go to my school geography classes ?

This link might be of assistance to you (created and maintained by ArmenT):
http://sites.google.com/site/brfdiction ... ore-kerala

Rohit_K · Post by **Rohit_K** » 26 May 2010 00:07

Bangalore, Kerala reminds me of a "Shimla, Occupied Kashmir" statement made by a Paklet in Skyscrapercity - a skyscraper/infra/architecture forum. The Indian members had submitted a banner of Shimla which like the google doodle would stay at the top of the forum pages for 24hrs. As soon as the banner was up, the all knowing TFTA responded here

atreya · Post by **atreya** » 26 May 2010 18:01

Rohit_K wrote:Bangalore, Kerala reminds me of a "Shimla, Occupied Kashmir" statement made by a Paklet in Skyscrapercity - a skyscraper/infra/architecture forum. The Indian members had submitted a banner of Shimla which like the google doodle would stay at the top of the forum pages for 24hrs. As soon as the banner was up, the all knowing TFTA responded here

Sorry, couldn't resist the OT!! This should be put up in the Humour thread

Jagan · Post by **Jagan** » 05 Jun 2010 07:39

From Facebook Indian Army Page

krishna_krishna · Post by **krishna_krishna** » 05 Jun 2010 18:20

PLEASE READ THE THREAD TITLE.

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 05 Jun 2010 18:24

krishna_krishna wrote:Check this out 29 :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwmMzgaW1RM

I believe this has already been linked in the military multimedia thread. This is the "pictures" thread. Please do try and think before posting.

Please also do everyone a favor and write a few words describing what the link is about so if someone is not interested he need not click the link. We are a community here - not random individuals shouting random info to passersby.

rkhanna · Post by **rkhanna** » 05 Jun 2010 20:31

From Facebook Indian Army Page

Here is another one..Anybody have any idea of the Unit.? RR still using TAVORs?

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 10 Jun 2010 17:03

First Three C-130J Super Hercules for India Near Completion at Lockheed Martin Facility

Dmurphy · Post by **Dmurphy** » 10 Jun 2010 21:10

rkhanna wrote:Here is another one..Anybody have any idea of the Unit.? RR still using TAVORs?

2 Questions:

1) When did RR start using Tavors? I thought only the SFF, Paras and the J&K SOG use it.

2) What do you mean by "Still using"? Are they outdated already?

Gaur · Post by **Gaur** » 10 Jun 2010 22:04

^^
RR has been using tavors for many years now.

rkhanna · Post by **rkhanna** » 11 Jun 2010 06:07

Dmurphy wrote:
rkhanna wrote:Here is another one..Anybody have any idea of the Unit.? RR still using TAVORs?
2 Questions:

1) When did RR start using Tavors? I thought only the SFF, Paras and the J&K SOG use it.

2) What do you mean by "Still using"? Are they outdated already?

From my source of information i was told that a couple of specific units within the RR and J&K SOG were given the TAVORs out of the initial test batch purchase to validate them in combat while the SFF tinkered around with them back in their barracks. The TAVORs with the RR and J&K SOG were not supposed to be a permanent fixture..there were for trials and were to be returned to the Special Forces HQ with their report. This was told to me a few years ago..i dont know if it still holds true..so i was wondering if the RR are still deployed with TAVORs

chilarai · Post by **chilarai** » 11 Jun 2010 07:24

with a little change of perspective and lighting these pic1 , pic2

can be made to look TFTA like this

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 11 Jun 2010 14:31

91 Infantry Brigade of the Indian Army visited the French Naval Ship Tonnerre

Check the ship interiors.

rohitvats · Post by **rohitvats** » 11 Jun 2010 15:00

^^^If this ship (or something like this) makes it to IN Service, these fellows from 91 Infantry Brigade will be the cargo it will be hauling.

Amen to that.

Bala Vignesh · Post by **Bala Vignesh** » 11 Jun 2010 17:56

rohitvats wrote:^^^If this ship (or something like this) makes it to IN Service, these fellows from 91 Infantry Brigade will be the cargo it will be hauling.

Amen to that.

Isn't the INS Jalwashva the same category???

rohitvats · Post by **rohitvats** » 11 Jun 2010 19:49

Mistral Class boats are larger than our INS Jalashwa....

Khalsa · Post by **Khalsa** » 12 Jun 2010 02:43

I believe Uncle Putin has ordered one for the Russian Navy as well after the Georgian Conflict

rohitvats · Post by **rohitvats** » 12 Jun 2010 10:53

^^^He wants four of those....they are sorting out the issue of how many will be built in France and Russia. France says 2+2 while Russians want 1+3. Russian General is on record that if Russia has these ships, the Georgian conflict would have ended in 40minutes rather than the 26hours it originally too them.

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 12 Jun 2010 13:12

kaangeya wrote:Manipur is a dangerous place with drug runners and thugs of all kinds. This is probably a swoop on informers and coerced civilian sympathisers (who are thoroughly in the grip of Stockholm's.

You can never be too careful. The thugs may be inside the shack, and these may be lookouts, the thugs may have given the slip and these civilians may be putting up a show to simply keep the cops pinned down. Whatever it is quick action should be taken. I am reassured to see well armed police teams. A show of force is absolutely necessary. I know that we have enough to destroy any rebel or criminal gang many times over. But once in a while the forces must prove that they can do so.

When we were in Manipur during late 1980's, my father used to don civvies to go and come back from work. Once in office, he used to change to IAF Khaki.

Arunkumar · Post by **Arunkumar** » 12 Jun 2010 14:56

rohitvats wrote:^^^If this ship (or something like this) makes it to IN Service, these fellows from 91 Infantry Brigade will be the cargo it will be hauling.

Amen to that.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story ... igade.html

The navy and army have sent a proposal to the government seeking permission to transport a 5,000-strong armed infantry and special forces troops, tanks and weapons - an independent brigade group (IBG) - on foreign shores for active operations. This capability has both been controversial and strategically provocative.

Me thinks they are seriously evaluating mistral class for IBGs.

Gagan · Post by **Gagan** » 12 Jun 2010 15:08

Friends from the two states - manipur and mizoram report that alcohol is banned in these two states.
The result? Kids and the young are doing drugs instead of alcohol. The border with burma is vast and thickly forested.

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 12 Jun 2010 16:00

Gagan wrote:Friends from the two states - manipur and mizoram report that alcohol is banned in these two states.
The result? Kids and the young are doing drugs instead of alcohol. The border with burma is vast and thickly forested.

True, any enforcement is useless unless they keep a lid on Moreh market aka chor bazar.

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 14 Jun 2010 09:06

Guys I have obtained 2 more pictures of Tonnerres Kochi visit.

Here is the helicopter storage hangar ( Image )

Amphibious assault boats section Image

Bala Vignesh · Post by **Bala Vignesh** » 14 Jun 2010 09:54

Are those Gazelles?? The cockpit seems to be an exact copy of the Cheetah...

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 14 Jun 2010 11:25

Bala Vignesh wrote:Are those Gazelles?? The cockpit seems to be an exact copy of the Cheetah...

yes, they are Gazelles. Interestingly this is how you shove in Gazelles into an AN-124. I kept them there as I am very fond of these chopper. I find them cute and funny. You could hide then under your bed too.

Very compact.

rohitvats · Post by **rohitvats** » 14 Jun 2010 13:58

Bala Vignesh wrote:Are those Gazelles?? The cockpit seems to be an exact copy of the Cheetah...

For a simple reason that the original name of Cheetah is Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama - manufactured by the same company which manufactures these Gazelles...BTW, Chetak Hptr is also their product, known as Alouette III