Miscellaneous Pictures - Indian Military

sum · Post by **sum** » 04 Feb 2011 21:11

^^^ Beautiful pics...straight from BRF onto my desktop!!!

nits · Post by **nits** » 05 Feb 2011 11:07

Livefist - FIRST PHOTOS: IAF C-130J At Hindon AFS

ranjithnath · Post by **ranjithnath** » 05 Feb 2011 12:26

a newbie question: why does the drop tank taper towards the rear when it would seem that taper at the forward end would seem less draggy??

krishnan · Post by **krishnan** » 05 Feb 2011 12:40

ranjithnath wrote:a newbie question: why does the drop tank taper towards the rear when it would seem that taper at the forward end would seem less draggy??

Already asked and answered. How are you going to release the drop tank

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 05 Feb 2011 13:29

Kapil Dev Chacha (territorial army)

Dhrus at Siachen

sum · Post by **sum** » 05 Feb 2011 13:39

^^ Love the "Isloo within reach" distance marker!!!!

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 05 Feb 2011 13:59

during 2010 firepower demo, AN32 came in at night and dropped like 10 x 1000lb bombs...does anyone have photo of how this is done? was mentioned that sqdn practises for this role so they must have some permanent training pgm for this.

my theory is bombs are strapped to a parachute dragged sled and released out of the rear ramp using a small drogue parachute that pulls the sled out and no main chute deploys....but I could be wildly wrong.

rohitvats · Post by **rohitvats** » 05 Feb 2011 15:13

^^^I can tell you how they did it in AN-12 - literally kicked the pallet out of the cargo bay, which slides over the roller on the floor of the cabin and out.

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 05 Feb 2011 16:17

Old trick. Slide the cargo on the rails. It will free fall. If you drop at lower altitudes, then you can predict the trajectory. If from higher altitude = AoA.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 05 Feb 2011 16:25

chackojoseph wrote:Old trick. Slide the cargo on the rails. It will free fall. If you drop at lower altitudes, then you can predict the trajectory. If from higher altitude = AoA.

Not AoA. You mean, InshaAllah!

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 05 Feb 2011 16:30

anupmisra wrote:
chackojoseph wrote:Old trick. Slide the cargo on the rails. It will free fall. If you drop at lower altitudes, then you can predict the trajectory. If from higher altitude = AoA.
Not AoA. You mean, InshaAllah!

If you read Jagan's 1965 air war, IAF had practiced it in Hyd. In 1971, it was very effective. The enemy did not know where the ladies are going to fall. So, they kept their head buried in the other soldiers ***. No one dared to put their heads up when they hear the sound of IAF AN-12's.

In Afghan war, the Paki backed militants had same issue. They complained that IAF pilots are manning the planes.

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 06 Feb 2011 17:39

Indian Navy Commando's Board Pirate Mother Ship

hnair · Post by **hnair** » 06 Feb 2011 17:52

chackojoseph wrote:Indian Navy Commando's Board Pirate Mother Ship

now there is a pichhar that can get a nanha-mujahids or two to get lal masjided

rkhanna · Post by **rkhanna** » 06 Feb 2011 18:01

I have a feeling they are not MARCOS. Just a VBSS team.

atreya · Post by **atreya** » 06 Feb 2011 18:17

Beautiful pics, Manu. Specially the Mig 29K pics. Badass, to say the least!

naved · Post by **naved** » 06 Feb 2011 23:27

Some pictures of the C130J Super Hercules

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 14 Feb 2011 13:02

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 14 Feb 2011 13:08

Manu · Post by **Manu** » 14 Feb 2011 13:17

jamwal · Post by **jamwal** » 15 Feb 2011 12:31

Army personnel carrying eatables for passengers stranded at Banihal on Monday.
Picture courtesy: Daily Excelsior

Craig Alpert · Post by **Craig Alpert** » 16 Feb 2011 01:13

Cold as balls out there and none of these guys have any gloves on their hand, WHY? Are gloves not issued? or is it that they don't like wearing them?

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 16 Feb 2011 05:43

Craig Alpert wrote:Cold as balls out there and none of these guys have any gloves on their hand, WHY? Are gloves not issued? or is it that they don't like wearing them?

In India people handling hot food don't wear gloves. Judging from the photos - it appears that these guys have just been transported from a kitchen and one is carrying a thermally insulated hot drink dispenser of a type commonly used in India. Another guy is carrying (on his head) what appears to be a large aluminium cooking vessel usually used to serve hot rice. These guys probably do not anticipate being out in the cold for more than a few minutes - and many people avoid gloves in such situations.

Incidentally one guy - carrying the insulated drink dispenser has a right hand glove and one guy is using his pockets.

Hiten · Post by **Hiten** » 17 Feb 2011 22:27

x-posting from the LCA thread

some pics of the aircraft

http://www.aame.in/2011/02/india-light- ... tejas.html

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 19 Feb 2011 10:14

Indian War Comics now on iPad

Just like Commando comics

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 19 Feb 2011 15:19

A combo of two pictures made on January 24, 2011, shows a Indian soldier from the 1st section 'Les Aigles ' (the eagles) of the 2nd REG (engineering foreign regiment) serving as a soldier with the French Foreign Legion, at Forward Operating Base Tagab-Kutschbach, near Tagab in Kapisa Province, and a notebook with a sentence written by the soldier reading 'I love this army because it gave me a new life'. The French Foreign Legion, a military unit established in 1831, was created for foreign nationals of any nationlity wishing to serve in the French armed forces.

The writing is in Tamil. At the bottom its signed 1CL India.

asprinzl · Post by **asprinzl** » 19 Feb 2011 16:24

Errr...wait a minute. In Tamil script it reads "Inthiya" instead of "India". Is that how it is supposed to be pronounced phonetically?
Avram.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 19 Feb 2011 18:22

^^ Yes.

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 20 Feb 2011 04:38

The Commander of the Royal Air Force of Oman, Air Vice Marshal Yahya Rasheed Al-Juma, along with a delegation, arrived on a Two day visit to the Air Force Station Jodhpur. On arrival, he was received by the Air Cmde Jitendra Kumbhat, AOC, AF Station Jodhpur. A dinner was hosted in honour of the visiting dignitary by Air Marshal PK Mehra, AOC-in-C, HQ South-Western Air Command (SWAC).

During his visit, Air Vice Marshal Yahya Rasheed Al-Juma visited various Squadrons and saw facilities at the AF Station, Jodhpur.

Prasad · Post by **Prasad** » 20 Feb 2011 05:49

asprinzl wrote:Errr...wait a minute. In Tamil script it reads "Inthiya" instead of "India". Is that how it is supposed to be pronounced phonetically?
Avram.

Well 'Indhiya' is closer to how it is pronounced but that is how it is written in Tamil.

Aditya G · Post by **Aditya G** » 20 Feb 2011 17:01

shyamd wrote:

Nice. RAFO uniform is so much like the old IAF khakhis. Beret is virtually identical.

Bihanga · Post by **Bihanga** » 20 Feb 2011 19:47

Very fantastic pics especially that of IAF's transport fleet.

chackojoseph · Post by **chackojoseph** » 22 Feb 2011 14:34

Embraer - ERJ-145 for India images

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Three

shyamd · Post by **shyamd** » 25 Feb 2011 00:27

Indian army soldiers get off from the first of the six, Lockheed Martin C-130 J-30 Super Hercules, to join the Indian Air Force fleet, during an inauguration ceremony at Hindan airbase near the Indian capital on February 5, 2011. Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony handed over the keys of the aircraft to the commanding officer Tejbir Singh, as Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik, US Ambassador to India, Timothy J. Roemer and Chief of staff of the US Air Force, General Norton A Schwartz, also attented the event.

sum · Post by **sum** » 25 Feb 2011 09:12

^^ Minor nitpick: They are IAF Garuds, not IA soldiers.

sevoke · Post by **sevoke** » 25 Feb 2011 09:28

They don't look like Garuds to me, not by their demeanor, color scheme or equipment.

sum · Post by **sum** » 25 Feb 2011 09:49

Well, a minor glance at their right arm should clear the issue. The red "special forces " tag on top right of their arms and the IAF eagle emblem below it shouldn't leave much space for doubt.

Anyways, this pic is of the day C-130J was inducted and closer pics of the same Garuds sitting inside the C130s ( the patches are clearer in those pics) must be floating around in this thread itself..

Rahul M · Post by **Rahul M** » 25 Feb 2011 09:52

>> fact that all have Ak-47s

eh ?

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » 25 Feb 2011 11:06

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

Hiten · Post by **Hiten** » 25 Feb 2011 22:22

NSG Commandos

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22051036/2011.0 ... .in_01.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22051036/2011.0 ... .in_02.jpg

AdityaM · Post by **AdityaM** » 26 Feb 2011 00:35

^ in the 1st pic, the balaclava of the right most front row look like its for an oxygen mask