One of the rarely discussed R&AW operations 👇
> After the 1971 war, R.N. Kao realised India had a major blind spot: it lacked predictive intelligence on the movement of US naval ships and Soviet fleets in the Indian Ocean.
> The KGB had limited capability in the region, while the intelligence agencies of the UK, Canada, Japan and Australia were of limited use because of their close ties with the US.
> Kao therefore approached France’s external intelligence agency, SDECE. He travelled to Paris and quickly hit it off with French spymaster Count Alexandre de Marenches. They agreed to set up a network to collect real time intelligence on US and Soviet ships.
> Marenches then suggested bringing in a third partner, Iran’s SAVAK, which already had a strong relationship with France. Kao personally knew the Shah of Iran and agreed.
The arrangement was simple:
> Iran provided the funding
> France bought the advanced technical equipment
> India provided the trained R&AW manpower to operate the techint stations
the intelligence was shared equally among all three countries.
> Senior R&AW officer B. Raman was sent to Paris to get the operation going. He initially planned to use the cover of an Indian newspaper journalist, but eventually went under diplomatic cover.
Monitoring stations were then established on both the east and west coasts of India.
> The operation ended in 1979, not because it was compromised or failed, but because the Shah was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution and SAVAK ceased to exist.
R&AW and Kao 🤙
@DarshanDoshi77@DefenseNewsIN There might be probability of one Rafale lost during first engagement on 8th May 2025 would have hit but Atleast it is not 3 so don't fall for any mislead info let them speculate.
@DefenseNewsIN That is point stealth is just tech that help fighters detect thier presence late but India is planning to importing Over the Horizon radar from Russian for this stealth fighters and also upgrading NET Centric Warfare indigenously.
The Tejas is 90% carbon fibre by skin, but almost none of that is made in India. Why doesn't India produce its own aerospace-grade carbon fibre?
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@TheMilObserverr 5th Gen Fighters are solely for Specific mission 4.5 gen aircraft will still be relevant if 5th gen is new normal then why russian decide to comprise stealth in SU-57 and why US is ordering F15. We have seen USAF, Marine and Navy facing problem with a F35.
@notanidealistic@TheMilObserverr Take the example of china after so many iteration they can't even reach close of RD 33 Engine's efficiency. India is on right path it is taking baby steps for giant leap and learning from it's failure and have you noticed we haven't order F414 engine because of foul play by GE.
@notanidealistic@TheMilObserverr Kaveri is not shelfed it's KDE will be used in Ghatak UCAV and it can also be used for small civilian aircrafts and we have seen HAL HTFE 25 reached it 99.5% Capabilities they are working on HTFE 40 and every other countries have taken some time to built thier own Aero Engines.
@notanidealistic@TheMilObserverr We have just started our journey of self reliant give some time to companies they will slow emerge and we will have some of best equipments in the world.
@notanidealistic@TheMilObserverr Importing is also not bad thing we have failed many times but we can't sit by making our capabilities gap wider. When need we should import some and simultaneously work on projects that have failed because we are very infamous for delays in our own indigenous projects.
@india_eye_now Preparation of full fledged war with India they are ready to do some misadventures in india in upcoming 3-4 months which will be answered 3x intensity as compared to OP sindoor 1.0.
@idrwalerts Only if America is ready to share tech as America has provided the Israel the freedom to integrate and workaround with the platform. As of now SU-57 offer is the best we can consider 40-50 platforms.
@arj99@Varun55484761 Funds are already cleared of Rs 723 crores for Kaveri 1.0 and Godrej aerospace has started development for it's dry thrust variant.