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There exist a lot of clips/pictures of Shareef and co visiting air bases with displays of debris mostly consisting of UAV remnants. In those clips look for characteristic red/yellow debris of the high-speed target drone of interest. During early hours of the operations (cannotrecall if it was the fi...

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I recall the general provided multiple disadvantages of MGS compared to towed counterparts for mountainous operations: - an ideal siting for groups of six MGS guns is comparitively difficult given their footprint - issues of turn-radius/maneuverability of MGS on hill road switchbacks - MGS has gun m...

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https://x.com/shreedharsingh9/status/1920520347679387852 @shreedharsingh9 Air defence systems are doing well. Akash is literally amazing IMHO, the video embedded in the linked post is from Israel. The terminal maneuveriing and density of hard kill projectiles seen is signature of their iron dome / ...

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I recall from the video that the T/W target for Kaveri was 8. It acieved 6.5. He mentioned three pathways to bridge the gap: higher turbine entry temp, blisks and bolt-less turbine stages. Presumably the first to increase thrust and the latter two to reduce weight. The T/W target for Gen 5 is 10 and...

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It was an impressive balancing act by the test vehicle while it was upright. As Ashthor pointed out few posts above: In the video, you can notice silhouette of two semicircular pieces tumbling on the right hand side of the booster flames and exhaust (presumably following the start of pitching maneuv...

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Check out the aircraft that is being armed :) https://x.com/IAF_MCC/status/1755048009543614899?s=20 ---> Unseen, but undeterred - the magnificent men behind our flying machines. Exercise #Vayushakti24. Admiral saar, WTF is that? Really curious. I can't think of a single bird in IAF livery with such...

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CM is hoisted correct in the IN images. It splashed rightside up. Presume surface currents caused the main chutes to drift, which in turn tugged the module on to its side and eventually over to upside-down position. Vaguely recall the commentator stating the main chutes were to detach at or just pri...

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Very valid comments. HALT is a design derisking tool to surface failure modes of a component design that is not 'field-proven' and failure modes are poorly understood. While HASS is necessarily production derisking tool that too if there is a known 'infant-mortality' failure mode. As a systems integ...

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The video clip is from an earlier test. I recall the shadow of the exhaust plume on low altitude cloud from a prior test.

Varoon Shekhar wrote:DRDO's HSTDV tested today

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Suspect there are any takers for the carrots dangled by the image makeover project team. Showbiz is wary of how 'matinee idols' got burnt by past 'guest appearances for the right fee', dalliances and off the cuff remarks.

vijayk wrote:Pappu is hanging out with all left over past prime heroines like pooja Bhatt.

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IIRC, there have been only couple of dev. trials of Rudram-1 to date.

Pratyush wrote:Has Rudram missile been put in production?

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Said private entity gets its head start from talent poached from DRDO and then attempts to denigrate DRDO's effort with innuendos. Paninian needs to learn to let their product speak for itself and not resort to tactics of shooting from shoulders unnamed industrial experts. P.S. titash saar beat me t...

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He had a multi part article in rediff trashing the DRDO many years ago I still recall idiotic questions like "WHY IS DRDO RESEARCHING FOOD?!!!!!" (How did he think soldiers ate? Nearest restaurant? And remember the Jawans are posted everywhere from frigid siachen to boiling Rajasthan) It ...

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Saar would like to add: Sitharaman garu states that when Central Govt is footing all but 1INR of the procurement cost , why cannot the same mesage of assistance and subsidy be communicated to citizens via 'plexi' with an image of the PM on it. She demands response from the DC why the central govt em...

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Another clip from chase helicopter, albeit low resolution, from Tarmak@writetake: https://mobile.twitter.com/writetake/status/1526803128875503616?cxt=HHwWgMCiqefWpbAqAAAA https://twitter.com/DRDO_India/status/1526832239224336384?s=20&t=hZ9_5XiymgUQTvaEebsYPw (DRDO Video) #DRDOforIndia |Naval Ant...

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Likely building credibility/google rank of his bs blog with clickbait content for jingos.

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la.khan wrote: If Shuklaji is extolling the virtues of LCA Mk2, ...
Most have forgotten Ajai Shukla sustained vitriol against LCA Tejas at behest of lifafa from Chandigarh mafia lobby.
Exemplary Presstitutes.

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ARDE Product Showcase

Noticed some interesting GIFs on Twitter sourced from an ARDE product showcase video on YouTube. Includes video snipppets of Railgun prototype and multiple munitions under test.

Unsure if it was posted here:

https://youtu.be/N4ugqCc04qA

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That's why it's heavily debugged on the ground before being even loaded up. Simulations are run, mini bird, iron bird "sorties" too. More than a CLAW failure, it could be a hardware failure, one of the elevon controllers or the input data to the FCS, got garbled. Basically wherever there ...

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Speculation from YouTube channel Defence Decode: Notam is valid from Jun 24-26. A potential multi-day multiple test article campaign. Public announcement may happen on 26th. I could not find any announcement or press release from DRDO or MoD. Weird. For test flight normal announcements have two typi...

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sohamn wrote:Dr. Reddy doesn’t produce any vaccines, they are merely the distributors.

They do manufacture generic drugs whose patents have expired.

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What is the principle of oxygen production? Presumably it is concentrating of atmospheric oxygen. ? Its separation of Oxygen from other atmospheric constituents. For bulk capacity cryogenic distillation and for smaller in-situ its pressure swing adsorption. Former operation is in liquid phase and t...

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Minor nitpick. The images of so called "oxygen plants" are in reality receivers for liquid oxygen and vaporizers to flash the same at ambient temperature to gaseous phase. These locations need to be topped-off by liquid oxygen wheeled tankers that ferry oxygen from Air Separation Units fou...

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there is definite shortage of vaccine in hyderabad. my parents second dose is delayed by a week and were told today to wait another two days for covisheild supply My parents got their first dose early March and had their second dose scheduled for first week of Apr. Then there was a chatter about po...

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won't let polls stop halfway Mamata making noises that the center will stop the polls halfway, which would be to her benefit. she must know something that the EC and the rest of the planet does not -- she is planning something diabolical before the end of the 8 phases. One must put conspiracy theor...

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Assuming the commentary of the person recording is correct, shoulder fired SAM against a low flying receding target?

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During BMD Phase-1 development days, an out of turn Prithvi test was a precursor to Interceptor test, essentially to assess readiness of rest of the elements and achieve an 'electronic intercept'. Night user trial of Prithvi II missile successfully test fired from ITR Hmm is this related to the tens...

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Home minister for Tibetan Govt in Exile makes a case for renewed/additional efforts from India.

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Per NDTV, ETA for next set is November and final deliveries by 2021 (End of the year, presumably).

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/5-rafal ... ts-2293087

asbchakri wrote:So when do the next batch start coming

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Saar, IMHO, the qouted news article reads like rinse-repeat of 'desired state of bilateral relationship' and an obvious lack of consensus on who to blame for recent readjustments. Its status-quo in diplomatese onlee! Looks like Chincom foreign minister and EAM Jayshankar have reached some kind of a ...

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Saar, are you sure of authenticity of this content/company? Cursory look at content of its 'website' and profiles of the 'employees' do not inspire confidence that its a startup ready to test a HGV. https://www.issuewire.com/india-ready-to-test-hypersonic-glide-vehicle-1674805094079904 India ready t...

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I presume thats a test at lower end of the range envelope (0.5 - 7 KM)

Raveen wrote:
TushS wrote:
Is that a failed test? Missile seems to be fallen in the water?

That's the dummy warhead that fell, whole discussion on twitter, they wouldn't release a failed test video for sure.

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... Honestly, the biggest heartbreak is the Nirbhay which was dragged on by a terrible lab like ADE and now when we really needed it, we are rejoicing the fact that R&D has been sanctioned for a LRCM with a decade long timeline( which atleast Mk 1 should have been in service) ... sum saar, per ...

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A request to those of you here who have read my book - `2022, India's two front war'. Though a hardcore military read meant mainly for enthusiasts, such as this forum, sales are picking up due to the current situation. Royalties from the book go to our army battle casualties fund. There is a guy I'...

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Pratyush wrote:IIRC, BiPap machine is for sleep apnea. Don't know how effective it will be for dealing with CCP virus.

Interesting. Likely a case of the distributors pulling a fast one on clue-less hoarders.

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Incredible! Hoarding Extremes of Ventilators. WELL-OFF STOCKPILING VENTILATORS Naman Jain of Teerthanker Mahaveer Traders in Delhi disclosed how high-ranking officials and housing societies are stockpiling portable ventilators, just in case. An assistant commissioner of police, he insisted, was one...

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Fervently hope Powers-that-are are using all technical means available to keep tabs on large-size congregations of last 2-3 weeks and in real time. Especially in hot spot clusters.

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UP govt to house Covid front-line medical staff in hotels

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According to this news report, some of the recent cases across the country have been traced back to this event.

SRoy wrote:In the meanwhile, Delhi Police has cordon off Nizamuddin. Peacefuls in Tableeghi Jamaat gathering were over thousands. Some 300 were found COVID19 positive today.

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CDC has done away with the need to validate test from about a week ago. CDC testing page ^^^ Not really. PResumptive positive means that the patient has been tested and the test came out positive, but the test result is to be confirmed by the CDC (not sure if they re-test a portion sample or just lo...

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C saar, I agree. Initial years of operational service is also where you discover early life failure modes related to Serial Production QA/QC pit-falls, workmanship, etc. Once these are addressed out, random failure modes and wear related failure modes remain. The former get tackled with some proacti...

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