Bharat Rakshak

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You people don't get it. MK2 ain't happening in any form. Plug, no plug, 0.5M plug, 1M plug, nothing. I get increasingly the feel that the mandate now is to finish the current platform. We have enough problems left with that one itself. Maybe AamKa will get the required focus now, as some of the te...

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This Gadkari guy seems to be a classic Luddite. Saw a report in today's Al-Hundi where he pompously declared that "We wont allow driverless cars in India as it will lead to job losses" . He claimed that 55 Lakhs (i.e. 5.5 million ) drivers will be needed in India. Think of it. An entire po...

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Manish_Sharma wrote:IAF seems to have sorted out mig 29 troubles well.

. With the tortured history of horror stories there, yeah "sorted out" indeed.

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However I would welcome members to post why we did not consider Varyag except for the size bit. The size is a red herring. Varyag /Kuznetsov is just 20 metres longer than the Kiev/Adm Gorshkov and it is next to nothing to extend a quay /wharf by 20m. The draft is in fact 0.2m MORE for the Kiev/Adm ...

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Uttam has a packaged cooling system that fits into the space. It is designed for the nose of LCA. Actually, the cooling package was pointed out at the unit displayed at AI17. It was the actual flight ready unit I am told. I can't believe what I am hearing. If it is indeed the Uttam radar and NOT an...

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Indian Navy wants its only fighter aircraft to toughen up. The Indian Navy's only fighter aircraft MiG-29K continues to face problems as the maritime force feels that the fighter jet needs to be further ruggedised for carrying out operations from aircraft carriers which is supposed to be its main r...

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electric battery industry Yes. Storage and specifically Battery is THE problem. There is no easy solution to that. It is a fundamental "physics" problem and there is really no "breakthrough" in sight. The battery density is not enough today and it simply today and is nowhere che...

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- How will the aircraft fly without a FBW system?

What % of ALL aircraft in the world flying today use this "FBW" ? Do you actually need a FBW for a plane to fly ?

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For example, when I made a proposal to the HAL Board that an HF-24 aircraft should be converted into a fly-by-wire (FBW) flying platform, it was summarily rejected by the South Block representative. It was the lack of appreciation for forward technology development that separated the aircraft indus...

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Yawn.. CPI and Growth numbers out today. Both are down. Basically it points to this. 1. The economy was slowing even before DeMo. It has continued to slow since then 2. There are now HUGE output gaps in the economy . In Inglees, economy is performing well below potential 3. Real interest rates are h...

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what is the secret to HALs clout in delhi? they have 20,000 staff mostly unionized in blr and a few 1000 spread across other sites. . Same as Air India, HMT, ITI , HEC and a whole host of others. Infact lot more, because it is "profit making" and "strategic" while the others are...

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100k Tonnes post the Vishal and standardise on that tonnage :rotfl: :rotfl: The sheer Chutzpah is amazing. Have no clue about what tonnage is and then give sanctimonious "advice" to grizzled weatherbeaten sea dogs on what to do. More on the lines of generating "sonic booms" in a...

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http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/did-china-just-create-the-holy-grail-submarine-technologies-21436[quote] Did China Just Create the "Holy Grail" Of Submarine Technologies? [/quote] Adm, just take it from me. As the one with the "who has the upper hand" in "technolo...

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Why don't they sign a tech transfer for the imported engine and ensure they can have a weapon system? Relying on an imported engine they import absolute minimum and no spares Heard somewhere from someone that the imported engine is only interim and that it will get replaced by a local engine that i...

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Achtung bitte I was at a party today where a young french lady had come with her friend. after the usual introductions, I used the opportunity to ask a question bugging me for so long - "how is that sarkari french orgs like airbus , dassault, snecma , mbda et al have been delivering world clas...

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He has been proved wrong on collateral damage, he will be proved wrong on the extent of impact on corruption. The collective wisdom and gut of the people will prevail over one persons opinion and advise. In Inglees, the "Group Think" , even if it is of propaganda brainwashed village idiot...

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the size of the lift was the limiting factor. The Su just did not fit into the lift, even though it was the preferred choice. That IS the point. By selecting the POS , the burnt out hulk called the Kiev / Adm Gorshkov/VikAd whatever it is called , we have limited ourselves to constraints of the Vik...

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Chinese are smart. They picked up the Varyag hull ( a true carrier hull) and built it out and along with that they went for the Flanker. We went and bought out an excuse of a carrier and paid good money for a sub par plane called the Mig 29K that even the Russians had passed over in favour of the fl...

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Laugh at the Kuz ,its tugs,etc Even the "Kakkooses" (i.e. the toilets) in that floating Kakkoose called Kuz doesn't work. Many reports around that the toilets are simply locked up. Dang a sailor in that Kakkoose can't even go to the Kakkoose to take a dump! It really is THAT bad. As for S...

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my proposal would be - use the Mig29K as a naval strike squadrons from land spread the 60 or so across 4 squadrons - 2 in car nicobar/panagarh and 2 in guj they can also help the IAF in defending the guj/raj front as they have all the systems for over the sea ops. The Mig 29 K (Kakkoose) should be ...

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Further to your comment about soot and the Soviet/Russian launchers, isn't it the case that the pre-burners in the R-7 Semyorka derived launchers do not even use RP-1/kerosene in the first place? So, the question of soot does not even arise. The kerosene is used to cool the combustion chambers via ...

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Oxygen rich combustion does not LEAVE soot or gummy residues in the lines. ^Bad & Bellicose. How will one do "Oxygen rich combustion" In the lines of the regeneratively cooled nozzles? Ah. Perfect, and in line with exactly the kind of ridiculous fiction writing and myth making on disp...

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GSLV-MK1/2 have liquid strap on boosters . We are quibbling over semantics here , but here is how I think of it. Booster rockets - Generally rockets that have a smaller burn time than a sustainer /core engine and fall off (staged) when they are done giving the "boost" Cluster : - Multiple...

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But in my understanding, a clustered stage configuration involves two or more thrust chambers but shared propellant tanks and turbines . . So how do you considered the Space X Falcon 1st stage (and indeed the Saturn V 1st stage and the Ariane 4 1st stage, LM 3/4 1st stage) as "clustered" ...

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The classic case of their reliance on clustering is the N-1 Rocket. All four of them failed. And they did not have budget to put it on test stand to understand the anomalies., but more importantly it was clustered around semi-cryo N-15 engines. Another reason why they stuck with N-15 and its deriva...

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Thanks Sridhar and disha for your responses! disha, don't Russian rockets use clustered engines as a long time design approach ? They seem to prefer it over single chambered J-2 or even monster F-1 like designs, which required a lot of experiments themselves, to sort out combustion instability with...

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I suspect we didnt get the radar codes but run our own software in the second mission computer to interface our weapons with Bars Exactly. Though the SU-30MKI will be Mil-STD-1553B "compatible", I doubt that this is the "only" avionics databus in the Su-30. The Russians have the...

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why would the kuz and vik being carrier designs go with a non carriership slim bow? the khan and french carrier routinely operate in bad seas of north atlantic and the japanese hyuga and izumo in north pacific. the vikky is a italian template from cavour, not even russian in any format. You save we...

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@QE ^^. What's the reason for the stuck on ski ramp vs sloped deck on the Vikrant/Vicky? Steeper angle? Different design trades. Even the USMC can park 14+1 (one on the lift) F-35Bs on the deck of the USS Americas under the Lightning Carrier concept of deployment. https://s12.postimg.org/4vzdh6dsd/...

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Basically the Math the math is like this. Per Capita GDP wise China : India :: Tamil Nadu : Bihar Military Spending Wise , GDP wise China : India :: Tamil Nadu : UP There. The basic problem is clear. Get UP and Bihar up from the stuck in the 1960s state and bring them up to speed, India will match C...

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Pah.. After hearing rambling nonsense about "Yaan mein lagaye hue camera" and "Prajwalan" and stuff , a relief to be able to shut down the feed. Time to send the Hindi Vibhaag guy home. Well done ISRO. Was interested to see in real time the 4th stage engine restart burn (it was a...

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Even for coastal umpp imported coal is far cheaper than natgas..cleaner obviously for gas. TataPower has offered to give a 51% stake of their Rs 6500 cr Mundra UMPP (which uses imported coal), for just Re 1 to the Guj Govt/Centre if they agree to buy power at "higher" rates. The imported ...

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Why doesnt the Hindi Commentary guy STFUP ? He is rambling on and on in some "CBSE" Hindi . Dr Radhakrishnan commented on GSLV MKIII and also did "Hindi" commentary decently in that. Get him to do the commentary and send the Hindi Vibhaag guy home!

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Looks like NS line will help me complete my "to do" things in bang, CTR and Vidyarthi Bhavan. Absolutely. Same here for me. Vidyarthi Bhavan & CTR .. Yummy. Also DAILY commute for me ! I took the Metro this morning to work. Oh, Bangalore is SOOO beautiful ,when you ride along RV Colle...

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1. Pretty much every country has replicated the GPS architecture with some minor changes on the margins. This is a really good cost effective system, with some limitations. There really isnt much to be optimized here. Have to agree with you. Nearly all these systems are nearly similar and like you ...

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Sorry to say this .. How long will ISRO provide IRNSS support? That is the crucial problem , I commented in the economy thread with all Indian Govt run/pushed programs. They are not ecosystem enablers, don't open things out fully to everyone and do their own "paanch pyaares" (usually bumb...

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What data does GPS give? All the hardwork of using the satellite ephemeris to compute GPS ( or antenna to be precise ) position and it just provides the user needed information. GPS provides data in NMEA protocol. It Is a simple text communication protocol between GPS and User Computer ( or other d...

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.. ... So, let me summarise what I understand from AmberG and Sudeepj's posts and my own digging around and thinking to answer the questions I had in reverse order . .. 3. Why should the GPS time need to sync with "ground based true time" ? It doesn't . As Sudeepj pointed out, what is nee...

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We have hydrogen maser clocks at various ISRO centres like at Byalalu. The thing is they are very expensive. In fact we sell the data to various countries like US. Don't know about ISRO, but the place in India which always had such clocks was NPL in Delhi. In fact , today's Hindu had an article exa...

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Distributed databases is one thing but to support transactions across distributed a different problem it was not solved until recently . Google has done exactly what AmberG has explained they are using atomic clocks and GPS to support transaction properties on their cloud spanner offering . Pah! I ...

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