Operation Stosser,the last German para assault of WW2 happened 75 years ago. Unlike the previous Ops in Crete, N Africa and Normandy they could only get 2000 para trained guys in the entire army and the remaining Ju 52s were few and far between-the commander even begged off but Gen Model said no.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x_pxZVBwo0

Operation Stösser (English: Operation Hawk) was a paratroop drop into the American rear in the High Fens area during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Its objective was to take and hold the crossroads at Belle Croix Jalhay N-68 - N-672 until the arrival of the 12th SS Panzer Division. Both roads were main supply routes, the N-68 Eupen to either Malmedy or Elsenborn and the N-672 Verviers up to Belle-Croix hence up to either Malmedy or Elsenborn. The operation was led by Oberst Freiherr Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, who was given eight days to prepare the mission. The majority of the Fallschirmjäger (paratroopers) and pilots assigned to the operation were undertrained and inexperienced. [/b]Kampfgruppe Von Der Heydte took up a position at Porfays in the forest east of the N-68 and conducted some local skirmishes on small US convoys and even captured some POWs. [b]The mission was a failure.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_St%C3%B6sser[/url]

As to be expected everything turned to ishyt! Many men were scattered all over and he ended up with 300 guys mainly armed with pistols and no comms! As it turned out the 12th SS Panzer,the crack Hitler Jugend (youth) failed to make headway against US armour so the whole operartion was moot.

7th LCU MK4 delivered

LCU means land craft utility

The LCU can carry up to 216 personnel and 145 tonnes of cargo. It is fitted with a hydraulic bow ramp

Prototype wrist wearable computer for soldiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfEg0KX6pg8


ATAGS firing in manual burst mode , 5 rounds in 62 seconds.

The ATAGS version with automated loader in burst mode can fire 5 rounds in 32 seconds

Kalyani Bharat 52 155x52mm artillery gun with an integrated autoloader ( the rectangular box on top )

No need of manual loading of shell and charges into the gun , every thing is automated including firing through the FCS.

USHUS 2 sonar system for submarines

Currently fitted into IN kilo class submarines

nemesis8u:
Kalyani Bharat 52 155x52mm artillery gun with an integrated autoloader ( the rectangular box on top )

No need of manual loading of shell and charges into the gun , every thing is automated including firing through the FCS.

I have never seen an autoloader on a towed howitzer.

ATAGS has 2 versions

One with autoloader
One without autoloader

One on the right has the autoloader on the top

How North Korea's Crazy Commandos Tried to Kill South Korea's President

Recently the South Korean defense minister caused a stir when he announced the military was forming a “decapitation unit” of airborne special operators to target Kim Jong-un in the event of a conflict. While Seoul has long been exploring such a contingency, its prominent public airing is undoubtedly meant as a pressure tactic to cause Kim to reconsider how he might best ensure his own survival.

South Koreans are quite familiar with the stress caused by the threat of “decapitation.” That is because South Korean presidents have been the target of two major assassination attempts orchestrated by Pyongyang, both of which resulted in dozens of deaths.

Unit 124 Crosses the DMZ

At midnight on January 17, 1968, thirty-one men in dark overalls quietly slip across the demilitarized zone separating North from South Korea. This sector, located thirty miles directly north of Seoul, is lined with barbed wire and dense minefields, and overlooked by the sentries and machine-gun nests of the U.S. Second Infantry Division.

But the infiltrators clip through the barbed-wire fence, bypass or disarm the mines, and creep past the enemy guard posts, which are helpfully illuminated by the fires the sentries use to combat the winter chill. They camp out just a few miles away from the American division’s headquarters. The following evening, they penetrate deeper into South Korea. Confronted by the frozen Imjin River, they don white sheets for camouflage and skid over to the other side.

These men belong to Special Forces Unit 124, and have been training for this moment for two years. Selected for physical strength and political loyalty, they have been instructed in marksmanship and jiujitsu, taught to speak with southern accents and made to undergo gruesome tests of endurance, including going for days without food and sleeping with dead bodies in a grave. Each man is loaded down with over sixty pounds of gear, including a submachine gun, a pistol and eight hand grenades.

Their mission: to assassinate South Korean president Park Chung-hee at his residence in Seoul. As one commando states, “We thought the president there was a stooge, an American collaborator. I hated him.”

The assassins trek cross-country through forests and mountains by night and sleep by day. But the elite commandos have a blind spot: they are so indoctrinated in North Korea’s self-evident superiority that they naively assume the South is ready for revolution—and that killing President Park, who had come to power in a military coup, will serve as the catalyst.

This is unlikely. Though Park is a dictator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of protesters and political opponents, he has also initiated a program of state-led, export-oriented industrialization that is already transforming a formerly poverty-stricken South Korea.

On January 19, four young loggers—all brothers—stumble upon the commandos’ encampment. The commandos debate: should they kill the witnesses? Their leader Kim Jong-moon, veteran of seven prior infiltrations, instead lectures them on the virtues of Communism. The country boys avow their conversion to Marxism and promise not to inform the authorities.

Unfortunately for Unit 124, this epiphany is short lived. Once released, the farmers immediately contact the police. The South Korean army mobilizes several infantry divisions to root out the commandos. But the infiltrators quicken their pace to seven miles per hour and manage to race ahead of South Korean roadblocks. They enter Seoul in small groups on the evening of January 20, then regroup at a temple the next day just a mile away from the president’s residence.

By now, Seoul is buzzing with military patrols. The hit squad settles on a new plan: they strip out of their overalls, revealing South Korean fatigues underneath bearing the patch of the Twenty-Sixth Infantry Division. They then march brazenly down Samcheong-dong Road, posing as one of the very units hunting them down!

The daring ploy seems to work. The commandos pass several patrols and checkpoints without being seriously challenged. By ten p.m. they are just a few hundred meters from the grassy field in front of the presidential Blue House, a complex of several large traditional-style buildings with blue tiled roofs.

It’s at this point that Choi Gyu-sik, police chief for Jongno District, pulls up in a jeep. The thirty-seven-year-old police commander has set out to investigate after a sentry mentions the suspicious platoon to him. Now he demands that the group’s members present their identification papers.

The commandos struggle to come up with a glib response. Some say that then Choi pulls out a pistol. Others claim the North Koreans are startled by an approaching bus. Either way, the assassins whip out their guns and kill Choi and his driver.

However, a nearby platoon of South Korean infantry races towards the sound of gunfire and engages the hit squad. Soon the approach to the Blue House rings to the chatter of automatic weapons. A school bus accidentally careens into the crossfire and is riddled with bullets, then blasted by grenades, killing or wounding more than twenty civilians. Then Patton tanks began rumbling towards the assassins. Recognizing their fight is hopeless, they disperse, seeking to exfiltrate back across the border.

Over the following nine days, American and South Korean troops fight bloody skirmishes as they hunt down the fleeing commandos. Most try to take as many of their pursuers with them as possible. One captured commando is taken to police headquarters for interrogation by National Police Director Chae Won-shik. Mid-interrogation, he detonates a grenade concealed on his person, killing himself and injuring Chae.

In all, twenty-six South Korean soldiers and civilians die in the firefight in front of the Blue House and the manhunt that follows, and sixty-six are wounded. Additionally, three American soldiers are killed by North Korean forces while combing the DMZ for the infiltrators.

Just two days after the firefight, North Korean naval forces seize the USS Pueblo, an intelligence ship sailing in international waters off Korea, killing one crewmember and taking eighty-two captive. This move is seen as an attempt to divert attention from the Blue House raid, and gives Pyongyang hostages to forestall retaliation for the failed assassination.

Aftermaths

Park Chung-hee is deeply shaken by the fact that thirty-one assassins had come within a few hundred meters of his doorstep. He withdraws to a safe house, drinking heavily and raging that the Americans seem more concerned with bargaining for the crew of the Pueblo than with taking aggressive action to counter what he believes is an imminent invasion. U.S. diplomats scramble to dissuade Park from starting a war and withdrawing the hundreds of thousands of ROK troops stationed in South Vietnam, then engaged in fighting off the Tet Offensive, offering him $100 million in additional economic aid.

But Park still wants blood, and orders the military to plan a hit on Kim Il-sung. The ROK army recruits its own thirty-one-man suicide squad called Unit 684 from petty criminals and unemployed youth, subjecting them to a brutal training regimen on the island of Silmido which leaves seven of them dead.

But in 1971, warming relations with the North cause Seoul to cancel the raid. The abused operators mutiny, killing eighteen instructors, hijack a bus and barrel towards the Blue House. Cornered by the army, most are either shot or commit suicide by hand grenade in a horrifying incident depicted in the film Silmido.

A year later, Kim Il-sung meets with director of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and claims—absurdly—that the Blue House raid had been initiated against his wishes by “extreme leftists” in his government.

But Park has more bullets to dodge. In 1974, a North Korean sympathizer from Japan attempts on his own initiative to gun Park down while he is giving a speech in the national theater. He misses, and kills Park’s wife Yuk Young-soo instead.

The dictator’s luck runs out in 1979, as prodemocracy activists protest his repressive rule. During a banquet at Park’s safe house, his own director of intelligence snaps in a fit of rage due to criticism from a bodyguard that he was not brutal enough with the protestors, and shoots both the president and the guard dead.

As for Unit 124, there are only two survivors out of the thirty-one that crossed the border. Only Park Jae-kyung manages to slip back into North Korea. The once-expendable infiltrator rises to Vice Minister of Defense in 2007. He twice returns to South Korea with diplomatic delegations, his presence intended to needle Seoul.

Park’s comrade Kim Shin-jo follows a very different path. He flees without firing a shot and is captured by South Korean soldiers on Inwang Mountain. To his surprise, Kim is treated with respect by his interrogator, whom Kim grows to admire. He becomes a citizen of South Korea, leading Pyongyang to execute his parents. He goes on to raise a family and becomes a Presbyterian minister.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/how-north-koreas-crazy-commandos-tried-kill-south-koreas-22431

nemesis8u:
Kalyani Bharat 52 155x52mm artillery gun with an integrated autoloader ( the rectangular box on top )

No need of manual loading of shell and charges into the gun , every thing is automated including firing through the FCS.

Happy new year.
Any idea on the rate of fire?

jarell:


Happy new year.
Any idea on the rate of fire?

Same to u

Rate of fire 6 rounds per 50 s

For fun
Or
Maybe not

This dropped today from the Twitter handle of HALs test pilot .

ORCA twin engined Omni Role Combat Aircraft based on LCA MK2 / MWF

Seems this is private initiative from HAL much like LCA MK1A .

Only a month ago it was officially announced that a clean sheet design TEDBF twin engined deck based fighter for the navy has replaced the single engined naval LCA MK2 .

Possibly IAF now wants a complementary twin engined LCA in addition to singled engined MWF / LCA MK2. And HAL is possibly catering to it.

IMO the 2 engines in ORCA could most probably be HAL HTFE series or maybe not.

Anyways at this point it is mere speculation unless officially confirmed.

IA testing guided excalibur artillery rounds for accuracy this December


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rXE8f6pTYs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqJza72kpro

Mig 27

it was officially retired a few days ago from IAF

nemesis8u:
This dropped today from the Twitter handle of HALs test pilot .

ORCA twin engined Omni Role Combat Aircraft based on LCA MK2 / MWF

There is alot of speculation out there about how accurate this render model is. Lets wait for the DefExpo 2020 in February i suppose HAL will be there and we might get an insight about the status of the program.

nemesis8u:
Mig 27

it was officially retired a few days ago from IAF

So what's going to be their fate..
Will they be converted to target drones or will be taken to the scrap yard.

This is a very good interview with a IAF MIG27 pilot

Flying and fighting in the MiG-27: Interview with a MiG pilot

https://hushkit.net/2018/08/15/flying-and-fighting-in-the-mig-27-interview-with-a-mig-pilot/

jarell:



So what's going to be their fate..
Will they be converted to target drones or will be taken to the scrap yard.

Some moved to parks / museums

And the others progressively scrapped

Snap from a tender document for LCA MK2 / MWF mission stimulator.

Gives the cockpit layout of LCA MK2 / MWF.

It will have a single WAD

Pic from army day i think

Astra MK1 BVRAAM with solid rocket motor

Astra MK2 long range BVRAAM with dual pulse motor

Astra MK3 very long range BVRAAM with SFDR solid fuel ducted Ramjet

nemesis8u:
Pic from army day i think

Wow, impressive.

LUH high altitude flying


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g_412xvjAw

Dhanush 155x45

M777 155x39

IFG 105 ( pic is of deployment at very high altitudes including Siachen glacier )

The gun is broken into parts and taken piece by piece to the glacier where it is assembled again , all done at -70 to -20 degree centigrades. at this temp if one touches metal with bare hands , its as good as gone , the hand i mean.

Pics of helis

First pic is of ALH resupplying a remote post in Siachen glacier in the middle of nowhere.

Deployment at high altitudes


Without acclimatization to high altitude conditions , if troops are deployed at very high altitudes , than more the 50 % will die or become disabled. Rest will barely manage to survive.

First CDS of Ind.... appointed after 70 years

Previous shiit in power political parties did not do so inspite of many recommendations by various commissions becz they allegedly feared coups. Same political party didn't want Ind... to have a military in the first place.

Anyways only a thief has reasons to fear legislation on thievery isn't it

nemesis8u:
First CDS of Ind.... appointed after 70 years

Previous shiit in power political parties did not do so inspite of many recommendations by various commissions becz they allegedly feared coups. Same political party didn't want Ind... to have a military in the first place.

Anyways only a thief has reasons to fear legislation on thievery isn't it

Just cheap talk and fency uniforms but when does Feku Modi deliver the hardware?

Any imposter pretending to be Nigerian willing to undergo Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulfulde, Ijaw, Edo, Ibibio, Kanuri, Tiv, Nupe language proficiency test ?

Would love to see the results