Bharat Rakshak

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- Camera - Taken 2.9 million images - Thermometer - Made 524 billion thermal measurements - Gathered 12000 TB of data. (But most people really do not know/care etc... similarly CY2 is doing it's work without too-much fanfare..:) . This is quite exaggerated. A camera if taking images of 1000x1000 pi...

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ISRO does not hire media/PR people. They don't take it too seriously, from what I know the job is palmed off to jr. engineers. So don't expect a lot of updates regarding Chandrayaan, etc. It is a very hush hush organization, which only releases info now and then. Which is strange because 99% of what...

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There is NO progress towards atma-nirbharta. Import lobby has sabotaged everything. One well reputed company I know was awarded a grant to develop an indigenous replacement for Carl Gustav Rocket launcher. After a ton of red tape compliances they were awarded 10% of the promised grant for the first...

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Like we track here the developments of LCA, wouldn't it be a good idea to do the same for desi products progress of desi products? Like dates for RFI/RFP, DCC approvals, CCS approval, etc? It would help us estimate typical progress towards atmanirbharta. There is NO progress towards atma-nirbharta....

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^^^ I think high time we stop blaming OFB for everything and approach this rationally. Army procurement should be analysed rationally else we will be no different from Pakistani citizens. There are 14 positive cases in HAL bangalore but the work is going on but that did not get the LCA MK1 order, d...

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AIM (Abhijit Iyer Mitra) has written utter nonsense regarding Rafale, Tejas, and engineering and research in general. He is also a big fan of importing, esp. from US. His views on economics are not much better. There are far better defense journalists for example look up Amit R. Kashyap in youtube. ...

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Is Abhijit Iyer-Mitra's scathing assessment of the Indian IT sector well considered? Or is he being very unfair and vicious with regard to "cyber coolies". India needs those people! And if Indians aren't doing it, other countries will get the jobs- Brazil, Russia, Philippines, Vietnam et ...

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/captains-musings/defence-procurement-nothing-has-changed-in-the-last-three-decades/ Defence procurement : Nothing has changed in the last three decades Nothing much seems to have changed in the last three decades in defence procurement. I reproduce below a p...

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Seeing the MoD and military procurement officials' unending appetites for imports, I feel many important private sector firms such as Kalyani Strategic systems, L&T etc which were supposed to provide indigenous capabilities, will start shutting shop in the coming years or at the very least draw...

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I did some quick reading on him. There seems to be very little info available on what he is actually doing. The website doesn't really have any pics or technical details. The only things mentioned in articles is that the mines are detected using multi-spectral imaging. Which is possible I guess. Mul...

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I am sure many of you have read about the drone boy who has won accolades all over the world and been offered a job at DRDO by the PM. It did sound suspicious to most of us. story debunked https://www.opindia.com/2020/07/drone-boy-scientist-prathap-nm-600-drones-ewaste-fact-check-fake-claim/amp/?__...

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Thanks for the thread Mukkanji If I may, there is a wider implication and also policy of the politics of economics... India is I think the ONLY major country which does not practice economic nationalism.....of course CHina but also US, Korea, Japan, RU, FR and DE are all active in this space of pro...

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suryag I liked you original post. I think you should revert it. I think the consensus is that while some ( though small relative to our population ) good engineering/research work is being done in the country, it is usually done under multi-national companies. Which does not really help a lot in nat...

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Consumer facing fabs aren't necessarily the best thing to aim for. They're low labour input (of very high skill level) and very very high capital input. That's not quite the best bang for buck. For domestic consumption needs, it's fine to encourage fabs that aren't quite on the lithographic cutting...

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Agreed. I don't know what all the brouhaha around apps is around. We mostly use western derived apps anyway, not Chinese ones. App development while having useful applications is not really high tech. While facebook has a market cap four times that of Lockheed Martin I would definitely rather have a...

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Apologies, I did not read the first post. Now I went back and read many other posts. They are hilarious. The dude's imagination is very fertile, and includes saving starving Africans from snakebites! Not to blame you but you should use some common sense. Manufacturing 600 drones would make his compa...

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These articles scream of fake news and arrant nonsense. One particularly stupid idea seems to be using a mixer grinder motor to run a drone. Firstly the mixer grinder runs on AC power ( which isn't available on a drone ), and secondly drones use high rpm low weight BLDC motors which the mixer grinde...

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Developing tech products takes lot of investment. Even in US, maybe only 1 in 1000 are successful. But that one successful will make up for the loss in 999 failed ones. There is only very limited opportunity in India to recoup any investment developing tech products. There is no IPO markets for tec...

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The Chinese focused on building these kinds of heavy infrastructure machinery just to avoid being bottlenecked by monopoly western suppliers like Herrenknecht . We are going to be forced to do the same - to avoid dependency on both the west and the Chinese . It certainly isn’t going to be easy or q...

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Let me give you guys some perspective on the so called attempts to build domestic military industrial complex in India that I witnessed first hand. A year back, we were finalists in the first IDEX (innovations for defense excellence ) startup challenge. Our product was good. We had a good potential ...

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Can anyone tell me exactly why soldiers were fighting with clubs or other melee weapons?

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And you do not need any ecommerce website for that. You contact the company in question and make a deal with them directly. Well if I am looking for a vendor who can supply me X, IndiaMart (and Alibaba) can get me in touch with all the listed vendors who can supply X to my business, are meeting my ...

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Or really heavy or big things, anything which may require dealing with customs, anything requiring after sales support (training, installation activities, maintenance, etc.), also there are no proper invoices for any order... Aliexpress Taobao Wishstore etc. and other online stores should not be co...

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anmol wrote:Why are you comparing Indiamart (B2B) to Aliexpress (B2C) ?

Alibaba/Aliexpress is both B2B and B2C. Technically Alibaba is for B2B and Aliexpress is for B2C but unless you are ordering very expensive things or in large numbers, Aliexpress does B2B just fine.

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Maybe, but that’s not a helpful response. What enabled Alibaba to become the entity it is ? How did all the pieces come together in that case ? What are the specific pieces missing in the Indian context ? If you can articulate that at length in an informative manner, then that would be more useful ...

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anmol wrote:
nam wrote:Is there a Alibaba equivalent in India for Indian companies?
indiamart.com
justdial.com
udaan.com

^^
I agree that these websites exist and fulfil some purpose. But please they are not equivalent to Alibaba.
It is like saying a college football team is equivalent to Manchester United.

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^^^ Called C-C as it combines structural carbon discs with carbon brake pads. There are also carbon-ceramic brakes available. Not sure if this is has a specific meaning for brakes. But Carbon Carbon is a generic name for a type of composite material which has carbon fibres embedded inside a matrix ...

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It is not economically viable to built all aerospace production machines in India. Who will buy them other than HAL? This is a little hyperbolic, most aerospace production machinery (and companies) are used for other things as well. Such as automobile, ship-building, oil and gas, energy and even me...

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^^^ I imagine even the US and Russia have tooling from many different countries. No one country makes everything. At least currently (might change in post chini virus world.) It is also a matter of investment for which goal. If goal is the production of aircraft then it makes sense to buy the neces...

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Manufacturing of aircrafts and launch vehicles is a complex affair involving hundreds upon hundreds of sophisticated machines for fabrication, assembly, inspection and accessories. Autoclave is just a part of the puzzle. Maybe a big part of the puzzle. I have visited several facilities in ISRO and H...

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How can you get antibodies against the virus without having the virus?
If you have 5-10% of your pop with antibodies, does that mean that's the real number of covid 19 infections?

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Recently updated INDIGENISATION REQUIREMENTS OF IAF-PART II https://indianairforce.nic.in/content/indigenisation-requirements-iaf-part-ii https://indianairforce.nic.in/sites/default/files/Indigenisation%20Requirements%20of%20IAF-Part%20II.pdf Thanks. IAF Materials management has to think this throu...

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Can anyone give me some gyaan on what corporatization of OFB means?

My understanding of corporate is that it is a legal entity that has share holders, listed on stock market, etc. Is that what's going on here or something else.

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Agreed. a lot of BRFites seem to be unaware ( or even downright delusional ) about the scale and quality of Chinese manufactures relative to Indian ones ( where there are even any at all ). If we wish to really reduce Chinese imports we need to step up our game big time which doesn't seem to be happ...

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Need to have dedicated media people and marketing department to dispel import lobby's propaganda and promote own products.. It is not some hobby or extra curricular activity that can be handed out to jr. scientists.

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Hard work and sacrifice are not unknown to Indians. Only, they do it only to benefit themselves. They would not do it to benefit a 'nation'. East asians are hard working, law abiding and patriotic. Indians are (generally speaking), lazy, rebellious and anti-national. East asian model won't work for ...

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I am quite aware that modern electronics including network equipment is heavily software intensive. That isn't limited to 5G. However, the situation of engineering software development in the country ( outside of MNC employees ) is totally pathetic. It is even more pathetic than the hardware develop...

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Historically, major Indian reforms have all been driven by the political space afforded by a crisis. Labour laws and land acquisition seem to be last 2 hurdles for Indias rapid industrialisation .. am i wrong here ? Yes you are quite wrong. That is 19th century/bania way of thinking. Modern manufac...

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Make in India doesn't work because govt babus ( and Indians in general ) don't believe that Indians can produce high quality goods. Their belief is not based on some anti-nationalism but rather every-day observations that the quality of manufacturing of Indian goods is absolutely pathetic compared t...

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The rationale for developing high quality soldering irons is no worse than that of developing indigenous 5G telecom equipment. If our baniyas can't develop high quality soldering irons ( a 100 yr old technology ), why do we expect them to develop high quality telecom equipment? I don't see the need ...

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