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coolgod

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I recently learnt that India has two airforce bases in Tajikistan. This doesn't seem to be in the interest of China, or is there another opinion about this in China? Does anyone know if China has or wants to pressure Tajikistan to remove them? It seems like China has geopolitical weight and can convince Tajikistan to do so.
 
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Jingle Bells

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An Indian equivalent to the PCL-181 and Caesar SPH? Wonder how much of this is actually genuinely indigenous to India?
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Indians always have to boast about some "best in the world" BS. What exactly is: "the highest firing range in its category in the world"? Knowing how India works, this is definitely a very dubious statement.



The MGS does not have the highest firing range in its category in the world. The PCL-181 firing RAP 155mm rounds has a max range of around 70km.

The Indian MGS is not ground-breaking stuff. It is actually India just trying to catch up in truck-mounted artillery systems. These systems are contemporary technology. Hence the real surprise is what took Superpowa India so long to finally catch up in this field. The other question is when will the MGS actually enter service? Knowing Indian military procurement history, it should be longer than everyone expects. Lastly, how much would each MGS cost vs PCL-181 or Ceasar? I won't be surprised if the MGS is more expensive than both.

My biggest problem of heir iteration of the 155mm wheeled howitzer would be why the hell are they using such heavy duty truck platforms! Strategic mobility of these systems are better served with a system that is light, easy to transport, and cost less fuel to move around.
 

Jingle Bells

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only the truck chassis is license built(tatra).
they put on a new armoured cabin for the chassis.
the gun itself is completely homemade.

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this is another mgs by Bharath forge - 155mm/39cal one
The problem with this system is the relatively low level of automation, and I presume, relatively low level of digitalization/informationization.
The PL181 is a great system in which it is light, fully digitized/informationized, and semi-automatic loading. The semi-auto loading is a great compromise as it decreases the over-all weight and the complexity of the system, as opposed to full-auto loading. This creates a light, fast reacting, fully-informationized, reliable system.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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How legitimate is this use of using dogs to hear incoming drones and then sending a bird (don't know if it's a Falcon or an eagle) to then swathe down the said enemy drone. Interesting integration of animal-machine integration by the Indian Military.


the second video indicates that the bird is an eagle, undergoing training since 2020. The eagle is then fitted with a camera.

 

tygyg1111

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How legitimate is this use of using dogs to hear incoming drones and then sending a bird (don't know if it's a Falcon or an eagle) to then swathe down the said enemy drone. Interesting integration of animal-machine integration by the Indian Military.


the second video indicates that the bird is an eagle, undergoing training since 2020. The eagle is then fitted with a camera.

Might work, but there would be too many countermeasures.
E.g. Decoy drones fitted with small explosive to incapacitate trained birds
 

Abominable

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How legitimate is this use of using dogs to hear incoming drones and then sending a bird (don't know if it's a Falcon or an eagle) to then swathe down the said enemy drone. Interesting integration of animal-machine integration by the Indian Military.


the second video indicates that the bird is an eagle, undergoing training since 2020. The eagle is then fitted with a camera.

It may work on toy drones, but even small military drones are pretty big. Prop blades spin very fast and can cause serious injury.

I can't see any bird surviving after taking out a drone like the ones used to drop grenades in the Ukraine.
 

beijing_bandar

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Ashley Tellis, an Indian-born American strategist specialing in China and India writes:
China’s nuclear capabilities vastly outstrip India’s, while Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities are comparable or marginally superior. India, however, enjoys significant conventional military advantages against both adversaries.
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The footnote supporting his claim of significant Indian conventional military advantages is from Frank O’Donnell and Alex Bollfrass, The Strategic Postures of China and India: A Visual Guide (Cambridge: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020).

I'm highlighting this part of a much longer monograph by Tellis because it provides insight into a major reason India chooses to pursue confrontation against China. India vastly overestimates itself now and in the future. Indians generally like Tellis have a hard time coming to terms with India's disappointing development in economy and power and easily believe false and exaggerated assessments of India like in the area of conventional military capability. Americans like Frank O'Donnell manipulate information to provide false and exaggerated assessments of Indian capability to persuade Indians to keep on pursuing confrontation with China as part of the Quad strategy to spread China thin. It's subtle, effective, and goes a long to explaining where we are today in Ladakh.
 

ZeEa5KPul

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Ashley Tellis, an Indian-born American strategist specialing in China and India writes:

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The footnote supporting his claim of significant Indian conventional military advantages is from Frank O’Donnell and Alex Bollfrass, The Strategic Postures of China and India: A Visual Guide (Cambridge: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2020).

I'm highlighting this part of a much longer monograph by Tellis because it provides insight into a major reason India chooses to pursue confrontation against China. India vastly overestimates itself now and in the future. Indians generally like Tellis have a hard time coming to terms with India's disappointing development in economy and power and easily believe false and exaggerated assessments of India like in the area of conventional military capability. Americans like Frank O'Donnell manipulate information to provide false and exaggerated assessments of Indian capability to persuade Indians to keep on pursuing confrontation with China as part of the Quad strategy to spread China thin. It's subtle, effective, and goes a long to explaining where we are today in Ladakh.
Not that this idiocy should be entertained, but China has 200+ fifth generation fighters. India has how many?
 

beijing_bandar

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So if India stops claiming Aksai Chin, I personally think China would stop claiming Arunachal Pradesh since that claim was made to mirror India's claim of Aksai Chin.
Back in October, I had a long post with my analysis arguing an obscure piece of land called the Tawang tract is at the heart of the dispute from China's point of view. Indian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
In February 1951, India (or rather the Governor of Assam) sent a small military expedition to Tawang and annexed it. British India had never ruled over Tawang and according to the source below the Government of India in Delhi had never instructed the Governor of Assam to annex it. Situated in the Tawang tract is a town and the Tawang Monastery, "one of the most holy sites for the faith of Mahayana Buddhism".
 
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