Indian1973http://www.123bharath.com/india-news/index.php?action=fullnews&id=9707
Dozen countries seek guerrilla warfare training in India :
India News > Aizawl (Mizoram), Aug 21 :
France and Italy are the latest among a dozen countries, including the US, that have sought India’s help to train their soldiers in counter-insurgency operations at an elite facility located deep within the jungles of this northeastern state.
A group of US commandos was the last batch of foreign soldiers who completed a rigorous three-week anti-insurgency combat course with Indian anti-terror experts in the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) at Vairengte in Mizoram, about 130 km from the state capital Aizawl, in April.
Britain recently sought the services of experts from CIJWS to set up a similar institute in that country, a CIJWS official said.
The jungle warfare school has attracted commandos from across the world, particularly after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US. Defence officials said they were flooded with queries from several Western nations for sending their troops to CIJWS.
An Indian Army spokesman said the Army Headquarters in New Delhi would decide on a “priority basis” on accommodating foreign troops from these countries for training in unconventional warfare at the CIJWS.
“France, Uzbekistan, Italy and some African countries have made queries and expressed their desire to train their soldiers at Vairengte this year,” a senior official at CIJWS told IANS on telephone, requesting anonymity.
“It is for the higher authorities to finalise which countries will take part in exercises and also the dates for the training.
“The normal schedule is about six weeks, during which a soldier undergoes strenuous drills that make him conversant with the finer nuances of guerrilla warfare and low-intensity conflicts,” the official said.
Established in 1970, the school at Vairengte is considered one of the world’s most prestigious anti-terrorist institutions, with troops from several countries being trained in the latest techniques in counter-insurgency warfare.
“The motto of this institute is to fight a guerrilla like a guerrilla,” said an instructor at the institute.
“Once soldiers complete the training here, they go back to their native country and impart the knowledge to fellow soldiers on how to deal with unconventional warfare,” the official said.
The training module includes lectures, seminars and mock operations in the rugged jungles in Mizoram, a state flanked by Myanmar on its east and Bangladesh on its west and once wracked by a separatist insurgency.
CIJWS currently runs four counter-insurgency and jungle warfare courses of six weeks’ duration each that are open only to officers below the age of 28.
In 2001, New Delhi opened the school at Vairengte to foreign soldiers, with three US Army officers being the first overseas batch to be trained there. Expert instructors in combating both rural and urban terrorist attacks have also trained soldiers from Nepal and Nigeria, besides the US and a few other countries.
“The training module is non-conventional and once a soldier undergoes training here, he can face deadly situations anywhere in the world,” the instructor said.
India’s northeast is home to about 30-odd rebel armies with demands ranging from secession to greater autonomy and the right to self-determination.
The CIJWS was set up after Indian soldiers suffered heavy casualties at the hands of northeastern rebels who are adept in hit-and-run guerrilla strikes.
More than 50,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in the northeast since India’s independence in 1947.
–Indo-Asian News Service
Indian1973I think one of the JASSM roles is going after S300/400 batteries.
They will likely be fired from F117/F22 type internal bay a/c.
Indian1973http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=66552
Jaguars To Get Digital Autopilot
HUMA SIDDIQUI
Posted online: Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 0002 hours IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 20: French company Sextant will carry out a complete upgrade of the Indian Jaguar autopilot system. The company will supply a state-of-the-art modular, digital autopilot for Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Jaguars, derived from autopilots already developed for the Mirage 2000-9 and the Nimrod 2000.
Sources said autopilot integration would be carried out in conjunction with IAF and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) which had manufactured Jaguars in India for the past 20 years.
This new autopilot will increase the aircraft’s ground attack capabilities, as well as enhance flight safety, sources added.
Sextant, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thomson-CSF, had in 1998 won a contract to supply the 6×6 inch smart multifunction display (SMFD) and interface units for the Jaguar upgrade programme.
A contract was signed in 1996 for the Jaguar’s radar upgradation. For the majority of the Indian Strike Jaguars, a phased upgrade is planned. Sextant and Elta of Israel signed contracts to upgrade the avionics of the ‘strike’ Jaguars.
French and Israeli companies are part of the upgradation programme for the deep-penetration Jaguars, which also includes integration of “autopilot systems” into the aircraft.
The 35 BAe-built, NAVWASS-equipped Jaguars will be the first batch of aircraft to undergo the upgrade. These aircraft will also be fitted with a MIL-STD-1553B digital databus, like the HAL-built aircraft.
A digital map generator is currently being developed by HAL, which will read onto a new head down display centered around a new Sextant MFD 66 active matrix liquid crystal display.
A centralised threat warning system, including a new Indian-built radar warning receiver, will be incorporated into the aircraft. It is believed that Rafael Litening Designation Pod will be adopted for widespread use by the fleet to use precision munitions. India is presently the largest user of this type of Jaguars and as production is expected to last until 2006-2007, this version will last beyond 2010, sources claimed.
The IAF, the fourth largest air force in the world, wants to upgrade the technology profile of its strike force, in terms of ‘high-tech’ compared to ‘medium and low-tech’ aircraft, to a 50:50 ratio over the next few years.
“The Jaguars form the backbone of our strike fleet. With upgradation including advanced radars, navigation, weapon and electronic warfare systems, and precision-guided munitions these jets should be viable till almost 2020,” said a senior IAF official.
Capable of delivering tactical nuclear weapons, the Jaguars were first inducted into the IAF in 1979 and subsequently manufactured by HAL under licence. At present, 40 of the around 100 Jaguars in the IAF’s inventory which constitute four strike and one maritime squadrons are being upgraded.
“Moreover, 17 two-seater Jaguars are already under production at HAL. Twenty more strike Jaguars are also being ordered,” officials added
Indian1973Phazotrons new topdog radar is the phased array Sokol, not Zhuk-MSE
which is the end of that line. Tikhomirov is working on the Bars successor named Irbis which they say will hold the fort until arrival of AESA radar.
India can go for the Irbis front end or the AESA when it comes. the back end architecture could remain the same.
Indian1973or are artificially injected with steroids like US taxpayer dollars and made
powerful.
Indian1973AP, manned flight around earth must be reliably done before any
manned moon mission. as of now there is little reason to send a man to the moon unless to establish a permanent station which capability is very far away. in the meantime landers can let loose rovers with onboard labs.
there is also little reason for India to take up manned flight unless
a space station is the eventual goal. that has not been stated yet.
the recoverable capsule experiments in 2-3 yrs time do indicate manned flight is on roadmap.
Indian1973what is the camera res of the latest and planned CBERS sats ?
a site I found say 20 m. thats very trailing edge. res of 2-5m have been available for a decade now commercially. some US cos with
access to export-restricted tech have 0.50m. india has a few 5m ,
one 1m imint and is soon launching a 2.5m 3d terrain mapper. the output of 5m sats is sold commercially and costs around $900
for a single photo.
jmho Brazil should have started a lot earlier on development of
satellites.
Indian1973the AJT extention of IJT was expected and is the logical thing to do.
the IJT testing seems to be progressing quietly so far. anyone know
number of testflights by the two prototypes currently ?
Indian1973> I didnt mentioned pods as part of differentiating aircrafts.
that will be the big diff between the first gen sapsan pod and the
third gen pods to be used in MKI and MKM. Just because you
dont like to mention it matters not. russia is only now starting work on paveway type kits. israel/france have far more mature
eqpt there. India rejected the russian jammers for israeli ones
not for fun, but for good reason.
canads and TVC – they are necessary to manouver such a heavy
a/c tightly. everyone and his uncle are adding TVC for a good reason. the Typhoon wants it, F22 has it. almost every moden a/c including gripen, rafale, typhoon, j-10 has canards. there is no long operational exp with how much addl cost burden if any they impose so you are talking out of ur bias as usual !
other than the SAR mode, the figures of the Zhuk-MSE look
inferior to Bars. http://www.kanwa.com/free/2003/10/e1027a.htm
I will let other people debate the finer details.
Indian1973successful space capsule recovery airdrop test conducted
Indian1973is Asterix and Tintin still popular in europe ? I had the whole collection once but lost some during moves..plan to rebuild again.
both are wildly popular in india btw. another fav is “phantom – the ghost who walks”
Indian1973MirageIII, thats more like it. some JASDF artwork would be nice.
Indian1973great thread. why not expand to include other interesting artwork?
Indian1973israel mil budget is probably around $10 bil now. so US bankrolls
25% of that. its astoundingly high at around 10% of GDP I think.
all of that $2.2b is probably CAPEX and has to be spent on
US made products so its a indirect subsidy to US arms industry also. two birds with one stone.
Indian1973#2 is also not a bad place to be. esp as it looks like perpetual
money spigot. Egypts economy cannot afford to buy such toys
like F-16s and M1A1s from other sources.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53129-2004Jul15.html
In a letter to Congress, Powell noted that a unilateral reduction would weaken the balanced military aid to Egypt and Israel that is a “cornerstone” of the 1979 Camp David peace accords. In 2005, Israel and Egypt are set to receive $2.2 billion and $1.3 billion in grants, respectively, under the formula.
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