Bharat Rakshak

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^^^ They messed up on the color though.

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UK is scared to death of muzzi rioting. Paki gangs had been trapping and raping BRITISH girls for ages and their police and security forces had covered it up. Their press had tried to spin it as "Asian" gangs when they were all paki men molesting and raping kaffirs. If they can't protect t...

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Just this week, the Russians were involved in the massive SolarWinds security hack in US and they sent bombers in formation with Chinese aircraft across South Korea. 3tvOFDNiUlA If we don't wean ourselves off Russian stuff, we'll end up entangled in another cold war whether we want it or not. Just l...

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IMO Birather has heavy focus on the North Arabian Sea, most soft loans for weapon systems also point to that. The KJ-500, maritime attack missiles like the CM400/YJ-83 for the JF-17,AIP Subs with questionable end use restrictions,decent frigates with VLS,Long endurance UAVs etc. Even this year for ...

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^^^ This cannot be very encouraging for our carrier corps. With all respect to the good general, the carrier is not dead. In fact, fleets around the world are getting carriers big and small. Our chief rival is building up to 10 fleet carriers along with LHAs. India which has pioneered the aircraft c...

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^^^ As usual, Brar ji, you make very solid points. But it seems to me that if you are asking for an engine that it is only 15 kNs off from a heavyweight class engine then it would be easier to use the heavyweight engine? And we have experience with the AL-31. All the larger countries use the heavywe...

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^^^ Brar ji, J-35 is a twin-engined carrier fighter. It's original form, the FC-31, was rejected by the PLAAF in favor of the hulking J-20. So chinis are developing their medium 110kN (WS-19) mainly for the carrier niche and maybe as an upgrade to the JF-17 (which was also rejected by the PLAAF.) Li...

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Apparently the Paki Air Marshal Mujhahid Anwar Khan flew in a chini jet yesterday at Shaheen "Xi". Probably the two-seat J-11BS since I'm not sure the chinis would just hand him a single seat aircraft and have him fly himself with the instruments all in Chinese. "Which one is gear dow...

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But that's my entire point. Why is India hell-bent on designing products that have no analogues elsewhere? Ultimately, they land up somewhere very close to the analogue anyway. If they want a smaller 5g bird that cannot be managed with a10 ton engine then they need to really think of going with som...

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Thanks for the link chola sir. It seems i was mistaking the hourly wage of all sectors vs the hourly wage of manufacturing sector. Their manufacturing sector wage indeed is 5 times ours. Regarding the importance of cultural ties in determining whether investments are made, I just don't think they p...

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^^^ Understood, Saar. I meant an engine in the heavy class which would give more leadway in upscaling power. I did not mean using the AL-31 specifically. I used the AL-31 as an example (because we already have hundreds of them). The same argument will apply for other similar engines (PW F100, GE F1...

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^^^ Understood, Saar. I meant an engine in the heavy class which would give more leadway in upscaling power. I did not mean using the AL-31 specifically.

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Vivek K wrote: The flaw with the LCA program was mating a new airfrane with an untested engine. Need to not make the same mistake with AMCA or whatever.

Vivek ji, they won't. The AMCA is almost certain to start with the F414 in the prototype which it will share with the MWF.

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The other option is what the Americans went with...a single monstrously powerful engine that is way beyond our capability to design and develop. The Americans won't sell us the F135 of course and continuing our dependency on 100% foreign engines is not a good idea anyway. Even if you somehow did ge...

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The Oxford vaccine is not a mRNA vaccine, and I don't think the Russian one is either. My understanding of the flu vaccine is quite effective against the strains they target, probably at 90+% as well. The issue is that the flu has a lot of antigenic variation (i.e. different strains that require di...

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So I'm just wondering. Why do they need 110kn engines? The world offers 8kn, 9kn, 12.5kn, 13.5kn ityadi ityadi but we need 110kn. Right in the middle. Sounds like another lightest, smallest boondoggle to me. Another 25 years and they'll be looking for engines from some other country and need to red...

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^^Up until now, India has placed it bets (probably not all of it although most of it) on Oxford/SII vaccine as well as indigenous Covaxin & Zydus' ones I think. Russian Sputnik might be in consideration but certainly not a front runner. However, I believe Indian arm of Pfizer has applied for Em...

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With the 6 A321s to France, is the MRTT dead? It seems unlikely the smaller aircraft can multi-role as a tanker. Also I recall the IAF entertaining a French proposal for 6 A330s for MRTT but with emphasis on tanker. Would we still go for those as tankers? Though it seems very expensive now in light ...

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^^^ Walker ji, chapati had been the moniker we used for the mounted radome disk since time immemorial on BR. It is more a term of endearment than anything else. That said, I understand your sentiment.

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^^^ We need that baby to carry a load next! Even if it is just A2A config with MRAAMs and SRAAMs.

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Foremost, hopefully the vaccine has the ability to fight this newer strain of Covid. It will. The Pfizer and Moderna ones for sure. Those work off of the spike proteins on the virus which unless the virus mutates into something completely different, they should still be effective. I heard on radio ...

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^^^ Saini ji, I am not patronizing them and certainly not giving an excuse for not getting India into the supply chain. I've been an advocate for India to grab a slice of global manufacturing for years. As I said in order to grab that supply you also need to open yourself up as a market which was wh...

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Nearly the end of the year and neither a contract for the Tejas Mk1A nor any forward movement on the first filght or delivery of FOC Tejas Mk1 fighters. Truly disappointing. It will happen but with Covid and the stuff with Cheen and all the emergency spending that came from it (winter gear, expedit...

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The cultural affinity of Taiwan, Sk, Japan towards China is precisely the reason we need to fiddle in the troubles there to keep these 3 against the Chini. Which is why we need to allied to them and along with US, push them to stand against the CCP. Which will in turn create a cyclical reaction.......

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The japanese and koreans have comparable sales in India and China. If we're to believe that Germany won't play favorites between US and China just because of their car sales, then we should also believe that Korea and Japanese won't play favorites between China and India. No, it is not comparable. ...

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They are a formidable foe now, but will be impossible to beat in a decade unless there are internal forces that are harnessed plus the QUAD really picks up and grows some ball$, and France, Germany, ME nations join an anti-china coalition. Don't trust Japan and Korea to abandon Cheen. At best they ...

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@Vivek ji, I think everyone agrees that we should have had more than two Netras but politically that's a dead end with Embraer blacklisted. So that agreed upon, the chapati project is not a brand new one that suddenly sprung up to replace Netra after the Embraer fiasco. If the A321 is 360 then it ha...

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^^^ That reminds me of the P&W 747 testbed.

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^^^ Great news. Sounds like DRDO has done due diligence and will set up the chapati on the A-321s after comparing against the A-330s. Most likely without the dual tanker role. Perhaps the chapati had been changed too to fit a plane half the size. (Bad thought: I hope we are not installing the balanc...

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Ok I don't want to complain but here I am. I've always taken my lumps respectfully and without complaints before. They used to be a week or two. Now they are month long and I get them for things I've said and posted on for years if not decades! I've always loved this place because it was light heart...

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Suraj wrote:Chola, you’re already reneging on your assurance to avoid thread derailment. This isn’t the China thread, and you’re simply restating stuff that’s been posted half a dozen times before by you. Please stop.

Oops. I run with train of thought with what I know. Will stop.

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^^^ Brar ji, yes, in the business world this is extractly what risk is: They can't pump a few billion dollars into the GE-414 or EJ-200 engines and expect to recover that investment by charging a premium on a per engine basis (the margin simply isn't there) It requires a government source to fund it...

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This 110kN engine is something not even the Amreekis nor Russians have. To step back a bit, what is so special about 110kN from a technical stand point (with current or even mature technology)? The US and Russia don't have it because they don't need it. That is no reason to make it unobtanium. They...

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When I first went to a khanland IKEA (late 90s), it used to carry stuff sourced from all sorts of places, ranging from India, east europe, ASEAN to africa. You will only see cheen maal occasionally. But recently when I checked out a khanland ikea, it seem to be all cheen maal. It basically crowded ...

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^^^ Vivek, fair point on the airlines. But there are many other parts to the India market. It would be quid pro quo between RR and the governments of the UK and India. The GOI can make it worthwhile for the airlines to order RR as the engines to their jets. I think RR is for the 110kN engine. The Ka...

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^^^ Vivek ji, I only say that because the Navy had already put the kibbosh on the NLCA. It is either this (or Rafale M) or more MiGs before the TEDBF. If the NLCA were still in play, I'd put the F-18 aside. That said, I won't lie I had fantasies about India getting the 'Teens (F-14,-15, -16, -18) s...

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That counts for diddly squat. They will continue importing from the place that gives them the best margins and has the most efficient logistics and supply chain. There is no easy way around it, India needs to deregulate and reform labour laws and invest rapidly in infrastructure in order to complet...

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^^^ Vivek ji, I only say that because the Navy had already put the kibbosh on the NLCA. It is either this (or Rafale M) or more MiGs before the TEDBF. If the NLCA were still in play, I'd put the F-18 aside. That said, I won't lie I had fantasies about India getting the 'Teens (F-14,-15, -16, -18) si...

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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/six-new-eyes-in-the-sky-for-indian-air-force-to-be-built-by-drdo-on-air-india-planes/articleshow/79757622.cms?utm_source=ETTopNews&utm_medium=HP&utm_campaign=TN&utm_content=23 ET also reporting this , Doesn't seem to specify which 6 airc...

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There we go again - no one will part with their crown jewels for any amount of money. All that will be on offer will be assembly in India. We will need to figure out design details ourselved. No they won't, Vivek ji, you are correct. BUT we can bargain for something that is worth a crown jewel. UK ...

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