Line of Control & Border skirmish: News, Images & Discussion

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That is ammunition dump explosion, The mushroom cloud is above the depot and fire raging below ..

We are using Kornet ATGM ?, Gud to hear ..
 

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Chinese also develop TB projectile for their Type 69/ RPG 7 at dirt cheap price. Also in service with Pakis.


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Indian CG RCL is a very heavy weapon to carry for a longer period of time, so in my opinion Para SF which regularly carried out cross border strikes several Kms across LOC should be officially equipped with it (RPG)
 

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They are indeed cheap and attractive but lack accuracy and punch, PARA SF use single shot RLs of various origins ..

Now a days, Terrorist also using these single shot RLs ..

Chinese also develop TB projectile for their Type 69/ RPG 7 at dirt cheap price. Also in service with Pakis.


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Indian CG RCL is a very heavy weapon to carry for a longer period of time, so in my opinion Para SF which regularly carried out cross border strikes several Kms across LOC should be officially equipped with it (RPG)
 

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They are indeed cheap and attractive but lack accuracy and punch, PARA SF use single shot RLs of various origins ..

Now a days, Terrorist also using these single shot RLs ..
I guess both serves different purpose and history with RPG being introduced primarily as an Anti Tank weapon. New warheads such as PG 7VR has Armor Penetration upto 700 ~ mm.

CG RCL has no such round till today.

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OTOH CG RCL excels as overall General purpose weapon with better accuracy and Range comes in a variety of ammunition.
 

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In Indian context, IA RL team in anti-tank role are meant to immobilize or incapacitated crew rather go for kill, The kill can be archived by much lethal assets like a gunship / tank or ATGM ..

I guess both serves different purpose and history with RPG being introduced primarily as an Anti Tank weapon. New warheads such as PG 7VR has Armor Penetration upto 700 ~ mm..
 

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Those are Chinese 14.5mm twin AAA ..

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This is a 37mm AAA under a large pill box ..

Some pictures from Mahaz program at Pakistan side of LoC from Sep 2016. Gives insight into the equipment available.

Their LoC post (actually a company base) looks like a peace station with lookouts with glass windows, batmen serving afsars with tea in trays, nicely painted walls and all. Compare it with IA/BSF bases which are clearly at war.

37 mm Chinese AA gun

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These are ZPU mount Twin 14.5 mm KPV HMG. An old but powerful weapon. The Paki officer is saying that response of Ceasefire is always proportionate, Means in same caliber.


We also use the same HMG KPV 14.5 mm (several pics available) retrieved from older BTR 60 but we don't use it in Twin


So this is a response against our ZU 23 as ground attack weapon at LOC since decades.

While 37 mm seems to be in response of our L 70 AA gun


And most probably these are Chinese copy Type 58.


Many of these were captured from east Pakistan Bases and now displayed as war trophies at various places.
 
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Cross post. About the 2002 LGB strike by IAF.

Huffington Post has published a piece of IAF's LGB strike on pakis during op parakram.

Must read.

http://m.huffingtonpost.in/2017/01/...t-pakistan-in-a-surgi/?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage

It was about 2 am on 31 July, 2002. Flight Lieutenant Rajiv Mishra, a 29-year-old fighter pilot, was woken up at his living quarters at the Ambala Air Force Station. Leave for Srinagar immediately with laser designation equipment, he was told. A transport aircraft was ready and waiting at the base.


He didn't know it then, but he had been drafted for one of the most sensitive missions carried out by the Indian Air Force, the details of which had never been revealed to the outside world, until now
 

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Yesterday COAS was saying that these avalanche are due to heavy weapons used in recent LOC skirmishes.


These "heavy weapons" have soften up the terrain around several posts thus creating avalanche.
 
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