Bharat Rakshak

Raffle lost the Swiss competition, no matter how much advanced it is, it still lost.
Similarly they will loose Indian competition also. The so called world's best 4.5 generation fighter which no one wants to buy. How does that sound!!!!

Upendra, DMK is already in agreement with congress on the motion vote in parliament, also TMC will come around. also the SP has softned it's stand by saying that if big retail buys from small farmers they will support it. in the end BJP will be left opposing. MMS is not going to go back on this one....

Rafale is going to be the biggest looser in the end. I'm just getting this feeling that after being eliminated from switzerland. they won't win brazil and offcourse not India. french can keep their pride to themselves. Let see how dassault survives this downturn.

Goi is not going to do anything to annoy china to much. If china is extremely upset on this issue, it's better to take a step back. It's not as if we are conceding anything, just being little more sensitive to china. Goi is in full mode to get NSG membership and unsc permanent nod from china. These ...

People are day dreaming on this forum, the current goi is not going to do anything to annoy anybody.
If Pakistan is in bad shape, let it rot itself. It is in not in india's control as to what Pakistan does.

it's easy to sit in the opposition and criticize the government, specially when you take the whole parliament for ransom. the way the opposition is behaving tells you how many qualified people and really there in the so called nationalist party. it's all about pandering to their vote bank. they are ...

mahadevbhu, you said it right. the test trials which india has done for years is a good benchmark. with a hostile security environment , what ever india selects, other know it would have to be good for them as well. india has been very fair to all suppliers in this deal. french think that whatever t...

spot on,
everybody is looking at India, the way india goes so goes the UAE. India has very close relations to UAE.

it's good that it has been stooped. I wish every imported nuclear plant deal is stopped. all these reactors would have to put under safeguards as per the nuclear deal, which is unacceptable to me. India would be putting maximum number of reactors under IAEA watchdog. no nuclear weapons state has eve...

RajeshA, U.S won't take down pakistan or ever. if that happens India will be become very big superpower. the U.S Centcom and military brass knows that. they will keep cajoling pakistan, so that it becomes dependent on them. But lately pakistan is also showing them a middle finger. I think in the end...

CRamS, excellent post. No matter what anybody says, the U.S strategic interest the CIA/Centcom are very mindful about pakistan. They will not cut off from pakistan. India is definitely in there mind, because they know that as India grows, pakistan would be helpful in countering it. that's why India ...

I have been saying in this forum that EF will get the MMRCA order, however now I'm beginning to think weather french might be the front runner. politically french dont' align all the times with UK and Germany. also french will allow us ENR technologies despite the new NSG guidelines. So Gut feeling ...

India removing it's objection on EU trade concessions for Pakistan would not have much impact on India, As India is in advanced stage of negotiating a free trade agreement with EU, once that happens duties for 95% of goods will be removed. In effect India will get the same benefit as Pakistan but on...

I think EU guys are gonna get this deal. I had something in me telling me all these months that it will go to EF. Also it will have very big domino effect. Lot's of countries are looking as to what india will select. if India doesn't buy the french, rafale will not fetch any customer, even UAE will ...

Rajesh,
that's exactly what is happening

Unkil will get what it wants and that's the elimination of terriorists, pakistan doesn't have choice at all at this moment.
Unkil will talk good and will take out the key guys, since it has good intellegence sources on ground.

ramana, yes US trys to get help on its own terms, but in the back of their mind they know the real danger is from the developing countries like India who in future rival that of the U.S. U.S knows Pakistan can never even remotely compete with the U.S. that's exactly the reason why they have not brok...

Christopher Sidor,
we lost tibet because we didn't have the military hardware period. there is no such thing as the tibet policy, as if we the military capability to defend it. to this date we are sleeping.

r_subramanian,
pakistan is not asking IMF loan, but it is asking for extortion money, plain and simple.

shivajisisodia, you are correct on this one. this is exactly what worries me all the time. the only hope is that as time passes by India will get stronger and the gap between our capability and their widen to a great extent. also any kind of jihandi episode like the 26/11 in future would cost pakist...

I think people wrongly understood mullen non-proliferation statement. he meant that US and India would work together
to reduce the nuclear proliferatiton risk. noe India is not a proliferator, but other thugs like pakistan and china are.
so U.S will work with India.

Y I Patel,
very interesting observations.

Murugan,
you made my day brother, keep it up.

India all the way. american century indeed seems to have fizzled out in less than three decades. looks like desi civilization is about conqur. DESIS ALL THE WAY

shaymd, I completely concur with your thoughts, I think we should wait and watch and get ourselves stronger. no matter what the chest thumping crowd says we must not take our eyeball of the target. wind is blowing in India's favor. India doesn't have to fire a single shot and defend ourselves strong...

anways they won't recover from this mess anytime soon. it's over for them.

Acharya,
I agree with your assessment 100%. On the other hand I see India slowly but surely building it's expertise in enterprenuership

rajanb, I think your response has a lot of thought and weight in it as well. Also Britain and Germany being part of the consortium may make them very susceptible to the U.S pressure. Britain is in the U.S camp by all means. one good thing about France is that they always take their own decisions. th...

I think in the end EF will win. there are couple of reasons for this : 1) EF is very desperate and will go to a big length in full filling india's ToT requirements. 2) EF has a room to grow which good for india, since India itself wants to learn and grow for it's own aircrafts. 3) EF is just not a f...

agreed that the last word is still not out yet. since India got a clean waiver back in 2008, can the NSG still impose ban on india ?
I mean tomorrow they can put a ban on sale of uranium itself let alone ENR tech, which will nullyfy the whole nuclear deal.

NSG ends India's ‘clean' waiver
http://www.hindu.com/2011/06/25/stories ... 430100.htm

I don't know why we spent so much time from 2005 to 2008 for the nuclear deal if they had to deny us the ENR technologies.

the MMRCA contest will won by a company who really needs this contract, pure and simple. Euro consortium is leaving nothing for a chance. I won't be surprised if they are one who win in the end. rafale is fine, but french consider themselves to be little superior and EURO consortium reall really nee...

This guy is a hopeless. U.S is full of these ass*** holes.