Here's a video I thought you would find interesting. It shows just how fast BMD missiles can be. At around 0:24 mark, you can see the missile's body getting white hot due to its speed!
RE : Phenomenal acceleration of Russia's latest BMD interceptor missile
Holy cow !!!
1) Whats the designation of this interceptor missile & is it a new design ? 2) Looking at the size of it and the launcher carrying vehicle, this not a mobile unit but more of static land based type. 3) Any chance of India going for it along with the S400 in future. 4) Whats the speed and interception range of this BMD missile.
BMD missiles are typically very fast, though not as fast as the ICBMs they try to shoot down. Here is american sprint missile being test launched. You can also see the even faster ICBM RV streak by later in the video.
Many commentators have written a lot about India China relationship and how China has taken over South Asia Indiaa how it is better to agree to BRI, etc., Because China is going to press on its agenda in South Asia no matter what.
They basically conclude that time is not with India and we should compromise especially given the fact that Modi botched up the economy in modi1.0 govt.
To RAD: Check out the last comment in the previous thread on AAM orders. Meanwhile, this is what needs tgo be installed on those An-32Bs that are flying over mountainous terrain under zero-visibility conditions:
To SK: It is the PRS-1M missile, which is a part of the A-135 short-range BMD system. The missile is an upgrade of the older T-6 interceptor—with a detachable rocket-steered warhead. Mopre details here:
1. to me HSTDV is utter waste of tax payer money when brahmos 2/zircon is readily available
2. the news of defects on INS Khanderi, are they true?
3. figured out from where IAF cn its 8 Mig 29s to complete its 6 squadrons these are 69 IAF (CURRENT)+ 34 (RUSSIA) + 15 RMAF (recently sent to premature retirement& stored as active reserve) + 8 Bangladesh AF (AFAIK BAF is breaking its head on how to maintain the 8 jets)=total 126 (full 6 squadrons)
4. heard Russia may give the 45 Mig 29s grabbed from ukraine in crimea to Iran, how true is that?
5. why Iran attack the oil tankers knowing that it will harm iran, thats a stupid act
R-73 RVV-MD can hit both fixed-wing and rotor-wing aircraft from any direction at day or night. Its maximum range is 40km (R-73E had 30km). IIR sensor is of the 2-colour IR/UV-type, has +/-60 degree angle of sensor tilt in azimuth (R-73E had +/-45 degrees). The manoeuvere control is aero- and gas-dynamical. The maximum AoA is more than 70 degrees.
R-77 RVV-SD’s maximum range is 110km (RVV-AE is 80 km), minimum range is 0.3 km. Can engage targets manoeuvring at up top 12 G. Target altitude engagement envelope is between 0.02km and 25km. Fuse is of the laser-n-contact type. Warhead comprises multi-cumulative rods and weighs 22.5kg. Missile weight is 190kg. Length is 3.71 metres. Diameter is 0.2 metres. Wingspan is 0.42 metres. The guidance system is inertial on the mid-course, with radar-correction and an active radar seeker for terminal homing.
To VENKY: And before you can ask, here's the data on BrahMos-2:
The 3M22 Zircon/BrahMos-2 is a hypersonic missile able to accelerate to about Mach 9. It has a range of more than 1,000km and is able to destroy both sea-going and land targets. Zircon is primarily intended to arm seagoing platforms. It can also be launched from a coastal location to hit a warship 500km off the coastline in less than five minutes. It is being developed by the Scientific Production Organization for Machinery-building, or NPO Mash. The body length is estimated at 10 to 11 metres (e32-36 feet), warhead weight at 300 to 400kg (660-880 pounds), and peak altitude along the trajectory at 30 to 40km (100,000-130,000 feet). The baseline naval version has a two- or even three-stage configuration with acceleration at launch and climb achieved through solid-fuel boosters. An air-breathing scramjet takes over in cruise and terminal stages of flight. Reportedly, the first firing trials took place in March 2016, followed by a launch from a naval platform 11 months later, in which development prototypes accelerated to Mach 8. Key technologies for the new missile have been tested on a number of experimental vehicles from TsIAM, (Central Institute of Aviation Motors named after Baranov), and TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Zhukovsky). Zircon’s development benefited from earlier testing of the MKB Raduga’s GELA Hypersonic Experimental Flight Vehicle. Demonstrated at the MAKS 1995 expo, this 15-tonne winged missile reached between Mach 4 and Mach 5. While the Zircon was first displayed at the MAKS 2009 expo, the BrahMos-2 was first shown at the Aero India 2013 expo.
Sir, the Brits have no problem with their universities participating in foreign nation's weapon development of strategic nature? Especially since they don't have a similar weapon ready today for sale, and Russian entities are involved?
TO VSJ: It was such academic institutions of the UK that had trained the first generation of DRDO technicrats back in the 1960s.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: LoLz! From where did the figure of 45 emerge? And why according to you should the Malaysians let gop of their MiG-29s? The SSK problems are real & involve problems with the gearbox & propeller transmission shaft. Russia itself has more than 100 MiG-29 airframes still available for sale after being upgraded.
Sir what about Indian developed ghatak assault rifle ..When it is going to manufactured in large number Or army is going for only AK 203 ... Is prahar inducted or development process is going on... Can Indian air force go for that 100 plus russian mig 29 upgraded for its own short fall...
When pralay battle field missle is going to be tested ... Your article in this edition of Force is very informative about chinese navy nuclear submarine force
hi prasun given the high state of alert it would be shrewd t o order the rrv bmd long range missile . will the russians sell? and integrate on the su-30mki?
the faults in the sub are due to negligence ? its shows how bad the sysytems are in plcae to check such quality issues?how did it pass thru Naval groups inspection ??
*why continue with brahmos 2 if HSTDV is on the horizon
*is the IAF going in for R-37M? if so, will it be used against awacs in similar incidents like the balakot episode? and couldn't the IAF use air launched brahmos to do that?
this link says Russia capture Ukrainian airbase in Crimea where in all probability the mig 29s were captured by Russia as a result the numers went down from 90 to near 30
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: You should have consulted a few other links for determining the exact number of MiG-29s of Ukraine that fell into Russian hands, such as these:
To BHOUTIK: Simply because the HSTDV is in the DISTANT/NOT VISIBLE horizon whereas the BrahMos-2 is on the VISIBLE hotizon.
To RAD & BHOUTIK: How can a longer-range R-37M LRAAM be more advantageous? Instread, it will require a longer period of illumination by the launch aircraft’s MMR, which will give enough time for the launch aircraft to either activate its self-protection EW suite or to take evasive measures. The R-77 has a top speed of more than Mach 4.5 & the Meteor almost Mach 5. So if they have to travel to the edge opf their range envelopes, they will do it in a shorter timeframe, especially against inbound hostile airborne combat aircraft. Hencfe, the essence for BVRAAMs today is higher speeds (through ramjet propulsion) rather than longer range. And as proven on February 27, firing AIM-120C-5s from extreme standoff ranges resulted in ZERO kill probability, since the targetted IAF Su-30MKIs had more than enough time to activate their EL/L-8222 ASPJs, each of which can simultaneously neutralize eight active emitting threats.
To KCHONTA: That’s exactly what happens when an army decides to induct 7.62 x 39 SLRs in 1963, followed by 5.56 x 45 SLRs in the late 1980s, and followed by 7.62 x 51 SLRs in 2016.
Sir, 1) As per your reply to PIERRE ZORIN Army Vehicle Attacked In Jammu And Kashmir's Pulwama, 5 Soldiers Injured (https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jammu-and-kashmir-pulwama-army-convoy-attacked-with-improvised-explosive-device-2054706) Pakistan warning is correct.
2) FATF steps ineffective for Pakistan so far, time to put it on black list https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/fatf-steps-ineffective-for-pakistan-so-far-time-to-put-it-on-black-list/ So FATF black-list Pakistan.
3) Even ACM S. KRISHNASWAMY (RETD) against the old aircraft. Why you always say no such thing as an old/obsolete aircraft.
To SBM: 1) The pylon attachments housing fore & aft MAWS sensors are meant only for Jaguar IS/DARIN-3, Super Su-30MKI & MiG-29UPG, i.e. where sufficient ground-clearance is available so as not to restrict the underwing payload attachment options.
2) Baseline AAM models are in production only in Ukraine. Russia-produced AAMs are all of latest production standard.
This is what happens when some Indians ASSUME that they are blessed with all-knowing wisdom. Jugaad obviously has its limits!!!
An accidental fire at a naval dockyard resulted in damage to a recently upgraded Kilo class submarine. The Navy is now checking critical components in the control room to get it back to functional duty. The INS Sindhukesari, which underwent a Rs 1,197-crore refit and upgrade in Russia and was shipped back in February, suffered the accident when certain indigenous components as well as a US-origin optronic periscope were being fitted onboard. While the submarine got a 10-year life extension upgrade at a shipyard in Zvyozdochka, Russia, a part of the work was to be completed at the Mumbai yard by the Navy, the biggest task being the integration of an L3 Communications periscope that would give it all-weather vision. Sources said the fire took place in the first week of March during welding. While the damage is believed to have been contained and there were no injuries, critical components in the control room were affected by the soot produced by the fire. These have to be individually checked and cleaned before the submarine can be given the all-clear. Officials said the submarine is being worked upon, and it would take at least another month before it can be deemed fit for service after the refit and life extension. Russian and Indian teams have been working on the submarine since the accident and components are being carefully analysed to assess long-term impact of the incident. The Kilo class submarines, named the Sindhughosh class by the Indian Navy, were acquired in the 1980s and have been prone to a number of accidents in recent years as their originally planned service life draws to an end. The INS Sindhurakshak was lost with its crew in an explosion in 2013 while torpedoes were being loaded, while a fire onboard INS Sindhuratna in 2014 led to two personnel losing their lives. Given a shortage of conventional submarines — the Navy currently has nine Sindhughosh class submarines, four Shishumar class and one Kalvari class in service — a plan was drawn up to squeeze some more life out of the Russian-origin fleet. India signed a contract with Russia in October 2015 to extend the service life of four of the boats by 10 years. The refit was not only a life extension but also an upgrade of combat potential.
Hello sirji, Last time my comment got ignored.I hope that won't be the case here:
1.It seems GOI is conducting crackdown against OSINT sources in social media: https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1140553436506861568?s=19
2.As even you posted 2 pics of ISPR bringing police to cricket,we have delusional folks who continuously fall into nonsense of "Sweet talking" of pakistanis: https://twitter.com/ReallySwara/status/1140350518893481984?s=19
To ANUP: 1) How did Pakistan have advance information of this attack if the attack was locally planned & executed by local human resources? 3) He never said that the An-32B should be replaced ASAP. And that’s because these very same aircraft never posed any difficulties between the mid-1980s & the year 2000 when they were flying the very same routes over mountains & seas. All An-32Bs should have been upgraded during the first half of the previous decade itself as per the aircrafts’ mid-life refit schedules. As this was not done, it not the aircraft’s OEM’s or aircraft design’s fault, but the fault is that of the IAF. With sufficient upgrading, such aircraft can last for another 30 years. And if India can obtain sub-systems & components from Ukraine & supply them to Russia for the IN’s 2 new-build Project 1135.6 FFGs, surely then it is equally possible for the IAF to procure An-32B-related components & sub-systems from Russia-based OEMs & supply them to Antonov for the sake of upgrading & refitting the IAF’s An-32Bs. Lastly, ACM Krishnaswamy is not a licenced aeronautical engineer. He is only an aviator & will therefore not be conversant with aeronautical engineering terminologies.
To DASHU: You seem to have missed this figure: As reported earlier, till May 25 this year, 33 locals had joined various terror groups, while 200 were recruited in 2018.
This clearly indicates a drastic reduction in the recruitment of locals, since all those Mullahs & Muftis of the Jamaat-e-Islami & the APHC factions involved brainwashing the local youth during the weekly Friday afternoon sermons in the Masjids & Madrassas of the valley have been apprehended & are now behind bars.
To SOIKOT BANERJEE: 1) The S-400 contract was inked last year itself & there’s no going back, rest assured.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) If it is against the law of the land, then by all means such sites must be blocked.
2) Such folks can find it affordable to be delusional because they tend to have a rather over-simplistic definition of life & their mortal existence & hence always ASSUME that one size fits all. Such folks always revel in perceptions about how the world ought to be (thereby gaining entry into the delusional category), instead of adopting the pragmatic approach which calls for planning based on what the world is most likely to be in the days ahead. These folks simply shy away from understanding the nature of the beast, which is that every Pakistani has since October 1948 been taught throughout his/her schoolgoing years that India regardless of their respective religious faiths are ‘Kaafirs’ & are therefore inferior in all respects. This is reflected in a comment made yesterday by a Pakistani PTI MP during this talk-show (watch from 0:22:21 till 0:22:50):
The same goes for the so-called suit/boot-clad intelligentsia of Pakistan (watch from 0:34:00 till 0:34:53):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIJ2B85YuU
There is only a very tiny minority of Pakistanis inside Pakistan today who take the trouble to remain objective in their views/assessments, and the same situation prevails within Pakistani communities living abroad. The bulk of the Pakistanis who have been tutored & fed with gross distortions & revisionist versions of historical events remain brainwashed & if such folks constitute the ruling class of Pakistan, then only a thoroughbred MORON can be expected to harbour illusions about Pakistan normalising ties with India.
The perils of ASSUMING that Indians are blessed with all-knowing wisdom:
The Navy's 10 Type 877EKM Kilo-class submarines were all bought off-the-shelf from Russia & thereby the Indian Navy never possessed any design data for such submarines. It was in 2012 that some 'Smart Alec' within Navy HQ came up with the idea of installing US-supplied optronic periscopes (from L-3 KEO) on such submarines. But this option became unimplementable after April 2014 when the US imposed sanctions against Russia. Hence, a US-built periscope could never be sent to any Russian shipyard for installation on-board an Indian Navy-owned submarine that was to undergo a mid-life refit there. So what next? The 'Smart Alec' within Navy HQ decides to do the installation work in a Navy-owned Dockyard with Indian Navy engineering personnel. But how could they undertake such work when the design/engineering drawings of the submarine were not in the Navy's possession? The 'Smart Alec' then decides to take the risk of cutting open the submarine's coning tower & the inner hull sections for installing the periscope & then welding all the torn hull-sections back. All said, this was thus a 'trial-and-error' approach that was destined to produce disastrous results. And that is exactly what happened at the Indian taxpayer's expense!!!
A similar incident took place in the previous decade when the Indian Army procured four TPQ-37 Fire Finder counter-Battery radars from Raytheon of the US. Some 'Smart Alec' then within Army HQ decided to incorporate indigenously produced tyres on the wheels of the trucks housing the radars. But when the indigenous tyres were shipped to the US for being fitted to the rims of trucks' wheels, it was discovered that the tyres were incompatible with the rims. So what next? At far greater costs, the dimensions of the rims of the wheels were changed & new rims were manufactured, all just to accommodate the indigenous tyres!!!
Isko kehte hai jarrorat se jyaada hoshiyar banna....btw would love to know their names who are bestowed with such vast pool of knowledge, of course if u want to share....
Interesting innovation: Using the CPU of the IRST sensor as a common processor, the nose-mounted IRST sensor can now be networked with MAWS sensors to achieve 360-degree hemispherical IRST capability, which in turn can now employ conformal DIRCM apertures to shoot laser beams at all types of incoming guided AAMs & SAMs, thereby doing away with countermeasures dispensers & towed decoys:
To SRINIVASA NANDURI: LoLz! I had already exposed the writer of such FAKE NEWS earlier as being someone who revels is delusional speculation & spreading destructive rumours. This was later conclusively proven by her own Editor, who, while speaking on the same subject, had quoted Op-Eds written by Dr Husain Haqqani & Naila Inayat, but had refrained from quoting the stories written by his own editorial staff! What this Lady Staffer doesn't understand is that in foreign policy matters, there is no such thing as climbing down or stepping back. And like I had stated earlier, this lady staffer has a penchant for writing on how the world ought to be, instead of focussing on what the world is most likely to be in the days ahead. She is also the one who had stated on a TV channel 2 years ago that the US & Russia were tens of thousands of miles apart (she was obviously unaware of the Bering Straits)!!!
Hence, it is now more than ever imperative to expose the originators of patent falsehoods & their malign intentions.
Meanwhile, more revelations on the pathetic state of Gilgit-Baltistan:
on the article “Export or perish”, MoD warns private defence firms
idrw.org .Read more at India No 1 Defence News Website http://idrw.org/export-or-perish-mod-warns-private-defence-firms/ .
it clearly comes out that the govt blatently is siding/pussy footing DPSU's while threating private sector. why the hell should the pvt sector get itself involved in defence.. Also why does neither FCCI or CII question / take the govt to task on being baised towards DPSu's
- Anything interesting in paris airshow for the indian armed forces? - why is LCA not on display while JF 17 is in the paris airshow
Sir, 1.is it possible for the Indian Navy to order more mh 60r's for its NMRH requirement in addition to the 24 mh-60r now being processed? 2.how many sig 716 do you think will end up with the Indian Army? 3.Why is it that the land based barak-8 is getting delayed? When do you think the orders will be placed? 4.do you think the drdo tapas uav will get inducted in the armed forces? seems that the each service is pushing a proposal to procure 10 mq-9 uav's each? 5.when do you think the contract for additional Rafales will be signed?
-Pakistan seems to have a very formidable number of Tanks and (light, medium and long range) Artillery, considering IA Tanks and Artillery will be spit between Chinese and Pakistan borders. How many years will it take (if budget permits) for IA to get a decisive edge?
-Does the PA still presently have a deployment ratio of 54.6%, while the resting and re-equipping ratio is 12.7%, and the remaining 33% is undergoing the training cycle? Is there still 140,000 PA soldiers deployed on the Afghan border? Whats the current state of the PA?
-5 CRPF officers killed in Anantnag, and more terrorist attacks in Pulwama. Will there be any response or is the GOI waiting for 40+ security personal to die before launching a response again?
-Is that true Prasun? Does Dhanush out-range any towed gun or howitzer in the Pakistan Army’s arsenal?
"Importantly, it also outranges any towed gun or howitzer in the Pakistan Army’s arsenal by a significant margin."
"Indeed, the Dhanush makes outranged Pakistani artillery units more vulnerable to Indian counter-battery fire, while itself staying out of reach. Dhanush’s longer range and high rate of fire will also make it useful in defeating localised Pakistan Army’s offensives in sectors of the LoC where the terrain favours the Pakistani side."
o JUST_CURIOUS: And why was an identical warning not issued to the DPSUs? Such step-brotherly treatment can only result in chaos & anarchy. And why did that MoD bureaucrat encourage the private-sector companies to increase their workshare as sub-contractors to the DPSUs? Hence, it looks like the MoD ‘s new RM is still being led by the nose by the MoD’s bureaucrats. And why should a sub-standard & sub-optimal LCA attract anyone’s attention? And here’s what is interesting at this year’s aerospace show at Le Bourget:
Worldwide, AIFVs/ICVs are developed in such a way that their performance parameters are synchronised with those of MBTs. In India’s case, which is the benchmark MBT? T-90S or Arjun Mk.1A or Arjun Mk.2? Or the FRCV? When there are no cleare answers to this question, then naturally there will be no specific answers to the question of a definitive FICV’s performance parameters, leave alone its series-production. And that is exactly why I have repeatedly suggested that what the IA requires are Heavy Fire-Support Vehicles like the BMPT Terminator, which can be seamlessly be integrated with the IA’s MBT fleet of T-72s & T-90s. Only then can the BMP-2 ICVs be upgraded to battlefield survivability standards that are acceptable to the IA.
To BENO: 1) There’s no available funding for additional 10-tonne NMRHs since various other procurement projects are already running about 10 years behind schedule. 2) That depends on the quantity specified by the IA HQ & its HQ Northern Command. 3) It is not delayed at all. It is the series-production capacities that are limited in India. 4) Tapas as of now is just a technology demonstrator & it is at least a decade away from entering service, that is if its developmental cycle is completed at all. 5) By next year, not this year for sure.
To THE HUNDRED: You are ASSUMING that all the PA’s hardware will be deployed against India. Situation is now wholly different sibce the Durand Line is not hotter than ever. PA’s deployment footprint is now greater than ever, in fact more than 60% along both the eastern & western fronts, as well as for internal security duties. And I had already mentioned that long-ranges for field artillery howitzers don’t mean anything at all if there are no corresponding long-range airborne battlefield surveillance platforms like JSTARS-type & HALE-UAV platforms. And over mountainous terrain, even the IA’s existing FH-77Bs can attain ranges of 41km as was the case in 1999 throughout northern J & K. Therefore, only a MORON will claim that the Dhanush can outrange the PA’s existing field artillery howitzers along the LoC.
To KAPIL: The shots within the FATF are called by the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan & Indonesia, and not by China or Malaysia or Turkey or even India.
Do we know how many PA units are actually deployed on the Durand Line?
Main reason for the question is that few years ago PA started transferring T-59s to FC as well as 122mm artillery. At the same time there where reports that they were planning to raise 90 further FC wings. I am not sure the size of each wing?
- Hence, it looks like the MoD ‘s new RM is still being led by the nose by the MoD’s bureaucrats -
I don't think a really optimistic and realistic person like you would have expected anything different from this "Kadi Ninda" guy as DM. Real googly is FM which can go either way only time will tell.
DRDO's HSTDV project being a multinational R & D effort, as you mention, a question arises. Who is the IPR rights holder in this case for the HSTDV - the hypersonic missile. Is it DRDO or all the entities that you mentioned?
I think time has come for India to take a real tough stance against Malaysia and its thug PM Mahathir. The old fart is just out to set a world record for being the oldest and continuing goon on the "throne" - a know all that like a wart will never be fully eradicated. Malaysians are just as stupid to believe him and why not after all they believe Pakistan too....
US drone shot down by Iran, Trump's tweet after it, US forces already deployed in region.... (1) Can a weak Iran take on it if it breaks out? Am asking coz Iran has nothing much to fight with the US for good enough duration... If they have then do tell about it sir.... 2) India's role in it if war breaks out?? 3) Pakistan at loss or profit? 4) do u blv that Iranians have already developed a good nuclear bomb? If yes then in case of war... If they see getting badly defeated, possibility of nuclear strike on US n it's forces in range of its missiles??
Sir has this decision been taken for project 75I submarine... Sir if indian shipyard can not produce scorpion submarine after so many years how new ship yard gonna do this... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY85hP8Z0Qg&list=PLVOgwA_DiGzq0uDefnE7KGNq06vtdaD7s&index=2&t=0s Security Scan - Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HSTDV )
Looking at budgetary constrains which are naval projects gonna get signed this yr... Hope Sea gurdian ...24NMRH and next batch of Project P8I ... What are the chances of Modi 2.0 to go for CDS How indian air force going to increase its number and addition of bramhos in future nirbhoi And other air launch PGMs and glide bombs will surely increase air force capability.....
Hi Prasun, There was a missile test from a Su-30MKI yesterday. It was definitely an air-to-air missile and not a routine test. A series of tests are planned.
Does this paragraph approach the truth? Particularly the RVV MD and RVV SD?
"It is believed that the missiles that it has been testing at the eastern base are RVV-MD short-range missiles, RVV-SD medium-range missiles, and RVV-BD beyond visual range missiles - the next generation of Vympel’s air-to-air missiles.?
To MATTHEW: More than 250,000 PA personnel are deployed west of the Indus River & are facing the Durand Line, as per several Pakistani MPs who had been i8nterviewed in the recent past & whose video-lonks I had already posted. Only a quarter of the FC Wings have been raised & those Wings are all meant for policing within the erstwhile FATA & since they are all recruited from the local tribal populace, their allegiances are first & foremost with the tribal clans hailing from FATA & hence they are not trusted by the PA. Thus, the FC can never replace the PA because the latter’s role is frontier domination & counter-insurgency, not policing.
To KANE: The DRDO is the prime IPR owner for the HSDTV platform.
To PIERRE ZORIN: All that India has to do is drastically reduce her Palm Oil imports from Malaysia & proportionally increase her Palm Oil imports from Indonesia. Malaysia is also pissed off by India’s decision to create a joint naval task force with Indonesia (HQed in Sabang, Sumatra) for patrolling the Malacca Straits. I knew about this more than a year ago & therefore was shocked when India decided to send an IAF contingent to the LIMA expo along with tweo Tejas Mk.1 L-MRCAs—an utter waste of the Indian taxpayer’s money!
To BHOUTIK: Why are you so surprised? In any case the Bangladeshis are pissed off with China because of the latter’s unstinted support for Myanmar on the Rohingya issue. But Bangladesh had it coming, since its non-Muslim minority population too has had to seek refuge elsewhere since the early 970s itself due to majoritarian atrocities inflicted on the minority non-Muslim communities. So this is perhaps Allah’s way of dispensing justice by ensuring that what goes around, comes around. But despite all this, China remains hell-bent on maintaining its influence over Dhaka while at the same time trying to undermine India’s influence in both Bangladesh & Myanmar. And that’s why Beijing has off late been trying to resurrect the BCIM regional cooperation programme & link it to the Sino-Myanmar CMEC corridor. At the same time, what has gone unreported in India is that China had last May sponsored some attacks by local Muslim Arakanese against the India-developed port of Sittwe in order to subvert the India-Myanmar Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport/Trade Corridor project. It was then that both India & Myanmar jointly launched OP Sunshine-2 against China-supported insurgents within Myanmar’s Saigang region like ULFA & NDFB & NSCN-K, which resulted in several of the insurgent camps being destroyed through aerial straffing by Myanmar’s Mi-35P attack helicopters, while those that had managed to flee to Bhutan (via Arunachal Pradesh) have since been rounded up & have been handed over to India.
Interestingly, Bangladesh recently procured 250kg LS-6 gliding PGMs from China’s CATIC for its F-7BGIs, while Myanmar is finalizing a deal to procure Spice-2000 PGMs for its FC-1 L-MRCAs. But Myanmar wants RAFAEL to integrate the Spice-2000s to the FC-1s without making any changes to the FC-1’s weapons management system, i.e. it does not want China to come to know anything about the integration methodology know-how or the effectiveness of the Spice-2000.
And also try to analytically figure why all of the sudden the IAF decided to begin using civilian airports throughoput the North East & WB. Was the IAF responding to a crisis or is it preparing for an impending crisis:
To DASHU: So as you can figure it out from the above explanation to BHOUTIK, your’s truly has been rather busy off late in conducting the chowkidaari of the Chowkidaars.
To ASHISH GAUTAM & MOHAN: Great! It’s a call to arms at last! Here’s the info on the shootdown of the US Navy’s MQ-4C Triton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpU0OZ6R40 1) The US will definitely retaliate by perhaps that IRGC air-defence site that had shot down the HALE-UAS. 2) India won’t have anything to do or say about such incidents. 3) Loss for Pakistan since this will increase the prospect opf Sunni-Shia sectarian strife inside Pakistan. 4) No, they haven’t as yet. Iran is neither an industrialized nor any industrializing country. Just look at the sheer quantum of manufactured products they import.
But what I am far more worried about are the antics & characterless behaviour of the ‘Pappu’ MP in Parliament, as displayed yesterday:
I don’t feel sorry for him at all, but rather for the nitwits of Wayanad who elected such a brain-dead person to represent them in Parliament. Yeh nikammaa apne hi purvajoh ka naam mitti mein milaa rahaa hai! Is naalaayak koh to abhi ke abhi chullu bhar paani mein doob marnaa chaahiye!!!
To BUDDHA: Really? So time to feast on Roshogollahs, is it? Arey bhaayaa, how many times will Project 75I be swung from the revolving door, starting from RFI & then a never-surfacing RFP & now the EoI? So, kindly rest assured that only an utopian JALEBI is being cooked, the kind of which never gets cooked elsewhere in this world. And talking of this world, do watch these:
Exctraterrestrial Symbols & Binary Codes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDcYeW80KxQ
George Adamski’s UFO Sightings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIiIdh3khs
And do read these:
https://steiner.presswarehouse.com/sites/steiner/research/archive/theosophy/theosophy.pdf (about the recycling of human souls)
To SBM: LoLz! What is meant by the term ‘definite’? If you have some images or videoclips of such a ‘test’ then can you kindly share with the rest of us here? Then there are the other questions that will help provide answers for your questions. For instance, weren’t the RVV MD and RVV SD AAMs first revealed at the MAKS-2009 expo? If yes, then would it not be logical to accept that such AAMs have long been integrated with members of the MiG-29 & Su-27/Su-30 families & therefore no test-firings or user-trials are reqd? Is it also not true that annual firings of AAMs & other guided PGMs by the IAF are always carried out at either Pokhran or Surya Lanka & not at Balasore? Is it also not true that the Union Budget for FY 2019 has not yet been presented in Parliament? And if not yet presented, then can we accept that the budget has not been approved & by consequence the MoD has yet to receive the funds reqd for procuring the RVV MD and RVV SD AAMs? And lastly, has anyone from Russia ever stated or shown that the RVV-BD LRAAMs have been cleared for use by members of the MiG-29 & Su-27/Su-30 families?
To BHOUTIK: Ah! The never-ending torret of those among 130 crore Indian citizens who prescribe how the world ought to be, instead of how the world is most likely to be!
Claim: India's stand on the issue has been that the present ground position of the opposing troops be marked and maps and agreements drawn. Also, that these maps and agreements are honoured and no violation of the positions thus marked takes place. Pakistan should have no problem in agreeing to this fair proposal. Subsequently, the issue can be taken forward. As for the remaining issues, it may be possible to find a workable solution for the Sir Creek. The third issue concerns Kashmir, which can definitely be put off for the time being and tackled at a later date. Reality: Pakistan has NEVER agreed since 1989 to any follow-on delineation of the LoC on maps & since 2008 has insisted that both Siachen & Sir Creek issues be resolved TOGETHER. And since last year, PM IAKN has been insisting that the Kashmir issue be resolved first & foremost. In India’s case, Siachen is no longer an issue of dispute at all since it is firstly, part of the overall issue of PoK’s return back to India as prescribed by UNSC Resolution No.47, & 2) the Karachi Agreement clearly states that any undelineated area like no man’s land or unoccupied territory (which the Baltoro & Siachen Glaciers were prior to April 1984) within J & K belongs to India due to the binding legality of the Instrument of Accession. I had explained all this here:
Claim: India's stance that talks and terrorism cannot go hand in hand runs counter to the very idea of reconciliation. Reality: And how exactly can anyone reconcile with irreconcilables? By giving it to the self-righteous demands of the latter? Like the USSR did to the Afghan Mujahideen & later ended up self-destructing within 3 years? Like the world reconciled with the breakup of Yugoslavia & gave cause for celebration to the global jihadis who then believed that their jihad was unstoppable anywhere because Islam was destined to be the world’s only & best religion? Didn’t that spur the Jihad inside J & K in the 1990s & also lead to 9/11 & armed revolts in Indonesia, Thailand & The Philippines? Lt Gen Harwant Singh ought to read all about ex-ISI DG Javed Nasir if he wants to understand the nature of the best.
Claim: There have been palpable indications that Imran Khan is moving in the direction of dealing with terrorists operating in Pakistan and tackling the spread of radicalisation in the country. Pakistan has travelled so far down the path of terrorism that this tap cannot be shut all too suddenly, nor that easily. Reality: The reality is exactly the opposite. IAKN is the ultimate radical & revisionist. And that’s how he has been misrepresenting factoids, like these:
Since he has also claims that the Riyaasat-e-Medina has been Islam’s greatest gift to the world, by implication he states that 1) everything before the dawn of Islam was in state of darkness where barbarity was the norm & therefore there was no civilisational existence anywhere else before the arrival of Prophet Mohd. 2) Islam is the world’s pre-eminent religion & therefore only Muslims are divinely endowed with the best qualities/traits. I suppose then that the day is not far when IAKN will order the PAF to bomb to smithrens the sites of Harappa, Mohenjo Daro & Taxila because they dated back to pre-Islamic existences & are therefore they represent grossly inferior human settlements not worthy of preservation (like the Afghan Taliban had destroyed Gautam Buddha’s statues in Bamiyan).
And if Pakistan can ensure ZERO infiltration of Jihadis into Xinjiang since 2001, then what prevents it from achieving a similar feat along the LoC & IB? Is it then common-sensical to grasp/grab Pakistan’s hand & keep holding it even if Pakistan claims this to be the only option available to India while at the same time Indian citizens continue to die year after year, while India waits in vain for Pakistan to acquire the capacities necessary for curbing anti-India terror incidents? Such offers/excuses have been peddled since late 2003 with no end in sight. Anyone accepting such an option is only being delusional & living in a state of denial.
Claim: A graduated realisation appears to be dawning on Pakistan that China is merely interested in its own game plan against India and using it as a proxy, driving it into more and more debt. Reality: China is the ONLY foreign investor for Pakistan today & its use of Pakistan as an anti-India proxy suits Pakistan’s ruling elite just fine because Pakistan’s two-nation foundational ideology & national security state’s nature can be declared a success only after the destruction of the diametrically opposing formula, i.e. the all-inclusive democratic welfare state of India. And all this is written down in history/religious textbooks prescribed for all schoolgoing Pakistan children & college-going Pakistani undergraduates.
Is ex-Pakistani Federal Finance Minister Ishaak Darr seeking political asylum in the UK? Will he succeed, in case he has crucial documentation about Pakistan's nuclear WMD arsenals & if he wants a tradeoff deal to secure his safety in the UK? Is this related to the earlier FGCM of a retired PA Lt Gen & a Retd PA Brigadier? Is the ongoing visit of the PA's COAS to the UK related in any manner to such developments?
And where was the IN's much-touted Gurugram-based Information Fusion Centre when this had happened:
-Has the FATF meet happened ? and has pakistan again been saved from the blacklist by turkey & other. if so Turkey too needs to be shown its place.question is how? -bet you will agree to this sorry state of affairs and possibly add more to it :) http://idrw.org/aiming-for-the-stars-but-cant-even-make-a-chip/ - Another instance of Pak-china collusion espically on globally banned ammo http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/steel-bullets-used-by-terrorists-in.html If india can't nail pakis on the following basis in FATF then shame on our lobbying prowess..
You need only 3 objecting countries to oppose a decision and 15 agreeing countries to support a decision. The three countries who objected are the usual suspects: China, Malaysia and Turkey - in favor of pakistan.
1. really 'I don’t feel sorry for him at all, but rather for the nitwits of Wayanad who elected such a brain-dead person to represent them in Parliament. Yeh nikammaa apne hi purvajoh ka naam mitti mein milaa rahaa hai! Is naalaayak koh to abhi ke abhi chullu bhar paani mein doob marnaa chaahiye!!!
then what about crown jewels like sakshi maharaj, pragya singh thakur, raja singh, giriraj singh, tajinder bagga. i guess those who elect them should be sent gas chambers as per you, isnt it
2. btw it appears IRGC may well succeed in recovering this drone too which almost intact in 1 piece except the right wing (as per pic), its a big embarrassment for USA 180 m lost
3. while i think India should grab Sindh i also feel that Baluchistan should merge with India, reason is simple if it tries to remain independent afghanistan,iran, pakistan will try to pin prick it endlessly, so best option for it as per me is to stay with india
4. i also think India must recover entire Akshai Chin from China bcoz AFAIR couple of decades ago i read that area may have manganese and rare earth deposits
Thank you sir , putting light on Pakistan' duplicity.
History is for reference and by referring i see similar pattern
Early 1900's Jews were killed by Hitler and no one stood up until the madness hit their shores. Early 2000's and still continues: Indians (regardless of any religion) were/are getting killed by Pakistan . No one paid heed to India's concern until terrorism was felt every where
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_India. 99% origins from Pakistan
Because of international pressure and not self realized , pak continues its policy of kill indians.
As a sane human, every body wants peace but reality is different - In practical world all carnivores are caged.
Lets consider another hypothetical scenario , let's say India yield Kashmir considering peace. Will pakistan stop the terrorism , no , instead pakistan military/'polictical' leadership will think it is because of their military and braveness that India yielded. Contrary they will pursue the policy even stronger and under different name.
The pakistan military / political leadership success is only india centric : eat ; sleep ; conquer India (or) kill indians by any means; repeat.
Conclusion : Pakistan is national security state and for them peace lies if they suceeed to deliberately kill india as nation .So India must stand up very strong against this policy . In this game of chess 'extending friendship' is a passive move and the outcome instead will only create more threats.
It is time for us to stand up . Yes there will be blood shed but it is now or never
Hi Prasun, Could not agree more regarding the Claim vs Reality. Everyone just plays expert without analysing any facts or case study. Unfortunately when things like these come from some one connected to defence its very sorry thought and the halfwit media will run their propaganda make every one believe in it. Thanks for the informative once again please continue to bring the facts in light.
Yesterday you said - Myanmar is finalizing a deal to procure Spice-2000 PGMs for its FC-1 L-MRCAs. But Myanmar wants RAFAEL to integrate the Spice-2000s to the FC-1s without making any changes to the FC-1’s weapons management system
Is it even possible? Can Israel integrate its weapons on a Chinese aircraft ? They don't have the codes, isn't it ?
What do you make out of this video. Now will we have a sikh secessionist movement on our hands. WHo do you think these people could be ? some young men having some fun, or somebody motivated by ISI. Over the last few years the khalistani movement seems to be gaining ground, and there is a lot of noise over it....something compeletely unthought of even like 6-8 years ago. And nobody seems to be doing anything about it. what's the solution to this problem.
To JUST_CURIOUS: LoLz! But I have good news for you, which is that this time the FATF’s final decision-making is this October in which the world’s major powers (excluding China) who really matter within FATF (because it is these North American & European powers whose banking & financial transaction machineries are used by Pakistan) are determined to call Pakistan’s bluff once & for all. Countries like China or India or Russia really don’t matter within FATF since their currencies are not used by Pakistan for any financial transaction. And it was Indonesia, not India, which brought Pakistan’s case in front of FATF.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) Absolutely, for there are no exceptions. The social contract entered into between any ruling govt & its citizens dictate that the rule of law be applied on an equal basis on everyone. And BTW, here’s another case of despicable attudes displayed by the RASCAL:
I have a feeling that if his attitudes get exposed in this manner, he will soon get highly depressed & commit suicide, thereby following on the footsteps of all those whom he had in Parliament as being victims of majoritarianism! And the INC will have yet another martyr for whom yet another family memorial will have to be built within Delhi’s real estate at the Indian taxpayer’s expense. 2) Once any piece of man-made hardware touches salt water, it is a permament loss & nothing can be replicated or analysed, rest assured. 3) But the issue here is that there is no clarity among Baloch separatists on what an independent Balochistan should look like, Balochis reside not only in Pakistan, but also in bordering southeastern Iran & southeast Afghanistan. 4) Even the Chinese don’t inhabit in more than three-fourths of Aksai China because the terrain there is inhabitable.
To VOICEOFTHENEGLECTED & THE RAT: Interesting reads:
To PRRANSHU YADAV: A new class of principal surface combatants, like the NGMVs & NGCs, for starters, just like the Russian Navy, which began the Kalibre LR-LACM deployments on guided-missile corvettes.
To VIKRAM GUHA: Of course it is possible, just like the Litening LDP & Crystal Maze (PopeyeLite) PGMs were integrated with the Mirage-2000s back in the previous decade without accessing their closed-architecture avionics suites, thereby doing away with the need for source-codes.
To VIVEK: The answer is simple: raise six tailor-made IBGs (each of Division-strength) optimised for capturing the Kartarpur Corridor, Nankana Sahib & Umarkot & let these IBGs engage in high-profile exercises along the Western front. This & only this will send the right message across the border.
Sir would you like to comment on these too What this present India today it’s a sham democracy where majoritarian ruling over minority no questions asked?
Prasun sir your assessment about IRGC shooting down global hawk is highly anticipated....BTW does IAF has any such capability to shoot down HALE UAV....and 3 Khordad SAM system has any Russian connection
BTW what impending crisis could be expected, for that IAF is using civilian airfields at dum dum, andal and other north eastern areas....any strikes by Bangladesh and Myanmar against each other ??
1) Sputnik news says we tested R37 AWACS killer, whereas initial reports said it was R73 sraam validation without clarifying whether it was newly delivered or from existing stockpile. Sputnik usually is propaganda,so which is it?
2) Same with the latest deal for R77 and R73, Russians said they were "willing to sell longer" range ones now being labelled as R77ER coming up, whereas i see IAF expressing satisfaction with current models and ordering again.
3) naval accident-- again, seems like a far higher rate than global average, but what continues to ail navy?
CBI has registered a case on Pilatus bribery case. Now which way will BAT go ?
HAL seems to be more interested in getting purchase commitment from IAF. IAF was pulled up by CAG for the same issue (PO without product) in IJT case.
HAL now says HTT engine needs modification , board will not release PO on engine manufacturer without commitment from IAF. How serious is this modification ? Do performance/certification tests need to be conducted again after modification ? HTT is a copy of US BAT Texan Mk II that is a derivative of Pilatus 9. is it not ?
How about IJT, HAL keeps spinning some news on new design. Will it ever be complete ? It too has engine related issues.
We talk of 5th gen gen, when we cannot get a BAT straight. Maybe IAF should go ahead for addln. 38 numbers Pilatus. Appoint TATA aerospace for MRO .
To RON: LoLz! It is interesting that all those involved or affected are alleging various conspiracy theories but no one is even hinting at any chances of miscarriage of justice, i.e. the legal verdict was based entirely on the strength of evidence presented & justice was done. Secondly, what is happening now on the legislative front are attempts to correct all the wrongs of the past, i.e. like certain minorities enjoying far greater rights than the majority, like Muslims enjoying the right to marry 4 times, creation of Sharia Courts & Madrassas for the Muslims, the annual Haj pilgrimage subsidies—all of which were/are in direct contravention of India’s secular status. And finally, there are those who tend to confuse the entire issue by presenting revisionist narratives like this:
The writer of this distorted & factually incorrect Op-Ed needs to be asked whether the rights of Muslims to marry 4 times, creation of Sharia Courts & Madrassas for the Muslims, & distribution of annual Haj pilgrimage subsidies were bestowed/started in independent India after May 2014 or after January 1950.
To AMIT BISWAS: There’s no need for my assessment since the facts have been explained in great detail here:
The SAM used for shooting down the Triton (and not Global Hawk, as some ‘desi’ patrakaars are claiming) was a Kub/Kvadrat, and not anything else. And as for the IAF’s enhanced vigilance throughout Northeast India, it likely has to do with either an impending or a pre-planned military coup in Bangladesh, probably inspired by the last attempted coup in Turkey by the Turkish Air Force.
To KAUSTAV: Unidentified: Inside America's ‘Tic-Tac’ UFO Investigations:
That report did not specify whether IN took 21 days to spot PNS Saad after it surfaced or before when it was still submerged. That news of B'desh coup by their air force is interesting, wonder what our so-called journalists are doing.
-I remember asking you about HTT40 & u had replied that IAf was not interested in having 2 types of basic trainers.. now this - http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/cbi-registers-case-against-robert.html .. is HTT40 now a front runner? also there have been reports about less than satisfactory clauses w.r.t support agreements for pilatus - http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/after-use-of-chinese-made-steel-coated.html why isn't china been confrnoted yet on this & their brazen support to NE militants - I had read one article where some chinese diplomat openly boasting that India cannot stop chinese imports even if they wanted to .. that's rubbing salt on wounds .. any paln u suggest for payback? - One thing I fail to understand is why has India not forced the world to correct their maps & show the whole of J&K as a part of India.. just look @ the chinese - Your view on the follwong--http://idrw.org/high-time-india-revives-the-original-astra-mk2-program/ - is there any truth in the reports of IAF testing R37M?
To VSJ: Regarding AAMs, kindly refer to my comment posted above on June 21, 2019 at 7:58 AM.
To VENKY & JUST_CURIOUS: Regarding the BTT scandal, here are the FACTS that the CBI has still not zeroed in on:
The HTT-40 project was conceptualised in 2009 by HAL to fulfil the IAF’s requirement of 183 basic turboprop trainers (BTT) powered by Honeywell’s TPE331-12B engines (since such engines were also destined for powering the HAL-built Do-228 & hence were being licence-built by HAL). The projected date of completion was between February 2013 and May 2016. However, due to the HTT-40’s development delays, the MoD authorised the import of 75 BTTs, following which an order for 75 Pilatus PC-7 Mk.2 BTTs was placed in May 2012. Consequently, the following questions now await answers:
1) Since HAL had from the outset stated that its HTT-40 would be using TPE331-12B engines & Hartzell propellers, why did the MoD under the UPA-2 govt not sanction the import of BTTs that made use of these two sub-systems? In other words, why was Embraer’s Tucano rejected in favour of the PC-7 Mk.2, which use engines supplied by Pratt & Whitney Canada?
2) Did no one from/in India advise the UPA-2-era MoD to opt for the Tucano so that there would be high degree of commonality of sub-systems between the Tucano & HTT-40, which in turn would have lowered the acquisition costs & per-hour direct operating costs of both types of BTTs?
3) And now, since the WRONG DECISION was made to procure the PC-7 Mk.2s, how can the HTT-40s be forced down the IAF’s throat, since this will result in two distinct types of BTTs with hardly any sub-systems commonality being used by the IAF? Won’t this now greatly increase the IAF financial burden for operating & maintaining its BTT fleet?
Answers to the questions I’ve listed out above will unravel this case once & for all. It now remains to be seen if the CBI will indeed ask such questions during the trial process. If such questions are not asked, then it can only mean that no one in India’s officialdom is interested in finding out the truth & consequently this will end up as yet another instance of a simple legal case being politicised for political witch-hunting.
In my view, A K Antony has a lot to answer for, & the Govt of India through its relevant agencies should also seek the assistance of the UK's MI-5 for obtaining details of the activities & banking details of the INC's 'Pappu', Sanjay Bhandari & Robert Vadra whenever they both have been together in the UK.
To SBM: Yes, only the RVV-MD & RVV-SD are in series-production now. The IAF’s MR-SAM & IN’s LR-SAM are one & the same & have identical service ceilings, as detailed in the LR-SAM’s poster shown at the Aero India-2019 expo. The Barak-8LR will be the IAF’s LR-SAM (apart from the S-400) & its full-scale model was also displayed at the same expo. I had uploaded all these images last February.
To AMIT BISWAS: Yes, because domestic surveillance in the UK is done by the MI-5. In India’s case, it is the Special Branch of the State Police (that was created during the British Raj to keep tabs on seditious activities, but which is no longer reqd, but is used for political purposes only nowadays) & the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB).
To JUST_CURIOUS: Of course, China should be confronted with such hard evidence so that the serial nos on those bullets & armaments can help trace their production batches, which in turn will lead to the authentication of the original end-user. And as I had explained several times before, Astra-2 is nothing else but an Astra-1 powered by SFDR.
And the guy involved in the 2011 shootdown against the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore gets bumped off in 2019 in Dera Ismail Khan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP02xTomNR4
And he was a Pakistani, not Indian as alleged earlier by Pakistan!!!
To DASHU: PNS Saad was detected by INS Kalvari while the latter was submerged off Jiwani, west of Gwadar. CRV techniques were used to pin down its datum with accuracy.
"Of course, China should be confronted with such hard evidence so that the serial nos on those bullets & armaments can help trace their production batches, which in turn will lead to the authentication of the original end-user." - This will never happen. If Indian leaders were pragmatic and courageous enough they would now push China to expose its duplicitous stand that is hiding behind as the puppet master and using Pakistan and NE rebels to do its dirty work whilst claiming anti-terrorism stance. This leverage should allow India NSG membership as well as border settlement especially CPEC through Indian territory. Instead there will be plenty of political rhetoric, zero action and life will go on as usual with more innocent and brave law enforcement lives lost in the process.
I guess, this is what FAKE NEWS is all about. A non-existent deal gets cancelled. The MPATGM is a different procurement from the Spike ATGMs being procured which, forget MPATGM, is even longer ranged than the NAG. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-israel-spike-anti-tank-missiles-drdo-5796306/lite/?__twitter_impression=true
hi prasun gwadar is a long way of india and near the pak coast. would kalvari have the endurance to go long range and come back undetected when surfacing for recharging?
the batteries they use are saft batteries? is their any tech transfer on the=ose batteries that are really critical?
pse expand CRV
do you think it would be a good idea to ask the russians to integrate teh r-37 as an interim gap solution till the astra sfdr comes in , as we all know they took more that 15 years for the astra to be inducted ? it is a doable job as only the launcher pylon has to made for the su 30? i dont understand why mig -21 are being used in kashmir border , when we can always move a squadron or 2 of the mig-29 which would give jitters to the pak specially the upg type? as i dont for see, given pak economy they will try some mischief some where else apart form kashmir? some idiots in the previous NDA gove decided to not to use the critial bvr missiles advagn tage against the pak f-16 which had none . we are paying for ? can all the f-16 in pak inventory fire the amraam or only the block 52 ?
- what's the real story here .. why the on-off muddle http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/india-scraps-israel-anti-tank-missile.html
- http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/canadas-double-game.html - one more to the list of countries who feel confident of playing against India.. is there a need for a major overhaul of the foreign policy?
-http://idrw.org/kaveri-engine-revival-plans-need-a-proper-road-map-and-not-quick-fix-solutions/ - where is this heading Safran seem to be fooling around
To AMIT BISWAS: Because the INS Kalvari was used only for stalking, i.e. hunting. CRV or controlled remote-viewing is a technique, not technology.
To RAD: The Kalvari easily recharged its batteries off the cost of southeastern Oman & then headed for the Makran coastline. No tech-transfer for SAFT batteries since the quantum of batteries reqd is quite small. Later Standard Batteries will likely indigenise them. R-37 is an LRAAM used for shooting down lumbering bombers like B-52. It is next to useless for shooting down MRCAs. That’s why no Russia-origin MRCA carries R-37s. I had explained this several times before. What the IAF requires are BVRAAMs with Mach 5+ speeds like those of the Meteor. Hence, the Astra-2 will have SFDRs NOT for longer range, but for higher speed. And how can MiG-29s or Su-30MKIs or Mirage-2000s operate from air bases in Srinagar when none of these air bases have HAS capable of accommodating them? The existing HAS can only house MiG-21s. The NG-HAS is still some years away from coming up in such air bases in J & K.
To UJJWAL: 1) It is the SSN programme. What folks forget is that the ATV project was initiated for developing & building SSGNs. The VLS for SLBMs was added to the design ONLY AFTER May 1998 & hence the first SSBN—INS Arihant—took such a long time to be launched. Thus, the original SSGN hull-design had to re-designed into a SSBN hull. For the SSN programme, all that is now reqd is to revert back to the original design that does away with VLS cells for SLBMs and one will have the perfect SSN that displaces only 5,500 tonnes. The PWR will be of the 4th-generation type, i.e. from Russia. The Arihant-type SSBNs all have 3rd-generation PWRs. 2) MPATGM should enter service by 2022.
To JUST_CURIOUS: 1) No confusion at all. I have always stated that the MPATGM will be the IA’s definitive shoulder-launched ATGM. 2) If Kaveri is to be fully indigenised, then it will take at least another 15 years of R & D effort. On the other hand, a hybrid version of Kaveri that uses sub-sections of the SAFRAN/SNECMA M88 turbofan will enable it to power the projected LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF.
To DRKRG: Yes indeed. Also, the HAL-developed LUH is single-engined, whereas the Ka-226T is twin-engined. In fact, the Ka-226T should never have been invited to compete & when it was, back in the previous decade for the RSH reqmt, Bell Helicopter Textron withdrew from the competition, citing the Ka-226T’s inclusion in the evaluations as an unfair practice. Now again the Ka-226T is being offered for the IN’s 111-unit NLUH reqmt, although the IN is not in favour of it.
Their job will get harder once the 8 new PN subs arrive and they upgraded ones come back from Turkey. PN will have approximately 11+ subs. PN are lucky as the depth of the ocean drops quite quickly off their coast, especially the western part, hence they are harder to track.
There are various articles Prasun sir that they are developing/have developed mini subs to operate off our coast, which are almost impossible to find, due to the higher salinity and temperature off our western coast? How true are these?
Now it is official Sir , India did not consider PoK as Indian airspace as per BS Dhanoa. If these are true- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/iaf-achieved-military-objective-in-balakot-op-pakistani-side-did-not-come-into-our-airspace-dhanoa/articleshow/69930076.cms
To RAT: What is the endurance of such mini-subs? They can’t travel non-stop for 2 or 3 days & therefore they are always accompanied by far larger submarine tenders, which in turn gives away the positions/locations of such mini-subs. Nor can such vessels be carried piggy-back on SSKs.
India NEVER considered PoK’s airspace as part of India’s airspace. Not even after February 24, 1994 & even in mid-1999 the late A B Vajpayee had imposed the airspace restrictions (by not permitting the IAF to go across the LoC on bombing sorties). The same restrictions were in place on the morning of February 27, 2019 by the country’s ruling political elite. And the statement by anyone about the PAF not crossing the LoC & not violating India’s airspace is a no-brainer because the ordnance carried by the PAF’s combat aircraft did were indeed dropped inside J & K in the Rajouri & Nowshera sectors, meaning those PGMs did enter & violate Indian airspace.
But those hardly are crucial issues as far as daily governance goes. Far more important issues of concern include this:
Ajay Singh Bisht’s Way of Ensuring Law & Order:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_RSLVSXWE
The CM with 3 Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5L9FR71t0
B K Syngal, former chairman of VSNL and a telecom industry and a telecom industry analyst, says it is “better to shut down” BSNL if the governance in the company does not improve. “MTNL is already dead, and BSNL is now in the ICU. It has been a systematic destruction of PSUs by an overreach of the government. They don’t want to let go of their fiefdom,” Syngal said. “How can a person swim with hands and feet tied?”
In other words, just like HAL, BSNL too is being made to undergo multiple castrations since the early 1990s.
And here are some interesting videoclips:
BSF’s OP GHAZI BABA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJtsgb9KpZg
Recently there has been a news of a blast at the Military hospital at Rawalpindi.It was same hospital frequented by Masod Azhar. Do you believe it was handiwork of RAW or it is just a smoke screen by ISI/PA ?
@Prasun K. Sengupta : Third link is very important, seems like finally govt coming to its senses. Hopefully some corrective measures are taken soon in this regard.
Thank you for the explanation, had missed that topic earlier. 1) Sir, what kind of changes have been made to SOP for next aerial engagements over POK?
2) Also what i fail to visualize is, how to treat POK airspace as ours in practice? Will we threaten or chase all aircrafts over POK and GB including civvies? Surely unlike LOC on ground, we cant keep up a perpetual state of skirmish as it will sap aircraft life and availability etc in era of shortfalls especially when needed at other fronts too? Say even if we do achieve supremacy, they can still send strike teams from Punjabi bases once in a long while?
To AGINIDEEP BAGCHI: Those are all unfounded rumours. Masood Azhar is mobile & is on the move.
To DASHU & AMOL & ASD: VMT, but reforms are of 2 types: administrative & structural. What is being proposed is the former, while the need of the hour is the latter, i.e. getting the DPSUs out of govt control & making them public-listed through substantial divestment, like Larsen & Toubro, 32% of whose shares are govt-owned. Administrative reforms will only result in the DPSUs’ ownership being transferred from one ministry to another, with the govt’s bureaucratic practices remaining the same. Consequently, the DPSUs’ Board of Directors will always be beholden to the whims & fancies of the Central Govt, thereby inhibiting administrative & corporate autonomy.
Let me explain with practical examples: Had HAL been allowed to function just like L & T, then it would have built five prototypes each of the LCH & LUH for accelerated/concurrent airworthiness certification-cum-weaponisation activities. While 1 of each would have undergone structural fatigue tests, the other two of each would have undergone flight-tests while the remaining two of each would have served as platforms for avionics/weapons systems integration. In other words, three separate R & D-related activities would have proceeded at the same time. But such technicalities are ALIEN to the MoD’s bureaucrats, who instead had insisted on a sequential approach by first seeing a flying prototype, & only then authorising the necessary funds for weaponisation. The same goes for the HTT-40 BTT too & also the Rudra. Had a public-listed HAL been able to raise the reqd R & D funds from the capital markets, then it would have been able to deliver readymade products on time & within budgetary limits. But since this has not happened, it has only led to corporate entities like HAL being subjected to systematic castration over the years by the MoD’s bureaucracy!
To VSJ: 1) The SOP relates to the acquisition of bomb damage assessment in real-time by using man-in-the-loop guidance techniques (along with RAFAEL’s Pegasus data-link pods) that are already available, but are not being utilised due to over-cautiousness. If the IDF-AF can obtain real-time BDA imagery from its PGMs despite the existence of Syrian S-300 & Russian S-400 LR-SAMs, then why was the IAF so over-cautious on February 26? 2) Simple: just declare a military no-flying zone over PoK (inclusive of Gilgit-Baltistan) that allows civilian overflights, but bars any kind of military air-traffic over that airspace. But to implement this, the IAF requires NG-HAS in all its air bases in J & K, plus the availability of 24/7 AEW & CS platform availability. Right now, none of the two are available. Until the IAF is equipped with at least 11 AEW & CS platforms, enforcement of no-flying zones will be impossible to implement. 3) Astra-2 with SFDR will have a 120km range. But far more important than that is the need to achieve a speed of Mach 5.
To ASD: LoLz! This is where the ‘desi patrakaars’ have got it all wrong & are confusing the whole country as well. There is no such thing as Triple Talaaq. After all, the word Talaaq has to be mentioned thrice for it to take effect & that too after issues like alimony have been duly settled as per Sharia Law. What the Govt of India’s proposed law serves to outlaw is the practice of INSTANT Triple Talaaq, i.e. announcing divorce orally on-the-spot or by SMS, Fax, e-mail, WhatsApp, without settling the issue of alimony; plus imposing financial costs on the party that is initiating the process of Talaaq, so that the aggrieved party is not left high-n-dry.
I believe our air chief is under the influence of some weed and bluffing about the intrusion of PAF into Indian air space on 27 Feb....when weapons fired by PAF fighters were found more than 50 KM inside india, what makes him to assume PAF didn't cross LOC...simply bull shit is being fed by him to country to cover up his forces bad performance
1.i think erdogans loss in ankara and istanbul is handy work of CIA as punishment to sign S400 deal with Russia
2. i think the job of adding L3 communication periscope omn INS Sindhukesari should have been assigned to HSL Vizag who had overhauled INS Sindhukirti and not MDL Mumbai
3. heard Russia besides the 34 is offering 10 more Mig 29 SMT that were built in 2008 but have flown only few hundred hours
4. Indian Navy igoing to buy 10 more P8i poseidon taking total pane count to 22, this due to Sea Gaurdian dronnes bei ng pought for IN/IA/IAF, does it mean RMR deal is off the table permanently
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) And what makes you think that’s the case. Were the voters Turkish citizens or US citizens casting proxy votes? Or did someone from the US subject the Turkish voters to mass hypnosis or resort to some other form of mind-control? 2) The fire would still have broken out at HSL, SIMPLY BECAUSE all welding work inside any submarine is carried out PRIOR to installation of on-board wiring & electronic hardware. This is the SOP worldwide. But by doing exactly the opposite (i.e. getting the wiring & all other hardware installation done in Russia & then trying to weld the fixtures of the periscope within the inner hull), only illustrates the grim fact that I have repeatedly red-flagged: sound common-sense & logical reasoning have no place anywhere within India. How else can one explain why a SUV-owner ended up stealing a bicycle? Don’t believe me? Then watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woCwnljg5C8&t=7s
Whether you choose to laugh or cry after watching it is entirely up to you. Maybe that will also stop you from jumping on to conclusions of the type you reached WRT Turkish elections. 3) Like I said before, the IAF is likely to end up with 50 additional MiG-29UPGs. All MiG-29SMTs (34 + 10) were built in one go in the previous decade. 4) I had always stated that the IN had specified a total P-8I reqmt of 28 units. And the ICGS reqmt is for 12 units but of a degraded version of the P-8I minus the armaments. MRMR aircraft is no longer reqd because the Sea Guardian UAS platforms can do a lot than any manned MRMR platform can & do it at far cheaper cost. Hence, now MRMR MPAs & the Do-228 MPAs are fast becoming unnecessary & far more expensive to operate.
hi prasun i am given to believe that the spice weapon continuously sends imagery to the Pegasuses data pod that stores the video till bomb impact and the data link is highly secure .so it rubbishes the theory of liberals that call for imagery to prove their point .did the mirages also carry Delilah as stated by some stupid mag called the print.
you mentioned that the astra 2 sfdr has a range of 120 km . were you referring to the no escape zone as the range seems to be less for a ramjet missile ? what would be the NEZ of the amraam c-5? can i equate the performance of the astra to the mica in range and performance ? how would you rate the desi seeker to the one on the mica?
as we have selected the ka-226 can we abrogate the contract in favour of the naval lch? would it not be better to have a 2 engine heli for over water operation?
if US throws sanctions on us how is it going to supply the p-8 , a-64 and others? dont you think they are shooting themselves in the foot regarding the f-21??
how is turkey over hauling the pak agostas ? when the oem is france ?? the spares have to come from france as turkey cannot make all the spare and they dont have a comprehensive tie up like us to france regarding subs??
how would you rate the arihant and chakra nuke subs sensors to the french scorpene?
given that cbi has filed an fir against swiss pilatus, dont you think it is a water tight reason for the htt-40 to be procured ? how do you rate the pilatus to the htt-40 leaving all other concerns?
Will India import entire bomb assembly for spice 1000 or only guidance kit will be imported??
How is GPS jamming is enforced???
How does sukhoi fleet will cope up with lesser number of targeting pods , air surveillance equipment???in what manner IAF will distribute them among various squadrons to undertake missions...
Sir, you ought to check out what this guy has posted on his linkedin.
1) who are these guys ? 2) what are we doing to control them ? 3) why can they sway even educated sikhs ? 4) why are we so small, why can't we take these bastards down ? 5) in today's age of social media and easy communication and reach, if things get out of hand, like in 80's, don't you think it would be very difficult to control
we ought to nip this evil in the bud, before things get out of hand
To RAD: Both Spice family of PGMs & PopeyeLite/Crystal Maze can relay video imagery in real-time back to the Pegasus data-link pod-equipped aircraft, but what if there’s dense cloud cover which over mountainous terrain tends to hand very low over the targets (as was the case on the night of February 26)? The imagery will thus show clouds that are hiding the targets below & therefore digital scene matching (DSMAC) will be impossible to achieve. The only sensor that can penetrate clouds is the SAR or X-band imaging radar & such a sensor is not available as yet for SPICE-type PGMs.
No-escape zone for any BVRAAM is at best 50km. All existing active radar seekers operating in Ku-band are similar in performance. But superior performance can be obtained from Ka-band seekers, which are still under development worldwide. Selection of Ka-226T does not mean that a procurement contract has been inked. US sanctions are related only to the S-400 LR-SAM that due to that the US will most probably not supply India with some of the comms hardware that India was earlier eligible to procure after inking the COMCASA agreement. But denial of such hardware won’t mean anything at all to India since homegrown SDRs are now available as alternative solutions. Turkey is only installing ESM sensors on the masts of the PN’s Agosta SSKs. As for BTTs, does the filing of a CBI chargesheet against Pilatus mean that all 75 existing PC-7 Mk.2 BTTs will be withdrawn from IAF service? If that’s the case, then it is perfectly alright to go for the HTT-40. For, at the end of the day only 1 type of BTT should be in service, & not 2 types. But I don’t think this case will be conducted in a strictly impartial or logical manner, since most of the WRONG questions have been raised by the CBI. These are the right questions that should be raised:
1) Why was HAL stopped from developing the HTT-35 BTT in the mid-1990s?
2) Can anyone from anywhere show any example of any country first trying to develop an IJT or AJT & then trying to develop a BTT? Because I can quote examples from Brazil, Japan, South Korea & Turkey to prove that countries have always tended to first develop BTTs, followed by IJT/AJT. Yet, why in India was HAL first tasked to develop the HJT-36 IJT & much later the HTT-40 BTT?
3) Why was asked to develop an IJT despite the IAF going for Hawk Mk.132 AJTs back in the previous decade? If the decision to go for AJTs of foreign origin was made as far back as 2004, then shouldn’t HAL have been authorised to develop the HTT-35 or HTT-40 in 2004 itself? Why was HAL given the green light only in 2011 to begin developing the HTT-40?
So finally, who were the prime conspirators against the HTT-35 or HTT-40 between 2004 & 2011? Were they instrumental in delaying the development of a homegrown BTT until it was too late & the import of BTTs was an inescapable fact-of-life? And even then, who successfully influenced the decision in favour of a BTT powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-series engine even after knowing fully well that the homegrown BTT would be powered by Honeywell TPE331-series engines? Did the conspirators therefore fully ensure that this would eventually ensure the death of a homegrown BTT’s development, simply because the IAF for sure was rightly expected to voice its disapproval for procuring 2 types of BTTs because this could not be accommodated within the IAF’s (or for that matter, any other air force’s) operating budget under any condition?
Unfortunately, none of the two CAG reports linked below answer the questions that I have raised:
To PK: Actually, it is the other way round, i.e. migration from west to east. There is no reason or evidence to ASSUME that human life in ancient northern India was far more advanced than life in ancient Mesopotamia. In fact, all available evidence points to the contrary, i.e. relatively sophisticated human settlements existed in southern Africa & Mesopotamia some 200,000 years ago (which conclusively disproves Charles Darwin’s Euro-centric theory of lateral, uninterrupted human evolution). In fact, in Siberia, evidence has been unearthed about human settlements 2 million years ago. What all this proves is that human evolution hasn’t been lateral, but has been cyclical, i.e. human civilisations existing, then getting destroyed & then beginning again & then getting wiped out again, & then starting again. From the starting over was not from scratch. Instead, the starts took off from where matters had been left off for destruction in the previous cycle. These will explain more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8C5QLv3x0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHUM1wbKcQ8
To SUMIT SEN: Yes indeed, because your’s truly (Chowkidaaron ka Chowkidaar) has been keeping the MoD busy with new targetting lists that I have obtained through my routione strategic recce sorties. The following are the new Jihadi camps that have come up:
LeT’s ‘TABOOK’ Garhi Habibullah Camp in Mansehra, KPK: 34.424521 N, 73.405692 E LeT’s ‘KHYBER’ Garhi Habibullah Camp in Mansehra, KPK: 34.422806 N, 73.406578 E LeT’s ‘AMBOR’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.442470 N, 73.493591 E LeT’s ‘DAKAN’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.458762 N, 73.470795 E LeT’s ‘HUZAIFA BIN YEMEN’ Camp in Shawai Nullah, Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.389743 N, 73.450625 E LeT’s ‘LASHKAR POINT’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.3932723 N, 73.44803 E LeT’s ‘DAKAN’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.436111 N, 73.433333 E LeT’s ‘KFC’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.390981 N, 73.458644 E
JeM’s Transit Camp in Shawai Nullah, Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34. 3859 N, 73.45712 E
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen’s ‘KHALID BIN WALEED’ Camp in Mansehra, KPK: 34.347562 N, 73.477177 E Harkat-ul-Mujahideen’s ‘SAIDULLAH KHALID SHAHEED Camp in Garhi Habibullah, Mansehra, KPK: 34.4177778 N, 73.3763889 E
Hizbul Mujahideen’s ‘Markaz Raheel Sharif’ Camp in Golpur, Kotli, PoK: 33.4026306 N, 73.877905 E
AL Badr’s Camp at Oghi, Mansehra, KPK: 34.527587 N, 73.118541 E
You can view them all by using GoogleEarth.
To AMIT BISWAS: 1) Only guidance kits are imported. The explosive portions are essential dumb bombs already built by OFB. 2) All IIR sensors can be spoofed by flares in both IR & UV spectrum. But if an IIR sensor can acquire an image of its airborne target while in flight & then compare it with the image library stored within the AAM’s processor, then spoofing becomes very difficult.
To VIVEK: Looks like the quantum of retards is registering a steady increase, especially the desi ones, leave alone the PIO ones. Here are a couple of them in action:
Brilliant explanation of how the US through the IMF is making life unbearable for Pakistan (no wonder 26,000 Pakistani civil servants now hold dual citizenships):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h3XJYkn4GE&t=3s
The idea, it seems, is to make it easier for the decision-makers of Pakistan to make the ultimate hard choice, i.e. either choose to be a bankrupt, unaffordable & malnourished state with nuclear WMDs, or live as a non-nuclear but sustainable middle-income country.
Meanwhile, India's defence budget for FY 2019-2020 is expected to be pegged at Rs.4 lakh crore.
IAF wanted a MMRCA tilted towards a strike role. Rafael fits into that role. Now if we buy 50 MiG 29 & 18 Su 30 MKI (do hope these can carry Brahmos), what happens to strike aircraft ?. Will we fall short of strike aircraft ? Will the MMRCA 3 competition be needed ?
CAG pulled up IAF for placing order on ‘non existent’ IJT (IAF too learnt it’s lessons) Now on what basis will they place order for 123 Tejas Mk 1A ? When will order be placed, what kind of tests are required to qualify it ?
Tejas will require continuous addition & testing of new weapons or electronics , which Organization will own thirst aircraft for such purpose ? is there such a plan ? Is it not better 2-3 be made available to IAF or DRDO or HAL for this purpose ?
How much do we save by buying a few unarmed P8I for Indian Coast Guard ? We will need to muster all the resources in case balloon goes up .
There was an article on noisy and poor quality Scorpene, who benefits from spreading such canard ? See rebuttal below
Considering that is what India is also going to end up as, Pakistan is in not such a bad place. All it has to do is give up nuclear weapons. India will probably attain a middle income group country status like the South Americas albeit with a huge young demography & high unemployability.
1)What will be the consequences of Pakistan being blacklisted by the FATF? 2)If the Pakistanis are forced to make a choice between being a bankrupt country with nukes or live as a non nuclear but sustainable middle income country,won't they still choose the former since they hate India so much?I think that they can only be denuclearized by force(by a military operation by a multinational coalition like you had suggested a couple of years ago) 3)What if India were to adopt a policy that involves capturing 1 km of territory along the LoC for every ceasefire violation(there are many ceasefire violations every month) made by Pakistan?How effective would that be? Regards, Enigma.
Prasun da, a lilbit offtopic but cud u give any tips or techniques to develop RV capability in us??. Really want to explore that realm of world.. Thnku
your’s truly (Chowkidaaron ka Chowkidaar) has been keeping the MoD busy with new targetting lists that I have obtained through my routine strategic recce sorties. - anything is possible with India but isn't this a bit too far fetched to think a civilian is doing the recce on a free lance basis whereas the intelligence branch of the military is sleeping it off? Somehow that line reminds me of প্রেমেন মিত্তিরের ঘনাদা.
Lots of developments at Osaka G20 meet. Seems all the talk of impending US India trade dispute is now sorted and Piyush Goel led commerce ministry is going to sort it out.
Also interesting were the informal dinner where quad heads sat next to each other. And RIC and BRICS meetings.
India hopefully will start in Ernest start working positively with USA to secure our national interests.
Prasun sir, in one of ur article u replied to someone about scenarios wherein missile like mica will be used and where missiles like meteor will...can u plz give a link to that post or else cud u plz explain it again..?
Hello Sirji!Today,some uncomfortable questions if you don't mind.Just curiosity. Nothing else.I am asking you as you do have wide historical knowledge. What we are seeing on day to day basis(even if we don't blindly trust any single channel) is that there is high amount of radiation among Muslim population which is rising.Just look at this:
What is also apparent is that left is turning it's back on "other side of the coin",while right wing is reporting it but with added lies and exaggeration.Similarly,there are many issues which is greatly highlighted here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y18jUF1lWXU And then we have lynchings,attack,hate speeches,etc.Every single person who highlights this is being tagged as "Sanghi" or RW activist or even Gau-Rakshak(!!!) by the left wing.Left wing was supposed to be liberal and tolerant. What is your POV?I would be happy if you highlight some points which are missed.Free for knowing something new. FYI:I have 0% political affiliations and I am almost an atheist with little interest in BAPS.Nothing more than that.
To AMIT BISWAS: On Rafale, your query is answered here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1OOVrq3qg
Finally, mu prayers have been answered WRT water shortage:
Chennai Desalination Plant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1NX399anE
To ক্লাউন: You are ASSUMING that I’m freelancing, or that the Govt of India is clueless about the data I’ve presented above. Both your assumptions are totally wrong.
To DASHU & SRINIVASA NABDURI: These will answer some of your questions:
1. when i said 'i think the job of adding L3 communication periscope omn INS Sindhukesari should have been assigned to HSL Vizag who had overhauled INS Sindhukirti and not MDL Mumbai'
you said ' The fire would still have broken out at HSL, SIMPLY BECAUSE all welding work inside any submarine is carried out PRIOR to installation of on-board wiring & electronic hardware. This is the SOP worldwide. But by doing exactly the opposite (i.e. getting the wiring & all other hardware installation done in Russia & then trying to weld the fixtures of the periscope within the inner hull),'
and now you are proudly showing off the same thing, what is this???
2. so the 34 Mig 29 barebone airframe are around 10-12 yrs and not 30 yr old as was being said before.
i feel like this seawater desalination plants are required not only in chennai but also in puri, vizag, kolkata, mumbai, trivandrum, karwar (it is already facing water problem). all these cities are growing in population constantly and ground water is being used more than what is being being recharged, i feel a number of seawater desalination plants should be setup under a proper company setup under public private partnership
To RAD: VMT. 1) Presently, there are no SAR-equipped PGMs operational with the IAF. Once the BrahMos-A becomes operational, all-weather precision-strike capability will become possible. Even a Nirbhay air-launched LACM equipped with the imaging SAR seeker (developed by DRDL) will be able to undertake such all-weather strikes. 2) Financial loans reqd for purchasing the 8 x 032 Qing-class SSKs are being extended to Pakistan by China. 3) Ka-band seeker offers higher resolution accuracy & is therefore preferred for use by BMD interceptors. 4) Data Patterns-built & ECIL-built imaging SAR seekers are both being flight-tested now after being housed inside a modified SIVA pod. 5) All existing BVRAAMs use Ku-band seekers. Of course any present-day MMR can detect an F-35 if the latter is carrying underwing weapons.
To VENKY: The additional MiG-29UPGs & Su-30MKIs are meant for replacing the MiG-21bis/BISONs & MiG-27Ms/UPGs. Hence the reqmt for more Rafales is totally different & the 2 types of reqmts don’t clash at all. Only 83 Tejas Mkl.1As are to be ordered (they haven’t been as yet) & orders will be placed only after HAL demonstrates the aircraft’s total compliance with the IAF’s set-down ASQRs. There are several Tejas PV & LSP airframes now available at any given time. for testing a wide variety of sub-systems, avionics, components & weapons. By way of an example, when the MiG-29 was being developed. A total of 14 prototypes were built for developmental purposes so that service-entry was guaranteed after the commencement of flight-tests 3 years earlier. P-8Is for the ICGS are NOT MEANT for use as weaponised platforms, since the ICGS is a policing agency & not a paramilitary or armed services agency.
To PRRANSHU YADAV: So far, only baby-steps have been taken for MIRV development. Series-production of MIRVs won’t begin before 2025 at the very best.
To KAUSTAV: Pakistan will be far worse off since its local manufacturing sector has been decimated after inking the 2006 FTA with China, while its investments in human resource development have been decreasing at an alarming rate as well. That country practically now has just an agrarian economy. Consequently, there has been a jump in narcotics production there & more & more such consignments meant for India are being detected now. Hence, two-way trade with Pakistan today via any route (land, sea or air) fetches India only diminishing returns.
And at the other extreme, we have whimsical notions of ‘strategic partnerships’ that are totally detached from ground realities, which result in such preposterous analysis:
To ENIGMA: 1) FATF blacklisting will make it almost impossible for Pakistan to engage in any form of bilateral or multilateral trade with the rest of the world. 2) No, such a choice will not be made because the elite of Pakistan dearly love their material wealth & exposure to the West for spending their wealth, especially on higher education for a select strata of the younger generation. 3) You will have noticed that for the past 3 weeks, there have been no reports of any ceasefire violation along the WB & LoC, despite this being the time when the ice starts melting & the nullahs (overf which no fences can be erected) become the favourite spots for infiltration.
To JUST_CURIOUS: The AIM-260 was developed back in the early 1990s by Lockheed Martin as part of a Cold War-era project, but was never mass-produced. Even the Raytheon-developed FRAAM version of the AMRAAM was never series-produced. PL-10 & PL-15 AAMs will not be made available to Pakistan, rest assured. Even the PL-8, which in reality is the Python-3 (whose production ToT was given by RAFAEL to China in the mid-1980s) has not yet been supplied to Pakistan.
To DASHU: I have several friends who in turn are friends with expatriate Pakistanis who in turn are close relatives of the natives of PoK. As I had stated earlier, more & more natives of PoK today are more inclined to sympathise with India than with Pakistan.
To SAMEER: You can easily Google for it & also search for such sites in YouTube.
To RAHUL: All Rafales to be procured for the IAF will have to be bought off-the-shelf since it is IMPOSSIBLE to locally manufacture them, as I had explained numerous times before. The F-35 has neither been offered to India nor has been sought by anyone in India.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: Worldwide, there is no dearth of Muftis & Maulanas who are ill-informed, ill-educated & ignorant about the do’s & don’t’s of Islam. The same goes for all those showing off their faith in Shri Ram, Hanumaan, etc etc. I will recommend for you 2 presentations that explain it all:
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) This is what I call the ‘Grasshopping’ syndrome, i.e. jumping to conclusions by throwing sanity into the dustbin. You are overlooking that INS Sindhu Kirti underwent its mid-life refit at HSL in Vizag, when the hull was torn open first for refurbishment (under Russian supervision & with Russian technical assistance) & only after that was the L-3 KEO-supplied periscope with optronic mast was structurally installed & only after that did all on-board wiring work commence. Hence, all welding work was completed before installation of on-board electronic systems & their wiring had been installed/laid. This could be done because the periscopes were supplied to the IN before 2014 when there were no US-imposed sanctions against Russia. In case of INS Sindhu Kesari, all hull-related refurbishment work was conducted in Russia since 2017 (when US sanctions were in place & hence no US-origin hardware could go to Russia for fitment) & so the periscope was fitted after the INS Sindhu Kesari returned to India, meaning no Russian technical support/supervisory team was available to advice the IN’s Naval Dockyard on how to pro0ceed with the work under circumstances that never existed before & therefore even the Russians did not have any SOPs reqd for undertaking such refit activity. Had the INS Sindhu Kesari undergone its entire mid-life refit at HSL, then there would have been no problem at all. So, the only question that requires an answer now is: why is the IN continuing to send its Type 877EKM SSKs to Russia for refits/refurbishments when HSL can already undertake such work? 2) All those MiG-29s are of the SMT version that were built in 2007 but they were never fully assembled. They presently remain in knocked-down condition. 3) Mi-35Ps won’t be retired before 2026. The IAF will take about 5 years to fully commission its new-build AH-64E Apaches into service.
1.What are the black technologies possessed by the Russian federation? Did the erstwhile USSR and Russia have any such secret survivable tactical reconnaissance aircraft like the TR-3A and Astra?
2.Does Russia posses any interceptors or sam capable of shooting down the American black aircrafts like the Aurora/Astra, SR-75 Penetrator,TR-3A Manta? Is Russia having similar programmes of its own. ?
PLS shed some light on the Russian programmes.
3.Is our airforce even aware of these exotic aircrafts of Uncle Sam? As such do we have anything to prevent their unwanted loitering over Indian airspace or are we taking measures or developing a roadmap for contingencies involving the SR-72 and 75?
hi prasun instaed of brahmos A, we could have launched the surface to surface brahmos? we have seen pinpoint accuracy hits so why not .
will pak be tempted to do like wise and use the babur ? is babur mainly for nuke role only?
it seems they have moved aerostats and long range radars to the border to prevent such surprise attacks by india . SO what would be the next option to hit at at terr camps. would it be ok to tak out the radar with anti radiation missiles?
what anti radar missiles will we be getting for the rafale? the alarm seems to have been stopped?
My suggestion (given as far back as 2012) for market segmentation of domestic shipbuilding activities for the purpose of supporting the country's domestic shipbuilding industry has been accepted at last by the MoD!
Hello sirji,very much thanks for the explanation. Meanwhile,here's extremely interesting development shaping: https://auroraintel.net/asia-australia/exclusive-the-mysterious-death-of-islamic-state-wiyalah-hinds-militant-in-kashmir
While BJP claimed that it's party worker was killed by HM/LeT in Jan 2018(Although his family members refuted it): https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-says-youth-killed-was-party-worker-family-refutes-claim-5012217/
The same guy is named as OGW by Islamic State’s Hind Province(ISHP)!!! This all seemed to come after Adil Das(ISHP) was killed by HM fighters recently. If this is true then it seems troubles would be escalating for pro-pakistan groups or even Pakistan as a whole.What do you think?
1. of the 12 ACS/hovercraft to be built 6 ill be used by IA, why does IA need them?
2. heard France is offering 40 Mirage 2000 out of the lot retired last year and kept in reserve at cheap price and these are still in good condition, if true it can be really good for IAF once upgraded to UPG standard, how true is it
Sir, 1) as PAF is known to have been strengthening its Air Defense(AD) system in POK etc after balakot, n bigger camps being shifted deep inside Pakistan towards waziristan region etc, how can IAF strike targets deep inside Pakistan without crossing LOC?? Am asking coz usage of Brahmos can trigger a war, n possibility of targets being out of range of spice-1000 is their. 2) has Zhuk-AE been installed on MiG29's after zhuk-me had encountered problems related to MTTR reduced etc??? 3) can MiG29upg both the upgraded ones n those which will come from Russia as additional purchase carry missiles/bombs with multi ejector pod??? I haven't seen yet that's y wanna ask... 4) why AD has been taken for granted by our forces/govt for so many years??? v don't even have an armoured vehicle mounted AD missile system to support tank regiments in field....
To PINKAL SHAH: 1) There is not much clarity about Russian efforts to re-engineer or reverse-engineer crashed or recovered alien spacecraft. Nor is Russia believed to have invested any resources on developing such types of recce aircraft. 2) Russia’s existing ABM interceptors can easily shoot down hypersonic recce aircraft possessed by the US. 3) Of course it is aware.
And here’s a very interesting explanation of differences between extra-terrestrial & celestial entities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6z80kwMtN0
To RAD: Launch of surface-to-surface BrahMos would have invited retaliation in a similar form from Pakistan’s LACMs against which India does not possess adequate cruise missile defence capabilities. Aerostat-mounted & ground-based radars can always be jammed. The NG-ARM will be on the Rafales.
To ANKIT KUMAR: Such roadmaps frequently change. The generally sought quantities are 2 aircraft carriers, 12 DDGs, 24 FFGs, 12 NOPVs, 18 Corvettes, 24 submarines, 4 LPHs and five ocean-going fleet oilers.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: There are firm indications that the sudden growth of ISIS in J & K and elsewhere in the region are all efforts by Pakistan to legitimise the need for the Afghan Taliban so that ISIS is projected as the greater threat, thereby leading to the recognition of the Afghan Taliban as a legitimate politico-military entity by not only China, Iran & Russia, but also by the Central Asian Republics. And what’s the evidence to support all this? Elementary: all ISIS combatants returning back from Iraq & Syria make their entry into South Asia or Central Asia through Pakistani ports of entry.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) For amphibious assault operations. 2) It will be good for the IAF to procure no more than 5 of them just as attrition replacements.
To ASHISH GAUTAM: 1) Why should the IAF not cross the LoC? After all, it did so on February 26. 2) No one in India has so far ordered any type of AESA-MMR from anyone in Russia. 3) Yes, they can, provided such multi-ejector racks are developed in India. 4) Because the planning for force modernisation has been ad hoc & service-specific, instead of having a tri-services integrated plan for air-defence.
To VJAIN: What I had suggested was that those shipyards making aircraft carriers, DDGs, FFGs or corvettes should not be allowed to bid for making OPVs or NOPVs or FAC-Ms or interceptor boats or survey vessels or barges. Such vessels can easily be built by private-sector shipyards.
To BUDDHA: Even Indian shipyards like that belonging to Larsen & Toubro can deliver warships ahead of schedule, but neither the IN nor the ICGS has the available manpower meant for taking early delivery of the vessels.
To KAUSTAV: Interesting explanation of India’s macro-economic priorities:
Anything on the possible designs for 6 NGMV by our shipyards? Are foreign OEMs allowed to participate with the 7 shipyards here? French Naval Group, Russians and SAAB will surely be looking at the opportunity.
sir about the program on Nehru,,, they want to criticize nehru or defend it, that is other thing.
But what is with Maharaja want standstill or not, why India care what Maharaja wanted? Isnt it this is actually defeatist argument, instead of criticizing nehru?
Why it matter what King of Japan wanted after signing Instrument of Surrender? Or what Nazis demanded after signing Postdam. You dont offer tea to defeating power, you kick them in balls.
Once the Mahraja signed Instrument of Accession, he hold no say over territory of J&K. Once he signed, it is not about what he wanted,,, it is about what India wanted.
Sir, post air strikes as PAF & PA are upgrading their existing AD network in Pok with better radars & associated SAM systems, their is a possibility that IAF may not b able to fly deep inside as freely as they did in Balakot case, so how can they strike targets deep inside?? Via Afghanistan route?? http://idrw.org/post-balakot-air-strikes-why-hals-wingman-concept-needs-a-further-relook/#more-204797
To AMIT BISWAS & ANKIT KUMAR: Mark my words: the MoD’s & IN’s decision to separate the NGMV & NGC projects are TOTALLY FLAWED. If the In desires procuring 600-tonne or 800-tonne NGMVs, then I’m afraid the IN is still thinking of fighting the previous wars. Today, NGMVs are corvette-sized displacing up to 2,500 tonnes so that they can launch both LACMs & ASCMs from the very universal vertical-launch cells. That’s because today’s BrahMos-1s can be used against both warships & land-based static targets, while tomorrow’s Nirbhay will have imaging SAR seekers that too can be used for land-attack & anti-ship strike. In addition, such warships don’t require PDMS for air-defence (like Barak-1), but Barak-8-type SAMs for defeating supersonic ASCMs. So, I hope that sanity prevails & the NGMV & NGC projects are merged so that a common-hull design gets selected. Such hull-designs can be of local origin, or of foreign origin.
As for jamming, everything can be jammed. It all depends on jamming capacities, i.e. whether the jammers are contained within a pod, a business jet or a widebodied airliner-type of platform.
To ASHISH GAUTAM: LoLz! Which radars? Which SAMs? How many of them? And that too when that country has been forced to reduce its defence budget & spend more military funds on fortifying the Durand Line? Hence, don’t believe rumours. Because, Pakistan’s elongated & narrow geography ensures that its long-range airspace surveillance radars located even in western Pakistan can look 80nm inside Indian airspace, as this 80nm is part of the PAF’s air-defence identification zone (ADIZ).
PA COAS Meets Russian COAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzfY9cDVeU PAF CAS Meets Russian COAS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6y4ARmuhE
Talk Show on Pak PM’s Visit to US on July 20:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBlmaSFoPVU
To MPATEL: Afghan Pashtuns whacking Pakistani Cricket fans in the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lEMHxZKQWY
To PINKAL SHAH: You’re in luck! This programme reveals/explains joint US-Russia research on Element 115 (Moscovium):
To ARPIT KANODIA: To me, all 3 participants in that programme were either not focussing on the point of discussion, or were unaware of factoids. Firstly, only Pakistan & the Princely State of J & K had inked the Standstill Agreement. India did not as she had no desire for forcibly annexing J & K. Secondly, by mid-1948, 2 options were available to India: either continue with a war of attrition until the numerically superior India prevailed & won, or; open a second front in Punjab against Pakistan so as to decisively defeat a numerically inferior PA. The second option was discarded by both India’s civilian & military leadership because a full-scale war in the Punjab would have added further salt to the wounds of that state & elsewhere in northern & central India & this in turn would have led to further exodus of refugees from both sides, leading to an unmanageable bloodbath. So that left only the first option, but here too it has since emerged that it was Sheikh Abdullah who discouraged Pandit ‘Chacha’ Nehru from liberating Gilgit, Baltistan & even Poonch by giving the excuse that his political influence in those areas was marginal & he therefore was not confident of convincing the local inhabitants there of siding with India. This was clearly stated by the late Kuldip Nayar in one of his books. Hence, to lay the blame squarely at Pandit ‘Chacha’ Nehru’s doorstep is wrong & untenable. Others too have to take responsibility for accepting the UN-mandated ceasefire in August 1948.
To me, the greatest mistake was made NOT in mid-1948, but in late 1971 and early 1972. Firstly, the war objectives for the western front were never spelt out with clarity by India’s political leadership, which in turn led to IA HQ adopting an extremely cautious approach & limiting itself to only capturing tactically insignificant enclaves with the exception of Chicken’s Neck. For instance, instead of trying to capture an extremely large chunk of territory like Shakargarh Bulge, the IA should have been instructed to capture only areas that contained Sri Kartarpur Sahib & the town of Umarkot. Secondly, the IA should have been authorised to capture as much territory of PoK as possible, reaching out as far as Skardu & further west beyond Chammb. But the ultimate disaster took place at Shimla in June 1972 prior to the Shimla Agreement being inked, during which India for inexplicable reasons totally capitulated to Pakistan. I have details of what transpired then & will scan the pages from the relevant books to reveal what really transpired there.
Meanwhile, the senseless debate on J & K continues here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQFKp_Q_9rM
Delusional folks like DAVID DEVADAS (the so-calledcJ & K expert) have the cheek to say that the inking of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh tantamounted to an annexation of J & K by India! This is how disinformation spreads, thanks to the usage of wrong words. I guess such folks should be told to bring along an English Dictionary for checking out the meaning of certain words before they are uttered.
And on the other end of the extreme, we have MORONS giving distorted interpretations/spins to foreign TV channels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3RINtClOsM
Given India’s demographic realities, it is always a given that on any given day if there is 1 atrocity carried out against minority communities, then there are 10 atrocities carried out against majority communities by members of the same communities, & often due to the same reasons. Therefore, to state that a particular community is being subjected to increasing quantum of atrocities is factually wrong/incorrect.
Prasunda, Thanks a lot for all the lovely infobits. Sir, a query also naturally arises with regard to your suggestion for the NGMV being of 2500 Tons displacement. In that case, the Kamorta or Project 28 ASW Corvette design should easily be adapted with weapons, radard & other sensors for ASuW and Land Attack roles in Littoral area like against the Porkies or general policing in the IOR. That would also give commonality of design which would be excellent both for logistics as well as subterfuge. The P-28 class seems huge just for ASW role, though endurance on patrols matter. Could you share something on this matter, Sirji.
To KAUSTAV: That is EXACTLY the point I was trying to explain earlier, i.e. using the same baseline design of the hull for both the NGMVs & NGCs while making certain mission-specific structural modifications, such as adopting the concept of Integrated Mast' for housing L-band, S-band, X-band or Ku-band active phased-array apertures meant to serve as radars or as active jamming emitters. As for universal VLS cells capable of housing both BrahMos-1 & Nirbhay cruise missiles, provision should be made for carrying at least 8 BrahMos-1 & 12 Nirbhay LACMs, plus 24 Barak-8 SAMs.
Yes sir.In my opinion,the two biggest blunders that India made were as follows:1)returning the Haji Pir Pass to Pakistan after capturing it in 1965 and 2)In 1971,India captured a lot of places in Tharparkar district of Sindh(that has many Hindus).One of the captured places was Nagarparkar that has Hindu and Jain temples.Sindhis are the only group of Indians who do not have their own state.India should have kept these captured places and created a state for them. Yes,India did have a golden opportunity to liberate PoK in 1971.We did liberate some villages in Baltistan like Bogdang,Turtuk,Thang,etc but wasn't the fact that we did not liberate the entire PoK in 1971 more due to pressure put on us by the Soviets(who had already vetoed 2 UNSC resolutions) and the Americans? Regards, Enigma.
Today, all rakes for the Kolkata Metro are coming directly from CRRC Dalian, China.
The name of the Project 613 submarine (Whiskey-class) that was lent to Pakistan by Indonesia during the 1965 War had the name of BRAHMASTRA. In fact, all such submarines of Indonesia had Sanskrit names.
Prasun Da, thanks for an informative blog, however I also, request your views regarding some developments, and also information you have provided .
a. BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army) has been designated as 'Terrorist Organization' by the USA (http://idrw.org/us-designates-balochistan-liberation-army-as-terrorist-group/), now isn't it a jolt for independence movement of Balochistan, or is it a ploy to give some concession to PA or Chinese ? What's your view on this ?
b. This provides a boost for the fact you have provided, now even the PoK Secretariat employees are now protesting against discriminatory financial policies of Pakistani Government.
c. And is the above turns into this : PoK vlogger locates the wreckage site of the F-16 shot down by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF69ZEn4CPE(http://idrw.org/pok-based-vlogger-shows-f-16-crash-location/)
d. A view of Chinese LM - 11 sea based rocket launch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBuFSyVV8_Q, kindly check the Cold Launch of the rocket possible aided by a gas ejector, is it a converted SLBM ? or any other PLA operated canisterised Ballistic Missile ? If so, can missile like Agni V be converted likewise ?
e. Apart from CRRC Dalian, ICF Medha rakes are also used by the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (KMRC) . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDosJ9Hiac
this proves Makhtoum that dubai ruler is always high on power, so much so he thinks he can do anything, 1st he got India to arret his daughter who was fleeing to a new life and spineless India meekly obliged but Germany showed spine and rescued his 6th wife and latly refused and sent her to UK to help her start new life, no wonder Kamal Kishore Chaddha, Dawood Ibrahim and Umesh Kumar Jain have enjoyed free run in Dubai
3. do you really think a baseline design of the hull for both the NGMVs & NGCs like Kamorta class can be possible now as from the RFP it seems ships will be quiet small, what i gather than designs for NGMVs & NGCs have been decided and the shipyards who will respond will only respond with as to how the internal fitments will be
1.I noticed that many Pakistanis who aren't even living in Pakistan,and the ones who are called intellectual are the ones who speak half truths at many occasions.What I do believe is that they don't give a damn about truth and peace.The reason why they oppose deep state is because it's harmed/harming them.But once it's over,or once it comes to fundamentals like two-nation theory,they would be no different from folks like Hamid mir or any other person in Pakistan.My question is,you would have interacted with such folks in your life,then what do you think that we,as Indians should keep in our mind before listening to them? We know about Zaid Hamid or Orya Maqbool Jaan, but such folks are truly confusing hyper-Indians who get attracted merely when some Pakistani say some sweet lines.
2.What's with US? Is it true that US is finding that both GOI and GOP are lying(as been narrated by folks like Vipin Narang) or there's something else? If so, do you find any harsher turn by US towards Pakistan in near future?
To SUMANTA NAG: A) The designation won’t mean much because the BLA is not a monolith, but is divided into various groups engaged in different areas of Balochistan for autonomously conducting operations. Nor are the BLA’s bank accounts anywhere in the US. Plus, no one can close their eyes to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--kCVLqrPc
B) The discontent there is growing by the day. C) There was nothing shown in that videoclip that provided any clinching evidence. On the other hand, the evidence provided by the IAF through radar tracks is far more convincing. D) No, because the DF-31A & DF-41 ICBMs use such cold-ejection techniques for the missile to leave its cannister.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) That submarine was used for undersea espionage. 2) India had to oblige because a lot of unsavoury Indian citizens hiding in the UAE also have been sent back to India on India’s request. Reciprocity is the name of the game. How many unsavoury German citizens have been or are living in the UAE? 3) Everything is possible, for where there is a will, there will always be a way.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) Most Pakistanis who are living abroad permanently hold dual citizenships, i.e. they are also Pakistani citizens, since Pakistan allows its citizens to hold dual citizenships. And since the Pakistani educational syllabus is totally distorted & non-factual, it is almost impossible to find a rational Pakistani in existence. 2) Folks like Vipin Narang thrive upon myth-creation/myth propagation, rest assured. And here’s more data concerning yesterday’s arrests in Gujranwala & Multan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhkZHz2DKY
And about the mysterious blast near the LoC at Chammb-Barnala sector of the PA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoiyEwar4c
And while the GoI has no dearth of funds to erect giant statues of past ‘netas’ & Bhagwaans & temples, it has no funds available for Disability Pensions:
Sir, Your another prediction going to correct: HP, Dell, Microsoft and Amazon Considering to Move Production out of China https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/hp-dell-microsoft-amazon-considering-071211059.html
Unfortunately, there is no one in India who can analyse matters WRT China in such depth.
To VED: 1) If MMRCA 1.0 was so messy, then rest assured that MMRCA 2.0 will be doubly messy, since it has replaced the earlier & saner 114-unit SEF reqmt. 2) A check of global submarine bases will reveal that such bases are NEVER sited on island-chains that stand exposed to the high seas on all sides. Instead, such bases are located within coves or channels.
To PRATAP: IMF has not cleared a bailout. It has only provided a bridging loan & now it is up to Pakistan whether or not to stay within the IMF’s 3-year programme, since in all previous programmes, it was Pakistan that unilaterally walked out. But this time it is different because the IMF includes several FATF clauses that require compliance. On top of all that, NONE of the lenders have given Pakistan aid money. They are all loans that need to be paid back. Now, if Pakistan is now exporting only mangoes, how the hell can it be expected to emerge out of any financial crisis? So, for all intents & purposes, Pakistan is now well inside a bottomless pit. The PA’s COAS was in the UK to lobby for the prosecution of Altaaf Hussein & some self-exiled Baloch separatist leaders. Najam Sethi doesn’t have the guts/balls to spell out the truth for fear of his life & those of his loved ones. If you want to know the state of Pakistan’s media, so read this:
Now, why do these ‘Kashmiris’ all end up in Karachi or elsewhere inside Pakistan for pursuing medical studies? Isn’t there even a single medical college anywhere inside PoK? If not, then what does this indicate?
it talks about 2 IAf offcials Technical Manager (Air), Air Vice Marshal J.S. Panesar,, ex IAF chief Air Marshal N.A.K. Brown who seems to have manipulated rules in favour of the Rafale.. 2 - Why on the earth have govts been averse to single vendor cases when all that is needed is to have a transparent & time bound approach to get the deal done 3- what is happening on the Mirage, Jag, mig upgrades by HAL. whose workers seem to go on strike @the drop of a hat. who is to be blames for the delays 4- What are your predictions on the new acquisitions based on Modi 2.0 govt budget 5- to your prev reply to Pratap, why even allow Kashimiris to study medicine or anything in pakistan - of all places. JUST BAN IT
http://forceindia.net/new-government-old-budget/ Sorry state of Indian defence budget... With national security verbals in air nothing serious on ground...
Hello prasunji! At last, the budget is presented. 1.Setting aside defence, what's most funny is that they are introducing "study in India" to attract foreign students! My friend who is working in one of the Visa consultancy once said to me that once a Canadian consulate worker said to him that Indian students are immigrating there by "planes bhar bhar ke"! Also, you said once that 2 Chinese university alone holded around 10K Indian students. I don't know what in world was this FM thinking.She also purposed of setting up national research foundation to enhance and coordinate home grown research. Do you think it would work?? 2.A new narrative being circulated around d the world by some journal is that India is heading towards fascism and that every Muslim would be targetted one day.Even some goras are doing so. What's your view?
To JUST_CURIOUS: 1) Yes, MMRCA-1 was indeed a totally flawed process simply because (as I had explained several times before) no one in the world has licence-built 4th-gen combat aircraft & for India to expect licence-building Rafales was an INFANTILE thought. MMRCA-2 (for 36 Rafales off-the-shelf) was what should have been initiated back in 2007, as I had explained in detail in a dedicated thread before. MMRCA-3 is what the 114-unit reqmt is all about. And no matter which MRCA is chosen, licence-building any chosen 4-gen MRCA will be a financial no-brainer, rest assured. 2) because NO Indian politician can guarantee 100% honesty in such deals, nor does any politician have the brains/capacity reqd for giving such guarantees. Just check how many sitting MPs in Parliament have criminal cases registered against them. If political parties can’t produce homest MPs, then how can they be expected to produce honest procurement deals? 3) Jaguar IS/DARIN-3 upgrade is proceeding on schedule now. But why did HAL get involved in upgrading such a small number of Mirage-2000s while it was denied participation in the far larger MiG-29UPG upgrade project (the IAF’s Nashik-based 11 Base Repair Depot is upgrading the MiG-29s)? This defies logic!!!
To BUDDHA: LoLz! Rest assured that the funds reqd for defence spending are more than enough. It is another matter that the spending processes are totally flawed & the bloated IA gets to spend the maximum amount when it should be the IAF & IN that should be getting the majority of the funds. Even in China, it is the PLA Navy that gets 53% allocation of the annual defence budget.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) Actually, that is meant for attracting students from India’s immediate neighbours. Don’t forget that within the coming 50 years due to rising sea-water levels, countries like Maldives & Mauritius won’t exist. So where will their populations go to? They have choice no choice but to choose from either India or Sri Lanka. So, such funds are meant for preparing for such a future addition to India’s population. 2) Such reportage also carry the risk of being discredited within a short timespan. Meanwhile, here is another brilliant analysis about how Pakistan is headed for financial dismemberment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIS8_-5bpU
And an analysis of BLA’s designation as a terrorist outfit, plus closing oral submissions made at the ICJ about the Kulbhushan Jadhav Case:
Thx for your replies but if Jag upgrades are only limited to darin 3 stds what the point as the jets are already underpowered. will the engine upgrade ever happen and if it happens the jets will need to be again pulled out of service for the overhaul .. also as times passes will it make sense to do the upgrades?... will jaguar MAX ever be a reality?
Prasunda, A logical move https://theprint.in/defence/army-chiefs-new-experiment-major-general-is-ceo-of-ak-203-rifle-factory-in-amethi/259019/ Another measure should also be taken. That is, all staffs of the factory should be taken from those army soldiers who retires prematurely from service. It will create more disciplined and more efficient workforce rather than civilian people. Your view please. Thanks, Regards.
I wonder if the designation of BLA is a quid pro quo, its what Pak and China got for agreeing to Azhar being listed?
Currently Im is getting very close to Putin and has even been invited to a conference in Russia by him. Where do you think this will head to?
Im is also going to USA, I have a feeling that him and Trump will get on very well. Trump is so reported- does not trust his military generals about Afghanistan and wants out but needs to keep an eye on what happens there. They will ask Im to do that, what can he ask for in return?
What if USA under trump starts to give aid to pak again, what are our options?
Sir, now that IBG have been test bedded, any numeric breakup leaked to you? Seems like these are brigade sized, allocations on the lines of american BCT.
2) Was thinking how do smaller IBG size units do not get overwhelmed by much larger division sized units while invading enemy territory in initial phase of war, if they have no technological superiority?
3) how is cyber division planned to be deployed? Is it going to be paper formation attached to other units, or separate fighting force albeit for virtual battlefield?
4) any scope of milking few units from RR and reforming them into a dedicated infantry formation on LOC? Not a formation that needs to 3 week reorientation. Maybe free them by adding more CAPF on deputation for counter insurgency? 1 company per RR battalion should give enough to raise 1 division and 1 briagde.
5) Does RR and regular army conducts counter insurgency in NE too, or just Special forces aiding Assam Rifles and CAPF/Police?
To JUST_CURIOUS: No, both DARIN-2 & DARIN-3 Jaguar IS will get F125N turbofans. The DARIN-2 Jaguars will then be upgraded to Jaguar MAX standard. Engine installation is of the drop-in type which can be conducted at the air base itself. The budget for India’s defence spending is enough to meet genuine reqmts, and not the wishful reqmts of a bloated IA & an unproductive military-industrial complex. For instance, Russia manages with far less, as its annual defence budget is only US$50 billion.
To UJJWAL: But why not try to get business professionals as lateral entrants to run the OFBs? Why waste a serving IA Maj Gen for doing such a job? Is this done anywhere else in the world?
To RAT2: It was a quid pro quo to please China, but at the same time the move is useless since no one is even contemplating the extradition to Pakistan of the BLA’s Chief patron Harbeyaar Marri. As for IAKH being invited to both Russia & the US, the intention is to force Pakistan to capitulate to the US & Russian demands for de-weaponising as many factions of the Afghan Taliban as possible. And that’s because everyone knows that on-going talks with the Afghan Taliban will go nowhere since the US has been constantly changing the goalposts & has now declared that it will never terminate its military presence in Afghanistan, which is directly contradicting the main demand of the Afghan Taliban. The US is already giving aid to Pakistan, because of the US$6 billion meant for Pakistan, US$4 billion will be used by Pakistan to pay for its past IMF loans. Hence, in real terms, the IMF is directly injecting only US$2 billion into Pakistan’s economy. Thus, Pakistan is now in an eternal debt trap & has no more cards to negotiate with either the US, or Europe, or Russia.
To VSJ: 1 &2) And despite all my previous explanations on the impossibility of creating IBGs, you still chose to lap up that report lock, stock & barrel! Just read that report a few more times & you will hopefully spot all the inherent flaws in that reportage. For starters, how can divisions separated hundreds of km from one another become parts of any functional Corps? In times of emergencies, it will become a logistical nightmare to assemble these divisions into their wartime areas of responsibility. Secondly, the very notion of having separate Infantry Battle Groups (IIBG), Integrated Armoured Battle Groups (IABG) or Integrated Artillery Battle Groups (IArtyBG) is a negation of the term ‘Integrated’. Without armour, mechanised infantry cannot survive & without artillery, both infantry & armour cannot survive. And without air-defence artillery, none of the other three can survive. Hence, any IBG will be reqd to have all such elements embedded within one single warfighting formation. Finally, if it is not known what quantum & type of fire-support will be delivered by the IAF, then how will the IBG commander be able to plan for mobilising his reqd field artillery resources? Will the IAF always be on hand to deliver immediate close air-support?
Hence, the bottomline is as follows:
1) IBGs cannot be planned for & raised by only the IA. It has to be a joint services endeavour in which the first shots will have to be fired by the IAF, meaning the IAF & not the IA will have to become the lead service-provider for the IBG to successfully complete its taskings. So, anyone talking about the IBG as being only an IA-led affair is talking & spreading BALONEY.
2) Since speed & tempo are of the essence is making quick breakthroughs, veryical envelopment tactics are reqd, meaning an IBG will require its own integral RSH helicopters, attack helicopters, battlefield surveillance helicopters & medium-lift troop transport helicopters. None of these are presently available within the IA.
Cyber Division is only meant for information warfare. It will be located deep within the hinterland since its expertise is not meant for battlefield applications. RR is only meant for use within J & K, and nowhere else.
If we buy extra su30 and mig29s, along with 2 more rafale squadron, who will be tasked with interdiction role pulling high daily sortie rate like you mentioned? Seems like jaguar and mirages will be busy with close air support or deep penetration?
Prasun sir, You had written one article about the structural reforms carried out in IA some times back in this blog. I can't find that one. Can you provide the link for that? Thanks.
Welcome move.... When extra upgraded mig 29s going to be ordered Do you think Super su 30mki be finalised As per your description above IBG will in real fighting situation be critical nightmare if no synargy or deep understanding established with air force .
Extradition won't happen but being associated with him (or BLA)is now a major risk. People may back away now.
I thought Trump has stopped all aid to Pak. This is disappointing, what amount of aid is still getting through?
If the worst were to happen, Taliban becoming the ruling party in Afghanistan, what options do we have, considering both China and Russia now have shown willingness to co-exist with the Taliban?
Also couldn't agree more that IBG's cannot survive a fight against Pak without air superiority. That how uncle SAM fights.
1.Remember I asked you about Iranian activity in Kashmir few months back? Well, it seems that the issue of whose reference I was asking you blew up! First it was ex-RA&W officer RK Yadav who claimed about Ansari, now it's another officer called NJ Sood. Your thoughts?
2.You said that funds are enough.Do you think ordering new MMRCA(F-21) would be viable if additional Mig-29s, Su-30MKI solution is to be ignored?If so when it would likely happen, as per your calculations?
3.Interestingly, you said that Taliban talks would go no where and US wouldn't leave Afghanistan.Is that true, then is that possible that US would use military as much as it did post-2001? If so,then would it be inside pakistani territory or US will repeat mistake of aligning with Pakistan? Words are floating from few American think tanks that US will try to repair back the relation with Pakistan so that it could have over taliban.Your POV?
Sir , When I was kid, I remember the monkey man episode, and as kid I was terrified.
Also at same time muhnochwa episodes was going on in UP.
Then there were reports that IB got involved, then ISRO. I remember at one stage ISRO unofficially stated that it might ETB.
Also I remember IB stated they recorded a being on footage. https://m.timesofindia.com/city/lucknow/Extra-terrestrials-invade-UP-says-IB/articleshow/19397236.cms
But after all that, it was nothing. And all things were gone by year 2003. What was special about 2002?
Also it was just mass hysteria, or something else?
To ACCIDENTAL LOSER: What I had explained earlier was the difference between structural reforms & administrative reforms. The former involves joint services operations & joint theatre commands, whereas the latter involves getting rid of mid-level officers from IA HQ, cutting down on administrative/logistical manpower reqmts, etc etc. But since my previous explanation, another explanation in greater detail is offered here:
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) What is there to say or comment upon? 2) No. If 50 additional MiG-29UPGs are procured and if the Super Su-30MKI upgrade project & Jaguar IS re-engining project all take off this year, then there will be no urgency for procuring 114 F-21s. Instead, that money will be better spent if the next tranche of 44 Rafales are ordered off-the-shelf. 3) It is all explained here in clear terms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6thLIQM90
To ARPIT KANODIA: These events happen from time to time in areas where electromagnetic anomalies exist, meaning certain inter-dimensional phenomena are manifested in areas where such anomalies take place, like Skinwalker Ranch in the US.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-allocation-disappoints-military/article28313288.ece/amp/ Why committed liabilities fund is less then alloted fund for air force and navy
this *#$% of an UN body keeps spitting out these reports https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-lodges-diplomatic-protest-over-new-un-report-that-alleges-rights-violations-in-jammu-and-kashm-2066103?pfrom=home-topscroll why doesnt India pull out of it & show them their place .. Take trump as an example...we have been doing some of the highest number of peace keeping missions across the world for this impotent body, who btw id yet to pay for the sevices and yet one of its wings has the audacity to print this S$%^....
Prasun in reply to VSJ above on July 8, 2019 at 5:59 AM, you have mentioned
Tejas Mk.2 is DEAD, period. Now it is the turn of the LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF to be developed.
1) My question is, "What is the difference between Tejas Mk.2 and LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF"? Also in what way is LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF better than the Tejas Mk.2 or is it a compromise. 2) Is naval M2 going to be based on LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF or Tejas Mk.2?
Phenomenal acceleration of Russia's latest BMD interceptor missile:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bag2HJhcV44
That was seriously fast.
DeleteHere's a video I thought you would find interesting. It shows just how fast BMD missiles can be. At around 0:24 mark, you can see the missile's body getting white hot due to its speed!
Deletehttps://youtu.be/kvZGaMt7UgQ
ReplyDeletehi prasun
i guess that launch should have experienced 100G!!!
it seems we have ordered additional missiles ie the aa-11 and aa-12 are we getting the latest version or the old versions.??
how do you rate the article by sameer joshi on his take and detailed analysis of the air to air encounter?
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RE : Phenomenal acceleration of Russia's latest BMD interceptor missile
ReplyDeleteHoly cow !!!
1) Whats the designation of this interceptor missile & is it a new design ?
2) Looking at the size of it and the launcher carrying vehicle, this not a mobile unit but
more of static land based type.
3) Any chance of India going for it along with the S400 in future.
4) Whats the speed and interception range of this BMD missile.
BMD missiles are typically very fast, though not as fast as the ICBMs they try to shoot down. Here is american sprint missile being test launched. You can also see the even faster ICBM RV streak by later in the video.
Deletehttps://youtu.be/YZZV464z9g8
ReplyDeletehi prasun
can you pse elaborate on the russia`s modern air to air missileswith some pics, ie rrv-sd , rrv md and rrv bd
When do you think HSTDV will be available as a product ?
ReplyDeleteRegards,
Venky
Hi Prasun,
ReplyDeleteMany commentators have written a lot about India China relationship and how China has taken over South Asia Indiaa how it is better to agree to BRI, etc., Because China is going to press on its agenda in South Asia no matter what.
They basically conclude that time is not with India and we should compromise especially given the fact that Modi botched up the economy in modi1.0 govt.
Your thoughts.
Regards,
Srinivasa Nanduri
To RAD: Check out the last comment in the previous thread on AAM orders. Meanwhile, this is what needs tgo be installed on those An-32Bs that are flying over mountainous terrain under zero-visibility conditions:
ReplyDeletehttp://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2015/12/vvip-b777-300ers-for-iaf.html
https://elbitsystems.com/media/Cearvision_EVSAward_2016.pdf
The EVS will do away with the need for procuring C-295s as replacements for the An-32B, as is being advocated by certain ‘desi patrakaars’ here:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/an-32-may-be-taken-off-critical-operations/story-zMpE9WPqjGdaN5hytxU2IN.html
https://theprint.in/defence/iaf-plans-to-stop-flying-an-32-over-mountains-and-seas-after-arunachal-crash/250321/
To SK: It is the PRS-1M missile, which is a part of the A-135 short-range BMD system. The missile is an upgrade of the older T-6 interceptor—with a detachable rocket-steered warhead. Mopre details here:
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gazeta.ru%2Farmy%2F2018%2F12%2F17%2F12098173.shtml
To VENKY: In another 6 years. Until then, the 3M22 Zircon/BrahMos-2 will have to be relied upon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/us/politics/trump-cyber-russia-grid.html
ReplyDeleteAny defences against such acts by Chinese against us
@prasun da
ReplyDelete1. to me HSTDV is utter waste of tax payer money when brahmos 2/zircon is readily available
2. the news of defects on INS Khanderi, are they true?
3. figured out from where IAF cn its 8 Mig 29s to complete its 6 squadrons these are 69 IAF (CURRENT)+ 34 (RUSSIA) + 15 RMAF (recently sent to premature retirement& stored as active reserve) + 8 Bangladesh AF (AFAIK BAF is breaking its head on how to maintain the 8 jets)=total 126 (full 6 squadrons)
4. heard Russia may give the 45 Mig 29s grabbed from ukraine in crimea to Iran, how true is that?
5. why Iran attack the oil tankers knowing that it will harm iran, thats a stupid act
joydeep ghosh
To RAD: All the info is available online:
ReplyDeleteR-73 RVV-MD can hit both fixed-wing and rotor-wing aircraft from any direction at day or night. Its maximum range is 40km (R-73E had 30km). IIR sensor is of the 2-colour IR/UV-type, has +/-60 degree angle of sensor tilt in azimuth (R-73E had +/-45 degrees). The manoeuvere control is aero- and gas-dynamical. The maximum AoA is more than 70 degrees.
http://roe.ru/eng/catalog/aerospace-systems/air-to-air-missile/rvv-md/
R-77 RVV-SD’s maximum range is 110km (RVV-AE is 80 km), minimum range is 0.3 km. Can engage targets manoeuvring at up top 12 G. Target altitude engagement envelope is between 0.02km and 25km. Fuse is of the laser-n-contact type. Warhead comprises multi-cumulative rods and weighs 22.5kg. Missile weight is 190kg. Length is 3.71 metres. Diameter is 0.2 metres. Wingspan is 0.42 metres. The guidance system is inertial on the mid-course, with radar-correction and an active radar seeker for terminal homing.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mDvQ8xYRdSI/Su3WsJV8pMI/AAAAAAAAAkQ/JrBBEK7-lm4/s1600-h/28.08.2009+22-31-42_0020.jpg
http://roe.ru/eng/catalog/aerospace-systems/air-to-air-missile/rvv-sd/
R-37M RVV-BD:
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/15/russia-new-r37m-air-air-missile-unique-unmatched/
To VENKY: And before you can ask, here's the data on BrahMos-2:
ReplyDeleteThe 3M22 Zircon/BrahMos-2 is a hypersonic missile able to accelerate to about Mach 9. It has a range of more than 1,000km and is able to destroy both sea-going and land targets. Zircon is primarily intended to arm seagoing platforms. It can also be launched from a coastal location to hit a warship 500km off the coastline in less than five minutes. It is being developed by the Scientific Production Organization for Machinery-building, or NPO Mash. The body length is estimated at 10 to 11 metres (e32-36 feet), warhead weight at 300 to 400kg (660-880 pounds), and peak altitude along the trajectory at 30 to 40km (100,000-130,000 feet). The baseline naval version has a two- or even three-stage configuration with acceleration at launch and climb achieved through solid-fuel boosters. An air-breathing scramjet takes over in cruise and terminal stages of flight. Reportedly, the first firing trials took place in March 2016, followed by a launch from a naval platform 11 months later, in which development prototypes accelerated to Mach 8. Key technologies for the new missile have been tested on a number of experimental vehicles from TsIAM, (Central Institute of Aviation Motors named after Baranov), and TsAGI (Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Zhukovsky). Zircon’s development benefited from earlier testing of the MKB Raduga’s GELA Hypersonic Experimental Flight Vehicle. Demonstrated at the MAKS 1995 expo, this 15-tonne winged missile reached between Mach 4 and Mach 5. While the Zircon was first displayed at the MAKS 2009 expo, the BrahMos-2 was first shown at the Aero India 2013 expo.
Sir, the Brits have no problem with their universities participating in foreign nation's weapon development of strategic nature?
ReplyDeleteEspecially since they don't have a similar weapon ready today for sale, and Russian entities are involved?
Why has MoD made another committee on OROP ? The dust has barely settled on the issue.
ReplyDeleteCan our babudom do anything in a simple straight forward way ?
Regards
Venky
To SRINIVASA NANDURI: You must be referring to this:
ReplyDeletehttps://theprint.in/opinion/modis-india-can-compete-co-exist-with-xis-china-negative-foreign-policy-will-only-hurt/249917/
In reality, China continues to engage in combative diplomacy & is upping the ante regarding the BCIM concept. Here is another interesting read:
https://www.firstpost.com/india/narendra-modis-new-outreach-to-china-is-bigger-than-just-foreign-policy-and-may-hold-keys-to-asias-future-6816031.html
TO VSJ: It was such academic institutions of the UK that had trained the first generation of DRDO technicrats back in the 1960s.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: LoLz! From where did the figure of 45 emerge? And why according to you should the Malaysians let gop of their MiG-29s? The SSK problems are real & involve problems with the gearbox & propeller transmission shaft. Russia itself has more than 100 MiG-29 airframes still available for sale after being upgraded.
Sir what about Indian developed ghatak assault rifle ..When it is going to manufactured in large number
ReplyDeleteOr army is going for only AK 203 ...
Is prahar inducted or development process is going on...
Can Indian air force go for that 100 plus russian mig 29 upgraded for its own short fall...
When pralay battle field missle is going to be tested ...
Your article in this edition of Force is very informative about chinese navy nuclear submarine force
Ghatak assault rifle is with crpf and some state police forces, army is going for ak 203,sig 716 and caracal carbine etc.
DeleteTo PIERRE ZORIN: Behold! The after-effects of the IAF's Balakot air-strike & the sword of FATF hanging over Pakistan's neck:
ReplyDeletehttps://indianexpress.com/article/india/alert-jk-pakistan-input-india-us-threat-ied-vehicle-attack-awantipora-pulwama-sco-summit-bishkek-5782710/
Conclusion: Ideological national security states like Pakistan can NEVER be engaged by democratic/secular welfare states, but only CONTAINED.
As for counter-terror exercises & their utility, kindly go through this:
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-myanmar-forces-coordinate-destroy-north-east-insurgent-camps-across-border-5782686/
hi prasun
ReplyDeletegiven the high state of alert it would be shrewd t o order the rrv bmd long range missile . will the russians sell? and integrate on the su-30mki?
the faults in the sub are due to negligence ? its shows how bad the sysytems are in plcae to check such quality issues?how did it pass thru Naval groups inspection ??
*why continue with brahmos 2 if HSTDV is on the horizon
ReplyDelete*is the IAF going in for R-37M? if so, will it be used against awacs in similar incidents like the balakot episode? and couldn't the IAF use air launched brahmos to do that?
@prasun da
ReplyDeletethis link says Russia capture Ukrainian airbase in Crimea where in all probability the mig 29s were captured by Russia as a result the numers went down from 90 to near 30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stbdwjnDxns
Joydeep Ghosh
Thanks for answering my question in the other thread.
ReplyDeleteSlightly unclear on two things:
1) Is a pylon mounted MAWS being actively pursued for IAF fighters?
2) Are the new batch of AAMs on order from Russia and are in fact the RVV-MD and RVV-SD?
Thanks for any clarity.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: You should have consulted a few other links for determining the exact number of MiG-29s of Ukraine that fell into Russian hands, such as these:
ReplyDeletehttps://theaviationist.com/2014/08/04/mig-29-flight-status/
https://112.international/russia/mig-29-fighters-left-by-ukraine-in-crimea-completely-obsolete-russian-mp-39520.html
To BHOUTIK: Simply because the HSTDV is in the DISTANT/NOT VISIBLE horizon whereas the BrahMos-2 is on the VISIBLE hotizon.
To RAD & BHOUTIK: How can a longer-range R-37M LRAAM be more advantageous? Instread, it will require a longer period of illumination by the launch aircraft’s MMR, which will give enough time for the launch aircraft to either activate its self-protection EW suite or to take evasive measures. The R-77 has a top speed of more than Mach 4.5 & the Meteor almost Mach 5. So if they have to travel to the edge opf their range envelopes, they will do it in a shorter timeframe, especially against inbound hostile airborne combat aircraft. Hencfe, the essence for BVRAAMs today is higher speeds (through ramjet propulsion) rather than longer range. And as proven on February 27, firing AIM-120C-5s from extreme standoff ranges resulted in ZERO kill probability, since the targetted IAF Su-30MKIs had more than enough time to activate their EL/L-8222 ASPJs, each of which can simultaneously neutralize eight active emitting threats.
To KCHONTA: That’s exactly what happens when an army decides to induct 7.62 x 39 SLRs in 1963, followed by 5.56 x 45 SLRs in the late 1980s, and followed by 7.62 x 51 SLRs in 2016.
New appointments in the PA:
Lt Gen Faiz Hameed is the next DG of ISI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9xrGSHuy5c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bncK8viXlrE
To TECHNOLOGY, PHOTOGRAPHY & TREAVEL:
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/nit-rourkela-converting-fruit-waste-to-ethanol/article27949629.ece?homepage=true
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/novel-selenium-graphene-catalyst-for-fuel-cells/article27949672.ece?homepage=true
Meanwhile, fatigue is setting in inside J & K, especially after the framing of criminal charges against the separatists:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/75-of-militants-killed-in-kashmir-valley-were-locals/article27407253.ece
And here are the 3 reasons why the Pak cricket tem lost to India yesterday in the UK:
They can’t do the Math:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1488354/bad-math-big-blunders
They decided to relive the spirit of Feb.27, when the PAF was thraqshed by the IAF:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9K9v1UW4AAYWgS.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9K9v1PWsAAxgGR.jpg
3) They had spent the previous night getting high at the Sheesha Bar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTTxNhHU94
News from the on-going Paris Air Show:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-16/sea-eagle-mpa-breaks-cover
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-15/jf-17-thunder-lightning-strikes-twice
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-16/russian-ew-weaknesses-endure-while-other-nations-innovate
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-15/french-military-advances-airbus-h160m-program
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-15/sixth-gen-fighters-already-drawing-board
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-16/mbda-unveils-scaf-weapons-vision
ReplyDeleteNew appointments in the PA:Lt Gen Faiz Hameed is the next DG of ISI
And today something happening
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/army-major-killed-3-soldiers-injured-in-encounter-in-jammu-and-kashmir-2054619?pfrom=home-livetv
It is unacceptable that ISI and PA have free-hand inside our border.
Calls for some serious preemptive action.
Sir,
ReplyDelete1) As per your reply to PIERRE ZORIN
Army Vehicle Attacked In Jammu And Kashmir's Pulwama, 5 Soldiers Injured
(https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jammu-and-kashmir-pulwama-army-convoy-attacked-with-improvised-explosive-device-2054706) Pakistan warning is correct.
2) FATF steps ineffective for Pakistan so far, time to put it on black list
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-editorials/fatf-steps-ineffective-for-pakistan-so-far-time-to-put-it-on-black-list/
So FATF black-list Pakistan.
3) Even ACM S. KRISHNASWAMY (RETD) against the old aircraft.
Why you always say no such thing as an old/obsolete aircraft.
To SBM: 1) The pylon attachments housing fore & aft MAWS sensors are meant only for Jaguar IS/DARIN-3, Super Su-30MKI & MiG-29UPG, i.e. where sufficient ground-clearance is available so as not to restrict the underwing payload attachment options.
ReplyDelete2) Baseline AAM models are in production only in Ukraine. Russia-produced AAMs are all of latest production standard.
This is what happens when some Indians ASSUME that they are blessed with all-knowing wisdom. Jugaad obviously has its limits!!!
ReplyDeleteAn accidental fire at a naval dockyard resulted in damage to a recently upgraded Kilo class submarine. The Navy is now checking critical components in the control room to get it back to functional duty. The INS Sindhukesari, which underwent a Rs 1,197-crore refit and upgrade in Russia and was shipped back in February, suffered the accident when certain indigenous components as well as a US-origin optronic periscope were being fitted onboard. While the submarine got a 10-year life extension upgrade at a shipyard in Zvyozdochka, Russia, a part of the work was to be completed at the Mumbai yard by the Navy, the biggest task being the integration of an L3 Communications periscope that would give it all-weather vision. Sources said the fire took place in the first week of March during welding. While the damage is believed to have been contained and there were no injuries, critical components in the control room were affected by the soot produced by the fire. These have to be individually checked and cleaned before the submarine can be given the all-clear. Officials said the submarine is being worked upon, and it would take at least another month before it can be deemed fit for service after the refit and life extension. Russian and Indian teams have been working on the submarine since the accident and components are being carefully analysed to assess long-term impact of the incident. The Kilo class submarines, named the Sindhughosh class by the Indian Navy, were acquired in the 1980s and have been prone to a number of accidents in recent years as their originally planned service life draws to an end. The INS Sindhurakshak was lost with its crew in an explosion in 2013 while torpedoes were being loaded, while a fire onboard INS Sindhuratna in 2014 led to two personnel losing their lives. Given a shortage of conventional submarines — the Navy currently has nine Sindhughosh class submarines, four Shishumar class and one Kalvari class in service — a plan was drawn up to squeeze some more life out of the Russian-origin fleet. India signed a contract with Russia in October 2015 to extend the service life of four of the boats by 10 years. The refit was not only a life extension but also an upgrade of combat potential.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/fire-damages-submarine-at-mumbai-yard/articleshow/69819050.cms?utm_source=twitter_wap&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharebuttons&from=mdr
Hello Prasunda,
ReplyDelete1.What are the chances of India getting S-400 considering US pressure?
2.Are the contracts formally signed?
Thanks,
Soikot Banerjee
Hello sirji,
ReplyDeleteLast time my comment got ignored.I hope that won't be the case here:
1.It seems GOI is conducting crackdown against OSINT sources in social media:
https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1140553436506861568?s=19
2.As even you posted 2 pics of ISPR bringing police to cricket,we have delusional folks who continuously fall into nonsense of "Sweet talking" of pakistanis:
https://twitter.com/ReallySwara/status/1140350518893481984?s=19
Your comments????
Thank you...
To ANUP: 1) How did Pakistan have advance information of this attack if the attack was locally planned & executed by local human resources? 3) He never said that the An-32B should be replaced ASAP. And that’s because these very same aircraft never posed any difficulties between the mid-1980s & the year 2000 when they were flying the very same routes over mountains & seas. All An-32Bs should have been upgraded during the first half of the previous decade itself as per the aircrafts’ mid-life refit schedules. As this was not done, it not the aircraft’s OEM’s or aircraft design’s fault, but the fault is that of the IAF. With sufficient upgrading, such aircraft can last for another 30 years. And if India can obtain sub-systems & components from Ukraine & supply them to Russia for the IN’s 2 new-build Project 1135.6 FFGs, surely then it is equally possible for the IAF to procure An-32B-related components & sub-systems from Russia-based OEMs & supply them to Antonov for the sake of upgrading & refitting the IAF’s An-32Bs. Lastly, ACM Krishnaswamy is not a licenced aeronautical engineer. He is only an aviator & will therefore not be conversant with aeronautical engineering terminologies.
ReplyDeleteTo DASHU: You seem to have missed this figure: As reported earlier, till May 25 this year, 33 locals had joined various terror groups, while 200 were recruited in 2018.
This clearly indicates a drastic reduction in the recruitment of locals, since all those Mullahs & Muftis of the Jamaat-e-Islami & the APHC factions involved brainwashing the local youth during the weekly Friday afternoon sermons in the Masjids & Madrassas of the valley have been apprehended & are now behind bars.
https://newsroom.mbda-systems.com/mbda-unveils-its-vision-of-future-air-systems/
ReplyDeletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9PsKcbWwAElaoF.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9Pt3GIXkAApI1B.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9Pp_hJWkAEznNM.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9Pk_SmWkAEGl9F.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9PjApOXoAAk99P.jpg
The above are what I call realistic models of futuristic PGMs, unlike the whimsical models displayed at the Aero India 2015 expo by AM (Ret'd) Deo.
AIM-132 ASRAAM mated with Cobham-built pylon'ejector rack for Jaguar IS/DARIN-2:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz_uhBMX4AAdcXE.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz_uhBKX4AAfhVB.jpg
To SOIKOT BANERJEE: 1) The S-400 contract was inked last year itself & there’s no going back, rest assured.
ReplyDeleteTo PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) If it is against the law of the land, then by all means such sites must be blocked.
2) Such folks can find it affordable to be delusional because they tend to have a rather over-simplistic definition of life & their mortal existence & hence always ASSUME that one size fits all. Such folks always revel in perceptions about how the world ought to be (thereby gaining entry into the delusional category), instead of adopting the pragmatic approach which calls for planning based on what the world is most likely to be in the days ahead. These folks simply shy away from understanding the nature of the beast, which is that every Pakistani has since October 1948 been taught throughout his/her schoolgoing years that India regardless of their respective religious faiths are ‘Kaafirs’ & are therefore inferior in all respects. This is reflected in a comment made yesterday by a Pakistani PTI MP during this talk-show (watch from 0:22:21 till 0:22:50):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewg4oQpXm6w&t=197s
The same goes for the so-called suit/boot-clad intelligentsia of Pakistan (watch from 0:34:00 till 0:34:53):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIJ2B85YuU
There is only a very tiny minority of Pakistanis inside Pakistan today who take the trouble to remain objective in their views/assessments, and the same situation prevails within Pakistani communities living abroad. The bulk of the Pakistanis who have been tutored & fed with gross distortions & revisionist versions of historical events remain brainwashed & if such folks constitute the ruling class of Pakistan, then only a thoroughbred MORON can be expected to harbour illusions about Pakistan normalising ties with India.
The perils of ASSUMING that Indians are blessed with all-knowing wisdom:
ReplyDeleteThe Navy's 10 Type 877EKM Kilo-class submarines were all bought off-the-shelf from Russia & thereby the Indian Navy never possessed any design data for such submarines. It was in 2012 that some 'Smart Alec' within Navy HQ came up with the idea of installing US-supplied optronic periscopes (from L-3 KEO) on such submarines. But this option became unimplementable after April 2014 when the US imposed sanctions against Russia. Hence, a US-built periscope could never be sent to any Russian shipyard for installation on-board an Indian Navy-owned submarine that was to undergo a mid-life refit there. So what next? The 'Smart Alec' within Navy HQ decides to do the installation work in a Navy-owned Dockyard with Indian Navy engineering personnel. But how could they undertake such work when the design/engineering drawings of the submarine were not in the Navy's possession? The 'Smart Alec' then decides to take the risk of cutting open the submarine's coning tower & the inner hull sections for installing the periscope & then welding all the torn hull-sections back. All said, this was thus a 'trial-and-error' approach that was destined to produce disastrous results. And that is exactly what happened at the Indian taxpayer's expense!!!
A similar incident took place in the previous decade when the Indian Army procured four TPQ-37 Fire Finder counter-Battery radars from Raytheon of the US. Some 'Smart Alec' then within Army HQ decided to incorporate indigenously produced tyres on the wheels of the trucks housing the radars. But when the indigenous tyres were shipped to the US for being fitted to the rims of trucks' wheels, it was discovered that the tyres were incompatible with the rims. So what next? At far greater costs, the dimensions of the rims of the wheels were changed & new rims were manufactured, all just to accommodate the indigenous tyres!!!
Isko kehte hai jarrorat se jyaada hoshiyar banna....btw would love to know their names who are bestowed with such vast pool of knowledge, of course if u want to share....
DeleteHi Prasun,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your reply.
I find Pakistani mentality is shaped by our own behaviour towards them. How much of below is truth:
https://theprint.in/opinion/global-print/sandwiched-between-xi-putin-imran-in-bishkek-modi-learnt-an-important-political-lesson/251384/
And what can India do to address the agressive and combative diplomacy from China. We seem to be out of ideas here, only reacting to a situation.
Even our American policy seems adrift.
Regards,
Srinivasa Nanduri
How does AIM 132 ASRAAM compares to RVV-MD ?? Also does ASRAAM have all aspect attack capability??? Does Chinese have any all aspect IIR missile ???
ReplyDeleteInteresting innovation: Using the CPU of the IRST sensor as a common processor, the nose-mounted IRST sensor can now be networked with MAWS sensors to achieve 360-degree hemispherical IRST capability, which in turn can now employ conformal DIRCM apertures to shoot laser beams at all types of incoming guided AAMs & SAMs, thereby doing away with countermeasures dispensers & towed decoys:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-18/leonardo-introduces-mair-threat-warning-system
This is what will go on board 6th-generation MRCAs that will emerge from the US & Western Europe in the following decade.
To SRINIVASA NANDURI: LoLz! I had already exposed the writer of such FAKE NEWS earlier as being someone who revels is delusional speculation & spreading destructive rumours. This was later conclusively proven by her own Editor, who, while speaking on the same subject, had quoted Op-Eds written by Dr Husain Haqqani & Naila Inayat, but had refrained from quoting the stories written by his own editorial staff! What this Lady Staffer doesn't understand is that in foreign policy matters, there is no such thing as climbing down or stepping back. And like I had stated earlier, this lady staffer has a penchant for writing on how the world ought to be, instead of focussing on what the world is most likely to be in the days ahead. She is also the one who had stated on a TV channel 2 years ago that the US & Russia were tens of thousands of miles apart (she was obviously unaware of the Bering Straits)!!!
ReplyDeleteHence, it is now more than ever imperative to expose the originators of patent falsehoods & their malign intentions.
Meanwhile, more revelations on the pathetic state of Gilgit-Baltistan:
https://www.dawn.com/news/1488872/a-national-problem
Prasun,
ReplyDeleteon the article “Export or perish”, MoD warns private defence firms
idrw.org .Read more at India No 1 Defence News Website http://idrw.org/export-or-perish-mod-warns-private-defence-firms/ .
it clearly comes out that the govt blatently is siding/pussy footing DPSU's while threating private sector. why the hell should the pvt sector get itself involved in defence.. Also why does neither FCCI or CII question / take the govt to task on being baised towards DPSu's
- Anything interesting in paris airshow for the indian armed forces?
- why is LCA not on display while JF 17 is in the paris airshow
https://www.dailyo.in/politics/indian-army-ficv-pakistan-china-t-90-pulwama-balakot/story/1/31148.html
ReplyDeleteIs it true?? If yes then it is such a shame on such highly educated IAS officers who doesnt have an iota of knowledge unfortunately..
Sir,
ReplyDelete1.is it possible for the Indian Navy to order more mh 60r's for its NMRH requirement in addition to the 24 mh-60r now being processed?
2.how many sig 716 do you think will end up with the Indian Army?
3.Why is it that the land based barak-8 is getting delayed? When do you think the orders will be placed?
4.do you think the drdo tapas uav will get inducted in the armed forces? seems that the each service is pushing a proposal to procure 10 mq-9 uav's each?
5.when do you think the contract for additional Rafales will be signed?
-Pakistan seems to have a very formidable number of Tanks and (light, medium and long range) Artillery, considering IA Tanks and Artillery will be spit between Chinese and Pakistan borders. How many years will it take (if budget permits) for IA to get a decisive edge?
ReplyDelete-Does the PA still presently have a deployment ratio of 54.6%, while the resting and re-equipping ratio is 12.7%, and the remaining 33% is undergoing the training cycle? Is there still 140,000 PA soldiers deployed on the Afghan border? Whats the current state of the PA?
-5 CRPF officers killed in Anantnag, and more terrorist attacks in Pulwama. Will there be any response or is the GOI waiting for 40+ security personal to die before launching a response again?
-Is that true Prasun? Does Dhanush out-range any towed gun or howitzer in the Pakistan Army’s arsenal?
https://theprint.in/opinion/with-dhanush-howitzer-artillery-corps-lends-a-major-combat-arm-to-indian-army-at-loc/212161/
"Importantly, it also outranges any towed gun or howitzer in the Pakistan Army’s arsenal by a significant margin."
"Indeed, the Dhanush makes outranged Pakistani artillery units more vulnerable to Indian counter-battery fire, while itself staying out of reach. Dhanush’s longer range and high rate of fire will also make it useful in defeating localised Pakistan Army’s offensives in sectors of the LoC where the terrain favours the Pakistani side."
Sir, what are the chances of Pakistan getting blacklisted by FATF in its ongoing meeting? Or will China,Turkey and Malaysia save it?
ReplyDeleteo JUST_CURIOUS: And why was an identical warning not issued to the DPSUs? Such step-brotherly treatment can only result in chaos & anarchy. And why did that MoD bureaucrat encourage the private-sector companies to increase their workshare as sub-contractors to the DPSUs? Hence, it looks like the MoD ‘s new RM is still being led by the nose by the MoD’s bureaucrats. And why should a sub-standard & sub-optimal LCA attract anyone’s attention? And here’s what is interesting at this year’s aerospace show at Le Bourget:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-19/f-15ex-eagle-renaissance
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-19/typhoons-digital-stealth-can-evolve-meet-changing-threat
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-18/litening-and-reccelite-gain-sar-capability
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2019-06-18/iai-and-embraer-develop-praetor-600-based-aew-aircraft
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2019-06-18/airbus-picks-thales-flytx-suite-h160m
To AMIT BISWAS: LoLz! This ‘desi patrakaar’ has only now discovered what I have revealed & explained way back in 2016 here:
https://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2017/01/mapping-out-incredible-rollercoaster.html
Worldwide, AIFVs/ICVs are developed in such a way that their performance parameters are synchronised with those of MBTs. In India’s case, which is the benchmark MBT? T-90S or Arjun Mk.1A or Arjun Mk.2? Or the FRCV? When there are no cleare answers to this question, then naturally there will be no specific answers to the question of a definitive FICV’s performance parameters, leave alone its series-production. And that is exactly why I have repeatedly suggested that what the IA requires are Heavy Fire-Support Vehicles like the BMPT Terminator, which can be seamlessly be integrated with the IA’s MBT fleet of T-72s & T-90s. Only then can the BMP-2 ICVs be upgraded to battlefield survivability standards that are acceptable to the IA.
To BENO: 1) There’s no available funding for additional 10-tonne NMRHs since various other procurement projects are already running about 10 years behind schedule. 2) That depends on the quantity specified by the IA HQ & its HQ Northern Command. 3) It is not delayed at all. It is the series-production capacities that are limited in India. 4) Tapas as of now is just a technology demonstrator & it is at least a decade away from entering service, that is if its developmental cycle is completed at all. 5) By next year, not this year for sure.
To THE HUNDRED: You are ASSUMING that all the PA’s hardware will be deployed against India. Situation is now wholly different sibce the Durand Line is not hotter than ever. PA’s deployment footprint is now greater than ever, in fact more than 60% along both the eastern & western fronts, as well as for internal security duties. And I had already mentioned that long-ranges for field artillery howitzers don’t mean anything at all if there are no corresponding long-range airborne battlefield surveillance platforms like JSTARS-type & HALE-UAV platforms. And over mountainous terrain, even the IA’s existing FH-77Bs can attain ranges of 41km as was the case in 1999 throughout northern J & K. Therefore, only a MORON will claim that the Dhanush can outrange the PA’s existing field artillery howitzers along the LoC.
To KAPIL: The shots within the FATF are called by the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan & Indonesia, and not by China or Malaysia or Turkey or even India.
Do we know how many PA units are actually deployed on the Durand Line?
ReplyDeleteMain reason for the question is that few years ago PA started transferring T-59s to FC as well as 122mm artillery. At the same time there where reports that they were planning to raise 90 further FC wings. I am not sure the size of each wing?
Matthew
- Hence, it looks like the MoD ‘s new RM is still being led by the nose by the MoD’s bureaucrats -
ReplyDeleteI don't think a really optimistic and realistic person like you would have expected anything different from this "Kadi Ninda" guy as DM. Real googly is FM which can go either way only time will tell.
DRDO's HSTDV project being a multinational R & D effort, as you mention, a question arises. Who is the IPR rights holder in this case for the HSTDV - the hypersonic missile. Is it DRDO or all the entities that you mentioned?
ReplyDeleteCould you elaborate on that, if you would.
Kane
I think time has come for India to take a real tough stance against Malaysia and its thug PM Mahathir. The old fart is just out to set a world record for being the oldest and continuing goon on the "throne" - a know all that like a wart will never be fully eradicated. Malaysians are just as stupid to believe him and why not after all they believe Pakistan too....
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing this info.found it informative ,this will help Indian neval defence and will give it more strength and make it more stronger
ReplyDeletehttps://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2019/06/19/clash-between-workers-at-payra-power-plant-leaves-chinese-national-dead-7-injured
ReplyDeleteUS drone shot down by Iran, Trump's tweet after it, US forces already deployed in region.... (1) Can a weak Iran take on it if it breaks out? Am asking coz Iran has nothing much to fight with the US for good enough duration... If they have then do tell about it sir....
ReplyDelete2) India's role in it if war breaks out??
3) Pakistan at loss or profit?
4) do u blv that Iranians have already developed a good nuclear bomb? If yes then in case of war... If they see getting badly defeated, possibility of nuclear strike on US n it's forces in range of its missiles??
Prasun sir,
ReplyDeleteIran shoot down us drone
What will be the repercussions happens in future?
Will us go to war with iran?
Will strait of hormuz be closed?
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/boost-to-make-in-india-govt-initiates-process-to-construct-6-stealth-submarines/articleshow/69879013.cms
ReplyDeleteSir has this decision been taken for project 75I submarine...
Sir if indian shipyard can not produce scorpion submarine after so many years how new ship yard gonna do this...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SY85hP8Z0Qg&list=PLVOgwA_DiGzq0uDefnE7KGNq06vtdaD7s&index=2&t=0s
Security Scan - Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HSTDV )
Looking at budgetary constrains which are naval projects gonna get signed this yr...
Hope Sea gurdian ...24NMRH and next batch of Project P8I ...
What are the chances of Modi 2.0 to go for CDS
How indian air force going to increase its number and addition of bramhos in future nirbhoi
And other air launch PGMs and glide bombs will surely increase air force capability.....
Hi Prasun,
ReplyDeleteThere was a missile test from a Su-30MKI yesterday. It was definitely an air-to-air missile and not a routine test. A series of tests are planned.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201906201075979034-india-begins-user-trials-of-russian-air-to-air-missiles-destroys-uk-made-drone-in-drill/
Does this paragraph approach the truth? Particularly the RVV MD and RVV SD?
"It is believed that the missiles that it has been testing at the eastern base are RVV-MD short-range missiles, RVV-SD medium-range missiles, and RVV-BD beyond visual range missiles - the next generation of Vympel’s air-to-air missiles.?
https://twitter.com/rwac48/status/1139759817075990529
ReplyDeletedisappointed?
To MATTHEW: More than 250,000 PA personnel are deployed west of the Indus River & are facing the Durand Line, as per several Pakistani MPs who had been i8nterviewed in the recent past & whose video-lonks I had already posted. Only a quarter of the FC Wings have been raised & those Wings are all meant for policing within the erstwhile FATA & since they are all recruited from the local tribal populace, their allegiances are first & foremost with the tribal clans hailing from FATA & hence they are not trusted by the PA. Thus, the FC can never replace the PA because the latter’s role is frontier domination & counter-insurgency, not policing.
ReplyDeleteTo KANE: The DRDO is the prime IPR owner for the HSDTV platform.
To PIERRE ZORIN: All that India has to do is drastically reduce her Palm Oil imports from Malaysia & proportionally increase her Palm Oil imports from Indonesia. Malaysia is also pissed off by India’s decision to create a joint naval task force with Indonesia (HQed in Sabang, Sumatra) for patrolling the Malacca Straits. I knew about this more than a year ago & therefore was shocked when India decided to send an IAF contingent to the LIMA expo along with tweo Tejas Mk.1 L-MRCAs—an utter waste of the Indian taxpayer’s money!
To BHOUTIK: Why are you so surprised? In any case the Bangladeshis are pissed off with China because of the latter’s unstinted support for Myanmar on the Rohingya issue. But Bangladesh had it coming, since its non-Muslim minority population too has had to seek refuge elsewhere since the early 970s itself due to majoritarian atrocities inflicted on the minority non-Muslim communities. So this is perhaps Allah’s way of dispensing justice by ensuring that what goes around, comes around. But despite all this, China remains hell-bent on maintaining its influence over Dhaka while at the same time trying to undermine India’s influence in both Bangladesh & Myanmar. And that’s why Beijing has off late been trying to resurrect the BCIM regional cooperation programme & link it to the Sino-Myanmar CMEC corridor. At the same time, what has gone unreported in India is that China had last May sponsored some attacks by local Muslim Arakanese against the India-developed port of Sittwe in order to subvert the India-Myanmar Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport/Trade Corridor project. It was then that both India & Myanmar jointly launched OP Sunshine-2 against China-supported insurgents within Myanmar’s Saigang region like ULFA & NDFB & NSCN-K, which resulted in several of the insurgent camps being destroyed through aerial straffing by Myanmar’s Mi-35P attack helicopters, while those that had managed to flee to Bhutan (via Arunachal Pradesh) have since been rounded up & have been handed over to India.
Interestingly, Bangladesh recently procured 250kg LS-6 gliding PGMs from China’s CATIC for its F-7BGIs, while Myanmar is finalizing a deal to procure Spice-2000 PGMs for its FC-1 L-MRCAs. But Myanmar wants RAFAEL to integrate the Spice-2000s to the FC-1s without making any changes to the FC-1’s weapons management system, i.e. it does not want China to come to know anything about the integration methodology know-how or the effectiveness of the Spice-2000.
And also try to analytically figure why all of the sudden the IAF decided to begin using civilian airports throughoput the North East & WB. Was the IAF responding to a crisis or is it preparing for an impending crisis:
http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/may/02/in-a-first-iafs-sukhoi-jets-operate-from-civilian-airports-in-eastern-sector-1971863.html
Such usage of a daily nature are still on-going every night between 1.30am & 3.30am.
To DASHU: So as you can figure it out from the above explanation to BHOUTIK, your’s truly has been rather busy off late in conducting the chowkidaari of the Chowkidaars.
ReplyDeleteTo ASHISH GAUTAM & MOHAN: Great! It’s a call to arms at last! Here’s the info on the shootdown of the US Navy’s MQ-4C Triton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlpU0OZ6R40 1) The US will definitely retaliate by perhaps that IRGC air-defence site that had shot down the HALE-UAS. 2) India won’t have anything to do or say about such incidents. 3) Loss for Pakistan since this will increase the prospect opf Sunni-Shia sectarian strife inside Pakistan. 4) No, they haven’t as yet. Iran is neither an industrialized nor any industrializing country. Just look at the sheer quantum of manufactured products they import.
But what I am far more worried about are the antics & characterless behaviour of the ‘Pappu’ MP in Parliament, as displayed yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP8xHJc3WnM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOsrChMlnYU
I don’t feel sorry for him at all, but rather for the nitwits of Wayanad who elected such a brain-dead person to represent them in Parliament. Yeh nikammaa apne hi purvajoh ka naam mitti mein milaa rahaa hai! Is naalaayak koh to abhi ke abhi chullu bhar paani mein doob marnaa chaahiye!!!
To BUDDHA: Really? So time to feast on Roshogollahs, is it? Arey bhaayaa, how many times will Project 75I be swung from the revolving door, starting from RFI & then a never-surfacing RFP & now the EoI? So, kindly rest assured that only an utopian JALEBI is being cooked, the kind of which never gets cooked elsewhere in this world. And talking of this world, do watch these:
Exctraterrestrial Symbols & Binary Codes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDcYeW80KxQ
George Adamski’s UFO Sightings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eIiIdh3khs
And do read these:
https://steiner.presswarehouse.com/sites/steiner/research/archive/theosophy/theosophy.pdf (about the recycling of human souls)
https://www.redhill.net.nz/ufo/audio/u/UFOs%20and%20Aliens/Flying%20Saucers%20Have%20Landed%20-%20Desmond%20Leslie,%20George%20Adamski.pdf
I assure you that your weekend will be much better spent by watching & reading them.
To SBM: LoLz! What is meant by the term ‘definite’? If you have some images or videoclips of such a ‘test’ then can you kindly share with the rest of us here? Then there are the other questions that will help provide answers for your questions. For instance, weren’t the RVV MD and RVV SD AAMs first revealed at the MAKS-2009 expo? If yes, then would it not be logical to accept that such AAMs have long been integrated with members of the MiG-29 & Su-27/Su-30 families & therefore no test-firings or user-trials are reqd? Is it also not true that annual firings of AAMs & other guided PGMs by the IAF are always carried out at either Pokhran or Surya Lanka & not at Balasore? Is it also not true that the Union Budget for FY 2019 has not yet been presented in Parliament? And if not yet presented, then can we accept that the budget has not been approved & by consequence the MoD has yet to receive the funds reqd for procuring the RVV MD and RVV SD AAMs? And lastly, has anyone from Russia ever stated or shown that the RVV-BD LRAAMs have been cleared for use by members of the MiG-29 & Su-27/Su-30 families?
ReplyDeleteTo BHOUTIK: Ah! The never-ending torret of those among 130 crore Indian citizens who prescribe how the world ought to be, instead of how the world is most likely to be!
Claim: India's stand on the issue has been that the present ground position of the opposing troops be marked and maps and agreements drawn. Also, that these maps and agreements are honoured and no violation of the positions thus marked takes place. Pakistan should have no problem in agreeing to this fair proposal. Subsequently, the issue can be taken forward. As for the remaining issues, it may be possible to find a workable solution for the Sir Creek. The third issue concerns Kashmir, which can definitely be put off for the time being and tackled at a later date.
Reality: Pakistan has NEVER agreed since 1989 to any follow-on delineation of the LoC on maps & since 2008 has insisted that both Siachen & Sir Creek issues be resolved TOGETHER. And since last year, PM IAKN has been insisting that the Kashmir issue be resolved first & foremost. In India’s case, Siachen is no longer an issue of dispute at all since it is firstly, part of the overall issue of PoK’s return back to India as prescribed by UNSC Resolution No.47, & 2) the Karachi Agreement clearly states that any undelineated area like no man’s land or unoccupied territory (which the Baltoro & Siachen Glaciers were prior to April 1984) within J & K belongs to India due to the binding legality of the Instrument of Accession. I had explained all this here:
http://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2017/03/setting-record-straight.html
Claim: India's stance that talks and terrorism cannot go hand in hand runs counter to the very idea of reconciliation.
Reality: And how exactly can anyone reconcile with irreconcilables? By giving it to the self-righteous demands of the latter? Like the USSR did to the Afghan Mujahideen & later ended up self-destructing within 3 years? Like the world reconciled with the breakup of Yugoslavia & gave cause for celebration to the global jihadis who then believed that their jihad was unstoppable anywhere because Islam was destined to be the world’s only & best religion? Didn’t that spur the Jihad inside J & K in the 1990s & also lead to 9/11 & armed revolts in Indonesia, Thailand & The Philippines? Lt Gen Harwant Singh ought to read all about ex-ISI DG Javed Nasir if he wants to understand the nature of the best.
Cont'd from above…
ReplyDeleteClaim: There have been palpable indications that Imran Khan is moving in the direction of dealing with terrorists operating in Pakistan and tackling the spread of radicalisation in the country. Pakistan has travelled so far down the path of terrorism that this tap cannot be shut all too suddenly, nor that easily.
Reality: The reality is exactly the opposite. IAKN is the ultimate radical & revisionist. And that’s how he has been misrepresenting factoids, like these:
https://twitter.com/murtazasolangi/status/1141302260934369280
https://thecurrent.pk/pm-imran-misquotes-rabindranath-tagore-credits-his-words-to-kahlil-gibran/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAUbX-crzS8
Since he has also claims that the Riyaasat-e-Medina has been Islam’s greatest gift to the world, by implication he states that 1) everything before the dawn of Islam was in state of darkness where barbarity was the norm & therefore there was no civilisational existence anywhere else before the arrival of Prophet Mohd. 2) Islam is the world’s pre-eminent religion & therefore only Muslims are divinely endowed with the best qualities/traits. I suppose then that the day is not far when IAKN will order the PAF to bomb to smithrens the sites of Harappa, Mohenjo Daro & Taxila because they dated back to pre-Islamic existences & are therefore they represent grossly inferior human settlements not worthy of preservation (like the Afghan Taliban had destroyed Gautam Buddha’s statues in Bamiyan).
And if Pakistan can ensure ZERO infiltration of Jihadis into Xinjiang since 2001, then what prevents it from achieving a similar feat along the LoC & IB? Is it then common-sensical to grasp/grab Pakistan’s hand & keep holding it even if Pakistan claims this to be the only option available to India while at the same time Indian citizens continue to die year after year, while India waits in vain for Pakistan to acquire the capacities necessary for curbing anti-India terror incidents? Such offers/excuses have been peddled since late 2003 with no end in sight. Anyone accepting such an option is only being delusional & living in a state of denial.
Claim: A graduated realisation appears to be dawning on Pakistan that China is merely interested in its own game plan against India and using it as a proxy, driving it into more and more debt.
Reality: China is the ONLY foreign investor for Pakistan today & its use of Pakistan as an anti-India proxy suits Pakistan’s ruling elite just fine because Pakistan’s two-nation foundational ideology & national security state’s nature can be declared a success only after the destruction of the diametrically opposing formula, i.e. the all-inclusive democratic welfare state of India. And all this is written down in history/religious textbooks prescribed for all schoolgoing Pakistan children & college-going Pakistani undergraduates.
What's happening to Altaaf Hussein in the UK:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7r1EB9JasY
Is ex-Pakistani Federal Finance Minister Ishaak Darr seeking political asylum in the UK? Will he succeed, in case he has crucial documentation about Pakistan's nuclear WMD arsenals & if he wants a tradeoff deal to secure his safety in the UK? Is this related to the earlier FGCM of a retired PA Lt Gen & a Retd PA Brigadier? Is the ongoing visit of the PA's COAS to the UK related in any manner to such developments?
And where was the IN's much-touted Gurugram-based Information Fusion Centre when this had happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc_mQuDRpDo
Prasun,
ReplyDelete-Has the FATF meet happened ? and has pakistan again been saved from the blacklist by turkey & other. if so Turkey too needs to be shown its place.question is how?
-bet you will agree to this sorry state of affairs and possibly add more to it :)
http://idrw.org/aiming-for-the-stars-but-cant-even-make-a-chip/
- Another instance of Pak-china collusion espically on globally banned ammo http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/steel-bullets-used-by-terrorists-in.html
If india can't nail pakis on the following basis in FATF then shame on our lobbying prowess..
You need only 3 objecting countries to oppose a decision and 15 agreeing countries to support a decision. The three countries who objected are the usual suspects: China, Malaysia and Turkey - in favor of pakistan.
Delete@prasun da
ReplyDelete1. really 'I don’t feel sorry for him at all, but rather for the nitwits of Wayanad who elected such a brain-dead person to represent them in Parliament. Yeh nikammaa apne hi purvajoh ka naam mitti mein milaa rahaa hai! Is naalaayak koh to abhi ke abhi chullu bhar paani mein doob marnaa chaahiye!!!
then what about crown jewels like sakshi maharaj, pragya singh thakur, raja singh, giriraj singh, tajinder bagga. i guess those who elect them should be sent gas chambers as per you, isnt it
2. btw it appears IRGC may well succeed in recovering this drone too which almost intact in 1 piece except the right wing (as per pic), its a big embarrassment for USA 180 m lost
3. while i think India should grab Sindh i also feel that Baluchistan should merge with India, reason is simple if it tries to remain independent afghanistan,iran, pakistan will try to pin prick it endlessly, so best option for it as per me is to stay with india
4. i also think India must recover entire Akshai Chin from China bcoz AFAIR couple of decades ago i read that area may have manganese and rare earth deposits
Joydep Ghosh
Thank you sir , putting light on Pakistan' duplicity.
ReplyDeleteHistory is for reference and by referring i see similar pattern
Early 1900's Jews were killed by Hitler and no one stood up until the madness hit their shores.
Early 2000's and still continues: Indians (regardless of any religion) were/are getting killed by Pakistan . No one paid heed to India's concern until terrorism was felt every where
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_India. 99% origins from Pakistan
Because of international pressure and not self realized , pak continues its policy of kill indians.
As a sane human, every body wants peace but reality is different - In practical world all carnivores are caged.
Lets consider another hypothetical scenario , let's say India yield Kashmir considering peace.
Will pakistan stop the terrorism , no , instead pakistan military/'polictical' leadership will think it is because of their military and braveness that India yielded.
Contrary they will pursue the policy even stronger and under different name.
The pakistan military / political leadership success is only india centric : eat ; sleep ; conquer India (or) kill indians by any means; repeat.
Conclusion : Pakistan is national security state and for them peace lies if they suceeed to deliberately kill india as nation .So India must stand up very strong against this policy . In this game of chess 'extending friendship' is a passive move and the outcome instead will only create more threats.
It is time for us to stand up . Yes there will be blood shed but it is now or never
Hi Prasun,
ReplyDeleteCould not agree more regarding the Claim vs Reality. Everyone just plays expert without analysing any facts or case study. Unfortunately when things like these come from some one connected to defence its very sorry thought and the halfwit media will run their propaganda make every one believe in it. Thanks for the informative once again please continue to bring the facts in light.
Prasunji, once nirbhay becomes operational, which ships will carry it? Will it be carried by the same VLS cells that carry brahmos?
ReplyDeletePrasunDa,
ReplyDeleteYesterday you said - Myanmar is finalizing a deal to procure Spice-2000 PGMs for its FC-1 L-MRCAs. But Myanmar wants RAFAEL to integrate the Spice-2000s to the FC-1s without making any changes to the FC-1’s weapons management system
Is it even possible? Can Israel integrate its weapons on a Chinese aircraft ? They don't have the codes, isn't it ?
Thank You
VIKRAM
Sir,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you make out of this video. Now will we have a sikh secessionist movement on our hands.
WHo do you think these people could be ? some young men having some fun, or somebody motivated by ISI.
Over the last few years the khalistani movement seems to be gaining ground, and there is a lot of noise over it....something compeletely unthought of even like 6-8 years ago.
And nobody seems to be doing anything about it.
what's the solution to this problem.
https://www.facebook.com/ShankhNaad/videos/379635666012962/
To JUST_CURIOUS: LoLz! But I have good news for you, which is that this time the FATF’s final decision-making is this October in which the world’s major powers (excluding China) who really matter within FATF (because it is these North American & European powers whose banking & financial transaction machineries are used by Pakistan) are determined to call Pakistan’s bluff once & for all. Countries like China or India or Russia really don’t matter within FATF since their currencies are not used by Pakistan for any financial transaction. And it was Indonesia, not India, which brought Pakistan’s case in front of FATF.
ReplyDeleteTo JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) Absolutely, for there are no exceptions. The social contract entered into between any ruling govt & its citizens dictate that the rule of law be applied on an equal basis on everyone. And BTW, here’s another case of despicable attudes displayed by the RASCAL:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/rahul-gandhi-tweets-army-dog-squad-pic-with-new-india-caption-gets-trolled/articleshow/69892615.cms
I have a feeling that if his attitudes get exposed in this manner, he will soon get highly depressed & commit suicide, thereby following on the footsteps of all those whom he had in Parliament as being victims of majoritarianism! And the INC will have yet another martyr for whom yet another family memorial will have to be built within Delhi’s real estate at the Indian taxpayer’s expense. 2) Once any piece of man-made hardware touches salt water, it is a permament loss & nothing can be replicated or analysed, rest assured. 3) But the issue here is that there is no clarity among Baloch separatists on what an independent Balochistan should look like, Balochis reside not only in Pakistan, but also in bordering southeastern Iran & southeast Afghanistan. 4) Even the Chinese don’t inhabit in more than three-fourths of Aksai China because the terrain there is inhabitable.
To VOICEOFTHENEGLECTED & THE RAT: Interesting reads:
https://theprint.in/defence/iafs-balakot-strike-was-codenamed-operation-bandar-armys-operation-was-named-zafran/253001/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/operation-bandar-iafs-code-name-for-balakot-air-strikes/articleshow/69894040.cms
To PRRANSHU YADAV: A new class of principal surface combatants, like the NGMVs & NGCs, for starters, just like the Russian Navy, which began the Kalibre LR-LACM deployments on guided-missile corvettes.
To VIKRAM GUHA: Of course it is possible, just like the Litening LDP & Crystal Maze (PopeyeLite) PGMs were integrated with the Mirage-2000s back in the previous decade without accessing their closed-architecture avionics suites, thereby doing away with the need for source-codes.
To VIVEK: The answer is simple: raise six tailor-made IBGs (each of Division-strength) optimised for capturing the Kartarpur Corridor, Nankana Sahib & Umarkot & let these IBGs engage in high-profile exercises along the Western front. This & only this will send the right message across the border.
https://www.thequint.com/news/india/sanjiv-bhatt-wife-shweta-on-life-imprisonment
ReplyDeletehttps://thewire.in/law/centres-refusal-to-elevate-justice-kureshi-raises-troubling-questions
Sir would you like to comment on these too
What this present India today it’s a sham democracy where majoritarian ruling over minority no questions asked?
Ron
Prasun sir your assessment about IRGC shooting down global hawk is highly anticipated....BTW does IAF has any such capability to shoot down HALE UAV....and 3 Khordad SAM system has any Russian connection
ReplyDeleteBTW what impending crisis could be expected, for that IAF is using civilian airfields at dum dum, andal and other north eastern areas....any strikes by Bangladesh and Myanmar against each other ??
ReplyDelete1) Sputnik news says we tested R37 AWACS killer, whereas initial reports said it was R73 sraam validation without clarifying whether it was newly delivered or from existing stockpile.
ReplyDeleteSputnik usually is propaganda,so which is it?
2) Same with the latest deal for R77 and R73, Russians said they were "willing to sell longer" range ones now being labelled as R77ER coming up, whereas i see IAF expressing satisfaction with current models and ordering again.
3) naval accident-- again, seems like a far higher rate than global average, but what continues to ail navy?
Thanks
CBI has registered a case on Pilatus bribery case. Now which way will BAT go ?
ReplyDeleteHAL seems to be more interested in getting purchase commitment from IAF.
IAF was pulled up by CAG for the same issue (PO without product) in IJT case.
HAL now says HTT engine needs modification , board will not release PO on engine manufacturer without
commitment from IAF.
How serious is this modification ? Do performance/certification tests need to be conducted again after modification ?
HTT is a copy of US BAT Texan Mk II that is a derivative of Pilatus 9. is it not ?
How about IJT, HAL keeps spinning some news on new design.
Will it ever be complete ? It too has engine related issues.
We talk of 5th gen gen, when we cannot get a BAT straight. Maybe IAF should go ahead for addln. 38 numbers Pilatus. Appoint TATA aerospace for MRO .
Regards
venky
To RON: LoLz! It is interesting that all those involved or affected are alleging various conspiracy theories but no one is even hinting at any chances of miscarriage of justice, i.e. the legal verdict was based entirely on the strength of evidence presented & justice was done. Secondly, what is happening now on the legislative front are attempts to correct all the wrongs of the past, i.e. like certain minorities enjoying far greater rights than the majority, like Muslims enjoying the right to marry 4 times, creation of Sharia Courts & Madrassas for the Muslims, the annual Haj pilgrimage subsidies—all of which were/are in direct contravention of India’s secular status. And finally, there are those who tend to confuse the entire issue by presenting revisionist narratives like this:
ReplyDeletehttps://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/2019-election-outcome-once-upon-a-time-a-nation-5787244/
The writer of this distorted & factually incorrect Op-Ed needs to be asked whether the rights of Muslims to marry 4 times, creation of Sharia Courts & Madrassas for the Muslims, & distribution of annual Haj pilgrimage subsidies were bestowed/started in independent India after May 2014 or after January 1950.
To AMIT BISWAS: There’s no need for my assessment since the facts have been explained in great detail here:
https://twitter.com/JZarif/status/1142432319288090624
The SAM used for shooting down the Triton (and not Global Hawk, as some ‘desi’ patrakaars are claiming) was a Kub/Kvadrat, and not anything else. And as for the IAF’s enhanced vigilance throughout Northeast India, it likely has to do with either an impending or a pre-planned military coup in Bangladesh, probably inspired by the last attempted coup in Turkey by the Turkish Air Force.
To KAUSTAV: Unidentified: Inside America's ‘Tic-Tac’ UFO Investigations:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7a13gy
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7al5cu
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7bojyi
So Prasun seeing the S-400 was a done deal, what will happen with the US? I thought James Mattis worked hard to get India an exemption from CAATSA?
ReplyDeleteInteresting Reads:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/post-balakot-indian-navy-hunted-pakistani-submarine-for-21-days-1554601-2019-06-23
https://theprint.in/opinion/what-pakistani-generals-want-from-pm-imran-khan-career-advancement/253386/
That report did not specify whether IN took 21 days to spot PNS Saad after it surfaced or before when it was still submerged.
ReplyDeleteThat news of B'desh coup by their air force is interesting, wonder what our so-called journalists are doing.
Prasun.
ReplyDelete-I remember asking you about HTT40 & u had replied that IAf was not interested in having 2 types of basic trainers.. now this - http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/cbi-registers-case-against-robert.html .. is HTT40 now a front runner? also there have been reports about less than satisfactory clauses w.r.t support agreements for pilatus
- http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/after-use-of-chinese-made-steel-coated.html why isn't china been confrnoted yet on this & their brazen support to NE militants
- I had read one article where some chinese diplomat openly boasting that India cannot stop chinese imports even if they wanted to .. that's rubbing salt on wounds .. any paln u suggest for payback?
- One thing I fail to understand is why has India not forced the world to correct their maps & show the whole of J&K as a part of India.. just look @ the chinese
- Your view on the follwong--http://idrw.org/high-time-india-revives-the-original-astra-mk2-program/
- is there any truth in the reports of IAF testing R37M?
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Hi Prasun,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the clarifications.
Can I therefore correctly assume that new AAM purchases (as detailed in the Print) are the new RVV-MD and RVV-SD?
Also, a question about the MRSAM:
What is its ceiling?
I've seen early brochures putting it at 16km.
However, sometime later, I saw one with the ceiling at 20km for the IAF land based version.
16km seems a tad low when even Akash reaches 18km.
Finally, are there contracts or plans for 9 sqn of an extended range version of the MRSAM (range to 150km or whatever) for the IAF?
Any clarity is deeply appreciated and I want to thank you for being so responsive to queries.
To VSJ: Regarding AAMs, kindly refer to my comment posted above on June 21, 2019 at 7:58 AM.
ReplyDeleteTo VENKY & JUST_CURIOUS: Regarding the BTT scandal, here are the FACTS that the CBI has still not zeroed in on:
The HTT-40 project was conceptualised in 2009 by HAL to fulfil the IAF’s requirement of 183 basic turboprop trainers (BTT) powered by Honeywell’s TPE331-12B engines (since such engines were also destined for powering the HAL-built Do-228 & hence were being licence-built by HAL). The projected date of completion was between February 2013 and May 2016. However, due to the HTT-40’s development delays, the MoD authorised the import of 75 BTTs, following which an order for 75 Pilatus PC-7 Mk.2 BTTs was placed in May 2012. Consequently, the following questions now await answers:
1) Since HAL had from the outset stated that its HTT-40 would be using TPE331-12B engines & Hartzell propellers, why did the MoD under the UPA-2 govt not sanction the import of BTTs that made use of these two sub-systems? In other words, why was Embraer’s Tucano rejected in favour of the PC-7 Mk.2, which use engines supplied by Pratt & Whitney Canada?
2) Did no one from/in India advise the UPA-2-era MoD to opt for the Tucano so that there would be high degree of commonality of sub-systems between the Tucano & HTT-40, which in turn would have lowered the acquisition costs & per-hour direct operating costs of both types of BTTs?
3) And now, since the WRONG DECISION was made to procure the PC-7 Mk.2s, how can the HTT-40s be forced down the IAF’s throat, since this will result in two distinct types of BTTs with hardly any sub-systems commonality being used by the IAF? Won’t this now greatly increase the IAF financial burden for operating & maintaining its BTT fleet?
Answers to the questions I’ve listed out above will unravel this case once & for all. It now remains to be seen if the CBI will indeed ask such questions during the trial process. If such questions are not asked, then it can only mean that no one in India’s officialdom is interested in finding out the truth & consequently this will end up as yet another instance of a simple legal case being politicised for political witch-hunting.
In my view, A K Antony has a lot to answer for, & the Govt of India through its relevant agencies should also seek the assistance of the UK's MI-5 for obtaining details of the activities & banking details of the INC's 'Pappu', Sanjay Bhandari & Robert Vadra whenever they both have been together in the UK.
Baap re MI5 bhi involve hai???
DeleteTo SBM: Yes, only the RVV-MD & RVV-SD are in series-production now. The IAF’s MR-SAM & IN’s LR-SAM are one & the same & have identical service ceilings, as detailed in the LR-SAM’s poster shown at the Aero India-2019 expo. The Barak-8LR will be the IAF’s LR-SAM (apart from the S-400) & its full-scale model was also displayed at the same expo. I had uploaded all these images last February.
ReplyDeleteTo AMIT BISWAS: Yes, because domestic surveillance in the UK is done by the MI-5. In India’s case, it is the Special Branch of the State Police (that was created during the British Raj to keep tabs on seditious activities, but which is no longer reqd, but is used for political purposes only nowadays) & the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB).
To JUST_CURIOUS: Of course, China should be confronted with such hard evidence so that the serial nos on those bullets & armaments can help trace their production batches, which in turn will lead to the authentication of the original end-user. And as I had explained several times before, Astra-2 is nothing else but an Astra-1 powered by SFDR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0AfsiqtIfM
ReplyDeletegood comedy show on Sunday afternoon, they think everyone is a fool. Burnol is always out of stock there.
On one hand Pakistan is begging worldwide for financial bailouts while on the other the PA's COAS has enough money to splurge on such visits:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8mDZnBRMUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vax08W-uBs
And the guy involved in the 2011 shootdown against the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore gets bumped off in 2019 in Dera Ismail Khan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP02xTomNR4
And he was a Pakistani, not Indian as alleged earlier by Pakistan!!!
To DASHU: PNS Saad was detected by INS Kalvari while the latter was submerged off Jiwani, west of Gwadar. CRV techniques were used to pin down its datum with accuracy.
Any extra info about CRV technologies will be very much helpful for us....
DeleteWhy was KALVARI used when it doesnt have its primary weapon HWTs
Delete"Of course, China should be confronted with such hard evidence so that the serial nos on those bullets & armaments can help trace their production batches, which in turn will lead to the authentication of the original end-user." - This will never happen. If Indian leaders were pragmatic and courageous enough they would now push China to expose its duplicitous stand that is hiding behind as the puppet master and using Pakistan and NE rebels to do its dirty work whilst claiming anti-terrorism stance. This leverage should allow India NSG membership as well as border settlement especially CPEC through Indian territory. Instead there will be plenty of political rhetoric, zero action and life will go on as usual with more innocent and brave law enforcement lives lost in the process.
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ReplyDeletePrasunda,
I guess, this is what FAKE NEWS is all about. A non-existent deal gets cancelled. The MPATGM is a different procurement from the Spike ATGMs being procured which, forget MPATGM, is even longer ranged than the NAG.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-israel-spike-anti-tank-missiles-drdo-5796306/lite/?__twitter_impression=true
ReplyDeletehi prasun
gwadar is a long way of india and near the pak coast. would kalvari have the endurance to go long range and come back undetected when surfacing for recharging?
the batteries they use are saft batteries? is their any tech transfer on the=ose batteries that are really critical?
pse expand CRV
do you think it would be a good idea to ask the russians to integrate teh r-37 as an interim gap solution till the astra sfdr comes in , as we all know they took more that 15 years for the astra to be inducted ? it is a doable job as only the launcher pylon has to made for the su 30?
i dont understand why mig -21 are being used in kashmir border , when we can always move a squadron or 2 of the mig-29 which would give jitters to the pak specially the upg type?
as i dont for see, given pak economy they will try some mischief some where else apart form kashmir?
some idiots in the previous NDA gove decided to not to use the critial bvr missiles advagn tage against the pak f-16 which had none . we are paying for ?
can all the f-16 in pak inventory fire the amraam or only the block 52 ?
Prasun,
ReplyDelete- what's the real story here .. why the on-off muddle http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/india-scraps-israel-anti-tank-missile.html
- http://www.indiandefensenews.in/2019/06/canadas-double-game.html - one more to the list of countries who feel confident of playing against India.. is there a need for a major overhaul of the foreign policy?
-http://idrw.org/kaveri-engine-revival-plans-need-a-proper-road-map-and-not-quick-fix-solutions/ - where is this heading Safran seem to be fooling around
A large scam going unnoticed is the acquisition of kamov ka226 helicopters when hal is allmost ready with LUH.
ReplyDeleteYour views on this mr Prasun
-DrKrg
To AMIT BISWAS: Because the INS Kalvari was used only for stalking, i.e. hunting. CRV or controlled remote-viewing is a technique, not technology.
ReplyDeleteTo RAD: The Kalvari easily recharged its batteries off the cost of southeastern Oman & then headed for the Makran coastline. No tech-transfer for SAFT batteries since the quantum of batteries reqd is quite small. Later Standard Batteries will likely indigenise them. R-37 is an LRAAM used for shooting down lumbering bombers like B-52. It is next to useless for shooting down MRCAs. That’s why no Russia-origin MRCA carries R-37s. I had explained this several times before. What the IAF requires are BVRAAMs with Mach 5+ speeds like those of the Meteor. Hence, the Astra-2 will have SFDRs NOT for longer range, but for higher speed. And how can MiG-29s or Su-30MKIs or Mirage-2000s operate from air bases in Srinagar when none of these air bases have HAS capable of accommodating them? The existing HAS can only house MiG-21s. The NG-HAS is still some years away from coming up in such air bases in J & K.
To UJJWAL: 1) It is the SSN programme. What folks forget is that the ATV project was initiated for developing & building SSGNs. The VLS for SLBMs was added to the design ONLY AFTER May 1998 & hence the first SSBN—INS Arihant—took such a long time to be launched. Thus, the original SSGN hull-design had to re-designed into a SSBN hull. For the SSN programme, all that is now reqd is to revert back to the original design that does away with VLS cells for SLBMs and one will have the perfect SSN that displaces only 5,500 tonnes. The PWR will be of the 4th-generation type, i.e. from Russia. The Arihant-type SSBNs all have 3rd-generation PWRs. 2) MPATGM should enter service by 2022.
To JUST_CURIOUS: 1) No confusion at all. I have always stated that the MPATGM will be the IA’s definitive shoulder-launched ATGM. 2) If Kaveri is to be fully indigenised, then it will take at least another 15 years of R & D effort. On the other hand, a hybrid version of Kaveri that uses sub-sections of the SAFRAN/SNECMA M88 turbofan will enable it to power the projected LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF.
To DRKRG: Yes indeed. Also, the HAL-developed LUH is single-engined, whereas the Ka-226T is twin-engined. In fact, the Ka-226T should never have been invited to compete & when it was, back in the previous decade for the RSH reqmt, Bell Helicopter Textron withdrew from the competition, citing the Ka-226T’s inclusion in the evaluations as an unfair practice. Now again the Ka-226T is being offered for the IN’s 111-unit NLUH reqmt, although the IN is not in favour of it.
Kudos to the Navy.
ReplyDeleteTheir job will get harder once the 8 new PN subs arrive and they upgraded ones come back from Turkey. PN will have approximately 11+ subs. PN are lucky as the depth of the ocean drops quite quickly off their coast, especially the western part, hence they are harder to track.
There are various articles Prasun sir that they are developing/have developed mini subs to operate off our coast, which are almost impossible to find, due to the higher salinity and temperature off our western coast? How true are these?
RAT
Now it is official Sir , India did not consider PoK as Indian airspace as per BS Dhanoa.
ReplyDeleteIf these are true-
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/iaf-achieved-military-objective-in-balakot-op-pakistani-side-did-not-come-into-our-airspace-dhanoa/articleshow/69930076.cms
https://theprint.in/defence/pakistani-jets-did-not-cross-loc-day-after-balakot-strikes-says-iaf-chief-dhanoa/253855/
Why open mouth when it is amply clear now that IAF messed up everything by gifting PaF upper hand a big moral boosting to enemy.
To RAT: What is the endurance of such mini-subs? They can’t travel non-stop for 2 or 3 days & therefore they are always accompanied by far larger submarine tenders, which in turn gives away the positions/locations of such mini-subs. Nor can such vessels be carried piggy-back on SSKs.
ReplyDeleteTo DASHU: Here are the IAF CAS’ statements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Rko_0PRsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-z--quYHA
India NEVER considered PoK’s airspace as part of India’s airspace. Not even after February 24, 1994 & even in mid-1999 the late A B Vajpayee had imposed the airspace restrictions (by not permitting the IAF to go across the LoC on bombing sorties). The same restrictions were in place on the morning of February 27, 2019 by the country’s ruling political elite. And the statement by anyone about the PAF not crossing the LoC & not violating India’s airspace is a no-brainer because the ordnance carried by the PAF’s combat aircraft did were indeed dropped inside J & K in the Rajouri & Nowshera sectors, meaning those PGMs did enter & violate Indian airspace.
But those hardly are crucial issues as far as daily governance goes. Far more important issues of concern include this:
Ajay Singh Bisht’s Way of Ensuring Law & Order:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_RSLVSXWE
The CM with 3 Names: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5L9FR71t0
Then there’s this:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/nearly-impossible-to-run-operations-bsnl/articleshow/69920159.cms
B K Syngal, former chairman of VSNL and a telecom industry and a telecom industry analyst, says it is “better to shut down” BSNL if the governance in the company does not improve. “MTNL is already dead, and BSNL is now in the ICU. It has been a systematic destruction of PSUs by an overreach of the government. They don’t want to let go of their fiefdom,” Syngal said. “How can a person swim with hands and feet tied?”
In other words, just like HAL, BSNL too is being made to undergo multiple castrations since the early 1990s.
And here are some interesting videoclips:
BSF’s OP GHAZI BABA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJtsgb9KpZg
Vikram Sood Exposes PA Myth & Much More:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Hk5YscoWs
Pakistan’s Khalistan Issue Exploitation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twCOWSRRDNg
Hello Prasunda,
ReplyDeleteRecently there has been a news of a blast at the Military hospital at Rawalpindi.It was same hospital frequented by Masod Azhar. Do you believe it was handiwork of RAW or it is just a smoke screen by ISI/PA ?
https://www.firstpost.com/india/holding-military-commanders-alone-responsible-for-setbacks-in-hybrid-conflict-doesnt-absolve-state-of-its-role-6871451.html
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thehindu.com/news/international/pakistan-blacklisting-absolutely-a-possibility-fatf-president/article28129739.ece
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/government-considering-putting-psus-out-of-defence-ministry-range/articleshow/69935904.cms?utm_source=twitter_wap&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharebuttons&from=mdr
Dear Prasun,
DeleteWill Govt's decision to keep PSUs out of defense ministry reach, bring golden days for India?
Here you go Sir one more -"I Told You SO"- moment for you, but thing is they are still considering rather than reforming PSUs.
ReplyDeleteIs that Military hospital at Rawalpindi rumor is correct?
@Prasun K. Sengupta : Third link is very important, seems like finally govt coming to its senses. Hopefully some corrective measures are taken soon in this regard.
ReplyDelete-Amol
Thank you for the explanation, had missed that topic earlier.
ReplyDelete1) Sir, what kind of changes have been made to SOP for next aerial engagements over POK?
2) Also what i fail to visualize is, how to treat POK airspace as ours in practice?
Will we threaten or chase all aircrafts over POK and GB including civvies?
Surely unlike LOC on ground, we cant keep up a perpetual state of skirmish as it will sap aircraft life and availability etc in era of shortfalls especially when needed at other fronts too?
Say even if we do achieve supremacy, they can still send strike teams from Punjabi bases once in a long while?
3) what are official ranges of astra and sfdr?
Thanks
Dear Prasun,
ReplyDeleteWhat's your say about triple talak practice in Muslim society? Why Muslim community is regressive in nature?
To AGINIDEEP BAGCHI: Those are all unfounded rumours. Masood Azhar is mobile & is on the move.
ReplyDeleteTo DASHU & AMOL & ASD: VMT, but reforms are of 2 types: administrative & structural. What is being proposed is the former, while the need of the hour is the latter, i.e. getting the DPSUs out of govt control & making them public-listed through substantial divestment, like Larsen & Toubro, 32% of whose shares are govt-owned. Administrative reforms will only result in the DPSUs’ ownership being transferred from one ministry to another, with the govt’s bureaucratic practices remaining the same. Consequently, the DPSUs’ Board of Directors will always be beholden to the whims & fancies of the Central Govt, thereby inhibiting administrative & corporate autonomy.
Let me explain with practical examples: Had HAL been allowed to function just like L & T, then it would have built five prototypes each of the LCH & LUH for accelerated/concurrent airworthiness certification-cum-weaponisation activities. While 1 of each would have undergone structural fatigue tests, the other two of each would have undergone flight-tests while the remaining two of each would have served as platforms for avionics/weapons systems integration. In other words, three separate R & D-related activities would have proceeded at the same time. But such technicalities are ALIEN to the MoD’s bureaucrats, who instead had insisted on a sequential approach by first seeing a flying prototype, & only then authorising the necessary funds for weaponisation. The same goes for the HTT-40 BTT too & also the Rudra. Had a public-listed HAL been able to raise the reqd R & D funds from the capital markets, then it would have been able to deliver readymade products on time & within budgetary limits. But since this has not happened, it has only led to corporate entities like HAL being subjected to systematic castration over the years by the MoD’s bureaucracy!
To VSJ: 1) The SOP relates to the acquisition of bomb damage assessment in real-time by using man-in-the-loop guidance techniques (along with RAFAEL’s Pegasus data-link pods) that are already available, but are not being utilised due to over-cautiousness. If the IDF-AF can obtain real-time BDA imagery from its PGMs despite the existence of Syrian S-300 & Russian S-400 LR-SAMs, then why was the IAF so over-cautious on February 26? 2) Simple: just declare a military no-flying zone over PoK (inclusive of Gilgit-Baltistan) that allows civilian overflights, but bars any kind of military air-traffic over that airspace. But to implement this, the IAF requires NG-HAS in all its air bases in J & K, plus the availability of 24/7 AEW & CS platform availability. Right now, none of the two are available. Until the IAF is equipped with at least 11 AEW & CS platforms, enforcement of no-flying zones will be impossible to implement. 3) Astra-2 with SFDR will have a 120km range. But far more important than that is the need to achieve a speed of Mach 5.
To ASD: LoLz! This is where the ‘desi patrakaars’ have got it all wrong & are confusing the whole country as well. There is no such thing as Triple Talaaq. After all, the word Talaaq has to be mentioned thrice for it to take effect & that too after issues like alimony have been duly settled as per Sharia Law. What the Govt of India’s proposed law serves to outlaw is the practice of INSTANT Triple Talaaq, i.e. announcing divorce orally on-the-spot or by SMS, Fax, e-mail, WhatsApp, without settling the issue of alimony; plus imposing financial costs on the party that is initiating the process of Talaaq, so that the aggrieved party is not left high-n-dry.
I believe our air chief is under the influence of some weed and bluffing about the intrusion of PAF into Indian air space on 27 Feb....when weapons fired by PAF fighters were found more than 50 KM inside india, what makes him to assume PAF didn't cross LOC...simply bull shit is being fed by him to country to cover up his forces bad performance
Delete@prasun da
ReplyDelete1.i think erdogans loss in ankara and istanbul is handy work of CIA as punishment to sign S400 deal with Russia
2. i think the job of adding L3 communication periscope omn INS Sindhukesari should have been assigned to HSL Vizag who had overhauled INS Sindhukirti and not MDL Mumbai
3. heard Russia besides the 34 is offering 10 more Mig 29 SMT that were built in 2008 but have flown only few hundred hours
4. Indian Navy igoing to buy 10 more P8i poseidon taking total pane count to 22, this due to Sea Gaurdian dronnes bei ng pought for IN/IA/IAF, does it mean RMR deal is off the table permanently
thanks
Joydeep Ghosh
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) And what makes you think that’s the case. Were the voters Turkish citizens or US citizens casting proxy votes? Or did someone from the US subject the Turkish voters to mass hypnosis or resort to some other form of mind-control? 2) The fire would still have broken out at HSL, SIMPLY BECAUSE all welding work inside any submarine is carried out PRIOR to installation of on-board wiring & electronic hardware. This is the SOP worldwide. But by doing exactly the opposite (i.e. getting the wiring & all other hardware installation done in Russia & then trying to weld the fixtures of the periscope within the inner hull), only illustrates the grim fact that I have repeatedly red-flagged: sound common-sense & logical reasoning have no place anywhere within India. How else can one explain why a SUV-owner ended up stealing a bicycle? Don’t believe me? Then watch this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woCwnljg5C8&t=7s
Whether you choose to laugh or cry after watching it is entirely up to you. Maybe that will also stop you from jumping on to conclusions of the type you reached WRT Turkish elections. 3) Like I said before, the IAF is likely to end up with 50 additional MiG-29UPGs. All MiG-29SMTs (34 + 10) were built in one go in the previous decade. 4) I had always stated that the IN had specified a total P-8I reqmt of 28 units. And the ICGS reqmt is for 12 units but of a degraded version of the P-8I minus the armaments. MRMR aircraft is no longer reqd because the Sea Guardian UAS platforms can do a lot than any manned MRMR platform can & do it at far cheaper cost. Hence, now MRMR MPAs & the Do-228 MPAs are fast becoming unnecessary & far more expensive to operate.
ReplyDeletehi prasun
i am given to believe that the spice weapon continuously sends imagery to the Pegasuses data pod that stores the video till bomb impact and the data link is highly secure .so it rubbishes the theory of liberals that call for imagery to prove their point .did the mirages also carry Delilah as stated by some stupid mag called the print.
you mentioned that the astra 2 sfdr has a range of 120 km .
were you referring to the no escape zone as the range seems to be less for a ramjet missile ?
what would be the NEZ of the amraam c-5?
can i equate the performance of the astra to the mica in range and performance ? how would you rate the desi seeker to the one on the mica?
as we have selected the ka-226 can we abrogate the contract in favour of the naval lch? would it not be better to have a 2 engine heli for over water operation?
if US throws sanctions on us how is it going to supply the p-8 , a-64 and others? dont you think they are shooting themselves in the foot regarding the f-21??
how is turkey over hauling the pak agostas ? when the oem is france ?? the spares have to come from france as turkey cannot make all the spare and they dont have a comprehensive tie up like us to france regarding subs??
how would you rate the arihant and chakra nuke subs sensors to the french scorpene?
given that cbi has filed an fir against swiss pilatus, dont you think it is a water tight reason for the htt-40 to be procured ?
how do you rate the pilatus to the htt-40 leaving all other concerns?
Hi Prasun Da
ReplyDeleteJust read this report what do u think is there any possibility that Sumerians migrated
to mesopotamiya from Indus valley.
https://www.timesnownews.com/amp/india/article/lord-ram-image-found-in-iraqi-mural-indian-embassy-investigates/443706
Dada so much of missile testing are we looking for a balakot like attack in coming months?
ReplyDeleteWill India import entire bomb assembly for spice 1000 or only guidance kit will be imported??
DeleteHow is GPS jamming is enforced???
How does sukhoi fleet will cope up with lesser number of targeting pods , air surveillance equipment???in what manner IAF will distribute them among various squadrons to undertake missions...
Does flares have any effectiveness as countermeasures for all aspect dual color IIR heat seeking missile??
DeleteSir,
ReplyDeleteyou ought to check out what this guy has posted on his linkedin.
1) who are these guys ?
2) what are we doing to control them ?
3) why can they sway even educated sikhs ?
4) why are we so small, why can't we take these bastards down ?
5) in today's age of social media and easy communication and reach, if things get out of hand, like in 80's, don't you think it would be very difficult to control
we ought to nip this evil in the bud, before things get out of hand
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/bobbysinghesq
Prasun da, what is this new fifth gen lca that air marshal nambiar is talking about?? Any info?
ReplyDeleteTo RAD: Both Spice family of PGMs & PopeyeLite/Crystal Maze can relay video imagery in real-time back to the Pegasus data-link pod-equipped aircraft, but what if there’s dense cloud cover which over mountainous terrain tends to hand very low over the targets (as was the case on the night of February 26)? The imagery will thus show clouds that are hiding the targets below & therefore digital scene matching (DSMAC) will be impossible to achieve. The only sensor that can penetrate clouds is the SAR or X-band imaging radar & such a sensor is not available as yet for SPICE-type PGMs.
ReplyDeleteNo-escape zone for any BVRAAM is at best 50km. All existing active radar seekers operating in Ku-band are similar in performance. But superior performance can be obtained from Ka-band seekers, which are still under development worldwide. Selection of Ka-226T does not mean that a procurement contract has been inked. US sanctions are related only to the S-400 LR-SAM that due to that the US will most probably not supply India with some of the comms hardware that India was earlier eligible to procure after inking the COMCASA agreement. But denial of such hardware won’t mean anything at all to India since homegrown SDRs are now available as alternative solutions. Turkey is only installing ESM sensors on the masts of the PN’s Agosta SSKs. As for BTTs, does the filing of a CBI chargesheet against Pilatus mean that all 75 existing PC-7 Mk.2 BTTs will be withdrawn from IAF service? If that’s the case, then it is perfectly alright to go for the HTT-40. For, at the end of the day only 1 type of BTT should be in service, & not 2 types. But I don’t think this case will be conducted in a strictly impartial or logical manner, since most of the WRONG questions have been raised by the CBI. These are the right questions that should be raised:
1) Why was HAL stopped from developing the HTT-35 BTT in the mid-1990s?
2) Can anyone from anywhere show any example of any country first trying to develop an IJT or AJT & then trying to develop a BTT? Because I can quote examples from Brazil, Japan, South Korea & Turkey to prove that countries have always tended to first develop BTTs, followed by IJT/AJT. Yet, why in India was HAL first tasked to develop the HJT-36 IJT & much later the HTT-40 BTT?
3) Why was asked to develop an IJT despite the IAF going for Hawk Mk.132 AJTs back in the previous decade? If the decision to go for AJTs of foreign origin was made as far back as 2004, then shouldn’t HAL have been authorised to develop the HTT-35 or HTT-40 in 2004 itself? Why was HAL given the green light only in 2011 to begin developing the HTT-40?
So finally, who were the prime conspirators against the HTT-35 or HTT-40 between 2004 & 2011? Were they instrumental in delaying the development of a homegrown BTT until it was too late & the import of BTTs was an inescapable fact-of-life? And even then, who successfully influenced the decision in favour of a BTT powered by Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-series engine even after knowing fully well that the homegrown BTT would be powered by Honeywell TPE331-series engines? Did the conspirators therefore fully ensure that this would eventually ensure the death of a homegrown BTT’s development, simply because the IAF for sure was rightly expected to voice its disapproval for procuring 2 types of BTTs because this could not be accommodated within the IAF’s (or for that matter, any other air force’s) operating budget under any condition?
Unfortunately, none of the two CAG reports linked below answer the questions that I have raised:
https://cag.gov.in/sites/default/files/audit_report_files/Union_Compliance_Defence_Air_force_Navy_34_2014.pdf
http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/download/C&AG-AirForce-CapitalAcq-PerfAudit-Report3-2019.pdf
To PK: Actually, it is the other way round, i.e. migration from west to east. There is no reason or evidence to ASSUME that human life in ancient northern India was far more advanced than life in ancient Mesopotamia. In fact, all available evidence points to the contrary, i.e. relatively sophisticated human settlements existed in southern Africa & Mesopotamia some 200,000 years ago (which conclusively disproves Charles Darwin’s Euro-centric theory of lateral, uninterrupted human evolution). In fact, in Siberia, evidence has been unearthed about human settlements 2 million years ago. What all this proves is that human evolution hasn’t been lateral, but has been cyclical, i.e. human civilisations existing, then getting destroyed & then beginning again & then getting wiped out again, & then starting again. From the starting over was not from scratch. Instead, the starts took off from where matters had been left off for destruction in the previous cycle. These will explain more:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-8C5QLv3x0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHUM1wbKcQ8
To SUMIT SEN: Yes indeed, because your’s truly (Chowkidaaron ka Chowkidaar) has been keeping the MoD busy with new targetting lists that I have obtained through my routione strategic recce sorties. The following are the new Jihadi camps that have come up:
LeT’s ‘TABOOK’ Garhi Habibullah Camp in Mansehra, KPK: 34.424521 N, 73.405692 E
LeT’s ‘KHYBER’ Garhi Habibullah Camp in Mansehra, KPK: 34.422806 N, 73.406578 E
LeT’s ‘AMBOR’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.442470 N, 73.493591 E
LeT’s ‘DAKAN’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.458762 N, 73.470795 E
LeT’s ‘HUZAIFA BIN YEMEN’ Camp in Shawai Nullah, Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.389743 N, 73.450625 E
LeT’s ‘LASHKAR POINT’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.3932723 N, 73.44803 E
LeT’s ‘DAKAN’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.436111 N, 73.433333 E
LeT’s ‘KFC’ Camp in Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34.390981 N, 73.458644 E
JeM’s Transit Camp in Shawai Nullah, Muzaffarabad, PoK: 34. 3859 N, 73.45712 E
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen’s ‘KHALID BIN WALEED’ Camp in Mansehra, KPK: 34.347562 N, 73.477177 E
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen’s ‘SAIDULLAH KHALID SHAHEED Camp in Garhi Habibullah, Mansehra, KPK: 34.4177778 N, 73.3763889 E
Hizbul Mujahideen’s ‘Markaz Raheel Sharif’ Camp in Golpur, Kotli, PoK: 33.4026306 N, 73.877905 E
AL Badr’s Camp at Oghi, Mansehra, KPK: 34.527587 N, 73.118541 E
You can view them all by using GoogleEarth.
To AMIT BISWAS: 1) Only guidance kits are imported. The explosive portions are essential dumb bombs already built by OFB. 2) All IIR sensors can be spoofed by flares in both IR & UV spectrum. But if an IIR sensor can acquire an image of its airborne target while in flight & then compare it with the image library stored within the AAM’s processor, then spoofing becomes very difficult.
To VIVEK: Looks like the quantum of retards is registering a steady increase, especially the desi ones, leave alone the PIO ones. Here are a couple of them in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiP3L2wL7Kg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X516rJhk3iE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Cx_bqcT9A
Let us sort out the desi ones first.
To SAMEER: Beats me.
Brilliant explanation of how the US through the IMF is making life unbearable for Pakistan (no wonder 26,000 Pakistani civil servants now hold dual citizenships):
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h3XJYkn4GE&t=3s
The idea, it seems, is to make it easier for the decision-makers of Pakistan to make the ultimate hard choice, i.e. either choose to be a bankrupt, unaffordable & malnourished state with nuclear WMDs, or live as a non-nuclear but sustainable middle-income country.
Meanwhile, India's defence budget for FY 2019-2020 is expected to be pegged at Rs.4 lakh crore.
Recently there was a news of intrusion inside rafale project office of India at paris....what can we infer from it
ReplyDeleteWhat is the big deal with india Trump talking about.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ndtv.com/india-news/pm-modi-donald-trump-meet-today-focus-likely-on-trade-issues-10-points-2060477?pfrom=home-topscroll
IAF wanted a MMRCA tilted towards a strike role.
ReplyDeleteRafael fits into that role.
Now if we buy 50 MiG 29 & 18 Su 30 MKI (do hope these can carry Brahmos), what happens to strike aircraft ?. Will we fall short of strike aircraft ?
Will the MMRCA 3 competition be needed ?
CAG pulled up IAF for placing order on ‘non existent’ IJT (IAF too learnt it’s lessons)
Now on what basis will they place order for 123 Tejas Mk 1A ?
When will order be placed, what kind of tests are required to qualify it ?
Tejas will require continuous addition & testing of new weapons or electronics , which Organization will own thirst aircraft for such purpose ? is there such a plan ?
Is it not better 2-3 be made available to IAF or DRDO or HAL for this purpose ?
How much do we save by buying a few unarmed P8I for Indian Coast Guard ? We will need to muster all the resources in case balloon goes up .
There was an article on noisy and poor quality Scorpene, who benefits from spreading such canard ?
See rebuttal below
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2019/06/reports-on-2nd-scorpene-submarine-for-indian-navy-do-not-reflect-facts-naval-group/
Venky
Sir, how far have we come in the development of MIRVs? When do you think they will become operational?
ReplyDeletePrasunda,
ReplyDeleteConsidering that is what India is also going to end up as, Pakistan is in not such a bad place. All it has to do is give up nuclear weapons. India will probably attain a middle income group country status like the South Americas albeit with a huge young demography & high unemployability.
Hello sir.
ReplyDelete1)What will be the consequences of Pakistan being blacklisted by the FATF?
2)If the Pakistanis are forced to make a choice between being a bankrupt country with nukes or live as a non nuclear but sustainable middle income country,won't they still choose the former since they hate India so much?I think that they can only be denuclearized by force(by a military operation by a multinational coalition like you had suggested a couple of years ago)
3)What if India were to adopt a policy that involves capturing 1 km of territory along the LoC for every ceasefire violation(there are many ceasefire violations every month) made by Pakistan?How effective would that be?
Regards,
Enigma.
Prasun da, a lilbit offtopic but cud u give any tips or techniques to develop RV capability in us??. Really want to explore that realm of world.. Thnku
ReplyDeleteyour’s truly (Chowkidaaron ka Chowkidaar) has been keeping the MoD busy with new targetting lists that I have obtained through my routine strategic recce sorties. - anything is possible with India but isn't this a bit too far fetched to think a civilian is doing the recce on a free lance basis whereas the intelligence branch of the military is sleeping it off? Somehow that line reminds me of প্রেমেন মিত্তিরের ঘনাদা.
ReplyDeleteHi Prasun,
ReplyDeleteLots of developments at Osaka G20 meet. Seems all the talk of impending US India trade dispute is now sorted and Piyush Goel led commerce ministry is going to sort it out.
Also interesting were the informal dinner where quad heads sat next to each other. And RIC and BRICS meetings.
India hopefully will start in Ernest start working positively with USA to secure our national interests.
Regards,
Srinivasa Nanduri
Prasun sir, in one of ur article u replied to someone about scenarios wherein missile like mica will be used and where missiles like meteor will...can u plz give a link to that post or else cud u plz explain it again..?
ReplyDeleteDear Sir
ReplyDeleteShould IAF have another Relook at SU 57
Russia has ordered 76 planes
Is SU 57 BETTER Than RAFALE
IAF needs 80 Rafales
So we can order 44 more Off the Shelf
What is Your Opinion
F 35 is Ruled Out Because of S 400
Dada news came out in Times of India that we signed fo spike agtm is this true? And which variant is it?
ReplyDeleteHello Sirji!Today,some uncomfortable questions if you don't mind.Just curiosity. Nothing else.I am asking you as you do have wide historical knowledge.
ReplyDeleteWhat we are seeing on day to day basis(even if we don't blindly trust any single channel) is that there is high amount of radiation among Muslim population which is rising.Just look at this:
-http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2019/jun/29/fatwa-loving-dar-ul-uloom-objects-to-tmc-mp-nusrat-jahans-marriage-to-non-muslim-1997156.html
-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3675154/Left-wing-German-politician-raped-migrants-admits-LIED-police-attackers-nationality-did-not-want-encourage-racism.html
What is also apparent is that left is turning it's back on "other side of the coin",while right wing is reporting it but with added lies and exaggeration.Similarly,there are many issues which is greatly highlighted here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y18jUF1lWXU
And then we have lynchings,attack,hate speeches,etc.Every single person who highlights this is being tagged as "Sanghi" or RW activist or even Gau-Rakshak(!!!) by the left wing.Left wing was supposed to be liberal and tolerant.
What is your POV?I would be happy if you highlight some points which are missed.Free for knowing something new.
FYI:I have 0% political affiliations and I am almost an atheist with little interest in BAPS.Nothing more than that.
Thank you.
To AMIT BISWAS: On Rafale, your query is answered here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT1OOVrq3qg
Finally, mu prayers have been answered WRT water shortage:
Chennai Desalination Plant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1NX399anE
To ক্লাউন: You are ASSUMING that I’m freelancing, or that the Govt of India is clueless about the data I’ve presented above. Both your assumptions are totally wrong.
To DASHU & SRINIVASA NABDURI: These will answer some of your questions:
Ashraf Ghani Speech in Islamabad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQMeGcIcWc
Afghanistan Peace Talks Analysed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6PPL4F1oe0
To SUJIT: You will find the answers here:
https://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2019/02/bvraams-lraams-powered-by-sfdr.html
And here’s a good primer on hypersonic missiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyUTNRIuAqc
To SUMIT SEN: They are regurgitating the same piece of FAKE NEWS.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: Will answer all of those queries later. Now, enjoy watching the Pak fans getting walloped by Afghans/Pashtuns in the UK yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rF_2yuCXY0
https://twitter.com/rawnksood/status/1144581538954145792?s=20
ReplyDeleteIs this true?
The first L-3 KEO-supplied optronic periscope on board INS Sindhukirti, an upgraded Type 877EKM SSK:
ReplyDeletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-TvtB9VAAAAta3.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-TvtB8UYAY1pmB.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-TvtB8U0AEzrlL.jpg
IPMS of INS Shivalik: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-T1vx8UcAEDZ71.jpg
Ye so called defence minister topi bhi galat pehna hai....
Deletedhoos Prasun da
ReplyDelete1. when i said 'i think the job of adding L3 communication periscope omn INS Sindhukesari should have been assigned to HSL Vizag who had overhauled INS Sindhukirti and not MDL Mumbai'
you said ' The fire would still have broken out at HSL, SIMPLY BECAUSE all welding work inside any submarine is carried out PRIOR to installation of on-board wiring & electronic hardware. This is the SOP worldwide. But by doing exactly the opposite (i.e. getting the wiring & all other hardware installation done in Russia & then trying to weld the fixtures of the periscope within the inner hull),'
and now you are proudly showing off the same thing, what is this???
2. so the 34 Mig 29 barebone airframe are around 10-12 yrs and not 30 yr old as was being said before.
3. mi35 are about to be retired then why this
http://idrw.org/india-signs-rs-200-crore-anti-tank-missile-deal-with-russia/
Joydeep Ghosh
@prasun da
ReplyDeletei feel like this seawater desalination plants are required not only in chennai but also in puri, vizag, kolkata, mumbai, trivandrum, karwar (it is already facing water problem). all these cities are growing in population constantly and ground water is being used more than what is being being recharged, i feel a number of seawater desalination plants should be setup under a proper company setup under public private partnership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd1NX399anE
To RAD: VMT. 1) Presently, there are no SAR-equipped PGMs operational with the IAF. Once the BrahMos-A becomes operational, all-weather precision-strike capability will become possible. Even a Nirbhay air-launched LACM equipped with the imaging SAR seeker (developed by DRDL) will be able to undertake such all-weather strikes. 2) Financial loans reqd for purchasing the 8 x 032 Qing-class SSKs are being extended to Pakistan by China. 3) Ka-band seeker offers higher resolution accuracy & is therefore preferred for use by BMD interceptors. 4) Data Patterns-built & ECIL-built imaging SAR seekers are both being flight-tested now after being housed inside a modified SIVA pod. 5) All existing BVRAAMs use Ku-band seekers. Of course any present-day MMR can detect an F-35 if the latter is carrying underwing weapons.
ReplyDeleteHere is a good read:
https://kaypius.com/2018/05/10/the-untapped-potential-of-helicopters-in-india/
To VENKY: The additional MiG-29UPGs & Su-30MKIs are meant for replacing the MiG-21bis/BISONs & MiG-27Ms/UPGs. Hence the reqmt for more Rafales is totally different & the 2 types of reqmts don’t clash at all. Only 83 Tejas Mkl.1As are to be ordered (they haven’t been as yet) & orders will be placed only after HAL demonstrates the aircraft’s total compliance with the IAF’s set-down ASQRs. There are several Tejas PV & LSP airframes now available at any given time. for testing a wide variety of sub-systems, avionics, components & weapons. By way of an example, when the MiG-29 was being developed. A total of 14 prototypes were built for developmental purposes so that service-entry was guaranteed after the commencement of flight-tests 3 years earlier. P-8Is for the ICGS are NOT MEANT for use as weaponised platforms, since the ICGS is a policing agency & not a paramilitary or armed services agency.
To PRRANSHU YADAV: So far, only baby-steps have been taken for MIRV development. Series-production of MIRVs won’t begin before 2025 at the very best.
To KAUSTAV: Pakistan will be far worse off since its local manufacturing sector has been decimated after inking the 2006 FTA with China, while its investments in human resource development have been decreasing at an alarming rate as well. That country practically now has just an agrarian economy. Consequently, there has been a jump in narcotics production there & more & more such consignments meant for India are being detected now. Hence, two-way trade with Pakistan today via any route (land, sea or air) fetches India only diminishing returns.
And at the other extreme, we have whimsical notions of ‘strategic partnerships’ that are totally detached from ground realities, which result in such preposterous analysis:
https://www.orfonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Strategic-Convergence1.pdf
To ENIGMA: 1) FATF blacklisting will make it almost impossible for Pakistan to engage in any form of bilateral or multilateral trade with the rest of the world. 2) No, such a choice will not be made because the elite of Pakistan dearly love their material wealth & exposure to the West for spending their wealth, especially on higher education for a select strata of the younger generation. 3) You will have noticed that for the past 3 weeks, there have been no reports of any ceasefire violation along the WB & LoC, despite this being the time when the ice starts melting & the nullahs (overf which no fences can be erected) become the favourite spots for infiltration.
ReplyDeleteTo JUST_CURIOUS: The AIM-260 was developed back in the early 1990s by Lockheed Martin as part of a Cold War-era project, but was never mass-produced. Even the Raytheon-developed FRAAM version of the AMRAAM was never series-produced. PL-10 & PL-15 AAMs will not be made available to Pakistan, rest assured. Even the PL-8, which in reality is the Python-3 (whose production ToT was given by RAFAEL to China in the mid-1980s) has not yet been supplied to Pakistan.
To DASHU: I have several friends who in turn are friends with expatriate Pakistanis who in turn are close relatives of the natives of PoK. As I had stated earlier, more & more natives of PoK today are more inclined to sympathise with India than with Pakistan.
To SAMEER: You can easily Google for it & also search for such sites in YouTube.
To RAHUL: All Rafales to be procured for the IAF will have to be bought off-the-shelf since it is IMPOSSIBLE to locally manufacture them, as I had explained numerous times before. The F-35 has neither been offered to India nor has been sought by anyone in India.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: Worldwide, there is no dearth of Muftis & Maulanas who are ill-informed, ill-educated & ignorant about the do’s & don’t’s of Islam. The same goes for all those showing off their faith in Shri Ram, Hanumaan, etc etc. I will recommend for you 2 presentations that explain it all:
Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oa25eCi99s
India's Faultlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJNXwuBUtE
To GET2FREE: Yes, it is.
ReplyDeleteTo AMIT BISWAS: While the IAF’s CAS claims that the IAF’s MRCAs did not penetrate PoK airspace, his pilots are claiming that they had:
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/balakot-airstrikes-iaf-squadron-leaders-who-flew-balakot-mission-we-didnt-miss-exclusive-2058547
Whom to believe?
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) This is what I call the ‘Grasshopping’ syndrome, i.e. jumping to conclusions by throwing sanity into the dustbin. You are overlooking that INS Sindhu Kirti underwent its mid-life refit at HSL in Vizag, when the hull was torn open first for refurbishment (under Russian supervision & with Russian technical assistance) & only after that was the L-3 KEO-supplied periscope with optronic mast was structurally installed & only after that did all on-board wiring work commence. Hence, all welding work was completed before installation of on-board electronic systems & their wiring had been installed/laid. This could be done because the periscopes were supplied to the IN before 2014 when there were no US-imposed sanctions against Russia. In case of INS Sindhu Kesari, all hull-related refurbishment work was conducted in Russia since 2017 (when US sanctions were in place & hence no US-origin hardware could go to Russia for fitment) & so the periscope was fitted after the INS Sindhu Kesari returned to India, meaning no Russian technical support/supervisory team was available to advice the IN’s Naval Dockyard on how to pro0ceed with the work under circumstances that never existed before & therefore even the Russians did not have any SOPs reqd for undertaking such refit activity. Had the INS Sindhu Kesari undergone its entire mid-life refit at HSL, then there would have been no problem at all. So, the only question that requires an answer now is: why is the IN continuing to send its Type 877EKM SSKs to Russia for refits/refurbishments when HSL can already undertake such work? 2) All those MiG-29s are of the SMT version that were built in 2007 but they were never fully assembled. They presently remain in knocked-down condition. 3) Mi-35Ps won’t be retired before 2026. The IAF will take about 5 years to fully commission its new-build AH-64E Apaches into service.
Prasunda
ReplyDelete1. Why has our development of MIRVs been slower than expected ? Political decision ?
2. If we shall serially produce such MIRVs around 2025, does that mean testing them shall begin this year or the next ?
Satyaki
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/tejas-light-combat-aircraft-the-not-so-indian-fighter/articleshow/49398335.cms?from=mdr
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thehindu.com/news/national/navy-lines-up-mega-deals-for-helicopters-submarines/article28235808.ece/amp/
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1156219.shtml
https://theprint.in/defence/the-chinese-resort-in-cambodia-that-can-overnight-be-turned-into-a-naval-base/255991/
https://theprint.in/defence/satellite-images-show-how-chinas-new-warships-will-be-ready-months-before-schedule/253364/
https://thewire.in/security/defence-budget-military-spending/amp/
Dear Prasun,
ReplyDeleteGreetings of the day!!
1.What are the black technologies possessed by the Russian federation? Did the erstwhile USSR and Russia have any such secret survivable tactical reconnaissance aircraft like the TR-3A and Astra?
2.Does Russia posses any interceptors or sam capable of shooting down the American black aircrafts like the Aurora/Astra, SR-75 Penetrator,TR-3A Manta? Is Russia having similar programmes of its own. ?
PLS shed some light on the Russian programmes.
3.Is our airforce even aware of these exotic aircrafts of Uncle Sam? As such do we have anything to prevent their unwanted loitering over Indian airspace or are we taking measures or developing a roadmap for contingencies involving the SR-72 and 75?
Thanks & Regards,
Pinkal Shah
hi prasun
ReplyDeleteinstaed of brahmos A, we could have launched the surface to surface brahmos? we have seen pinpoint accuracy hits so why not .
will pak be tempted to do like wise and use the babur ? is babur mainly for nuke role only?
it seems they have moved aerostats and long range radars to the border to prevent such surprise attacks by india . SO what would be the next option to hit at at terr camps. would it be ok to tak out the radar with anti radiation missiles?
what anti radar missiles will we be getting for the rafale? the alarm seems to have been stopped?
My suggestion (given as far back as 2012) for market segmentation of domestic shipbuilding activities for the purpose of supporting the country's domestic shipbuilding industry has been accepted at last by the MoD!
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-Y0Vr6XUAAPL3n.jpg
https://www.indiannavy.nic.in/sites/default/files/tender_document/REoI%20Indian%20Strategic%20Partners%20P-75%28I%29%20.pdf?download=1
According to MCPP 2027, what are the required force levels of Indian Navy in capital ships? Or can you share the document itself?
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Hello sirji,very much thanks for the explanation.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile,here's extremely interesting development shaping:
https://auroraintel.net/asia-australia/exclusive-the-mysterious-death-of-islamic-state-wiyalah-hinds-militant-in-kashmir
While BJP claimed that it's party worker was killed by HM/LeT in Jan 2018(Although his family members refuted it):
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-says-youth-killed-was-party-worker-family-refutes-claim-5012217/
The same guy is named as OGW by Islamic State’s Hind Province(ISHP)!!!
This all seemed to come after Adil Das(ISHP) was killed by HM fighters recently.
If this is true then it seems troubles would be escalating for pro-pakistan groups or even Pakistan as a whole.What do you think?
Thanks
Congratulations !!! Prasun Da.
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ReplyDelete1. of the 12 ACS/hovercraft to be built 6 ill be used by IA, why does IA need them?
2. heard France is offering 40 Mirage 2000 out of the lot retired last year and kept in reserve at cheap price and these are still in good condition, if true it can be really good for IAF once upgraded to UPG standard, how true is it
Joydeep Ghosh
Sir,
ReplyDelete1) as PAF is known to have been strengthening its Air Defense(AD) system in POK etc after balakot, n bigger camps being shifted deep inside Pakistan towards waziristan region etc, how can IAF strike targets deep inside Pakistan without crossing LOC?? Am asking coz usage of Brahmos can trigger a war, n possibility of targets being out of range of spice-1000 is their.
2) has Zhuk-AE been installed on MiG29's after zhuk-me had encountered problems related to MTTR reduced etc???
3) can MiG29upg both the upgraded ones n those which will come from Russia as additional purchase carry missiles/bombs with multi ejector pod??? I haven't seen yet that's y wanna ask...
4) why AD has been taken for granted by our forces/govt for so many years??? v don't even have an armoured vehicle mounted AD missile system to support tank regiments in field....
Can you throw some more light on what exactly you have suggested regarding segmentation and supporting indian shipbuilding industry
ReplyDeleteTo PINKAL SHAH: 1) There is not much clarity about Russian efforts to re-engineer or reverse-engineer crashed or recovered alien spacecraft. Nor is Russia believed to have invested any resources on developing such types of recce aircraft. 2) Russia’s existing ABM interceptors can easily shoot down hypersonic recce aircraft possessed by the US. 3) Of course it is aware.
ReplyDeleteAnd here’s a very interesting explanation of differences between extra-terrestrial & celestial entities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6z80kwMtN0
To RAD: Launch of surface-to-surface BrahMos would have invited retaliation in a similar form from Pakistan’s LACMs against which India does not possess adequate cruise missile defence capabilities. Aerostat-mounted & ground-based radars can always be jammed. The NG-ARM will be on the Rafales.
To ANKIT KUMAR: Such roadmaps frequently change. The generally sought quantities are 2 aircraft carriers, 12 DDGs, 24 FFGs, 12 NOPVs, 18 Corvettes, 24 submarines, 4 LPHs and five ocean-going fleet oilers.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: There are firm indications that the sudden growth of ISIS in J & K and elsewhere in the region are all efforts by Pakistan to legitimise the need for the Afghan Taliban so that ISIS is projected as the greater threat, thereby leading to the recognition of the Afghan Taliban as a legitimate politico-military entity by not only China, Iran & Russia, but also by the Central Asian Republics. And what’s the evidence to support all this? Elementary: all ISIS combatants returning back from Iraq & Syria make their entry into South Asia or Central Asia through Pakistani ports of entry.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) For amphibious assault operations. 2) It will be good for the IAF to procure no more than 5 of them just as attrition replacements.
To ASHISH GAUTAM: 1) Why should the IAF not cross the LoC? After all, it did so on February 26. 2) No one in India has so far ordered any type of AESA-MMR from anyone in Russia. 3) Yes, they can, provided such multi-ejector racks are developed in India. 4) Because the planning for force modernisation has been ad hoc & service-specific, instead of having a tri-services integrated plan for air-defence.
How could AESA based ground/aerostar radars could be jammed?? Btw is it safe to assume AWACS/AEWC radar could not be jammed??
DeleteTo VJAIN: What I had suggested was that those shipyards making aircraft carriers, DDGs, FFGs or corvettes should not be allowed to bid for making OPVs or NOPVs or FAC-Ms or interceptor boats or survey vessels or barges. Such vessels can easily be built by private-sector shipyards.
ReplyDeleteTo BUDDHA: Even Indian shipyards like that belonging to Larsen & Toubro can deliver warships ahead of schedule, but neither the IN nor the ICGS has the available manpower meant for taking early delivery of the vessels.
To KAUSTAV: Interesting explanation of India’s macro-economic priorities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmmttAhgK08&t=34s
Did Jawaharlal Nehru Mishandle J & K:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZHzizZqftU
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/guns-earlier-now-gold-smuggled-from-myanmar-is-worrying-india/articleshow/69999291.cms?from=mdr
Could u pl highlight which ship design is the front Contender for NGMV project?
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Anything on the possible designs for 6 NGMV by our shipyards? Are foreign OEMs allowed to participate with the 7 shipyards here? French Naval Group, Russians and SAAB will surely be looking at the opportunity.
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ReplyDeleteabout the program on Nehru,,, they want to criticize nehru or defend it, that is other thing.
But what is with Maharaja want standstill or not, why India care what Maharaja wanted? Isnt it this is actually defeatist argument, instead of criticizing nehru?
Why it matter what King of Japan wanted after signing Instrument of Surrender? Or what Nazis demanded after signing Postdam. You dont offer tea to defeating power, you kick them in balls.
Once the Mahraja signed Instrument of Accession, he hold no say over territory of J&K. Once he signed, it is not about what he wanted,,, it is about what India wanted.
Sir, post air strikes as PAF & PA are upgrading their existing AD network in Pok with better radars & associated SAM systems, their is a possibility that IAF may not b able to fly deep inside as freely as they did in Balakot case, so how can they strike targets deep inside??
ReplyDeleteVia Afghanistan route??
http://idrw.org/post-balakot-air-strikes-why-hals-wingman-concept-needs-a-further-relook/#more-204797
To AMIT BISWAS & ANKIT KUMAR: Mark my words: the MoD’s & IN’s decision to separate the NGMV & NGC projects are TOTALLY FLAWED. If the In desires procuring 600-tonne or 800-tonne NGMVs, then I’m afraid the IN is still thinking of fighting the previous wars. Today, NGMVs are corvette-sized displacing up to 2,500 tonnes so that they can launch both LACMs & ASCMs from the very universal vertical-launch cells. That’s because today’s BrahMos-1s can be used against both warships & land-based static targets, while tomorrow’s Nirbhay will have imaging SAR seekers that too can be used for land-attack & anti-ship strike. In addition, such warships don’t require PDMS for air-defence (like Barak-1), but Barak-8-type SAMs for defeating supersonic ASCMs. So, I hope that sanity prevails & the NGMV & NGC projects are merged so that a common-hull design gets selected. Such hull-designs can be of local origin, or of foreign origin.
ReplyDeleteAs for jamming, everything can be jammed. It all depends on jamming capacities, i.e. whether the jammers are contained within a pod, a business jet or a widebodied airliner-type of platform.
To ASHISH GAUTAM: LoLz! Which radars? Which SAMs? How many of them? And that too when that country has been forced to reduce its defence budget & spend more military funds on fortifying the Durand Line? Hence, don’t believe rumours. Because, Pakistan’s elongated & narrow geography ensures that its long-range airspace surveillance radars located even in western Pakistan can look 80nm inside Indian airspace, as this 80nm is part of the PAF’s air-defence identification zone (ADIZ).
PA COAS Meets Russian COAS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzfY9cDVeU
PAF CAS Meets Russian COAS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6y4ARmuhE
Talk Show on Pak PM’s Visit to US on July 20:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBlmaSFoPVU
To MPATEL: Afghan Pashtuns whacking Pakistani Cricket fans in the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lEMHxZKQWY
To PINKAL SHAH: You’re in luck! This programme reveals/explains joint US-Russia research on Element 115 (Moscovium):
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7b8pan
To ARPIT KANODIA: To me, all 3 participants in that programme were either not focussing on the point of discussion, or were unaware of factoids. Firstly, only Pakistan & the Princely State of J & K had inked the Standstill Agreement. India did not as she had no desire for forcibly annexing J & K. Secondly, by mid-1948, 2 options were available to India: either continue with a war of attrition until the numerically superior India prevailed & won, or; open a second front in Punjab against Pakistan so as to decisively defeat a numerically inferior PA. The second option was discarded by both India’s civilian & military leadership because a full-scale war in the Punjab would have added further salt to the wounds of that state & elsewhere in northern & central India & this in turn would have led to further exodus of refugees from both sides, leading to an unmanageable bloodbath. So that left only the first option, but here too it has since emerged that it was Sheikh Abdullah who discouraged Pandit ‘Chacha’ Nehru from liberating Gilgit, Baltistan & even Poonch by giving the excuse that his political influence in those areas was marginal & he therefore was not confident of convincing the local inhabitants there of siding with India. This was clearly stated by the late Kuldip Nayar in one of his books. Hence, to lay the blame squarely at Pandit ‘Chacha’ Nehru’s doorstep is wrong & untenable. Others too have to take responsibility for accepting the UN-mandated ceasefire in August 1948.
ReplyDeleteTo me, the greatest mistake was made NOT in mid-1948, but in late 1971 and early 1972. Firstly, the war objectives for the western front were never spelt out with clarity by India’s political leadership, which in turn led to IA HQ adopting an extremely cautious approach & limiting itself to only capturing tactically insignificant enclaves with the exception of Chicken’s Neck. For instance, instead of trying to capture an extremely large chunk of territory like Shakargarh Bulge, the IA should have been instructed to capture only areas that contained Sri Kartarpur Sahib & the town of Umarkot. Secondly, the IA should have been authorised to capture as much territory of PoK as possible, reaching out as far as Skardu & further west beyond Chammb. But the ultimate disaster took place at Shimla in June 1972 prior to the Shimla Agreement being inked, during which India for inexplicable reasons totally capitulated to Pakistan. I have details of what transpired then & will scan the pages from the relevant books to reveal what really transpired there.
Meanwhile, the senseless debate on J & K continues here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQFKp_Q_9rM
Delusional folks like DAVID DEVADAS (the so-calledcJ & K expert) have the cheek to say that the inking of the Instrument of Accession by Maharaja Hari Singh tantamounted to an annexation of J & K by India! This is how disinformation spreads, thanks to the usage of wrong words. I guess such folks should be told to bring along an English Dictionary for checking out the meaning of certain words before they are uttered.
And on the other end of the extreme, we have MORONS giving distorted interpretations/spins to foreign TV channels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3RINtClOsM
Given India’s demographic realities, it is always a given that on any given day if there is 1 atrocity carried out against minority communities, then there are 10 atrocities carried out against majority communities by members of the same communities, & often due to the same reasons. Therefore, to state that a particular community is being subjected to increasing quantum of atrocities is factually wrong/incorrect.
Excellent book on India's covert naval warfare in East Pakistan in 1971:
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But don't ever expect such data to be declassified & become an official narrative of post-independence India's military history!!!
Prasunda,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for all the lovely infobits.
Sir, a query also naturally arises with regard to your suggestion for the NGMV being of 2500 Tons displacement. In that case, the Kamorta or Project 28 ASW Corvette design should easily be adapted with weapons, radard & other sensors for ASuW and Land Attack roles in Littoral area like against the Porkies or general policing in the IOR. That would also give commonality of design which would be excellent both for logistics as well as subterfuge. The P-28 class seems huge just for ASW role, though endurance on patrols matter. Could you share something on this matter, Sirji.
To KAUSTAV: That is EXACTLY the point I was trying to explain earlier, i.e. using the same baseline design of the hull for both the NGMVs & NGCs while making certain mission-specific structural modifications, such as adopting the concept of Integrated Mast' for housing L-band, S-band, X-band or Ku-band active phased-array apertures meant to serve as radars or as active jamming emitters. As for universal VLS cells capable of housing both BrahMos-1 & Nirbhay cruise missiles, provision should be made for carrying at least 8 BrahMos-1 & 12 Nirbhay LACMs, plus 24 Barak-8 SAMs.
ReplyDeleteYes sir.In my opinion,the two biggest blunders that India made were as follows:1)returning the Haji Pir Pass to Pakistan after capturing it in 1965 and 2)In 1971,India captured a lot of places in Tharparkar district of Sindh(that has many Hindus).One of the captured places was Nagarparkar that has Hindu and Jain temples.Sindhis are the only group of Indians who do not have their own state.India should have kept these captured places and created a state for them.
ReplyDeleteYes,India did have a golden opportunity to liberate PoK in 1971.We did liberate some villages in Baltistan like Bogdang,Turtuk,Thang,etc but wasn't the fact that we did not liberate the entire PoK in 1971 more due to pressure put on us by the Soviets(who had already vetoed 2 UNSC resolutions) and the Americans?
Regards,
Enigma.
Did You Know:
ReplyDeleteThat the city of Kolkata was supposed to have an underground rail network back in 2021? Watch these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kryg1RA55KA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhca_5vRLo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZe-BegFg8A
Today, all rakes for the Kolkata Metro are coming directly from CRRC Dalian, China.
The name of the Project 613 submarine (Whiskey-class) that was lent to Pakistan by Indonesia during the 1965 War had the name of BRAHMASTRA. In fact, all such submarines of Indonesia had Sanskrit names.
Meanwhile, on one hand...
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/usa-designates-baloch-liberation-army-as-terror-group/articleshow/70047236.cms
While on the other hand...
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/us-tells-london-court-dawood-is-in-pakistan/articleshow/70051966.cms?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=ETTWMain
Prasun Da, thanks for an informative blog, however I also, request your views regarding some developments, and also information you have provided .
ReplyDeletea. BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army) has been designated as 'Terrorist Organization' by the USA (http://idrw.org/us-designates-balochistan-liberation-army-as-terrorist-group/), now isn't it a jolt for independence movement of Balochistan, or is it a ploy to give some concession to PA or Chinese ? What's your view on this ?
b. This provides a boost for the fact you have provided, now even the PoK Secretariat employees are now protesting against discriminatory financial policies of Pakistani Government.
c. And is the above turns into this : PoK vlogger locates the wreckage site of the F-16 shot down by Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF69ZEn4CPE(http://idrw.org/pok-based-vlogger-shows-f-16-crash-location/)
d. A view of Chinese LM - 11 sea based rocket launch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBuFSyVV8_Q, kindly check the Cold Launch of the rocket possible aided by a gas ejector, is it a converted SLBM ? or any other PLA operated canisterised Ballistic Missile ? If so, can missile like Agni V be converted likewise ?
e. Apart from CRRC Dalian, ICF Medha rakes are also used by the Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (KMRC) . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDosJ9Hiac
Thanks in advance.
@prasun da
ReplyDelete1. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7208041/Russian-submariners-died-fire-sacrificed-save-secret-vessel.html
whats is so secretive about this sub?
2. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7209203/Dubai-rulers-wife-Princess-Haya-planned-escape-husband-LIED-imprisoning-elder-daughter.html
this proves Makhtoum that dubai ruler is always high on power, so much so he thinks he can do anything, 1st he got India to arret his daughter who was fleeing to a new life and spineless India meekly obliged but Germany showed spine and rescued his 6th wife and latly refused and sent her to UK to help her start new life, no wonder Kamal Kishore Chaddha, Dawood Ibrahim and Umesh Kumar Jain have enjoyed free run in Dubai
3. do you really think a baseline design of the hull for both the NGMVs & NGCs like Kamorta class can be possible now as from the RFP it seems ships will be quiet small, what i gather than designs for NGMVs & NGCs have been decided and the shipyards who will respond will only respond with as to how the internal fitments will be
thanks
Joydeep Ghosh
Hello Sirji!
ReplyDelete1.I noticed that many Pakistanis who aren't even living in Pakistan,and the ones who are called intellectual are the ones who speak half truths at many occasions.What I do believe is that they don't give a damn about truth and peace.The reason why they oppose deep state is because it's harmed/harming them.But once it's over,or once it comes to fundamentals like two-nation theory,they would be no different from folks like Hamid mir or any other person in Pakistan.My question is,you would have interacted with such folks in your life,then what do you think that we,as Indians should keep in our mind before listening to them? We know about Zaid Hamid or Orya Maqbool Jaan, but such folks are truly confusing hyper-Indians who get attracted merely when some Pakistani say some sweet lines.
2.What's with US? Is it true that US is finding that both GOI and GOP are lying(as been narrated by folks like Vipin Narang) or there's something else? If so, do you find any harsher turn by US towards Pakistan in near future?
To SUMANTA NAG: A) The designation won’t mean much because the BLA is not a monolith, but is divided into various groups engaged in different areas of Balochistan for autonomously conducting operations. Nor are the BLA’s bank accounts anywhere in the US. Plus, no one can close their eyes to this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6--kCVLqrPc
B) The discontent there is growing by the day. C) There was nothing shown in that videoclip that provided any clinching evidence. On the other hand, the evidence provided by the IAF through radar tracks is far more convincing. D) No, because the DF-31A & DF-41 ICBMs use such cold-ejection techniques for the missile to leave its cannister.
To JOYDEEP GHOSH: 1) That submarine was used for undersea espionage. 2) India had to oblige because a lot of unsavoury Indian citizens hiding in the UAE also have been sent back to India on India’s request. Reciprocity is the name of the game. How many unsavoury German citizens have been or are living in the UAE? 3) Everything is possible, for where there is a will, there will always be a way.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) Most Pakistanis who are living abroad permanently hold dual citizenships, i.e. they are also Pakistani citizens, since Pakistan allows its citizens to hold dual citizenships. And since the Pakistani educational syllabus is totally distorted & non-factual, it is almost impossible to find a rational Pakistani in existence. 2) Folks like Vipin Narang thrive upon myth-creation/myth propagation, rest assured. And here’s more data concerning yesterday’s arrests in Gujranwala & Multan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvhkZHz2DKY
And about the mysterious blast near the LoC at Chammb-Barnala sector of the PA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoiyEwar4c
And while the GoI has no dearth of funds to erect giant statues of past ‘netas’ & Bhagwaans & temples, it has no funds available for Disability Pensions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qQABms1D58
Sir,
ReplyDeleteYour another prediction going to correct:
HP, Dell, Microsoft and Amazon Considering to Move Production out of China
https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/hp-dell-microsoft-amazon-considering-071211059.html
Dear Prasun,
ReplyDeleteIt's time for MMRCA 2.0. What do you think will be additional technical requirements than those earlier evaluated in 1.0
Don't you think Andaman and Lakshadweep are ideal location for nuclear submarine base. Your views.
To ANUP: The best analysis on China does not come from anywhere else, but from Dr Michael Pillsbury:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seKRJ3JBQmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE9QuB80cGY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjH-KMa9LI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLANNu81_vA
Unfortunately, there is no one in India who can analyse matters WRT China in such depth.
To VED: 1) If MMRCA 1.0 was so messy, then rest assured that MMRCA 2.0 will be doubly messy, since it has replaced the earlier & saner 114-unit SEF reqmt. 2) A check of global submarine bases will reveal that such bases are NEVER sited on island-chains that stand exposed to the high seas on all sides. Instead, such bases are located within coves or channels.
To PRATAP: IMF has not cleared a bailout. It has only provided a bridging loan & now it is up to Pakistan whether or not to stay within the IMF’s 3-year programme, since in all previous programmes, it was Pakistan that unilaterally walked out. But this time it is different because the IMF includes several FATF clauses that require compliance. On top of all that, NONE of the lenders have given Pakistan aid money. They are all loans that need to be paid back. Now, if Pakistan is now exporting only mangoes, how the hell can it be expected to emerge out of any financial crisis? So, for all intents & purposes, Pakistan is now well inside a bottomless pit. The PA’s COAS was in the UK to lobby for the prosecution of Altaaf Hussein & some self-exiled Baloch separatist leaders. Najam Sethi doesn’t have the guts/balls to spell out the truth for fear of his life & those of his loved ones. If you want to know the state of Pakistan’s media, so read this:
https://theprint.in/opinion/letter-from-pakistan/its-not-just-people-in-imran-khans-naya-pakistan-interviews-go-missing-too/257966/
And here’s a detailed explanation of the IMF financial package:
Pakistan Economy Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=734kXZun8lQ
This too is interesting:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-m4w1TUwAAxcel.jpg
Now, why do these ‘Kashmiris’ all end up in Karachi or elsewhere inside Pakistan for pursuing medical studies? Isn’t there even a single medical college anywhere inside PoK? If not, then what does this indicate?
Prasun,
ReplyDelete1- MMRCA 2 -- the following articles seem to tell that MMRCA 1 was one big scam.. your views on the same
https://www.stratpost.com/rafalescam-the-cags-history/
https://www.stratpost.com/how-the-mmrca-was-killed-rafalescam/
https://www.stratpost.com/rafalescam-the-crucial-date/
it talks about 2 IAf offcials Technical Manager (Air), Air Vice Marshal J.S. Panesar,, ex IAF chief Air Marshal N.A.K. Brown who seems to have manipulated rules in favour of the Rafale..
2 - Why on the earth have govts been averse to single vendor cases when all that is needed is to have a transparent & time bound approach to get the deal done
3- what is happening on the Mirage, Jag, mig upgrades by HAL. whose workers seem to go on strike @the drop of a hat. who is to be blames for the delays
4- What are your predictions on the new acquisitions based on Modi 2.0 govt budget
5- to your prev reply to Pratap, why even allow Kashimiris to study medicine or anything in pakistan - of all places. JUST BAN IT
http://forceindia.net/new-government-old-budget/
ReplyDeleteSorry state of Indian defence budget...
With national security verbals in air nothing serious on ground...
Hello prasunji!
ReplyDeleteAt last, the budget is presented.
1.Setting aside defence, what's most funny is that they are introducing "study in India" to attract foreign students! My friend who is working in one of the Visa consultancy once said to me that once a Canadian consulate worker said to him that Indian students are immigrating there by "planes bhar bhar ke"! Also, you said once that 2 Chinese university alone holded around 10K Indian students. I don't know what in world was this FM thinking.She also purposed of setting up national research foundation to enhance and coordinate home grown research. Do you think it would work??
2.A new narrative being circulated around d the world by some journal is that India is heading towards fascism and that every Muslim would be targetted one day.Even some goras are doing so. What's your view?
To JUST_CURIOUS: 1) Yes, MMRCA-1 was indeed a totally flawed process simply because (as I had explained several times before) no one in the world has licence-built 4th-gen combat aircraft & for India to expect licence-building Rafales was an INFANTILE thought. MMRCA-2 (for 36 Rafales off-the-shelf) was what should have been initiated back in 2007, as I had explained in detail in a dedicated thread before. MMRCA-3 is what the 114-unit reqmt is all about. And no matter which MRCA is chosen, licence-building any chosen 4-gen MRCA will be a financial no-brainer, rest assured. 2) because NO Indian politician can guarantee 100% honesty in such deals, nor does any politician have the brains/capacity reqd for giving such guarantees. Just check how many sitting MPs in Parliament have criminal cases registered against them. If political parties can’t produce homest MPs, then how can they be expected to produce honest procurement deals? 3) Jaguar IS/DARIN-3 upgrade is proceeding on schedule now. But why did HAL get involved in upgrading such a small number of Mirage-2000s while it was denied participation in the far larger MiG-29UPG upgrade project (the IAF’s Nashik-based 11 Base Repair Depot is upgrading the MiG-29s)? This defies logic!!!
ReplyDeleteTo BUDDHA: LoLz! Rest assured that the funds reqd for defence spending are more than enough. It is another matter that the spending processes are totally flawed & the bloated IA gets to spend the maximum amount when it should be the IAF & IN that should be getting the majority of the funds. Even in China, it is the PLA Navy that gets 53% allocation of the annual defence budget.
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) Actually, that is meant for attracting students from India’s immediate neighbours. Don’t forget that within the coming 50 years due to rising sea-water levels, countries like Maldives & Mauritius won’t exist. So where will their populations go to? They have choice no choice but to choose from either India or Sri Lanka. So, such funds are meant for preparing for such a future addition to India’s population. 2) Such reportage also carry the risk of being discredited within a short timespan. Meanwhile, here is another brilliant analysis about how Pakistan is headed for financial dismemberment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIS8_-5bpU
And an analysis of BLA’s designation as a terrorist outfit, plus closing oral submissions made at the ICJ about the Kulbhushan Jadhav Case:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et-9yLrX_pk
Prasun,
ReplyDeleteThx for your replies but if Jag upgrades are only limited to darin 3 stds what the point as the jets are already underpowered. will the engine upgrade ever happen and if it happens the jets will need to be again pulled out of service for the overhaul .. also as times passes will it make sense to do the upgrades?... will jaguar MAX ever be a reality?
Prasunda,
ReplyDeleteA logical move https://theprint.in/defence/army-chiefs-new-experiment-major-general-is-ceo-of-ak-203-rifle-factory-in-amethi/259019/
Another measure should also be taken. That is, all staffs of the factory should be taken from those army soldiers who retires prematurely from service. It will create more disciplined and more efficient workforce rather than civilian people. Your view please.
Thanks, Regards.
I wonder if the designation of BLA is a quid pro quo, its what Pak and China got for agreeing to Azhar being listed?
ReplyDeleteCurrently Im is getting very close to Putin and has even been invited to a conference in Russia by him. Where do you think this will head to?
Im is also going to USA, I have a feeling that him and Trump will get on very well. Trump is so reported- does not trust his military generals about Afghanistan and wants out but needs to keep an eye on what happens there. They will ask Im to do that, what can he ask for in return?
What if USA under trump starts to give aid to pak again, what are our options?
RAT2
Prasun,
ReplyDeletehow does the budget impact procurement since its virtually the same as the interim one
1) Very much relieved if true
ReplyDeletehttps://sniwire.com/defence-security/in-army-restructuring-tweaks-in-plans-against-china/
Sir, now that IBG have been test bedded, any numeric breakup leaked to you? Seems like these are brigade sized, allocations on the lines of american BCT.
2) Was thinking how do smaller IBG size units do not get overwhelmed by much larger division sized units while invading enemy territory in initial phase of war, if they have no technological superiority?
3) how is cyber division planned to be deployed? Is it going to be paper formation attached to other units, or separate fighting force albeit for virtual battlefield?
4) any scope of milking few units from RR and reforming them into a dedicated infantry formation on LOC? Not a formation that needs to 3 week reorientation.
Maybe free them by adding more CAPF on deputation for counter insurgency? 1 company per RR battalion should give enough to raise 1 division and 1 briagde.
5) Does RR and regular army conducts counter insurgency in NE too, or just Special forces aiding Assam Rifles and CAPF/Police?
Thanks
To JUST_CURIOUS: No, both DARIN-2 & DARIN-3 Jaguar IS will get F125N turbofans. The DARIN-2 Jaguars will then be upgraded to Jaguar MAX standard. Engine installation is of the drop-in type which can be conducted at the air base itself. The budget for India’s defence spending is enough to meet genuine reqmts, and not the wishful reqmts of a bloated IA & an unproductive military-industrial complex. For instance, Russia manages with far less, as its annual defence budget is only US$50 billion.
ReplyDeleteTo UJJWAL: But why not try to get business professionals as lateral entrants to run the OFBs? Why waste a serving IA Maj Gen for doing such a job? Is this done anywhere else in the world?
To RAT2: It was a quid pro quo to please China, but at the same time the move is useless since no one is even contemplating the extradition to Pakistan of the BLA’s Chief patron Harbeyaar Marri. As for IAKH being invited to both Russia & the US, the intention is to force Pakistan to capitulate to the US & Russian demands for de-weaponising as many factions of the Afghan Taliban as possible. And that’s because everyone knows that on-going talks with the Afghan Taliban will go nowhere since the US has been constantly changing the goalposts & has now declared that it will never terminate its military presence in Afghanistan, which is directly contradicting the main demand of the Afghan Taliban. The US is already giving aid to Pakistan, because of the US$6 billion meant for Pakistan, US$4 billion will be used by Pakistan to pay for its past IMF loans. Hence, in real terms, the IMF is directly injecting only US$2 billion into Pakistan’s economy. Thus, Pakistan is now in an eternal debt trap & has no more cards to negotiate with either the US, or Europe, or Russia.
To VSJ: 1 &2) And despite all my previous explanations on the impossibility of creating IBGs, you still chose to lap up that report lock, stock & barrel! Just read that report a few more times & you will hopefully spot all the inherent flaws in that reportage. For starters, how can divisions separated hundreds of km from one another become parts of any functional Corps? In times of emergencies, it will become a logistical nightmare to assemble these divisions into their wartime areas of responsibility. Secondly, the very notion of having separate Infantry Battle Groups (IIBG), Integrated Armoured Battle Groups (IABG) or Integrated Artillery Battle Groups (IArtyBG) is a negation of the term ‘Integrated’. Without armour, mechanised infantry cannot survive & without artillery, both infantry & armour cannot survive. And without air-defence artillery, none of the other three can survive. Hence, any IBG will be reqd to have all such elements embedded within one single warfighting formation. Finally, if it is not known what quantum & type of fire-support will be delivered by the IAF, then how will the IBG commander be able to plan for mobilising his reqd field artillery resources? Will the IAF always be on hand to deliver immediate close air-support?
Hence, the bottomline is as follows:
1) IBGs cannot be planned for & raised by only the IA. It has to be a joint services endeavour in which the first shots will have to be fired by the IAF, meaning the IAF & not the IA will have to become the lead service-provider for the IBG to successfully complete its taskings. So, anyone talking about the IBG as being only an IA-led affair is talking & spreading BALONEY.
2) Since speed & tempo are of the essence is making quick breakthroughs, veryical envelopment tactics are reqd, meaning an IBG will require its own integral RSH helicopters, attack helicopters, battlefield surveillance helicopters & medium-lift troop transport helicopters. None of these are presently available within the IA.
Cyber Division is only meant for information warfare. It will be located deep within the hinterland since its expertise is not meant for battlefield applications. RR is only meant for use within J & K, and nowhere else.
Well thats depressing.
DeleteIf we buy extra su30 and mig29s, along with 2 more rafale squadron, who will be tasked with interdiction role pulling high daily sortie rate like you mentioned?
Seems like jaguar and mirages will be busy with close air support or deep penetration?
Will we wait for Tejas mk2?
Excellent Speech by Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri in UK:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMpn_tL3bo8
Interview of Pak Federal Interior Minister Ret'd Brig Ijaz Ahmed Shah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhLIQeshB60
(Home Ministers of both India & Pakistan seem to share the same surname)
Situation of Pakistan's Tribal Districts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fXVp7lOlHg
Interview of Maldivian CDS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD-iulB2Rcg
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/cover-story/the-caliphate-files-inside-the-islamic-state-modules-of-india
ReplyDeletePrasun sir,
ReplyDeleteYou had written one article about the structural reforms carried out in IA some times back in this blog. I can't find that one. Can you provide the link for that?
Thanks.
https://theprint.in/defence/customs-duty-relief-offers-sole-budget-cheer-for-army-navy-and-iaf/259178/
ReplyDeletehttps://theprint.in/defence/the-tyranny-of-ips-officers-over-us-will-now-end-say-capf-officers/259718/
Welcome move....
When extra upgraded mig 29s going to be ordered
Do you think Super su 30mki be finalised
As per your description above IBG will in real fighting situation be critical nightmare if no synargy or deep understanding established with air force .
Thank you sir.
ReplyDeleteExtradition won't happen but being associated with him (or BLA)is now a major risk. People may back away now.
I thought Trump has stopped all aid to Pak. This is disappointing, what amount of aid is still getting through?
If the worst were to happen, Taliban becoming the ruling party in Afghanistan, what options do we have, considering both China and Russia now have shown willingness to co-exist with the Taliban?
Also couldn't agree more that IBG's cannot survive a fight against Pak without air superiority. That how uncle SAM fights.
RAT2
https://www.google.com/amp/s/defenceupdate.in/indigenous-uttam-aesa-radar-has-been-integrated-with-a-test-model-on-lca-tejas/amp/
ReplyDeleteI hope it's TRUE....finally something on positive side happening atleast....what's your take sir???
Hello Prasunji!
ReplyDelete1.Remember I asked you about Iranian activity in Kashmir few months back? Well, it seems that the issue of whose reference I was asking you blew up! First it was ex-RA&W officer RK Yadav who claimed about Ansari, now it's another officer called NJ Sood. Your thoughts?
2.You said that funds are enough.Do you think ordering new MMRCA(F-21) would be viable if additional Mig-29s, Su-30MKI solution is to be ignored?If so when it would likely happen, as per your calculations?
3.Interestingly, you said that Taliban talks would go no where and US wouldn't leave Afghanistan.Is that true, then is that possible that US would use military as much as it did post-2001? If so,then would it be inside pakistani territory or US will repeat mistake of aligning with Pakistan? Words are floating from few American think tanks that US will try to repair back the relation with Pakistan so that it could have over taliban.Your POV?
Thanks sirji....
Sir ,
ReplyDeleteWhen I was kid, I remember the monkey man episode, and as kid I was terrified.
Also at same time muhnochwa episodes was going on in UP.
Then there were reports that IB got involved, then ISRO. I remember at one stage ISRO unofficially stated that it might ETB.
Also I remember IB stated they recorded a being on footage.
https://m.timesofindia.com/city/lucknow/Extra-terrestrials-invade-UP-says-IB/articleshow/19397236.cms
But after all that, it was nothing. And all things were gone by year 2003. What was special about 2002?
Also it was just mass hysteria, or something else?
To ACCIDENTAL LOSER: What I had explained earlier was the difference between structural reforms & administrative reforms. The former involves joint services operations & joint theatre commands, whereas the latter involves getting rid of mid-level officers from IA HQ, cutting down on administrative/logistical manpower reqmts, etc etc. But since my previous explanation, another explanation in greater detail is offered here:
ReplyDeletehttps://theprint.in/opinion/narendra-modi-govt-cant-increase-defence-budget-best-it-can-do-is-go-for-reforms/258130/
To BUDDHA: Both the Super Su-30MKI upgrade & Jaguar IS re-engining will be taken up later this year, as will the contract for additional MiG-29UPGs.
To VSJ: Tejas Mk.2 is DEAD, period. Now it is the turn of the LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF to be developed.
To RAT: Most of your questions have been answered by a plain-speaking US citizen of Pakistani origin in this talk-show that was aired yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6thLIQM90
Also, let’s see what the ICJ’s verdict is regarding Kulbhushan Jadhav. Let’s see when Pakistan decides to blink.
To AMIT BISWAS: FYI, I had given this update last Febriary. And here’s the evidence from the Aero India-2019 Show Highlights thread:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z9J_b6k9VLw/XG0revJhFmI/AAAAAAAAQsE/0teeIXXDGjkkqJs8z5bt7v7QhJlweWmhgCLcBGAs/s1600/Uttam%2BAESA-MMR%2Bon%2BTejas%2BPV-1.jpg
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZW6nOXuHXw/XG0rf-c7HXI/AAAAAAAAQsI/yHkCWmwGQNE3g7mCkVLJm63JSU0Zr9QGgCLcBGAs/s1600/Uttam%2BAESA-MMR%2BPoster.jpg
To PRAJJWAL DALAL: 1) What is there to say or comment upon? 2) No. If 50 additional MiG-29UPGs are procured and if the Super Su-30MKI upgrade project & Jaguar IS re-engining project all take off this year, then there will be no urgency for procuring 114 F-21s. Instead, that money will be better spent if the next tranche of 44 Rafales are ordered off-the-shelf. 3) It is all explained here in clear terms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6thLIQM90
To ARPIT KANODIA: These events happen from time to time in areas where electromagnetic anomalies exist, meaning certain inter-dimensional phenomena are manifested in areas where such anomalies take place, like Skinwalker Ranch in the US.
This is perhaps the first time ever that India has explained in clear terms why/how Pakistan prevented UNSC resolution No.47 from being implemented:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f31tJBMJY
China’s Vanishing Muslims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AYyUqrMuQ
Inside China Thought Transformation Camps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi to Visit Gilgit-Baltistan on July 9:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtaPDHJIP1M
Why the orders of 83 tejas mk1a are not coming but the IAF is keen for mmrca 2.0
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-allocation-disappoints-military/article28313288.ece/amp/
ReplyDeleteWhy committed liabilities fund is less then alloted fund for air force and navy
Prasun ..
ReplyDeletethis *#$% of an UN body keeps spitting out these reports
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-lodges-diplomatic-protest-over-new-un-report-that-alleges-rights-violations-in-jammu-and-kashm-2066103?pfrom=home-topscroll
why doesnt India pull out of it & show them their place .. Take trump as an example...we have been doing some of the highest number of peace keeping missions across the world for this impotent body, who btw id yet to pay for the sevices and yet one of its wings has the audacity to print this S$%^....
Prasun in reply to VSJ above on July 8, 2019 at 5:59 AM, you have mentioned
ReplyDeleteTejas Mk.2 is DEAD, period. Now it is the turn of the LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF to be developed.
1) My question is, "What is the difference between Tejas Mk.2 and LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF"? Also in what way is LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF better than the Tejas Mk.2 or is it a compromise.
2) Is naval M2 going to be based on LCA-AF Mk.2 MWF or Tejas Mk.2?