Please make show on IAF's depleting Squadrons strength and how IAF calculated that it requires 42 Squadron why not more than 42 or less than 42 what is logic behind 42 Squadron

China LAC per hamari baja raha hai or Shivji China may Kailash perbat per birajman hain😢

Some people have this white man syndrom. they think anything the white guys makes is better. We need to come out of this mindset first

Right 👍

Scamgress salty that they aint getting a cut😂

Add infrastructure build up to this.

Politically I am not inclined to the BJP or congress or any other political parties , but when it comes to security of our nation it is imperative that we get the latest weapon system and the purchase of these drones are of at most importance, We can grow our own industries of drones and weapon systems simultaneously that doesn't mean that we should not get these from outside , this will give our developers more insight into the working of world class drones and this can be used to tinker our own systems

Ignorance is bliss!

But the audio guy does a very poor job 😕

@bubulmallick846 That is the pakistan 🇵🇰 model of development. Beggars can not be choosers. When you're used to getting alms, your economy tanks and ATMs go dry. Lack of basic food such as Aata, and then people turn to loot and blackmail as is happening even for the sacrificial Goats on Bakra Eid. We're happy to pay for everything we buy as we know how money is earned and value it. So we use it wisely for our country's development.

@bubulmallick846 Like Pakistan 🇵🇰 we don't allow our land or resources to be used for wars by others. we don't fight wars for others, we fight our own wars. Of course every beggar feels someone is generous till they are getting alms, like 🇵🇰 is felt USA 🇺🇸 was generous when they gave you $and weapons all these years. Now China 🇨🇳 is generous. Pakistan 🇵🇰 will always remain a beggar country. You'll always be spreading your 🤲 from whereever you can get alms. Right now China is doing it. Tomorrow when Chinese stop giving you'll go elsewhere. Begging is in your DNA.

​@@bubulmallick846bhikari mulk katorastan every thing free beggar country pappistan

Who cares what China thinks, when do they ever say anything honest or that isn't meant as an insult. The CCP is salty the CH-4 copies of the Predator/reaper were not wanted, and those that bought them sold them soon aftern due to poor quality.

fuddu nehru used to say hindi -chini bhai bhai and hhindu-mooslim bhai -chara where mmossllim mmosslim bhai bhai an hhindu being chara.... he used to say iindia donot need army, police is enough.... man such were the leaders choosen by the iindian. no doubt iindia was sslave for nearly 700 yrs.

Very true. Congress looks for making money in every activity ..

I agree, as similar DRONE is being tested by DRDO. But their is time to production.

Exactly.........and once war theater established, the full force of drones can be integrated and optimized in udage for operation and objectives.

Nope. The Armed forces in India are suffering from same old mentality of turf war and petty positioning. Not just Apache or MQ-9B, take a look at Chinook. Chinook is a troop carrier helicopter which ideally should be operated by Army Aviation Wing since Army has the troops but IAF did not allow that due to petty internal turf war.

@@animesh_tiwary Why diverting from buying latest drons to defend us to blah blah blah.........

@@souravchakraborty8861 ? DRDO has nothing close to Predator forget this. Ghatak and all are yet to even fly with electronics yet.

There was already a report of establishing a unified drone command.

Drones cannot be used as offencive against pak and china

Also In War Scenarios Army on ground , Navy in Water & Airforce in Air have independent role to play . And has to be sharp focused on their targets & objectives!

Looking at the cabal of ministers it shouldn't be a surprise - it's a jugaad cabinet without qualifications!

Now you have Adani to do hit jobs ; sadly he's Licking his wounds 😑 😕

Why would someone need a video to understand the importance of drones? Drone is the most effective way to locate and hunt any enemy. Russia and Ukraine war is a proof of that.

Congress is the opposition party, they will oppose every decision of the running government. As a Bangladeshi who reads every news about India, I think India is on the right way.

It is very important that this very sensitive contract be given to Adani so that he can recoup some of the humongous losses he has incurred . After all Rafale contract was given to bankrupt Ambani and oil contract to elder Ambani. All the PM'S oligarchs minting while the citizens struggle . LAGE RAHO .

@@jkardez4794 What?, Adani kah aaya bheech main, Matlab kuch bhi. Rafales came from france, This drones are coming from U.S. Matlab Rahul Gandhi samze ho ka?

@@jkardez4794 not only this. General atomic is a company owned by Adanis brother. It’s all family business. ModiZ is putting 3 billion in Adanis pocket. Modi jis son and modis brother is also employed by Adani and are on adanis payroll living in big bungalows

It's also the costliest drone in the world.

@tytxlx6503 do a google search , read about its sensors and avionics

​@tytxlx6503USA use same drone to kill Iranian military commander in Iran in 2020. With same drone they did many operations.

@@bubulmallick846 Who better than paxtan to demand something for free? 😂

i will never vote for congress again do u know why???? because i came to know that in 46' election mmosslim voted for paakistan ( more than 90%) but this kaamchor librandu congress party did not do popul. xchange..

You are ill informed and the defense experts are right. These drones are insanely expensive - they cost as much as a fighter jet with associated costs etc. E.g. Taiwan bought 4 reapers for $600 million - you could have fielded something like 15 additional Tejas Mk1As for that cost, or 40 extra Tejas Mk1As if you only want to account for the forex cost (after all, GoI can always print more rupees). The Indian govt is rumored to be buying 31 drones for $3.2 billion - again - a cost that could buy 75 additional Tejas Mk1As at nameplate value and a whopping 213 extra Tejas Mk1As if you only include the forex cost - because again - the rupee part of the purchases just ends up recirculating within the Indian economy. The drones that Pakistan, Turkey and China are buying are much cheaper - Bayraktars are $5m each or around $20M each with the full package. Ultimately Pakistan will end up flooding India with hundreds of drones for a couple of billion dollars while India will just be operating less than two dozen across army and airfare - despite spending multiple times as much as them. Reapers are designed for an expeditionary army taking down targets in places that don't have any air defense not a defensive army facing down two modern armies on its land borders. The Reaper might make sense for naval operations for reconnaissance during peacetime and submarine hunting during wartime but it makes zero sense for either the air force or army. The airforce needs more Tejas and Rafale with better radars and anti-stealth missiles, the army needs swarms of cheaper drones of Bayraktar class that can actually be used in a conflict.

​@AKumar-co7oe hey dolt... the MQ-9B is meant for 24×365 continous surveillance of land and maritime borders which are very vast Compare the cost of keeping a tejas airborne for 30 hours & a Mq-9b for same time... also the max endurance of Tejas is no more than 4.5 hours at a time

@@iHarsh918 That's what he said. Read before you comment, smartass.

@@AKumar-co7oe If enemy manage to shoot down one of both. in Tejas apart from the equipment lose we will lose one life. that is a major problem if one values human life. and buying these drones doesn't mean that we cannot get other cheap drones, we are designing drones in our country and manufacturing them too.

@@manut1349 except that it's not equally easy to shoot down either - a tejas can dodge and fight air to air with radar missiles, a reaper can only bomb helpless wedding parties in afghanistan - it is totally defenceless against fighter jets and other air defense - it isn't capable of dodging If you want to protect pilots, support the CATS warrior program for networked drone warfare

Have you read the deal, wow this rebooting not just your defensive industry this a comprehensive deal that strengthen your economy. I have always said that this war not just military it's economic.

Didn't they use this to kill a terrorist in Afghan recently

That's because you're a Desi andhbhakht you don't read the French media which had the guts to show how a bankrupt Ambani was given the contract. Typical Andhbhakht !

Forget about drones, India cannot make a mobile or even a simple automobile . What we have is a moron brigade which chants along with a pied piper . Wonder what Jaishankar has to say about the deal regarding independence after lecturing the Americans and Europeans .

What is there to make an episode? Qatar says they were spying for India & Israel.The case is in courts now. Last week a Turkish guy got arrested in North East for spying, it's part of the game

India's tapas is better than bayraktar-Tb2(turkey)...

Its there. Plz chk

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It's more important for navy .... for IOR

@@sidthesailor3483 India does not have any disputed naval borders, but we do have a disputed, active and hot LoC and LAC. So while Navy can use these cover a larger area, the army and air force need these equally if not more at present.

This is the reaper.

😂😂😂.... Waah

An uninformed statement by an uninformed person. Development takes time, and innovation is the last step of this journey. Unless you the master product, you can't produce its next iteration. All developing countries began their journey by imitating, aka reversing engineering, over time, mastered the skill and then became the beacon of innovation - Japan, South Korea, and China are examples. India's started its journey in the 90s (post-liberalization). It is the second fastest-growing economy of the last 3 decades. It's doing pretty well. It will innovate when the time is right.

@@sankalp6872 For last 10 years time was not right for innovation? But time was right to do Hindu Muslim all over the Nation?😅

@@sankalp6872 Fareed is right on this one. Our Intellectual Property Laws need serious reforms and updates. Our Judiciary is absent when it comes to IP and copyright enforcement. We don't need the same laws as the US but we need good laws and a responsive Judiciary none the less.

@@libshastra Laws are not the problem. Enforcement is the issue. Our courts are already swamped with so many cases that IPR and Copyrights go for a toss. Judiciary needs a fix and expansion.

@@mg.f.9023 Nope. Muslim radicalism was a national security problem. It had to be neutralized.

Sg works on politics ONLY. No such incentive in it

there is no clutter there. someone made a terrible business deal of paying 250K USD to purchase death. what is there to discuss in it?

none of iindia business.....

They are primarily for the Navy to supplement Posiden PI8 for the anti-submarine role, comparatively, they are cheaper for PI8 aircraft and can stay in the sky longer than Pi8, with less maintenance and work with less crew, in fact, they can communicate with PI8, when in air. China is increasing its submarine numbers and also building 8 more for Pakistan, our submarine numbers are nowhere near them, this will help the Navy till we beef up our submarines to monitor the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. To sum it up, they are only for surveillance, and that's the reason the army is only investing primarily in loitering munition for attack roles, not drones

Whoever works outside is nullified as a indian

Need of the hour is to enrich bankrupt businessmen and give them sensitive contracts like the Rafale .

it is not unnecessary. Reaper Drone is best in world. USA use same drone to kill Iranian commander in Iran in 2020.

It’s expensive because we are demanding customization. NAVIC integration, MRO facilities, local subcomponent manufacturing, integration with our communications infrastructure all add to the cost of the procurement. You are not just buying 31 drones.

This is the platform where one can air their views anonymously and fight with other anonymous people. Is it not fun. KZfaq and video creators benefit from the comments making more money for them, that is fun too. The algorithm is set for that.

​@@manut1349. Good comment

why do u think these so called real military experts cant be question..

Give it to a bankrupt Ambani ...

may be enough for Pakistan surveillances. Other than China no other advanced countries in our neighborhood.

Per hour cost of flying p8i aircraft would be 20 times more than this drone, and maintanence of p8i is huge it's a commercial Boeing plane