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Somnathji, thanks for the clear and explanatory posts.

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Senora "Fair" has pretty obviously "gone native" it seems to me. Emotional investment and gets hurt whenever someone touches her munna with the truth.

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Royal Navy pilots forced to learn French :(( One senior Royal Navy officer said: “Who would have thought that more than 200 years after the Battle of Trafalgar, we would be asking the French to train our Naval fighter pilots? Our relationship with the French has always been a bit tense, so this wil...

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Fake Chinese Microchips Could Have Disarmed US Missiles Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China. Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a &...

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Chipkalihant

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Interesting documentary on Lockheed Martin's Skunkworks (from 2004).

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Hitesh wrote:That article is so one-sided and biased against India that it is not even worth mentioning. The article didn't even acknowledge the deaths of BSF and attempted killings against BSF in the past which prompted a stronger stance on the border.

Typical lefty trash rhetoric.

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Negiji - You may already have seen that .. and probably any good resource would be helpful but I would recommend the following ... Feynman's Lectures.. or Gamow's Mr Tompkins (or One Two Three Infinity) I loved this book as a teenager and second the recommendation. However this thread is completely...

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China wary of India's military might: US The fleet-footed Dragon may be rapidly spreading its wings across the globe but remains a wee bit wary of the flat-footed Elephant next door. DDM giving us its very best effort :roll: Consequently, "to improve regional deterrence", the 2.25-million...

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Philippines, US in show of force as war games begin Manila: The Philippines and the United States Tuesday began a naval exercise on the disputed West Philippine Sea, also known as the South China Sea :lol: . The war games, which will run over 11 days, are a show of force on the contested sea-lane a...

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http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2011/06/28/barack-gorbachev-adjusting-to-the-global-reality/ Barack Gorbachev: Adjusting to the Global Reality The global player that is going to ride high after the dust settles in the Middle East and U.S. troops return home sometime in this decade will be China. Years...

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Yea- Indo-Pacific is even better than Indo-Chinese. Although the US analysts use Indo-Pacific to refer to entire West Pacific through Indian Ocean region.

Or we can use South East Asian Sea like some of the smaller asian countries there are doing. Names have power.

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^^ This is interesting: In mid-2004, the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) allocated NT$412.1 billion to buy eight diesel-electric submarines for the Republic of China Navy. Most countries that build submarines for export, such as Germany, cannot sell arms to Taiwan without harming their ...

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Ultimately its not about private/public. Actually in the US most of the research gets done by a incestuous nexus of govt. funding, "private" unis and industry. All 3 sleep with each other and get things done. There's no reason public sector companies can't do well in defense research &...

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Singha wrote: maybe , with its design in late 1950s it was designed to intercept US bombers (incl supersonic ones) which were the main threat ?

well that is definitely what it was designed for according to all info I look at.

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China and not Pakistan is seen as India's main threat. the MOD has prepared a 15 year plan to address the Chinese threat... http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/china-not-pakistan-is-indias-main-threat/203704 Good going MOD Why does the video mention stealth battleships? Does he mean Kolkata class...

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Generally sub bases are at place where the water is deep or they would accompany the subs with other assets till such time it is in deep water , its normal opsec followed during routine patrol or during war. <snip> I am not good at google earth so will take your word I have linked a map higher in t...

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I was watching a program on Discovery channel which showed how the US army uses tank simulators for training. Like a flight sim you actually get into a box which moves around like a tank presumably would and you work with your crewmates to "move" the virtual tank and fire on virtual enemie...

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UB, not sure why you think mig-21 is not gen3. the early versions were considered gen2 and the last version 'bis' as gen3. the bison with PGM and BVR capability is considered gen3+ http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/IAF/Images/Eqpmt/Walkarounds/MiG21Bison/Bison09.jpg.html p.s. the mig-21 was hardly a lo...

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its time we integrated them deeply into indian economy and heavily armed them as the guardians of our eastern and southern doors. suppose if BD were to open its bases to our use in a Indo-China conflict, the strategic value of being able to fly across BD airspace and use their airbases would be imm...

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Yes, it is baffling that the international press singles out India for poverty. The only time poverty in Pakistan is really mentioned is again when there is some kind of military spending issue with India. Then you hear things like "both poor countries spending lots on arms". What about p...

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^ Do you really think other countries are populated by naive suckling babes? There are no "allies", there are interests. Obviously any fool knows that by now. They must be serious fools if it took them till 2011 to realize it! What, the game played with Saddam wasn't enough? Or Noriega? O...

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Well I am saying, there is a good example to emulate. There is no reason to retreat into a shell from "Western evil influences", or alternatively slavishly model our society after such influences. We can take what we like and what makes sense. Gentlemen, again why look anywhere, why "...

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^ Should be time to play hardball with the Americans.

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Just to put some mis-information to rest from the above post: 1. 60 Million USD a year in 1954 dollars is roughly equivalent to 500 Million USD in 2010 dollars (inflation of average 3.78 percent in US over 57 years) 2. Over 12 years, that is equivalent to 6 Billion USD. Or getting 100 planes using ...

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Mig 21 is gen 3 aircraft. How are we calculating these gens? From the limited amount I know about the MiG-21, it seems to be a fairly low-tech, simple aircraft that was valued because it was easy to mass produce and was good at what it was designed to do- intercept high-flying US bombers. What make...

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A_Gupta wrote:^^^ Exactly. The 200 basis points by which Pakistan outgrew India during the 60s-80s has to be looked at in the context of higher population growth rate.

Well, economic growth is economic growth, even if partially achieved simply by fertility. We take advantage of this ourselves.

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somnath wrote:
SSridhar wrote:These are GNP figures (in current USD) from World Bank sources
The CAGR (1962-80) seems to be in the high teens...And these were firmly "hindu growth rate" years...

Let's stop using this term please. I prefer the 400% more accurate "socialist growth rate"

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Well look to Japan then? Great example of superficial Westernization in terms of technology, modern institutions, and so on, while retaining civilizational core and rejecting certain values. Japan is different. They don't have anglofied education system. Well I am saying, there is a good example to...

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Devesh, There is good and bad in all cultures, though not necessarily in the same proportions. This means that (a) one should not reflexively reject all aspects of a foreign-origin culture and (b) One should also not hide behind defensive mechanisms when otherwise legitimate criticisms or benign ch...

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Really? So you have a magic trick to eliminate "Western" social ills from spreading in India? The clock cannot be turned back. The problem is your linking advancement with becoming western. Apparently you are not willing to concede that India can advance and not become a "meee tooooo...

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^ Just an OT question Philipji, why do you always omit spaces after punctuation? After all you use space between words just fine! Back to Indian Navy... Sri Lankan Navy retreats seeing Indian ship An Indian Navy ship on a patrol turned out to be the saviour of a large group of fishermen from here wh...

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Around any large dog, there are small jackals hanging around nipping at its heels Around India there are all these small jackals and BD is one of them, esp. as it has after all a civilizational divide due to Religion of Peace There are plenty of small jackals around China & US & Russia as we...

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Paging all gurus... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg/500px-Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics_%28orthographic_projection%29.svg.png Here is the map of the Soviet Union... and it borders Pakistan, the Khana...

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raajneesh wrote: There is more negative stuff in American history than any other country.

Eh, that's not true. We can easily look at Russia, "Great" Britain, Spain, the Golden Horde, Japan, Germany and the Caliphate to see there is plenty of company.

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@UBanerjee, I don't think anyone is criticizing USA or showing them in bad light here, its just that depictions are very close to reality. That's not what my post is about, I just have the opinion that CRamS posted a fairly one-dimensional idea of how the USA works. It seems more of :(( than anythi...

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Gays are the latest weapon to break the back of the EJ movement in the US, so we should welcome it. Don't be so sure. The only determining factor in US policts is RACE. I disagree, strongly. It is as simplistic and foolish as saying all Indian politics is determined by caste. And given that 99.99% ...

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^ Do you really think other countries are populated by naive suckling babes?

There are no "allies", there are interests.

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Beautiful, thanks.

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Gays are the latest weapon to break the back of the EJ movement in the US, so we should welcome it.

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