Despite bad roads & chronic power shortage, the mood in Budgam is marked by political indifference after 8 young men were killed in 2017 during bypoll voting.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
I hope IAF is reviewing the whole February 20 operation including the decisions of the operations director of the IAF and the AoC in C and not just Me17 shooting. even if it’s done away from public eye, IAF didn’t prepare well for Pakistani retaliation. Performance of Wing Commander Abhinandan and other officers in that combat saved the day for IAF commanders otherwise they would be in a big trouble today.
Because the mishap happened during the SAME SHORT 10 MINUTE period when the dogfights were on involving Pakistani and Indian fighter jets, perhaps a less strict view of the offence can be taken. Our media has rightly played it down, but it was a huge attack by Pakistan, when they had simultaneously pressed in as many as TWENTY FIVE fighter jets in that short time window.
What is likely not being told us, and this is just my guess, is that someone was DELIBERATE in shooting down the helicopter. In that case a court martial would surely be warranted. Otherwise, if it was a GENUINE mistake in identifying if the helicopter was ours or enemy’s, then the ground officer who ordered the shooting could always say that he was trying to limit the damage – – a helicopter could have five ten or fifteen people on board, but if it was carrying a lethal load of heavy bombs then it could kill may be a hundred innocent people on ground if it was allowed to proceed unmarked. These are only guesses, only the IAF investigators know the true story.
Mr. Chotebhai it is really easy to give ur comments sitting here.. plus a absurd fool like you who don’t read news during election says this, plus what is has do to with election, oh yes some one in Congress politics can say it was shot bcz our honorable PM said to do so.
How absurd to refer to killing one’s own as “friendly fire”! It should be called a huge goof up. And why was this information suppressed during the elections?
Surely Modi or whoever in power will do that during the elections. The patriotism against the enemy must shine, later after election the fuck-upness will be dealth with
After watching Cut the Clutter last night. The military has its own ethos, culture, systems of accountability. Men of honour.
I hope IAF is reviewing the whole February 20 operation including the decisions of the operations director of the IAF and the AoC in C and not just Me17 shooting. even if it’s done away from public eye, IAF didn’t prepare well for Pakistani retaliation. Performance of Wing Commander Abhinandan and other officers in that combat saved the day for IAF commanders otherwise they would be in a big trouble today.
Vijay Rajvaidya
India Currents, Inc..
Because the mishap happened during the SAME SHORT 10 MINUTE period when the dogfights were on involving Pakistani and Indian fighter jets, perhaps a less strict view of the offence can be taken. Our media has rightly played it down, but it was a huge attack by Pakistan, when they had simultaneously pressed in as many as TWENTY FIVE fighter jets in that short time window.
What is likely not being told us, and this is just my guess, is that someone was DELIBERATE in shooting down the helicopter. In that case a court martial would surely be warranted. Otherwise, if it was a GENUINE mistake in identifying if the helicopter was ours or enemy’s, then the ground officer who ordered the shooting could always say that he was trying to limit the damage – – a helicopter could have five ten or fifteen people on board, but if it was carrying a lethal load of heavy bombs then it could kill may be a hundred innocent people on ground if it was allowed to proceed unmarked. These are only guesses, only the IAF investigators know the true story.
Mr. Chotebhai it is really easy to give ur comments sitting here.. plus a absurd fool like you who don’t read news during election says this, plus what is has do to with election, oh yes some one in Congress politics can say it was shot bcz our honorable PM said to do so.
This was not a crash but a friendly fire incident!
How absurd to refer to killing one’s own as “friendly fire”! It should be called a huge goof up. And why was this information suppressed during the elections?
Surely Modi or whoever in power will do that during the elections. The patriotism against the enemy must shine, later after election the fuck-upness will be dealth with
After watching Cut the Clutter last night. The military has its own ethos, culture, systems of accountability. Men of honour.