I wish we had brainstorming in past amongst our think tank and would have planned something for this sort of Scenario. Sometime doing something is easier to conceiving proper response which should be appropriate.
Pahalgam terror attack: 26 killed
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I wish we had brainstorming in past amongst our think tank and would have planned something for this sort of Scenario. Sometime doing something is easier to conceiving proper response which should be appropriate.
You are even counting your WW2 era 25-pounders. And 2/3rd of your guns are from the Vietnam era which have not been upgraded. Only the SH-15 is modern.
Yeah. But once again, not the same numbers. Even ammo.
Nasr's and A-100's range does not threaten critical infra. Fatah-1 is pretty new, so not enough numbers. Fatah-2 is still under trials.
The real threats are Ra'ad and Babur, but pretty much all of our air defense today can deal with these threats.
You haven't considered the introduction of ALBMs in the IAF or the fact that our air defense can be used against your BMs.
Right time for IN to strike...
We shouldn't discount the availability of at least 1, if not 2, of the Hangor class. They were supposed to be ready by now.
Incorrect. Due to lack of modernization since the 80s, we have upgraded all of what we already have so all are usable.
I was listening to a military expert on TV. He was saying that India's ground attack power has increased by 8 times since 2019 short conflict. Lots of standoff weapons, glide bombs, runway denial bombs have come in. Rafale has bring in lots of new capabilities like force intrusion.
We have enough artilleries to handle Pakistan. Even MBRL like grad were upgraded for higher range and accuracy. We have decent numbers of Pinaka.
There's a lot of things that we should have done instead of trying to save money.
We canceled 48 Mi-17s, 60 Ka-226T, 3 mobile SPYDER regiments, and 400 ATHOS for the IA. All of these would have been available today.
In terms of policy, we are already prepared for it. What's happening now is well within the govt's expectations.
Pahalgam attack happened because some local authorities decided to open up the area on the 20th without informing the central govt, that's why there was no security.
That's still an underestimation. We have enough to pound away for many months at high intensity. It's all in preparation for a long war. That's where all our money went into since 2022, instead of buying 36 more Rafales.
How fast Pakistan OFB can produce rockets, for pinaka it's 15 days, they can reduce even more the production time, any idea?
Against Pakistani F16, Tejas Mk1 and Rafale shall be more effective than MKI as F 16 uses AIMS which is batter than any missile in Indian inventory except Meteor. However, because of poor relative performance of Radar, Tejas MK1 and rafale can detect and shoot F-16 few K.M. Before F 16 can detect Tejas or Rafale. Rafale is a class apart. However, Tejas because of lower RCS can be a very good plane with AESA and 100+ K.M. Range BVR with first shoot capability.
That's because Pakistan has normalised terrorist attacks, the army itself doesn't care, any sane nation would have done the same,
Must watch interview.
Snippet where he blames the US for terrorism.
The interview is around 20 min.
Snippet where he blames the US for terrorism.
The interview is around 20 min.
MI 17 were outdated and hence was not a chopper of Today.
KA 26 was sacrificed for LUH and high production cost in India.
I do not know what advantage will spider bring over Akash and QR SAM?
ATHOS was not accepted as it has some issue. I heard a retired general saying that. He stated that he cannot disclose that.
India has managed to block only excess water going to Pakistan and not the share of Pakistani water till date. Before last few years, it was not even possible to block Pakistani water because of technical challenges.
It depends on what India wants to achieve. If India wants to target terrorist camps deep inside, They will have to do Air strike. If India wants to strike terrorist camps 80-90 K.M. Inside, they will use air strike with stand off weapons, between 60 to 80 k.m, Guided Pinaka salvo, less than 60 k.m. Pinaka MkII, less than 40 k.m. Other Artillery.
While lot of focus is on Rafale and rightly so because of Scalp & Hammer, as far as air to ground goes, it's the MKI which is our real ace. Post 2019, IAF has integrated ROCKS & Rampage with it and that'll do the real pounding. Combine that with SAAW/Gaurav/NGARM and its air to surface capabilities have increased multiple times, all of which bodes quite well for us at the moment.
As far air-to-air is concerned, PAF J-10CE with PL-15E is more capable than all our jets sans Rafale + Meteor combo. We need to quickly order Derby ER and R-37M for our MKI fleet. Integration won't take too much time and then MKI gets an edge over J-10CE as well.
F-16s, no problem for MKI post Astra integration. And once again, low RCS is just part of air-combat not be all end all. It's your RCS vs your radar power combo against enemy jet's RCS/Radar combo. BARS still is a beast for most PAF jets and would detect them before they detect MKI(though with AWACS this point is moot), problem was less range of R-77. That's now solved with Astra MK1 and R-77-1. However for MKI, in order to take on J-10CE, it needs Astra2 or Derby ER or R-37M.
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