Bharat Rakshak

csaurabh

The space industry is inherently tied to the MIC, which is woefully lacking. This is why programs like Arihant, IAC, Tejas LCA, Arjun, Aakash, Dhanush, Brhamos and others so important in the long run. They build up the technical and scientific base. I would take it a step further. I think the term ...

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https://jatan.space/missing-science-from-mangalyaan/ According to ISRO’s official list of publications, there have been only 27 peer-reviewed papers relating to Mangalyaan, after six years in orbit. In contrast, MAVEN has helped produce many seminal scientific results about the martian atmosphere, ...

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That hits like f-ing ton of bricks. It must change. We've been working on the LCA since 1980s. Four decades of indigenization cannot leave the plane still hostage to a phoren supply chain. We are giving them financial relief? Who is giving Indian aerospace suppliers financial and technical relief? ...

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For the simple fact that it can lead to a never-ending quest for ISRO to do everything under the sun. They are operating in a relatively technologically backward country. If there is not sufficient domestic demand for technologies that ISRO needs, it makes no sense to do these domestically if the p...

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Converting CO2 and H2 (from H2O) into methanol is a thermodynamically uphill process. You put far more energy into it than what you can get out. Infact the thermodynamically efficient process is the reverse, ie. burning methanol to produce CO2 and H2O This means that the methanol thus produced is no...

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MODs please excuse.. am cross posting this from the economic forum. It's a request to all, to see if any help can be extended to this gentleman I (and others) have posted multiple times about his ongoing dogged efforts to build his (and India's) civilian transport for the past 2 decades... https://...

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If a part is designed using imported software, built using imported materials and imported machinery and imported manufacturing software, then how indigenous is it really? It is a step up from simply importing the part, but a long long way from true indigenization. In my opinion, we are getting stu...

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ISRO Annual Report 2019-20 page 76 Indigenisation Launch vehicles and satellites use various critical materials and components which are space qualified. Even though Indian industries are supplying a majority of the materials, few critical materials and electronics components & packages are sti...

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Look what happens when I don't check forums for a couple of days :lol: I am going to ignore that nonsensical arithmetic question. What does he think this is, math olympiad? LOL I am an entrepreneur in the space sector, based in India. I interact with these people on a regular basis. I think I would ...

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Update from the IDEX DISC challenge for startups. Here are the terms and conditions. 1) You (the startup) must put in an equivalent amount of what we (Armed forces) are putting in, for development cost. For example if AF is giving Rs. 70 lakh you must put in 70 lakhs of your own as well. 2) You must...

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^^^ I'm not aware of that. Which components rely on foreign suppliers ? Pretty much all types of components and facilities. For example: Little micro-valves that supply tiny amounts of propellant to thrusters (think pencil battery size). These cost a cool Rs. 1 Lakh each and are imported from Lee V...

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Why was this decision not taken long ago? Govt's Decision To Ban Import Of Communication Satellites Opens Up Huge Opportunity For Private Players: ISRO Chief https://swarajyamag.com/news-brief/govts-decision-to-ban-import-of-communication-satellites-opens-up-huge-opportunity-for-private-players-isr...

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I find these repeated (ad absurdum) claims to authority quite laughable. Crash course: Images are taken by electro-optic sensors when EM radiation (light, IR, etc. ) falls on it when it is channeled through an optical train ( comprised of lenses, mirrors, differactive elements, etc. ) and this data ...

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My laptop has a 45nm chip. It works fine for pretty much everything.

Really don't understand this obsession with 'we must have the best or nothing at all' nonsense.

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Telangana seems to be unusually high on that list. Bihar as well - its usually in the last position.

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What is exaggerated is the idea that collecting TBs of data or billions of measurements is some kind of 'achievement'. Like I said.. leave a camera on for a day or two and it will collect TBs of data. ^^^The larger question here is that images and data have not been released to the public from the C...

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Yeah they can be alternately sourced, but the cost?
A typical industrial camera from China would cost 1/4th to 1/10th that of a typical western product.
That is why we are buying from China in the first place!

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It is not always lobbying, corruption etc. Much of the shenanigans can be attributed to the phenomenon called "Indiligence" "Indiligence" is a combination of words Indian and Intelligence. The primary driving factor for this is the insatiable urge to demonstrate your intelligenc...

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- Camera - Taken 2.9 million images - Thermometer - Made 524 billion thermal measurements - Gathered 12000 TB of data. (But most people really do not know/care etc... similarly CY2 is doing it's work without too-much fanfare..:) . This is quite exaggerated. A camera if taking images of 1000x1000 pi...

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ISRO does not hire media/PR people. They don't take it too seriously, from what I know the job is palmed off to jr. engineers. So don't expect a lot of updates regarding Chandrayaan, etc. It is a very hush hush organization, which only releases info now and then. Which is strange because 99% of what...

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There is NO progress towards atma-nirbharta. Import lobby has sabotaged everything. One well reputed company I know was awarded a grant to develop an indigenous replacement for Carl Gustav Rocket launcher. After a ton of red tape compliances they were awarded 10% of the promised grant for the first...

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Like we track here the developments of LCA, wouldn't it be a good idea to do the same for desi products progress of desi products? Like dates for RFI/RFP, DCC approvals, CCS approval, etc? It would help us estimate typical progress towards atmanirbharta. There is NO progress towards atma-nirbharta....

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^^^ I think high time we stop blaming OFB for everything and approach this rationally. Army procurement should be analysed rationally else we will be no different from Pakistani citizens. There are 14 positive cases in HAL bangalore but the work is going on but that did not get the LCA MK1 order, d...

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AIM (Abhijit Iyer Mitra) has written utter nonsense regarding Rafale, Tejas, and engineering and research in general. He is also a big fan of importing, esp. from US. His views on economics are not much better. There are far better defense journalists for example look up Amit R. Kashyap in youtube. ...

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Is Abhijit Iyer-Mitra's scathing assessment of the Indian IT sector well considered? Or is he being very unfair and vicious with regard to "cyber coolies". India needs those people! And if Indians aren't doing it, other countries will get the jobs- Brazil, Russia, Philippines, Vietnam et ...

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/captains-musings/defence-procurement-nothing-has-changed-in-the-last-three-decades/ Defence procurement : Nothing has changed in the last three decades Nothing much seems to have changed in the last three decades in defence procurement. I reproduce below a p...

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Seeing the MoD and military procurement officials' unending appetites for imports, I feel many important private sector firms such as Kalyani Strategic systems, L&T etc which were supposed to provide indigenous capabilities, will start shutting shop in the coming years or at the very least draw...

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I did some quick reading on him. There seems to be very little info available on what he is actually doing. The website doesn't really have any pics or technical details. The only things mentioned in articles is that the mines are detected using multi-spectral imaging. Which is possible I guess. Mul...

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I am sure many of you have read about the drone boy who has won accolades all over the world and been offered a job at DRDO by the PM. It did sound suspicious to most of us. story debunked https://www.opindia.com/2020/07/drone-boy-scientist-prathap-nm-600-drones-ewaste-fact-check-fake-claim/amp/?__...

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Thanks for the thread Mukkanji If I may, there is a wider implication and also policy of the politics of economics... India is I think the ONLY major country which does not practice economic nationalism.....of course CHina but also US, Korea, Japan, RU, FR and DE are all active in this space of pro...

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suryag I liked you original post. I think you should revert it. I think the consensus is that while some ( though small relative to our population ) good engineering/research work is being done in the country, it is usually done under multi-national companies. Which does not really help a lot in nat...

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Consumer facing fabs aren't necessarily the best thing to aim for. They're low labour input (of very high skill level) and very very high capital input. That's not quite the best bang for buck. For domestic consumption needs, it's fine to encourage fabs that aren't quite on the lithographic cutting...

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Agreed. I don't know what all the brouhaha around apps is around. We mostly use western derived apps anyway, not Chinese ones. App development while having useful applications is not really high tech. While facebook has a market cap four times that of Lockheed Martin I would definitely rather have a...

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Apologies, I did not read the first post. Now I went back and read many other posts. They are hilarious. The dude's imagination is very fertile, and includes saving starving Africans from snakebites! Not to blame you but you should use some common sense. Manufacturing 600 drones would make his compa...

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These articles scream of fake news and arrant nonsense. One particularly stupid idea seems to be using a mixer grinder motor to run a drone. Firstly the mixer grinder runs on AC power ( which isn't available on a drone ), and secondly drones use high rpm low weight BLDC motors which the mixer grinde...

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Developing tech products takes lot of investment. Even in US, maybe only 1 in 1000 are successful. But that one successful will make up for the loss in 999 failed ones. There is only very limited opportunity in India to recoup any investment developing tech products. There is no IPO markets for tec...

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The Chinese focused on building these kinds of heavy infrastructure machinery just to avoid being bottlenecked by monopoly western suppliers like Herrenknecht . We are going to be forced to do the same - to avoid dependency on both the west and the Chinese . It certainly isn’t going to be easy or q...

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Let me give you guys some perspective on the so called attempts to build domestic military industrial complex in India that I witnessed first hand. A year back, we were finalists in the first IDEX (innovations for defense excellence ) startup challenge. Our product was good. We had a good potential ...

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Can anyone tell me exactly why soldiers were fighting with clubs or other melee weapons?

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