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Re-Engineered Meteor BVRAAM On The Works For IAF
If any new-generation BVRAAM is to become a ‘game-changer’, then it has to have vastly improved kinematic capability compared with that of existing BVRAAMs. This requires substantial increases in two...
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Revisiting Mountain Warfare & Learning From Past Experiences
Saga Of 7 Guards BattalionCentrifugal Multi-Directional Attack ConceptMSC Origins
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Punitive, Targetted Medium Field Artillery Fire-Assaults With PGMs
The Indian Army (IA) on April 10, 2020 carried out its fifth punitive, targetted medium field artillery fire-assault (between last October and to date) against Pakistan Army (PA) field artillery and...
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First VT-4/MBT-3000 Shipment Bound For Karachi
Back on March 22, 2020, when the Sindh provincial government imposed a 14-day lockdown throughout the province, the Pakistan Army’s (PA) Rawalpindi-based General Headquarters (GHQ) was perturbed, since...
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PLAGF High-Altitude Plateau Warfare Exercises in TAR & ORBAT Of TMD
The physical brawl and stone-pelting between the patrolling parties of the Indian Army (IA) and PLA Ground Forces’ (PLAGF) Border Defence Regiment (BDR) at an altitude of more than 5,000 metres in the...
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What Has PLAGF Learnt From Dogra Gen Zorawar Singh's Conquests of Western Tibet
As I will explain in another thread on the imperatives for waging high-altitude plateau warfare, for waging such warfare, one will firstly have to overfly mountains and reach the plateaux in TAR both...
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Galwan Valley Standoff & Future Trends In PLA Transgressions
There were 1,025 transgressions by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between 2016 and 2018. There were 273 transgressions in 2016, 426 in 2017 and 326 in 2018....
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China-India Boundary Dispute: How It All Began
Inference: Whenever two neighbouring countries, when negotiating the delineation (on maps) and demarcation (on ground) of the mutually-applicable international boundaries (IB), resort to previous...
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Tibet Military District's Ongoing Combined-Arms Exercises
The exercises currently underway are being staged out of the PLAGF Training Base located at Lhari (30 38 18.28 N, 93 13 50.60 E) and the live-firing range is to the south of the Nyenchen Tanglha...
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How Successive Cartographic Errors have Led To Present-Day Politico-Military...
By November 1947, India had the the tools and historic treaties necessary for beginning the process of delineating and demarcating her territorial boundaries. These included the McMahon Line to the...
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Horizontal Escalation Through Vertical Envelopment: Possible Options
Oltinthang, Siari & FraonoGoma & Gyari
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PLA's New Heliports & Helicopters, Dual-Use Airports & Naval Updates
Construction has begun on two heliports meant for air-maintenance of the PLAGF’s on-site garrisons in the Hot Springs and Panggong Tso Lake areas. Located north of Hot Springs (34 26 40.2 N, 78 55 23.0...
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Construction Of KKH-2 Being Expedited
China has begun constructing a far wider highway (the second Karakoram Highway, or KKH-2) that will enter from a point west of the Shaksgam Valley into Gilgit via the Mintaka Pass: (36 59 36.10 N, 74...
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PLAGF's Gameplan In East China Sea
In January 2019, the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Academy of Military Science’s Deputy Director Rear Admiral Luo Yuan had proposed that the PLA seriously consider sinking two of the US Navy’s...
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About Minfield Breeching Solutions & Ship-Launch Systems
Pearson Engineering’s business with India began in December 2013 following a visit by the DRDO’s Combat vehicle R & D establishment to the former’s engineering and manufacturing facilities....
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From NAG to HELINA/Dhruvastra To SANT
The first two consecutive test-firings in lofted top-attack mode of the definitive version of the third-generation HELINA anti-armour guided-missile on July 15 and 16 at the DRDO’s ITR at Balasore has...
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Why China Will Never Demarcate/Delineate The LAC With India
Simply because Beijing till this day does not possess any historical documentation required for proving its territorial claims based on traditional and customary practices of the past, as disclosed...
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The Indian Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) ‘Embargo List of Defence Weapons/Platforms’ that was released on August 9, 2020, is one of the most bizarre types of documentation ever to emerge from the MoD....
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Multinational String-Of-Pearls Emerging In Southern IOR & Andaman Sea
Since mid-May, following a series of behind-the-scenes parleys and deliberations, a variety of steps have been taken toward the adoption of a multinational sea-control strategy that aims at nullifying...
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Increasing Sub-Conventional Threats Systematically Blunting India’s...
Ever since the Indian Army (IA) completed fencing of the 550km-stretch of the Line of Actual Control (LoC) fencing in the Kashmir Valley and Jammu region of Jammu & Kashmir Union Territory on...
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