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krishna_krishna, I had warned users against dragging in US or its leaders into these discussions without adequate reasons. So please take this irrational faith in Biden as a supreme being with relevance to Indian decision making elsewhere! What India and its government does is hardly dependent on US...

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She might come to Kerala to visit her dad during springbreak

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Admin note: YashG, yensoy, sanjayc et al, do not derail threads with your unabashed love/hate and hope/despair for US politicians in this forum! Use your own personal profiles for all those, please. If there is any India-relevant news or fact that came out about these critters, then please post in ...

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I fully support the pakis joining the Quad, instead of us. - It is already a MUNNA with last-gen AMRAAMs loaded up and knows how to service US bases - the Haqqanis will sneak back from mountains to help Americans keep the pakjabi jernails in check with their Pathan-civil war. - For us in BRF, is a g...

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Admin Note: enough about the Granny-smither and his bat-acid-trips. Anyone who posts his moronic tweets or links will get a perma-ban on general principles!!!

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Maybe this is something that was commented on in this thread: Due to China-virus topping the news, we did not see much analysis, through latter half of 2020, there seem to be a visible shift of various segments of industry (Finance, insurance from NY-Boston, tech/biotech from silicon valley etc) to ...

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Cyrano wrote:Gents, take your traffic woes and crash videos elsewhere, there are tons of places for that.
Dhanyavaad !

And there are tons of other places for posting American political oneliners. Please desist.

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We got to keep in mind that the cost for what used to take a well trained army to knock down a ruling militia in a third world country has gone up exponentially since Frederick Foresythe’s times. - As US found out, even bush wars of the likes of Afghanistan or post-Saddam Levant runs into 100s of bi...

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All talk of radar reflection due to shaping is moot, unless there is internal carriage of ordinance. Maybe the chines and DSI in TEDBF are a step in de-risking the significant aerodynamic changes between LCA and AMCA’s design.

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Folks can we please take this list to the social media thread? It will be better preserved there

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From the above list posted by chetak - So covertly Khalistani is ok?

And GoI maintaining law and order is “interference”. Whomever wrote this claptrap seem to be on a 9-5:00 job. Lazy and not worth the money for whomever is paying them

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Ok this is how hard to die down speculations get started. @8:25, Chief is not very enthusiastic about Mk2. Says there may be a place for Mk2 depending on AMCA availability and we will take a call in due course. First IAF said 200+ Mk2 before MRCA 3 yrs ago, then went down to 6 sq/108 Mk2 ~1.5yrs yrs...

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ACTION ALERT: Hello all. Amazon Prime has a documentary series "Kashmir: The Story" that's produced by TimesNow Television. It's not perfect but it's a rare case of OUR side of the Kashmir conflict getting some air-time in the US media market (as opposed to relentless Pakistani and Islami...

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We can expect the penpals of Bureacratus Fulminati to write a strong letter towards the general direction of Delhi, asking for govt to provide rollcages for tractors and patka-helmets for the drivers when they ram on to barriers at full speed under influence

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This is a wonderful development expedited by the post-Balakote assessment of state of AD Don’t know why posters are saying this is a ground launched Astra or air launch capability etc? Outwardly, it looks nothing like Astra’s design and has more in common with MRSAM. Particularly the forward fins(al...

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Good to see you back, vsunder-saar, this thread missed your very detailed posts during DFC commissioning and it is always a pleasure to read

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Nothing gives more satisfaction than beating the racist pricks masquerading as a nation of jolly-fellas (thanks to American pop-culture). I remember those days a decade and half ago, when a few of us here in BRF called out the Australians as low class and low talent sportsmen who are milking a syste...

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https://twitter.com/DefenceDecode/status/1351059977406976000?s=20 ---> 83 Tejas MK1A Deal 1. Base price of 83 MK1A: ₹ 26,145 crore 2. ADA consultation charges: ₹ 800 crore 3. Maintenance/spares: ₹ 8,000 crore 4. Technical Training: ₹ 600 crore 5. GSE/GHE: ₹ 1,202 crore 6. Central Taxes: ₹ 9,000 cro...

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What is with paper clipping the Panther to the rest ? India has always provided a good graveyard of very expensive European helicopters, from 1985 Westland deals and 2013 AugustaWestland scams, we have moved on to the Krampov228 and now a 100 order Panther. Lest we forget: https://m-economictimes-co...

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Srutayus, - a laser designator cannot do simultaneous targeting due to its physical limitation l. You can point at only one thing at a time - the three darts cannot be separately targeted for a swarm mode. They are penetrators, not explosive (so they can’t take out multiple UAVs in proximity) Basica...

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The Starstreak is a 1980s system originally from Shorts Belfast, that was splashed across pages of magazines from that era. No known wartime usage seem to be available nor its effectiveness. Claims of counter measures etc not available is made by all beam riding type missiles, including the paki’s R...

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Niran-saar, brochure feeder and expo-crawler here. So guesses would be

1) compact muzzle reference radar(based on brochure labeling) for measuring deviations
2) looks like a collimator type device for correcting feedback from the radar

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And I will get snarky if I feel like it when responding to inane arguments. In your personal profile, yes. But here, you report offending posts. Please don’t make things difficult than it is! Warning issued A final appeal to the duking posters here: Dear posters: no one in US and most certainly not...

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Indeed, Indranil, cant believe we are discussing making an end-of-line helicopter, when same class exists in India and is evolving well into a world class product line. I thought it was a quid pro quo. We send scientists (as labor) to work in France on that project, and the French give us the engine...

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It is not often one see a full dozen eggs cracking on faces around you Before the Indian flag waving chap at Capitol’s identity came out, there were tons of posts from RoLers saying “yevil yindoo Modi supporter sullying holier than holiest temple of democracy”. Leftists, who hate America joined in w...

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What is "something viable"? How do you "define" or "quantify" something viable? Rest of world definitions of terms and chin-pak are different For example: - Deterrent patrol means “a heated barge tied to the quay for 35 years” but the rest world must shiver at the chee...

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Sad news to start an year. One of the world’s greatest climbers of modern era and a legend who should be celebrated for younger generations to know about.

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kit wrote:Revoking his Indian citizenship and a stint in Pakistan would lay to rest any doubts whatsoever !!

Despite numerous requests by multiple admins to not quote entire long posts or pics, you seem to show scant regard for forum etiquettes.

A warning issued to get your attention

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Suraj, these “welfarism” terms have been around for some time, but did not gain traction in public discourse or electoral calculations due to the flimsy foundation it rests on. You cannot convincingly claim to be a liberal who believes in a welfare state and then go on to trash some of the most effe...

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What is the objective of the third carrier other than provide backup for the other two? Then why ask for 65k with Car Nicobar launch capability etc? If China has 15 carriers with USN type land attack capabilities, where are the allied bases from which these will operate from ? Or are they planning t...

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Also, I don't think the Fed govt would let this slide as they have given asylum to several Russian, Ukrainian, Egyptian, Saudi dissidents over the years, an open killing ground would not be good PR. This Canadian government can and will let this slide, because it has too many deeply entrenched anti...

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ramana is right - this article can only be described as a long diatribe against personalities, not an analysis of a veteran who obviously knows far better than any of us. As per author, there are no redeeming Indian innovations in pushing out a nuclear hull worth mentioning, in contrast to his hagio...

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Adm.Vishnu Bhagwat has a v.sensible and ambitious plan for the growth of the IN's subfleet with 2 lines of conv./ AIP sub construction,western and Ru. Had he not been sacked by Uncle George over the paltry issue of a promotion of an officer he felt did not make the grade, we would not be in thf sub...

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I don't think that they even entered user trials phase. Don't remember seeing anything about them in any publication for quite some time. IIRC, there was a bunch of stories earlier this year about Army wanting extended range beyond Prahaar's (Pragati is the designated export version) called Pranash...

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Excellent overview post jamwal-saar, too many dhoti shivering over Turkish propaganda BS on the drones. A disciplined military force would have regrouped and retaliated using methods you listed against the azeris by now, but Armenians does not seem to be one. This despite being at the receiving end ...

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Mort, IIRC, in the 1990s, the Flying chapati was the affectionate term used internally by the folks who worked on the CABS’ Avro AEW before it crashed tragically. It was picked by public after news articles about the nickname came out. It is neither derogatory nor demeaning I think the term used for...

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What is new in this tunnel? IIRC, a hypersonic tunnel with Mach6 Phase1 was inaugurated in VSSC back in 2012 or so https://www.isro.gov.in/satish-dhawan-wind-tunnel-complex-commissioned-vssc With capability up to Mach 12 operation, Hypersonic Wind Tunnel is the third largest in the world in terms of...

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This is probably the fastest of the possible solutions since Airbus might already have run simulations. This was necessitated by changed situation and what if cheen and pak decides to do a cage match in the next few years. I think this program can be done with lot more speed than even restarting Emb...

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This is a letdown from the mega-A330 based one for a jingo :(( but am glad they are not going for the nonsensical C295 based proposal. Lower power generating and slow flying Turboprop is not going to cut it if you want an offensive battle-management bubble in an enemy territory teeming with fast jet...

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China doesn't need to talk to any Indian trade body to officially communicate. They can just use policy - which is what they have done. I'm sure there will be slight differences in sector to sector. Ok, so it is speculation based on what they are alleged to have done (which is not yet reported anyw...

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