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India follows China track, plans rail link along border

On Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s advice, the Indian Railways has completed a reconnaissance survey of the ambitious 497-km Bilaspur-Manali-Leh rail link stretching from Himachal Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir. Strategic link

The link has been conceived as a measure to neutralise China’s strategic advantage along the Sino-Indian border. China has completed its 3,900-km Beijing-Lhasa rail link and is pushing ahead with seven other railroad projects adjoining the Indian border.

China has announced plans to extend rail connectivity to its last outpost at Ruili, adjoining its border with Myanmar, news reports from Beijing said.

In next three years, China proposes to build 5,000 km of rail links, with emphasis on establishing connectivity in the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The country has also proposed to build a rail network in Nepal.

The proposal of the Indian Railways, submitted last week, indicates a 10-year construction timeframe for the Bilaspur-Manali-Leh project at an estimated cost of Rs 22,500 crore (Rs 225 billion). Bilaspur and Manali are in Himachal Pradesh while Leh is the capital of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Railways have spent Rs 72 lakh (Rs 7.2 million) to conduct the five-month-long survey for the project. The exercise was carried out in March this year.

“Last February, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) sent us a reference for conducting the survey. The Railways will forward the survey findings to the PMO and will seek funding of the scheme as a national project,” a senior railway ministry official said on condition of anonymity.

The army top brass has approved of the proposal. “The Bilaspur-Manali-Leh rail link can act as a vital alternative route for combat equipment transit on the eastern borders,” General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Shimla-based Army Training Command, Lt. Gen. A.S. Lamba told mediapersons on October 2.

Chief of the Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor is also reported to have endorsed the scheme for an “all-weather rail link” to India’s eastern frontier.

Trans-Himalayan Railway Private Limited, a subsidiary of the Delhi-based ICC Holdings, has pitched in with an alternative proposal to implement the scheme under the Public-Private Partnership mode at a cost of Rs 1.15 lakh crore (Rs 1.15 trillion) over eight years.

India follows China track, plans rail link along border- Hindustan Times

10 years mean it will be 15 if it is not executed by Konkan railway.

Someone needs to go and kick the butt of the planners to make them realize the hopelessness they are heading to.

Where is railway line for Arunachal ? The planners are ready procure light tanks to meve them through roads instead of building railways.

Whay not increase the upper assam lines straight into arunachal ? It would save those dangerous boat rides and serve as a defence line.
 
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10 years mean it will be 15 if it is not executed by Konkan railway.

Someone needs to go and kick the butt of the planners to make them realize the hopelessness they are heading to.

Where is railway line for Arunachal ? The planners are ready procure light tanks to meve them through roads instead of building railways.

Whay not increase the upper assam lines straight into arunachal ? It would save those dangerous boat rides and serve as a defence line.

Good point ,just see the time it consume to construct the broad gauge line in cachar district of assam and still now constructing
did not know when will completed .:angry:
 
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It took us 50 years to make the second BG line to assam after independence. Meanwhile the whole state is otherwise well connected by the british assam raiway company since 1880 which was so effective in WW2 because there were no train lines in south china from their ports in east.



My question is that the railway with such a huge cash deposit , cheapest labour and world open to offer technologies, what on earth is it going to take 10 years ? 3 sanghai can be built in 10 years.

Momota didi will keep introducing trains to sealdah , tufan express, bizli express , typhoon express blah blah at 80 KMPH all throughout her 5 years and then fight elections again. Ram vilash paswan Babu and Nitish Babu did nothing other than taking trains to all villages of bihar to be looted and railway assets stolen. Look at the Hazipur station . All Marble flooring which even some western countries can also dream. Why would Momota didi reject high speed trains between metro and T2 cities in the railway busget ?

Whats going to happen to us. whats going to happen to India. Some don't want to change and are happy to have leaders leading us nowhere. f****** mentality.
 
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The DRDO’s Armament Research and Development Establishment has a road map ready for smarter futuristic products.


A DRDO centre in Pune that is proud of its varied accomplishments is the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE). Its most visible success stories are INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) rifles, Pinaka, the deadly multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL), and warheads for missiles and torpedoes, but it also has road maps for futuristic products such as guided rockets and precision-guided munition.

Anil M. Datar, Director (ARDE), said: “The ARDE has successfully completed the Pinaka project. It is in production now. The Army has ordered Pinaka systems worth Rs.1,300 crore for two regiments. Each regiment will have 18 launchers and associated vehicles. Pinaka is a major achievement of ours.”

Pinaka

A Pinaka MBRL, that is, a single launcher built on a Tatra truck, has two pods of six rockets each. Six launchers constitute a battery. The Army generally deploys a battery that has a total of 72 rockets. All the 72 rockets can be fired in 44 seconds, taking out an area of 1 sq km. Each launcher can fire in a different direction too. The system has the flexibility to fire all the rockets in one go or only a few.

“This is possible because we have provided a computer for fire control,” said Datar. There is a command post linking together all the six launchers in a battery. Each launcher has an individual computer, which enables it to function autonomously in case it gets separated from the other five vehicles in a war.

K.J. Daniel, Project Director, Pinaka, calls it “a system” and explains how massive each system is. A Pinaka battery has six launchers, six loader vehicles, six replenishment vehicles, two vehicles for ferrying the command post and a vehicle for carrying the meteorological radar, which will provide data on winds. “Today, we have orders for two regiments. In the future, we will have orders for 12 regiments,” said Daniel.

INSAS rifle


Daksh, the robot developed by R&DE(E) for handling improvised explosive devices.
Developing the INSAS rifle with 5.56-mm calibre was another big achievement for the ARDE. It went into production in 1993. And about 1 million INSAS rifles have been inducted into the Army so far. In fact, INSAS is a family of arms and ammunition, comprising a rifle and a light machine gun. The firing capabilities of the weapons are enhanced by daylight telescope and night vision. With the Army keen on having more effective ammunition for a short range of 200 metres, the ARDE busied itself with designing such ammunition. The first phase of trials is complete and the second phase will begin in October.

The ARDE will soon build Pinaka rockets with a longer range of 60 km compared with the present 40 km and make them smarter too. These rockets will have a combination of inertial guidance systems and global positioning systems. Datar described such guided rockets as “something between ordinary rockets and missiles”. Missiles are expensive because they have precise guidance systems. “In the next five years, we will have guided rockets. This is a cheaper way to meet the challenge of getting at high-value targets with high accuracy. In the future, we may go for rocket systems with a 120-km range,” Datar said.

The ARDE, which produced the gun barrel for India’s main battle tank Arjun, is now coming up with a special type of ammunition called Fin Stabilised Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot (FSAPDS) with a calibre of 120 mm. The FSAPDS will also be developed for T-72 and T-90 tanks, which have guns of different calibres. The FSAPDS has already been developed for the infantry combat vehicle (ICV), which needed ammunition with a 40-mm calibre. The ARDE is now on the job of developing it with 30-mm calibre for the futuristic ICV.

The canopy severance system (CSS) for fighter aircraft in trouble is a different kettle of fish. When there is an emergency on board a jet fighter, the pilot has to eject through the canopy overhead without getting hurt. This requires breaking the canopy to make a path for the pilot. This is called CSS and the clean-cut is achieved by power cartridges that function with precise timings and pressure. Since the IAF has aircraft acquired from Russia, France and the United Kingdom, the ARDE developed indigenous power cartridges for them so that the IAF will not be dependent on these aircraft manufacturers for cartridges. The ARDE has developed 62 types of power cartridges, matching the performance of the original cartridges. “This is a service that the IAF acknowledges,” said ARDE officials.

Warheads & anti-tank ammunition

Developing warheads for missiles and torpedoes is an area of core competence of the centre. All missiles – Agni, Prithvi, Trishul, Akash and Nag – developed by the DRDO have warheads made by the ARDE. It is working on futuristic warheads, such as aimable warheads or those with fragment generators. It recently developed a 450-kg high-speed, low-drag bomb, which was a complete indigenisation of the Russian variety and with added lethality.

The ARDE personnel are happy that the Army has placed orders for an innovative anti-tank ammunition developed by them. It gets initiated only when a battle tank passes over it, and not a truck or a car. Its sense of discrimination is based on seismic and magnetic sensors. Datar explained: “We have collected signatures of different kinds of vehicles, what kind of vibrations they create when they move. The data is fed into the munition’s system. When a tank is moving, it will provide a signature. The processor tries to match it with the stored signatures. If it matches, it gives a signal and the munition explodes.”

An important area where the ARDE will focus on is precision-guided munition. It will develop guided artillery shells or gun-fired ammunition. The first of such precision-guided munition will be cannon-launched.

Bang on target
 
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Can somebody tellme when comprehensive (T-90 vs Arjun) trail conduct. coze old report says that trail conduct in oct ??? any news about this
 
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DRDO develops new guns for armed forces

With the armed and state police forces looking to procure close-quarter combat guns in the post 26/11 security scenario, DRDO has come up with a 5.56 mm calibre Modern Sub-Machine Carbine (MSMC) and is expecting it to be inducted in the army soon.

Developed by DRDO's Pune-based Armaments Research and Development Establishment (ARDE), MSMC will be sent for final field trials to the army in December, DRDO officials said.
The previous three trials of the gun were carried out at Army's Infantry School in Mhow and have been quite successful in meeting their requirements, they said.

Carbine is a lightweight compact semi-automatic gun with a small barrel and fires rapidly and is suitable for close quarter combats.

At present, the Indian Army Special Forces have Israeli-made Tavor and Uzi guns and the paramilitary forces use German-made MP-5 guns.

Commenting on the main features of the gun, the officials
said the MSMC has the potential of being "weapon of choice" for the Special Forces and quick-reaction teams operating against terrorists in urban and semi-urban backdrop.

The MSMC has ambidextrous features and soldiers would be able to fire it with one hand also, officials said.

Size of the gun can also be adjusted according to different situations in which the troops operate, they said.

MSMC is an off-shoot of the Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) family of weapons, which was an attempt to produce small arms indigenously. Prior to developing the MSMC, DRDO was working on an INSAS Carbine but the programme was shelved after the army issued new requirements for the gun.
 
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Nsg queues up for Stinger stun gun ,ITBP for Nighthawk
Why kill, when you can capture and get them to sing like Kasab?” reads the advertisement for Stinger — a non-lethal stun gun that appears to have caught the imagination of the country’s top security forces, including the National Security Guard (NSG), at the ongoing Indesec Expo 2009. This sleek gun, which the FBI uses, is actually proving to be quite a head-turner at the Expo.

“Many security agencies, including the NSG, have shown interest in procuring the Stinger,” said Vandit Aneja of Kommlabs Dezign, a Noida-based company promoting this US made gun in India. However, what is acting as a dampener is the fact that India doesn’t have a licensing policy for non-lethal weapons which, in turn, has prevented the introduction of Stinger-like guns, which can incapacitate without actually killing the target, in the country.


Other star attractions at the Indesec Expo are a micro UAV that can be launched from the shoulder to conduct surveillance and reconnaissance missions in dense forest and vast tracts of inaccessible areas and heavily armoured “bomb and mine-proof” vehicles that can move unhindered in heavily mined areas. Little wonder, India’s security establishment is turning up in droves to see and explore what is on offer in the security bazaar. NSG Director General N P S Aulakh, for one, was seen visiting a host of these stalls on Monday, checking out a variety of security gadgets and equipment on display.

While the NSG is learnt to have shown interest in the Stinger, that could come in handy for the commandos of this elite force during anti-hijack operations, senior officials of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), the Border Security Force (BSF) and Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) have evinced keen interest in Nighthawk MAV (micro aerial vehicle) that can travel a 10-km distance in an hour’s time, conduct surveillance and reconnaissance activity over a designated area. In fact, sources said the ITBP, which mans the India-China border, is looking to procure at least three Nighthawk MAVs.

“Weighing less than a kilo, the Nighthawk can be launched from the operator’s shoulder,” said Shulin Nishant of MDI Incorporated, the company promoting the Nighthawk, a device that has already elicited queries from the DRDO, the West Bengal Police, the Gujarat Maritime Board and the Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School in Mizoram. Nighthawk, in fact, is now being billed as a device that can be of immense utility in the Naxal-hit areas.



Similarly, Kanpur-based Shri Lakshmi Defence Solutions has lined up three variants of armoured vehicles — the blast and mine-proof vehicle Drona, the fast moving attack vehicle Viper and the armoured troop carrier Dhruv . “We have supplied Drona to the Karnataka Special Task Force and VIPER to the CISF. We have got enquiries from the NSG, the Army and the CRPF,” Shri Lakshmi’s Col (Retd) K R Bhatnagar said. The company is trying hard to sell these vehicles to paramilitary forces engaged in fighting the Naxals. Costing close to Rs 70 lakh per piece, these armoured vehicles are being manufactured at Rahsupur near Kanpur, following a technology transfer from a US-based company.
 
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Third battalion of Naga regiment be raised soon

Dimapur: A third battalion of the Ranikhet based Naga Regiment would be raised with 50 per cent of the recruitment to comprise Naga boys like the existing two battalions, which has earned accolades during the Kargil war.

Stating this, GoC of the armys 3 Corps Lt Gen N K Singh told newsmen yesterday that in the recent past the army raised two infantry battalions of Territorial Army, one exclusively with Naga boys and another with youths recruited from the North-east.



He said there was tremendous enthusiasm among the youth of the region to join the armed forces and a large number of them had joined paramilitary forces in recent years.

The general also said that the ministry has taken a decision to raise an ecological battalion in the region on the lines of the one in Himachal Pradesh, but a final decision has not been taken on how and where it would be raised and the nature of it work. "But it is in the pipeline."

With recent addition of Dibrugarh based 2 Mountain Division, the 3 Corps now look after security of Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, south Assam and parts of Arunachal Pradesh making it countrys largest Corps in terms of geography.

Lt Gen Singh claimed there was marked improvement in law and order in all states under his jurisdiction except some trouble in Manipur, saying security forces and the state government were working to restore normalcy in Imphal valley.
 
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New Army division to be raised in Nagaland

Notwithstanding the much better infrastructure and road connectivity on the Chinese side of the frontier in Arunachal Pradesh, the Army exudes confidence to tackle any eventuality even as a new Army division is being raised in Nagaland.

“In security parlance, infrastructure has a different connotation and road connectivity is only one aspect of preparedness. We are very confident today. We have come a long way since 1962 (when China invaded India), and in 1967 (Nathu La operation) the Army responded very well. Our preparedness is very much at place,” said GoC 3 Corps, Lieutenant General NK Singh.

The 3 Corps, besides looking after Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Mizoram and North Cachar Hills of Assam, also takes care of east Arunachal Pradesh after the Upper Assam-based 2 Mountain Division was put under its command in May this year. When asked about reports on the much better infrastructure on Chinese side across the McMohan Line in Arunachal Pradesh, the Army commander said the terrain was not as difficult on the other side of the frontier as on the Indian side in Arunachal Pradesh. “The terrain has both advantages and disadvantages. Our confidence is certainly in place,” he added.

He informed a new division of the Army was being raised in Nagaland at Jakhama near Kohima, an overnight journey away from Arunachal Pradesh. The new division will also add teeth to the counter insurgency operation both in Nagaland and North Cachar Hill district in Assam.

The 3 Corps already has two Army divisions — 57 Mountain Division based at Limakhong in Manipur, and 2 Mountain Division at Upper Assam - while a large number of Assam Rifles battalions are under its operational command.

The new division is being raised in Nagaland even as the Centre is preparing to offer a ‘broad-based political package’ next month for resolution of the decades-old Naga political conflict taking rebel groups NSCN-IM, NSCN-K, the public and Church on board.
 
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US offers to help India modernise armed forces

* Envoy says strong Indo-US ties crucial to meeting regional security challenges

NEW DELHI: The US has offered to help India in its efforts to modernise its armed forces. US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer said on Monday that strengthening defence ties between the two countries was part of a broader strategic partnership, derived from shared national security interests.

He said a strong, strategic relationship between the US and India was important to addressing regional security challenges such as maintaining peace, security, and stability and responding to regional humanitarian crises and natural disasters. The envoy was talking to reporters as around 1,000 military personnel from the Indian and US armies participated in joint exercises named ‘Yudh Abhyas’ in Babina base near Agra.

India has recently ordered six American C-130J aircraft for its special forces operations which would be based at the Hindon Air Base near the capital. The US envoy said a proposal to purchase C-17 aircraft was also being considered by the Indian Defence Ministry. “Should you (India) decide to acquire these aircraft – and I hope you will – we will do everything we can to assist you in expanding your strategic lift capability,” Roemer said. The C-130J Super Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin capable of carrying 20 tonnes or 92 fully-armed airborne troops. The C-17 Globemaster is a large military transport aircraft manufactured by Boeing, which is capable of carrying 75 tonnes or 135 troops.

This year’s military exercises feature 17 Stryker vehicles – the largest deployment outside Iraq and Afghanistan for the US Pacific Rim forces. iftikhar gilani

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US offers to help India modernise armed forces

* Envoy says strong Indo-US ties crucial to meeting regional security challenges

NEW DELHI: The US has offered to help India in its efforts to modernise its armed forces. US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer said on Monday that strengthening defence ties between the two countries was part of a broader strategic partnership, derived from shared national security interests.

He said a strong, strategic relationship between the US and India was important to addressing regional security challenges such as maintaining peace, security, and stability and responding to regional humanitarian crises and natural disasters. The envoy was talking to reporters as around 1,000 military personnel from the Indian and US armies participated in joint exercises named ‘Yudh Abhyas’ in Babina base near Agra.

India has recently ordered six American C-130J aircraft for its special forces operations which would be based at the Hindon Air Base near the capital. The US envoy said a proposal to purchase C-17 aircraft was also being considered by the Indian Defence Ministry. “Should you (India) decide to acquire these aircraft – and I hope you will – we will do everything we can to assist you in expanding your strategic lift capability,” Roemer said. The C-130J Super Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft manufactured by Lockheed Martin capable of carrying 20 tonnes or 92 fully-armed airborne troops. The C-17 Globemaster is a large military transport aircraft manufactured by Boeing, which is capable of carrying 75 tonnes or 135 troops.

This year’s military exercises feature 17 Stryker vehicles – the largest deployment outside Iraq and Afghanistan for the US Pacific Rim forces. iftikhar gilani

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

Where in this article is US offering Help.

They just be selling us their toys.

They haven't gone into a JV with India over anything as of yet.
how can you say US is helping India Modernize its armed forces.

India is getting no help, its paying for every god dam thing it gets.

Russia and India have more JV alone, than all US sales to India.
The must advanced System offered to India by US is the F/A-18 IN
whilst India and Russia are building a 5th gen Fighter.
 
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