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Significant risk to Uri hydro plant: Pakistan retaliation met swift CISF action during Operation Sindoor; how families were evacuated in time - ToI Pakistan's retaliation put the Uri hydroelectric plant near the Line of Control (LoC) under significant risk during a high-risk security situation that...

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AdityaM wrote: ↑23 Nov 2025 12:02 Analysis of what may have happened

https://youtu.be/p6uchbKDJPY?si=VVQBgWN4Wtdf7aWS

Very logical explanation.

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HAL-L&T build first industry-made PSLV rocket; Oceansat launch scheduled early next year - ET The consortium of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Larsen & Toubro has indigenously built the first PSLV rocket, which is set to launch the Oceansat satellite early next year , a senior L&am...

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^ Red Fort attracts Pakistani jihadis because of Islamist symbolism of having been the power centre of the Mughal rulers. The formal seizure of power in 1857 from Bahadur Shah Zafar created as much bitterness among the Islamists of the Ganga-Jamuna belt as the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Jinnah ...

SSridhar · Re: Naval Procurements & Acquisitions: 02 April 2024 ^ This is great news.

^ This is great news.

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Chandrayaan-4 mission likely to be launched in 2028, says Isro chief - ToI The Chandrayaan-4 lunar sample-return mission, which recently received the Centre’s approval, is likely to be launched in 2028, Isro chairman V Narayanan has said. Isro is set to launch seven more satellites, including the l...

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ISRO to triple spacecraft output, launch Chandrayaan-4 in 2028: Chairman - PTI ISRO is gearing up for one of its busiest times with seven more launches planned this financial year , even as India's first human spaceflight remains scheduled for 2027, its chairman V Narayanan said. In an interview wi...

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Mont-de-Marsan: India joins France for 'Garuda' air exercise today; move to bolster strategic partnership - ToI India and France will on Sunday kick off the 'Garuda' air combat exercise at Mont-de-Marsan to enhance military interoperability and coordination and boost the strategic partnership betwe...

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LVM3-M5 Lift-off & On-board Camera Video

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This thread was started in Oct. 2014. It has successfully completed 11 years without us being much wiser. May be it is a better idea to change the name to 'Project 75I - It Never Begins'

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The plane counts is now to Eight planes! I think that Trump was always referring to PAF's losses. He will increase it further in coming weeks in line with our own ACM's assessment given below. “Three hangars were also damaged across different stations. Within these hangars and on the tarmac, we hav...

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^ Due respect Sridhar sir, China is the primary threat for now but not the only threat. Manish ji, yes for now, certainly. The Chinese threat is very physical, territorial, economic, political, and collusive on multiple fronts. It is a very formidable enemy which is out to destroy us and is impossi...

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Thank you Sudhan.
The plan for BrahMos-II was always to use the Zircon engine. But, not sure at what stage this is.
The recent success of the scramjet engine testing is leading to a flurry of hypersonic products.

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Anujan wrote: ↑04 Nov 2025 08:57Israel should pay at least $800. UN Peacekeeping records mention that one Pakistani soldier can typically do what about 8 soldiers from other countries can do.

Oh, 1:10 is only against the Hanuds then?

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Is this Hypersonic BrahMos or something else?

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ISRO targets to launch seven missions by March 2026: Chairman Narayanan - ET ISRO has set a target to launch seven missions, including its ambitious first uncrewed mission under the Gangayaan programme, before the end of March 2026 , Chairman V Narayanan said on Sunday. The Bengaluru-headquartered ...

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Suraj wrote: ↑03 Nov 2025 01:24I hope they get the SCE-200 based platform going soon.

It has been a long time waiting and it is unlikely before 2027, the current estimate.

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The common strategic interest of India and the US is to contain China. But this containment has different aspects. The US wants to contain the Chinese economy. I don’t think India has the means or ambition to do so. India wants to grow to be Viksit Bharat by 2047, and China’s situation is secondary...

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Precise injection, C25 engine was reignited as an experiment for future multiple payload injections in a single launch.

Added: The solar panels will be deployed only after 5 days.

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑02 Nov 2025 07:34But I came here to ask whether the ongoing military exercises tell us anything about the upcoming future confrontation.

From the moment the magnitude of this Ex. was revealed, it struck me as another 'Brasstacks'.

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. . . India could not have met China in Ladakh recently on an equal footing without American equipment. Not only equipment, but also real-time assistance. It is well known. Both need each other a great deal. Just look at Asia where China wants to be the regional hegemon (which would mean annexing T...

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How to Survive the New Nuclear Age - Vipin Narang & Pranay Vaddi, Foreign Affairs And in May, the world witnessed India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed powers, strike each other’s heartlands with conventional weapons in the aftermath of a terror attack, a confrontation that—already unprecedente...

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I largely agree with Prem Kumar. There is always room for improvement in nuke designs that need to be tested physically, just as we do for missiles, fighters, naval assets etc. And, there cannot be a better opportunity than when others, who have signed the CTBT are themselves doing so. Of course, th...

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A very good discussion, thanks for posting.

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A new live frontier emerges in India-Pakistan tensions - ET For decades, the India–Pakistan rivalry has found its most volatile expression along the northern frontier in Jammu & Kashmir, across the Line of Control (LoC) and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), where Pakistan-backed terror networ...

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S_Madhukar wrote: ↑28 Oct 2025 09:50It’s a different story if their pilots are trained well but won’t matter as they have BVR numbers and a secure drone army

Their 'shashoujian' strategy.

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Saudi aid to Pakistan, US-Pakistan close relationship once again after the 'n'th time divorce & remarriage, US assurances that their relationship with Pakistan is not at our cost, continuing close China-Pakistan relationship, a chill in the India-US relationship, Pakistan's military alliance (th...

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Indian Navy's survey vessel Ikshak to be commissioned on November 6 - PTI The Indian Navy's indigenously built survey vessel Ikshak is set to be commissioned at the Naval Base here [Kochi] on November 6 , the Defence PRO said on Monday. The commissioning ceremony will be presided over by Admiral Di...

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Meanwhile Marco Rubio keep pointing... "Relations with Pakistan not "at the expense of a good relationship with India",... ityadi...and many other non-sense ... 'Not at the expense of India', 'will not affect balance of military power between India and Pakistan', 'will ensure arms ar...

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BBC report on 4th Plenum themes. - Measures to boost Chinese domestic consumption as export markets Fizzle. I think these measures will transform China especially the last one. Yes, they have been trying all sorts of things, like the one above. But, there is no improvement. Since 2024, a law is the...

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Anyone understand why Pakistan government is shooting pro-Palestine/anti-Israel protestors? from what i gather TLP is a barelvi sect radical bunch . their agenda is different from some other yahoos and very specific. they are known to have particularly destructive riots . . . Here is my take. The G...

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Takaichi has been mentored by Abe, which should be good news for India.

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China’s mega dam: How India’s ₹6.4 lakh cr hydropower plan could mitigate dry-spell threats - ToI

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French Army chief keen on Indian long-range weapons - ET France has noted the performance of Indian weapon systems during Operation Sindoor and is interested in looking at long-range rockets, loitering munitions and counter-drone systems, French Army chief General Pierre Schill told ET. The senior ...

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Harnessing the Brahmaputra: Centre unveils Rs 6.4 lakh crore-hydropower plan; counters China's upstream dam - ToI The Union government has prepared a Rs 6.4 trillion ($77 billion) transmission plan to transfer more than 76 gigawatts of hydroelectric capacity from the Brahmaputra basin by 2047 to me...

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. . . The US knew all this but they looked away from the whole deal. The truth is that the US also actively helped TSP in bomb making . This is neither hearsay nor heresy. All very well documented in Adrian Levy's book, "Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Con...

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Increasingly, Japan, the Philippines and Australia are conducting joint exercises. Australia is buying frigates from Japan and seriously considered Soryu for submarines earlier. Both have formal '2+2' meetings as well. Japan is heavily helping the Philippines to upgrade its navy , coast guard and co...

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uddu wrote: ↑08 Oct 2025 14:46CVRDE RFI for 1500 hp CV-1500A engine
https://idrw.org/cvrde-unleashes-rfi-fo ... tle-tanks/

This is phenomenal effort & right approach.

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Fuel loading at India's first fast breeder reactor in Kalpakkam to begin next week - PTI - ET Having overcome multiple challenges, fuel loading at India's first prototype fast-breeder reactor in Tamil Nadu's Kalpakkam is expected to start next week. Nuclear scientists, working on the sodium-cooled ...

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