Pakistan Army vs Indian Army - 1965 War

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The relative strength of the two armies at the outset of the war were:

Armour
🇵🇰: 1 div, 1 light armoured div
🇮🇳: 1 div, 1 armoured brigade

Infantry
🇵🇰: 7 div
🇮🇳: 19 infantry/mountain div

1/n Artillery
🇵🇰: 19 field regts, 7 medium regts, 4 heavy regts
🇮🇳: 43 field regts, 10 medium regts, 1 heavy regt

Artillery
🇵🇰: 7 light AA regts, 2 locating regts, 7 locating batteries
🇮🇳: 19 light AA regts, 25 mountain composite regts, 21 air-defense regts

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#آئین_کےمحافظ_لبیک_والے

A coordinated hashtag campaign by a religious party "TLP" to target their rival "PTI" and spread +ve image of their leader "Saad Rizvi".

In past, TLP was banned due to their various activities including the killing of innocent citizens,

[1] destruction of public/private property. It's very funny that TLP is propagating their +ve image in the name of the constitution.

Further investigations revealed that many accounts that participated in this # campaign were made in 2021 (approx50%) and 2022 (approx 30%).

[2]

US State Department approves the sale of the following military equipment to Bulgaria.

- 4 F-16 C Block 70 aircraft
- 4 F-16 D Block 70 aircraft
- 11 F100-GE-129D engines
- 11 Improved Programmable Display Generators (iPDG)

[1] - 11 AN/APG-83 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Scalable Agile Beam Radars
- 11 Modular Mission Computers (MMC) 7000AH
- 19 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) AIM-120C-7/C-8 or equivalent missiles
- 28) GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs (SDBs)

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Russian Nuclear Powered Ballistic Missile Submarines (SSBNs) and their armaments

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1 Kalmar (Project 667BDR (Delta III)) with
- 16 R-29RKU-02 Stantsia-02 (RS-SS-N-18 Stingray) nuclear SLBM,
- 2 single 400mm TT with SET-72 LWT,

[1] - 4 single 533mm TT with 53-65K HWT/SET-65K
HWT/USET-80K Keramika HWT

6 Delfin (Project 667BDRM (Delta IV)) with
- 16 R-29RMU2 Sineva/R-29RMU2.1 Layner (RS-SS-N-23 Skiff) nuclear SLBM,
- 4 single 533mm TT with 53-65K HWT/SET-65K HWT/USET-80K Keramika HWT

[2]

Key U.S. Naval Installations

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1. Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham, HI (U.S. Pacific Fleet headquarters)
2. Naval Base Kitsap, WA
3. Naval Station Everett, WA
4. Naval Base San Diego and Naval Base
Coronado, CA (U.S. Third Fleet headquarters)

[1] 5. Naval Station Mayport, FL (U.S. Fourth Fleet headquarters)
6. Naval Submarine Base King’s Bay, GA
7. Naval Base Norfolk and Joint Expeditionary
Base Little Creek, VA (U.S. Fleet Forces Command and U.S. Second Fleet headquarters)
8. Naval Submarine Base New London, CT

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CHINA AT WORLD DEFENSE SHOW 🇨🇳🇸🇦

Chinese Companies showcasing their defense products at World Defense Show (#WDS2022), Saudi Arabia

[1] Eight Chinese companies joined the exhibition, including China Aerospace Long March International Trading Co. (ALIT), China National Precision Machinery Import & Export Corporation, China National Aero-Technology Import & Export Corporation,

[2]

The following list identifies the major cyber-related incidents attributed in part to Unit 8200 🇮🇱

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🔳Stuxnet Virus (2005–2010): The virus successfully disabled the nuclear centrifuges in Natanz. According to some accounts,

[1] the virus was part of the joint Operation Olympic Games
between the United States’ NSA and Israel’s Unit 8200.

🔳Operation Orchard (September 2007), in which Unit 8200 most probably jammed Syrian radar systems without alerting air defense operators in order to allow

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🇺🇸@FBI, 🇺🇸@CISAgov, 🇺🇸@CNMF_CyberAlert, and 🇬🇧@NCSC have issued a joint cyber security advisory regarding cyber espionage and other malicious cyber operations by an Iranian Group.

1/n As per Advisory, MuddyWater is a subordinate element within the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).

This advanced persistent threat (APT) group has conducted broad cyber campaigns in support of MOIS objectives since approximately 2018.

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Dubai Air Show 🚀✈🚁

▶ 14-18 Nov, 2021

▶▶ THREAD 🔗

@DubaiAirshow L-15 jet trainer aircraft 🇨🇳

Credits: on pics

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What are Hypersonic Weapons?

A hypersonic missile is a missile that travels at least five times the speed of sound (Mach 5).

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https://twitter.com/Defense785/status/1449577994457161732

Most traditional ballistic missiles fly at hypersonic speeds, whereas most traditional cruise missiles fly at subsonic (less than Mach 1) and supersonic (Mach 1 to 5) speeds. For example, the Minuteman III, the United States 'nuclear - armed intercontinental

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China Tested an Earth-Circling Hypersonic Missile, FT Reports

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China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that circled the globe before speeding toward its target, the Financial Times reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the event. The test in August showed China has made more progress on hypersonic weapons than U.S. officials realized, according to the report, which didn’t identify the people familiar with the test.

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Model of JF-17 Thunder displayed with 2x Ramjet powered Supersonic Missiles at #Zhuhai Air Show

#Zhuhai2021

Via @jaawadqamar High-speed WZ-8 (top) and WZ-7 "Soaring Dragon II" (bottom).

#Zhuhai2021

Via @MilitaryBWF

Military Awards of Pakistan Army

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The military awards consist of Operational Awards, Non-Operational Awards, the Tamgha-i-Difa and the Imtiazi Sanad. In addition, campaign and commemorative medals for special occasions are instituted as and when necessary.

(1) Operational Awards

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DG ISPR - PRESS BRIEFING

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(In Urdu/English) پاک افغان بارڈر پر اس وقت صورت حال نارمل ہے

سرحد پر غیر قانونی نقل و حرکت روک دی گئی ہے،ڈی جی آئی ایس پی آر

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Bureaucracy in 🇵🇰 Military Industries (Margala Electronics - ME)

Based in Islamabad, the establishment was created in 198t to manufacture ground radar. The birth of Margala Electronics (ME) was more a result of bureaucratic/organizational tensions and manipulations

(1) than strategic needs. As a result, in night to ten years only 40 radars were assembled.

There was no read indigenous production done there. The facility was to attain a "deletion" target of 70% by 1094. Though a whole section was created for the purpose,

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BREAKING:

Local media in #Afghanistan is reporting that at least 11 people have been killed and dozens more injured in the explosion outside of Kabul airport.

(1) BREAKING:

At least 3 U.S. troops wounded in suicide bombing outside Abbey Gate at Kabul airport: U.S. officials

The history of Special Services Wing extends back to 1965 when No 312 Special Air Warfare Wing, PAF or SAW (Now SSW, PAF) was established at PAF Base Malir. SAW attained operational status in June, 1970. SAW was deployed at PAF Base Dhakka from March to November,

1/n 1971 for defence of PAF assets. During 1971 war, SAW remained standby at PAF Base Sargodha to launch commando operations against enemy targets. SAW was reverted to normal Ground Combateer Wing in 1972.

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SeaKing in #PakistanNavy

Order for 6 Sea King Mk45 (basically similar to the RN HAS.1) placed in Dec 1972. This order essentially introduced aviation operations to the Pakistan Navy, following the 1971 war with India. Delivered in two batches of 3 in Nov 1975 and Oct 1976,
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https://twitter.com/Defense785/status/1396740139146219520

they operate primarily in the Anti-Submarine Warfare role with up to 4 Mk46 torpedos and at least 5 have been modified to take a pair of AM39 Exocet missiles for the Anti-Shipping role, following weapons trials in 1976 and 1977.

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Arab Aircraft shot down during the six-day war

Thread By Mirage IIIC

·        9 MiG-17

·        12 MiG-19

·        15 MiG-21

·        1 Il-14

·        1 Il-28

·        5 Hunter

·        5 Su-7

By Super Mystere

·        2 MiG-211

·        2 Il-14

·        1 MiG-17

Royal Moroccan Air Force signed a contract for the acquisition of twelve Bayraktar TB2 Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) from Baykar Makina, the Turkish producer of the TB2.

Morocco is building up a fleet of UAVs and UCAVs with this contract. In December 2020, the US State Department approved the sale of four MQ-9B Sea Guardian UCAVs including precision guided munitions. These acquisitions confirm that the race is on to buy U(C)AVs in North Africa from zero four years ago,

Mi-35M helicopter from Pakistan Army Aviation.

📸: Ahsan Riaz

PAA is operating 4 Mi-35M helis. These four Mi-35M heavy attack helicopters were ordered from Russia in 2015. Islamabad and Moscow concluded the $153 million helicopter deal during then-Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif’s visit to Russia in June 2016. A preliminary contract was signed at the Pakistan Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi in August 2015.