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Good analysis, low flying missiles in mountainous terrain does make it hard for air defense radars. There is still a chance that incoming munitions could be intercepted by a modern anti-aircraft-artillery system. Ultimately there is a limit on how impregnable defenses can be, so some nations...

One difference between 1982 and 2013 is AESA radars, which are harder to detect and destroy with anti-radiation missiles. But I am not sure if the Syrians have them.

Interesting ... As per Pantsir specs it can detect a target with Radar cross section of 1 cm sq, so it should definitely be able to detect Delilah. I wonder whether the Pantsir systems are deployed at all? Syria's lack of reaction is puzzling. Maybe Israel has a way to hack into the radar...

Pantsir is a short range system that can protect only a relatively small area, and it is used to protect high value targets. Typically Pantsir would be used in conjunction with S-300, for protecting the S-300 system itself.

An ignorant statement, besides being offensive to friends. Yes ANA has had difficulties but they have very creditably handled many terrorist attacks. Amrullah Saleh (former head of Afghan intelligence) is one of the smartest and most capable professionals in the world.

I disagree with our lackadaisical attitude. Such intruders should be jailed an appropriate period of time, to discourage such tactics.

I think this notification procedure can be harmless and it should be agreed to. But first both sides should know each others' perceptions of the border. For that maps should be exchanged.

Yes, Hyderabad airport is very efficient. By the time you walk off the the plane and reach the baggage belt (say 5 or 6 minutes) the bags are already coming out on to the belt. You can leave the building within 10 minutes of the plane reaching its parking spot.

:tdown: ......

There is a good chance that Saudi Arabia will become a nuclear power during Nawaz Sharif's term.

Extremely embarrassing and disgusting. This conduct must be punished most severely. Hedonistic and debauched lifestyles are incompatible with the extreme vigilance and self-sacrifice that is necessary in defense services.

As regards these genetic studies, it is more the diversity within haplogroups that indicates place of origin, rather than fraction of population.

It is true that the Saraswati is more important in the Rig Veda, that is because the Puru clan were settled on its banks. And there are indeed references to ancestors from Kashi.

Manmohan should have gone ... his image in India currently is rock-bottom, a foreign visit may help him revive.

Yes, the roadside mango Tokris in Konkan can be really good, and at moderate price too.

There is a chronology for books of the Rig Veda, and the oldest ones are based in the Ganga-Yamuna-Saraswati region. There are also references in the Rig Veda to ancestors who were living in Kashi (Benaras).

A reference to such long summer days would not necessarily mean that those latitudes were the homelands .... there is evidence of migrations to places as distant as Turkey (the Mittani) and Lithuania.

I would hypothesize that the Persia of 900 BC came out of a mixing of 2 influences (1) The Sanskrit speaking Avestans from the Balkh area of Afghanistan (2) The Elamites / old Persians from south-west Iran

I don't know if anyone has already clarified this on this thread, but in the Vedas "Dasyu" is actually a reference to Iranic people.

What can you expect with a ex-waitress and her gang of peons.