Operation Sindoor and Aftermath

[Indx TechStyle]

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Do we have a thread for covering good multimedia from Indian military operations?

 

[concard]

I was going through "Project on Nuclear Issues: A Collection of Papers from the 2017 Conference Series and Nuclear Scholars Initiative", a publication by the gora think tank CSIS. According to their analysis, if India struck Muridke (which happened), we would struggle to gain an upper-hand through air-strikes alone (completely inaccurate). And that India would be forced to do a ground assault.

Goras clearly didn't consider the scenario where India can start striking air shafts/vents of Pak nuclear facilities and blow up the tunnels.

You can see the screenshots below:

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Since the paper is from 2017, they have not taken into account about the technological progress even for 2017. Today's war is not that of trench warfare of WW1 or simply dropping bombs by flying over a target like in WW2. There is enough standoff weapons in our arsenal today to inflict enormous damage to Pakistan without coming anywhere near the border let alone crossing it. I am 100% sure DRDO is considering development of missiles which can be fired from 500km from within our own territory. Replacing rampage, crystal maze missiles with our very own means we can strike Porkistan at will with our air force and dare them to respond.

Our air defenses are only going to get stronger from here on. Especially now DRDO is also developing Project Kusha to replace S400, expect a dense air defense network all over our country. This is something Porkis cannot match. We paid $5.4 billion for S400 for 5 squadrons from Russia. If Porkis want to buy the cheap knock offs from China assuming they are 50% cheaper, it would be $2.5 billion. That would be 25% of their forex today. They can't afford quality air defense systems in the market. So they will go for adding more fighter aircrafts like J-10 and maybe in future J-31. Because unlike air defense systems which can be overwhelmed and expended by firing missiles, fighter aircrafts can be used again and again if they were not lost in combat.

 

[FIELD MARSHAL SAHWNSTEIN]

Why is the back ground noise?

Creating discomfort for the watchers.

Those are peacocks.

Also gives me more confidence that this was over india since peacocks are only found in very select locations.

 

[Physx32]

who is the author of this particular paper?

Elizabeth Whitfield, Program Assistant, Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

 

[indrajit]

A couple of MANPADs would really up the ante for all the Paki drones and planes flying around willy nilly.
Porkis don't understand how vulnerable they can get overnight.

Unlike us, porks rely heavily on rotary wing and sometimes, jets, to fight down insurgencies in their COIN ops.
They don't have the heavy border security nor the capability to hold ground the way our military can solely by infantry.

Can they beat back the Taliban if they're able to target their planes or helis in the sky?

I really doubt it, especially considering how easily Pashtuns would switch sides if push came to shove.
We all know the auqat of Pashtuns living in Pakistan. Just ask the previous PM.

Manpads are a 2-way street. We don't want civilian aircrafts brought down, either in Pakistan or in India. That's why there is an unofficial agreement between R&AW & ISI from the 1990's that no Manpads will be supplied.

 

[Muzh]

There was nothing wrong with importing American engines—it was a sensible decision. What is truly problematic is the inadequate investment in India's indigenous engine development program. The country doesn't even have a flying test bed yet.

Designing and manufacturing a complex machine such as a new turbofan engine is a very complex problem and it cannot be solved by throwing money at it. Earlier in this thread I described in detail what is called Product Development & Lifecycle Management (PDLM) under the auspices of Iterative Prototyping. So, I do not want to bore everyone by repeating the same information.

Here is what I suggested years ago but no one listened to me

a. LAC's aerospace design should have been compatible with AL31FN instead of GEF404

b. HAL/DRDO should have entered in contract with Lyulka for ToT of AL31FN

c. HAL/DRDO should have continued development of indigenous turbofan engines based on AL31FN foundation

d. HAL should have continued manufacturing LCA with Lyulka supplied engines until indigenous engines were ready

e. Step c and d above could been done in parallel

China did exactly what I described above. They are now ready to replace AL31FN with their indigenous WS10. As you guessed it, WS10 is based on AL31FN.

 

[samsaptaka]

@Vinash @ezsasa @Indx TechStyle @haldilal
And other mods, time to close this thread ? Op Sindoor is over (despite what GoI trumpets).
If further ops are done it would be a no name strike and a new normal as announced.
Also discussion has degenerated to general topics and some going way OT
Better to lock this thread

 

[haldilal]

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