Bharat Rakshak

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If that's not a conspiracy I don't know what is

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Vayutuvan garu, 75 years have flowed under the bridge. The Britshit Empire is no more. White occupied colonies are independent countries. We don't care for apologies. UK now resembles an old toothless hag with a foul mouth provoking fights and sharing her bed with islamists. When I say reparations, ...

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Thanks Bala saar!
If anyone wants to discuss sage Bharadwaj, there is a thread in stratfor.

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Thanks, are there any serious plans by HAL to replace the 404? With what alternative engine ? I think announcing such a project and taking concrete steps like evaluating French and Russian engines itself will be a wake up call for unkil.

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Dassault made 2 prototypes, first the Super Mirage 4000 with 2 Snecma M53 engines in 1979 to master the twin engine configuration, aerodynamics and a bunch of cutting edge tech for the time, and then the Rafale A (new intakes) with a pair of F404-GE-400 engines and then first substituted one engine ...

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The m88 trex is also substantially smaller than the 404 so fitment and intake design will not be as much a challenge as a bigger engine. It will generate more wet thrust so may even have a performance benefit. Fuel efficiency is a wash between the two according to publicly available figures. Your h...

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Really? Why would Dassault consider ge 404 with Safran / Snecma producing engines at home since decades? You have a source for this?

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Lots of peacefuls and leftys in BBC staff. What else can we expect?!

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Any examples in the aviation world where a high performance fighter plane changed engine? That would help appreciate where your confident estimate is coming from.

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Agree 100% Hari Sud
Welcome back!

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Before each take off, the pilot signs for the plane and is responsible for the plane until he lands and returns the plane to the ground/below deck crew and signs off the plane after debreifing on the plane's performance and noting down any observations. I'd think this is SOP. The F35 pilot who emerg...

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By the way, imagine for a moment a miracle happens and we have Kaveri delivering the expected thrust across regimes and is found to be reliable. The same as above will apply. Whoever sold this idea that let's start with LCA on 404 and then replace the 404 with Kaveri has conned the nation, intention...

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LoL ! Echandee ka kachra ho gaya

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Yes of course!

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Does carrying such missile compel the plane to keep it's radar(s) on all the time it's flying?

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This is not a T20 match but a long test series we are playing to win and climb up the rankings. Let unkil pour new assets into Pak. It will give us new points of leverage on both.

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Thanks for the correction nishant ji.

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A new engine will shift the centre of gravity of the plane. Power lines have to be redone, then hydraulics, the FADEC, then the avionics, the CLAW, depending on the new engine's fuel consumption rate across flight regimes the fuel storage and piping, pumps, some more electricals have to be rerouted....

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The ceasefire along the loc is buried for all time I guess. I think India agreed to pause Sindoor not just because their DGMO called ours. Nur Khan mega bunker was "shafted" and unkil got the chiding as well. Munir's WH visit was to explain why they could not prevent it and how they will p...

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To fit into C17 the wings have to come off , needs tools, jigs and technicians to perform the public stripping. Good that they refused hangar space where this could have been done in private.

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The plane has probably exhausted it's onboard battery power in 48 hrs max. Now it's fit only for Tussards museum IMO

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^^^ No offense meant towards our beloved sardar brethren of course...

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https://x.com/IAF_MCC/status/1934285952064860206?t=sbTnyYCcs24uuyOMn0lCtQ&s=19 A Royal Navy F-35B fighter recovered off an emergency landing at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport on the night of 14 June 25. Operating from UK Aircraft Carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, it was undertaking routine...

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Marine le Pen was convicted by courts along with a bunch of other people from her party for using EU funds to employ people who worked for her party. She could still appeal the decision. The sentence is quite harsh but she never disputed the facts leading to her conviction. Is this a witch hunt? May...

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Second that. No need to take a moral high ground in front of these pigs and thugs.

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Planes are designed around engines. Changing the engine will lead to several years of testing. We are stuck with this 404 engine not found error. That's the uncomfortable truth.

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That the plane was probing our radar detection and AD systems makes some sense. That it occurred on the southern coastline is interesting. They know that we are highly mobilised in the northern borders, this could be probing to see how satark ie alert we are on other areas. How did we coerce the pla...

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Govt agencies are quiet. Along with the DFDR and CVR analysis, I think a lot of clean up is happening in AI, other domestic airlines and airports. NaMo never let's a crisis go waste.

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Of course, and it may be true for mission time, rest of the time it would get loving care below deck. Overall exposure to monsoon weather would be quite limited. I really doubt that any fighter gets 2 weeks of continuous soaking. Also canopy, dorsal fan cover since this is vtol etc need power and hy...

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That's exactly what I was rooting for when LCA N did it's carrier landings. Good to see things moving in that direction. However slowly.

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Impossible to make such stuff up.

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A_Gupta wrote: ↑01 Jul 2025 18:10 Aircraft carrier aircraft subject to ocean salt and humidity damaged by monsoon showers? I think not. On the rest, yes.

They don't get dunked in sea water on a carrier. How this plane ended up in TVM is quite the mystery though.

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Good find. May be we want some quid pro quo on this or other matters. Who knows...?!

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I think it's just an over complicated plane with LM holding the strings for even the most minor repairs with near zero possibility for the buyer to repair unless they are OK to forego warranty. I don't believe it has any sophisticated snooping equipment, space and weight are high premium in a fighte...

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Has anyone claimed yet that the evil yindoos have somehow hacked into the F35 and streamed Arnab Goswami onto the HUD and display system thus frying the electronics and the pilot's brain and caused this forced landing? Since then no crew from UK or LM wants to go near the plane due to fear of becomi...

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^^^ On your point 4, There is no need to do anything overtly provocative. If one pauses and assesses all that happened in Sindoor it's obvious that we have a huge covert network that has been working silently for years and it is extremely well integrated into our defence planners. The kind of stuff ...

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Thank you Admiral!

On point no 6: Has IN placed orders for LCA N? How many are they planning to order?

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Thank you for explaining.
LCA Navy isn't useful in this case?

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How will IN pilots get trained and type certified on Rafale M? Since the M varient doesn't have a biplace? IIRC French pilots themselves go to the US for carrier training.

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