With all that brouhaha over the “bomb you back to the stone age” remark, I wonder what the situation is- will Bush be more lenient, or cut up because Musharraf made that remark?

It is an unbound 68 page classified documentation of excercise High Mark. :diablo:

PAF strategic exercise High Mark-2005 started
Monday September 05, 2005 (0022 PST)

ISLAMABAD, September 05(Online): Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has started the greatest strategic exercise High Mark-2005″ of its history on Sunday.
Talking to BBC, PAF spokesman, Air Commodore Sarfraz Ahmad Khan said exercise would continue for one month and would be conducted in three phases.

He told that about 350 fighter planes of PAF would take part in this exercise adding that army and navy will also participate in this game.

The exercise will be conducted in central part of the country in the first phase, in northern areas in second phase and in southern areas in third phase.

The attackers in High Mark-2005 war game have been named as Blue Land and the defenders as Fox Land.

According to spokesman, all the planes of PAF, pilots, airbases, engineers, air defence and management crew will participate in the exercise.

Focus has been placed on employment concepts of air power during this four weeks long exercise. The exercise will afford the chance for best training to fighter and their assisting elements of three forces.
KARACHI: Army soldiers stand before a tank exhibited during a full dress rehearsal ahead of celebrations for the country’s Defence Day in Karachi. Pakistan will celebrate its Defense Day on September 6 to mark the 1965 war with India over the disputed Kashmir region.

Air Commodore Sarfraz Ahmad told that the preparations were underway since the last six months and these drills will take place in the environment resembling closely to real war situation.

President General Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and chiefs of three forces will also witness this exercise.

The strategic observers of Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and France have been extended special invitation to watch this war game.

India is also included, unofficially I guess! :p 😀

centre for Milimeter Wave Semi-conductor Devices and Systems will be set up by the varsity in joint collaboration with DRDO

Express News Service

Kolkata, September 6 The Calcutta University is all set to contribute to the Missile Defence System for the Indian Army. The varsity is gearing up to indigenously develop semi-conductor diodes. A centre for Milimeter Wave Semi-conductor Devices and Systems, a first-timer for the state, will be developed by the varsity in joint collaboration with DRDO, and a 49.5 crore Centrally-funded project will be set up near Peerless Hospital off the E M Bypass. A 3.72-acre land has already been sanctioned by the state government for it.

The project will see the best minds of Jadavpur University and Shibpur B E College partaking in it. An MoU was signed on August 30 between DRDO and Calcutta University and the project was announced by Asish Kumar Bannerjee, Vice-Chancellor, CU at a press conference today.

“This is the first time in the history of Calcutta University that such a project is being undertaken. It was in 2002 that our radiophysics department was called for a presentation on the subject. Later, we received a positive response from the DRDO,” said Bannerjee.

The entire project is being supervised by Professor Sitesh Kumar Roy of the centre for Advanced Studies in Radiophysics and Electronics, CU.

“Work will start on the construction of the project at the end of this year. The research work will, however, continue at the laboratory at Rajabazar Science College,” he said.

After the 1998 Pokhran nuclear test, the Union government felt the need to indigeniously develop semi-conductor diodes for missiles. Diodes, which help in guiding a missile to the target were previously imported from developed countries like the UK, USA and France. They were both costly and in short supply. The project will not only be cost-effective but will lessen the risk of brisk supply in case of exigency.

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=200256

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has decided to delay signing a deal to purchase F-16 aircraft from the US after it found that the planes would be delivered without electronic warfare systems, which are vital for real time monitoring. The F-16 deal is thought to be Pakistan’s reward for assisting the US in the war on terror, but relations between the two allies are on a low in recent months.

After the Pakistani Air Force complained that the warfare components were missing, the Ministry of Defense requested the US Secretary of Air Force International Affairs, (SAIFA) to extend the date of purchase till December 31 this year, according to a report in Pakistani weekly Friday Times. Pakistan was thought to be on the verge of signing the letter of acceptance (LOA) for purchase of 36 F-16 fighters, but the deal looks to be in murky waters now.

President Musharraf is expected to speak to his US counterpart George Bush on the matter this week. The deal was delayed because the US decided to impose new conditions. “So the signing deal is off. Perhaps President Musharraf will try to extract some concessions during his meeting with Bush. But the entire deal is likely to spark much more debate and change before finalization,” a Pakistani officials told Friday Times.

The report adds that the 36 aircraft, which are a part of the deal, did not have EW capabilities, which would increase the power of Pakistan’s radar warning receiver (RWR).

Also the aircraft would only be able to identify non-Nato enemies. The Pakistani official said that if any NATO aircraft were involved in the battle it would be tough to detect them.

Relations between the US and Pakistan have soured recently, because the US thinks Pakistan is not doing enough to hunt down Osama bin Laden. Pakistan maintains that it is helping the US in every way it can.

source: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/8924.html

Hmmm…so no DRFM in the EW pods to instantaneoulsy respond to any threat, and no software reprogramming abilities in the RWR…wonder what else has been downgraded/modified on account of the Chinese issue.

It’ll take more than just some IIT’ians.

The IITs are along with other institutes a vital cog in Indias research apparatus and are contributing more.

The way I see it. The whole MOD structure need to be reformed and DRDO need to be replaced with something more efficient and organically slaved to the specific armed forces. In the end it’s the Armed forces thats actually going to be using the weapons, so there is absolutely no point in having DRDO developing something that their end customers are going to reject. Unless there is no conciquences in making such stupid decisions as is the current situation.

This is the typical view as common in flamewars on the internet, but is not necessarily the truth. But there are many DRDO products accepted by the services, and the Navys developers are most closely tied to DRDO, AF and Army after that.
Indian Navy ships have DRDO made sonars, CAIO, EW and now even torps,plus recently modern 3D radars. Harry can add more.

The AF and Army too have equipment. The issue is of big ticket items. There based on previous discussion, only 4- projects are left for mass production- and the AF has been part and parcel of LCA design, only that they wanted it yesterday, but there were a lotof things out of DRDo or Indias control- economy collapse, sanctions all of which delayed it. Plus problems with engine development for which Snecma or Russia will fix it. All these require constant uninterrupted flow of money, and its just now that all this is happening….the key thing will be to look at it a decade from now when the results start appearing.

^By that token, we should be the BVS or Bharatiya Vayu Sena!
😛

But in English we are the IAF..in English Israel is the IDFAF & now Italians are the AMI (thanks Trident), so the only IAF is the Indian Air Force..bwahahaaha (manic cackle) 😀

Hmmm..are there any more countries with I? (Iran is Islamic republic or somesuch thing).. :confused:

-The RCS of USAF F 16 is ~ 1.5 sqm for years;
-The air-to-air detection/aquisition ranges of Sniper are bigger that the “new IRST” of the MiG 29k;
-what do you mean by “downgraded ECM”? The current F 16s in USAF have the ALR 56M RWR and the ALQ 184 jamming pod. Can you name a Russian equivalent of these? I don’t even mention the all digital ALR 69(V)A, or the Falcon Edge in the blk 60…

I wasnt referring to the USAF in that post, but “others” who dont get the USAFs gold standard stuff, reserved for it and some close NATO, first run allies. Sniper wont be carried for all A2A missions. The number of pods is always restricted (bar the US). Its better to have an integrated IRST. 29 Ks wont come with Russian pods but Indian & Israeli ones.

Those ranges (if true) are for planes like AWACS, bombers, transporters etc. For fighter-sized aircraft the figures are half, at best.

The Irbis specifies 400 KM detection (if true) for 3 Mtr Sq RCS.

Not to mention that the Flaker RCS is ~ 10 sqm :p

The Russians new RCS reduction packages bring it down to the 1 to 3 level.

You have to understand that the Zhuk-M (700mm diameter) has a bigger and more rounded antenna than the APG-68, whose elliptical array area is more comparable to the smaller Kopyo. Also V3-V7 has been around for more than a decade.

I was just referring to the raw performance not to the differentiation beneath.

There is a reason why DSP/RSP are being combined is that they lessen complexity and with it they reduce latency from bus transfers since all data transfers are directly in chip, the possibility of bugs by having less parts, and less bus interference since signals no longer travel through a motherboard. Traveling through the motherboard incurs some electrical resistance which requires extra power to overcome and all this adds noise. Simply said, I don’t think both Motorola and Texas Instruments or any digital electronics engineer would agree to what you said.

Agreed, but based on the recent conversations I had with two DSP types who are currently doing this for a living the choices are often about pros and cons, federated systems have their own uses. Space, volume & heating (as well EMI/ EMC tolerance) whilst replacing legacy units are more critical determiners in that respect.

What I am getting at – is I am not a fan of fancy faster processor or latest doodad = best avionics. Simply put, the GHz war in terms of aviation.

Anyways, each to his own.