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Murkowski was waffling on Tanden's nomination. The DNC simply didn't pay her enough or promise no serious challenge in 2022 election. However, Tanden isn't going away as she'll be back in another position in the WH. They need her. I keep wondering when the Nobel Prize winner nominees will be appoint...

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saip wrote:TX is going ahead and dropping its Mask mandate and allowing ALL businesses to function without any restrictions.

The real killer is recirculated air from HVAC systems. Most of India outside of the metros are not wearing masks and infection+death rate is low.

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^^^ Off topic. Maybe relations will improve as part of vaccine and space diplomacy. It is worth noting that slavery of Africans and indigenous people lasted from 1520-1888 in Brazil. The language spoken is Portuguese. The wealthy and ruling class are white Western Europeans, but there is a significa...

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Vivek K wrote:So which is the primary forum for Indian space?

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?board=62.0

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Tanden's nomination was sunk because she was a house coconut for the wrong massa (Hillary Clinton) at the wrong time. For years, she faithfully served as Hillary Clinton's attack dog on mainstream as well as social media. In fact she recently deleted about 1000 of her tweets abusing Clinton's rival...

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basant wrote:First mission of ISRO in 2021 on a Sunday and it's longest too, and just 2 posts on the event. We have come a long way!

This is because BRF is no longer the primary forum for information on Indian space flight. People are going elsewhere; in particular potential new participants.

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There is no one "DD" - so, not surprised that Northrup has their own. However, IF they are indeed using a DD (which I am assuming based on what I posted), then it better include UAI - no matter how old or recent. UAI is just a weapon's library - a set of look up tables. Please discard the...

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UAI is the standard for interfaces not just for armaments, but subsystems within aircraft. It standardizes a whole bunch of DoD-MIL-STDs for future subsystems and weapons where you don't have to wait for an entire cycle of development. It will provide a standard for an API, electrical, and mechanica...

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Raytheon Formally Opposes LM Acquisition of Rocketdyne “They are a huge supplier to us,” [Raytheon’s CEO Gregory] Hayes said of Aerojet. If Lockheed Martin is allowed to buy the company, “you don’t have an independent supplier on the solid rocket motor side. It gives us pause as we think about the ...

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Please listen again and again. This general fought in Kargil as battalion commander. Deployed as Brigadier, Maj General, Corps commander and now Northern Command. At 11:05-11:15, General Joshi states from 2010 there were two battalions and by late Aug 2020 it went up to 90,000 troops (these are mou...

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Ashokk wrote:Watch: Fight Erupts Over Cake After Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's Road Inauguration

Holy crap! I like the guy in the blue shirt eating cake with both hands!

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^^^I agree, but F-35C integration outside of UAI, in my guess, is probably being done for expediting AARGM-ER testing. Going to UAI makes all sorts of sense, even USAF paying for it in terms time and money, which will result in life cycle savings and easier integration on to different platforms. Per...

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I don't know if UAI compatibility necessarily points to wider use of SiAW. UAI is probably defined by various MIL-STDs and may be contractually required by DoD contracts past a certain year as part of standardization for life cycle cost savings. Cost effectiveness on different platforms would probab...

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India has to recongise that Democrats are here to stay for perhaps 2 terms, that is 8 years. We better update our narratives and approach to harness their leftist ideology than keep pining for a bygone golden era under fake blond Trump. It won't make much difference as the main stream Democratic pa...

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So the ER variant will be for USN and USAF on the F-35A and C, or also on the B? I would guess then that USN has been funding development on the AARGM-ER and has an acquisition budget for it too. For NG it would make sense to see if these load up on the B-21 as well. With a larger warhead and range,...

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So NG took over the AARGM-ER, so I guess they won the contract when the original AGM-88 was developed by TI, then acquired by Hughes, then Raytheon. Looks like USAF got over $160 million for Stand-In Attack Weapon (SiAW) development in 2021 and upto $364 million for production through 2025. I wonder...

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^^^Is this AARGM-ER a revision of the AGM-88E?

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^^^Thanks. What about military, paramilitary and central police forces?

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US B-1B Lancer debuts at Aero India 2021 34th EBS supports Aero India 2021 https://media.defense.gov/2021/Feb/06/2002577604/780/780/0/210205-F-BH261-226.JPG A B-1B Lancer takes off at Kempegowda International Airport, prior to performing a flyover at the Aero India 2021 tradeshow in Bengaluru, Indi...

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The economic survey reports information on trade balances with major partners for the year up to November 2020. Economic Survey 2020-21 Table 3 shows the impact of Indian constrictions on Chinese goods - the trade deficit with China for April-November is down by over $10 billion. Temporarily, there...

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The Dearness Allowance for military, police and central government employees will be reinstated in July 2021. Does anyone here have any information on that? A lot of JCOs rely on that for their families. It needs to be restored ASAP.

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Surajsan,

My post was about US trade wars and the money to be utilized by USDA. USDA is a big component of USAID and has implications for destabilizing "friendly" governments.

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kit wrote:India Building a $60 billion NG Grid Pipeline

Thanks for posting this. PM Modi also made a big announcement some time back on Twitter.
$60 Billion Natural Gas Grid: Challenges And Prospects

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Some 150 NTPC workers feared dead in glacier burst. A very sad day.

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^^^It is a resolution not a passed bill, so Coumo, unless he's a complete idiot, should ignore it.
What was the vote in the state assembly? How many for and against, and by party? NY Assembly is 106D, 43R, 1I.

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What is up with Brad Sherman and his meddling in the so-called farmers protests along with Ro Khanna? I thought that he was broadly pro-India. All of these elected members of congress and SM influencers are trying to setup the narrative to vilify India in order to force Chairman Xiden to act in acc...

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Trump administration basically forced the incoming administration to continue opposition to Chinese hegemony and belligerence, but soon this narrative will quietly go away from the press and SM, and the attempt will be to return to the "good old days" of the Clinton-Bush-Obama admins. A fe...

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^^^There are exceptions, even Mary Trump wrote a book about her uncle to monetize the liberal views. That said, most relatives stay quiet. Meena Harris is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard Law School. She's not an ordinary loud mouth. She knows better and most likely has the support of the executiv...

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2021/01/29/the-meena-problem-491577 The @meena problem By ALEX THOMPSON and THEODORIC MEYER 01/29/2021 06:36 PM EST Meena’s company produced the video with the Supermajority Education Fund, a nonprofit devoted to women’s leadership. (An allie...

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Yeah I don't think it applies to DOD programs at all or at least it doesn't seem to be a mandate. But I haven't looked very much into it. At face value, the fact that there is some international standard prohibiting the USAF from mounting its most recent/newest operational HUD on a new fighter seem...

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They should have used the Raptor’s HUD. It’s the same cockpit as the F-15 QA. Not sure if the F-22 HUD conforms to the ARINC 764 tech standards issued in 2005. I suspect it does not, in which case it would have meant a good deal of re-design and therefore cost Does the ARINC standard apply to milit...

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Karan M wrote:Precisely. You can add weather modes to a non weather radar.

The best way is to have different polarization.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/02/01/962821038/the-mystery-of-indias-plummeting-covid-19-cases The Mystery Of India's Plummeting COVID-19 Cases But four months later, India's coronavirus numbers have plummeted. Late last month, on Jan. 26, the country's Health Ministry confirmed a r...

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Today I got my Moderna first shot. They also tested me for COVID to rule out if I have it. I do not know if this is the norm in the rest of the country. You broke down and took the vaccine? You posted saying that you were still debating because the vaccine was pushed through in haste by former Pres...

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No Defence or Home Ministry budget presented, or I missed it?

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disha wrote:
Mort Walker wrote:Rs. 3000 crore for apprenticeship, but nothing really mentioned for vocational education.

What's the point in setting up training to fix TVs and Radios?

How about wind turbines and machinery for industry?

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Rs. 3000 crore for apprenticeship, but nothing really mentioned for vocational education.

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^^^It seems like a regression.

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It appears she is going through the major items of budget. Defence appears to be the last item of NS statement.
The 2020-2021 Defence Budget presented was Rs. 471,378 crore. Let's see how much more it changes for 2021-2022.

On another note, hydrogen infrastructure is being setup.

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