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It doesn't take a genius to understand the implicit meaning of your words. But then, this is not the thread for entertaining your kind. In Hindu dharma, there is the saying, "The dead are no one's enemies." Unfortunately for those blinded with hate, it might take a genius to understand the...

No Sir, You are mistaken. The 50% fleet availability rate is for peace time operations. That number might appear on the lower side, but it compares reasonably well with other heavy class fighters. Take for example the F-15E. In 2010, the F-15E fleet, with an average age of over 16 years, had...

Kya Karey Sirji, bhawnao mey beh gaya. Btw, NE (Assam) se hu, so my hindi (and urdu) is as close to a disaster as it gets.

You're most welcome to enlighten me then. You should start by stating the advantages India gains by sitting for talks. I'll be most delighted to understand more clearly, your viewpoints.

That would be contingent on the need for India to resolve issues with Pakistan in the first place. As it stands right now, there is basically nothing worthwhile that India gains, and a lot India loses, by resolving the issues. As it is now, Pakistan is basically asking India to forget (or more...

Correction: They are no longer separatists, just bloody thugs and criminals under the veil of a "Liberation force". They terrorize the locals for whom they claim to fight.

Hello everyone on PDF. Hmm, funny that I should do this now, when I have been on this forum for some 8 years now, and as an active member from May. But then again that might be due to my lack of manners. It all began one lazy summer noon, when I, then a young (and naive) high school student...

The pertinent questions to be asked are perhaps: What is the common thing? Who decided what becomes the common thing? Go back to 1993-95. There is a raging insurgency in Kashmir. Indian hold over J&K is tenuous at best. Streets in Pakistan and Kashmir are filled with anticipation, charged with...

Anybody tried the Wargame: Air-land Battle? It's possibly the most realistic, and most difficult real time strategy game.

That statement of yours, is both true and false, depending on the context. If you were talking about an Indo-China scenario, it's an undeniable truth, however inconvenient it might be for us. But in the Indo-Pak context, it's plain wrong. The Indian government has enough financial muscle to push...

Well said, as I'd expect from you. (I've been a shadow member on this forum for nearly 8 years now, So I do know a bit about the members here.). But that aside, whatever you have written hinges on two important assumptions. 1. The ability of the PAF to field 150-250 JF-17s (or whatever numbers...

Interesting thoughts. I'll put in a few points. Firstly, IAF has no intention of allowing PAF to gain air superiority, let that be very clear. The IAF will do whatever it takes, spend however much it needs, buy whatever it gets its hands on, to ensure PAF never again has superior air assets...

That my friend, is one of the reasons for the recent spate of incidents affecting the Su-30MKI. The Russian doctrine usually calls for 150 flight hours per annum, while we are generating close to 250-275 hours. Unfortunately for us, the manual being followed still follows the Russian schedule of...

You're right, majority of the citizens in the NE have very little similarity with the people of mainland India. Hardly anything surprising about it. The people from Meghalaya, for example, dress up like the Japanese or Koreans (read weird). In Manipur and Mizoram, Korean TV soap operas dominate...

Well, I assure you Modi won't bring the Agni Vs on his shoulders, or on his plane. Any such proposal would be drafted by the SFC brass, with the PM reserving the right to either accept or reject it. This is not Nazi Germany or Communist USSR where the political leadership makes strategic...

As a citizen from the North East, I wish to make a few observations on this topic. Please note that the following are my observations only, and any subsequent opinions my own. I do not attempt to represent the NE. First up, there is a lot (and by that I imply total) of ignorance about the...

We are looking at it in the wrong way. The plans under which the new procurements are being planned are not aimed at the IN of 2014 or even 2020. What we are looking at are the first tentative steps towards the 2040-50 plan. Give it a few more years and the outlines of the plans will become much...

Every leader, every commander, from the greatest genius to the absolutely delusional has had an objective, no matter how hopeless, when going to war. The way you've written it, Pakistan and it's Generals would be the first country, maybe even the first entity to go to war without any reason...

His statement might not be perfect, but that doesn't make the logic behind it any less credible or any less worrisome. There is real apprehension about the Eurofighter setup here, from the junior officer level right up to the command levels. Germany, for instance, has strict laws regarding...

I have so far refrained from making any comments on this issue, primarily out of ignorance of the actual sequence of events leading to this flare up. But nevertheless, this point of yours is something I've been actually observing for sometime now. The Indian media is going pretty much the way...