Bharat Rakshak

Victor

Victor, do you even know what long time leads are before you typed out that mound of garbage? Do you? Before you posted your garbage? I was responding to the statement that HAL can increase the production rate if the order were to be increased. This is complete nonsense in a critical government-spo...

Victor

I'll just make a brief post here.. because this is where the IAF has been doing an "Ashwatthama is dead" to dodge around the actual performance of the jet vis a vis its peers and what it already employs. Says who? You? When you make an accusation like this you ought to back it up with at ...

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Ah yes. The Lord forbid dutty Indians use their own brains and decide that foreign design consultants recommendations didn't make sense. :rotfl: Actually Victor was only quoting this dutty Indian working for a dutty Indian PSU . He happens to be the ex-head of LCA test flight program and the ex-hea...

Victor

HAL can increase production rates if they had a bigger order. It is uneconomical for them to increase production rates otherwise. This was in 2012, less than 2 years ago: Director of the Aeronautical Development Agency ( ADA), P Subramanyam, who runs the LCA programme, explains that nobody realised...

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A big concern should be the apparent arrogance of the PSU folks in spite of their demonstrated ignorance. They have paid money to foreign design consultants and then ignored recommendations because they would either cause further delay or were thought unescessary according to their own understanding...

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^^ Air Cdre Khokhar was the director of the LCA test flight program and director of the National Flight Test Center. I guess he too was one of the shifty-eyed, corrupt, anti-national, import mafia IAF types since he bad mouthed HAL/ADA so much. Too bad he was murdered under mysterious circumstances ...

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rgsriniji, I don't want to win any arguments unless we are questioning the integrity and national interests of the IAF vs the PSUs. In my view, there is absolutely no contest. About trying to hide large, very visible and obvious fnckups, what do you think can be done? Or are we suggesting that the f...

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It should and it must. Even if with degraded performance. A bad plane (if the argument is that LCA without these feature is bad) is better than no plane. Agreed, specially if the above news is anywhere near being correct. From what I have read however, HAL/ADA can't make more than a few per year (4...

Victor

1. to collaborate, you (IAF) don't need power, or the authority to run an organization. If they insist on being the boss to collaborate, then I don't think they understand the meaning of collaboration Absolutely true. And the IAF has always cooperated and is cooperating now, are they not? They sugg...

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Most, if not all, expect these institutions to be in the forefront of supporting indigenization and improving indian capabilities, rather than sitting back and complaining (at least that is the perception). Then give them the power to do so. Let IAF have its top officers running HAL. But more serio...

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IAF just doesn't seem to have any long term vision. That seems to be the problem. As a user it makes demands that cannot be fulfilled and then it cries/cribs/whines till it gets the toy it needs. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Words like cries, cribs, whines don't fit the IAF attitude but ...

Victor

I don't understand all the vitriol against the IAF. If people think that everyone else knows better than IAF what IAF needs, we are in deep trouble. And if the belief is that IAF is a bunch of uncontrolled, corrupt rogue elements out to torpedo India's home-grown aircraft industry, we are truly up S...

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What is it about pakis who get into a lather and lapse into abusive lingo when their "whizzdom" and "gnawlidge" is refuted by the facts time and again? Comical and pathetic.

Victor

Matheswaran has blamed both IAF and HAL for the LCA problems but the whole thrust of those 2 articles is not to flog a dead horse but to lay out the best path going forward. This is the only thing that matters and from my computer gaddi, I will defer to him rather than anyone on BR or even HAL. He r...

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two more articles by AM Mathy http://www.stratpost.com/light-combat-aircraft-need-for-course-correction-i http://www.stratpost.com/light-combat-aircraft-need-for-course-correction-ii Very timely analysis. One hopes the powers that be take heed, step back, take a deep breath and try to save the dome...

Victor

A bomb precision glide kit called SWAK was displayed at AI 2011. Don't know if the costs would justify it but a silent shower of 250 lb bombs out of the blue (or black of night), mixed incendiary, HE, anti-personnel, would devastate a terrorist site in PoK and severely damage their motivation. These...

Victor

At max Only 3 more LCA will be built in whole of 2015. Wasn't a foreign consultant hired to help with setting up a production line? With FOC pushed back another year, the LCA2 project is also delayed by another year and that's really the aircraft the IAF wants. I still don't buy the reasons everyon...

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Castro daughter: US 'dreaming' if they think Cuba will return to capitalism The Cuban diaspora in the US are mostly young and want to go back to the homeland they have never seen to explore and interact. They are proud of their heritage and culture and will be involved in one way or another in bett...

Victor

One will have to keep in mind that 100+ km max range will be for sea level targets when dropped from a certain speed and altitude. The range will be much degraded when the target in mountainous/high altitude areas. IIRC our Mirage 2000s dropped LGBs in Kargil from 30k ft and 15 km away. If we halve...

Victor

:shock: one tonne Saar, not one kiloton. Tactical and suitcase nukes can be sub-kiloton. The W54 nuke could have a yield as little as 10 tons (daisy cutter conventional bomb is 6 tons). What I'm getting at is the pakis trotted out the threat of tactical nukes to stop a Cold Start type thrust but th...

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" By the end of the next year [2014] , we want to complete all the development trials of the glide bombs before offering it to the IAF," he said. So, it has completed all trials now and the announcement is being made for the first time after it is all over. Great job. Hopefully the mentio...

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But India should have been doing that regardless of US normalisation of relations with Cuba. Cuba after the fall of the Soviet Union and the collapse of COMECON, didn't have a viable market for any meaningful economic activity but now it can become the gateway to a huge one. Also, local laws have b...

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saip wrote:Just a q. Is it 'effect' or 'affect'?

Both can be used as verb or noun although 'effect' is used more often as a noun. Afaik, its ok in Inglish.

Victor

pankajs wrote:
DRDO @dpidrdo · 1h 1 hour ago

DRDO's Parachute System for recovery of Moon Mission Crew Capsule http://goo.gl/VqnTyW

So the first Indian manned mission will be a moon shot?

Victor

any idea what altitude the bum was released from? would wind direction/turbulence/temperature alter the range substantially? Altitude of release will determine distance of glide. The max range of 100 km + will probably need 30k+ feet altitude. With on board seekers and autonomous control, wind etc ...

Victor

The desi bomb will be a huge beast and if it's going to glide 100 km + it will have a flat lifting body type design in addition to wings. It will need a high altitude release to realize max range. Ya Allah. A khatarnak weapon and fresh breeze indeed. Now let's get this thing operational in large num...

Victor

I read somewhere that the splashdown was 100 kms away from the CG ship. Hopefully this will be reduced so the next one is within eyesight. Won't hurt to also put a couple of lifelike dummies in the capsule so the ship crew learn how to handle vayunauts whose bodies will feel as heavy as lead after b...

Victor

Manned space missions are a practical nescessity if we intend to build and maintain anything in space. Space stations are only the first baby steps. They will be followed by space factories that will make the ultra-high precision components for future generations of consumer gizmos. These will of co...

Victor

Russia can ask for payment for its oil in "any currency other than dollar". Iran already tried to trade in Euros only. If anything bothers America, that is it. At the rate things are going, the Russians may be better off selling us oil in Rupees. For our part, this is the time to ram home ...

Victor

I am still not sure- How does it affect India. Rather why should it significantly affect India. The US has trade issues with India but if we play our cards right, Cuba can be the jumping-off point for Indian pharmaceuticals, information technology, textiles, garments and a whole lot more all within...

Victor

At a time when the US needs as few enemies as possible, this is a master stroke. The sentiment is so positive in both Cuba and the US that nobody in either country will be able to reverse normalization now and those who try will pay the price. The overriding rationale is if we can do business and ha...

Victor

I don't think anyone shows the separation videos live from the vehicle. There will surely be things that we don't want to show everyone since this is a cutthroat business and we will see a properly edited version in time.

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Radhakrishnan giving praise to all the senior gurulog. Very Indic.

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^ Telemetry info is not perfect at the low altitudes so the lines may not align towards the end. With main chute open it's on its way home safely.

Victor

DD should have had a camera on the CG boats. But well done ISRO, hearty congrats.

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Liftoff.

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Many people suddenly left the viewing gallery? Maybe they want to see the launch from outside.

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Live on Youtube

Wonder why it has that exposed part between stages. Little nervous about airflow disturbance but maybe it will be jettisoned soon enough not to be a problem.

Victor

RIP. Go gentle into that good night.

Victor

Sid wrote:China will make sure such strategic imbalance does not go unchecked.

Dunno about that. They would hate to see Vietnam with a nuke sub.

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