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by Gerard
24 Feb 2020 07:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
Replies: 1419
Views: 266838

Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

Will the United States Develop a New Type of Nuclear Warhead?
The U.S. Department of Energy’s fiscal year 2021 budget request, revealed on Monday, outlines, among other things, a new warhead program known as the W93.
by Gerard
24 Feb 2020 07:17
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
Replies: 1419
Views: 266838

Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

Uproar as Britain’s secret deal to buy nuclear warheads from US without Parliament’s consent is revealed The Pentagon recently disclosed that Britain has agreed to purchase new US nuclear warheads to replace Trident, its own homegrown nuclear program. However, the deal came as a surprise to British...
by Gerard
23 Feb 2020 22:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Levant crisis - III
Replies: 12253
Views: 2000547

Re: Levant crisis - III

This is confirmed. The casualties were General Yuri Komarov, Captain Ivan Drago, and Major-General Nikolai Volkoff
Satire? Yuri Komarov is a character from the Die Hard movies. Ivan Drago is from Rocky IV. Nikolai Volkoff is the stage name of a WWF professional 'wrestler'.
by Gerard
23 Feb 2020 19:46
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2225452

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Lisa wrote: So if you have enough cases you can clog up the Supreme Court all day long, correct?
Only for how long the SC permits it. Judicial overreach encourages this.
by Gerard
23 Feb 2020 19:07
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2225452

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

Article 32 of the Indian Constitution (1) The right to move the Supreme Court by appropriate proceedings for the enforcement of the rights conferred by this Part is guaranteed. (2) The Supreme Court shall have power to issue directions or orders or writs, including writs in the nature of habeas corp...
by Gerard
16 Feb 2020 16:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5686
Views: 1673282

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

More ‘Asian’ Grooming Gang Abusers Sentenced in Oxford, England Home Office Bureaucrats Accused of Burying Report on Ethnicity of Grooming Gang Rapists The report was commissioned by Sajid Javid — then Home Secretary, now Chancellor of the Exchequer — in 2018, with the Pakistani-heritage Muslim MP ...
by Gerard
15 Feb 2020 05:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Russia: News & Analysis
Replies: 6071
Views: 1299361

Re: India-Russia: News & Analysis

Actually if you do this is any country, the reaction will probably be the same.
by Gerard
15 Feb 2020 04:09
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2225452

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

couldn't have been so easy for the guy to say this, especially when the portuguese had tried so desperately and illegally to hold on to goa and their other Indian colonies. The Prime Minister of Portugal is of Indian origin (as is the PM of Ireland). Antonio Costa made a state visit to India in 201...
by Gerard
15 Feb 2020 03:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 5686
Views: 1673282

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

UK court rules Islamic faith marriages invalid under English law, prompting fears Muslim women’s rights now at risk Islamic faith marriages are not valid under English law, the country’s Court of Appeal has ruled, in a move that could see many Muslim women denied rights when it comes to divorce. Th...
by Gerard
13 Feb 2020 04:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2889034

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Didn't astronauts use some special kind of diet so that they didn't have to do 'SuSu' or 'potty' in outer space?
The Americans left 96 bags of human feces, urine, and diapers on the surface of the moon.

Feces is currently ejected from the International Space Station and left to burnup on reentry.
by Gerard
12 Feb 2020 17:09
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2225452

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

I read where Delhi is running a fiscal surplus. The direct subsidies are apparently at the expense of capital expenditure by the state government.
by Gerard
12 Feb 2020 06:47
Forum: Trash Can Archive
Topic: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1
Replies: 10196
Views: 2225452

Re: 2020 Strategic and Political Analysis-1

AAP chief owes party's win to Lord Hanuman Following the landslide victory in the bitterly contested Delhi Assembly elections, AAP’s chief Arvind Kejriwal, accompanied by his family and Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, paid obeisance to the famous Hanuman temple near Connaught Place on Tuesday...
by Gerard
11 Feb 2020 05:17
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Acquisitions, Partnerships & Developments
Replies: 3256
Views: 967683

Re: Military Acquisitions, Partnerships & Developments

As per the proposed air defense plan for Delhi, the outermost layer of the missile shield will consist of two-tier ballistic missile defence (BMD) system being developed by state-run DRDO, the second layer will be through the highly automated and mobile S-400 systems, and the innermost layer of pro...
by Gerard
11 Feb 2020 03:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 9048
Views: 2643800

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Prithvi missiles, nasams 2 and s400. What is the plan? As per the proposed air defense plan for Delhi, the outermost layer of the missile shield will consist of two-tier ballistic missile defence (BMD) system being developed by state-run DRDO, the second layer will be through the highly automated a...
by Gerard
05 Feb 2020 05:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 962393

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

Pakistani PM Khan urged to ‘announce Jihad’ against India over Kashmir “When will we do jihad? Announce jihad [Holy war]. Tell India that Pakistani forces will attack it in a week and 220 million people will be behind the country’s armed forces,” lawmaker Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali said as cited ...
by Gerard
05 Feb 2020 03:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
Replies: 1419
Views: 266838

Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion

US adds ‘low yield’ nuclear weapon to its submarine arsenal The yield, or destructive power, of the W76-2 is classified. Experts say it may be about 5 kilotons, or roughly one-third the destructive power of the “Little Boy” nuclear bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in the final da...
by Gerard
05 Feb 2020 02:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
Replies: 1474
Views: 532555

Re: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations

https://www.memri.org/reports/erdoğans-chief-advisor-and-former-general-tanrıverdi-presents-vision-–-reflected-turkeys Erdoğan's Chief Advisor And Former General Tanrıverdi Presents Vision – Reflected In Turkey's Policy – Of A United Islamic Superpower Based On Shari'a Comprising 61 Countries And W...
by Gerard
04 Feb 2020 01:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2889034

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Coronavirus in China may have come from bats: studies The novel coronavirus that has claimed over 350 lives and infected thousands in China may have originated from bats, according to two latest studies published in the journal Nature on Monday. In the first study, the researchers carried out a gen...
by Gerard
01 Feb 2020 05:22
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2889034

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China Symptoms of 2019-nCoV For confirmed 2019-nCoV infections, reported illnesses have ranged from people with little to no symptoms to people being severely ill and dying. Symptoms can include: Fever Cough Shortness of b...
by Gerard
01 Feb 2020 05:19
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2889034

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

Close to 10,000 people have contracted the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China—more cases than SARS in 2003. So far, 213 people have died. The preliminary fatality rate for 2019-nCoV hovers around 3%—which is low, but still concerning because of the number of cases accumulating. But tha...
by Gerard
01 Feb 2020 05:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2889034

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

A team led by Wei Ji, a microbiologist at Peking University Health Science Center School of Basic Medical Sciences in Beijing, looked for a sign that 2019-nCoV had adapted to any specific animal host. Most amino acids are encoded by multiple codons — sequences of three DNA or RNA nucleotide triplet...
by Gerard
01 Feb 2020 05:02
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread
Replies: 14441
Views: 2889034

Re: Wuhan Coronavirus Resource Thread

In the new study, published today (Jan. 22) in the Journal of Medical Virology, the authors found that 2019-nCoV appears to be a mix, or recombination, of two coronaviruses — one that is known to infect bats and another coronavirus of unknown origin. Next, the researchers further analyzed the genet...
by Gerard
29 Jan 2020 03:42
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: West Asia News and Discussions
Replies: 1967
Views: 591233

Re: West Asia News and Discussions

Apparently Umm-al-Fahm, a majority Arab city inside Israel, whose residents are all Israeli citizens, would be transferred to Palestine under the plan.
by Gerard
26 Jan 2020 05:45
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Replies: 5960
Views: 2366244

Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018

India plans 5,000-km range ballistic missile
The 5,000km-range submarine-launched ballistic missile will carry the same K-series label and will cover all of Asia, parts of Africa, Europe and Indo-Pacific including South China Sea.
by Gerard
24 Jan 2020 03:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 962393

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

World Economic Forum 2020 - We used to quash 7-times bigger India: Imran Khan uses cricket analogy to talk about Pakistan’s growth potential “In 60s, Pakistan was shining and it was like an Asian role model. I grew up with that hope but we let ourselves down because unfortunately democracy couldn’t...
by Gerard
24 Jan 2020 03:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - November 11, 2019
Replies: 2848
Views: 962393

Re: Terroristan - November 11, 2019

Doomsday Clock ticks closer towards disaster
Without naming India or Pakistan, experts cited South Asia as a “nuclear tinderbox” where “prospects for mediation and engagement are diminishing”. :roll:
by Gerard
23 Jan 2020 02:25
Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018
Replies: 5960
Views: 2366244

Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - 17 Dec 2018

Looks very different from other SLBM launches.. K4 has flames coming out of its front end! What is the mechanism for K4 type launches? Its an intriguing design! Cavitator cap. Shields the missile from seawater within propellant gas layer, reducing hydrodynamic resistance. This is the R-39 SLBM. Not...