Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 5: Air Defence

Pakistan air defence ceremony

Pakistan’s Air Defence (AD) system is a tri-service and mutually integrated setup with the main focus on defence against India. PAF laid the foundation of an integrated AD network in 1976 or 1977 under “Project Crystal”. Multiple fixed and mobile radar systems were acquired to set the foundation. Presently, Air Defence Command (ADC) is responsible […]

Pakistani Armed Forces ORBAT, Part 4: Nuclear Forces

Kirna-Hills-Sargodha-details

Introduction This paper is a part of a series of texts covering Order of Battle (ORBAT) and a few other details of Pakistani armed forces. The index of all other posts is at links provided at bottom. Some information is already published there, but it will be replaced with more detailed and updated data in […]

Actions taken by India to deal with Corona Virus

As expected there is a lot of idle chatter about Corona Virus and what should have been done. This post is a list of some of major actions that Indian govt has taken to control the spread of Corona Virus in India. 1. Multiple rescues of 1000s of Indians from a number of different countries […]

TRAI questionnaire for Net Neutrality in India

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued another questionnaire asking opinions about Internet Neutrality. Over the last few weeks, promoters of so called Free Internet like Facebook have really raised their sales pitch and are now using unethical means like  misleading ads and claiming support from users in different countries by misleading them into clicking […]

Fight For Jammu & Kashmir: Indian side of state

Continuing from: Fight For Jammu & Kashmir: Pakistan’s Gains  Even though the gains of aggression to Pakistan were valuable and important, the territory still left with India was of much greater extent, value and importance. It included Kashmir Valley and parts of Uri and Titwal sub- divisions of Muzzafarabad district in Kashmir province, four eastern […]

Defence Expo 2012. Arjun and T-90, pictures from insides.

Arjun is a bigger tank when compared to T-90 and it’s quite obvious not only from outside. Even the insides are completely different. Inside T-90 there is hardly any room for movement or even partial stretching of limbs. Arjun on the other hand is spacious and much more comfortable. See for yourself in the pictures. Unfortunately […]

Musicians who died at 27

I’m 27 too :DNot dead though :( Jim MorrisonDead: July 3, 1971, 27 years and 207 days, cause of death listed as “heart failure”Band: The Doors Kurt CobainDead: April 5, 1994, 27 years and 44 days, ruled as suicide by shotgunBand: Nirvana Alan “Blind Owl” WilsonDead: September 3, 1970, Barbiturate overdose, possible suicideBand: Canned Heat […]