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I have always believed that there will be a fleet of ships for transporting oil and gas from USA to India contributing to a substantial % of Indian needs.

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What is the NATO equivalent of S300/S400. Is it a set of systems? Why can’t KSA get that?

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Why do we need sswamy to tweet what we have been speculating here for a couple of years now!

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https://twitter.com/5Forty3/status/1166602028568764418 Dr Praveen Patil @5Forty3 INC leaders privately confess " What do we fight for? Kashmir? Reinstatement of triple Talaq? Rebuilding Babri Masjid in Ayodhya? There is nothing left really, he (Modi) is giving the poor gas cylinders, money in ...

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This airspace closing talk - I guess pak is going into a state of defense preparedness for the inevitable PoK offensive by India!

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POK and GB must be flushed first. I mean, no way do we want the present infestations there to become Indian voters, hain? It will be a UT with small Number of MPs. It can be managed. India will silently encourage non- Kashmiris to go packing for a period of time and most of them will do it. Otherwi...

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If India gets POk and unites Kashmir - there will be permanent peace. Kashmiris will be grateful eternally.

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I don’t understand why India got invited to G7. Maybe to discuss sending troops to AFG with all relevant parties?

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India should send troops to AFG to secure our borders. Find a way to supply troops and encircle pak.

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I feel that USA is smarting from this as much as pak. I expect to see slowly increasing backlash from them. They are slowly starting the human rights angle. This could have been gamed by India already though.

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May his soul find peace!

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I have always believed in Indian troops in AFG. It is possible with India gets back Gilgit-Baltistan and be able to support its troops to AFG. That could be a grand bargain with the USA if we can handle China.

V_Raman · Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A: News & Discussions: 23 February 2019 Well said deejay!

Well said deejay!

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What is this affliction with India appointing people who studied overseas for critical positions in the government?

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What if there is some kind of adverse ruling from ICJ? What are the chances? If yes, what is the impact?

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We need mota bhai to enter the media in India on India's side.

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The challenge is to remove china from our western border and project power till Afghanistan. Then we are a superpower who has claimed its historical space with stable borders.

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India will be admitted to P5+1 when it unties this knot.

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Thanks Maityaji for the enlightenment! So this is another case of tech being offered when we are on the cusp of it! Pranaams!!

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The more I look at Pakistan hysteria - the more I think that they are pissed off at their option for some kind of federation with India being taken away! They wanted to be a separate electorate. But 370 was the next best option. Now that is taken away!

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What % of 500M from DRDO is being paid to Safran? Or is it co-development funds that will be spent in India? I would add a healthy margin for a developed product in this space in the calculations - like 100% over what it would cost to develop - heck even that is low given the time it takes to develo...

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If this is over 330M euros (580 - 250) from Safran - we are definitely missing forest for the trees. Safran will have to fulfill its offset obligations somewhere else for the rest of the money. So it is coming into the country anyway. DRDO does not seem to have the expertise to do this on its own. S...

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CORRECTION

Rudradev wrote:^^
(What major international power-brokers (West, China, elsewhere) ~~don't~~ didn't want to lose is the prospect of a continuously festering, simmering, poorly-integrated J&K as a lever of manipulation against India. That is what is under threat now.

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I agree with chola. Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. Sigh...

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Look at what soko is doing with it - exporting it like crazy - the same basic design! We actually have an extended version with Shishumar class and we rolled out the last one only in 1994! It is a crime to get ToT and not manufacture it!!

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Bofors is still usable and we are finally building it!!

209 is newer than kilo - can it be worse than kilo?

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We evaluated Type 209 successor - Type 214 - during original Project 75 - and found Scorpene with teardrop hull better. Most major submarine deals - Australia, India, Brazil, Malaysia - DCN technology was found better than Germans, who do not propose the much better Type 212 only to select allies. ...

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Today they are openly refusing to take sides on the 370 issue. And the more Pakistan insists on using Kashmir as an issue to blackmail Trump regarding the Afghanistan negotiations, the bigger the rift between Pakis and the Taliban will get. Makes sense. Maybe that is why Pak is linking Kashmir to A...

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We need our own equipment to make it better - got it. I hear that the MKI engines cant generate enough power for AESA. Is that true? Will it need an engine upgrade?

Will the upgrade cost be super high - like north of 50 mil including engine upgrades, all these equipment, fees to russia, etc. ?

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No wonder IAF wants a M2K++ in MWF

With russia so much behind in Radar/Weapons- will we ever get the MKI to be as good as even our MWF?

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There is no way sleeper cells can be activated without IM support. Not possible. 26/11 type intrusion - maybe - but even that needs IM support after landfall. The public is hyper vigilant now. Near impossible to pull something like that.

If they can still effect something - then all bets are off.

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There is no way Indian Muslims will do anything in this atmosphere. Any such act will paint the whole community as anti-national. That is why we dont see any terror attacks outside of J&K. Without support from Indian Muslims, TSP cannot do anything outside of J&K.

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Thanks for patiently answering my questions. To summarize, MKI is our aircraft of choice for defensive patrols King of WVR Strategic with ALCM capability It is short on BVR and precision strike - this is holding it back from many of the offensive missions of IAF. Our original unupgraded M2K, acquire...

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All these points might make technical sense. But MKI was sold as the next best thing to sliced bread! I still remember IAF chief gushing about it on induction and how it takes IAF to one of the most formidable AF in the world. Yet, it cannot even be used for a strike like Balakot?! From practical ev...

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Maybe we told P5 that we will hold plebiscite after resettling the Pandits, taking pok back and calming the area down

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Is there confirmation of airspace closing?

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MKI cant fire SPICE? Why no MKI as an escort with the package? Maybe IAF thought it is not needed? If we are so enamored with French aircraft, why did we even need MKI? Sorry for asking such simple questions. I have not seen MKI being used for anything other than claiming that it is a great aircraft...

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Why is M2K used instead of MKI? I have had this question as well.

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If USA knew about it, how come Pak did not have any clue about it? Or they had all the clues and yet could only come up with the dumb plan of asking DT to make noises on Kashmir?

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One interpretation of what Trump said. We know you are going to soon abrogate 370 - as you have told us. My mediation talk is about what will happen if you do that. Is that possible?

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