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Detection of Submarines and Evading Detection--- A Primer for Fanboyz I thought I would write some sort of primer for the fanboyz here on various issues that go into detection of submarines. Later if I feel like it, I will give you a full fledged treatment of invisibility of aircraft, stealth and e...

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When India was in bed with the CIA Nowadays the Internet is full of morons who know very little about anything and worse these morons have their own channel where they exhibit their ignorance. Charlatans all. Here is a story. On June 3rd, 1963 the Indian President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, more abo...

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Propeller Design for Submarines Design of propellers for submarines especially SSBNs and SSKs is highly non-trivial. I shall try to explain in this very short note. Indeed the first factor is that the propeller must satisfy various hydrodynamic characteristics to effectively convey the propulsive f...

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Pogo Oscillations in Human Spaceflight In this short note I want to broach the subject of pogo oscillations. Why they arise and how they plagued early human spaceflight almost preventing the US mission to the Moon. They again appeared in some Shuttle Missions and can appear again when countries lik...

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Then of course with getting too close to people you run the issue of such problems as stated below: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/19/politics/us-israel-iran-intelligence-documents/index.html So fine for fanboyz here to post all sorts of pics of those "joint exercises", but remember they are ...

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India for many years since 1947 was only focused on its backyard, so the intelligence gathering only was limited to Pakistan, the other neighbors and China. It is only in the last 5 years that other countries have entered the ambit of India in a major way where it becomes imperative to know and gath...

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^^^ Hindustan Times is the outlet in India of what the Russians want Indians to hear. The "leaks" in this newspaper is thus also intelligence as to how the Russians want the Indians to think. In this game always remember there are no friends and only interests and all powers will play to m...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWFg3X2FmRg Sgt. Tiger Thyagarajan KIA over France, a pilot with 263 squadron appears briefly in this video. His story and how his grave was located is in in this BR archives. He was killed on Sept 25, 1944, the day Paris was liberated. He was from Pondicherry and his...

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Another derailment on SR, Mysore-Darbangha express. Passenger train got permission to go on the mainline. Instead it got diverted to the loop line at 75kmph and rammed a stationary freight. Happened at Kavaraipettai. RaGa and other opposition leaders are making noise. Kavaraipettai is 40km north of ...

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Another derailment attempt last night. A whole load of soil dumped on the tracks at Rae Bareli. Loco pilot of train 05251 saw it and stopped the train and averted an accident. Encroachment along tracks has been addressed by Yogi at Kanpur by demolishment of structures.

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Yes it was already known that the coaches will be pressurized. Till before the pandemic my family took hikes in the Himalayas of about 80km almost 80% of it above 11,000 feet. Even going up to Camp 2, at many of the Gangotri group of peaks. Valley of flowers is for example a 23 km hike to Ghangharia...

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The Z Morh tunnel a crucial tunnel connecting Kargil and on to Leh was supposed to have a formal inauguration Sept 15. Nothing more has been heard possibly due to JK elections and some code of conduct. Z Morh had a “soft opening” in Feb 2024. Apparently the contractor has written to the Govt. advisi...

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Progress Report on the Bhanupali---Bilaspur--Beri--Leh Strategic Railway Line Not much has been heard in the news about the Bilaspur--Bhanupali--Beri railway line and onwards to Leh itself a challenging project with the line climbing to 17,500 feet over the Greater Himalayas. The line will reach 17...

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Somehow I was under the impression that the freighter stopped before hitting the cement blocks on the WDFC. Not true ^^^ did hit it, but fortunately there was no derailment. Here is the pole across the tracks in Uttarakhand I mentioned above: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/another-train-s...

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This is the fourth attempt to derail trains in recent days. In this case an Army special train was the target o derailment using detonators no less: https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/bhopal/breaking-attempts-to-derail-special-army-trains-foiled-at-madhya-pradeshs-sagphata-railway-station?utm_campa...

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A Tale of Two Bridges Two extremely important railway bridges will see commissioning by the end of this year. 1. Bridge 1 is the bridge across the Yamuna river out of Delhi Jn. The original Loha ka pul(Iron bridge) commissioned in 1867 is long on the tooth and past its codal life. Trains on it trav...

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The Sabarmati Express that was set on fire at Godhra and carries pilgrims from Western India to Ayodhya has met an accident at Kanpur outer on the Kanpur-Jhansi line. Several coaches have derailed including the loco. Preliminary indications are that an object was placed on the track to cause the der...

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^^^ A day old video shows the lifting span is now in front of the span control center and about 30m from the lift mechanism supports which are now seen to be completed. The task of attaching the vertical lift span to the supports has to be done in calm seas and low wind speeds. So the moment of trut...

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Pamban Bridge New Deadline SR has now pushed the date for completion of the project to Dec 2024. It was initially Feb 2024. Then June 2024 and now Dec 2024. The main issue is dragging the single span, the vertical lifting span about 480m from the Rameswaram end where it was fabricated to the place ...

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SWR has served notice via the medium of the local papers that on June 15th they will energize overhead wires for the last remaining 31km section Kudachi to Miraj outer on the Londa--Belagavi--Miraj section. SWR had completed doubling from Londa to Miraj last February. With the electrification of thi...

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@Mukesh.Kumar As KLD has written it appears 0/9 for the WB part of Phase 7. Let me explain. First Diamond Harbor. It is a very safe seat for the TMC and the demographics is such that "samuday vishesh" makes up 40% of that constituency so the heir apparent stands from there. The city of Kol...

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@KL Dubey I agree with your assessment regarding the probable outcome of the 2024 elections and I may have said the same numbers as quoted by you above. I do not think however, it would have been better to have just 6 phases. It would have stretched out the companies of CRPF too thin esp. in states ...

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@Ramana: The demographics of Amethi and Rae Bareli are very different. The two constituencies border each other. There is also nearby Phulpur, Chacha Nehru's old constituency. UP has the perennial Yadav/Dalit divide and each party wants to win sizeable portion of the "the other". This cast...

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^^^ I expect Delhi will be a clean sweep for BJP. Most of the candidates of AAP have been parachuted in to the constituency and have no name recognition same as Congress. Like some Pahelwan from South Delhi. Yes, Adhikari family has Tamluk and two other places as their fortress in WB. The interestin...

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For another example: Since some of you know there is something called Libgen as the poster^^^ has given this gyaan about Libgen, go and look at this Libgen and download the book The India-China Relationship---Rivalry and Engagement(Oxford University Press), which is a collection of articles with Fra...

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^^^ @dinesh.kumar why are you regurgitating useless crap. You are a newbie so learn: Here http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/archives/MONITOR/ISSUE3-6/ramana.html http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/archives/MONITOR/ISSUE6-3/crater.pdf Second article on Crater Phenomenon appeared in the BRM here(it was apparen...

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Biden States that India and Japan are Xenophobic Countries https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-india-japan-china-russia-immigration-economy-74a50301fac4f48fd5e5a4cc9b1bb3ff He made this statement at a fundraiser where the audience was predominantly Asian Americans. So much for the MUTU's on this f...

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With the successful commissioning today of 138km of greenfield alignment around Ahmedabad from Sanand, western suburb of Ahmedabad to Makarpura (Vadodara) Western Dedicated Freight Corridor is complete from Dadri in UP NCR to Vaitarna in MH. All major Gujarat ports are now connected to WDFC and Delh...

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Surrender of Maoists and crisis in their leadership:

Surrender took place April 21 at Vizag ahead of LS polls:

Read more at:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... aign=cppst

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Already Milk is taking 37% less time since last year to reach Delhi NCR from Gujarat via WDFC. This is going to decrease since Anand area is on the Makarpura to Sanand section, so operationalizing of this in 2 months (once trials are over^^^)will help even more in milk delivery. https://www.fortunei...

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I had posted graphics aeons ago about logistics cost in India compared to the rest of the economic powerhouses in the world. In India logistics cost is currently 14% of GDP and needs to be brought down to 8-9% if India wants to vault to the 5 trillion regime. Here is an article by Gordon Feller whic...

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Horticultural Products(Sapotas/Chikus) flow along the WDFC from South Gujarat(Navsari) towards Delhi NCR With the completion of the Makarpura to Sanand link, travel time for the produce will reduce further, reducing spoilage further. https://indiashippingnews.com/south-gujarat-farmers-start-benefit...

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Fantastic News At Last---Western DFC---Trial took place a few hours ago on Ahmedabad(Sanand) to Makarpura(Vadodara) section 138km The Western DFC had a missing greenfield section of 138km between Sanand North (western outskirts of Ahmedabad) and Makarapura(Vadodara suburb). This section was absolut...

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^^^ Megha engineering made Kavach, Train anti-collision system and also supplies wheelsets for VB. For a time there was some trouble regarding the wheel sets/bogies and this was used in FIR against that Sudhansu Mani guy from ICF and the name of Megha came up then. In addition Megha is executing a p...

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^^^ Sen Cardin the senior senator from Maryland is retiring this year after serving three terms in the Senate. His predecessor Sen Barbara Mikulski also a Maryland senator who was in the Senate foreign relations committee also was anti India and made intemperate comments. The part of Maryland border...

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Two Bridges Across Ganga in Bihar. Mokamah bridge that will replace a 60 year old bridge. Adjacent to it a railway bridge is being constructed for double track. Such bridges facilitate movement between North Bihar(also thus Northeast India, Sikkim etc ) and South Bihar. Completion June 2024. The vid...

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A Train Finally Reaches Sindhanur, Karnataka The railway was promised to Sindhanur in British times. PM Modi has finally fulfilled the desires of the population here. Look at the sheer happiness and acclamation for PM Modi. The line will eventually connect Gadag to Raichur, new railway line. Parts o...

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Pune is a civilian enclave inside IAF station Lohegaon, just like Prayagraj is a civilian enclave inside IAF station Bamrauli, another dump that I flew through in 2015 and is being refurbished in preparation for Kumbh Mela in January 2025. Bamrauli is HQ of Central Command which will play an import...

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Forged wheels factory construction has started in TN. These wheels will be for VB and the factory has a target of 50 % export. It’s JV between Titaghar and Ram Krishna Forging This is very good news. India was importing forged wheels from Ukraine and other Central European countries specifically fo...

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Another new terminal that was inaugurated is also a civilian enclave inside an IAF station at Adampur(Jalandhar). Adampur was in the thick of action in both 1965 and 1971 with strike missions from Adampur. Here are some videos after the opening two days ago. The demand is now for flights. https://ww...

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