Indian Army: News and Discussion

[W.G.Ewald]

Indian Army will replace old 40mm L/70 anti-aircraft guns with weapons from local companies.


Indian Army will replace old 40mm L/70 anti-aircraft guns with weapons from local companies 1103141---Army Recognition

Defense Update:VSHORAD - India's Next Big Air Defense Program - Defense Update:

The Chief of the Indian Army has recently warned that 97 % of India's Air Defense is obsolete. Given the fact that the Indian Armed Forces fully realize that they might have to fight a two-pronged war in the near future against China and Pakistan this claim of the Army Chief cannot be taken lightly. To make matters worse Israel's IMI and Germany's Rheinmetall Air Defense, both offering advanced air defense systems, have been banned from conducting business with the Indian Defense Ministry for the next 10 years.

India has to therefore seriously augment its Air Defense capabilities. Several ongoing programs include the replacement of SA-18 Very Short Range Air Defense Systems (VSHORAD), with modern weapons. The cost of the replacement, as anything in India – is huge: over replacement of about 800 launchers and initial delivery of 5,000 missiles, at a cost of 27,000 Crore (US$5.2 billion). Evaluations of some of the candidates are expected to commence in May–June this year. The ongoing DefExpo 2012 provides India with a unique opportunity to take a look at some of the most cutting edge Air Defense Systems that are on display.

 

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11 people including two army jawans killed in avalanches in J&K

11 people including two army jawans killed in avalanches in J&K | The Indian Express

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RIP to the dead.

 

[Kyubi]

11 people including two army jawans killed in avalanches in J&K | The Indian Express

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RIP to the dead.

 

[cobra commando]

256 officers inducted into
Indian Army

CHENNAI: A total of 256 officers, including 62 women, were on Saturday commissioned into the Indian Army as short service officers here. The officers were inducted during the ceremonial passing out parade at the Officers Training Academy. Along with them, four officers from Seychelles and one from Ethiopia completed their training at the Academy. Maldives chief of defence forces Maj Gen Ahmed Shiyam reviewed the parade at the Academy. While the chief of Army Banner was awarded to Basanter Company, the coveted 'Sword of Honour' was awarded to Academy Cadet Adjutant Sonu Singh Bhaduria. Later, the cadets were pipped by their parents, followed by oath- taking ceremony. The cadets would also be awarded a PG diploma in Defence Management and Strategic Studies from the University of Madras.


256 officers inducted into Indian Army - The Times of India

 

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Chinese troops make fresh attempt to violate border | idrw.org

 

[shuvo@y2k10]

Report blaming Nehru for India’s defeat in 1962 war made public | idrw.org

 

[Kyubi]

A Wonderful Article by Lt Gen Prakash Katoch

Soldiers – who will they vote for? » Indian Defence Review

 

[W.G.Ewald]

As many as 35 cadets had cleared the entrance examination and 22 cleared the interview and were selected for National Defence Academy (NDA).

The closing address for the course was delivered by Lt Gen P P S Bhandari, former deputy chief of army staff. He complimented the cadets for the results, saying it was a tribute to their and the faculty's hard work. Lt Gen Bhandari said it takes years to build a good reputation and it was commendable that AFPI had been able to do so in only its second year of training. He also congratulated the cadets on having chosen the armed forces as a career.

AFPI director Maj Gen B S Grewal (retd) said the results achieved by this batch would set a benchmark. He also assured cadets who were not successful in their first attempt that the institute would help them to prepare again and that they would succeed provided they remain focused on their goal of joining the armed forces.

Armed Forces Preparatory Institute bids adieu to cadets - The Times of India

 

[cobra commando]

Srinagar: Security forces detect IED outside Army camp

Srinagar: Security forces today detected an improvised explosive device or IED planted by militants outside an Army camp in the heart of the city. A patrol party of 151 Territorial Army noticed a bag lying by the roadside near an Army camp in Bemina area of the city, the police said. The army personnel found a pressure cooker inside the bag and immediately called for the bomb disposal squad, the police said. The five-kg IED was destroyed by the bomb disposal squad, police said, adding no damage was caused in the controlled explosion.


Srinagar: Security forces detect IED outside Army camp | NDTV.com

 

[cobra commando]

Singapore and India troops in joint armour exercise


Singapore and India troops in joint armour exercise

 

[cobra commando]

Indian Army for night sights for AK-47 & 7.62mm LMG

The Indian Army is looking to arm its frontline infantry weapons with new-generation night sights to boost operations after dark. It is specifically in the market now for Uncooled Thermal Imaging Sights for its 7.62mm Light Machine Gun (LMG) currently in the process of being procured. The Army has stipulated that the sight required by the Infantry should be a light weight and ruggedized device to enable accurate engagement of human target by use of 7.62mm Light Machine Gun at night/hours of darkness / poor visibility at the effective range of 800 metres and above. The Army is looking for passive night sights for its widely deployed AK-47 assault rifles. The Passive Night Sight, the Army says, should be an Image Intensifier Technology based device to enable accurate engagement of pin point target by use of Rifle AK-47 at night/ hours of darkness/ indoor dark areas. Both requirements are part of the overall F-INSAS programme. With summer setting in and infiltration of terrorists likely to be on an upswing, the Army is hoping to procure equipment as quickly as possible to make its frontline fighting units fully night combat capable.


Indian Army for night sights for AK–47 - SP's Land Forces

 

[cobra commando]

Indian Army wants combat
flame-throwers

The Indian Army's Directorate of Infantry has announced its intention to procure an unspecified number of combat disposable-type flame-throwers for fighting units deployed in counter-insurgency areas. The Army has revealed the flame throwers will be used during conventional and sub conventional operations against hostile elements as well as for training purposes. The shape and size of the flame thrower should be such that it can comfortably be carried and used by a single soldier. It should be stable for storage for the complete shelf life and should not be prone to accidents while in storage or being transported under operational conditions. The maximum and the minimum range at which Flame Thrower (Disposable) can effectively engage targets will need to be produced as information by interested suppliers. The requirement is a surprising one, given that military flamethrowers aren't much in use anymore. For instance, the US military discontinued the use of flamethrowers for combat operations in 1978, and they do not figure in any current arsenals. Flamethrowers were used in the World Wars and the Vietnam War extensively, but were subsequently found to be ineffective in most operational scenarios, given their close- combat requirement. The Indian Army will be looking to use them against bunkers, fortifications, built-up areas to flush out terrorists etc.


Indian Army wants combat flame–throwers - SP's Land Forces

 

[Bhadra]

To burn and gas the rats out of their holes, hideouts and many times the houses / bunkers ....

A weapon of great utility in close quarter battles proved since the times of battle of Stalingrad and Battle or Berlin....

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Protocol III - Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

 

[cobra commando]

Army to Buy Six Border Surveillance Systems

After having fenced 550 km of the 778-km Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan, India will soon buy six all-weather border surveillance management systems to keep a tight vigil against terrorists' infiltration into Jammu and Kashmir.
The Army's Uddhampur-based Northern Command - which defends the state against foreign
aggression and responsible for internal security in the state - has issued a tender recently for the purchase of these systems that would help it to keep a tab on the
LoC that is still porous despite the fencing. "The surveillance system is
required to cater the Indian
Army's requirement for keeping a day-and-night vigil in high- altitude area," a senior Army officer said here on Thursday. The
system, he said, should be
"simple, yet provide observation" at any time at a surveillance centre or observation post set up
well within the Indian side of the LoC behind the sensor, under extreme cold climate conditions. The surveillance system would be networked so that a single centre is able to observe the feed of
multiple sensors and the all-
weather, day-and-night camera would be able to record images.


Army to Buy Six Border Surveillance Systems - The New Indian Express

 

[Bhadra]

Protocol III - Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

3.Military objective" means, so far as objects are concerned, any object which by its nature, location, purpose or use makes an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.

4.Civilian objects" are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in paragraph 3.

 

[DivineHeretic]

To burn and gas the rats out of their holes, hideouts and many times the houses / bunkers ....

A weapon of great utility in close quarter battles proved since the times of battle of Stalingrad and Battle or Berlin....

A word of caution about flame-throwers:

Flamethrowers are just as dangerous to the soldiers using them as they are to the enemy facing them. In case the flame gets inside the fuel tank, the soldier will turn into the hottest thing since Justin Beiber's Baby.

And that's not even the worst of it. Where in other cases a soldier will go down after being shot by a LMG/MMG, now the bullet passing through the soldier carrying the flamethrower might st off the flamethrower liquid, killing off not only the soldier, but the entire squad.

No wonder the troops who carried it were just as terrified by it as the enemy.

 

[cobra commando]

Kishtwar, Apr 3: Security forces during search operation busted a militant hideout and recovered arms haul including 8 Kgs of RDX, Pika rounds, grenades etc along with other ammunition in Bhaderwah of Doda district in Jammu region, sources here today said. "Acting on a specific information, a joint search operation was launched by Special Operation Group (SoG), 4 Rashtriya Rifle (RR) and 149 Territorial Army (TA) & busted a hideout at Batni Nalla ( Puneja forest area) under the jurisdiction of Police Station Bhadarwah, sources said. "The recoveries include 01- AK 47 rifle, 01- 303 rifle, 01-12 bore rifle, 02 Chinese pistol, 01-country made pistol, 02- AK magazines, 07- UBGL rounds, 08 Kgs of RDX, 45 Pika rounds, 01- snapper, 02- electric detonator, 15 rounds of 303, 06 radio wireless sets, 07 Chinese grenades, steel plates, glasses, blankets, pouches, inflammatory literature and dairies and others day to day items, sources said.

8 Kg RDX, arms hauls recovered in Bhaderwah - Early Times Newspaper Jammu Kashmir

 

[W.G.Ewald]

To burn and gas the rats out of their holes, hideouts and many times the houses / bunkers ....

[The flamethrower is a] weapon of great utility in close quarter battles proved since the times of battle of Stalingrad and Battle or Berlin....

And what could be a more stunning form of execution?

A North Korean security minister has been executed by flame-thrower on orders of the country's leader Kim Jong-un.

It would take the death-toll purges carried out by dictator Jong-un to at least 12 since he took power as Supreme Leader after the death of his father three years ago.

Deputy Public Security Minister O Sang-hon, was "executed by flame-thrower," because of links to Kim's own uncle - killed by firing squad and whose body was allegedly fed to starving dogs.

Kim Jong-un executes security minister by FLAME THROWER - Mirror Online

 

[Bhadra]

And what could be a more stunning form of execution?



Kim Jong-un executes security minister by FLAME THROWER - Mirror Online

Those who have glass houses do not throw stone at others !!

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