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by Cyrano
27 Dec 2025 10:59
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11874
Views: 3470554

Re: Understanding the US - Again

Larry Johnson ex cia takes every one to the cleaners

by Cyrano
26 Dec 2025 17:33
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Arihant Class SSBN: News & Discussion
Replies: 113
Views: 70136

Re: Arihant Class SSBN: News & Discussion

Range of SLBM expressed in concentric circles as shown above is Maya, because its real deterrence range depends on where the sub is located at the moment of launch + the payload of the BM.

Enjoy maadi these acchey din ;)
by Cyrano
25 Dec 2025 19:51
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011
Replies: 4958
Views: 1242097

Re: India Nuclear News and Discussion 4 July 2011

Thank you for very educative posts Amber G. I'll need to read a couple of times to understand everything with my pea brain :)
by Cyrano
25 Dec 2025 19:26
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 876
Views: 361316

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Oh wait, the link says Presents a synthesis of historical and future projected changes in the global and regional climate over the India subcontinent - based on scientific literature, observations, climate model projections and published IPCC reports I really wish in this report we have our own 'obs...
by Cyrano
25 Dec 2025 19:19
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality
Replies: 876
Views: 361316

Re: Climate Change: Propaganda Vs Reality

Really?! I was thinking that India has had a fantastic run of normal to above normal monsoons with rare nearly normal rainfall for at least the past 30 years. Sea level rise in India? By how many mm per year/decade? All the beach shacks in Goa seem to be doing fine ;) I do think summers are getting ...
by Cyrano
25 Dec 2025 19:04
Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
Topic: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion
Replies: 1432
Views: 1374312

Re: Indian Space Program: News & Discussion

Great achievement ISRO!
Skyroot is making impressive progress. All naarmal onlee ;)
by Cyrano
20 Dec 2025 16:16
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Australia News and Discussion
Replies: 2393
Views: 743159

Re: India-Australia News and Discussion

Chetak Ji,
Anything is possible. Wheels within wheels... Jihadi lives are cheap, as we have seen time and again in our neighbourhood and elsewhere
by Cyrano
20 Dec 2025 14:57
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-Australia News and Discussion
Replies: 2393
Views: 743159

Re: India-Australia News and Discussion

Nationality doesn't matter for jihadis, ummah does. Whether he was originally from India is irrelevant. The focus should be on the ideology and nothing else. What's funny is that all the 5 eyes and their famed Intel network could not prevent the Bondi attack. Who can knock sense into the wilfully bl...
by Cyrano
10 Dec 2025 14:45
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: Understanding the US - Again
Replies: 11874
Views: 3470554

Re: Understanding the US - Again

US and Europe love affair is truly over. Scott Ritter makes some interesting points:

:lol:
by Cyrano
06 Dec 2025 01:05
Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
Topic: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV
Replies: 12836
Views: 4420081

Re: India-US relations: News and Discussions IV

Maga is a bubble that will burst when 47 ends.
by Cyrano
24 Nov 2025 03:45
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1376563

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: 70
Views: 22302

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: 70
Views: 22302

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: 1376563

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: 1376563

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: 1376563

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: 1376563

Re: Military Flight Safety

by Cyrano
22 Nov 2025 17:27
Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
Topic: Military Flight Safety
Replies: 3583
Views: 1376563

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: 70
Views: 12286

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: 318
Views: 95222

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: 1248555

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: 876
Views: 361316

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: 11874
Views: 3470554

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: 820
Views: 479587

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: 2244
Views: 1223740

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: 11874
Views: 3470554

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: 11874
Views: 3470554

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: 876
Views: 361316

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: 876
Views: 361316

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: 11874
Views: 3470554

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: 11874
Views: 3470554

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: 11874
Views: 3470554

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: 876
Views: 361316

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: 876
Views: 361316

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: 1248555

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: 1248555

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: 5900
Views: 2576693

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.