Bharat Rakshak

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IAF’s Make in India fighter jet project takes wings, around 100 aircraft to be built at home https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/iaf-make-in-india-fighter-jets-talks-global-aircraft-manufacturers-1961451-2022-06-12 12 June 2022 “The plan is to build 96 planes in India for which payments for 36 wo...

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Ldev ji The most artificial barriers will fall first. Chinese or Indian insurers can and will step in. Why do we need Lloyds etc when no western port calls are needed. The first thing any insurance company will look at before it decides to cover it's re-insurance risk is the credit rating of the re...

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Why would any PSU boss put his neck on the line by saving $25 per barrel if after putting all his eggs in the Russian basket, something happens to disrupt supply? But why "all eggs in one basket"? more eggs, but not all. It is not a binary choice, is it?! Look, all that I am looking at is...

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That risk diversification formula will put a cap/lid on how much crude India will import from Russia, even if the crude is heavily discounted. Can the Public sector companies raise the cap temporarily while the going is good? If not why not? Serious question. Why would any PSU boss put his neck on ...

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Kersi D wrote: But after reading the articles we should ask "then why is USN going for F 35".
If it is as great as the write-ups, USN should continue with F 18 series

Stealth and unmatched sensor fusion.

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Moscow-based insurer Ingosstrakh to help India sidestep EU ban on tankers carrying Russian crude https://infra.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/ports-shipping/moscow-based-insurer-ingosstrakh-to-help-india-sidestep-eu-ban-on-tankers-carrying-russian-crude-oil/92080613 date: 2022-06-08 Could somebo...

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< Mod Note: Do not post tweets or articles without proper attribution and links. It is common courtesy. > Alex Marquardt @MarquardtA Russia says that roads and rail lines between western Russia and Crimea are operational. Ie the land bridge is complete. 9:00 AM · Jun 7, 2022 Alex Marquardt @Marquar...

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. China is also out to set a high price for support. Beijing, for example, wants to restrict Russia’s highly lucrative arms sales to India, China’s arch-foe across the Himalayas. Did Xi personally ring the author up to tell him the above or is the author gifted with the ability of remote clairvoyan...

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https://theprint.in/defence/french-dassault-vs-us-boeing-mega-fighter-deal-for-iaf-indian-navy-could-be-split/98262 ......... Asked what happens to the subsequent need for the IAF, the sources said that a follow-on order will be placed to the joint venture and this deal would be in Indian currency....

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China’s new vassal: Vladimir Putin China can now enjoy turning the tables. When Chairman Mao Zedong visited Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in the winter of 1949, he was very much the junior supplicant. Stalin packed him off to wait for weeks :D in his snow-bound No. 2 dacha, 27 kilometers outside Mo...

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As though External Affairs Minister Jaishankar did not have enough on his plate, now he has to firefight this.

Saudi Joins Gulf Fury Over Prophet Remarks, Welcomes BJP Action: 10 Points

India: Diplomatic storm over BJP staff insult of Prophet Muhammad

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[ All that you mention is known and clear to everyone, needs no further discussion - and yet it has become a topic in some circles. That Zelensky made a ref to "nuclear" is undisputed. What follows is - as far as I can tell - is conjecture at best, but a serious one. The arg goes somethin...

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I had heard chatter about Elensky-and-nuclear-material-to-make-devices. Did not take it very seriously, until I came across during a session at Davos , on nuclear issues related to the conflict in UKR, IAEA Director General Mariano Grossi claims (@7:05 or so) that Ukraine had 30,000 kgs of plutoniu...

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On the economic fallout of the conflict specifically the oil market, the green and anti carbon policies of the Biden administration, Germany prematurely shutting down it's nuclear reactors, and Canada are causing this huge disruption. In the middle of probably the greatest supply shock to the global...

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Do those nations even understand that Russians were a victim as much as they were? They seem determined to avenge the excesses of communism from the Russians. I think they do. I was reading about a poll in which a very high percentage (overwhelming percentage) of Ukranians had a positive opinion of...

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What EU does not understand is Russia will always be their neighbour. And unlike last century no yank will be willing to sacrifice again, if any all the Euros will prefer absconding to US, plenty of land and money there! Dr. JS was right that there will be a time when the conflict is over and you h...

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FWIW, today's Financial Express IAF to vault Multi Role Fighter Aircraft Program under Buy Global, Make India; 114 Aircraft in the pipeline intact IAF’s mega $20 billion Multi Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) project is under the debate again. On the criticality of depleting number of squadrons and agai...

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I hope someone in parliament questions the DM as to why the IN refuses to buy more Mig-29K's which obviously have no concerns about operability on our carriers and is going after far more expensive jets for which neither of our carriers were designed for. There needs to be some sunlight on the stat...

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On sources: I feel questionable sources have been used in this thread on both sides of the argument (argument as outlined by Rakesh ji). That’s totally fine in my opinion, one needs to absorb all kinds of data to arrive at a conclusion. Unless you’re citing outright loonies, which hasn’t happened. ...

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Now watch MBDA coming running, offering Meteor integration on the second batch (with Uttam AESA) of Tejas Mk1As. They will agree to do the same for Tejas Mk2 as well. =================================================== Added L8r : I spoke too soon :P From the above article..... Fun would be if we i...

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ramana wrote:So Jaguar fleet can be tasked for Ground attack fighter on Western and maritime theaters.
Then engine thrust is not a problem.
SU-30 MKI can handle the East.

With INS/GPS/Navic, it will do fixed targets, not maritime moving targets.

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I just became aware that while both Saudi Arabia and Russia produce roughly 11 million barrels of oil per day, the Saudi output is from just 2000 oil wells but the Russian output is from 40,000 wells!! Those 40,000 wells operate in an area of permafrost and even at the best of times 40,000 wells are...

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Larger point for India to consider is weather we can sustain a war for 3 months and maintain national morale . When the war is not fought on your territory it is much easier to maintain national morale. NATO and the US have gone to great lengths not to supply heavy weaponry to Ukraine which will en...

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Deans wrote:...

Deans, the shortage of manpower seems to be biting. The Duma has increased the age limit for service in the Russian forces from 40 to 65!!

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Bottom line is that after 95 days of fighting Russia has captured only about an incremental 15% of Ukranian territory in addition to the 5% that consists of Crimea that they have had in their possession since 2014. In the process, according to the US DOD, they have lost (destroyed or rendered inope...

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Bottom line is that after 95 days of fighting Russia has captured only about an incremental 15% of Ukranian territory in addition to the 5% that consists of Crimea that they have had in their possession since 2014. In the process, according to the US DOD, they have lost (destroyed or rendered inoper...

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It appears that IAF is waiting for Astra 2 program to mature and order them in numbers and not order too many of the Astra 1. Maybe they have purchased a lot of imported missiles and don't want to stockpile Astra 1's while a better / longer range missile is in works. As others have pointed out, all...

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Russian oil and gas cannot be eliminated from the market if for no other reason than that no other producer or group of producers has the spare capacity to increase production by ~6.50-7.00 million barrels per day which is what Russia exports to the world. What can happen over a period of time after...

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- There are independent western reports that the M-777 has not performed as expected (lack of training seems to be a plausible reason). They were supplied initially without the digital fire control system including the GPS receiver which enables firing GPS guided munitions, so without the digital f...

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Maps courtesy ISW. Image 1 gives the present position. Image 2 the evolution of Russian held territory over the last 3 months. The estimate is that including Crimea the total area under Russian control is about 120,000 sq km. Crimea alone is 27,000 sq km. That means that after 3 months of fighting R...

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Oh wow!! The Chinese are really paranoid about the potential military applications of Starlink. Here is a hilarious Mandarin to English translation of a PLA Daily article on Starlink or "Star Chain" as the translation calls Starlink :) It's amazing that Elon Musk has riled up both the Chin...

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Not directly about Kaveri but why throwing money at jet engine development, which is a common complaint here, is not a complete answer. This excerpt is about China's struggle to develop jet engines and how what they lack is the "tacit knowledge"that comes only through years of experience i...

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I think one under appreciated factor in Australia's cancellation is the much faster than anticipated increase in the Chinese threat level. In the 5 years since 2016 when the Australia-France contract was signed China's naval projection and build out of it's naval fleet has been staggering, it has th...

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@ldev From the linked article, I quote It was to be a trilateral security partnership, but what to call it? AUKUS, redolent of ANZUS, was favoured . And, a wit observed to some hilarity, if the French decided to join at some future date it could be amended to FAUKUS . :rotfl: :rotfl: Good one!! Alt...

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... PM designate Albanese has signed on to AUKUS. And thereby Australian commitment to QUAD will also remain unchanged. How AUKUS and Quad are linked? One is a NATO-like security pact while the other is a working group with no treaty obligations. The new PM Albanese supports both. I had earlier pos...

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Is the method employed significantly more accurate than dumb bombs and affordable than superduper guided smart munitions? Is it a tech India can also develop to use with INRSS and will it fit our platforms and help stretch our tight budgets ? That's what matters... Day and night difference in terms...

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The Russians are making a virtue out of necessity. They don't have targeting pods and hence have to resort to bomb release by GLOSNASS location and hope the dumb bomb hits the target.

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How about #AUKUS deal? The US got a commitment from all Australian parties, barring the Greens I think, to be in agreement for AUKUS before the US agreed to it. Because it is a decades long, indefinite open ended security commitment the US wanted to ensure that all Australian parties across the pol...

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I recall people going ooh ah! about SDB. SAAW is roughly equivalent (weapon & warhead weight and launch distance ~100-110 km) to SDB 1 or the original SDB in service since 2006 which relies on INS and GPS and is used against fixed targets. SDB 2, in service since 2020, has a trimode seeker (MMW...

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