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Another thing to note is that ultra long haul flights like these are the most difficult to make money out of. Only AI has non-stop flights to the US right now. United used to have a few earlier but they stopped them after US airlines stopped flying over Russian airspace last year. And AI has the pro...

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The Reaper has much higher available power. As compared to the Tapas. Once higher powered engines become available. Performance characteristics can be tweaked for specific mission profiles. Currently Tapas runs on 180 HP engine. A 220 HP engine is being developed by CVRDE You will need a Turboprop/...

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I have moved the discussion related to Air India aircraft orders to the Civil Aviation thread.

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Nachiktji, I think you are mixing up two different aspects. The so-called internal HBJs in various platforms, that you mentioned above, are not AESA based systems - so they will not have the fidelity of implementing DRFM etc advanced jamming techniques. However there are other std jamming modes tha...

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Bhai all that space is filled with fuel. In the early days, flanker had poor range because of its thirsty engines. This was so bad that at one point poor range was main concern of the designers. When redesign of the flanker happened around 85, they filled every nook and corner including the tail fi...

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I am still amazed by the fact that there is no space inside the gigantic Flanker for an internal EW system when the much smaller M2k, Jag and even the Mig-29 UPG now have that capability. And this is not a case of HAL/DRDO being unable to do it since the Russians themselves opted for the wingtip mou...

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TATAs should link up with GoI on this and give the order to a Embraer civil aircraft - they are a smaller company and be willing to setup lines in India for such a large order. GoI could even take a stake in Embraer to enable this - similar to what they did with Maruti to jumpstart modern car produ...

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Election fraud in the US is real, there are lots of articles on the Internet even from leftie media to prove it. Whether they get flown on planes or enter via land is immaterial, the result remains the same. No prizes for guessing which party benefits the most from illegal immigration. Whether it i...

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IMF statement:

Link: https://twitter.com/81ShahbazRana/statu ... PfbmV0n7lQ

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basant wrote:Given the claim that AMCA will fly in 2024, I have been wondering if the jigs are in place for the same. Any news on the issue in public?

That is physically impossible at this point. The chief either misspoke or the journalist misunderstood what he was saying.

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CalvinH wrote: The IMF may have to come back very soon. Pakis are in a real hole this time.

The IMF knows that very well. Even in the best case scenario, the current program is to end in June and everyone including the IMF expects the pakis to immediately go begging for a second one.

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Indian military being the main disaster relief agency for India has it advantages - it can be deployed anywhere for that purpose - it is more mobile. This is not the same in other advanced economies - they are all civilian and regionalized and harder to coordinate for help to other countries. NDRF ...

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Admins /Mods There seems to a junk/spam post from my ID which I did not post.. Not sure how this appeared. Can I request you to please delete this?? I have been accessing BRF only on my phone (iOS 16.3). I am totally clueless on how an external malware etc may have caused to post this with a Telegr...

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Srikandan, , cut out the egregious insults and language. You have been given an official warning. If you continue in this manner you will receive a ban.

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Then they say INITIALLY it will be 30/yr... with no clear metric of when is INITIAL ? 2024 FY 2025 ? Then FINALLY at some point of time it will be 90. Either way anything in the 25-50 range is a respectable number once they meet it....LUH should be smooth sailing barring any surprise production iss...

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Amazing. Need is immediate, development is complete, factory is built and ready and there are no orders. Meanwhile our pilots are still flying Cheetahs at Siachen. You have to truly wonder at what goes on in the heads of our decision makers that leads to such ridiculous results.

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ramana wrote:Proximity Fuze history

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/l ... fuzes.html

Short video on the importance of the development of the Proximity Fuze in WW2:

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Pravin Sawhney's simping for pak and china has reached such levels that he has become his own parody.

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Climbing, I think, is the easier part. It is preventing a runaway train that - coming down the ghat - is the bigger challenge. ??????? Did you read the article? “Train-18 Vande Bharat Express has 50 per cent powering [every alternate coach has motors] and is well suited to work any gradient in Indi...

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Pratyush wrote:It seems that a decision has been made by the government of India to close this stupid program and order 36 additional Rafale.

Even if such a decision had been made it won't happen before the 2024 elections now.

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Thank you saars for all the information.

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This whole super sukhoi upgrade will come up during Nuland visit - weaning us off russian weapons - :roll: There are 250+ of them in service. Nuland cannot promise anything that changes that fact. The Su-30 is a weapons platform not a "weapon" anyway. So weaning it off Russian weapons is ...

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Air Marshal AP Singh was born sometime in 1964 and was commissioned on 21 Dec 1984. He can certainly become Chief, but with the current Govt....seniority and age is no longer the primary choice for selecting the next chief. Has any officer been superseded while appointing CAS by this government? I ...

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Insas UBGL video made by NSG armourer. The channel has details of all weapons used by NSG including Franchi SPAS shotguns, SiG 551, Glocks and SiG MPX. Thanks for that. I remember some years back H&K had refused to sell weapons to the BSF because of "human rights" reasons. I had wonde...

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^^ if Adani goes belly up then it will hit our infra development, Hope the vizhinam port gets completed on time. It has faced enough delays already Their hands are in too many big infra projects not just Vizhinjam. Those getting stuck because of the consequences of this attack on Adani is probably ...

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^^ Regarding this Kissu lady, this is typical behavior of a Kashmiri Pandit. As a safety response, they try to disassociate themselves from their Hindu identity and grovel in front of Muslims with a pathetic show of obsequiousness to Islam. This is survival instinct of a race which is genetically i...

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Anujan wrote:^^^
It is borrowing from Peter to pay Peng.
Then it was borrowing from Pasha to pay Peter and Peng

They can try to borrow from Prakash now. But I hear he has a small heart.

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Development beyond neocolonial debt bondage :shock: That translates to living beyond their meagre means, generally funded by someone or the other of their 3.5 sugar daddies. So that they can maintain some pretence of keeping up with India. No questions ever asked about repayment of debt. Anytime th...

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Rumor is that Army wants a "technocratic setup" Will not be a political party, might be a caretaker govt with technocrats in charge. Or the big danda Munir might give a "Mere Aziz Humwatanoo..." speech on PTV and put the technocrat govt in charge. With any luck the competence of...

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The problem with Mumbai's roads, has always been the BMC itself. The poor quality of asphalt used and terrible quality of surfacing work done by contractors has all happened with the willing connivance of the corrupt BMC corporators for whom the repeated repair and resurfacing contracts is a big mon...

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Prasun Sengupta in his blog says the under 15 tonnes is for OFB Dhanush which meets that criterion. However, even the Bharat Forge gun is under 15 tonnes. So there will be a face-off. OFB 45 caliber version was an interim solution. ATAGS has its own path. Lets see. venkat, bureaucracy rarely issues...

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Let the circus carry on :lol: Well we have come full circle after all. We dumped the SLR for the 5.56 INSAS because the rifle was too big and unwieldy, the ammo was heavy and it was uncontrollable in full-auto (and hence disabled). Now we have a shiny new import with the same heavy ammo with most o...

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there are 100 WSI dhruv, with trained crew (at least 5-10 years of average training) and depot level maintenance vs less than 10 POC LCH delivered so far. It makes imminent sense that Helina will go to WSI dhruv first. That only explains why the first orders might go to Rudra squadrons. It does not...

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Finance Minister Ishaq Dar would leave for Geneva along with PM Shehbaz and meet IMF officials on the sidelines of a conference there. The conference has now been lowered to a climate resilience event from a donors’ conference because of lack of interest by major players. :(( If Pakistan defaults, ...

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X-post from the International Aerospace Thread. Point to remember when the US offers their wares. After nearly 250 F-16s in service with the Turkish Air Force and more than triple digit airframes assembled in Turkey, the country still requires permission from the US to assemble even a single one. W...

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We already have 2 1/2 sqdns of M2000 at Gwalior. Too many eggs in on basket ??? I would think of putting it elsewhere. Say Gorakhpur. Considering the time it takes for us to complete acquisitions and the fact that we are in the internet rumours stage right now, the Mirages might very well have been...

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India’s foreign exchange reserves log fastest pace of growth since August 2021 after rising by a whopping $14.72 billion. For the week ended Nov 11, the rupee logged its best weekly performance in about four years. It jumped 2% last week, helped by a slide in dollar index, which was accelerated by ...

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This is the only image i have ever seen of an MKI inside a HAS. A very limited number of such mki sized blast pens exist as on date and only at some airbases. https://twitter.com/livefist/status/985154017667010560?s=20&t=u74iwv8nU7s-nR9D6SRH1w Truly shocking situation after so many years of the...

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What RFP? No RFP has been issued, CAS said a few weeks back they plan to release it ‘soon’ but they’ve been saying that for 3 years. RFP—> contract signature is at least a 6-7 year process anyway. I wonder which of the aforementioned planes other than Rafale will be in production 7 years from now. ...

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