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- 04 Sep 2023 22:27
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2283
- Views: 890128
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
We discussed it to death here on BRF. I hope we don't redo that discussion... Somewhere in the archives, you will find what you are seeking. Spent some time trying to find that archived thread. If any old mullah's still remember the thread please post the link. So much happened since that Cope Indi...
- 01 Sep 2023 21:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
- Replies: 8985
- Views: 2619646
Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
If Vivek Ramaswamy becomes the VP candidate of Trump, then diaspora will be fully behind. It's not a given Bala sir. Amongst first gen immigrants, the support is clearly towards modi/trump/vivek/GOP, but beyond that, there is minimal support for trump/vivek/GOP. This upcoming elections is when a si...
- 31 Aug 2023 07:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
- Replies: 5253
- Views: 1558595
Re: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
But this is already happening with the current setup. What is the goal for this restructuring? seems like apart from missiles and radars other sectors are not doing as well as there are supposed to. I am just speaking from open source info btw. maybe gurus can explain in detail. With an 2023 budget...
- 31 Aug 2023 01:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 869562
Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_i94MSdtKg
Very amusing remarks from none other than Owaisi. Translation, ''poor idiots, don't even know how to copy"
Very amusing remarks from none other than Owaisi. Translation, ''poor idiots, don't even know how to copy"
- 30 Aug 2023 23:30
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 822
- Views: 744417
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
This is some gorgeous flying and camera work. Thanks for sharing!maitya wrote: ↑29 Aug 2023 21:02 Normally don't post pics and videos ... but just couldn't control myself on this video.
Stunning is the one word description ...
- 30 Aug 2023 23:28
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's R&D in Defence DRDO, PSUs and Private Sector
- Replies: 5253
- Views: 1558595
- 30 Aug 2023 23:23
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Navy News & Discussion - 12 April 2021
- Replies: 1705
- Views: 830042
- 27 Aug 2023 08:34
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Sports and Entertainment Industry
- Replies: 6367
- Views: 1430735
- 25 Aug 2023 09:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
- Replies: 7961
- Views: 2284208
- 24 Aug 2023 22:41
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
- Replies: 7961
- Views: 2284208
Re: Pakistani Economic Stress Watch
It took the pious Pakis 20 years to do what kufr Sehwag did back in 2004...On this joyous occasion, please enjoy the rampage again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK6KHDP6oYc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK6KHDP6oYc
- 24 Aug 2023 22:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: China Economic Stress Watch
- Replies: 91
- Views: 41845
Re: China Economic Stress Watch
A really interesting bunch of anectodes from some one who travelled to China recently...
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets ... lieve_the/
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets ... lieve_the/
- 05 Aug 2023 20:51
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
- Replies: 416
- Views: 183510
Re: Electric vehicle and power storage
Right now, if spending under $50K, I would prefer the Toyota Crown Limited. A hybrid full size comfortable sedan that gets 42 mpg. It’s made in Japan with great fit and finish. What a beautiful car that Crown is, in a sea of SUV's, Crossovers, and pickups. If it had a PHEV option and was priced aro...
- 05 Aug 2023 20:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: J&K Union Territory-2019
- Replies: 4384
- Views: 1499756
- 05 Aug 2023 09:58
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
- Replies: 416
- Views: 183510
Re: Electric vehicle and power storage
No. Toyota holds the most patents for SS batteries ahead of Panasonic. Toyota's 2022 net profit was over $18B and are investing heavily into PHEVs and BEVs. Toyota/Lexus roadmap shows 6-10 new BEV models by 2026, along with newer hybrids. Their slow approach is vindicated and they will make a batte...
- 04 Aug 2023 21:25
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
- Replies: 416
- Views: 183510
Re: Electric vehicle and power storage
Given Toyota's announcement, we're about about 4-5 years away, and many people will wait if they're paying $50K+ for a vehicle. Toyota has been always 4-5 years with this tech and I will be very surprised if Toyota or any other EV's will can launch a $50k car with over 200 miles of range and with a...
- 31 Jul 2023 21:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1893867
Re: Internal Security Watch
Horrific shooting carried out by RPF Jawan Chetan Kumar on Jaipur-Mumbai Express: 3 (Muslim) civilians and 1 police officer killed Absolutely senseless violence. Because he could not control his emotions, now there are 4 families missing their loved one all because the criminal thought the victims ...
- 31 Jul 2023 02:07
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
- Replies: 416
- Views: 183510
Re: Electric vehicle and power storage
From personal experience, I recently considered purchasing a Tesla Model Y a few months ago as in IMHO it is currently the best EV on the market. After testing, and seeing first hand significant range decrease of >20% using the air conditioning (compressor) when sustained daytime temperatures are 4...
- 25 Jul 2023 21:35
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7575
- Views: 1787223
- 24 Jul 2023 19:06
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1893867
Re: Internal Security Watch
AFSPA may be what they want. Better will be to do intelligence operation with special forces. Roy ji, I do not think this should be a "military response" first, though that will be needed eventually. Any help from the army should be used to supplant the inept/incapable police force which ...
- 24 Jul 2023 02:26
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
:eek: :eek: About this in the West media, not a murmur. The entire Ukrainian armored division surrendered to the Russians without firing a shot. 28 Leopard 2A4 tanks; 21 PT-91 tanks, 8 Krab guns, and 30 T-72 tanks. Armored and mechanized units also use 1,098 BWP-1 infantry fighting vehicles. https:...
- 21 Jul 2023 21:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1893867
Re: Internal Security Watch
At this point its clear that none of the decision makers know what to do with the Manipur situation. Not only has it devolved into a humanitarian crisis, but it's fast approaching a national security issue as well. One of the groups, Mizos is also involved in the rebellion against the junta in Myanm...
- 20 Jul 2023 20:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6214
- Views: 1893867
- 15 Jul 2023 12:07
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
In an interview with Turkish media, Azov commander reveals that the surrender of the Azov Regiment at Azovstal last year was arranged between the US and Russia in exchange for the withdrawal of several "high-ranking US officers" from the facility. https://t.me/boris_rozhin/91687 Hope Brar...
- 01 Jul 2023 23:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7575
- Views: 1787223
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Jay, when I speak of Ukraine entanglement of Biden family. This is what I mean. You can say that it means nothing. But it's not nothing. Praytush Ji, again, there is nothing in these calls and if there was an audio tape by this "foreign national", Chuck Grassley, who is the chief of judic...
- 01 Jul 2023 01:31
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7575
- Views: 1787223
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Ramana, I had the similar thoughts. But the whole Ukrainian tangle of Biden family Praytush ji, for all the love Biden and his admin has shown towards Ukraine in this UKR-RUS conflict I can confidently say that there is no tangle of the Biden family with UKR, atleast to the level and intensity that...
- 29 Jun 2023 07:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: VayuSena Rafale: News and Discussions - 17 Oct 2016
- Replies: 4661
- Views: 1598396
Re: VayuSena Rafale: News and Discussions - 17 Oct 2016
more birds vs less birds; risk of more bird strike than less bird strike; 2 engines more survivable than 1. Delhi as or more dense than Paris? Or we are still subscribed to the ossified thinking coupled with undermining our own stuff. On what basis are we saying Paris, a city with multiple parks an...
- 28 Jun 2023 00:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7575
- Views: 1787223
Re: Understanding the US - Again
It had to come to this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fzn7FnqXoAAIgX9?format=jpg&name=medium In January, he received a “Notice of Discipline and Termination of Employment and Contract letter stating that the school ‘received numerous complaints’ about his ‘religious preaching, discriminatory comme...
- 27 Jun 2023 03:53
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Putin has apparently dissolved Wagner Putin: "The enemies of Russia wanted the country to drown in bloody civil strife, they miscalculated. From the very beginning, I took steps to avoid bloodshed. The decisive role in stopping the rebellion was played by the patriotic mood of the Russians, th...
- 22 Jun 2023 04:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1364743
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Biggest plane order in history: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/19/airbus-wins-record-500-plane-order-from-indias-indigo.html As I mentioned earlier, Airbus production is so backlogged that these planes will start arriving only in 2030 and the order will complete by 2035. As of now, they haven't even ...
- 09 Jun 2023 02:25
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/ ... _as_a_uaf/IndraD wrote:Leopard burning !
Proukrainian DeepStateUA confirms loss of Leopard 2A4 https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1/sta ... 09729?s=20
- 07 Jun 2023 18:16
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2283
- Views: 890128
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Bingo!Pratyush wrote:
Alternatively;
They could just be acting as a bunch of spoilt children. That we want imported jets and nothing else will do.
- 02 Jun 2023 21:58
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Education System
- Replies: 3959
- Views: 835448
Re: Indian Education System
Apparently NCERT has removed below listed topics. Not really sure what is going on, but from a pure optics perspective it looks like a huge "dumbing down" of these grades is happening Class X 1062 MATHEMATICS Chapter 1: Real Number 2–7 15–18 1.2 Euclid’s division lemma 1.5 Revisiting ratio...
- 31 May 2023 08:39
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
US seems to have decided -it will keep crossing red lines; today talks of long range missiles from US to Ukraine (ATACMS) -if ru uses nukes even better: it brings war to a freeze temporarily, US gets an excuse to supply nukes to countries around Russia US is losing conventional war, it is looking f...
- 30 May 2023 19:17
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
- Replies: 1419
- Views: 265354
Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-nuclear-power-plant-vogtle-rates-costs-75c7a413cda3935dd551be9115e88a64 It finally happened. I started following this 15 years ago and after a 7 year delay with $17bil over spend it finally is here. What a shit show this project has been and in my opinion this is a...
- 26 May 2023 05:20
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1661374777162973186?s=20 there was attempt to drown Russian naval ship in Bosphorous, it was repulsed, Ru MOD released video More videos of this attack are filtering out https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/13rhg0f/ukrainian_naval_drone_makes_contact_w...
- 21 May 2023 02:52
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
So I've just heard that US will be sending F16s to Ukraine (ostensibly for training purposes) What's going on here? How are Americans so cocksure they won't provoke WW3? Is there some method to their madness? Or are they just flying blind? US is not sending their F16's, it has allowed other countri...
- 19 May 2023 07:22
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
- Replies: 432
- Views: 234315
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
Then it did not go to waste after all...that's the hope atleast.RoyG wrote:
Something else has taken it's place.
- 17 May 2023 19:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
- Replies: 432
- Views: 234315
Re: Intelligence & National Security Discussion - July 2018
He also played his part in the dismantling of the TSD, for which he could be charged with treason We go too easy on our mortal enemies We had 10 years to find out what happened to TSD and caused its demise. Since this is not in the open I'm guessing those ghosts have been laid to rest and is consid...
- 17 May 2023 19:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Patriot battery toasted? Damn. How many SAMs did it launch... At least 2 dozen. Still got fried in the end. I counted 30 in about 90seconds. There is a cut in the video so no one can tell just from this video alone how much time elapsed between these launches and the final explosion. At the very le...
- 17 May 2023 07:18
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4233
- Views: 2472116
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
There is no NATO MIC anywhere worth it's name except in the US. And even the US industry cannot ramp up in a jiffy. The materials, tech and mfg processes have evolved so far away from the 1940s that the miracle production of that era cannot replicated. Met with a person last weekend at a party who ...