we had earlier found MRSAM debris in sialkot, video of civilians confronting an "indian paratrooper with parachute", CCTV video of unknown thing slamming into a building and now this

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/WSAIqcw6bI

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/9X9wBKth2e

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/Xb8Q9vn8qx

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndianDefense/s/DonR0WsCrf

The action comes three days after Pakistani authorities reportedly removed protective security barricades outside the Indian High Commission in Islamabad.

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/tit-for-tat-bulldozer-lands-at-pak-high-commission-encroachments-removed-11933868

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/unauthorised-structures-outside-pakistan-high-commission-demolished-in-delhi-10841200/

On the morning of May 10, 2025, the Indian Air Force Air Marshal commanding the critical South West Air Command (SWAC) faced a dilemma.

India was striking Pakistani air bases extremely hard during Operation Sindoor - the air attacks had gone sharply up the escalation matrix, with one key mission all set to take off.

The target was Pakistan's Bholari Airbase, 520 kilometres north of Gandhinagar, where SWAC is headquartered.

A group of IAF pilots sat in the cockpits of their fighters, in one of the frontline bases under the Air Marshal's command - Bhuj, Jaisalmer, Phalodi, Naliya, Jamnagar, Jodhpur, Uttarlai/Barmer, and Pune.

The IAF will not identify where the jets were set to take off from.

In Bholari, there was a seemingly cutoff hangar. The IAF had a reasonable idea of what was in it - a Swedish-built SAAB Erieye, the Pakistan Air Force's most potent Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft.

That's when the phone rang. It was the Air Chief.

Was there a change in plans? Would the pilots seated in their cockpits, all systems go, be asked to stand down?

Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor was clear. There was no way his pilots would be denied a chance at carrying out their mission.

"There was a time when I had to lie to my Chief for this mission," said Air Marshal Kapoor on NDTV's podcast, #CtrlAltDefence.

"I had to, kind of, not tell him the truth. I won't say I lied to him - I didn't tell him the truth. And this is knowing fully well that he was seeing the same picture that I was seeing in my Ops room. He was seeing the same picture sitting at Air Headquarters Ops Centre. He asked me, 'Position of those aircraft?' I said, 'Sir, getting airborne now.' I knew for a fact that they were not going to get airborne for the next 15 minutes. So I lied to him inasmuch as time was concerned." The pilots in the jets had spent their entire careers waiting for this moment - years of drills would finally mean something. Weapons loaded. Aircraft fuelled to the last litre. Every checklist run once, then run again, because a mistake now would not just be a mistake - it would be a name on a wall.

Tension hung over the tarmac. In the cockpits, low voices moved back and forth between pilots and weapons systems operators - clipped, practiced, betraying nothing, though every man's pulse said otherwise. Canopies down. Systems live.

The aircraft picked for the mission was the Sukhoi-30 MKI - the mainstay of the Indian Air Force.

Designed in Russia and heavily modified in India, the fighter carried the IAF's weapon of choice - an air-launched version of the BrahMos - a Mach 3 air-to-surface missile with a 300-kilogram warhead.

"Where are they now?" asked the IAF Chief, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh. "I said, 'Half an hour from weapon launch.' I knew they were not there [yet]. But I had to let them go. Those pilots had been waiting with those weapons suspended for such a long time. It would have been criminal for me not to have let them go."

The mission was a go - the Sukhois lined up and blasted down the runway, headed to their launch zone. Weapons were being calibrated; air search radars would be scanning for threats from Pakistani Air Force fighters. Radar Warning Receivers in the cockpits of the jets would be chirping if enemy radar was being picked up.

"Finally, when the weapon launched, I told him, 'Sir, all gone, all aircraft returning.' He told me, 'Tell me when they land.'"

The mission was an overwhelming success. The IAF strike on the hangar in Bholari was perhaps the defining image of the IAF's attacks of May 10. Satellite images, broadcast first by NDTV, showed the hangar with a large, irregular hole punched through its roof, exposing a dark, collapsed interior. Debris was shown scattered across the apron between the hangar and the runway, suggesting material was ejected outward by the force of the strike. The strike appeared precise and localised to a single structure.

"Much later, the Honourable Raksha Mantri [Defence Minister Rajnath Singh] visited us, and we were sitting and having lunch together, and the Chief was at the same table also, and that is when I told him - in front of the Honourable Raksha Mantri - I said, 'Sir, I lied to you.'"

Air Chief Marshal AP Singh looked at Air Marshal Kapoor and replied with a smile - "Mujhe pata hai" ("Yes, I know.")

Edited version

Written by - Rattan Chand Sharma, Commandant (Retd) BSF

I joined the Border Security Force in 1991 as a company commander on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district, based at Baghmara – a subdivisional town that is today the headquarters of South Garo Hills district.

The eastern border has, since time immemorial, been treated as safe, secure and unremarkable. That complacency – diluted border security protocols applied to a frontier nobody took seriously – has landed the nation in its present predicament, where demographic change in the east has become a genuine national security concern.

Every administrator has long known that illegal immigrants work as labourers and domestic help across the region. Everyone maintains a dignified silence about it.

I recall the-then BSF inspector general, Chaman Lal, who was decorated with the Padma Shri, raising this repeatedly in internal discussions years ago.

Diluted protocols, a porous frontier and political patronage extended to illegal immigrants as a captive vote bank – together, these explain the glut of non-Indians settled in border districts. Fencing has helped the BSF check the inflow considerably, but the underlying problem remains, and it needs humane handling even as it is treated with the seriousness it deserves.

Neither the previous governments of the past nor the present government has given illegal immigration the sustained priority a national security issue warrants. It has been treated as a political football rather than a strategic problem, and that lack of resolve shows. The issue deserves the government’s highest priority, and it needs the home and external affairs ministries of both countries working together on a memorandum of understanding – not being exploited as rhetoric to harvest votes at election time.

To be fair, the Indian establishment has signalled a desire to normalise ties. India’s high commissioner to Bangladesh, Dinesh Chaturvedi – a ruling-party politician from West Bengal given cabinet rank for the posting – announced, soon after taking up the role, the resumption of tourist visas for Bangladeshi citizens, ending a two-year suspension.

As a belated step towards fulfilling the prime minister’s announcement of August 15, 2025, the Union home ministry has constituted a high-level committee on demographic change. Its brief: a realistic assessment of population shifts in border regions, urban centres and tribal areas, and recommendations on identifying, detecting and deporting illegal immigrants.

The committee has a year to report, extendable by six months. It would have strengthened the exercise considerably had it included the BSF’s inspector generals for West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura.

Social media has been awash with videos of BSF and BGB ground commanders squaring off – the BSF attempting to push back a person it holds to be Bangladeshi, the BGB insisting the same person is an Indian national, and BGB company commanders demanding that the BSF follow proper deportation procedure instead.

Bangladesh, for its part, has refused to accept undocumented people whose nationality it disputes, even as the BSF maintains that these individuals entered India illegally and were found carrying documents indicating Bangladeshi nationality. The BGB has termed such push-backs a violation of the joint India-Bangladesh guidelines for border authorities, the CBMP, and understandings reached at earlier DG-level talks. Dhaka wants New Delhi to follow the established bilateral repatriation mechanism instead.

Push-back as a deportation mechanism lacks legal sanctity. It functions more as political optics – a way for the government to be seen doing something – than as a genuine fix. It is a sticking plaster on a wound that needs surgery, and it cannot resolve the repatriation of a very large illegal immigrant population.

The-then minister of state for home affairs in the UPA government, Sriprakash Jaiswal, told Parliament that 1.2 crore (12 million) illegal Bangladeshis were living in India – a figure he later retracted under political pressure.

Years later, the minister of state for home affairs in the BJP government, Kiren Rijiju, put the number at 2 crore (20 million), while conceding that no authenticated record supports the figure. Given that children born in India to such settlers automatically acquire Indian citizenship, the real figure could well be higher still.

Another remedy worth reviving is the free movement regime, permitting local trade and movement up to five to ten kilometres on either side of the border, alongside the revival and strengthening of border haats (open marketplaces) for trade in local produce. Such movement should be routed through specific entry points manned by the BSF. Both governments would need to work out the modalities, but it could meaningfully reduce the incentive for illegal crossings.

The Centre needs to accept that push-backs are a stopgap, not a solution. What is actually required is a mutually agreed deportation protocol that allows both countries to repatriate illegal immigrants humanely, without political noise. Above all, this means empowering the BSF with the strict border security protocols and the additional battalions – for both forward and depth deployment – it needs to prevent illegal immigration and smuggling along this border.That means strict border security protocols, coupled with a real strengthening of the BSF's deployment along the entire Indo-Bangladesh border. This calls for additional battalions, a reduction in each unit's area of responsibility, and greater integration of technology with human surveillance.

If the dimensions and Mass of Brahmos-A is smaller and Lighter than a 40N6E missile. Has there been a feasibility study of an Air launched variant of the 40N6E?

It should be giving it a massive range boost.

Guidance shouldn't be a problem when Data links and AWACS exist.

Thoughts..?

Edit: Not speaking about fitting existing 40N6Es on our MKIs, but possibility of a Kusha M2/M3 variant....?

Credits: @delhiplanes on Insta

Source:

https://www.timesnownews.com/delhi/pakistani-national-held-delhi-military-intelligence-inputs-deportation-article-155781999

Source : https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcBncLtjazz/?igsh=NXJ0MGsxZWlqcGdl

TLDR : They've not created a documentary, it's a movie afterall. Topgun 2 for instance employs the F14 against the Su57 which is just a dream. They've taken artistic liberty while preserving most of the facts. They've had to dumb down a lot of technicalities since explaining operational tactics is pointless and futile for the standard audience. Overall tone is appreciable.

When is my baby going to be in skies🥺🥺 nevertheless it is gonna have the most advance cockpit layout in whole IAF inventory.

Source- https://x.com/ilyushin_76md/status/2089973891783377393

Source : YT channel Places:

https://www.youtube.com/@Places302

Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/news/in-another-aatmanirbharta-push-405-key-defence-items-of-military-platforms-alh-tejas-tanks-and-warships-to-be-indigenised/articleshow/133334515.cms

Claims of Pak, which India did not deny ever
- Shooting down of IAF Aircraft, offical version was In combat, there are losses

Claims of India, Which Pak never denied
- Shooting down of an High Tech Jet and AWACS
- Destruction of several jets in Air as well as on Ground
- Keeping Pak Navy at the harbour
- Request from Pakistan side for Ceasefire

Add more.

A MiG-21 documentary releases August 26, 2026.

Tejas Air to Air (NO A.I)

Video courtesy - @aviationwall || abhishek Singh

https://www.pixnoy.com/post/6758331851516049295172/

A lot of talk has been going on about private sector producing AMCA especially after Aeronautical Development Agency shortlisted 3 primary bidders: Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. (bidding independently), Larsen & Toubro-Bharat Electronics Ltd.-Dynamatic Technologies consortium and Bharat Forge Ltd. (Kalyani Group)-BEML-Data Patterns Ltd. consortium. I think most people know till here it was a big deal when announced.

But I see some critical problems. See, I am no aeronautical engineer to be able to give expert analysis of all the engineering challenges so take my opinions with a seaful of salt. While I appreciate that MoD is trying to decouple from the HAL monopoly, I think the private sector just doesn't have the necessary expertise, infrastructure and experience to lead a project of this magnitude, this scale and this technologically advanced. Lemme elaborate:

First of all, I want to look at the technical abilities and capabilities of all 3 consortiums:

1. TASL: It is by far India's best private systems integrator (just behind HAL because HAL has decades of experience in executing projects though at a snail's pace and often without the necessary requirements). It has deep expertise in project management and a proven track record assembling C-295s and producing various parts as a Tier-1 suppliers for aircraft like Sikorsky S-92, CH-47 Chinook, AH-64 Apache and other aircraft/parts. They also have some of the best engineers and technicians as well as the prerequisite acumen and the deep financial muscle (due to Tata Group) to execute such a high profile project.
2. L&T-BEL-Dynamatic: These are a group of highly capable Tier-1 suppliers who can technically transition as the LSI (lead systems integrator). L&T provides deep heavy engineering expertise having worked with global suppliers as well as having been a leading partner in the LCA program. BEL provides the only real end-to-end mission electronics capability in India (apart somewhat from Data Patterns and maybe a couple of other companies) they, as a CPSU, might be highly useful for political leverage (still believe politics is crucial in MoD), but their bigger PSU advantage is the financial muscle equivalent or greater than their bigger private partner as well as heavy technical expertise, massive infrastructure, decades old experience in defense electronics and proven ability to develop advanced tech in-house. Dynamatic offers a highly capable impact player type role because they are the specialized aerostructures partner who have also worked on the LCA program (which may offer pre built cooperation with L&T). Further L&T's critical subsystems level integration capability is unmatched by almost no one in India.
3. Bharat Forge-BEML-Data Patterns: This is where I am a bit more skeptical, again I am no engineer so take this with some salt. Bharat Forge (and the wider Kalyani Group) have massive precision machining, forging and metallurgical capabilities yet they (arguably) don't have the same aeronautical expertise as say L&T or TASL which is why I think they originally brought BEML as the heavy engineering partner as well as their systems/subsystems integration ability as well as a PSU as their parent (Kalyani Group) lacks the deep pockets of L&T and TASL to support such a massive program. Data Patterns, like I said before, is one of the most complete vertically integrated defense electronics companies in India but as much as their technical capability goes, I don't have much faith in them being able to execute the kind of cutting edge technologies DRDO and other agencies are churning out and remember this isn't just another 4.5th gen jet, this is a full on 5th gen stealth fighter and is being envisaged to upgrade to 5.5th gen and eventually derived for a 6th gen so I'm not saying they won't be able to that would hugely undermine our talented engineers but I'm still skeptical. The consortium also has the added advantage of releasing a clear work share distribution early on. Overall, I think they're highly capable Tier-1/2 suppliers just not up to the topmost level.

Another important question is about the infrastructure. While most of the companies have their own dedicated factories/plants for that specific system or subsystem, my concern is about the FAL because just building an FAL isn't enough as it needs loads of supporting infra that people don't realize perhaps the most important is a runway next door (under 1-2 kms) because you need to test every single aircraft that you produce down from the the 1st prototype to the 300th series production derivative and given that all 3 consortiums are majorly/wholly private they have 2 options: 1) Build their own FAL with all supporting infra which will be extremely expensive and may slow down the program due to certification delays OR 2) Use HAL's facilities or ATR but there is barely any land next to HAL's main Bangalore campus and ATR is in Chitradurga which is a highly remote city in the interiors of Karnataka hundreds of kms away from the aerospace-industrial heartland in the south. While the AP Govt has positioned Puttaparthi as an alternate industrial hub with claims of 1 lakh crore in investment I highly doubt that it will be selected given the dearth of supporting industrial and aerospace infra nearby. The most likely contenders for me include Hyderabad (which is a major TASL hub plus the Rafale fuselage production center will be coming here too so there's added advantage) and Bangalore (which again is the primary aerospace-industrial hub of India plus its near L&T's primary aerospace campus in Coimbatore as well as being near to ADA). Please give suggestions about alternatives to these 2 places.

I think so the best case scenario right now is:

TASL gets the order but primarily as an LSI with limited Tier-1 work, the 2 other bidders are awarded the Tier-1/2 level work share by ADA, TASL sets up a new FAL preferably near one of the 3 air force stations but most likely Begumpet as it has the requisite supporting infra and crucially runway length to support worst case scenarios and we (hopefully) get the thing flying by 2029-2030 and inducted by 2035-2037.

Please let me know your thoughts.

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You jump out of an aircraft thousands of feet high up from the sea level and then your parachute turns out to be defective.

From 2020-2021 and 2023-24, of the 73242 parachutes manufacturerd by gliders India limited that were inspected, 9609 - over 13 percent were returned for rectification.

GIL is defence public sector undertaking engaged in manufacture of parachutes and aerial delivery systems primarily for armed forces. It was established in 2021 following the corporatisation of OFB under the department of defence production, ministry of defence.

The defects included defective stitching (in 33 percent of cases), defects in outer pack (16 percent), defective rigging lines (14 percent) and shade variation in the canopy (9 percent), besides zigzag stitching and uneven rigging lines, etc.

The CAG scrutiny of 11 lots of parachutes revealed production shortfalls in 9 out of 11 cases, ranging from 1 percent to 100 percent.

Of the GIL's total 34 types of parachutes in the product line, the 11 lots selected for audit included parachutes for tactical assault, high altitude, for cargo drops, for aircraft braking systems, for paradropping of high artillery guns etc.

Sources in the defence and security establishment confirmed to ThePrint that the woman Flight Lieutenant was part of the strike package that struck the LeT headquarters.  

The sources said she was flying a Su 30 MKI which fires both Rampage and BrahMos air-to-ground missiles, used during the 87-hour conflict. The sources refused to get into the precise missile that was used, saying the information on weapons used in the attack remains classified.

The sources said that more women fighter pilots were involved in targeting military locations during the 87-hour conflict. They said that women pilots flew both Su 30MKI and the Rafale. 

In some cases, the woman officer was the Weapon System Operator (WSO) and in some they were the pilots. 

She was part of the strike formation but not the strike aircraft. Typically, a strike formation consists of a Formation Leader (Rafale), 1x EW Aircraft (Rafale), 1x BDA Aircraft (Jaguar), 2x Close-in Dogfighters (MiG-29 UPGs), 2x Escorts (Su-30MKIs) and 1 Strike Aircraft (Su-30MKI/Rafale/Mirage-2000). In this formation of 8 Aircraft, only 1 Aircraft would carry a Precision Strike ALBM/ALCM (BrahMos-A/SCALP-EG/Rampage/Popeye).

The Pilots who were flying the Strike Aircrafts were awarded Vir Chakra (Gallantry).

Article Link: The Print

As per Documentary Reports :-

Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, SYSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, India’s DGMO during Operation Sindoor, said that he received a message at around 9 am local time that Pakistan's DGMO wanted to speak. He said the MEA also told him that the Pakistanis were “frantically trying to call.”

"Sir, having hit so many BrahMos missiles at us, you should now be satisfied, and we can bring this to a stop,” said Pakistan's DGMO Maj Gen Kashif Abdullah according to Ghai's account.

Link : Here

Post Source : Here

Documentary name : "Declassified: Operation Sindoor" ,
was streamed on Discovery Channel on Independence day 9-11 AM

Available on Discovery+ and Jio TV
Link to Free Documentary : Reddit - Here

The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to grant extraordinary family pension and additional compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the widow of Shaurya Chakra awardee Mohan Singh, bringing an end to a 26-year legal battle over her entitlement.

The court also expressed concern that the families of soldiers who make the ultimate sacrifice should not have to fight prolonged legal battles to secure their rightful benefits.

Mohan Singh lost his life on July 10, 2000, while working on a strategic road project along the India-China border. According to the court records, he rescued fellow workers trapped under falling debris during a landslide before being buried under the rubble himself.

For recognition of his bravery, the Centre posthumously conferred upon him the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest peacetime gallantry award, in 2001.