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Prem Kumar

Saw it Ramana. Nice takedown of the Linguistic fakery & the Salma-quotes-Sabrina syndrome

Prem Kumar

Nice video about the Sanauli burial site discovery. Chariots in 2200 - 2000 BCE. With solid wheels. Engraved swords & world's first copper helmet! Apparently 125 burials were found. I sincerely hope that they excavated carefully & were able to get aDNA from at least some of these. lfuFFJF_SQc

Prem Kumar

I don't know how to put it delicately, but the IAF has behaved like a petulant child: 1) I want shiny Rafales or the slightly less shiny Gripens. If I cannot either, I'd rather go through another MMRCA tamasha than order Tejas MK1 or MK1a 2) I would rather wait a decade for the new AWACS than buy a ...

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Kanson: Helina is also LOAL. Needs to be launched in the general direction. The mast + radar it to know what the general direction needs to be.

On the algo + coordination + autonomous side, Brimstone seems to have some cool functionality

Prem Kumar

The whole issue is of acquisition range. Nag relies on COMPASS for long range pickup and then can fire Nag with the target acquired so it can lock on before launch. The range is ~4km. Question is what method is used by the Brimstone to Lock on After launch? From air, its easy. You can use your onbo...

Prem Kumar

^^
Good coverage. NewsX seems to be the only channel that gave the Rakhigarhi findings the attention it deserved!

Prem Kumar

Where there is a will, there is a way. Like how Modi said "screw the MRCA logjam" and completed a G2G deal for Rafale. A few Rafales today is better than 126 Rafales that will never come! Same thing can be done by ordering 10 more Netras. Him/Rajnath can be open about why they are doing it...

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Check out this report: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/2-awacs-air-to-air-missiles-on-agenda-for-netanyahu-visit/story-kzJ9Cf5NUtdD0BYyZmVo9M.html While India has five AWACS platforms, Pakistan already has seven such with another three on order from China. Islamabad already has three SAAB ...

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Kartik wrote:Image of the MPATGM from its latest test

ANI Twitter link

We are going full steam on tank busters:

1) NAG
2) Helina
3) SANT
4) MANPATGM
5) CLGM

Not to mention assorted newer generation smart munitions like Adrushy-II

Prem Kumar

Not saying 12 is a small number. I was curious how they managed 24 (if that was indeed achieved). I realize its only a concept, while Namica is a ready-to-be-inducted system. Funny part is that the Poles claim this is a 1st tank destroyer of its kind. I hope there comes a Namica 2.0 with Helina &...

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Indeed. Its a criminal waste of money and R&D. Like building an entire assembly line, but shutting it down after manufacturing 3 cars! Meanwhile, we can find billions of $$ for imports. A CCS meeting will most likely finalize an order for 10 P-8Is, in addition to the previous order for 12. Howev...

Prem Kumar

Great news! Can't help but wonder - what if we had ordered 6 - 9 more of these beauties that demonstrated their worth during Balakot & the day after?

Prem Kumar

Looks like Venkronym Naidu's photo with what looks like S-5 has made everyone sit up and take notice. OSINT jai ho!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2019/09/08/tweet-may-have-inadvertently-revealed-indias-next-gen-nuclear-weapons-platform-with-global-reach/#306986f37212

Prem Kumar

I hope the fresh Akash orders are for: 1) Maintaining a no-escape zone close to the border, to prevent any PAF counter to future surgical strikes by us 2) Protect other vital assets like the ammo dumps & Army brigade headquarters etc from glide bombs & cruise missiles Hopefully, the post-Bal...

Prem Kumar

Check out this concept tank-destroyer - collaboration between Poland & MBDA. Looks like what Namica could be, once we equip it with Helina & SANT. I am curious how they packed 24 Brimstones in a BMP-2 carrier (same as Namica). Nag dimensions are similar to Brimstone and Namica carries only 1...

Prem Kumar

Isn't Reich grudgingly conceding here that AIT/AMT is dead without saying it directly ? Reich is being a slimeball. He didn't say there was no AMT/AIT. Vagheesh's paper says that, just like how Central Europe bell-beaker culture survived even after Yamanaya invasion, even if there is no material cu...

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Prem Kumar

Guys: please read this NYT article in detail, especially the last few paragraphs to know the modus operandi of that snake Reich. We see every single trick described here being played out by Vagheesh & Co in the Rakhigarhi aDNA episode. To name a few: 1) Publishing an average paper (with politica...

Prem Kumar

Anshuman.Kumar wrote:Anyways The R1a paper from G Choubey is not far away

What is this paper?

Also, there is an upcoming aDNA paper that Niraj tweeted about earlier this year, which he says will show that there were horses in IVC

Prem Kumar

aDNA paper's 1st author is Vasant Shinde. Not from Harvard. But 2nd author is Vagheesh. Dr. Vasant Shinde explained in a video interview that they had analyzed the DNA in CCMB but wanted to ensure that it got a 2nd validation from Reich's lab, which has better equipment. Because of this, Harvard peo...

Prem Kumar

Rudradev: agreed. I had gone through Niraj Rai's paper in detail before posting my excerpts above. Going to review the 2nd paper by Vagheesh today.

Looking forward to your analysis.

Pulikeshi: see my post above, on why there is a 2nd paper and its curious timing.

Prem Kumar

People must work on modelling Steppe Ancestry with this new IVC genome too..check how much deviation is there. Mind You the so called Steppe Ancestry has a large Iran Chalcolithic Component. Plus This so called Iran Neolithic or Iran Farmer Must be modeled as admixture of this Pure IVC population a...

Prem Kumar

Correct. The Rakhigarhi aDNA without Steppe component + Sanauli Chariot together demolish AIT. It shows the following: 1) That the Indus Valley people were indigenous & had horse-chariot technology circa 2500 BCE 2) By then, they had also independently invented & practiced agriculture for 10...

Prem Kumar

Paper doesn't say much about ASI or ANI. The invasionists will argue that the Steppe people came later, circa 1500 BCE. That nonsense is what Vagheesh's 2nd paper is all about. The final nail in the coffin will be when we extract Indus Valley aDNA from 1500 BCE and show no Steppe component. If that ...

Prem Kumar

Here is the Rakhgarhi aDNA paper: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)30967-5?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867419309675%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Prem Kumar

By the way, the timing of the release of a 2nd paper by Vagheesh, analyzing 323 aDNA seems a little to coincidental. Its on the same day as Rakhigarhi aDNA paper . And it talks the same garbage as his earlier bioRxiv pre-print which never saw the light of day. The 2nd paper's release has a particula...

Prem Kumar

Vagheesh has released a paper in Cell. Don't know if Niraj Rai is referring to the same paper or a different one. Check Twitter handle of vagheesh. Niraj Rai has also tweeted, giving salient highlights of what today's presser & y'days paper is all about: 1) No Steppe DNA in Rakhigarhi individual...

Prem Kumar

Looks like the Rakhigarhi DNA paper is getting published to Cell tonight. Vasant Shinde & Niraj Rai have called for a press conference tomorrow at 11 AM in National Museum.

In unrelated news, Tony Joseph, Vagheesh Narasimhan and David Reich are having diarrhea

Prem Kumar

Security Scan - QRSAM- Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile PYFvMDZp0J4 Amazing video! The Army gents were great. The journalist was a qtiya, as always. A few big takeaways: 1) DRDO learnt a lot from failures like Trishul and Maitri 2) QRSAM is in a different league, compared to MRSAM, LRSAM or Ak...

Prem Kumar

I really hope so. Hope to see the Art 370 avatar of Modi rather than his Parliament-bowing, Constitution-kissing version!

Prem Kumar

I've always wondered about this: "Light" Combat Aircraft should be followed by Advanced "Medium" Combat Aircraft. Like you should do UKG after LKG. We've seen the painful, artificial constraints imposed by the "Light" concept in terms of space, payload, range etc. Now w...

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1) The SC has acted, once again, in the most disgraceful manner and compromised Indian's internal security 2) The BJP, once again, sounds like a whiner & a loser. They were in power at the Centre and the State. They could have raised a huge ruckus about how flawed the NRC was. But they discarded...

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Rohit: superb work!

Please share it with @prasannavishy & @amargov (Swarajya) or @rahulroushan & @unsubtledesi (OpIndia). They will certainly publish it & it will reach a wide audience

Prem Kumar

Time to conduct surgical strike on fake printing presses in Karachi. And while we are at it, make some executives at the ink-supplier company disappear for a few days

Prem Kumar

1. Mig-21 are "interceptor" by design i.e. their primary job [ref:wiki] 2. Mig-21 are "short ranged" i.e. they are kept near the border [ref:wiki] 3. If Mig-21 are still part of the fleet for whatever reason i.e. IAF still thinks they are still useful as "interceptor" ...

Prem Kumar

There is no attempt to kill Tejas anymore. Everyone is onboard. This line of thought is leading to a lot of unnecessary heartburn and posts which hold no water. To me, the litmus test is this: is the IAF willing to kill the 110 Single Engine Fighter RFP? If yes, then I will believe that they are go...

Prem Kumar

Sorry to be a pessimist, but given how Russia scuttled Brahmos sales by offering Yakhont as a competitor, this is likely to go down the same way. Its a question of whether the OEM is willing to let a reseller thrive

Prem Kumar

Are there any efforts to productionize the CLGM and integrate with LCH or Rudra? CLGM works off laser designation and weighs only 18.5 Kgs. The helis can carry 2X the number of CLGMs compared to Helina.

For pig-hunting at LOC, for busting APCs etc, this can be a cheap option

Prem Kumar

Excellent! Focus on DGMO level talks and Track-II should be about agreeing: 1) How many rats can we kill 2) How many surgical strikes can we conduct 3) How many HVTs, jernail families can be bump of 4) How much land can we re-take …… while mutually agreeing that we will both keep it quiet. We should...

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