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n offer of its sukhoi 57 seems reasonable especially as it comes with complete transfer of source code which will help finesse the indian amca design and performance as well and to integrate indian designed missiles into it etc though let s be clear it is not a genuine stealth aircraft as it lacks the s shaped engine ducts say but makes up for it by having recessed engine placement and an antiradar mesh on the fan front it can supercruise go supersonic without afterburner has endurance at 3 500km range extendable to 4 500kms with external fuel tanks and a 2 seat configuration the iaf desires for longrange strategic missions useful considering the service s antipathy to a genuine strategic bomber the tu 160 white swan with 13 500km range for non stop 25 hour flying plus importantly the su 57 nato codenamed felon has concealed in built bomb bays so unlike the hideously expensive rafale with weapons under slung and on external wingpoints that would light up enemy radar like a christmas tree at distance it is relatively invisible the 57 s radar cross section increases only for the moments the bays open for the weapon drop release and the entire deal will be far more affordable and the iaf would have two mainline 5th gen aircraft amca and su 57 in its fleet politically it will help correct the country s foreign policy that has tilted so far us west wards there is near certainty of the country stepping voluntarily into america s vassalage see how india s energy politics is hostage to trump s domestic political imperatives highlighted by recent developments on the us iran war front it will make the rafale completely redundant and the deal for it can and should be cancelled and if rajnath singh and the defence ministry have any military sense which they don t the rafale marine would be ditched as well and trust reposed in the indigenous naval tejas as the indian navy s flag carrier fighter strike aircraft compared to the number of conflicts it has engaged in post 1971 the iaf has had little to show by way of success its record of aerial kills is negative it has lost more aircraft than it has downed enemy planes as the first day may 7 of last year s op sindoor 5 aircraft lost or the 1st day of the kargil conflict two aircraft lost in 1999 proved ap singh can talk all the nonsense he wants about 12 15 pakistan air force aircraft including f 16s the iaf supposedly shot out of the skies during sindoor and while at it air chief marshal why not claim the destruction of the entire paf fleet but he knows the score but damned if the iaf does not have a very impressive record of killing home designed and developed aircraft the hf 24 marut hf 71 72 73 tejas 1a 2 and now the chief of the air staff acm aman preet singh can proudly and symbolically mount the head of the amca in the officer s mess on zakir hussain marg and gloat over another kill because with over half a trillion dollars needing to be committed to fcas prospectively where will the private sector consortium of l t tata bharat forge the finest in the country tasked with designing developing and producing the amca get the money from and with the attention diverted to the fcas will the iaf ever actually buy any amcas when they are produced fortunately this horrendous gcap fcas investment plan is so far only a paper demand by the defence ministry prime minister narendra modi will have to ultimately decide if pouring hard earned indian wealth after poor european investments is a good idea whosoever is advising him on these issues will hopefully suffer from a fit of common sense and prevail on modi to reject this iaf defence ministry request outright and get the prime minister to tell the iaf to live within the country s means a piece of counsel he may like to extend to the other chiefs of staff he meets periodically as well and to the senior commanders of the three armed services he confers with annually posted in arms exports asia pacific indo pacific asian geopolitics china china 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operation so coined to denote a small swift military action donald trump is struggling to find the right label for the us joint misadventure with israel in iran while the us secretary of war pete hegseth has called it war the us president ten days into an armed affair that is far from over has been reluctant to do so because calling any military hostilities war immediately enlarges the canvas and the nature of operations and worse raises expectations his government cannot meet hence trump has settled on calling it an excursion having realised soon enough that his talk of regime change was so much hoo ha that short of landing massive american armies in iran is impossible to obtain and even then there s no guarantee that the landed us forces will survive the intense firefights and close quarter guerilla fighting in attritional mode something the americans are loath to engage in in the cities and in the iranian countryside that over 31 pasdaran islamic revolutionary guard corps sub regional headquarters with prepositioned stores have been preparing for the pasdaran are some 200 000 strong with a potential for unlimited manpower callup then there s the shia ite theology of self sacrifice and martyrdom to contend with the karbala syndrome the exaltation of hussain ali s death at the hands of the umayad caliph yazid in 680 ad at the battle of karbala in iraq which fuels the pasdaran effort is not to be taken lightly if the us military underestimated the gooks they were fighting in vietnam it may discover something equally chastening coming its way in iran should trump foolishly opt for a land war in a country twice as large as iraq which the us failed to keep in check after its ill advised invasion in 2003 given that iran s terrain is almost designed for mountain guerilla warfare of a kind that america lost in neighbouring afghanistan not too long ago trump s trumpeting his objective as successively unconditional surrender regime change and having his choice selected as the next leader in tehran was manifestly the wrong tack for him to take if mr trump seeks escalation said iran s foreign minister seyed abbas aragchi tartly it is precisely what our powerful armed forces have long prepared for and what he will get trump has not repeated his patent nonsense lately suggesting he may have seen the futility of setting such goals in any case trump s excursion is getting pricey according to us congressional sources op epic fury is costing america 890 million per day to prosecute and the bill to date for just the expended guided munitions and armaments exceeds 560 billion this void will be a bonanza for the us defence industry to fill but it is the bodybags coming home to grieving american families that is upsetting trump s plans in wars the us sports a dismal record its only success being the 1990 91 op desert shield or the 1st gulf war honestly the american society has no stamina for war its muscularity being limited to beefy hollywood stars wreaking havoc in action movies so far the butcher s bill of 7 dead and 140 injured american soldiers has been enough to unsettle us politics with the media and the people starting to clamour for a pullout sympathetic media pundits are preparing the ground arguing that because iran has been militarily hurt in many respects grievously trump can call it a victory and get the hell out this last is round the corner because the media campaign is failing with maga s mega influencers like joe rogan turning on trump what was supposed to be a quick in and out a few days of decisive military strikes to bring iran to its knees is gradually taking a familiar course an elongated military conflict that is impacting the global economy with the hormuz strait now being mined by the iranians the us knows it is in for the long haul in a hard knuckle fight the american people have no will to sustain the real test however now looms for both the warring sides does tehran and the new mojtaba khamanei dispensation think its military and the pasdaran have squirrelled away sufficient quantities of guided munitions to keep the oil traffic through the narrow hormuz strait 23 miles at its narrowest stalled and then for how long already the regional and international economies are tanking with the oil gas and refining industries slowly grinding to a halt if the abadan oil refining complex and the oil storage and loading port at kharg island able to handle 7 million barrels per day have so far been spared western strikes tehran too has desisted from taking out major refineries and tank farms in saudi arabia and in the gulf no one wants a world without west asian energy in fact trump warned israel against hitting iranian oil facilities again after it struck such an installation near tehran keeping the hormuz gateway closed is precisely iran s leverage and iran seems confident that it can keep it shut long enough to advantage it the us offer of naval escorts for oil tankers through this strait isn t the answer in this context the modi government s considering the option of indian navy ships escorting some 36 indian flagged tankers with india bound oil stuck on either side of hormuz is a perfectly silly and dangerous idea particularly in light of tehran s pointed threats of attacking any crude carrying ship in fact an indian vessel would be a tempting target for iranian missiles for many reasons providing iranian naval ships and their crews safe haven in indian ports will only get you so far with a tehran that is caught up in a do or die struggle a shot to disable an indian ship would create a bilateral crisis yes but tehran may deem this an acceptable price for signalling to bigger players its resolve to stop the oil traffic whatever it takes except hitting an indian vessel will be minus the danger of a us carrier group countering with a lethal response in case a western tanker is sunk therefore which ever part of goi thought up this damn fool idea very likely mea seeking to please trump the foreign policy reflex of the indian government should be to stop being an idiocracy a word coined by tom cooper the austrian military analyst of repute does prime minister narendra modi want the indian navy to be the canary in the coal mine for the us really instead of its ships risking passage through hormuz delhi should quadruple oil imports from the sakhalin oil field that ongc has equity in a far simpler and obvious solution it should herald a fullscale restoration of oil trade with russia on a sustained and permanent basis not subject to cut offs of energy ties everytime some trump or his poodle barks in washington had modi not allowed trump to walk all over him and told the us president off in no uncertain terms that good relations with america will not be at the expense of ties with russia an old and reliable friend and that india buys russian oil because it will always suit india s purposes to do so and that the us centrally requires india to be on its side in its rivalry with china that trade with india and access to its vast market benefits america more as does the flow of cheap skilled labour it d have silenced trump and a grateful and appreciative putin would have sold oil pennies on the barrel now the country will have to pay through its nose for the sakhalin siberian energy but better oil from somewhere than no oil from anywhere and it can make this as in the past a remunerative business by selling refined petroleum products to western european countries who d be less willing in the future to impose sanctions just because trump wants it so in this respect it may be noted that when the us treasury secretary scott bessent assuming a lofty attitude told the american press that america had permitted india to buy oil from russia there was no immediate challenge from the mea to say that the country d damn well buy oil from where ever and whenever as dictated by national interest and that delhi did not need us permission or approval that reaction came two days after it had become a hot political issue here how little regard trump and his administration have for modi and india was clear when washington failed to inform delhi about the plan for one of its nuclear attack submarines to torpedo an iranian missile destroyer iris dena barely outside sri lankan waters when it was returning to home base after participating in the indian navy s international fleet review off vishakhapatnam feb 15 25 2026 and the milan 2026 maritime exercise with friendly navies hosted by the indian navy the modi regime couldn t have averted this incident on march 4 but to spare it the blushes could have reasoned with the us indo pacific command honolulu to postpone the action to when the vessel entered iran s near seas so as to link it up with op epic fury a not illogical ask instead dena sank with the indian government making much of sheltering the other two ships in the iranian flotilla lavan and bushehr with external affairs minister s jaishankar at the raisina dialogue mea s annual poster event apparently justifying the kill by pointing to the us and other foreign naval presence in diego garcia and elsewhere in the indian ocean region hegseth described the surprise attack as quiet death 87 bodies of dead iranian submariners were fished out and 32 sailors rescued https www ndtv com india news iris dena iran israel war indian ocean caught on wrong side of events s jaishankar on iranian ship sunk by us 11181112 israel may have good reasons to want iran defanged militarily and nuclear wise and to get that chump trump to activate the american strike wherewithal against iran thus distributing the work load and the risk no doubt prime minister benjamin netanyahu laid it on thick about how easy it d be for the hero of venezuela to depose the regime of the ayatollahs have some working stiff manage things for the west in tehran and position trump after venezuelan oil with saudi and gulf oil already in the american bag to now also control the far superior grade oil ...