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    IAF rescues injured Israeli from 18,350 feet in Ladakh

    Hours after the Israeli Embassy sought help from the ministry of external affairs to evacuate a severely injured and unconscious mountaineer, the Indian Air Force on Sunday launched two light utility helicopters from its Leh base to carry out a daring rescue at dizzying heights in the Stok range...
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    "Blind Muslim Trust" - Social Experiment In Mumbai That Will Change Your Mind

    A blindfolded Muslim man stood on a Mumbai street and asked strangers who walked past him for a hug. Mazim Milla stood at Chowpatty in Mumbai, with his hands wide open and a sign which read, "I'm a Muslim and I trust you. Do you trust me? Enough for a hug." Initially, the crowd appeared to be...
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    Iran Helps India Sidestep China in Race for Asian Gas Riches

    Anyone looking for the biggest immediate impact from Iran’s nuclear deal may want to turn away from the Middle East and toward the Indian subcontinent. With U.S. sanctions easing, India is racing to build a port in Iran that will get around the fact that its land access to energy-rich former...
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    Pakistani Singer Adnan Sami Allowed to Stay in India Indefinitely

    Pakistani singer Adnan Sami has been allowed to stay in India for an indefinite period following his appeal to legalise his stay in India on humanitarian grounds. Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today conveyed to Lok Sabha that Sami has been exempted from deportation proceedings under...
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    Pak investigator wants country to admit mistakes about Mumbai attacks

    Islamabad must admit its mistakes for allowing Pakistani terrorists to sail to Mumbai in 2008 and carry out a massacre, a retired Pakistani official said in remarks published on Tuesday. “Pakistan has to deal with the Mumbai mayhem, planned and launched from its soil,” Tariq Khosa, a former...
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    How Indian families took over the Antwerp diamond trade from orthodox Jews

    Antwerp’s diamond business had long been controlled by its orthodox, largely Hasidic Jewish community. Although 65% of the Jewish population of the city was exterminated during the Second World War, those who had remained, their ranks swelled by others fleeing former Nazi-occupied countries in...
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    Reason Why Pakistan hates Israel

    I second that... Pakistan killed 40,000 Palestine during 1971 black september in Jordan | Tune.pk Pakistan's Role in Black September and killing of 25,000 Palestinians under Brig. Zia Ul Haq
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    P-8A’s Acoustic Sensor System Twice as Effective as the P-3’s

    One can just speculate as to why IN went for the MAD. As for the sonobuoy launcher, as per Boeing's own poster from Aero India 2011, P-8 contains a rotary launcher. Also, Check the cutaway diagram on page 14 of this Boeing archive...
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    P-8A’s Acoustic Sensor System Twice as Effective as the P-3’s

    Not much is know about this UAV, not even its name. Still in trial. It's been speculated that the drone will be deployed by the P-8A's sonobuoy rotary launchers. It will be based on Coyote air launched drone, which is a expendable UAV.
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    P-8A’s Acoustic Sensor System Twice as Effective as the P-3’s

    Foliage Penetrating Radars will not go onboard P-8I's. The objectives and operating procedures of IN and USN are very different. IN don't operate over land, that's IAFs job, and IAF is already evaluating these radars for its platforms. OIS-AT Announces Development of Foliage Penetrating Radar...
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    P-8A’s Acoustic Sensor System Twice as Effective as the P-3’s

    There is that and then there is this, Navy’s P-8 Sub Hunter Bets On High Altitude, High Tech; Barf Bags Optional « Breaking Defense - Defense industry news, analysis and commentary Do you think that the IN might be skeptical about the sensors which went onboard the P8I's compared to P8A's...
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    P-8A’s Acoustic Sensor System Twice as Effective as the P-3’s

    Maybe cause IN didn't want to go with this (BAE Systems magnetic anomaly detecting UAV) MAD works best at low altitude but operating these UAVs will be more expensive than the saved fuel. You can say it's one of Indian jugaad.
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    P-8A’s Acoustic Sensor System Twice as Effective as the P-3’s

    The P-8Is incorporate a little more than P-8As. USN have just started to upgrade their P-8s with MAC. Not all P-8A have MAC as of yet, as the Increment 2 kit upgrade will go well into FY18. Maybe IN will get this kit in its P-8s next upgrade...
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    China releases Indian tourist arrested on terror charge.

    Nine foreign tourists who were detained in northern China last week after the police accused them of watching illegal videos in their hotel have been allowed to return to their home countries, according to the South African government and an aid group that worked for their release. The tourists...
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    US offers 22 Harpoon missiles for the Indian Navy

    The forward deployed Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh launches a Harpoon missile from the aft missile deck. The Indian government has sent a Letter of Request (LoR) to the US government for the purchase of 22 Harpoon missiles for the Indian Navy’s Shishumar-class of...
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    Biggest warship project: Russia selects Anil Ambani's Pipavav to make frigates for Indian Navy Rea

    :what: You showed a ISIS missile hitting a trawler, from where did "sophisticated missiles of other countries" came here?
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    Pakistani Sniper fire BSF trooper casualty

    I was not justifying anything, but trying to make you understand international laws. But I think its pointless.
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