The chinks in the east and pakis in the west. Both of them are equal threat to the flourishing democracy of India. One is a failed state (no 2nd thought about it) and other has to clip their own people to keep them shut (communist propaganda' POWER FLOWS FROM THE BARREL OF A GUN')
130MM gun? does this reporter have any knowladge of fighter aircrafts? 1130mm guns are used by atriliary and that they are little smaller that BOFORSE which is 155mm gun.
It not only has the worst record of air crashes but has distiction of being consistant and mastered the art of justification . It has no competancy to deal the mid air disaters neither has able leadership who could take lead in avoiding the defame that they brought to the nation and say volumes about countries defence is left to the roten men. Poor country buys such expensive weaopenry but our defence men are unprepared to handle and care the machines forget using it effeciently.
Re: Worst managed organisation
by venkata ramana on Jun 25, 2009 09:50 AM
as.....ho...l..do u know indian men in uniform of the best in the world..wht the heck do u know abt people who contribute their prime time of their life for u heck head bruts....
What is direly needed is a policy decision at the highest level that in every future defence purchase, only the latest and top of the line product of any intending supplier will be considered. For example in the purchase of combat helicopters it is the Apache which must be demanded and not Commanche. If the supplier is willing to supply only then his tender be considered otherwise it should be rejected summarialy and the next suppliers product be considered. The reason is that obsolescence is very high in aviation industry and the foreign suppliers are experts at fobbing off decades old technology as the Americans are trying to do with their F-16 jets. We must not not forget how India was sold Westland helicopters by the UK which were unreliable and a number of them were lost at sea.
Re: Future purchases
by some one on Jun 14, 2009 04:33 PM
Pakistani and Chinese leaders had correctly decided right in the beginning that continuous warfare is the only practical means of maintaining high efficiency of armed forces.
Indian leaders have neither motivation nor ability to make such strategic decisions, so our forces are trained to be half hearted and reluctant fighters of wars imposed by the enemies, with no experience of strategic offensive planning. India has no civillian component of defence planning, and no program of running a Resistance Under Foreign Occupation, perhaps the only large country not to have resistance plan. Our leaders prefer to pretend that Indians will never face occupation by unfriendly forces!
India pays heavily for imported weapons while indigenous research remains stultified and non productive under bureaucratic (and perhaps traitorously motivated) red tape.
Indian defence policy is guided by the Swiss Bank factor more than any National Defence Plan, and is devoid of patriotism, which is unlike Pakistan and China.
The extremely circumspect jubilation of Pakistan over their 26.11.2008 action shows how much self control and determination they exercise in their war on India, and closeness of coordination with China.
For India's sake let us hope its enemies decide to increase the scale of aggression soon.
Re: Future purchases
by some one on Jun 14, 2009 05:22 PM
When Pakistan and China have demonstrated ample times that they want to destroy Indians, Indians ought to have the same desire to destroy them.
Once Indians decide to destroy their enemies then the question is only of the best means of doing it.
Instead of wasting precious time and money on exorbitantly priced imported weapons, India ought to go for very large inventory of nuclear weapons, like fifty thousand nuclear warheads or more, and use them in all India's wars without pretext or hesitation. India has the means and does not need any delivery systems as the traditional manual delivery demonstrated on 26 Nov 2008 by Pakistan is good enough. The weapons should be hand delivered and when enough (1000 plus) have reached foreign territory they should be fired in random synchronised sets.
Complete annihilation of enemy population is the only sure means of overcoming an enemy. The half hearted attempts of India at making peace are costing lives of innocent Indians, the progeny of Indian negotiators themselves and their fellow citizens, by giving the enemy more time.
Once there is confirmed enemity there is no high moral principle against killing the enemy completely, and pretending does not change it.
Re: SU-30MKI: Next generation firepower
by some one on Jun 14, 2009 05:33 PM
Costly modern military aircraft are produced with the knowledge of at least 50,000 human beings directly involved in production of parts, as well as another 50,000 in commercial, administrative, transportation, user training activities.
Even at the height of an ongoing war that type of information cannot be kept a secret. No modern weapons sold across borders are completely secret.
The only secrets are those ideas that are still inside the heads of people who will use the weapons.
Pretending or playing a game of Let Us Keep A Secret does not convert public knowledge into a National Secret.
Re: SU-30MKI: Next generation firepower
by some one on Jun 14, 2009 05:34 PM
Costly modern military aircraft are produced with the knowledge of at least 50,000 human beings directly involved in production of parts, as well as another 50,000 in commercial, administrative, transportation, user training activities.
Even at the height of an ongoing war that type of information cannot be kept a secret. No modern weapons sold across borders are completely secret.
The only secrets are those ideas that are still inside the heads of people who will use the weapons.
Pretending or playing a game of Let Us Keep A Secret does not convert public knowledge into a National Secret.
Re: SU-30MKI: Next generation firepower
by Sabya Mukherjee on Jun 09, 2009 03:52 PM
I have not found a single other site depicting such detailed Military information about USA, Russia, China or for any other country of the world except this Rediff!
Re: Re: SU-30MKI: Next generation firepower
by some one on Jun 14, 2009 05:44 PM
Weapons developers have to sell all their production within about two years, by which time the weapon will get outdated. They employ the world's most sophisticated advertisement techniques to generate demand. Usually a new military aircraft involves at least fifty billion dollars worth of business, so the advertising budgets are of the order of ten billion dolars or so per new model, and about one hundred bilion dollars for complete companies.
The days of secrecy of major weapons ended in 1980 s when Internet became widely available.
Re: Re: SU-30MKI: Next generation firepower
by some one on Jun 14, 2009 05:40 PM
Try wikipedia as well as dedicated sites like nuclearweaponsarchive.com, russian sukhoi design bureau website, American CIA website, Pentagon's web site, Indian armedforces's websites, China and Pakistan's armed forces' websites, etc.
Information enough to assemble a toy model is usually available on Internet on all but the current year's models of all weapon systems.
