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^^^^ Which shows LCA Mk. 1 development is finished and winding down to production processes. The development work has shifted to Mk. 2 and Navy versions. On the other hand AMCA is hotting up and that is where most of the action is!!!

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Former Sri Lankan Navy flag http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Naval_Ensign_of_the_Royal_Ceylon_Navy.svg/250px-Naval_Ensign_of_the_Royal_Ceylon_Navy.svg.png Current Sri Lankan Navy Flag http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Naval_Ensign_of_Sri_Lanka.svg/250p...

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IIRC Tejas has 7 + 1 hard points including ann underbelly hard point. Saw some pic somewhere but cannot seem to find it now. Gurus will probably shed more light on this.

The orange munition on the 1st pick is a practice bomb rack similar to the green one adjacent to it.

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To me this looks more like fish-eye lens induced distortion. The distortion is more pronounced around the edges while the aircraft which at the centre is mostly free of any distortion effects. Though I could be wrong, but the way the rivets on the deck on the bottom right corner curves it indicates ...

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That smooth SpaceX launch? Turns out one of the engines came apart Not the right thread for this discussion. Anyway, the cargo capsule was launched succesfully but the second mission of launching a private satellite didn't reach the right orbit. Please google for more details. I debated which threa...

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That smooth SpaceX launch? Turns out one of the engines came apart This type of failover recovery is the advantage of using multiple small liquid engines. Even Saturn V had it. For GSLV Mk III instead of 2 large Semi cryo engines they could have used 5 or 7 smaller Vikas sized (semi cryo of course)...

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vic wrote:We are doing nothing in PAKFA but are still paying Rs 30,000 crores while reducing the powers of DRDO chief to Rs 10 crores. Great!

Thats probably the cost of doing nothing...

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WoW how do they account for 1 gram of unaccounted weight in a rocket that would weigh hundred of tons ..they probably have the largest sensitive weighing scale around. Dust though is serious if it falls on sensitive electronics it can cause a mission failure , I recollect reading one of the earlier...

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Bricks, destroying trials of "Vikramaditya", made in China Dyachkov announced that the repair will be completed in May 2013, and the deadline ship, according to preliminary data, will move to nine months. Official data on the cost of repairs were not called. "The boilers were manuf...

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Yes as he is protected by the SPG

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yeah right.. B-2 Spirit and F-117 also had tail IR suppression but they are both subsonic so are all the UCAV designs IIRC. Raptor is probably the only stealth a/c with afterburner IR suppression.. F-35 has serated edges on its engine exhaust. That I think is for stealth in RF spectrum... dunno if i...

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Is the rear sector stealth too much of an ask with little cost benefit in return? Except Raptor non of the current 5th gen designs incorporate rear stealth or IR signature suppression....

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New AMCA Design from NAL ... by Livefist....

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Sid wrote:
Kakarat wrote:INS Vikramaditya
http://balancer.ru/forum/punbb/attachme ... download=2
Great pic.

Is this ship going to have some kind of CIWS? Till now i have not seen any CIWS or any air defense weapon on Viki.

AFAIK it has Barak cells and AK CIWS guns..

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Kakarat wrote:INS Vikramaditya
http://balancer.ru/forum/punbb/attachme ... download=2

Has the Great Vikramaditya gone on a holiday cruise?

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Shiv Aroor tweets that the aircraft damaged is in fact an IL -78 Midas refueler.

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^^^^ Whats that thing trailing from the top of the vertical stabilizer of P-8I?

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Rebuttal to Manoj Joshi's hatchet job on BMD. 'The Indian missile shield: nothing to be baffled about' by Mihir Shah http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/sauravjha/2976/63777/guest-post-2-the-indian-missile-shield-nothing-to-be-baffled-about-by-mihir-shah.html Gladdens my heart to read this rebuttal. Bravo ...

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We didn’t know what 90 percent of the switches did A very interesting western point of view of Soviet aircraft from a test pilot who's job was to fly them. (John Manclark, commander of the 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron, 1985-87) On the MiG-21: "It had no gas – a point-defense fighter. ...

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@livefist : So, @BoeingDefense to supply the P-8Is and C-17s to India only boom refuellable (no refuel requirement). Fait accompli for 767 tanker? ;-) That settles it. IN has no refuel requirement for P8I and IAF don't need refueling for C-17 so they come with standard fitment of UARSSI and not ref...

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^^^ This looks like the T-90 Bhisma to me?????

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^^^^ The Army should give it full marks on the looks department. (I sure its as mean a performer as it dapper looks)

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Those yellow strips on the J-20 and on the Tejas are illuminated (fluorescent?) strips used for formation flying. Was discussed some eons ago on the LCA thread...

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Livefist: DRDO's Strike Scenario For 3 Indian Fighter Efforts

What do the Gurus think of it?

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Noob Question.... I always wonder why there are no pics of Tejas or for that matter any IAF a/c which shows vapor forming over wings / lerx etc like so many such pic of khan a/c, russian a/c.... and iirc even a bundar pic.. Is it some thing to do with our dry atmospheric conditions???? For eg .... F...

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The Bofors story, 25 years after Whistleblower reveals himself .... Q- Quarter century later, any reflections on why Rajiv Gandhi’s name came up? A– There was no evidence that he had received any bribe. But he watched the massive cover-up in India and Sweden and did nothing. Many Indian institution...

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India Just Successfully Test Launched a Missile That Could Blow Up China

Agni goes mainstream in world media even Gadget blogs like Gizmodo has a piece on it...

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VikramS wrote:
Sanku wrote:And I really miss Arun_S today.
Me too. Hope he is lurking somewhere. Hi there if you are ...

Me toooo. What will it take to bring him back???

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Major Bearls Oph Wisdom Fantastic reading especially of the "Strategic kind" Strategic: Which is a mystical word, evoking thoughts of the Army, courage and intelligent planning, which automatically makes any bad idea sound profound. Try arguing along the lines of “If India attacks Pakista...

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soutikghosh wrote:PRAHAAR on TATA Trailer

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Is it lens aberration that makes the missile bend in funny way or bad flimsy model that didn't hold itself up?

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Conspiracy of Optimism Military planners - and it is overwhelmingly military planners - want to obtain a capability they can't afford, or which is at risky end of the spectrum. To avoid scaring those assessing or paying the bills, they either underestimate how much it will cost, or they fudge the r...

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Kailash wrote:So they are skipping ahead to Mk-III without qualifying the basic design?

Just like repeated failures of ASLV did not deter ISRO to launch PSLV

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raghuk wrote:Its expected at around 1700. The intake has just been more aerodynamically reshaped and it still exists and has not been closed.

Has it been moved to the sides? I can see a scoop there...

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The F-35 Shows Its Missile Teeth for the First Time Ever America's F-35 may not be very useful , :lol: :lol: but it's still, on paper, one hell of an aerial destruction machine....... Well—the kind of punch it'll pack if it's ever used for anything more than tests and photographs. :rotfl: :rotfl: 6...

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Russia to delay space mission due to technical problems The expected delay follows a series of technical mishaps that marred Russia's celebration of 50 years last year since Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first human space flight. The source added the shell of the descent vehicle, used to carry astronau...

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But who or what might wake up the Kumbhakarna from his slumber in Delhi?

C. Raja Mohan on Washington’s new defence strategy

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^^^^

But if it cost € 152M / unit over its development cycle for delivered 286 units, what could be the total lifecycle cost over its service life.... (flyaway cost + weapons + TOT + maintenance + consumables + MLUs + etc etc)? Any guess....?

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Now this... Rafale price re-evaluated, comes to EUR 152 m per unit "The total cost of the program, updated to 2011 price is € 43.56 billion for the state, telling development," the senators said. This cost was € 40.7 billion during the last evaluation. What elevates the price of a Rafale i...

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^^^ +1
And that too parked on the landing strip. Also IIRC the Varyag is missing its arrestor wires, so even if these photoshopped J-XXs could take off they cannot possibly land on this floating football deck

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Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws In addition to costing more, the stealthy F-35 could take longer to complete testing. That could delay the stealthy jet's combat debut to sometime after 2018 - seven years later than originally planned. And all this comes as the Pentagon braces f...

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