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This is folly and I wrote about it back then:- Thankfully, I was partially correct that it won't be a new "Force", but a Command doesn't make me feel happy either. Unless, its as you say that the Theater Commander will have operational control while the so-called "Missile Command" takes care...

WTF are we doing? What about Theater Commands? So what now? A Theater Commander has to phone up C-in-C Missile Command to get a fcukin' time critical interdiction done? The entire idea behind theater commands was to ensure that we don't do the integration in wartime, rather we do it in...

Wow. These are the first pics of Sarvatra system I've seen in field with Army.

Thursdays are my blackpill days. XD

Lets hope Armenia actually wins then. Or else dalals will use as opportunity to write stories involving unnamed sources of how Indian weapons failed (stuff like 50% of Pinaka rockets misfired or ATGM exploded mid-flight) leading to Armenia's loss.

Broken clock right twice a day.

CDS FINALLY ANNOUNCED:- Congratualations to Lt. Gen (now Gen.?) Anil Chauhan. Hopefully he carries forward the legacy of Gen Rawat. But this is beyond all expectations. He was a retired Lt. Gen. So will he now be promoted to General post-retirement? Unprecedented. On an unrelated note, we...

Lessons from China standoff in Ladakh:- Maintain high level of operational preparedness Importance of infra development Existing scope for infusion of new tech Capability building for operating in the gray zone Since May 2020, habitats for 35,000 troops created. Garages created for 450 tanks...

Its not a rank, its an appointment. 2-IC means 2nd-in Command. He is the deputy of the Commanding Officer of a Battalion/Regiment. Officers of the rank of Lt.Colonel are appointed to this post.

True. So the drone pilot still needs to understand the basics of flying an airplane. For example this:-

I doubt its just a marketing gimmick. Yes drones do have some degree of autonomous capability and newer drones have a higher degree of autonomous capability, but even in Reapers, there is a pilot and a sensor operator. And the pilot can rely on autopilot, but there might be some circumstances...

But in those Army ads, they are manually controlling take-off!?

Isn't that already being done with stand-in jammers on drones?

Depends on the hardware. Herons don't have automatic take-off and landing, for example, while Rustom-2 does.

Separate cadre for drones means separate arms or a specialized course for drone pilots? Haven't we seen the badge of IA drone pilots before? I think we have. So then this should be separate arms, right? But why!? Drones will be used at various levels so better to integrate at those levels...

I don't believe that. CDS was recommended in multiple committees before. GoI not getting a new CDS points to them not being as confident of current top brass as they were in General Rawat or maybe they are waiting for some extremely promising candidate. This government definitely wants to...

I agree, but CDS decision is stuck at CCS level. In fact Army naming things after General Rawat might also be a way for the Army to publicly state that the Army also considers its high time a CDS was appointed to complete the work that began under General Rawat. Must be the idea of whoever is...

Thank god a private company is now making the Shivalik grenades.

Still won't be 58000. What is entire Parachute Infantry size? 3000? Add to it all Special Forces (Para SF, MARCOS, Garuds): 8000? Remaining organization, lets say each year they train: SFF: 1000? ITBP paratroopers: 1000? Pilots: 1000? NCC: 1000? NSG: 1000? Foreign military offrs: 1000? Still...

Yeah. And DRDO MPDMS prototype manufacturing started last year: https://defenceforumindia.com/threads/drdo-begins-work-on-indigenous-manpads-mpdms-man-portable-defensive-missile-system.82322/