Bharat Rakshak

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Slightly OT, but we had a few occasions of senior retired ISRO scientists working with/for us. The attention to details, the deep probing and the tenacity drilled into those bright minds is extraordinary (from POV of us engg service folk). The only problem was, we couldn't get anything done to OUR ...

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Just wanted to come out of lurk mode with a small point. Living long doesn't mean they are happy. Karunanidhi had multiple ailments, had to see his party lose power and infighting amongst his many children. Same for others who lived long. And who knows he may have been reborn as a girl in Pakistan ...

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Something is definitely up in Hyderabad. Black Lentils... First: https://telanganatoday.com/new-consulate-compound-for-us-consulate-general-in-hyderabad Largest US Embassy in Indian Sub-Continent. And Now, this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/reuters-america-amazon-opens-its-biggest-global-campus-...

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SaiK wrote:wouldn't we be landing on the dark side?

Dark side is not dark iirc.

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tsarkar wrote:PAG = Pump Action (Shot)Gun. Pretty lethal under the right circumstances but lacks range. Police forces across India have been armed with it. Famously known as Pellet Guns in J&K.

aka Shotgun. The shots can even be rock salt to reduce lethality.

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I saw a astonishing chart in TOI recently about the wait times of the "current date" for GC for indians. for EB1 it was like 3 yrs (used to be always current earlier) for EB2 - 10 years (for china 3 years) for EB3 - 10 years (for china 4 years) add to that vast numbers lakhs in queue and ...

pravula · Re: Terroristan - May 1, 2019 What? No bus stop pickup?

What? No bus stop pickup?

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manju wrote:
ramana wrote:In rural TG they say 4 Anna means 25%.

also referred to as pavala (in telugu in some areas) and pavali (in kananda).. paav as in quarter

naal-anna in Tamil

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ENDURANCE TEST, CIRCA 1958
150,000 MILES WITHOUT LANDING IN A CESSNA 172

During the months of December 1958 and January and February 1959, two young men flew a mission-modified Cessna 172 around and around over the desert Southwest for 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes.

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Lalmohan wrote:the real secret is how do Indian forces obtain fresh leopard urine?!??!!

https://www.predatorpeestore.com/pick-your-pee.html

There is an entire industry dedicated to "organic/natural" pest control.

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Imran Khan Prefers Talking To Journo Hamid Mir , Instead Of The French President ! I’m busy here, tell them to call in 30 minutes; PM Khan on French President’s call ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday held a meeting with TV anchors and senior journalists where he asked them to give his...

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^ Welcome back brar.

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We had a successful last test. Must be waiting for the local engine before another test happens. Given the tomahawk talk, now it is confirmed we are making progress. And why are outraging over a rumor. US will not sell tomahawks to anyone other than UK. It will be violation of MTCR and doing it wil...

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and stocking How? If a Su-30, Rafale & LCA each require a warehouse of stores, by standardizing on any one, we will still need 3 warehouses for the 3 Su-30, 3 Rafales or 3 LCAs. Assuming Su-30 has 12,000 parts, Rafale has 11,000 parts and LCA has 10,000 parts. Total 33,000 parts. Assume we stan...

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India's first RISC-V based Chip is Here: Linux boots on Shakti processor! from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15685019 on why this is such a big deal: As the lead architect of Shakti and the guy who helped kick-start the project, I figure I am owed my 2 cents ! 1. We never positioned it as an...

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https://twitter.com/vayusena More #nerdfacts Hours flown by IAF MiG-21 Bisons in 2004-2008 : 38,000 hours #Nerdfacts approx hours flown by IAF Sukhoi-30s between 2004 and 2008 = 20,000. Attrition - Nil Nerd Fact: http://nomtbf.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/800px-Bathtub_curve.svg_.png

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Austin wrote:The director of the FBI says the whole of Chinese society is a threat to the US - and Americans must step up as a society to defend themselves

Looks like US has now become absolute paranoid !

Around six years late....

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As opposed to? When was the last time any supercomputer was made without COTS processors and GPUs "stringed" together by highspeed networking? Don't make a strawman argument just for the sake. The point I am making is that the so-called Chinese supercomputers heavily rely on American chip...

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...Intel and nVidia once owned the Chinese supercomputer space. Today both the chini satellite and supercomputing markets are among the largest in the world without any American share. ... Huh, say what? China, rather each Chinese province is in a pissing contest with the other, trying to make the ...

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China’s next box office hit? A dark comedy about smuggling in cancer drugs from India Cheng’s character is based on the true story of Lu Yong, a textile trader who was diagnosed with leukemia, and spent more than $80,000 (link in Chinese) on Gleevec, a very effective treatment that wasn’t covered a...

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RoyG wrote:
pravula wrote:Tribal, not caste.

caste as in kinship group.

How is "Kinship group" caste? AFAIK, In Indic tradition, its called gothram.

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Allegedly India's democracy has declined significantly over the last 10 years, per the report you can find on the front page here: https://www.v-dem.net/en/ Caste based societies will naturally be less democratic because the extended family structure tends to regulate itself. Weber made a very crit...

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Krisna, three things. 1) China is still there, even if rapprochement with Roos is reached by Washington. It has been projected as an adversary since the Obama "Pivot to Asia" days. As its power increases its profile as a military threat will only become more publicized. 2) Roos can be pro...

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NYT Article with lots of information on how China got Hambantota: How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port Subscription site and I am unable to read the article. However, the excerpt shows direct Chinese intervention in the electoral process. An important but often neglected fall-out of holding s...

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Usa prefers fresh warm bodies off the MS treadmill followed by 20 years lockin of employer doing gc filing than people who are already into middle age with kids and houses and savings The young lads are much more desperate and will work harder for less Actually ageism is a factor everywhere incl in...

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AFAIK, GPS has a positional accuracy of <30 cm https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/25/16362296/gps-accuracy-improving-one-foot-broadcom The non-military grade signal open for general use isn't that accurate. Only the US mil has access to the super accurate signal, no other entity or coun...

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Two decades after US spurned India in Kargil, country replies with Desi GPS http://defencenews.in/article.aspx?id=558938 The GPS, on the other hand, has a position accuracy of 20-30 metre . AFAIK, GPS has a positional accuracy of <30 cm https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/25/16362296/gps...

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Mediatek is taiwan and govt has approved its export to zte who can no longer use snapdragon Huawei has kirin but does not share with zte Samsung has exynos but for its own use only Apple has its Ax family for own use only Thats about the options in phone soc chips Replacing snapdragon with mediatek...

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The Spectator Index @spectatorindex Share of global GDP (PPP). 1980 G7: 51% China: 2.3% India: 2.9% 2018 G7: 30.1% China: 18.7% India: 7.7% But then our population since 1980 has literally exploded from 697 million to 1.4 billion! You would think there is something in the human genome that would tr...

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Rahul M wrote: stick to internal security people, free wheeling discussion on socio-religious factors, while interesting is not for this thread.
- Rahul

Ok. Deleted my responses.

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^^OT: Air cushion vehicles: Is that another way of saying a hovercraft? ..many years back I used to dream of IA/IN landing on karachi to avenge 26/11 when a nationalistic govt would be in power Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovercraft A hovercraft, also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, ...

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SSridhar wrote:I cancelled my trip next week and airlines took away all the money !!

Depending on what you used to pay, maybe travel insurance can come into play. Some credit cards will cover this.

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engine embargo is 'when' not 'if'. Maybe that's exactly the sort of thing Kaveri needs. Fire under our asses. There are other things US can embargo, though not military equipment. Chips and chip manufacturing equipment. IBM refused to set up semiconductor facility for SCL recently citing military u...

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Pentagon: US military has a lot of experience 'taking down small islands' in Pacific “I would just tell you that the United States military has had a lot of experience in the Western Pacific taking down small islands,” McKenzie said, when asked if the United States has the ability to “blow apart” o...

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My last on this. This is no "Soap or autorickshaw or pharma" manufacturing line. from: https://www.f35.com/about/life-cycle/production The F-35 production strategy is based on flow-to-takt manufacturing implementation. Flow-to-takt is the movement of component assemblies, like wings and fo...

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Don't know what they mean by dual band? Any gurus have some idea. The news also states 'Long Range'. Maybe if we develop an IR-Astra like the MICA or ASRAAM, with our own IIR seeker, and thrust vector controls on the Astra, then a long range IRST would really come in handy. I think something which ...

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Our folks are very tough. No matter what DPSUs do they suck. Reminds me of 5Tantra story of "two men and a donkey". Should look it up. Ramana, I am no expert in production engineering, but a large number of warehoused product goes against lean manufacturing principles. Yes, it is better t...

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Ahead of time is also indicative of bad manufacturing/production engineering. :eek: Are you serious? I have never heard anybody sulk about early deliveries in the aviation market. May be you can educate me here!!! Yes, customers will not sulk if you produce early and have them warehoused. Why would...

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Ahead of time is also indicative of bad manufacturing/production engineering.

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Why Tejas MK2 being in Medium Weight category is not being celebrated as Lungi Dance fanfare moment by Rakshaks? Is it because of expected long delays and scope creeps? This likely means more orders for Tejas MK1A (assuming new MMRCA competition will die). Maybe no one is sure of the time line at t...

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