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Ok. Thanks for calming me.

BTW the early consultants for Kaveri were SNECMA for France.
Could be these guys mentors.

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Rakesh, SAFRAN is in due to Rafale offsets. About a $B worth. The story was they would bring the M88 core and magic sauce to make new Kaveri. Now the watch some 145 tests and come up with a report and say it's good to fly in an aircraft. And this is $1B worth? All these tests were in India. So what'...

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I hope they make a laser guided one, similar to the ones on attack helicopter. Would be perfect on LoC to knock out Paki bunker. A 155 shell may not damage the bunkers.. but a 100kg PCB warhead rocket will... A Pinaka battery at 60-80 KM in depth can provide a great on call support weapon and cover...

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Thanks but that is old report for 2017 to 2018.

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Rakesh and Prasanna, This is like getting the foreign expert to come and bless the project.
Was GTRE so lacking in confidence they needed this?

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The 2018 Parliamentary Committee report on MOD has some interesting notes.

http://164.100.47.193/lsscommittee/Defe ... nce_42.pdf

Read Chapter II on import substitution.
Read Part II for the Committee remarks.

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KaranM Please post a link as you have taken the trouble to post excerpts from it.

There are 3 pdfs with that name showing up in google.
Thanks, ramana

ramana · Re: Tejas Mk.1 & Mk.1A News & Discussions: 09 February 2018 Next month!!!!

Next month!!!!

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Listened to Fresh Air with author David Sanger about his new book 'A Perfect Weapon'. Its about cyber clashes with Russia, NoKo, Iran and China. Off course won't reveal US attacks except in Stuxnet attack on Iran along with Israel. Of all China seems to have comprehensive attack capability. They acc...

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The minuteman iii used a 3 MIRV payload. The Df-41 was initially tested some yrs ago with 2 mirvs. This was of course, not the operational configuration: 6-10 mirvs. Paki ababeel seems to have 3 warheads. Do they have a miniaturized high yield physics package? Don't know about Pak would do some goo...

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TKiran, You should deal with your problems with a lawyer.
Also need to get some fresh air.

Lalmohan, You don't know the laws in US. Why scare TKiran even in jest?

Follow Gus advice on the OCI thing.

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Would you know how many Bofors were used at Kargil in all sectors?

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Yes I too heard. OFB was rebarreling and making some spares to keep them going. Ideally you want steady production and phase out the older guns. I wonder if the 414 order for Dhanush is Bofors. replacement? Numbers are about the same. Also note OFB mentioning barrels about 400.

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Barrel wear?

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Someone named Valerie Kaur is highlighting this immigrants from India and children being separated.

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Lots of Pseculars are breaking Kadas leave alone bangles. They expected BJP will take the beating like good Hindu.
Not happening.

Mid to could stick around till 2020 as J&K is 6 year term. But got greedy for 2019.

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Prashant, Do look up the opening war sequences of Desert Storm and OAF. Apaches were used to destroy early warning sites.
Pakistani radar sites have been a bug bear for IAF in 1965 and 1971.

I think IAF plans to use them for their own missions and roles.

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Is this something that we necessarily need Gromov's help with? Would a used Boeing 747 serve the purpose? Or is it really the Gromov/TSAGI expertise that we need? The flying test bed is chock full of instruments and has the safety of three other engines. And to build a flying test bed for one engin...

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On Fathers Day weekend.

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From ANI news... BJP ends alliance with PDP in J-K BJP General Secretary Ram Madhav, while addressing a press conference, announced, "We have taken a decision, it is untenable for BJP to continue in alliance with PDP in Jammu and Kashmir, hence we are withdrawing." This is a master move. ...

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In air in flying test bed or ground?

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Another lurking concern will be logistics. ATAGS range doesn't come free. It's large chamber volume requires more charges to propel it. I think 6 charges vs 4 for Dhanush. And this will add to the logistics trail. So once weight issue is solved some bright procedures person will bring this up for fu...

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I think the source is talking through his hat.
The credibility is based on land based long range missiles which are deployed with SAC.
The short range SUB based missiles hardly add to the deterrent.
And long range missiles are not there yet.

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The barrels are the tough ones. They can substitute the powerpack engine. The power pack drives an electric generator for the electric drive. The seals and bearings are being imported from OEM. We know of the scam for Chinese made roller bearings where the supplier had fake Chinese made bearings pas...

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Can we stick to Tejas here?

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Artillery usage in Kargil. Singha calculate on number of shells per km and compare to earlier Wars. https://twitter.com/indiandefence11/status/1007911988759093248?s=19 In 1999 Kargil War , about 69,800 Bofors (155 mm) shells, 1,90,000 Field Gun (105 mm) shells, 16,100 Mortar (120 mm) shells, 3,400 M...

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Not really. IA needs support in the strike corps. Those helicopters will be organized into flights and assigned to the corps. All anti-armor role.
IAF are for attack/strike role. Support secondary.
Both services know this.

Let's leave it at that.

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Right from the top, the government support has been fabulous. They have almost been like our working partner,” Anandan told ET Magazine. Anandan’s institute, funded by the entrepreneurs Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani, is among a string of emerging private, non-profit and government efforts to harness th...

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@haridas: what is stopping the demonstration of MIRV tech by DRDO? Political constraints even under Namo or is there still some tech. development to be done before it is ready? MIRV is not just the reentry technology but efficient high yield physics package. Chander can talk about the former with a...

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Should also read Prof. Marshall Windmiller study of OSS in India and how they cultivated future assets despite UK prohibition on developing intelligence networks. Most post Independence leaders were in OSS contact list.

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That Blog about A4 seems gas.
Any MIRV needs a nose fairing. We have not seen any pictures released of that. And two MIRVs needs a RV bus.

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Thanks guys. The Army did right thing to fire those large number of rounds to find the limits of the design. Theoretical calculations are good to establish the design. But limits should be by testing to determine failure modes. Barrels erode due to chemicals from charge combustion and less from phys...

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I am starting a new thread on above subject. I would like to track the parties, principal candidates and who is backing whom. And finally what will the impact be on India?
Thanks.
Please be data driven.

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Gautam, Ever since Egypt did the Yom Kippur attack in 1973 after military exercises near the Sinai , everybody is wary of military exercises.

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All those changes make it a new missile.

Kind of defeats the minimal changes that Israelis did.

BTW 250 lbs (forget kg!)weapon does grievous damage if it has the proper CEP.

So 150 Kg i.e ~340lb is good enough with Pinaka2 accuracy.

usually explosive filling is only 20%.

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I wonder who in US lawmakers came up with that acronym.
And who did New Yorkers/Italian Americans agree to it!

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souravB, I think in US the globalist lobby that came to power in early 90s that hoodwinked/Nelson eye to NoKo missile transfers to Pak is capped. Soon will be rolled back and eliminated. The corollary is the AQK centrifuges and HEU bum design from Pak in trade didn't work. Young One restarted fresh ...

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neshant you would be surprised what DRDO has done in AI.

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After Russia and China, Israel has developed an air launched ballistic missile by slightly modifying an artillery rocket. The sustem is called Rampage, built using an EXTRA artillery rocket. An F-16 can carry four such missiles with a standoff range of about 150 kms. The Israelis tout the supersoni...

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I pointed out to an expatriate Indian that The Hindu, India's national paper was neither Hindu nor nationalist. Its a far cry from its image in the 80s when he was familiar with it. He said he to noticed a change but couldn't put his finger and agreed with me that description fits them very well. He...

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