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Thanks grandpa!! but i guess you forgot to put on your reading glasses before you read my post - do put them on and read again and to your surprise you will find that i have struck to the facts. goodluck. and if you still have some problem making sense of the words, i would suggest that you...

Labeling the Indian media as Yellow Media will simply not change the ground reality - your stance is aking to ostriches buying their heads in the ground to avoid a coming storm. Your stance is a classic case of living in denial - come out of your cave mentality. Everyone knows that they are...

Mighty kind of you lot here to allow us Indians our grossly broad interpretation of force. But then what might you call the situation in NWFP grossly narrow interpretation of FORCE or the absence of any of it!!??

The aircraft was transporting more than 200 US marines and weapons on board - this pretty much makes it a US military aircraft. Though you can still keep arguing over the technicalities. The IAF didnt scramble fighters as the pilots obeyed. We can ground aircraft that have merely violated...

With many power centres in Pakistan it is increasingly difficult to engage Pakistan positively. The civilian govt says something and the next day GHQ shoots it down. Your system is a bundle of contradictions, the civilian government has all the authority but lack the power to do anything and the...

I guess that you are jealous of the fact that while India has the guts to force land US military planes that violate our airspace, Pakistan can do nothing but watch as US military drones repeatedly violate your airspace to bomb your soverign territory.

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This might be an interesting input to my friend who started the thread. These revelations came as total surprise to me!! What adds to their credibility is that they are points made by an Academic who specialises in Security and Strategic Studies in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Prof.Julian...

As stated earlier the whol doctorine of Cold Start revolves on a quick response and surprise. The politicians will always get cold feet, except if they are like Indira Gandhi. The doctrine caters for this by keeping ready integradted battle groups at the border areas, so that when the order...

You have summed it up pretty well. My response was to your earlier post which in which you seemed to suggest (as per my understanding) that the military was given very broad based powers in the decision wether to go to war or not undermining political control.

The IAF is getting serious about the violation of the Indian Airspace. Earlier they had grounded an UAE Air Force plane for violation of rules and an chartered plane of the US military ferrying arms to American forces.

It is only a misconception to think that Cold Start will give the military powers to bypass civilian control. Cold Start is a military doctorine and concentrates on how to make war, it is not a political document that gives the military the power to baypass civilian control. The essence of Cold...

The only thing that is clear about "Cold Start" is that it aims at achieving Surprise & Rapid strike. Unlike the old doctrine that relied on overwhelming conventional superiority (Operation Brasstacks) and took time for the Army to mobilise as realised during Opertion Parakram (it took nearly 3...

Price of an AC depends on type and size of the carrier. The US super carriers cost in excess of 10$ Billion. The traditional Russian AC like the Goshkov cost around 6$ Billion. The one that India is building is small AC compared to the Americans, initial price was supposed to be around 800$...

Wrong. The deal doesnot talk about all the necessary assistance for the quoted price. The IAF is finding the 40 Million $ tag very high because it doesnot include strengthening the airframe. The aircraft has already flown for nealy 2 decades with the IAF and further duration will depend on the...

I gave you the Al-Jazeera link. Watch that. Only people who are ignorent about the full dimention of Indias space programme talk stuff like that. Indias space programme is just not about doing symbolic space stuff its more oriented towards as to how space applications can benefit the people...

Guess the Indian lobby in Washington is getting more influential by the day, either that or Pakistans credibility has taken a major beating. Its more like a combination of both the factors complementing each other. What surprises me more is that the Americans have dismissed all the concerns...

Just because the Jaguar's main role was as a strike & close air support dosent make it a less potent dogfighter. On the contrary the Jaguar is rated as a better dogfighter than the Mig-21. Stop departmentalising fighter aircraft in a singular role, it just what a rookie would do. I am quoting...

Jaguar is a more advanced class of aircraft than the Mig-21 pretty much in any role. It has been adapted principally as ground attack aircraft by the IAF due to its range and also due to the presence of Mig-29 and Mirage-2000 fighters in the IAF now. But when the Jaguar was inducted in the IAF...

The Vice Chief of Air Staff, Air Mrashal P.K.Barbora PVSM,VM,ADC is quiet a reputed fighter pilot in the IAF - he peroformed a maneuver in a Mig-21 which even the manufacturers did think that the fighter was capable of. His squadron of Mig-21's (of which he was the CO) also defeated a squadron...