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- 18 Jan 2024 17:30
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
- Replies: 6376
- Views: 2046427
Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
On a serious note - food for thought: For the F414, GE decreased the BPR to 0.25:1, from the F404 levels of 0.36:1 - why would it do so, when the overall aim was to develop a higher thrust-class TF, whilst maintaining the dimensional footprint of the F404, as much as possible. 8) Maybe because of h...
- 04 Jan 2021 16:52
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
- Replies: 5264
- Views: 1776906
Re: India's Border Security with China and Pakistan-2020 - Part 2
Population is what allowed Indian civilization to survive. Demography is destiny. +10000 It is the numbers that spared our civilization from extermination. Greek, Roman, Egypt, Maya, Inca etc were erased because of lack of numbers. Even in the Indian subcontinent, look at what is happening to Indic...
- 26 Dec 2020 22:22
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 823388
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
I do not think "no uranium" is an issue., enough is mined in India and adequate processing capability is in place to power an entire fleet of nuclear subs..and carriers . Enough said !., some news reports were there sometime back but has disappeared for good reason Nice to know that. My a...
- 26 Dec 2020 11:53
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: INS Vikrant: News and Discussion
- Replies: 3269
- Views: 823388
Re: INS Vikrant News and Discussion
Not to take sides here, but I think one has to look at the availability uranium if India wants to standardize on nuclear powered carriers. Long time back, when Singha sir was still posting here, we had discussed that the number of SSN/BNs India can maintain is limited not by funds, but by availabili...
- 24 Oct 2020 17:13
- Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
- Topic: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
- Replies: 4649
- Views: 1788641
Re: China Military Watch - Sept' 2016
Interesting look at WS-10 on the Sino-flankers, J-10 and J-20: I followed the J-10/WS-10 as villianous companions of the LCA/Kaveri for two decades. The bad guys won here. Not surprised with this outcome at all. Starting from year 2000, US/West imposed military embargoes on China but obliged the la...
- 04 Oct 2020 19:19
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
- Replies: 6376
- Views: 2046427
Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Thanks Saars for your replies. So the larger picture is that successive governments/MOD and the bureaucracy were not satisfied with GTREs progress on Kaveri and therefore did not commit sufficient funds for development/testing all this while. I wish GOI had started parallel efforts through another o...
- 03 Oct 2020 22:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
- Replies: 6376
- Views: 2046427
Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
it is also very clear that there is not one single man/woman (or even a team of people) in India who is/are acknowledged as being capable of either doing this work or even leading such a multifunctional team to achieve this goal Chetak sir, I would have disbelieved this statement of yours if it wer...
- 14 May 2020 10:20
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2158748
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
^^
Yeah. I am not happy with KA Govt's act of cancelling trains to prevent migrant workers from going home. Seems like they have crossed a line here. Hoping that they reverse this decision soon.
Yeah. I am not happy with KA Govt's act of cancelling trains to prevent migrant workers from going home. Seems like they have crossed a line here. Hoping that they reverse this decision soon.
- 05 Apr 2020 16:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
That's right. Also, we have the situation under control if most (or all) of the new positive cases are reported for those who are already under quarantine. The positive case from Dharavi was really worrisome, until it was revealed that the person had given shelter to TJ campers. From the internet, w...
- 02 Apr 2020 17:47
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
https://www.covid19india.org/ is showing only 46 new cases so far. If it stays below 150, then the Delhi incident would be a one off, until the next super spread. Less than 150, would be a sign the lockdown effect has kicked in. Looks like that site needs an update. Kejriwal announced there are 208...
- 31 Mar 2020 20:40
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
It is not just Kerala, but every state, which did not bother to invest enough in the health care system will have this problem. Kerala's dependency on Mlore is a prime example, of delegating the medicare job to another state. As we have seen worldwide, states will now guard medical access for their...
- 28 Mar 2020 17:24
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 10196
- Views: 2158748
Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
This may have been missed. Muzrai dept of Karnataka has been changed to Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowments department, by GOK recently.
https://temples.karnataka.gov.in/info-1/About+Us/en
https://temples.karnataka.gov.in/info-1/About+Us/en
- 27 Mar 2020 21:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Kindly indicate that the source is nytimes. This medium is known to be biased against India.vera_k wrote:What India Needs to Fight the Virus
Estimates from our group of scientists and others suggest the actual number of infection cases in India is likely to be about 21,000 by now.
- 27 Mar 2020 19:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
What a statesman, more importantly, would the person to take up the mantle be one rishi sunak, the current hm? He is the Chancellor of Exchequer i.e., Finance Minister. Rumours are it will be Hancock and the Tories have decided on the succession if case anything happens!! Now Mr. Hancock says he is...
- 27 Mar 2020 17:19
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
ToI reporting that British PM tested positive to Wuhan virus.
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/uk/bri ... 847519.cms
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/uk/bri ... 847519.cms
- 25 Mar 2020 18:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
With the benefit of hindsight, I think we made a lot of mistakes in airport screening. For e.g. we should have hand stamped from day 1. People could have been asked to sign that they received a govt advisory on home quarantine, with a mention of penalty of imprisonment etc if they don't follow it. ...
- 25 Mar 2020 17:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Lot of returnees from Dubai are showing up positive. A case whom came to India on 18th, shows symptoms on 23. 5 days. I now feel the infection is happening in the Dubai airport. We screened 15.2 lac passengers from abroad (not sure if all initially had a fever test). Though we feel its `a lot of re...
- 15 Mar 2020 21:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
- Replies: 14441
- Views: 2792968
Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Regarding this 'Herd Immunity' experiment by UK. Initially I thought it is an outlandish idea by a mad scientist, but it seems UK’s chief scientific adviser is actually campaigning for it: UK's 'herd immunity' approach to tackling coronavirus questioned by World Health Organisation How do they hope ...
- 11 Dec 2019 20:26
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
- Replies: 6664
- Views: 1359967
Re: 2019 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Voting was for sending bill to select committee. This was defeated.
- 13 Oct 2019 10:25
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Project 75I - It Begins
- Replies: 1843
- Views: 575604
Re: Project 75I - It Begins
I've mentioned this before, let's do away with this 75I entirely and invest the money for additional SSNs. We have plans for 6, we can make it 9-10 based on price of European conventional subs. It's not just sub numbers but new tech acquisition as well., don't mistake the leaves for the trunk !!., ...
- 14 Sep 2019 21:26
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 572883
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
Becoz 1. then range of throttable thrust is not very wide (say 50 to 100%, as against 10 to 100%). 2. After doing bulk of orbit deceleration during hard breaking phase, the mass of lander is greatly reduced (imho less than half compared to when it seperated from orbiter). Given reduced mass and alm...
- 14 Sep 2019 08:22
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 572883
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
We know the lander descended from horizontal to vertical mode and communication was lost by 335m. So it was in the fine braking mode. From the observed data there was some instability prior to this. Indicates the transition was troublesome. *Hydraulic systems are notorious for line transients. Prop...
- 08 Sep 2019 21:39
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 572883
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
After the success of the 'rough braking", for how many minutes did the 'fine braking' work flawlessly, before the mishap? Here is my analysis based on this video: lqQe7WsFVQg After rough braking, there is the CAM coasting phase. Not sure what CAM means, but ISRO animation video indicates attit...
- 08 Sep 2019 14:24
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Chandrayan-2 Mission
- Replies: 2278
- Views: 572883
Re: Chandrayan-2 Mission
It is unlikely to be a software error. It went into a state that the software did not know to correct from. I was thinking how to simulate the lander on earth. While it is not possible to simulate the entire experiment on earth it can be simulated to an imaginary point on the top of the atmosphere....
- 19 May 2019 20:58
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
- Replies: 6200
- Views: 1152419
Re: 2019 General Elections News and Discussion
Welcome back Sir!Dilbu wrote:We need a liberal dose of anti-jinx from now on. BJP will lose onlee
- 15 Mar 2019 22:19
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
- Replies: 6031
- Views: 1285615
Re: Civil Aviation Development & Discussion
Received via whatsapp. Not sure about accuracy. Apologies this is posted before: Death by Computer 157 people recently died in a tragic crash. The crew and passengers of Ethiopian Airline Flight # ET302 on board a brand new Boeing 737 MAX 8 never had a chance. The less than three months old plane ha...
- 21 Dec 2016 21:26
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14
- Replies: 4679
- Views: 1304553
Re: Indian Missiles and Munitions Discussion - June'14
An apt quotation from Samuel Beckett for this moment..
This weapon, once mastered will become the workhorse of our armed forces, be used from land, sea and air. It will be manufactured in thousands.Ever tried, ever failed,
No matter.
Try again, fail again,
Fail better!
- 19 Dec 2016 21:29
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
- Replies: 10352
- Views: 2251104
Re: Managing Chinese Threat (09-08-2014)
Sad times. The country that stood up against us/nato for seven decades is now forced to kowtow to a former client state for money and influence. This is a big gain for China and I'm sure many Russians will be unhappy with this development.
- 16 Dec 2016 14:40
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
Sorry for OT but i have a question. if AESA T/R modules have their own power source but when mounted on a plane wont all the power ultimately come through engines/APU? what i want to say here is ultimately the available power is constant right? or do aesa modules have separate power generator? You ...
- 16 Dec 2016 12:04
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
I am no expert but currently i am working in radio astronomy field. based on my understanding, the above is actually the other way round. if you reduce number of T/R modules your resolution is certainly going to decrease. more the number of t/r modules more you are able to narrow down your radar be...
- 16 Dec 2016 11:14
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
Regarding the number of T/R modules on the 2052, I've seen info that states that the array size can be tailored to the aircraft, based on multiple factors, like radome diameter, cooling and power available and so on. I've not seen any reports on a low T/R count being a drawback for the 2052. Maybe ...
- 16 Dec 2016 10:49
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: South India River Water Issues/Disputes
- Replies: 1213
- Views: 179870
Re: South India River Water Issues/Disputes
Well, if one says TN should pay money to KA, then my response is apt. You please read the relevant conversations for context before saying my 6 words are provocative. As you have noted, the poster did not mention either of the two states in his comment, and is not from KA, but I am. On your part, y...
- 15 Dec 2016 19:17
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
- Replies: 7884
- Views: 1444899
Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
Has this been reported before? Link of TOI shown below quotes Mr. Shashikanta Das that new notes are designed indigenously Focus now on printing of Rs 500 notes: Government "It is the first time that the design of notes is done indigenously. Earlier Rs 500 notes were all designed outside. Rs 50...
- 15 Dec 2016 17:24
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
The S Koreans cut their teeth building the F-sola decades after we begin screwing together the MiG flying coffins. They are already selling their indigenous T-50 Golden Eagle around the world (Indonesia, the Philippines, Iraq, etc.) The japs with their F-2 (again from the F-16) which has been in fr...
- 15 Dec 2016 14:55
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
What happened to the much displayed desi AESA radar at the last Aero-India? Another great 'technology demonstrator" what? Philip saar, making an AESA radar that fits into the nose cone of a small fighter is not easy, and takes time. DRDO has experience in making working AESA radars mounted on ...
- 15 Dec 2016 14:52
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: South India River Water Issues/Disputes
- Replies: 1213
- Views: 179870
Re: South India River Water Issues/Disputes
It is not, and never was. Please do not make provocative statements.GShankar wrote: TN is not at KA's mercy. There is something called as Indian Federation and they decide what KA should get. Almost all of the kaveri riots are politically manufactured.
As to what will linger and what will not, we shall see.
- 13 Dec 2016 23:07
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
Not going for a foreign radar would have jeopardized Mk1A itself. Not just Mk1A, but the entire LCA programme saar. It must be in DRDO/HALs interests to ASAP deliver to IAF a fighter that the latter sees fit, no matter what the % of imported components are. Once IAF is satisfied with this version o...
- 13 Dec 2016 11:02
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
- Replies: 4124
- Views: 1202128
Re: LCA: News & Discussions - October 2016
^^ This should mean that the Uttam will remain a TD project for its lifetime? Sum avare, this is my (layman's) interpretation. China is getting aggressive across the border in Tibet and GOI has to reply back with same posturing. This cannot happen unless you have fully equipped and well oiled milit...
- 11 Dec 2016 20:39
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
- Replies: 7884
- Views: 1444899
Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
And we keep wondering why there is a shortage of Rs 100 notes. I've been saying that since the beginning :) Small denomination hoarding should be subjected to additional penalties because it hurts the mango man much more than hoarding 1000s does. +108. Added to that I think the govt should ensure t...
- 10 Dec 2016 20:01
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
- Replies: 7884
- Views: 1444899
Re: Currency Demonetisation and Future course of Indian Economy
And we keep wondering why there is a shortage of Rs 100 notes.