chackojoseph wrote:It was technological demonstrator Onleeee...tejas wrote:^^^^^ AoA !!! Hopefully the start of something beautiful. ( BTW What happened to Abhay?).
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CJ, just wanted to check something - the domestic consortium is likley to come out with foreign counterparts are consultants/JV partners. Will DRDO+OFB combo go along this route? Because, at least on paper, the Indian+foreign JV can put very interesting specs on the table (but again, I'm worried about the weight parameter). Thanx.chackojoseph wrote:It was technological demonstrator Onleeee...tejas wrote:^^^^^ AoA !!! Hopefully the start of something beautiful. ( BTW What happened to Abhay?).
The Ladakh Scouts of the Army has sought financial assistance from India [ Images ] Inc for re-building the lone Army school in Leh which has been badly damaged by the cloudburst.
The Army school, which caters to nearly 200 students, was hit by hundreds of boulders that rolled down the hill along with slush on the night of August 5. The classrooms are now filled with slush and boulders.
The hostel too has been severely hit. "There has been heavy damage to the school building and infrastructure as well as to our boys and girls hostel," said Commanding Officer Colonel Anil Beniwal.
Phiang is nearly 20 kms from Leh city. "One thing that I would request, if it is possible, that the corporates under their social responsibility scheme could help us. We are in far-flung areas and people here are poor. It will be very good if somebody can come up and help us in that regard," Colonel Beniwal said.
Asked what kind of help is being sought, he said, "Somebody could come here and assess it for us or for themselves and can give us whatever financial assistance and help is required."
Ladakh Scouts, earlier a paramilitary force and now under the Army, has also been hit by the cloudburst.
While one of its jawans has died, two are missing. According to officials, the toll could have been much higher without the rows of trees that formed a barrier between its mess, quarters and the tumbling boulders.
Phiang village has also been hit badly with 17 people losing their lives because of the cloudburst. The force was able to rescue many villagers.
One of the most damaged buildings in the village is a 400-year-old Imam Barah, a portion of which has been washed away.
The two-and-half year-old miracle baby of the Leh cloudburst who survived slush and boulders has been reunited with her father. Deldan Anjmo was found floating in the water by the jawans with her eyes and mouth full of slush early on last Friday.
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Deldan was reunited with her mother late in the night. Tsering Dolma was not able to speak and it was only on Saturday afternoon that she told the doctors that her husband is an Army jawan named Tsering Dorjey posted in Siachen.
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Sitting in the hospital besides his wife and holding Deldan in his lap, Dorjay said, “My love for the Army has increased since they saved my family at a time when I could not.”
The rank insignia may clearly show where this "Warrant Officer" stands in the Army hierarchy. And funny, that this rank only should have an English nomenclature. Generally the NCO and JCO ranks are partly in Hindi, but this "Warrant Officer" stands out as an odd rankChafford wrote: haven't been able to find the WO rank insignia though.
.But the Transfer of Technology to Manufacture it in India would be a Bigger Development than the Sale of the Missile Itself.
Well, Philips, you really do stretch the logic and reasoning to the point of incredulity. Allow me to point an alternate POV:Philip wrote:Q.Why buy the Javelin if desi Nag has been a success,that too under FMS whose terms have been described by the CNS as being "heavily skewed" in favour of the manufacturer? We're told that even Milans are being upgraded/modernised so why buy a "third",sorry 4th ATGM as we've also got Russian ATGMs too? It appears that in order to prevent US weapon systems from losing out to other competitors in tenders,the GOI in its attempts to bow and scrape to Uncle Sam is resorting to this controversiail method.
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Saar ji,rohitvats wrote:The thing is, we don't know the timeframe for Manportable Nag version. Once, it comes on board, I'm sure we'd be at ease with respect to ATGM requirement as well.
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A Cheetah helicopter of the Army Aviation Corps, crashed today morning at the Manipur-Nagaland border, 40 kilometer down-south Dimapur, five km from Vishwema, owing to bad weather, killing two Army officers out of the three onboard. The body of the third has not yet been found. A court of inquiry has been ordered.
Shiv Aroor on Twitter reports that 7 are critically injured. Operations are still on.abhishek_sharma wrote:3 Indian soldiers killed in Congo: NDTV
Unfortunately, no. There were no senior enough Indian officers to have been able to participate in the planning and execution of this campaign. The senior-most Indian officer was (at that time) Col. Cariappa, who held a unit command (though he did have a staff appointment before). Gen Manekshaw would have been a Major at that time, at the most involved in Brigade level operational planning. This exclusion of Indians from higher-level operation planning and execution hurt India heavily in 1962. Fortunately for India, Pak also had the same leadership problem plus their officers also got deeply involved in politics.Singha wrote:I am sure the institutional knowledge of this campaign was used later in 1971 to slap around the bakpacks.
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Pakistani soldiers indulged in heavy firing along the LoC at around 0100 hours, targeting Indian forward posts in Krishnagati sub-sector of Poonch district with rockets and mortars, Brigadier General Staff (BGS), 16 corps, Brig S Dua told PTI.
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"It is ceasefire violation aimed at infiltrating militants into this side of the LoC,", he said adding, "We have lodged a strong protest with our Pakistani counterparts and called for a flag meeting over the incident".old habits die hard
Some posts targeted by Pakistan troops included Kripan, Kranti, Chajja One, and Gorda in Balnoie forward belt of Krishnagati sub-sector in Poonch.
This is for the second time this year that Pakistani troops have fired mortars and rockets. On May 23, they had fired rockets and mortars in Poonch's KG sector.
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In a ceasefire violation on July 6, Pakistani troops had fired at Pindi, Mala Bela and Chak Phagwari border outpost around 2230 killing a BSF jawan and injuring a villager.
Pakistani troops had also fired at the Chak Pagwari BOP on July 5 and killed BSF man Sultan Ali.
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It was followed by the ceasefire violation along IB in Abdullaian BOP in Jammu sector when Pak rangers fired on the Indian BOP and blew up border fencing on May 12.
On May 18, 2 jawans were killed and 3 injured in cross-border firing of Pakistan as they violate ceasefire.
So the Army is now expected to spend 11 crores for the help it's been asked to provide.
Nine hundred jawans and 60 officers of the armed forces are being stationed at those venues. The Army has also spent close to 8 crores renovating its hostels where it was asked to house 2500 artists who are in Delhi to practice for and perform at the opening ceremony.
In return, Urban Development Minister Jaipal Reddy, who heads a group of ministers in charge of managing the Games, has written to the Army on August 11, asking that it waive its Rs. 11 crore bill. Effectively, the Army will have to dip into the Defence fund.
Why Why Why in the name of the good lord should Army pick up the pieces for these losers!!!An audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India faulted Team Kalmadi just a few weeks ago for spending close to 5 crores to renovate the office of the Indian Olympic Committee (IOC) in South Delhi - an office which the Games' organisers occupied for just a few months.
