Bangaldeshi Armoured Corps: MBTs

[Joe Shearer]

Ok take it seriously. Chicken neck is vulnerable. But why on earth we would attack it? Our only job is to close any transit over Bangladesh when China takes it out.

Now that's better!

 

[kobiraaz]

Now that's better!

Ok. In this nuclear age no country willl go to war directly, only through proxies. So there will be no war that includes china and India. If India ever attacks BD, Our only doctrine is to hold the line as many days as possible to allow the international community settle the dispute. and here fanboys are fighting tank battles

 

[Joe Shearer]

Ok. In this nuclear age no country willl go to war directly, only through proxies. So there will be no war that includes china and India. If India ever attacks BD, Our only doctrine is to hold the line as many days as possible to allow the international community settle the dispute. and here fanboys are fighting tank battles

That hurt my feelings! Calling me a fanboy - and at this age!!

I don't think Bangladesh has any serious military threat except from Burma.

 

[UKBengali]

Ok. In this nuclear age no country willl go to war directly, only through proxies. So there will be no war that includes china and India. If India ever attacks BD, Our only doctrine is to hold the line as many days as possible to allow the international community settle the dispute. and here fanboys are fighting tank battles

True for now but not when "Forces 2030 Plan" is complete.

You are looking at a force of 160 modern fighter aircraft, hundreds of new tanks, modern medium-range SAM systems etc.

BD people should not fall into this defeatist mindset thinking that it is not possible to put up stiff military resistance to India.

 

[TopCat]

LOL.

Who's talking about the Meghalaya Hills?

You said two flank attack in Rangpur front

That hurt my feelings! Calling me a fanboy - and at this age!!

I don't think Bangladesh has any serious military threat except from Burma.

Again Burma is not a threat due to natural geography. The only viable battle with burma will be naval battle

 

[Nilgiri]

Ok. In this nuclear age no country willl go to war directly, only through proxies. So there will be no war that includes china and India. If India ever attacks BD, Our only doctrine is to hold the line as many days as possible to allow the international community settle the dispute. and here fanboys are fighting tank battles

"days"

 

[Joe Shearer]

You said two flank attack in Rangpur front


Again Burma is not a threat due to natural geography. The only viable battle with burma will be naval battle

<sigh!>

I find these discussions exhausting because of lack of common military historical knowledge. Look up the Arakan front of the XIV Army during WWII, and I have already mentioned Imphal and Kohima.

Please don't do this to me. I am an old man, and to suffer stupid people and their lack of knowledge day in and day out really exhausts me. This is a request. Please learn your subject before putting pen to paper, in this case, before pounding your keyboard.

Deeply depressing.

 

[TopCat]

<sigh!>

I find these discussions exhausting because of lack of common military historical knowledge. Look up the Arakan front of the XIV Army during WWII, and I have already mentioned Imphal and Kohima.

Please don't do this to me. I am an old man, and to suffer stupid people and their lack of knowledge day in and day out really exhausts me. This is a request. Please learn your subject before putting pen to paper, in this case, before pounding your keyboard.

Deeply depressing.

You already know the answer, and answered it well. Its only the Arakan where a viable battle could take place. Navy will play the vital role which can cover most of the Arakan strip in its firing range.

 

[Joe Shearer]

You already know the answer, and answered it well. Its only the Arakan where a viable battle could take place. Navy will play the vital role which can cover most of the Arakan strip in its firing range.

And Imphal and Kohima were what, the Teddy Bears' Picnic?

Exhausting. These guys will kill me.

 

[Nilgiri]

And Imphal and Kohima were what, the Teddy Bears' Picnic?

Exhausting. These guys will kill me.

You should see the convo I had with him about delineating India's goods exports from service exports w.r.t IT/BPO sector.

He will just keep repeating his statement and hope he can smother you with his stupidity.

Best to cut your losses at informed reasoning with such characters as soon as you can.

 

[TopCat]

And Imphal and Kohima were what, the Teddy Bears' Picnic?

Exhausting. These guys will kill me.

And Imphal and Kohima ? Do they reside in BD or in Burma?
The days for sword and 3 not 3 rifle battle is over. Burmese have no capability to make a armored push in Imphal so that India should be scared. India can still ask for help from Bangladesh in case of any war with Burma.

 

[Joe Shearer]

And Imphal and Kohima ? Do they reside in BD or in Burma?
The days for sword and 3 not 3 rifle battle is over. Burmese have no capability to make a armored push in Imphal so that India should be scared. India can still ask for help from Bangladesh in case of any war with Burma.

The point, dear scholar, was not the exact location Imphal, but the fact that a push is possible even through terrain as hilly and as thickly forested as Imphal. But that, of course, was perhaps pitching it a little too subtle for you. I understand your confusion and discomfort, and will try to keep it simple in future.

The point also was that Bangladesh should prepare seriously for war only against Burma, because of the running sore of the Rohingya problem. The Burmese will keep on driving them out, until they are all gone. There will be clashes, sooner or later. That is why you need to look to your own eastern frontier, and not elsewhere.

 

[asad71]

Did you serve out your full term?

I ask because of your phenomenal ignorance of terrain.

The PLA has deployed its armour on the Tibetan plateau, absolutely flat land. The hills of Arunachal Pradesh are sharp spurs, hostile to movement of wheeled vehicles, forget about tracked ones. The PLA mounted at least one major thrust in the east down the Baillie Trail, which followed the river- and valley-bottoms. The moment PLA armour crosses the McMahon Line, it will not be able to move except in handkerchief sized patches. The rest is deep ravines. Trying to motor to Tawang from below, even a heavy motor car barely has a few inches of clearance on the ravine side. And you talk so glibly about tank movement on those trails.

The armour used by the Indian Army during 48 was Stuart tanks, dismantled in Pathankot (I think; I don't remember), airlifted to Srinagar, re-assembled and sent to Zoji La. Do you know what a Stuart looks like?

The Indian Army has an armoured brigade in Ladakh, which has exactly the same terrain as the plateau, not like the sharp hilly spurs of Arunachal.



You are enjoying yourself, aren't you?



....And meanwhile, XXXIII Corps is fast asleep.




Have you noticed, Rangpur is your vulnerability? Do you think you can stand against a push to cut that off? Do you think pushing your armour far forward doesn't expose your flanks? Do you think nobody can read a map other than a silly fanboy sitting and jumping up and down in Britain?

The Himalayas are no more a formidable obstacle. IA should have discovered that in 1962. There are innumerable passes that locals have always used. There are known smuggling routes used even today so that Tibetan goods are available in Kolkata markets. The Ha Valley in Bhutan is one major potential axis for PLA that IMTRAT guards carefully. Media reports suggest that Chinese Railway link to Tibet is being pushed south everyday. The objective is to link with Nepal.

 

[Joe Shearer]

The Himalayas are no more a formidable obstacle. IA should have discovered that in 1962. There are innumerable passes that locals have always used. There are known smuggling routes used even today so that Tibetan goods are available in Kolkata markets. The Ha Valley in Bhutan is one major potential axis for PLA that IMTRAT guards carefully. Media reports suggest that Chinese Railway link to Tibet is being pushed south everyday. The objective is to link with Nepal.

I think you need to study a detailed map, instead of speaking in woolly generalities. I am sorry, but you really lack knowledge and understanding. The locals had a method of trade which you obviously know nothing about, although a native of Bangladesh would have had a live example to study in his Chittagong Hill Tracts. That would have informed you clearly that your deduction was on the wrong facts and on very poor knowledge.

Your strategic thoughts are not particularly more elevated than can be found in the columns of a daily newspaper. Let me tell you bluntly that it is clear from this engagement that you have nothing to contribute to a discussion on military matters; it was clear from your grossly offensive posts on the Dhaka massacre that you are unfit for decent human society.

I am putting you on my ignore list, with great pleasure. Never thought the day would come when I should do so to someone who had served, but you have earned it fully.

 

[Bilal9]

Nobody recruited ugly Bengalis.

Let' stop trolling shall we?

Ugly or pretty people belong to every ethnicity.....