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Friday 15 February 2019

*The Mirage crash*: -(By Sandeep Ahlawat)




It was an HAL overhauled ac, upgraded to latest standards (out of 49 ac, HAL had only completed 7, this was the 8th: they're 3 yrs plus late!)
It was on 'Acceptance Airtest' by ASTE pilots (as 'customers' for the AF) ...
On take-off roll, a main oleo leg (of the undercarriage) came off/broke!! The ac veered off the runway ...other wheels n legs then broke and it went past the arrester barrier ...
Goddamned HAL!!

A disturbing but grim reality.

*‘CAN MAKE CONCESSIONS TO HAL BUT WILL ENEMY MAKE ANY CONCESSIONS FOR US?’*

These are the words of Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa!!

Please Understand the angst of a Father....yes Indian Air Force Chief B S Dhanoa was a Father of Sqn Ldrs Abrol and Negi (these are the ethos of Armed Forces)....he has lost two of his sons.....as fellow Indians can't you feel the deep throbbing pain that a helpless father goes through when he outlives his child!! Now extrapolate and imagine the plight of Biological parents/Spouses/kids of both the fighter Pilots??

Indian Air Force's Mirage 2000 are 30 years old. Almost as old as Sqn Ldrs Abrol and Negi.
Have you ever driven a car which is as old as you?? and now imagine that car is being upgraded/maintained by HAL. Now take that car 20000 ft above the ground....did you get a reality check?? ....MMRCA is stuck since last 15 years and when a well meaning decision to buy 36 Rafale is taken then a 48 years old Infant (who does not know the full form of NCC) start playing a jarring broken record and goes around  sermonising about the nuts and bolts of the deal  with a singular aim of discrediting the combat aircraft ( You don't play politics with National Security).....apathy!!.........total and complete apathy!!

HAL has pretty much done "culpable homicide not amounting to murder" most of all our IAF TEST PILOTS fly in UPGRADED COFFINS.....
You need to visit HAL to see first hand how almost all of their employees play "Office Office" the whole year round and how their clients become Mussadi Lal in the ensuing merry- go-rounds!!
And our brave heart fighter pilots still trust them with their lives.

Indian Air force Test Pilots are living National Treasure....it takes huge amount of time and Money to get a Test pilot.......to replace  him is daunting....it's near impossible.

You can replace the Chief Minister of a state in two hours (Rabri Devi replaced Lalu in less than one hour)

It takes grime, dust, sweat, brains, guts, glory fortitude, integrity and thousands hours of flying to produce a brave heart called Indian Air Force's Test Pilot!!

Losing two Test Pilots in a day is equivalent of loosing four cabinet ministers in a chopper crash (I am just rubbing in the magnitude of the tragedy)......elected representatives does not mean that they are "Gods"!!
Test Pilot (Indian Soldier) does not mean they are "Disposables"

It's National Loss!!
2/4/19, 2:53 PM - +91 94225 26736: Do you know a country which has motto of its Air Force, Infantry & Special Forces as....

 *'Karmanye Vadhikaraste Ma falesu Kadachana'*,
 A shloka from Bhagavad Gita.

Motto of its Navy is
 *"Jalasveva Jayamahe"*
(victorious on the sea).

Motto of its Army is
 *"Kartika Eka Pakshi"*
 (Unmatched...bird with noble goals).

Motto of its Air Force is *"Swa Bhuavana Paksha"*
 (Wings of the motherland).

Motto of its Marine Corps is
 *"Jaleshu Bhumayamcha Jayamahe"*
 (Glorious on land and sea).
Very thought provoking write-up, worth forwarding, especially to your non-fauji friends:-

Nice one from a soldier, original and recently written-
 War is a cruel business & war fighters need to be tough -  psychologically more than physically. A weak person will likely desert the combat zone to escape hardship.

Training is similarly tough, even inhuman at times to prepare for war.

My coursemate, during 40 Km endurance march with 25 kg load during commando training school in belgaum, fractured his shin. He was found crawling the route, refusing to give up & get in the ambulance. He was forcibly evacuated to the hospital. Another friend was shot in north Kashmir, lost his AK 47. He still killed the militant with his pistol, ran 5 km to the military hospital with two jawans accompanying him & collapsed at the gate. He is alive & still serving today.

The armed forces provide you with the freedom to browse the net, question our methods, demand jallikattu on marina. Because the bombs are going off in the remote border zone. Our methods have kept this nation safe, enabled freedom & development.

That same freedom & development, is now being used to vitiate us. It is like demolishing the first floor, because one has reached the 10 th floor.

 Our work is dirty, ugly, bloody & painful. A sane man his senses will never rush a machine gun post. Our world is bad- so that your world, where our family also lives, may prosper.
Let us run our world as reqd, because your world has no one to RUN it; they will only RUIN it. We can join you anytime, you can't join us here.

There is a concerted effort by foreign owned media to weaken the armed forces. Do not play into their hands. Pak is waging the 5 th war against India through social media- & winning due to our own unsuspecting countrymen. Their army is incapable of facing us. So, like Arjuna in Mahabharata, they are using our own countrymen like shikhandi to harm us.

This is not against you personally, this is the pain & frustration I feel as a soldier.

 Lot of mis information campaigns are being run by the enemy

 Our discipline & redressal sys is the best.

We have never ever failed you even once- from 1948 to 2019. From NE to J&K. From tsunami to floods to earthquake to.... We have held up the pants of every govt & every govt dept. Tell me one dept that can replace us even for an hour?
I rest my case with the follwing quote
"A soldier doesn't fight because he hates the enemy in front. He fights because he loves the countrymen behind him"

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