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Chinmoy

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Yes..... It is needed to know what make them roam near the AF vicinity.

It is generally done to look into the food stuff in gut. If some peculiar food stuff is found, then such incidents could be avoided in future.
 

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If true, then that's path breaking news

Indo-Israeli Standoff EMP-Emitting Missile (DEW For SEAD) To Enter Serial Production This Year


⏩Isarel's Offer to India:

Israel offered to co-develop a variant of this DEW with India on July 7, 2008 during an official meeting in Pune with the DRDO. This was followed by two additional meetings held in Delhi with senior DRDO and IAF officials in August and September 2008. The joint R & D project officially began in mid-2010 and series-production of this DEW will commence later this year, with the Kalyani Group being the prime industrial contractor from the Indian side.

⏩ Nature of Indo-Israeli EMP Missile :

This air-launched, fire-and-forget, expendable DEW, whose main role is to render electronic targets useless, will make use of the airframe of RAFAEL’s Spice 250 rocket-powered PGM, and will have a range of 120km. It is a non-kinetic alternative to traditional explosive weapons that use the energy of motion to defeat their targets. During a mission, this missile will navigate a pre-programmed flight plan (using fibre-optic gyros) and at pre-set coordinates an internal active phased-arraymicrowave emitter will emit bursts of selective high-frequency radio wave strikes against up to six different targets during a single mission.The EMP-like field which will be generated will shut down all hostile electronics. Thus, the whole idea behind such a weapon is to be able to destroy an enemy’s command, control, communication and computing, surveillance and intelligence (C4SI) capabilities without doing any damage to the people or traditional infrastructure in and around it. In other words, it can eliminate an air-defence facility’s effectiveness by destroying the electronics within it alone, via a microwave pulse, without kinetically attacking the facility itself.

⏩ USE of this Weapon for Indian Air Force:


For the IAF, this air-launched DEW will be a ‘first day of war’ standoff weapon that can be launched outside an enemy’s area-denial/anti-access capabilities, and fly a route over known C4SI facilities, zapping them along its way, before destroying itself at the end of its mission. Because of its stealthy design, long-range and expendability, it will fly where no other manned airborne assets could and because it does not blow anything up, its use does not necessarily give away the fact that the enemy is under direct attack in the first place. In that sense, it is also a psychological weapon, capable of at least partially blinding an enemy before it even knows that a larger-scale air-attack is coming. The IAF plans to arm its upgraded Mirage 2000Hs and the yet-to-be-acquired Rafale MMRCAs with this DEW and also with RAFAEL’s Spice-1000 PGM.

⏩Ukraine's Offer :

Interestingly, Ukraine last February during the Aero India 2015 Expo was also showcasing an air-launched DEW, whose poster is uploaded below.
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Airbus has confirmed that they will pitch Typhoon fighter jets for MMRCA 2 to get the contract of supplying 110 fighter jets for Indian Air Force. Whereas according to some media, Dassault yet to offer Rafales for this new global competition , instead they are waiting for follow on orders.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TeamINDRA/photos/?ref=page_internal
Dassault confirms it'll pitch the Rafale in the competition.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1187405478067801&id=572611809547174
 

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In 2050 news paper headline

IAF started MMRCA 10.0 ..this time there will wonder women's invisible fighter jet, pitched in

PS: this was pure joke not to hurt any ones feeling
Am fu..king tried to see this drama happen again and agin
 

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In 2050 news paper headline

IAF started MMRCA 10.0 ..this time there will wonder women's invisible fighter jet, pitched in

PS: this was pure joke not to hurt any ones feeling
Am fu..king tried to see this drama happen again and agin
cause it will be only Tejas lol.. We are just outsmarting these import lobbies indirectly.
 

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In 2050 news paper headline

IAF started MMRCA 10.0 ..this time there will wonder women's invisible fighter jet, pitched in

PS: this was pure joke not to hurt any ones feeling
Am fu..king tried to see this drama happen again and agin
Don't take it seriously, just a political PR stunt.
 

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Interessting article on the exercise, but also this part:

"the IAF from 2016 onwards was made to pay over Rs 2500 crore in customs duty, an amount which was to be reimbursed to the service but never was. In fact, out of its meagre resources, the IAF is set to further shell out Rs 1726.98 crore towards custom duties in 2018-19 too!"
The government is f.... IAF over and over!
Cancelled and delayed tenders, political procurements, low budgets and now this.
 

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Interessting article on the exercise, but also this part:



The government is f.... IAF over and over!
Cancelled and delayed tenders, political procurements, low budgets and now this.
Every Govt organisation pays customs duty when they import things. this issue was one of the point of contention between jaitley and parrikar too.
 

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Every Govt organisation pays customs duty when they import things. this issue was one of the point of contention between jaitley and parrikar too.
It's not just that they have to pay duty, but that they were meant to get the money back and didn't. So from the already low budget the government is providing our forces, they still taking parts back!
How is IAF suppose to protect the country, when the government is not supporting them?
 

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Another nice picture:

And a very good article on the need of force multipliers:
 

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