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by hgupta
11 Jul 2024 06:48
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1299
Views: 705513

Re: BR Forum Feedback

Seconded. NRao is not even around to defend himself. You need to stop seconding posts here, as if this thread is some kind of ballot box. If you have a complaint, post specifics and speak for yourself, please If that’s the case then why are you stepping in and covering for Rakesh? Let him speak for...
by hgupta
11 Jul 2024 00:28
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: BR Forum Feedback
Replies: 1299
Views: 705513

Re: BR Forum Feedback

Rakesh- I'm going to report your post for casting aspersions on other members by using terms as MUTU. People are free to express their opinion about military products whether American or French or Russian. Visceral reaction from you, as a forum moderator is uncalled for. At the very least, give up ...
by hgupta
10 Jul 2024 22:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-France news
Replies: 402
Views: 243477

Re: India-France news

India should not buy any more foreign fighters from now on. We should only buy Indian made fighters and that means Tejas, ORCAS, AMCA, whatever. We simply need to bite the bullet and fund the whole programs including the engine program. There’s no shortcut around here.
by hgupta
09 Jul 2024 01:15
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
Replies: 512
Views: 326570

Re: Electric vehicle and power storage

VKumar wrote: 08 Jul 2024 23:23 The disposal of Electric batteries is what worries me
Not if you properly set up recycling plants and set up a payment scheme where you factor in the disposal and recycling fee when you buy an EV.
by hgupta
08 Jul 2024 22:09
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
Replies: 512
Views: 326570

Re: Electric vehicle and power storage

When I say carbon tax, I really meant pollution tax,i.e., the amount of pollution that each energy source contribute. Only this way we can get a true picture of the costs and benefits that each energy source provides on a per kwh basis. Another thing to add to the cost equation is the addition of en...
by hgupta
08 Jul 2024 12:25
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
Replies: 512
Views: 326570

Re: Electric vehicle and power storage

For that one photo I can show you pictures of thousands of sites filled up with coal ash and waste leftover from mining coal that go way into million of tons of waste not to mention the environmental costs of strip coal mining such as removal of trees and biodiversity fauna. Let’s be fair about it....
by hgupta
08 Jul 2024 12:08
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
Replies: 512
Views: 326570

Re: Electric vehicle and power storage

It is a large scale. long term study in Germany. It was posted on LinkedIn. I may be able to dig up the reference or your yourself can google. I have provided enough information to narrow your search. No you bring the source directly. Don't ask us to search for it. If you want us to read something ...
by hgupta
08 Jul 2024 00:44
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-France news
Replies: 402
Views: 243477

Re: India-France news

sooraj wrote: 08 Jul 2024 00:21 Jean-Luc Melenchon's left wing alliance leads in second round.

His view on modi.

"India is a friend. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi is far right and violently hostile to Muslims in his country,"

Jean-Luc Melenchon
India needs to declare Jean-Luc as antiHindu to up the ante.
by hgupta
06 Jul 2024 22:58
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Electric vehicle and power storage
Replies: 512
Views: 326570

Re: Electric vehicle and power storage

Can you do a complete lifecycle analysis and comparison of both an off-shore and on-shore wind farm vis-a-vis a current generation thermal/coal power. If you do not find it challenging enough, please add in a renewable source like hydro-electric as well And this is a complete lifecycle analysis, in...
by hgupta
29 Jun 2024 19:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10670
Views: 3941269

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

India rejects US report. Sure, while the realty on the ground... Amazon Sales in India FY2019: Rs 7,593 crore FY2023: Rs 22,198 crore (3x growth) Flipkart (owned by Walmart) FY2019: Rs 42,878 crore FY2023: Rs 55,824 crore And, this is only two online retail giants. Not including other foreign compa...
by hgupta
29 Jun 2024 19:41
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2250
Views: 899706

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

It's amazing what someone like Dhruv Rathee is able to achieve with his lies. I wonder what it says about our population. Do not discount the massive foreign assistance (Shall we say interference?) that Dhruv Rathee got nor discount the fact that liberal media & lefties groups have been trying ...
by hgupta
29 Jun 2024 16:55
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 3070
Views: 1234338

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

^^^ hgupta, What you are proposing is genocide! No it is not because Russia is forcing Ukraine to throw all of its men into the meatgrinder and Russia will simply kill them. That is what Russia is doing now. Russia right now is not focusing on capturing land but killing Ukrainian men and soldiers. ...
by hgupta
28 Jun 2024 21:15
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout
Replies: 3070
Views: 1234338

Re: Russian-Ukranian War: Geopolitical Fallout

EU - Ukraine 10-year Security deal signed .... Ukraine has also signed security pacts with individual EU countries as well. Ukraine just torpedoed any possibility of a peace deal with Russia and basically signed its death warrant. Russia will now march all the way to Kiev and to the Dnieper River a...
by hgupta
27 Jun 2024 14:14
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Chinese Armed Forces: News & Discussion
Replies: 825
Views: 671621

Re: Chinese Armed Forces: News & Discussion

Buying lots of planes is one thing … Maintaining them, keeping them relevant, and crewing them is something else … a big burden to bear for decades :twisted: And China is quite capable of doing that considering that they have built an entire MIC ecosystem and only need to use their reminibis to mai...
by hgupta
27 Jun 2024 14:11
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses
Replies: 785
Views: 553554

Re: Challenge of China_ Political, Economic & Military Responses

The subsequent purge of Xi's father had a lasting impact on Xi himself. It is the source of his animus with India. During the Galwan standoff, you correctly predicted that China will not go kinetic despite the very tense situation as it is a classic bullying behaviour by China. They just want to ge...
by hgupta
27 Jun 2024 01:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-EU News & Analysis
Replies: 1854
Views: 534318

Re: India-EU News & Analysis

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/29/france-needs-international-scrutiny-its-police-racism In 2021, Human Rights Watch and five French and international human rights groups filed a class action suit against the French state to demand reforms that end systemic ethnic profiling by the police. Yet the ...
by hgupta
22 Jun 2024 23:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10463
Views: 3114010

Re: Understanding the US - Again

AoA. Wonder if Adani, by any strange chance, bought WaPo? Khatam kar do ji. Morale plummets inside The Washington Post as staffers express alarm over publisher’s attempts to squash story This is a classic case of the inmates running amok and running the asylum. They don't like it when the publisher...
by hgupta
21 Jun 2024 10:00
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Education System
Replies: 3996
Views: 1109343

Re: Indian Education System

Arvind graduated from IIT Kanpur just couple of years after I did.. The dedicated teacher and academic leader transformed research in computer architectures, parallel computing, and digital design, enabling faster and more efficient computation. RIP Arvind, longtime MIT professor and prolific compu...
by hgupta
20 Jun 2024 09:20
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)
Replies: 2959
Views: 1227092

Re: India - Canada - News and Discussion. (2018)

Time to downgrade relations with Canada. Kick out the Canadian high commissioner and withdraw our ambassador to Canada from Canada and leave only a small token embassy staff there. If Canadians want visas to India they can go visit the Indian Consulate in Houston in person or something. As for the U...
by hgupta
20 Jun 2024 02:46
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Replies: 7059
Views: 3099760

Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion

But isnt the inlet Fan diameter bigger in F-414 and dimensions bigger, so weight reduction target may not be that severe. No it remains the same size. The inside inlet fan may be bigger but the overall diameter and length remains the same. From wiki: The F414 fan is larger than that of the F404, bu...
by hgupta
19 Jun 2024 15:46
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion
Replies: 7059
Views: 3099760

Re: Kaveri & Aero-Engine: News & Discussion

It would be better they wore k on an engine for the AMCA, MK2 with Higher thrust. Matching the GE404 in the same dimesons for Tejas MK1/1A may not be productive. Sorry to get there, you cannot skip steps. You have to match GE404 in the same dimensions in order to get to the step of engine with high...
by hgupta
19 Jun 2024 15:41
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Replies: 4761
Views: 3256064

Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

With now possibly 45K losses per month and maybe being able to recruit not more than 10K/Month, Ukn is likely is losing 8-9% of total combat strength / month. So we would see russia notching upto 700K soldier in the theatre soon while ukn might decline to 300K in maybe 3 months. This has happened. ...
by hgupta
18 Jun 2024 16:31
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2250
Views: 899706

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

Courts are useless because they have become political in nature and have taken sides.
by hgupta
17 Jun 2024 21:10
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10670
Views: 3941269

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

We need to arrest several white US citizens and charge them with fomenting and inciting communal violence and disturbing the peace. Include a couple CIA agents in the arrests.
by hgupta
17 Jun 2024 20:37
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Australia News and Discussion
Replies: 2315
Views: 694479

Re: India-Australia News and Discussion

Guys, leave people like her alone. They are seeking engagement on twitter in order to boost her oppressed status. Nothing that you are going to say is going to change her mind. However well reasoned and articulated it might be. In other words don't feed the trolls. Disagree. She needs to be thoroug...
by hgupta
15 Jun 2024 11:03
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Replies: 4761
Views: 3256064

Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

Srai,

This will push Russia into where they have no choice but to take over Kiev and all the way to Dnieper River and fortify the natural defenses there and they would have to raze Lyiv and Kryiv Rig to the ground and basically kill off the young population and make the Ukrainians a dying race.
by hgupta
11 Jun 2024 03:48
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results
Replies: 1499
Views: 560957

Re: 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Exit Polls & Results

More legal fodder provided with this statement. Hostile opposition skips inauguration West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had said, “This government is being formed undemocratically and unconstitutionally.” Time to institute president’s rule in Bengal and charge Mamata the murder and conspiracy to murder.
by hgupta
11 Jun 2024 00:39
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Replies: 4761
Views: 3256064

Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

Unkil and their satellites with massive data analytics is constantly creating a target list like a Uber. Whenever there is a battery or ucav available they can target and thus optimise the inventory (or at least that must be the strategy) . Which means that the defendant can’t protect all assets at...
by hgupta
10 Jun 2024 20:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2250
Views: 899706

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

Not too happy with Rajnath Singh continuing as DM. We need a change at this ministry in order to accelerate the reforms and push harder for indigenous products. Rajnath Singh will remain till some of the carry over programs from the previous administration are complete. Reforms and harder push for ...
by hgupta
10 Jun 2024 19:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Modi 3.0 - Bharat
Replies: 2250
Views: 899706

Re: Modi 3.0 - Bharat

Not too happy with Rajnath Singh continuing as DM. We need a change at this ministry in order to accelerate the reforms and push harder for indigenous products.
by hgupta
10 Jun 2024 15:51
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy
Replies: 4761
Views: 3256064

Re: Russian-Ukrainian War: Combat Tactics & Strategy

Which means that NATO has provided the targeting info. Russia has to do something about NATO targeting infrastructure.
by hgupta
07 Jun 2024 01:42
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Joint Military Exercises: News & Discussion
Replies: 666
Views: 382837

Re: Joint Military Exercises: News & Discussion

What is that small pod sticking out on IAF IL-76's port aft side?
by hgupta
07 Jun 2024 01:34
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations
Replies: 1485
Views: 632378

Re: Turkey News, discussions, India Turkey Relations

Not complicated at all. It is simple national dynamics. That India is supporting Armenia is very true. Actually with the support of Iran. That Israel is supporting Azerbaijan is also true. With the support of Turkey. India is not opposing Russia. And, the North-South Corridor that connects India wi...
by hgupta
07 Jun 2024 01:28
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10463
Views: 3114010

Re: Understanding the US - Again

KL Dubey wrote: 05 Jun 2024 08:40 No, I just couldn't make sense of what you said until I read it thrice. So clearly my "English skills" are not superior.
Not my problem. It is pretty clear what I wrote.
by hgupta
05 Jun 2024 07:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10463
Views: 3114010

Re: Understanding the US - Again

If he was 10 years younger and in full command of his faculties, he would have my support since day 1 but over the past 2-3 years he has repeatedly shown that he is not in full command of his faculties and that his advisors are running circles around him creating mayhem and upending the current wor...
by hgupta
04 Jun 2024 07:27
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 10463
Views: 3114010

Re: Understanding the US - Again

^^^As I have mentioned before, I think Biden is a decent guy and a reasonably good US president. I do agree with him, he is old but not crazy. He has served his country well, kept the so-called "deep state" on a leash, developed a good partnership with Bharat. Has kept the pot boiling wit...
by hgupta
02 Jun 2024 09:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-EU News & Analysis
Replies: 1854
Views: 534318

Re: India-EU News & Analysis

sanman wrote: 02 Jun 2024 00:41 What's this about France doubling price of Rafale-M to India? Any truth to it? If so, what's the justification?
If that's the case, then we need to jettison the whole Rafale thing and go full steam on the TEDBF program without looking back.
by hgupta
31 May 2024 08:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 10670
Views: 3941269

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

pravula wrote: 31 May 2024 07:21 Does a state conviction even go to US supreme court? It will just end up in the state supreme court AFAIK
It does on a writ for habeas corpus.
by hgupta
30 May 2024 23:06
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019
Replies: 2982
Views: 1696511

Re: Tejas Mk2 Medium Weight Fighter: News & Discussion - 23 February 2019

And yet this plane is only equal to Mirage 2000 or f-16 blk 52 which both of them are already 30 years old while China is already fielding 5th gen fighters in huge numbers.

India is seriously behind the ball.
by hgupta
25 May 2024 21:56
Forum: Strategic & Security Issues Archive
Topic: China Poll - Timing Question
Replies: 39
Views: 56409

Re: China poll- Timing question.

In order to stay in power, President Xi needs a short and quick victory. He cannot pull that off with Taiwan but he can certainly against India in the area of Bhutan or outlying areas of Arunachal Pradesh. It is the symbolic victory he needs to burnish the image of a superpower standing over a majo...