In this video, we are simulating an Indian raid on Pano Aqil nuclear missile base in Pakistan. I’ve written a a bit of story about it which you can read in these links: http://jjamwal.in/yayavar/kaalkut-chapter-25/ http://jjamwal.in/yayavar/kaalkut-chapter-26/ It doesn’t match this scenario 100%, but is close enough. Here a group of rogue Pakistani armymen have taken control […]
Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 2: Anti Tank, Air Defence & Army Aviation units and weapons
This section covers some of the components (can’t remember the right word for it at the moment) of Pakistani army like regiments, armour and anti-tank units. There is surprisingly little information about even basic information like infantry regiments of Pakistani army and a lot of data is missing. Anti Tank Pakistani Army utilises dedicated vehicle […]
A month in Kinnaur & Spiti. Part 2: Chitkul
The morning of my second day in Chitkul, I wanted to just laze around doing nothing. Weather was sunny, so I thought that I should go sit on the grass and read something. Even with a bright sun outside, it was a bit cold, so I covered up and went out on a patch of […]
A month in Kinnaur and Spiti – Part 1: Road Trip
This post is a travelogue of a solo month long trip to Kinnaur and Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. It started with NW getting really excited about going to the mountains for some reason. I didn’t take it seriously at first because if you go by his grand plans, you’d have seen the whole world. But […]
Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 1: Structure of Pakistani Army
“Most countries have an army, but Pakistan’s army has a country” is a popular saying which to be fair, is also somewhat true for many other unstable countries in Africa and the Middle-east. What makes Pakistan unique is how it’s armed forces have successfully controlled all aspects of the statecraft and internal politics for so […]
Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 6: Navy
China has invested a lot of resources and efforts on scaling up its navy in terms of quality and quantity both. Need for wide scale reforms in PLA was felt after a war with Vietnam in 1979. Gulf War of 1999 and Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995 made CPC realise the importance of having a […]
Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 5: Air Force
PLA AIR FORCE ORBAT & STRUCTURE In December 2011, PLAAF started creation of Air Brigade structure by upgrading 14 existing Air Regiment (AR) HQs and abolished 4 existing Air Division HQs. All the brigades were assigned to one of four Bases New Command Structure for fighter and ground attack aircraft is as following: PLAAF HQ […]
Chinese Armed Forces ORBAT Part 4: Rocket Forces
Formerly the 2nd Artillery Corps, PLA Rocket Force is now considered a separate service branch in itself with 90,000 to 1,20,000 personnel. It seems like TCs in their respective areas may command some of the resources of certain units belonging to PLARF. Its HQ is located at the Qinghe Compound in Beijing and is commanded […]