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@GauravT71548031 @SandeepUnnithan We should expect similar trajectories to the Brahmos

I'll be honest. I don't know exact trajectory an HD-1 follows. But, if it is a near trisonic missile, it certainly won't be a terrain hugger. Either a high altitude cruiser (anything above 10 km, possibly even 30km+, latter being more likely), or a ballistic/quasi ballistic. With a similar speed quasi ballistic (CM400) having been repeatedly intercepted, and a ballistic Fatah2 also being brought down, I'd say odds in favour of Indian Air Defence. Both S400 and MRSAM/ Barak are capable. Then, there are others as well.

So this is the next level. Israel showing how spec ops - air ops - intelligence can come together to do the amazing. In this case, without doubt, aided by Israeli agents on the ground, who would have done prior recce, and assessed ground sit, the IDF air and spec ops elements set up a base inside an unfriendly country, without contiguous air or land borders, operated, and withdrew. Last year, Israeli intelligence had actively been a part of the targeting loop. The first shots against Iranian ballistic missiles and SAMs possibly by drones operated from within Iran. Beyond the audacity and tactical brilliance of what Israel did, lie major lessons for Indian intelligence and military. As India achieves or strives to achieve greater inter-services synergy, the next level must be inter-agency synergy. Move beyond mere exchange of info/ int to incorporation in the targeting loop. India may never actually do so. But that surely is something to aim at.

Fascinating. Which North Indian Hindu Communities became Persian-literate in large numbers during Mughal times? Padha Farsi becha tel...yeh dekho kismat ka khel facebook.com/share/r/1DzHJb…

@SandeepUnnithan @GauravT71548031 Hi! Hv X'd you asking for info on our defence options against a Fatah3/HD1 fired at an Indian Air base. Can the S400 get it? Or Barak? Or does have to shot from the Air with a Meteor? Response times are in minutes at low altitude. I tried checking: no Oniks intercepts in Ukraine

Spot on. While the tip of the Israeli spear is impressive, there’s a long all-agencies shaft behind that spear tip. McRaven’s principles of Spec Ops, which the Israelis keep practising cannot, be achieved without huge inter-agency synergy. A good place to begin would be integrating all agencies in tri-services joint exercises. The planned tri-services joint ops room must have agency reps + MAC inputs.

@gchikermane @samirsaran @DelphiEconForum @pranjalsharma Get a haircut dude. Like mine!! #joking

India will add a Pakistan to its GDP this year and a South Africa next year. That’s the velocity of growth you are looking at. My comments at Delphi Economic Forum @DelphiEconForum, with Fokion Karavias and @pranjalsharma youtu.be/C07nSd_kGxA?si…

@UnApologeticM1 Uttar Bharat mein buddhimano ki koi kami nahi hai. Aise log Google ke Mukhya Executive Adhikari ko padh likh ke bada karenge? Yeh Hindi medium walon ki kuntith laghu madhyam vargiya mand buddhi dristikon ko Dakshin Bharat se dur rakhiye.

This is not Comedy Central. This is India under Modi!

@Hush_Kit When the Indian Navy Chief called his Soviet counterpart in the 80s about buying Yak-38s for the INS Vikrant to replace its Hawker Sea Hawks - the Russian advised him to buy Sea Harriers - which our navy flew for three decades!

@Parsheau Chillin'

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@mrubin1971 @Anwardawn Bhaijān,how much credence do u give Rubin's biting piece? Is he underestimating Pakistan's centrality to the new geopolitical configuration emerging in the Middle East? Love to hear your response. As you must be one of the Pakistanis who understand the US best!

"From a Washington perspective, #Pakistan is not a woman to marry, but rather a whore to use and discard. Munir is just the latest pimp. Trump’s term is ending and whoever comes next—Republican or Democrat—will likely agree on one issue: Pakistan is not to be trusted, nor will the United States feel any obligation to respect any Trump promises to Munir." I explain in my latest @SundayGuardian commentary: sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/pakist…

Happy mother's day

@Aviation_Intel An icbm is pointless without a nuke tip

What Is Behind Turkey’s Pursuit Of An ICBM? An unexpected reveal of a previously unknown intercontinental ballistic missile has raised major questions about Ankara’s strategic ambitions. twz.com/nuclear/what-i…

@DrAyeshaRay Tagore hated nationalism as it was used to justify evil. Hypernationalism would have sickened him!

Tagore must be rolling in his grave today…shameful day.

@AuctionMirza570 Sure everyone in the aircraft thought he was an Arab! :D

Shail Patel, 29. Yes, that's the name and he is Gujju.

This Gujarati thug brought the same mob-lynching, intimidation, and street-bully mentality he was used to back in India onto a plane in Florida — thinking screaming and creating chaos would make people submit. Then U.S. Marshals stepped in and reminded him this is America, not some lawless political stronghold where mobs rule the streets. Here, fools get restrained and hauled away in cuffs.

@ajaishukla @SandeepUnnithan @ShivAroor Guys, how wd India counter an HD1( Fatah3) Brahmos equivalent,fired at an Indian Air base?Pks had no counter to Brahmos. What's ours?No confirmed Oniks intercept in Ukraine so far. Chatter on SAM Iris-T solution. Pl clarify! Meteor? Barak?

@SandeepUnnithan Real heros don't look like Hrithik or Salman. They look like someone you played cricket with in the colony when u were boys. Salute this fighting man! And thank him for his service.

Met my friend Major General Sunil Sheoran, SM**, VSM, after ages. The ‘bullet catcher’ as he is called. 3 Para officer. Now ADG Infantry. As Colonel he commanded the NSG’s 51 SAG that saved numerous lives at the Taj and Oberoi hotels in #Mumbai #26/11. Star of my first book #BlackTornado. @HarperCollins

@AnchitGupta9 @zone5aviation Gandhian influence from the 4s in India

The Indian Air Force pilot who became an Israeli legend of peace Pilot Officer Abe Jacob Nathan is one of those tiny entries in the IAF database that opens into an extraordinary life. His record is sparse but fascinating: Service No. 3082, commissioned with the 30th pilot course on 26 February 1945. Born on 29 April 1927 and released on 1 April 1947. Then comes the intriguing remark: “to Israel AF”. The world would later know him as Abie Nathan. Born in Abadan, Persia, he spent his adolescent years in Bombay, became a pilot during the Second World War with the Indian Air Force, and in 1948 volunteered as a pilot in Israel’s war. He stayed on in Israel, flew for El Al, ran a Tel Aviv restaurant, and then built an even more unusual public life. In 1966, he flew his small aircraft, named Shalom 1, to Port Said in Egypt with a message of peace. He was arrested, deported, and arrested again on return to Israel. In 1973, he founded the famous Voice of Peace radio station from a ship anchored outside Israeli territorial waters. For two decades, it broadcast music and peace messaging across the region. He was also involved in humanitarian relief work across countries including Cambodia, Bangladesh, Biafra, Colombia, and Ethiopia. From the Indian Air Force to the Israeli Air Force. From cockpit to campaigner. From war pilot to peace broadcaster. Remembering Pilot Officer Abe Jacob Nathan, born this day in 1927. A small IAF entry. A remarkable global life. #IAFHistory @IAF_MCC

@Viv_Krishnan She's a beaut

We’ve been quietly doing something no one else seems to bother with — putting out actual firing videos of rifles we designed and built, here in 🇮🇳. No borrowed blueprints or foreign DNA. Just our engineering. To our fellow licensed manufacturers — we get it, your foreign OEM partners make fantastic platforms. World-class, even. But surely those great designs deserve to be seen firing, not just displayed on a brochure? We’d love the company. 😊 Indigenous or licensed, let’s show India what her weapons industry actually sounds like. Now that is the @sssdefence M72 being put through the paces. As on date, over 3000 M72 rifles chambered for the 5.56x45 mm have been successfully inducted into some of our best police forces - UP Police, Haryana Police (STF), Meghalaya Police (STF) & Punjab Police. And we promised to stand by our customers through thick & thin. The M72 is today the only mass manufactured rifle that can fire both NATO 5.56x45 & INSAS ammunition out of the same mag #MakeInIndia #IndianDefence #AtmanirbharBharat #FirepowerFirst

@alpha_defense @Viv_Krishnan How does it fare against HESH rounds

The answer : “Composite Hull” CVRDE's Composites Research Center took on an ambitious challenge as part of the VIKRAM VT-21 project on Development of Advanced Armoured Platform (Tracked & Wheeled) and delivered something truly remarkable: a fully indigenous composite hull. At the heart of this effort was a critical question. How well could monolithic composite plates and sandwich panels of varying configurations hold up under intense shock loading? To find out, the team carefully fabricated panels using Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) and Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP), incorporating PVC foam, Aluminium Honeycomb, and Aluminium foam cores. Every panel was produced through the Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding (VARTM) process and then put through demanding shock load testing to validate its performance. What made this achievement even more impressive was the frugal brilliance behind it. The entire VARTM setup was built in-house within R&D(E) at a cost of just ₹3.1 Lakhs, and the composite panels were fabricated for ₹19.7 Lakhs. In the world of advanced defence technology, that was exceptional value for money. And the outcome reflected every bit of that hard work. The VIKRAM VT-21, complete with its turret, weighed in at under 25 Tonnes, proving that thoughtful engineering and smart material choices could redefine what an armoured platform was capable of. Because in defence, every kilogram saved was a tactical advantage gained.

@Viv_Krishnan @sssdefence @AjayshreeSamby3 @SandeepUnnithan Too good!

With due respect, our weapon looks different from the posted pic and we shall be unveiling this in less than a week. But here’s a sneak preview of the production model (not proto). And what u need to know - 12 gauge semi auto shotgun - Gas operated - Mag fed - 20 inch nitrided barrel - the only military variant shotgun (globally) that we know of with a “drop in” trigger - Built for a CUAS role but can be used like a regular shotgun - Ruggedized: lower & upper receivers in 7075 T6 Aluminium - Ambidextrous controls - Multiple position buttstock with in built cheek rest - Lots of commonality with other @sssdefence weapons. Look out for them in the lower & upper receiver - Follow on variants of the T12 will have suppressors integrated

⚡⚡⚡ #SSSDefence T12 SHOTGUN 🔸Calibre- 12 Gauge 🔸Gas operated semi-auto 🔸Barrel- 20" inch/508 mm 🔸Range- 80M + 🔸Magazine- 5 to 10 rounds 🔸Weight- 3.8 kg @Viv_Krishnan @SandeepUnnithan

@EthanLevins2 @Chopsyturvey Unlike the cynical Arab regimes there is something fetching crazy about the Iranians !

NBC confirms an American base was struck with an Iranian F5 jet. The F5 was built in 1959. 67 years ago. It just bombed the largest military in the world.

@Eternaldharma_ @pradeepsri72 Lovely story....can you share original sources please to enjoy reading

When 80-year-old Maharaja Chhatrasal was surrounded by the Mughals, and no other Rajput ruler seemed likely to come to his aid, there remained only one hope the brilliant Brahmin warrior Peshwa Bajirao I. A Rajput king sent a letter to a Brahmin commander: “The fate of Gajendra in the jaws of the crocodile is my fate today. Bundelkhand is losing the battle Bajirao, come and protect our honor.” The reference was to the ancient tale of Gajendra, the elephant king caught by a crocodile, crying out for divine rescue. The moment Bajirao read the letter, he rose from his meal. His wife reportedly said, “At least finish your food first.” Bajirao replied: “If I am late, history will say that a Kshatriya asked for help, and a Brahmin kept eating.” Without another word, he left his plate behind and marched toward Bundelkhand with his cavalry. It is said that a journey of ten days was covered by Bajirao in barely forty-eight hours with only five hundred horsemen riding without pause, without rest. The moment Bajirao entered Bundelkhand, the tide of war changed. After defeating the Mughal forces, he stood before Chhatrasal, who embraced him and declared: “The world has seen only two true Brahmin warriors Parashurama and Bajirao. One humbled arrogant Kshatriyas, the other crushed the Turks.” From that day onward, the bond between Maharaja Chhatrasal and Peshwa Bajirao I became one of the most remembered alliances in Indian history.