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Vivek K

Superb!! Mera Bharat Mahaan rahay aur apney mein yeh vishwaas banaai rakhey! Mera yeh sapna sakar hua!

Vivek K

Thank God for the RM!! Need to see a repetition of Tejas order for the Arjun.

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Armed forces have to be reined in so that India does not go bankrupt buying all their shiny new toys. Make Arjuns, LCA, Shivaliks and forget Rafales, Talwars and tincans. Introduce competition in defence research by supporting other capable entities (Kalyani, Midhani, Taneja, L&T, Tata, etc.) to...

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We need to push TOI to correct the facts published by Rajat Pandit. BRF should set up a team of 2-3 to rebut and post an article to TOI editors and ask them to retract incorrect figures deliberately published by lifafa journallists.

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Also incorrect "India's only nuclear-powered submarine".

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Mk2 will be a great journey for Indian MIC - serial development of an Indian product has never occurred before. It marks the realization of the importance of a local MIC that helps national security, national interest and the national economy. Though every aircraft is a challenge? the processes are ...

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Neshant, we need to exploit the full earning potential of years of toil. We should not put unreasonable expectations on Indian products for later they will be lambasted for not being commercial successes.

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India SHOULD not open its software in export versions. That is foolish and will lose money. India has had to go through painful experiences with integrating other stores on M2K etc.

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ParGha - that is a good story but what is its relevance in the Arjun thread? You acknowledge that you're comparing apples to oranges. It would be interesting though if you presented a table with capabilities of the Gen 1 Jap Heavy Tank and Gen 2 of the Jap light tank. I hope that when history of tan...

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Kashi- totally agree!! It is ok to like a family of products from one source. But to advocate the subjugation of sovereign foreign policy for those products is shameful or even worse. It is surprising this line of thinking has survived on BRF for so long.

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Vidurji, You highlight valid points. Let us take a look at these one by one. 1. Arjun MK1 is heavier than T90 Like it has been pointed out, a tank to fight the M1A1 was asked for. Capabilities were specified and all of these added up to give it the weight it has. BUT, and this needs to be understood...

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i might be wrong .. but has the IA inducted any new tanks at all during this period? besides the army s capex funds are not that much You are wrong, friend. Please check. The details are all over the place. Let us know what you find. If the Army could buy the more expensive and less capable T-90, w...

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Actually to have economies of scale the minimum order should be twelve ships. Only US,China and perhaps Japan have the naval budget to procure large no of surface combatants in that scale. IN can do that and span it over two decades in which case you end up get stuck with building an outdated desig...

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Funny thing is - there is no complaint about HAL manufactured Jags, MKIs, and so on. This is the time to back off and keep checkbooks at the ready. This is the consolidation phase of the 16 / year lines. Shortcomings will be observed in this phase. Once 6 months go as planned, work on the the next l...

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It is painful to see the hoops that IA is making Arjun jump through. As part of the weight reduction effort, CVRDE has floated a tender to build the wheels and rims out of composites. Is there any parallel to this in any tank in the world? Currently, each wheel + rim weighs 63 + 15 kgs. If they suc...

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fanne wrote:They have only added 4 planes this year. This is pathetic speed. HAL wake up. There are 600 or so LCA to make. At this rate it will take 100 years.

If what you say is correct - 4 planes this year in 2 months, that equals 24 planes annually. So what are you complaining about?

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All good things take time like fine wines, good sex and MKIs. Just like them- the LCA has taken time. The import lobby can play the delay card as the only ace up their musharraf! They forget that the MKIs were severely delayed and IAF had to fight Kargil without them. If the Pakis had better aircraf...

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Actually to have economies of scale the minimum order should be twelve ships.

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All T-72s should be replaced with Arjun MK1s and 2s.

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I think its time for the import lobby to sit in the whine thread. We have spent a lot of time there.

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We have to move past the 90s in our consideration of the world order and our place in it. Some of us are stuck in that period for diverse reasons. Several years ago, I had made a post that we needed to replace the entire Mig-21 fleet instead of supporting it with such costly investments - end of lif...

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The current RM was also helped by the chaotic geo-politics and possibly a comment on the state of India-US alignment.

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Ooops. Sorry! I'm holding my breath for MK IV

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Saik - can you provide some context to this article?

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Great day! BRADMINS please add Lungi dance emoticon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can feel your happiness. You have fought tirelessly and have many scars and lash marks to show for it. Yes, we need a lungi icon! If like you say that this will survive the lashes from those that it hurts, this will f...

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deejay wrote:
Vivek K wrote:BRADMINS please add Lungi dance emoticon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s great to see you happy Vivek ji.

It is happy moment.

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BRADMINS please add Lungi dance emoticon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mk1 was 58 tons ..add a plough to it..becomes 60 tons. usable .use 4-5 of them with say 40 MK2 without the ploughs in each regiment..which frees them if needless weight n helps meet the new army demand of I believe 65 tonnes weight..ur earlier mk1 become usable too..everybody is happy ..a mk1 with ...

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^^^ There is a difference. The supportive process of orders needs to follow the timelines of the R&D. Back in 2010, IOC-1 (Jan-2011) was getting ready, but the IAF didn't accept that and instead waited for IOC-2 (Dec-2013) before serial production of the first 20 could begin. Add 36 months stan...

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chola wrote:
Katare wrote:“We are weighing the possibility of giving it to a nearby country as a diplomatic gesture. Let us see if it works out,” Christopher says.

This is fking incredibly stupid.

Sounds interesting. Who would be the Neighbor?

How about China

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While the idea is interesting, I don't think its worth wasting time and money and delaying this indigenous procurement by decades. The idea is foolhardy. The only interest it serves is that of Roos. That is because this is one smart way to make sure that you buy nothing. Seems roosi inspired so tha...

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Vivek K

Couldn’t agree with you more fanne bhai!

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Wiki says 657 Mig 21s were built in India. I dont know exact numbers in operation now but it has significant history with IAF specifically for all of us on the kills against Pakis. LCA taking over that history with a new history to be made is something everyone will be caught up too. And of course ...

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Its time for folks to start calling up their chaiwallahs ;) Govt shelves $10-b single-engine fighter jet deal, to push for Tejas https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/policy/govt-shelves-10-b-single-engine-fighter-jet-deal-to-push-for-tejas/article22859624.ece After much dithering the govern...

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Boss what came first - the chicken or the egg? When you have a design for an AEWC system ready - what is the point or the economy of scale in producing only 2-3 aircraft? Embraer would gladly supply dozens of the aircraft type. Once all these specialty industries are functioning, one could graduate ...

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How may refuellers does the IAF have? How many are serviceable at a given time. Would such an extremely limited resource be reserved for strikers or point defence aircraft? So why does FOC have to wait for IFR? 272 MKI + 6 Midas = 278 refuellers more or less? Just sayin'.... So we plan to use MKIs ...

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Nose cone was a well understood engineering issue with high signal losses in the original nosecone. ADA itself decided to go for Cobham radome. Why are you blatantly lying IAF caused delay? Care to elaborate what supposed delay did IAF cause wrt nosecone? Nose cone problems were identified and solu...

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"Great Expectations".The title of Dickens' classic novel could very well be the title of the history of Tejas.Notwithstanding the effort put in thus far by those concerned, we havd yet to master MK-1 production, test the 1A and haven't even seen a mock-up of the MK-2.Thus as a member has ...

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"Great Expectations".The title of Dickens' classic novel could very well be the title of the history of Tejas.Notwithstanding the effort put in thus far by those concerned, we havd yet to master MK-1 production, test the 1A and haven't even seen a mock-up of the MK-2.Thus as a member has ...

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