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- 02 Mar 2019 00:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
- Replies: 5107
- Views: 1409173
Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
Don't worry ..the napakis have much more info ... names of pilots in which squadrons etc ... br db is helping no one. ^^^^^^^^^ I disagree strongly . How about someone take some responsibility? Act with care and caution? Show some respect? What a public listing like this enables is a potential 'do-...
- 02 Mar 2019 00:06
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
- Replies: 5107
- Views: 1409173
Re: Operation Balakot: News & Discussion
https://twitter.com/IamUmer1/status/1101524486778748928 Earlier I had written on the subject .. True, however 1. The psyops edited video will only impress the bakis and few nominal Indian who will grab at anything that can be used to put GOI/Modi down. 2. The tamasha will not play well with the res...
- 28 Feb 2019 00:42
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Indian Forces Strikes Pakistan Terrorist Camps
- Replies: 2210
- Views: 411619
Re: Indian Forces Strikes Pakistan Terrorist Camps
The airstrikes yesterday were on Muzaffarabad and Chakothi in addition to Balakot. One can understand why Balakot hogged the headlines. Is there any information on what was damaged in the other two targets? ^^^^^^^^^^^^ In fact, I'd like to have Lats and Longs (ideally in digital degrees, but I'll ...
- 25 Feb 2019 23:01
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Pulwama Attack
- Replies: 2282
- Views: 460527
Re: Pulwama Attack
They can cite any clause but a default will wreck them, one way or the other. BRF has long analyzed the Pak behavior or propensity to attack India. Anytime, they are going through a tough patch (economically, morale wise) and see even the slightest improvement and need to feel superior, or think th...
- 25 Feb 2019 22:28
- Forum: Military Issues Archive
- Topic: Upcoming India-Pakistan War - Force Balances, Strategy, Tactics, etc.
- Replies: 200
- Views: 69692
Re: Upcoming India-Pakistan War - Force Balances, Strategy, Tactics, etc.
<snip> ............ with a combined yield of over 100KT. ^^^^^^^^ All of that, delivered westward, will produce fallout traveling eastward. Those are just the facts of life. Exactly what are the prevailing winds like in this area? Could this flow be disrupted by the thermal impulse, and if so, how ...
- 21 Feb 2019 23:20
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
- Replies: 1418
- Views: 260815
Re: International Nuclear Watch & Discussion
Grand Canyon tourists exposed for years to radiation in museum building, safety manager says Dennis Wagner, Arizona Republic Published 8:56 a.m. MT Feb. 18, 2019 | Updated 9:23 a.m. MT Feb. 19, 2019 For nearly two decades at the Grand Canyon, tourists, employees, and children on tours passed by thr...
- 08 Feb 2019 15:20
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3871
- Views: 1087640
Re: International Naval News & Discussion
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Here's the companion article..... Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster How the Navy failed its sailors. By Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller Design by Xaquín G.V. February 7, 2019 ^^^^^^^^^^^ Includes excellent, detailed reporting, along with hard truths. Defin...
- 08 Feb 2019 06:42
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3871
- Views: 1087640
Re: International Naval News & Discussion
Fight the Ship Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy. By T. Christian Miller, Megan Rose and Robert Faturechi Design by Xaquín G.V. February 6, 2019 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Very in depth article by ProPublica, which does very fine work IMO. I haven't read it all, but from what I have, it is w...
- 24 Jan 2019 22:38
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1748391
Re: Understanding the US - Again
The silence of Nick Sandmann What America is missing about the confrontation between a MAGA-hatted teen and a Native American elder. By Anna North Jan 23, 2019, 10:40am EST What’s problematic from this larger incident, if you take [it] from the moment this goes viral to now, is that we easily dismi...
- 22 Jan 2019 14:56
- Forum: Trash Can Archive
- Topic: Should we discontinue EVMs?
- Replies: 2401
- Views: 406084
Re: Should we discontinue EVMs?
IMO, EVMs should only be used in the following manner: Voter makes selections on electronic machine, which spits-out a paper ballot that includes a serial number tear-off "chit". The voter examines the paper ballot to verify it is marked correctly, and tears-off their "chit", bef...
- 22 Jan 2019 14:43
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
- Replies: 3095
- Views: 804031
Re: Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016
'The bed that saved me from the Taliban' Just over a year ago, Greek pilot Vasileios Vasileiou checked into a luxury hilltop hotel in Kabul. The Intercontinental was popular with foreign visitors - which is why, on 20 January, Taliban gunmen stormed it, killing at least 40 people. Vasileios explain...
- 21 Jan 2019 22:48
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1748391
Re: Understanding the US - Again
^^^^^^^ No, you're wrong; and should consider if your version wasn't massaged by PR pros hired by these kid's parents. In Mr. Sandmann’s statement, which was released by a public relations firm, he said he remained “motionless and calm” in an effort to defuse the situation. “I realized everyone had ...
- 20 Jan 2019 22:56
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1748391
Re: Understanding the US - Again
US school apologises for students mocking elderly Native American Catholic school students may face expulsion for their behaviour at Indigenous Peoples March in Washington. "It is sad that we have a president who uses Native American women's names as racial slurs, and that's an example that th...
- 18 Jan 2019 12:02
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1748391
Re: Understanding the US - Again
^^^^^^^^^disha wrote:......... Alexandria Ocasia Cortez ....... is latino. And she is woman. And a stain. All the right credentials for 2020 presidential run.hnair wrote: ...........
What do you mean "a stain"?
- 10 Jan 2019 00:53
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive Technologies List
The Markforged Metal Printers are unique in their approach. A part design is first enlarged by about 20%, and the part is printed using a variety of metal powders which are coated with polymers. The oversized part is then printed very quickly, and processed to remove the plastic, and finally run-th...
- 09 Jan 2019 23:59
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive Technologies List
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Any further development track for Kaveri engines is a dead-end, unless it leverages AM and CMCs.
- 09 Jan 2019 21:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive Technologies List
The US and China are in a quantum arms race that will transform warfare Radar that can spot stealth aircraft and other quantum innovations could give their militaries a strategic edge. by Martin Giles January 3, 2019 <snip> Stealth spotter How quickly quantum advances will influence military power ...
- 08 Jan 2019 01:47
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
- Replies: 332
- Views: 133085
Re: Renewable Sources of Energy
Last night's 60 Minutes program from CBS in the US, was about an American inventor (with patents, of course), who is using an electron accelerator to 'smash' biomass (agricultural residues), probably in an oxygen-free environment so it doesn't combust. He is then processing the resulting material u...
- 08 Jan 2019 01:33
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive Technologies List
^^^^^^^^^ Even bigger advances are just coming withing grasp, when we combine a number of these disruptive technologies to create absolutely novel products. Precision robotics and additive manufacturing are speeding-up the adoption of new materials; most promisingly, 'Ceramic Matrix Composites' whic...
- 08 Jan 2019 01:18
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive technologies List
3-D printing ^^^^^^^^^^^ We call it 'Additive Manufacturing". According to ASTM there are currently 7 or so 'AM' technologies in use commercially; but everyone knows there are many more in labs, soon to be seen on the trade show floors. This is definitely a very "disruptive advance" ...
- 08 Jan 2019 01:00
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive Technologies List
Scientists discover how to harness the power of quantum spookiness by entangling clouds of atoms April 26, 2018 2.13pm EDT <snip> While entanglement may sound wacky, experiments have been able to show that it exists for many years now. It also has the potential to be exceptionally useful – particle...
- 07 Jan 2019 21:34
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: Disruptive Technologies List
- Replies: 24
- Views: 13361
Re: Disruptive Technologies List
nJ23gUjyBo0 g9NAUPbqAvE cID4fKraWkE ^^^^^^^ As I understand it, "Spintronics" are a bridging technology to practical quantum devices. Most press attention has been on "quantum computing" but the application of the technology is explained in overly superficial terms, so much so t...
- 28 Dec 2018 23:18
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
- Replies: 332
- Views: 133085
Re: Renewable Sources of Energy
If Rakshaks spent just one tenth of their time learning about (or ideally engineering-installing) renewable sources of energy; as they do learning about (and engineering and building) weapons systems; India would have many fewer worries, to say the least. I'm not advocating the conversion of all swo...
- 20 Dec 2018 22:18
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
- Replies: 8449
- Views: 3035188
Re: Indian Economy News & Discussion - Nov 27 2017
Cross-posting this from earlier in the Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread... How Britain stole $45 trillion from India And lied about it. Jason Hickelby Jason Hickel 14 Dec 2018 There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not...
- 20 Dec 2018 12:58
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
- Replies: 332
- Views: 133085
Re: Renewable Sources of Energy
(How did we miss this?.....) India’s first Cellulosic Alcohol Technology Demonstration Plant to be inaugurated http://www.dbtindia.nic.in/wp-content/uploads/Curtain-Raiser_2-604x270.jpg ....... <SNIP> However, the 2G-ethanol alcohol production technologies have struggled world-wide to be economicall...
- 16 Dec 2018 10:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread - June 2015
- Replies: 1782
- Views: 634452
Re: Geopolitics/Geoeconomics Thread- June 2015
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India And lied about it. Jason Hickelby Jason Hickel 14 Dec 2018 There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic benefit to Britain itself. If anything, the adminis...
- 14 Dec 2018 07:58
- Forum: Mil-Tech Archive
- Topic: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - May 2017
- Replies: 5116
- Views: 1902887
Re: Indian Missiles News & Discussions - May 2017
Rabinder Singh is supposedly dead.Singha wrote:......<snip>........ rabinder singh ji must have changed his name and lives openly in virginia or such colonies of escaped agents.
- 14 Dec 2018 00:42
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
- Replies: 1237
- Views: 419999
Re: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
John Chau’s Death on North Sentinel Island Roils the Missionary World By Eliza Griswold December 8, 2018 John Chau, a twenty-six-year-old American missionary, was killed last month on North Sentinel Island, seven hundred miles off the coast of mainland India. Chau was part of a community of people ...
- 12 Dec 2018 10:27
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Wikipedia donations
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2399
Re: Wikipedia donations
Much as I might support the sentiment; I've gotta counsel... I don't think denying WikiPedia donations will obtain the result sought. The way to approach this, is to become a topic moderator for the topics where this has happened; and wage that battle in prose, backed with fact. Try to understand th...
- 08 Dec 2018 02:35
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
- Replies: 332
- Views: 133085
Re: Renewable Sources of Energy
^^^^^^^ Oh, I get it now: When I first read about this (too quickly), I thought they were using high-temperature silicone liquids (which are made of silicon-based polymers, essentially chains of silicon and oxygen). Now I understand, they're actually using elemental silicon (not silicone), and dopin...
- 07 Dec 2018 02:14
- Forum: Science, Economics & Technology Forum
- Topic: Renewable Sources of Energy
- Replies: 332
- Views: 133085
Re: Renewable Sources of Energy
^^^^^^^^ What you are referring to is called "Concentrating Solar Power" (CSP). The idea being, many mirrors concentrated on a point where a heat storage medium picks-up the heat, for later conversion into electricity. This way, a CSP station can collect solar heat energy (which is a large...
- 06 Dec 2018 21:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
- Replies: 6236
- Views: 1795098
Re: Neutering & Defanging Chinese Threat (15-11-2017)
^^^^^^^^ "It fits with how the Chinese intelligence services think about things. It's all very long range," TRANSLATION..... While singing our own praises and imagineering a 'New American Century' built on 'Total Situational Awareness" and full-spectrum domination......... How can we ...
- 06 Dec 2018 02:37
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1748391
Re: Understanding the US - Again
Ravi, BO tried very hard to create a confrontation with Russia via Ukraine to justify transfer of funds to MIC. Recall Vicky Nooland, Sochi Olympics no show etc. This is folly to get into a slug fest with the Russians as they have the nooks and return to the Cold War.... <snip> I wasn't trying to c...
- 05 Dec 2018 19:18
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Understanding the US - Again
- Replies: 7500
- Views: 1748391
Re: Understanding the US - Again
IMO there's not a lot of "Understanding the US" going on in this thread. Some people write things here, and they often go too far and one cannot reasonably tell when they're being facetious or sarcastic, or when they actually believe the bunk they are typing. Truly. Perhaps this is done in...
- 26 Nov 2018 02:01
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
- Replies: 1237
- Views: 419999
Re: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
While reading a WaPo article about this whole mess with Chau on Sentinel Island, I came across a comment that included a quote (I've heard before) and would like to share... "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes...
- 23 Nov 2018 12:51
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
- Replies: 1237
- Views: 419999
Re: Christianity, Evangelism & its geopolitical impact
Cut off from the world, India’s North Sentinal Island remains a mystery Tim Sullivan New Delhi The Associated Press Published November 22, 2018 Survival International, an organization that works for the rights of tribal people, said Chau may have been encouraged by recent changes to Indian rules ab...
- 22 Nov 2018 05:04
- Forum: Military Issues & History Forum
- Topic: International Naval News & Discussion
- Replies: 3871
- Views: 1087640
Re: International Naval News & Discussion - Canadian Navy
Legal challenge filed over high-stakes competition to design $60B warships By Lee BerthiaumeThe Canadian Press Wed., Nov. 21, 2018 OTTAWA—The $60-billion effort to build new warships for Canada’s navy has hit another snag, this time in the form of a legal challenge by one of three companies in the ...
- 21 Nov 2018 23:53
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6211
- Views: 1795704
Re: Internal Security Watch
^One less idiot. However this idiot missionary's body is toxic as well for the tribe. I just hope the sentinelese survive this. ^^^^^^^ You're absolutely correct about that. Just exposure to his corpse, could be disaster for everyone on that island.' When I read that they had made physical contact ...
- 21 Nov 2018 23:45
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6211
- Views: 1795704
Re: Internal Security Watch
^^^^^^^^^Further coverage in NYT^^^^^^^^^^^ (includes more details) American Is Killed by Bow and Arrow on Remote Indian Island NEW DELHI — John Allen Chau had to know that what he was about to do was extremely dangerous. <SNIP> Fishermen warned him not to go. Few outsiders had ever been there. And ...
- 21 Nov 2018 17:24
- Forum: Strategy, Politics & International Relations Forum
- Topic: Internal Security Watch
- Replies: 6211
- Views: 1795704
Re: Internal Security Watch
I don't know where else to post this, but..... US tourist 'killed' by arrow-shooting Andaman island tribesmen John Allen Chau, 27, was killed by bows and arrows as he canoed to the beach of isolated North Sentinel Island. A United States tourist is believed to have been killed by an isolated Indian ...