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by Cyrano
24 Nov 2025 03:45
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1361481

Re: Military Flight Safety

The American team gave some lame excuse and left the air show after the LCA crash!
by Cyrano
23 Nov 2025 16:02
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Analysis on Future Scenarios
Replies: 65
Views: 16590

Re: Operation Sindoor - Analysis on Future Scenarios

One random thought here - I think all of us here are middle-class types, some approximation to the rational actor postulated in economics; necessarily so because otherwise we wouldn't be here. But. perhaps the rules of the game as seen by the very rich, the very poor, the jihadis, etc., are very di...
by Cyrano
23 Nov 2025 15:57
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Analysis on Future Scenarios
Replies: 65
Views: 16590

Re: Operation Sindoor - Analysis on Future Scenarios

When we figure out what constitutes defeat to them, and deliver that defeat, of course, within our rules of our game, then we can expect this to stop, not before then. Gaza should be a point of reflection. Until all are dead, there is no defeat. Until one can still say, I am alive, he remains undef...
by Cyrano
23 Nov 2025 15:38
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1361481

Re: Military Flight Safety

I just feel HAL test pilots should do this showbazi. Right now we need every experienced pilot ready for combat. I don’t even agree on Tejas marketing when we wait every month for a GE engine to arrive. Walk then run. Once we have our own complete jet then start marketing or at least don’t push the...
by Cyrano
23 Nov 2025 14:59
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1361481

Re: Military Flight Safety

Slow motion video of how the jet went down https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jURq5Vn5HSY Thanks for posting this. Few things I noticed (or may be I'm over interpreting) As the pilot comes in to the last manoeuvre the nose of the plane is seen going up and down as if it's hesitant for a split second to...
by Cyrano
23 Nov 2025 14:21
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1361481

Re: Military Flight Safety

KSingh Ji,
Can you please lay off blaming IAF, pilots, HAL and what not? Why is it so difficult to trust them in this moment of loss to do the right things, pick the right learnings and improve for the future? It's so easy to be a keyboard warrior...
by Cyrano
23 Nov 2025 13:45
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1361481

Re: Military Flight Safety

by Cyrano
22 Nov 2025 17:27
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1361481

Re: Military Flight Safety

Om Shanti to the pilot. The last manoeuvre was a very tricky one, so close to the ground. Might have caused a few fleeting moments of black out for the pilot and bleeding of kinetic energy to the plane without sufficient height to regain both. The manoeuvre looks like a cork screw turning in two axe...
by Cyrano
15 Nov 2025 21:39
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Root Cause Analysis of the Delhi ATC / GPS Interference Incident
Replies: 68
Views: 9661

Re: Root Cause Analysis of the Delhi ATC / GPS Interference Incident

fanne wrote: 14 Nov 2025 22:15 My 2 cents counter intuitive argument -
We are doing it!! testing our capability to spoof GPS and other signals so that any projectile coming this way and depending on these tech (GPS etc) can be fooled!!
At the risk of crashing commercial flights full of passengers? Don't think so.
by Cyrano
15 Nov 2025 17:33
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Elections Modi 3.0
Replies: 289
Views: 84140

Re: Elections Modi 3.0

Great result in Bihar!
Hope to see this state develop and grow fast and catch up with the rest of India!
by Cyrano
14 Nov 2025 15:15
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

No more low intensity seismic shocks in Pak in the past couple of months ?
by Cyrano
10 Nov 2025 09:01
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 865
Views: 353847

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

COP30 and the unraveling of climate scams begins :rotfl:

by Cyrano
30 Oct 2025 13:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the- ... inization/

Read the article above in full. Is the rise of Trump and MAGA movement a tortured response of American society to wokeism/feminism?
by Cyrano
19 Oct 2025 14:03
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
Replies: 816
Views: 469719

Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

Deepavali shubhaakankshalu to all the BRF members and their near and dear.

Crackers phodo our BIF ke bhoot bhagao !
by Cyrano
17 Oct 2025 15:24
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
Replies: 2198
Views: 1203599

Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015

LOL! MEA has denied Trump's claims once again. No one is is bending the knee in front of this clown. Brics countries are well and fine, we will only see increase of trade in their national currencies.
by Cyrano
17 Oct 2025 12:06
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Trump and his clique, kala patthar etc have made hundreds of millions by shorting stocks and bitcoin in the past weeks and likely several times in the past months by insider trading, every time he makes such insane statements and falsehoods. It's a limitless greedy bunch of thugs.
by Cyrano
16 Oct 2025 20:35
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-2000000000-f-35-stealth-fighter-has-an-engine-problem/ The $2,000,000,000,000 F-35 Stealth Fighter Has An Engine Problem ... Would have got the some real nitty gritty details if poster Brar_w was around. Yes. He got challenged here when Ukraine war started on...
by Cyrano
16 Oct 2025 20:27
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 865
Views: 353847

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

I'm not a vaccine sceptic, had my shots as a kid in Bharat and then recently of pfizer/moderna but I've been questioning climate change well before Trump 45, what started as an honest and curious inquiry opened so many cans of worms.... What rfk does isn't relevant here. See, this is the problem - a...
by Cyrano
15 Oct 2025 15:36
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 865
Views: 353847

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Good Gupta ji,
Keep digging with an open mind to understand and as a truth seeker. If need be, start from first principles. And you will discover very interesting things about CO2 and climate change.
by Cyrano
15 Oct 2025 15:30
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

The Atlantic says: Coffee is in trouble. Even before the United States imposed tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil and 20 percent on Vietnam—which together produce more than half of the world’s coffee beans—other challenges, including climate-change-related fires , flooding, and droughts, had already f...
by Cyrano
15 Oct 2025 15:26
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

“Earlier this year, an economic analysis by Moody’s Analytics found that the top 10% of earners—those making roughly $250,000 a year or more—now account for an astonishing 49.7% of all consumer spending. Thirty years ago, that figure was roughly 36%.” There are 2 reasons for this IMO 1. The bottom ...
by Cyrano
15 Oct 2025 10:21
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Suddenly he becomes "Ashley J Tellis, a renowned foreign policy scholar and defence strategist of Indian origin," from "Ashley J Tellis, a renowned foreign policy scholar and defence strategist, a naturalized US citizen," C'est la vie in massaland... You are a useful lackey until...
by Cyrano
15 Oct 2025 02:48
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 865
Views: 353847

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Climate is a very highly complex system,.. Yes, climate is complex — but greenhouse physics isn’t. CO₂ traps heat; we’ve measured the rise in both concentration and temperature. That’s not a theory, it’s spectroscopy. Debate the politics if you like, but not the thermometer. :-o — Amber G – who sti...
by Cyrano
14 Oct 2025 12:26
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 865
Views: 353847

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Anecdotal evidences are just that, anecdotal. But the more spectacular they are, the more we remember them There was a time couple of centuries ago, before the use of fossil fuels became a thing, when wine growing was quite present in sunny UK. Many even credit the invention of bubbly Champagne to t...
by Cyrano
13 Oct 2025 19:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

We are only speaking about direct effects on humans. What about animals, livestock, trees and plants, soil microbes, runoff into rivers and lakes etc ? Just like heavy metals concentrate up the food chain, the radioactive elements and isotopes will also concentrate up, no? Have there been any studie...
by Cyrano
12 Oct 2025 18:49
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

You are misreading my post it seems to me.
by Cyrano
12 Oct 2025 16:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Terroristan - March 31, 2022
Replies: 5847
Views: 2534955

Re: Terroristan - March 31, 2022

I don't foresee any oil slick m/billionaire saudis risking their lives by fighting Afghans or anyone else. Thats what Munir's heeramandi has been and is for.
by Cyrano
12 Oct 2025 16:54
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

We as Indians who have faced umpteen terrorist attacks should never mix the two saar or draw any kind of comparison.
by Cyrano
12 Oct 2025 14:40
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

Thanks, I didn't imply that there is a conscious international conspiracy that is actively maintaining radiophobia. But when some journalists or commentators speak about N winters or irreparable damage for centuries, there is no active rebuttal from the scientific community or govt organisations, an...
by Cyrano
11 Oct 2025 02:58
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Very different take on life compared to the 4 ashramas of Hindu tradition namely Baalya, Vaivahika , Vanaprastha and finally Sanyaasa. A small nit. The four ashramas are brahmacharya (staying at gurukula and learning), graahastya (family life - which is the longest IMHO), vaanaprastha, and sanyasa....
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 20:43
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11692
Views: 3390974

Re: Understanding the US - Again

https://x.com/PressSec/status/197666451 ... xr26w&s=19

Looks like Trump's attention will shift to China for the next few hours. :rotfl:
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 17:18
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

^^^ :mrgreen:
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 16:14
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 12709
Views: 4329449

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Chetak garu,
Agree mostly. What historic or ethnic claim do Afghans have on Balochistan? I'm not well versed in this matter, my vague GK tells me they are as different as chalk and cheese. If anything, Balochs would prefer to be a part of Bharat than get gobbled up by Afghanis/Talibunnies.
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 16:04
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 12709
Views: 4329449

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

^^^ unlikely. The sale of missiles to Pakis story was either planted as a pressure tactic on Bharat for the ongoing negotiations, or it is yet another TACO moment.
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 15:56
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Deterrence
Replies: 5241
Views: 1231506

Re: Deterrence

Thanks Amber G, Quite some interesting perspectives I have learnt from recent posts by yourself and other members in this thread Im wondering if the huge stigma and "recoiling with horror" at the mention of N weapons usage just "radiophobia", which acts as a deterrent on N armed ...
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 15:36
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017
Replies: 6369
Views: 2555108

Re: Indo-UK News & Discussions- June 2017

Throwing some crumbs... Good sign.
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 15:33
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!
Replies: 2951
Views: 689610

Re: Operation Sindoor - Bharat Strikes Back: Jai Hind!

With the kind of neighbours we have, any kinetic action always has the risk of escalating into a full scale war. If that happens, our political and business leaders know that the US can not only be untrustworthy but also impose sanctions of various types and hurt our business there. Until NaMo era, ...
by Cyrano
10 Oct 2025 15:08
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 12709
Views: 4329449

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

The US can always flip flop, especially if they want control of bagram.