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That read good about the 105 mm guns (every gun is NOT a howitzer), but I am queasy about what's going on about ATAGS. There has been a smooth replacement of that by TAGS, to enable them to buy Israeli, and because ATAGS is 15 MT more than TAGS (or so they say). That is definitely a backward...

I'll forward this URL later, as something else seems to need attention. Sorry about that.

OK, just read it, I see where you are coming from, but seriously disagree. Tomorrow, I will post you a URL that contains an anecdotal account by Brigadier Devinder Singh (not Brig. Surinder Singh, this was the man responsible for clearing the Batalik sector). This can be an interesting discussion.

LOL, I just posted an almost identically worded post.

Let me take a detailed look, and get back. It's a quarter past one now, and I think we'd better continue tomorrow. I'm breaking too many (home) rules.

Push this a little further?

Kargil? 71? 65? 48? Which? Also, we need to discuss it in detail, if we are to get some nourishment out of.

I don't think so. We can talk about it.

Straining a point, but yes. In that 1965 battle (Chawinda), he was a brigade commander, but their job was to block an Indian thrust made with great force, but with nincompoops in command, including a general officer who cocked it up in 1965, and cocked it up again, here, in Chawinda. OK, let's...

Valid point in broad brush-strokes, but what are you referring to?

Sorry for the late, late level, but the only three who got recognised as effective battle commanders were Thimayya, Thorat and Bogey Sen. Also Cariappa, although he didn't really get to command a formation in combat. All others served in field ranks and below, as Majors, Captains and...

Not so open-and-shut, champ. The PLAN has been feeling its way cautiously forward from its laser-focus on coastal defence to (first) a near shore navy, focussed on anti-submarine warfare, replete with weird schemes for underwater traps and obstacles to get hostile submarines lurking too close...

The bright idea of concentrating artillery capability (tubed artillery capability) in the 155 mm howitzer/medium artillery was never appealing. There are so many situations where this kind of 105 mm gun, towed, self propelled on wheels, self propelled on tracks, easy to transport by chopper...

Looking at this old video, I can't help voicing some of my pet peeves - Why don't we aggregate our naval capacity into fleets, flotillas and task forces? What is the point of sending single ships acting in isolation (two ships, acting as separate units, amounts to two single ships; there is no...

Awesome to be under such close observation.

Can be done. Am downloading the PDF for detailed study.

Makes one sick to the stomach.

Since you chose the name you did, this should amuse and interest you: Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae adferet indomitaeque morti, non, si trecenis quotquot eunt dies, amice, places inlacrimabilem Plutona tauris, qui ter amplum Geryonen...

Of course. Without thinking. Without consideration. Without weighing the pros and cons. Unfortunately, at the time that I write this, it's too late for thousands of people anyway.

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