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Manish_Sharma wrote:Is the photographer using special effects in this photo? Usually Tejas is always very MATT FINISH, but here its shining glossy.

Image is oversaturated. Some other examples are here.

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Scorpene contract which I believe was fixed price that was signed in 2005 was 3.75 billion split between DCN and MDL. We all know the final figure far exceeded that. That price escalation was entirely due to the French pulling a fast one on us. They hid the true cost of the submarine by omitting se...

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Every large naval procurement has gone over budget, most often 2x the original contract. Not sure how this will be any different? Once again, which fixed price contracts have gone over budget? You're probably thinking of cost-plus contracts, which by their very nature have no fixed price. MoD estim...

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John wrote:If they under bid and there is price escalation the GOI will cover it so they have nothing to lose unlike Private SY.

Why exactly will that happen in a fixed-price contract?

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Has the Exhaust moved further towards the back? The Kolkata class, as I have observed, had one face of the MF STAR completely covered in soot. Kolkata class is derived from Delhi class and inherits its propulsion package and funnel placement. P17A is derived from Shivalik class, uses a very similar...

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https://www.news18.com/news/india/under-guidance-from-white-house-nasa-says-cooperation-with-isro-remains-intact-2091479.html In a letter to ISRO Chairman K Sivan, NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said: "based on the guidance received from the White House", he looks forward to continui...

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He is welcome to get everyone else to enforce a moratorium on testing while India doesn't. There is no way that a test ban on ASATs can be effective without Indian approval.

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Austin wrote:The saving grace seems to be all these jammers listed are not DRFM based

AIDEWS is DRFM-based according to this datasheet.

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Can I post the J-20 related content here or will that be copyright violation? It seems to be an unauthenticated open link. As long as you provide attribution, you can copy paste any amount of text as you want, as the work in licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license. The page says "T...

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How is the point valid if the details are wrong? Never works in any sort of analysis. X, Y, Z are wrong, but C the conclusion drawing from XYZ is correct. Are you arguing that the details are wrong? You can only argue the interpretation, not the facts. The facts are that Rafale was repeatedly given...

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You do realize, that even if the above were true, which is highly debatable, the authors taken rather creative liberties with his analysis... IAF now has a complete 360 degree understanding of the 5 of the world's premier platforms, 2 of which, at one time or the other, were either on offer or in s...

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To be fair, Qatar did order 12 more at 1.1 billion Euro, bringing the total to 7.4 billion for 36 aircraft. Of course, they did not spend 1.8 billion on enhancements like India did, plus they also reportedly did not ask for offsets or performance-based logistics.

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#RafaleScam: The CAG’s History How the game was fixed for the French fighter https://www.stratpost.com/rafalescam-the-cags-history/ Shows how MMRCA was a farce from the start to the finish. This wasn't due to one or a small group of officers, there was institutional support for it. If the IAF as an...

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Year end is March 2020. Not December 2019. They have been scaling up their production and should have the second assembly line ready so that the numbers can reach 16 per year. By 2023, they are targeting upto 24 per year, so it is a gradual build up, not something that's happening in just 9 months....

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There is no reason to believe that the second line had already come up 2-3 years ago or that it'll deliver its full capacity from the get-go. Practically, it is not in HAL's interest to deliver 16 aircraft by this year as it'll mean a break in production till 2021 as trainer SoP won't be finalized t...

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We can build our own general purpose missile corvettes like the Israeli Sa'ar 6 above. Indian Navy doesn't see a need for multi-role corvettes. According to the navy, frigates and destroyers are multi-role, while corvettes are single purpose. Multi-role corvettes will lack the endurance to sail alo...

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Government-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) will deliver 16 Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) in the final operational clearance (FOC) configuration to the Indian Air Force (IAF) by the end of this year, said HAL chairman R. Madhavan. Why make a promise that is clearly impossible to deliver on? HAL ...

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MMRCA will be used to bring the squadron strength up to 42. It can't cut into orders for either Tejas Mk 1 or Mk 2. Tejas Mk 1 will help replace the 9 squadrons of MiG-21 and MiG-27 that are due for retirement within the next decade. 12 squadrons of Mk 2 will replace MiG-29 (3 squadrons), Mirage 200...

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8 squadrons of Akash for the IAF have been ordered and at least 5 squadrons seem to operational. All 8 squadrons are operational, the remaining three are in the north-east too. Also, any idea as to what is hitch with MRSAM project? According to Air Marshal Nambiar , there were some issues that were...

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MOD Annual report for 2017-18 is finally out. Enjoy. https://mod.gov.in/sites/default/files/Annualreport1718.pdf Some highlights from the report (forgive me if some or all of these were reported earlier): HAL-developed mini-UAV handed over to CRPF DRDO AEW&CS flew 230 sorties for 487 hours in 2...

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Kakarat wrote:The initial IOC will be upgraded to FOC and there is a possibility of the 10 trainers which is a part of the 83 will also be FOC

Anantha Krishnan had reported that all 18 trainers will be of the same configuration, Mk 1. There won't be a Mk 1A trainer.

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The clearance for MCA shows the Import option is foreclosed I don't think the import option is foreclosed. IAF is at 31-32 squadrons now, with 6 squadrons of MiG-21 and 3 squadrons of MiG-27 yet to be retired. If we count 1 squadron of Mk 1, 4 squadrons of Mk 1A, 2 squadrons of Rafale, 1 squadron o...

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Watch this interview of SBP Sinha by Nitin Gokhale . He explains the problems in getting sovereign/bank guarantee in a G2G deal. The part about 60% advance is weird. News reports had reported only 40% advance. For example, here's what Ajai Shukla wrote: The contract requires the IAF to pay a 15 per ...

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The chairman of Indian Negotiating Team, SBP Sinha said that we have never gotten sovereign guarantee from any country. The French disagreed to give bank guarantee as it would equate them to a vendor. Seems to be a standard G2G deal comparable to the ones that we sign with US or Russia.

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https://twitter.com/nitingokhale/status/1095693024300982272 ---> Most of us seemed to have missed this. The CAG did agree to govt’s contention that there was indeed 9% saving on bare bone aircraft (see the highlighted portion). Nitin Gokhale is mistaken here. CAG explains why they disagree with the...

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Rakesh wrote:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzSu-bGVsAA8di6.jpg

Is the digital copy of CAG report publicly available? I have only been seeing photos of printed copies till now.

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Seems to be a misreporting. A 13,000 tonne sub can't run on a 83 MWth reactor. S5 and following will be 13,000 tonne class and they need a bigger reactor.

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This weaponisation of dissent notes is going to hurt future acquisitions very badly. Now, all you need to do to scuttle a deal is to leak a disagreement that was put in writing and the opinion of everybody else doesn't even matter. This is going to be the new "anonymous letter".

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High resolution image of the test from PIB

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Slight OT, but given the grim capex budget numbers, will the mk1A be signed in this year? I think it depends on how much money is left over after paying for committed procurements. For example, most of the money left over in the 2016-17 and 2017-18 budgets would have gone to Rafale (15% and 25% of ...

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The DAC approved this program in October 2014 as well. Now they approved the program again. They approved it again as the 2014 approval had lapsed , which in turn was necessary as the older approval lapsed, all the way up to 1999. The 1999 30-year submarine plan had called for two parallel lines fo...

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I guess BEL was chosen as the system integrator for LRSAM ( BEL and BDL were reportedly fighting for it ) and it would sign contracts with IAI, BDL and others to procure the system components. Even the P15B contract that you linked was from BEL to IAI for parts manufactured by IAI. It's quite diffic...

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John wrote: It is supposed to be around mill each latest order is for 7 systems for P-17A + launchers + MF Star for 770 million.

That's just for the parts that IAI manufactures, that is the radar, seekers etc. The contract from GRSE and MDL to BEL was worth $1.28 billion.

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http://idrw.org/iaf-may-take-over-tejas-project-from-hal-due-to-delays/#more-175228 Iaf will be at the apex in co-ordinaing ADA and HAL to get the desired airframes in the promised time frame. This will be a 3 ring circus, It would have been better if the PMO took over this project and cracked the ...

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Second that. The one I got is previous year 2017 one. It was the newest report dated March 2018. You might be mixing up the year of Standing Committee with the year of report. Check pages 29-34 of http://164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Defence/16_Defence_43.pdf and you'll see the same things that Karan...

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nam wrote: It has an image of the Long Range Tracking Radar.. our BMD eyes.

That's not an image of LRTR, it is Israel's Green Pine.

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jaysimha wrote:
Karan M wrote:Standing Commitee on Defence Report 2018-19, March 2018
we will be highly obliged to have the link..

It is the 43rd report: http://164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Defe ... nce_43.pdf

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I wouldn't take the cost as final. A DSCA notification in August 2013 for 145 M777 howitzers estimated the cost as $885 million, but the final deal was inked at $737 million. They're probably padding the cost to account for the usual bureaucratic delays.

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JayS wrote:Well Rahul Bedi is no better and he attributes it to some unnamed sources. This is hardly any independent verification.

He attributes news reports whenever he reports from them. Considering that he has attributed this to sources from HAL, it is independent verification.

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Jane's has independently confirmed Ajai Shukla's article http://www.janes.com/article/80238/indi ... quirements

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