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If you are unaware as to what is happening around the world, why don't you research for the same on your own? Must I hand feed you? But never mind. Here it is for you.

Actually, to be fair, all contribute equally well. However, victory is still measure in areas captured and held. That is only by having boots on the ground. The Infantry provides that with other assisting them. Since Infantry is the arm in direct confrontation, the are called PBIs or Poor...

Indian Defence does not have them? India continues to stock cluster bombs India continues to stock cluster bombs - The Times of India

Nothing is perfect. Victory and Defeat is all a game of Luck and Chance. Read Military History.

"When it was the victory, the cavalier claimed it outright, the gunner boasted of his calibre but the infantryman stood silent with victory at his feet." Field Marshal Wavell.

Great. If AD is so effective, then by that suggestion we should do away with the Air Force, since they are redundant, right? Heard of ECM and ECCM, stealth bombers and so on?

Heard of Cluster bombs? CBU 105 cluster bomb? Maybe this video will allow your to realise its effect. Artillery's aim against armor is to force them to button up and to eliminate tank-riders (who can basically be treated as if they were standing). Actual kills would be rare unless the target...

Why have a huge tank in a trench when there are better equipment to do so? Use missiles. They are smaller and equally effective and with more range.

Tanks are best used in manoeuvre and have little effect as 'pillboxes. Tanks in a static role are ideal targets. Movement gives inherent protection, be it of a machine or men.

Could you give the details of the policy evolved politically by Rajiv Gandhi as also the military policy that was to back the political policy? That would help.

I am aware of the fact that there are no classification of tanks any more excepting MBT. I have mentioned it so in many posts of mine. It is just that many out here were mentioning 'heavy tank' and so I went along so as to not derail the thread. Your contention - 'And the weight is not an...

It is all so easy to say that heavy tanks are on the way. What one forgets is that type of terrain they will have to operate in, to include the ground pressure that terrain can accommodate, river obstacles that requires complimentary bridging and air defence infrastructure and so on. It is...

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Maybe it is time for people to read Brig Richard Simpkin's RACE TO THE SWIFT to understand the modern battlefield. That apart, the Armoured Corps is a manoeuvre arm. Yes there are fighting encounters with Tanks, but it is generally used, to put it simplistically, to manoeuvre on the principle...

Don't write off the tank - drones can't do everything Armoured vehicles are going out of fashion - witness the loss of the Desert Rats' tanks - but they are still very effective weapons of war In this age of the drone, when the enemy can be engaged by the click of a mouse from an...

One of the contention is that the helicopter or the 'rotary wing revolution' has made the tank obsolete. Tank vs rotary wing is an age old debate. The application depends on the Nature of Threat, Terrain, Climate, the combat environment and so on. In India, tanks have a long way to go before...

OK. Opposed River Crossing is another and totally different issue! ;) Bund is a High Embankment. Dussi, I don't know what it would be in English. I think it is a Punjabi word.

Not in the Indian context. We have lined canals with defended embankments, called DCB and Dussi Bunds. Opposed River Crossing is another kettle of fish!

Depends on the type of desert. Soft, semi hard and hard.

You probably have no idea of mountains, jungles and riverine terrain. Bangladesh was not captured with tanks, even with PT 76. Heliborne troops don't have to land. They can slither! And gunships act as close support where even the arty fails owing to forest cover. The critical issue of...