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http://www.dawn.com/news/1243607/pakistan-to-get-1257m-from-germany Bhiksham Dehi! ISLAMABAD: Germany agreed on Friday to provide €125.7 million ($138.3m) in various sectors including health, energy, and technical and vocational training. A ceremony was held in this regard at the Ministry of Finance...

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http://wap.business-standard.com/article/international/china-earmarks-23-billion-to-cover-job-loss-of-6-mn-workers-116030100639_1.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/China-aims-to-lay-off-5-6-million-state-workers/articleshow/51205456.cms 5-6 million job losses in...

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/budg ... 210502.cms

This was going to happen, Jaitley probably got an earful too.

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In my view the most important line that has been announced is the Kharagpur Mumbai Freight link. This line is going to be a steel highway with the steel plants of Bilaspur,Bhilai, Raigrah, Durgapur, Jamshedpur, Rourkela and bokaro all on or in close proximity to the line, also the Aluminum giant at ...

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+2 to Singhaji We should Open up multiple lines of 155/52 guns and immediately order at least 1000 pieces of Dhanush alongwith 1000 copies of the Bharat-52 as well. Simultaneously 105mm Guns should be Modernized to the Bharat forge Garuda standards and passed onto the BSF and ITBP. The M777 order sh...

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^^^^^^ Errrr...... IIRC, around 2000 or so, BEML had actually signed a deal to work with OBRUM - and if I am not mistaken on that very tank!!!! Of course, it was a paper tank then. Do not know what happened. Dunno about BEML But OBRUM/BAE have made a demonstrator for now. The Tank Chassis works and...

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The PLA have displayed a new light tank which will inevitably land up in Tibet. The proposed ICV should be tasked to combat this machine as well.There could be different turrets on the same chassis,a family of ICV variants as we're seeing with the Armata family. An ICV shall be of limited use again...

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And here I was imagining ERIEYEs blowing up as soon as they took off from Mushaf:P

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Gurus, Wiki says that in 2005 we started working with the Russians to develop the K100 as a 200-400km range AWACS killer to arm our Sukhois. Does anyone here know whether that collaboration yielded any fruit? It's interesting to note that at the maximum quoted range of 400km the K100 outranges the d...

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@Philip I only said 20 as a surefire way to get numbers rapidly, the Russians have not yet displayed a capability to build Amur class boats or Kalina in the same Assembly line manner in which they have churned out Kilos. Even if getting numbers are not Urgent Economies of scale have their own advant...

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So who exactly is going to build these 20 kilos super fast fast? The Russians are supplying Vietnam with six boats built between 2010 and 2015 for a deal that was signed only in 2009.Four have been Delivered and the final two are in trials and to be delivered by end 2016. I used this super fast bui...

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The IN's sub fleet has to be expanded to at least 36 (incl. 12+ N-subs) to deal with this threat. As I've said before that number is very easily achievable by 2025, all we need to do is buy 20 Kilos off the Shelf after scrapping P75I. If we sign a deal in the second half of 2016 we should see deliv...

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Complete Economic Warfare should be undertaken. In Bengali Village Parlance "AK Ghora". 1)Any Company operating in Pakistan will not be granted a business license in India. 2)PIA will not be allowed to Overfly India. 3)Ships originating at Pakistani Ports will not be granted Docking Rights...

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^^^ What's the range and endurance of those corvettes? It's fine if the IN wants to operate in the far-eastern part of Mediterranean Sea (using Israeli port) or Caspian Sea (using Russian port). IOR is huge by comparison. Asia-Pacific is even further. Sir, Wiki quotes a range of 3500nm@20kt/hr that...

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So LR-SAM was able to hit to kill for the target used. The PF should work for more high speed targets. And its flown from a corvette sized vessel . https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/INS_Lahav.jpg/1024px-INS_Lahav.jpg The Israeli Sa'ar 5 class corvettes are among the most hea...

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IN tends to underplay the class of warships. P28 is about 3000 tons but is corvette class where in Pakiland 3200ton class warship from Cheen is Frigate. Rest assured when the cruiser arrives it will not be less than 12000 tons. I don't care if she tips the scales at 18000Tonnes. Just let her have 1...

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JTull wrote:Hmmm! Can't we can't do it ourselves, or do we need to pay Russians royalty to call our "new cruiser design" Indian?

We can and should do it ourselves but will the politicos let us is the real question here!

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New Cruiser design??? any chance we might partner the Russians in Building a Lider MKI?

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^What are they going to use them against? Pirates? smugglers? Are these lot busy scanning radar for enemy contacts? Or do they want to use these things to take on capital ships? Maybe the machine guns are in fact rail guns, able to cut through the armor of capital ships. Well the look "cool&qu...

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It's interesting how the NDA ruled states are proceeding with reforms in both Labor and land laws, I see Jharkhand and Maharashtra(with the SS this will be tricky) changing their own laws next .Along with the implementation of GST this will create a set of states with very business friendly laws. In...

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I still reiterate my old comment, we do not need to go through the whole decade long song and dance in selecting new submarines while our adversaries increase their fleet strengths. We should scrap P75I and simply use the 8$billion to outright buy 20 Kilos, we are also planning for four more Scorpen...

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Even if you can build Kora for dirt cheap to arm them with 8 Brahmos (20 Brahmos order incl spares and tr rounds) would come to well over 60 million. Arming them with 16 Uran would cost even more.. The price of one KH-35 as on wiki( I couldn't find a better source) is 500,000$(2010 prices) this sho...

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I would actually support Philips assertion, the Kora class cost us only 36$ million each, that's dirt cheap for something that carries 16 Klubs and conceivably has the capability to kill a CBG. Pity we stopped at four! The PLAN is building high value assets faster than we can build or can afford to ...

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http://www.uniindia.com/india-seals-rs-70-000-cr-missile-deal-with-russia/india/news/257832.html#DJM1EVcOzV6WQ6iO.99 Deal finalized apparently, 70,000 crores i.e 11 billion$ seems to be too big an amount though. we should be getting more than 20 systems for that kind of moolah! New Delhi, Nov 2 (UNI...

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about the two kilos I still think its better we spend the amount mandated for P75I in buying 20+ kilos outright. While it would not give us an Uber modern boat what we would gain is numbers, combined with the 6+2 scorpenes it would mean we would be able to deploy a 25+ SSK fleet well into the 2030's...

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I personally think that we may also be looking at buying the S400 as a kind of capability filler making up for our lack of squadrons vis a vis the PLAAF until the IAF is more robustly augmented by the PAKFA/AMCA . Also used as an offensive defence asset it can also be used to reduce required squadro...

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Nirbhay launch from Arhant doesn't make sense. So far none of the reports suggest that has been tested from VL pontoon or a TT test bed. So after only 2 tests so far, how can it be the first missile to be fired from Arihant. It seems Nirbhay has been tested more times and validated more times than ...

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http://armingindia.com/India%20May%20Hand%20Over%20Next%20Six%20Submarines%20Order%20To%20A%20Private%20Shipyard.htm Parrikar indicated that the government plans to hand over the responsibility of building six new conventional submarines for the Navy to an Indian private sector shipyard . Interestin...

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I just read the article by Philip in the Russian weapons thread where he says that the Indonesians are buying Kilos at the rate of 300m$/boat brought up a thought. Should we scrap the never-ending song and dance about 75I and just buy 20 kilos with the 8Billion$ instead? We could ask the Russians to...

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Since we seem to be discussing a hypothetical PLAAF, PLA assault in Tibet on a similar vein I had written a small article about converting the Andamans into a fortress capable of fending off PLAAF and PLAN attacks in an article previously published on DFI, i'd love it if the gurus here could read it...

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we do not need to get dedicated bombers like the H-6 at least for any future land war with the PLAAF. what we could do with is a squadron or two of Tu-22M's to use as high speed CBG destroying missile trucks. For the War over Tibet what we will need is very long range tracking radars capable of look...

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Long overdue. Like I've said before, India is going to gets its nuke attack subs one way or the other. All their reticence did so far is let the Russians walk away with a fair bit of business. That said, I expected their overtures to come from UK and France. Astute v Barracuda. Surprised to see US ...

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One Thought! Just like the Billing for the Russian Tech Transfer used in the Arihant and the Money for the Akula Lease was hidden under the Guise of Vikramaditya payments.There is a possibility that under the Guise of Rafale payments we are getting the tech for the conversion of the Scorpene class i...

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I understand that we cannot go for a hard response as a simple knee jerk response but surely we can impose togh economic penalties on pakistan easily. for starters i propose these five basic points! 1)Removal of MFN status for Pakistan and closure of all border crossings. 2)Removal of landing/ overf...

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http://www.financialexpress.com/article/economy/indian-railways-spain-tango-to-speed-up-trains-cut-delhi-mumbai-travel-time/106844/ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/railways/train-from-spain-government-considering-talgo-proposal-to-run-trial-runs-of-faster-trains-trains-be...

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Bombardier has been awarded the contract for new trains by the Aussies, and their Gujarat plant is going to build them. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/nation-world/bombardiers-new-trains-for-australias-queensland-to-be-made-in-india/bombardiers-new-trains-for-australia/slideshow/4781...

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Rest in peace Sir!
My prayers with his family.

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The 36 Rafale will buy time enough for HAL to retool a plant to produce Rafales while also providing time to the establishment to work out the kinks in the production deal, we were looking at HAL only beginning to produce the aircraft in 2017-18 even if the deal was signed yesterday, this way we cut...

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Did India Today just give out A-5's true range? Agni V is India's most lethal missile yet as it can cover a range of nearly 8,000 kilometers in any direction. This means that the missile can cover a distance of around 8,000 kilometers while carrying nuclear destruction potential and can cover areas ...

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Vivekda, I think that any scenario concerning pakistan is incomplete without a mention of jihadi assets being used against Indian citizens via attacks on railways, airports etc.These assaults would serve to break supply lines in the hinterland while also creating a general atmosphere of panic and fe...

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