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I believe we have lost 3 of our jawans to Paki sniper fire in the last week alone. I don't know what the best way to counter Paki sniper fire...by our snipers (difficult to locate most of snipers along LoC)...perhaps it is to escalate the situation to make it unaffordable by TSP to continue to use s...

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Airshow China 2018: Upgraded Z-10ME attack helicopter breaks cover https://www.janes.com/images/assets/433/84433/p1732802_main.jpg The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) has unveiled an improved version of its Zhishengji-10ME (Z-10ME), an export-oriented variant of the People's Liberatio...

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Pak is increasingly using snipers along the border to target our jawans. One more BSF jawan killed today from sniper fire. Perhaps more learned people can suggest what anti-sniper tactics we can use to counter this. Even if we kill 10 of their personnel for each death of ours, it would not shake the...

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Russians are equally good at presentation of their MIL hardware. Awesome Su-57 PAK-FA footage of its low-level photoshoot

. The plane does look really good.

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Trust me, IR does some rudimentary wind tunnel analysis of its locomotives. I've seen WT models of WAP-4 & WAP-7 (not the above loco). Was surprised and pleased to see those WT models. I am sure they would have done some CFD analysis on the modified locomotive to rough out the edges in design......

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The link takes to an older date. Anyways, if the above is true and if BJP comes back to power in 2019, time to make life difficult for British interests in India. If UPA-3 happens, I doubt they will be as enthused to pursue this case (in fact, he may come back to India after getting some sort of par...

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Don't know where to put this in. A knee-jerk policy of banning new private vehicles registration for the next two years in Bangalore is being considered by State Govt to curb ever growing traffic issue on BLR roads and also to mitigate air pollution. http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/...

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How will this CAATSA sanctions if applied, affect the purchase of hardwares like MRH S-70 from YooEss? Also will sanctions affect Lockeed airframe components fab operations at TASL in HYD? More importantly, will it affect on-going C-17, C-180, P-8I PBL programs? I guess certain hardwares like Guardi...

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First pic of completed (?) exterior pic of Train-18. Looks not too bad...

I am not sure if required tests can be done and required safety clearances can be obtained in a few months. I'd think first service might start around mid-2019.

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^^Totally tangential, but from BLR South to Majestic, in metro, usually the travel time is anywhere between 10 to 30 minutes. I doubt there is space available at Majestic for a HSR terminal (unless they decide to build one below ground underneath existing station...like how they have done in NY Penn...

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Bravo Russia. Are there any plans of using PD-14 derivatives to power Il-476 variants in the future? With C-17 acquisition capped at 11 planes, we would certainly need further frames to augment & replace existing Gajrajs. I think 476 is the only plane that is currently or in near future availabl...

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How many DRDO/HAL/CSIR scientists/engineers post on these kinds of boards? Very small number and even the folks who post, do it very rarely. Yes, the grasp of seriousness of sensitive info in India is probably not at the level it is desired but trust me, it is very hard to get info out of folks. The...

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From SSC forum: Pathetic! Indian Railways suffers losses as passengers steal towels, bedsheets, blankets from trains In the last fiscal alone several items were stolen from long-distance trains including 1.95 lakh towels, 81,736 bedsheets, 55,573 pillow covers, 5,038 pillows and 7,043 blankets India...

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The kind of influence LCA program has had on current & future aerospace programs is immense. To appreciate it, one has to hear it from experts & rookie scientists who are on the beneficial receiving end. From my recent interactions, learnt that now "experts" from ADA are being cons...

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Not sure if this is the right thread, but found this interesting document about current employment condition in India. https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/State_of_Working_India_2018.pdf Key take away: 1. Growth Creates fewer Jobs than it used to: A 10% increase in GDP...

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Per this WSJ article, Comac C919 program saved GE's struggling avionics group How China Systematically Pries Technology From U.S. Companies Beijing leans on an array of levers to extract intellectual property—sometimes coercively Full article onlee for paid customers...below is excerpt. When China s...

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Recently one girl who did MS from US joined our company. I was asking her how are things in US wrt work permit & job availability for international students. She said, in her batch, she is the the onlee one who came back. Rest of her batch mates were able to find work through consultancies on OP...

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Railways Ministry has been one of the visibly better performing entity in current admin. Not only wide scale infra improvement, project fruition pace and adoption of better rolling stock (I dunno why this wasn't done before but onlee recently did IR stop manufacturing of old ICF pax coaches in all i...

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I pointed or alluded in another thread about Intel sharing by US which was a major pull...know this is not the right thread but is our intel gathering capabilities via Sats is not satisfactory enough to request assistance from US?

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Manu Pubby via Twitter #Comcasa done, after the last mile negotiations on legally binding provisions that communications cannot be blocked without a six month notice What does this even mean? Go cry to mummy? Comms are real-time things, going to court after the fact will be of no use. Assuming that...

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Info on the content of alloys and composites on the Su-57 https://forum.keypublishing.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=262497&d=1535481319 40-44% aluminium 22-26% composite 18% titanium 10% steel 4% other Posted on Keypubs by some guy. Assuming the above is % by weight rather than area. Given th...

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Boeing wanted to maintain the same wheel well design of existing 737MAX-8/9 models to MAX-10. Usually a longer fuselage requires a longer landing gear. Quick video on the innovative design solution arrived by Boeing engineering teams to fit a longer landing gear in to existing wheel well. Amazing......

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One of the malayalam dailies had reported that IB has launched an investigation into sedition related messages that appeared in social media. I have created a cache of screenshots of such messages and shall happily cooperate with this investigation. I just want to mention if its not already being m...

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IR, can you post references where NAL have developed co-cured & co-bonded Wing for Saras?

Edit: I found one IIT presentation https://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/workshop/sc ... osites.pdf

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In the movie "Deep Impact"; Morgan Freeman plays the POTUS. During a press conference, he announces that a giant asteroid is heading towards Earth and in the same conference, he also says that he is "freezing all wages & prices of commodities. There will be no hoarding of any item...

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With all the trade tariffs talk among others, how is the US economy, especially the stock markets continuing to set new records recently? Are traders convinced that these tariffs are just talk & no action or they that bullish about US economy that it can pretty much continue to forge ahead by it...

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Found this on Keypub forums... The USArmy recently shared its AH-64E upgrade plans with industry. The AH-64E Ver. 6 (2018-2026) will see several key upgrades; doubling of its radar's range (~16km), Maritime threat detection and targeting (FCR), Extended range MUMT-X, improved navigation, and communi...

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nice victimhood ecosystem they have got running there. with 25k a head these are not poor people but the pull of murica/canada is very strong for the lower middle class as a deep and immediate jump in lifestyle is there for taking - if they can sneak through. This possibly takes the discussion OT.....

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It will be interesting to see what kind of revenue AI will pull up due to change of location. Will they still charge INR 2500 (?) for business tickets? Businesses will still send reps to AI but I do expect a dip in attendance. Also, a lot of civilians working with HAL, CSIR, DRDO labs in BLR would a...

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India nationals illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in record numbers The surge of Central Americans crossing into the U.S. claiming asylum is no secret around the world. Just a snapshot of those caught entering on any given day is stunning – Nigeria, Romania, Nepal – in addition to the hundred...

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^^IR, AFAIK, Swift is Swift onlee (actually stands for Stealth Wing Flying Testbed). Scaled down version of Ghatak. Will be used to demo & certify certain technologies that have never been done in India, which will eventually be used on Ghatak.

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Too bad to hear about AI planning to move out of Bangalore. Bangalore was considered the Aerospace Capital of India. Why Lucknow? Kinda odd choice...good for folks in that part of India (& for locals). If the move of venue happens then I guess, I will be not be attending AI 2019 at least. Will d...

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Not just ADA but the current trend in most DRDO labs is to reduce permanent employees. Get work done by contract folks, apprentice trainees and sometimes interns. Unfortunately, for the former, selection is done by tendering & L1 bidding. Most of the times, the L1 is selected on lowest cost basi...

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It seems like Turkey has been able to leap & close key technology gaps in 15 years time. Any guesses on how this happened? Is Turkish investment in Def R&D is so high & that too in many areas simultaneously to close gaps or is it all blowing a bunch of hot air? Its GDP is around 1T$ as o...

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^^Thanks AmberG for the following up with Ligo Team and posting here the findings. Surely interesting...

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[And this labor mobility is exactly what India is fighting for. If brit money is good for India, then highly educated Indian "labor" should be good for them. At least, our guys would be skilling up. How would India benefit from this labour mobility? I can understand if folks skill up and ...

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I don't understand some members wanting GoI to fight for Immigration rights for Indians who want to settle in outside India & possibly give up INC in future. I'd agree with GoI demanding easier access to professionals/employees from Indian companies working at client site etc., without which it ...

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Helicopter should be able to withstand the loads arising due to crash conditions of 35 g forward, 12 g rearward, 25 g downward, 8 g upward, and 12 g sideward. If the entire helicopter is designed for the above inertial load factors, ALH would be a flying tank. If I could extrapolate my understandin...

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Does Karnataka State Police has a SWAT unit? Doesn't seem like it based on a cursory Google search.

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We should really start penalizing Brit$hits business interests in India for providing shelter for many wanted Indians under the guise of "human rights fairness" & BS like that. They may get away for the first few years but lets see how much "hooman rights" UK would value of t...

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