That was always going to happen and Modi must have expected this. Remains to be seen how the EC reacts but I'm assuming some legal expert must have been consulted prior to including the comments in the speech.
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- 23 Apr 2024 00:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- 22 Apr 2024 10:36
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
https://www.youtube.com/live/S0bgGgQn6UM?feature=shared TN Voter Percentage discrepancy - The Real Reason this happened This explanation is interesting. I hope what he says is true that the attempt at manipulation was stopped. Though I wonder if the type of rigging that he has alleged happened in 2...
- 21 Apr 2024 05:46
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Final Phase 1 turnouts are 68.8% (2014), 69.6% (2019), and 68.3% (2024). I don't really see a significant change. What about if we break it down statewise and compare between 2019 and 2024 ? Is it still similar ? Even that can be misleading in terms of determining the outcome. Example: https://twit...
- 20 Apr 2024 09:48
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 1010
- Views: 4497082
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
Seems someone is desperate to create a fallacy. Let's not start this new canard, AFTER THE FACT, of 1000kg reduction in empty weight. First time hearing of this. 200-300kg ballast adjustment has been mentioned before though. Even that hasn't been true for a while now. Here is Indranil's post from 2...
- 20 Apr 2024 09:03
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
TN voting turnout revised downwards to 69% from 72% being reported yesterday somehow. Chennai is the biggest culprit - South and Central Chennai only recorded 54% and 53% respectively. Coimbatore (Annamalai's seat) which was being mentioned at >70% yesterday is now only at 64%. Some of the earlier h...
- 20 Apr 2024 07:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
However the not so good news for the BJP is regarding the expected heat waves during election season. He cited some analysis which predicts that on some election days the temperature in many seats could be over 40 degrees which would translate into a lower turnout. How is this any different from 20...
- 18 Apr 2024 12:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Just saw Yashwant Deshmukh (CVoter) make a couple of good points in an interview, one which signals good news for the BJP and another which does not. First point he made was that even in 1999 when the BJP won the election, the total vote share of the BJP was 4% lower than that of the Congress. This ...
- 13 Apr 2024 06:03
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 1010
- Views: 4497082
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
This is a real lungi dance moment. Hopefully the process from tender to order signing does not drag too long. This should be the final nail in the MRFA coffin. I look forward to the day we can finally lock the MRFA thread on this forum and lay what is basically the reanimated corpse of the MMRCA com...
- 10 Apr 2024 23:35
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
- Replies: 1010
- Views: 4497082
Re: Air Force Tejas Mk1A: News & Discussions: 02 January 2022
The IAF wants the BNET SDR on the Mk1A, thats the "software change" as it has to be integrated with the on-board mission computer to share critical information including weapons quality tracks. You have to wonder how many of these last minute requirements come in because of utter ignoranc...
- 10 Apr 2024 12:13
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
AP to me seems like one of those states like TN, Punjab, and Kerala where both major parties are terrible in their own ways and BJP organization in the state is weak and prospects dim. And unlike say TN there is no Annamalai counterpart in AP who can offer hope for a better future for BJP. So allyin...
- 09 Apr 2024 12:10
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Congoons have decided to go full scorched earth this time without holding anything back. Their manifesto and RaGa's statement about wealth survey and (forced) redistribution is straight up Pol-Pot and Mao level communist insanity. RaGa has become like one of those perverted movie villains who, after...
- 06 Apr 2024 10:24
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2731
- Views: 1116924
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
But i just wish that the various responsible Babu log to keep there mouths shut in such things. They should simply say that the program is on schedule and is expected to perform XYZ operation in due course. Exactly. We have heard all kinds of highly optimistic timelines in the past. And then we cam...
- 06 Apr 2024 10:07
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Small Armaments & Infantry Equipment - News & Discussion
- Replies: 1961
- Views: 773914
Re: Small Armaments & Infantry Equipment - News & Discussion
DRDO Tech Focus on Small arms and Ammo. https://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/sites/default/files/technology-focus-documrnt/TF_Oct_2021.pdf This is from Oct 2021. One interesting detail in this is about the 5.56x30mm MINSAS round used in the JVPC. They have specifically mentioned its (soft) armor piercing c...
- 06 Apr 2024 00:27
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Newbie Corner & Military Miscellaneous - Aug 2016
- Replies: 227
- Views: 147784
Re: Newbie Corner & Military Miscellaneous - Aug 2016
Does anyone know how much aviation fuel is consumed at cruising height compared to a low level flight? I need this as I have a hypothesis about Israeli attack on Iraqi nuke reactor during 1980's. The official word is that the F-16's flew at about 50-100 feet to escape saudi radar. But it would not ...
- 05 Apr 2024 11:43
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Newbie Corner & Military Miscellaneous - Aug 2016
- Replies: 227
- Views: 147784
Re: Newbie Corner & Military Miscellaneous - Aug 2016
Am unable to find the link for BRF dictionary. Is the site down? Can someone please post a link here. Thanks! The link is https://sites.google.com/site/brfdictionary/ but the site appears to be removed. Unfortunately, the only BRF user I know of who had access to and updated the site was ArmenT and...
- 03 Apr 2024 00:32
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
- Replies: 1250
- Views: 2453754
Re: Hamas attack.on Israel. Oct 2023
The top Hamas leaders are sitting safe in Qatar and their funding also comes from Qatar and other Arab countries. Even if the Israelis can find and kill every single Hamas commander and footsoldier in Gaza, which is likely impossible (some may have escaped and others disappeared into the civilian po...
- 03 Apr 2024 00:22
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Am fairly sure that the previous Congress Govt were using Naxals to settle personal scores or to kill anti-missionary Hindu activists Funnily enough usual leftist suspects were blaming Bhupesh Baghel of "using Hindutva" and indulging in "Christian persecution" prior to the CG el...
- 02 Apr 2024 11:21
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2274
- Views: 865286
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
Problem with fighters is that they are truly big ticket items even though they offer the most options to any fighting force. Problem with Sams is that they have very little offensive value. Every country which expects a war with a peer or superior adversary needs enough of both. A shortfall in one ...
- 02 Apr 2024 11:13
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Chinese Armed Forces: News & Discussion
- Replies: 669
- Views: 323294
Re: Chinese Armed Forces: News & Discussion
So a random YT video claims the line can produce 1000 missiles a day and everyone just believes it? You do know the kind of propaganda the Chinese routinely indulge in right? Even then the video only says "components for 1000 missiles" not 1000 fully functional missiles (which would includ...
- 02 Apr 2024 11:00
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Nachiket San, be prepared to be surprised on the positive side. The blitzkreig in TN is exciting and the morass of Delhi in which the Gar$hitties of Germans and US has waded in is promising to create a war of the decade. Remember, several of the dynastic parties are looking at oblivion if they cann...
- 01 Apr 2024 23:15
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
- Replies: 2731
- Views: 1116924
Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
Sadly, even this Govt will not wake up until and unless there is conflict at its doorstep. ABV in 1999 was quite similar in his own way. Didn't that already happen with Balakot-Feb 27 and the Chinese incursion thereafter? How many more wake-up calls do they require? More likely they see no issues w...
- 01 Apr 2024 22:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2274
- Views: 865286
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
.... What is saving them (and India) is the PRC focus on Taiwan. If that stops and infra devpt vs us picks up we will be in deep trouble. It already has picked up. Airfields in Tibet seeing a lot of expansion including lengthening of runways. You combine that with large scale induction of aerial re...
- 01 Apr 2024 12:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
At this point barring some unforeseen events/complications it seems like 3-4 states will decide the overall outcome of the elections - Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal and Karnataka. Everywhere else either the NDA or INDI alliance (or someone else) are in a solid lead with the chance of a statewide c...
- 01 Apr 2024 11:47
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
- Replies: 2274
- Views: 865286
Re: Indian Air Force News & Discussion - 23 March 2021
^^Today is April 1st.
- 24 Mar 2024 09:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Requests to Admins - 2019
- Replies: 73
- Views: 59280
Re: Requests to Admins - 2019
Earlier members could start new topics. Is it possible now? I wish to start a topic on India-Turkey relations. Indian tourists are visiting Turkey in large numbers and Indian businesses are importing large quantities of materials from Turkey, yet Turkish government has an anti India stance and a pr...
- 24 Mar 2024 09:34
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Project 75I - It Begins
- Replies: 1843
- Views: 589513
Re: Project 75I - It Begins
Naval HQ will now go into damage control mode. Their beloved U214/U216 is in danger. https://x.com/sidhant/status/1771163426770796659?s=20 ---> German Foreign ministry reacts to Arvind Kejriwal development: we have taken note, India is a democratic country. We assume and expect that the standards r...
- 22 Mar 2024 20:17
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Joint Military Exercises: News & Discussion
- Replies: 604
- Views: 216496
Re: Joint Military Exercises: News & Discussion
Behold The Explosive Spectacle Of India’s Unrivaled Airpower Demonstration https://www.twz.com/air/behold-the-explosive-spectacle-of-indias-unrivaled-airpower-demonstration 15 March 2024 Interesting how low the multi-rack for 4x 250kg is on the Mirage-2000. That surprised me too. Especially since t...
- 22 Mar 2024 09:30
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
Breaking news: K Annamalai to contest from Coimbatore :D :D TN folks, Is this actually a good idea? Annamalai's remit in TN is to build up the party cadre and support base which he seems to be good at. But they are starting from such a low base that even if the vote % increases, the vote-to-seat co...
- 20 Mar 2024 23:23
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
MH watchers, agree/disagree with RT possibly joining the NDA? He wants my seat, Mumbai South, to contest. If part of the NDA, he will win the seat, he is proposing Bala Nandgaonkar's candidature. The fact that the BJP is even considering adding him after his anti-Modi antics in 2019 goes to show th...
- 17 Mar 2024 12:12
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Lok Sabha Elections 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
- Replies: 632
- Views: 165505
Re: GE 2024 - World's largest elections - Desh Ka Garv [World's envy]
I closed the "Road to 2024 Elections" thread and made this sticky. Please continue all election related discussion here. @SwamyG, I changed the thread title to "Lok Sabha Elections 2024 instead of GE 2024" and edited your first post to add a link to the previous thread.
- 17 Mar 2024 12:09
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
- Replies: 3327
- Views: 848160
Re: Road to the 2024 Elections in India-1
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- 17 Mar 2024 11:56
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4094
- Views: 2036507
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Integrating western Weapons on to Su 24 or Mig 29's is not an overnight job, it has been done with Plans from 2015. If it was required and NATO feels it would have made a difference by now F-16s would be flying for Ukraine, Ukranians would have been trained in USA UK on Maintenance, flying F-16's e...
- 17 Mar 2024 11:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Railways Thread (Dec 2015)
- Replies: 4780
- Views: 1539443
- 17 Mar 2024 11:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Houthi/Iran drone strikes on Gulf shipping
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20479
Re: Houthi/Iran drone strikes on Gulf shipping
In my mind, a hypersonic missile is one which is capable of aerodynamic maneuvering at hypersonic speeds, so that it's not merely travelling on a ballistic path to its target. Do the Yemenis have anything like this capability? I guess Iran isn't a signatory to MTCR, so they'd have no qualms about s...
- 17 Mar 2024 04:54
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Houthi/Iran drone strikes on Gulf shipping
- Replies: 68
- Views: 20479
Re: Houthi/Iran drone strikes on Gulf shipping
Where are Houthis getting hypersonic anti-ship missiles from? Iran? Russia? Who? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hueSv0f9HhE I thought Houthis get everything from Iran. Does Iran have operational hypersonic missiles? If you look at the AP report on this it looks like a claim by the Yemenese themsel...
- 17 Mar 2024 04:38
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
- Replies: 4094
- Views: 2036507
Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Nothing to do with sensitive electronics and everything to do with the fact that Ukraine already has plenty of pilots fully qualified on Mig-29s and none on F-16's or any other western fighter. It is far easier to integrate new weapons on an old aircraft and train the pilots to use them rather than ...
- 17 Mar 2024 04:26
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Project 75I - It Begins
- Replies: 1843
- Views: 589513
Re: Project 75I - It Begins
If the S80 does not clear technical evaluations then it will become a single vendor situation and the tender will have to be cancelled wouldn't it? Remember the recently concluded MRCBF contest? Only two contenders participated - the F-18SH and the Rafale M. The F-18SH lost and the Rafale M won. Bu...
- 13 Mar 2024 13:16
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
- Replies: 1182
- Views: 723301
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 30 June 2022
Best to take anything Bharat Karnad says with a bucketful of salt.
- 13 Mar 2024 02:44
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3363
- Views: 890842
Re: Military Flight Safety
Few points as rebuttal a) I don't understand why drop tanks in inhabited areas are dangerous. Or did you mean habited? In either case, dropping tanks is less dangerous than crashing the aircraft on a house with drop tanks intact. b) When you are out of power, you don't get landing gears down until ...
- 12 Mar 2024 22:11
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Military Flight Safety
- Replies: 3363
- Views: 890842
Re: Military Flight Safety
There is something strange about this incident a) Drop tanks are still there b) Landing gears are down c) Plane is flying level If an aircraft is under distress, the first things that a pilot is trained to do is to reduce drag and lighten load to make sure it can glide for a long distance. In this ...