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Gyan

TATAs are trying to get into NVG and HHTI. As is obvious, there is competition between who will do the screwdrivergiri, TATAs or BEL? This is fit case for Govt to step in provide seed capital as the project cost for setting up production line for sensors/detectors of NVG and HHTI is around USD 1 Bil...

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It is perhaps good that we have persons like Prof Das suggesting alternative "indigenous" solutions to our defence needs rather than normal chorus of import, import, import.

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Has anybody wondered why do we need so many Pilatus? If utilization rate of HT-32 was 250 hours per annum, why is it still only 250 hours for Pilatus? Why not 1500 hrs? Whether similar under utilization is being done to increase demand for Hawks? Hawk can provide "average" of 60 hours per ...

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I think along with LCA MK-1A, we need 200 "LCA lite" for AJT and CAS role. It can use Kavery engine, and Indian Radar.

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Also Sukhois may have been used more roughly compared to babying of Smaller Miarge 2000 fleet.

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I remember an interesting story, many years old now. I met an IAF person who had been injured in enemy action, at a office of Vice Chancellor of University. He had come to make special request for admission of his daughter whose admission form was filed late (due to transfers and such). He told me t...

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I think that Fed has done its job to prevent panic induced collapse. But Fed cannot achieve two contradictory aims, one is to achieve full employment and other is to keep asset prices constantly high. If asset prices are kept constantly high/growing then their affordability will fall and demand will...

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Two competing screwdriver technologies.

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MY proposal:- Follow USA, UK, France and do not order more conventional submarines for Indian Navy and go only with SSNs.

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Avinash Chander: We are committed to setting up a detector production facility. Normal process of dialogue and tendering, taking approvals etc is currently underway. We are going to have a detector production facility for focal point arrays. On the radio frequency (RF) seeker front also there is a ...

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It seems that MP-ATGM may be more advanced then it is being let out. I think that Javelin also has 130mm diameter.

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I think in current scenario we need to coin a new slogan to promote Make in India:-

Bribe to Indians only by Indians only for Promoting Indian products!

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England conquered India inspite of its economy being 1/10th the size of India. Therefore expenditure on R&D is very important. If politicians want to make money, why foreign Dalals? Just get DRDO product made by Indian Companies and take bribes from such Indians!

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Temples need to invest in:- Education institutes like Schools, Colleges, Universities even Creches Blue chip companies like Banks, High Tech industries like pharma, Biotech, food processing industries Social infrastructure like Dharmshalas, orphanages, Hospitals, R&D in agriculture/healthcare Ha...

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Other accomplishments by Shri Tyagi as i recall. Moving a certain Indian program from 8 Squadrons to 2, until and unless its Indian developers signed off on the MRSAM program. Subsequently, he was to be Tata Nova IAIs rep in India. No conflict of interest at all. Interesting that today, that progra...

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I think that Astra-2, QRSAM missiles will be similar to Barak-8 ie MRSAM=SRSAM along with TCR or MMSR. That is somewhat similar missile with faster, perhaps single phase missile with shorter range radar based on mobile platform.

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It seems to me that all those Toyota jugaad vehicles are basically methods of population domination rather than military domination. The two deadliest weapons I could see mounted on those trucks are the ZSU 23 and the rocket launcher. I suspect the latter will be grossly inaccurate while the 23 mm ...

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We can do two things with Kaveri even within its current output:-

LCA AJT

UCAV

If only DRDO could pay 15%, this idea would spread like wildfire.

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Newbee query:- Inspite of Syria having around 200 and Russia 100 warfare capable aircraft and helos in Syria, bombing ISIS daily practically unopposed, why are they unable to cut off roads and pipelines through which crude oil flows to Turkey? Also 50,000 ISIS fighters mean approx 500 trucks worth o...

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Inspite of lot of talkie talkie our DM has not funded any major series of indigenous programmes.

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NRao wrote:Gyan ji,

Experience in what?

In Getting cheated! We paid Rs 3000 crore for AL-55 and deal for Shakti engine is worth Rs 40,000 crore over 30 years but technology absorption is nil. On the other hand budget for HTSE-1200, dry thrust Kaveri engine and 25kn engine is only around Rs. 400 crore each.

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We already have experience of two such opportunities ie Shakti Engine and AL-55.

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a single B-52 high altitude heavy bomber can destroy an entire armored division with these bombs, where in the past dozens of aircraft would have had to drop hundreds of bombs for the same effect." Typical Amriki hype. As long as the armoured division consists of a row of tanks 3-4 abreast and...

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Why not Astra?

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Actually 36 Rafale cost only USD800 Million but the translation of French manuls for converting Rafale into nuclear bomber costs a minor amount of USD8000 million.

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What's wrong with PAKFA deal, we have similar bogus JV deals for Brahmos, Shakti engine, LRSAM, MRSAM, AL-55 engine, What's one more?

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There was some talk of BHEL joining the engine effort. Has GTRE roped in BHEL yet or not?

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Raytheon-BEL Partnership Casts Shadow on India's NCO Program http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/international/asia-pacific/2016/04/20/raytheon-bel-partnership-casts-shadow-nco-program/83272094/ NEW DELHI — Despite the Indian Navy's serious reservations, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has quiet...

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Rafale is the best as it is FIVE legged Cheetah better than 3 legged Cheetah.

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As development of Excalibur and MCIWS was closing the window of imports. The first shots in changing the goalposts to 7.62x51 caliber from 5.56x45 caliber are being fired. The natural thing would have been for the army to ask DRDO/OFB to develop 7.62x51 version of Excalibur and MCIWS but then what w...

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Army will never let indigenous tank production take place in India. It seems when GSQRs for FMBT were asked the indicated features by them were 40 ton tank with 4 men crew and "all round" protection. The idea is to make it impossible for DRDO. Army killed Air Defense Gun Project and doing ...

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TLDR summary. No tangible units apart from Pipapav. Lots of JVs. Are depending on orders to come so they can do it. Have signed up ex-services folks to make things easier with target customers. How Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani is readying his companies to target big-ticket defence projects R...

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Funds for setting up production line were allocated in 2001. It is patently false argument that one has to wait for exact configuration to be frozen before even building the hangers. All the hangers and most of the production line equipment is generic and can adjust to minor expected changes in conf...

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Gyan, What's with your obsession with criticizing HAL (or something else) on almost every post? Do you have some personal vendetta against them in particular? We all criticize from time to time but yours is approaching the unhealthy. Why not post some positive things (not related to HAL) more often...

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I have personally talked to small arms designers in DRDO at a Def Expo eons back. They told that they were specifically barred from 2000 to 2006 from developing a follow on to INSAS. Only later they were permitted to proceed ahead and they developed MCIWS.

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India does not have Military Industrial complex because Babus don't want one. Do you think IAS officers are idiots who cannot understand what each BRF poster knows? India allocated USD 100 million for Kaveri when on similar timeline France allocated USD 2 Billion to develop M88. Look at what happene...

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The rumour is that China has very deep penetration of Indian Top Policy making sector through banks and brothels in Hong Kong, therefore no economic punishment will ever be met out to China under any circumstances.

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36 frogs Vs 360 J-20s. Advantage India. China will vacate Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Uigher land and adopt Rupee as it's currency.

Re Admin:- Ban Karan for spoiling the mood, my Champagne high came off due to the effort of writing this informative post.

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It is good that honest Indian Babus, who never went to Hong Kong for fun and frolic, handed over entire Indian Telecom sector to China along with all of consumer durable sector. At least we can hike custom duties on non-essentials like toys, furniture etc to GATT compatible 40%

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Now with Rafale deal done, the import in India focus will shift to FGFA deal. I have given up all hope of indigenisation of Indian Defence Equipment with this deal. If Modi Govt won't do it, it is futile to expect Congress or kichdi Govt to do it. The fact that BJP is coming out with twitter support...

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