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The rule of the Politburu by consensus instituted in China by Deng Xiaoping has been changed by Xi into a ruler for life situation like Mohammad bin Salman in KSA or Saddam in Iraq. In the old Politburu system, visible rivals in the higher echelons of the power structure such as other Politburu...

The 5th plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is scheduled to meet in Beijing sometime in October, I am not sure of the exact dates. Xi Jinping will want to have either reached an honorable settlement or completed a victory over India by the time the...

You think it really matters to Putin whether a BRICSs exist or not. BRICSs is a useless acronym thought off by some Wall Street Investment Banker which has outlived it's short lived existence.

True. The initial reports of the PLA moving troops to the LAC from Xinjiang in April was conveyed to India by Russia as normal exercises and the PLA would soon withdraw. I hope that GOI does not fall for one more Chinese sponsored, Russian brokered proposal.

This is why I have always said that this dangerous over dependence on Russian arms must end pronto. So that Putin should not even be tempted to make such an offer. And if the offer is for a quid pro quo to a business honcho like Adani, it is indeed shameful. On the other hand Modi could just be...

Any 155 MM howitzer can fire this (powered) shell/projectile. So that part is not expensive. What is new will the sensors i.e. masts, audio sensors etc to track missiles and the AI driven software to determine which shooter will take the shot. This will be part of an enhanced AD network and is...

A face saving solution which will not prevent war, but only postpone it to the future for a place and time of China's choosing. Because they have now realized that they came in half-cocked. Next time they will rectify those mistakes. Jaishankar and Wang Yi will be together for the SCO meetings...

Not when you factor in Covid and couple that with the US finally awakening to Chinese high tech stealing. India has crossed the line as regards open military hostilities, the US has crossed the line as regards business hostilities. Business hostilities coupled with SCS disputes have the...

See bolded above. Because the historical mindset of MOD in India has been to plan for today, that is why the current situation exists. Always plan for where the enemy is going to be 5-10 years from today. That is how to you plan your fleet and procurement. Otherwise why the adhoc purchase of 36...

That was a rhetorical answer!! My point is that if the IAF has gone in for C-17s, C-130s, P-8s, M-777s, Apaches and Chinooks, your ba**s are already in US hands. To now say that you are afraid of US sanctions for US fighters is nuts!!.

Raw numbers do matter. If China realizes that the LAC has become like the LOC and with the rate that they are manufacturing, they will be able to deploy 20-25 squadrons against the IAF, a combination of J-10Cs, J-11Ds, J-20s and H-6s. Couple that with the PAF. Every single IAF commander has been...

American engines also come with strings attached. Has that stopped HAL and MOD from powering the LCA with the GE 404/414?

Starting point is a homegrown radar. That then given the ability to mix and match PGMs and EW.

Correct. Just the PAF is at 20 squadrons and building up to 22 squadrons. And the IAF is down to 30-32. How is the IAF supposed to take on a 2 front war with the PLAAF and PAF with anything less than 50 squadrons? And for those who keep on saying that the PLAAF has a limited number of airfields...

There was an interesting discussion a few weeks ago on Stratnewsglobal where one of Nitin Gokhale's guest, a retired Lt. General said that one of the problems at the LAC has been overlapping control. MEA negotiates the LAC and the Army is supposed to defend it to the sq. inch. That is plain...

The infrastructure has been created and it's there, HAL, GTRE, LRDE are all sunk costs. The problem is that they are not as productive as they should be and are late when it comes to delivering. Whether the LCA has "slightly less capability" is for the IAF to decide. After all what the IAF will...

Correct. This business of people saying that if India imports a fighter will translate into slow/no local aircraft development/production is like saying , "I cannot keep any alcohol in my house because I may turn out to be a drunkard". Imports are meant to give the IAF the tools to fight...

Somebody had posted about the proposal to have dogs accompany ITBP/IA soldiers and then some other poster was worried about the dogs being eaten!! by the Chinese. Well, here is the answer. Artificial dogs!! Robot dogs being tested by the US Army. And developed by a company called Ghost Vision...

"Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper told reporters during the same briefing that one of the exercise’s big successes was the shoot-down by a novel hypervelocity projectile of one of the surrogate cruise missiles, played by BQM-167 target drones flying over White Sands Missile Range in New...

Kill 2 birds with one stone. The US recently tested a high velocity projectile fired from a self propelled 155MM howitzer to down a cruise missile. Obviously a very sophisticated network of sensors were needed to identify and track the missile in the first place, but imagine the hundreds of 155...