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Biswarup Gooptu, ET Bureau Jun 22, 2011, 04.42am IST BANGALORE: The US is likely to be the prime beneficiary of yet another lucrative military contract, after the defence ministry withdrew its commercial tender for the re-engining of the Indian Air Force's Jaguar Deep Penetration Strike Aircraft las...

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The Indian Air Force (IAF) issued the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the replacement of the engines of it’s fleet of some 125 Jaguar aircraft to Honeywell on Monday. Which other airforce in the world would want to replace a licence built engine with another one, which is prone to sanctions ..that ...

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I think this is exactly the logjam that the current defence minister is trying to get out of. May be they are trying to put one against the other and see if something comes out of it. IMO IAF must take as much blame as HAL or DRDO in this current fiasco. The babus and netas have really screwed the c...

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given its ability to loiter in supersonic, good fuel fraction(I hope) and radar coverage, lone examples of the pakfa might be used as "disrupters/flash mob" to snipe at and break up incoming enemy strikes on a wide front..the idea being to mission kill with BVR shots from high altitude an...

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[quote As opposed to having a hole in the ground like right now? Corporates are in control of manufacturing in other countries like Japan, France, South Korea, South Africa, etc. All nonsense. /quote] Could you please elaborate on the nonsense part..I am eager to learn. After that pls also explain w...

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This big corporates taking over manufacturing and monopolising it is not a panacea either...We would become like the United States military, where a toilet seat could cost $64000/-

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The idiotic press don,t know from their elbow to ar$e what is going on about this deal..All that has happened is declaration of intent by GOI. Anything can happen in the future...May be they will go for 36 planes only..May be 126 or may be manufactured locally in various combo..May be NaMo tricked t...

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Why cant the GOI think a bit out of the box and take assistance from foreigners in setting up world class manufacturing facilities? May be they are thinking in those terms..an indication is the tie up signed with Snecma during the recent Aero India show (I dont know the details) . May be they can ha...

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Jet-Li today mentioned in rrNDTV that "in 20 years time may be we will be able to make Rafale in India". May be he had in mind the technology level of HAL. TIFWW

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It could be a joint venture company with 50/50 stake between Dassault / HAL and all together different work culture..just speculating.

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***P 75I still talks about imported design though Arihant is now on sea trial. Nuke sub tech in the past and even now have support from various other parties. It is completely different stuff and nothing comes in between whether fund, support etc. True ..and we must thank the Navy for telling the l...

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What I meant was that those who have inclination for research would find the daily chores monotonous and boring.. I find some of them take their frustation on their superiors and get in to trouble. The present Admiral Supt of one of the Naval Dockyard is an extremely intelligent Electrical officer. ...

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deejay, As you know..the general saying in armed forces is..if you are a genius then you are not fit to be there..that said, Navy provides opportunity for these 'scientists' by way of deputation to DRDO, liberal rules for higher studies (MTech, PhD etc). I cant comment about IAF. I also agree with y...

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Few points we must remember while discussing this topic : 1.Navy's DND is not filled with men in uniform alone. In fact a majority of them are civilian scientists employed by the Navy because DND is a department directly under the Navy. Ofcourse there are some really brilliant Naval Officers who wor...

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The fact of the matter is ...all the fish is in Srilankan waters and there is nil fish in Indian waters..so much so that we have sometimes wondered whether the fish actually know the IBL.! There is no other reason for most of the Indian fishermen to tresspass into Srilankan waters. And the SL Navyme...

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IMO what NaMo is doing is tackling issues one by one. Things with higher gestation periods and systems for improving life of downtrodden are being put up first. Hence the focus on farmers banking accounts infrastructure etc. In a budget outlay of about 16 lakh crores the tax increase is only about 1...

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This guy Vishnu Som seems to be quite a character..he was reporting to his channel from Bengaluru that Parrikar's media conference was a washout and instead of questions on aero india all were asking about paki terror boat and CG officer's statement that CG blew it off..In fact parrikar did not allo...

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DRDO is an organisation where the performing/non performing ratio doesn't even match the standard 20/80 ratio. After you become Scientist E the maska maro exercise start from right earnest. Smart ones do it even before that. There is much more politics amongst scientists than even amongst the politi...

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Look at the Landing Gear..If LCA is a Kareena or Katrina..then NLCA is a Sridevi or a Silk

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10% equity was offered in the market and LIC like anybody else bid for it...If it was oversubscribed, say 4 times, LIC would have got a much smaller share. Now LIC can keep it and sell it for profit and pass the benefit to policy holders. How is it very different from mutual funds or private parties...

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the composite 1st stage will it increase the speed of ascent and impart greater starting speed to 2nd stage?u The weight reduction in 1st stage can be utilised in different ways.. A) Increase propellent mass- this may require some changes in dimention of 1st stage B ) increase propellent mass in 2n...

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KaranM, Have you heard about DMD? I don't know what it stands for but its about machinery used for defence equipment. I guess not the weapons systems but what goes to support it.

Yes, headed by a Rear Admiral from sub Tech branch..Present one is my BM.

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The positive effect is already visible. The so called smartalec "Tambram" had already pulled up his left sock and reduced repo by 25 basis. He will pull up his right sock soon and wont wait for Feb for a "review" (whatever that means). There are some more chai-biscoot wallas....A...

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^^The problem with you people are, first you think that the Govt has behaved irresponsibly, and try to find motives behind the move. Why cant you people think logically? Why should a Govt who gave 18 months extension to its top scientist terminate his service abruptly unless there are some serious i...

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^^Govt need to inform public only if it is necessary. Why should the public know when the Govt of the day decides otherwise and cares a damn about what the public thinks of it in this particular incident?

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Folks, how do you all know what the terms are.for extending his contract? May be there is a clause that his contract will be terminated at anytime at short notice..once they find a suitable replacement? The termination was decided by cabinet committee on appointments after due process. I am sure eve...

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Cha ko, in such cases i.e, confronting small crafts, CG will have more hands on experience than Navy, because that is part of their daily routine.

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Chako are you aware of Navy assets at/around Porbandar?

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Also, IMO two important tech contributed to lower/stagnant consumption are solar & LED

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Govt. has not given out the GST rate so I don't know how you've decided that it is 26%. Also GST is to SIMPLIFY the existing tax regime. Never has it been said that tax rates would be lowered. You can only understand the complexity of taxes if you are a manufacturer yourself I did not decide the ra...

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I still have my doubts on what GST would accomplish. Most of the tax dodging enforcement has already been claimed by the VAT. If interstate commerce is the worry I think people would find it unlikely to improve much. That is what I also.thought with proposed combined rates of more than 26%, how is...

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Ok Geeth, since I think you have a Navy background (I think you did answer one of the previous quizzes of mine long ago about which way the ship will heel in a turn correctly) , and are curious and can relate to things, how about another quiz ? Why dont you ask your dad...if he has some free time?

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The free surface effect is not so much as due to the change in CG,but rather the liquid has momentum and is out of phase with the overall vehicle motions. That is a wrong notion. The CG changes because the liquid takes the shape of the tank and the free surface always tries to be horizontal. As reg...

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Vina - how conversant are you about strap on booster separation dynamics ? Also are you aware that the boosters are still attached to minimize fuel unsettling when igniting in the coast phase and is an intentional design despite recognizing that it will decrease performance and performance and has ...

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The GSLV MK 1/2 were not designed for commercial exploitation as such, but as test beds for Cryo Engines. Obviously these rockets were assembled using available material and technology. One can say ISRO failed in is vision/ and/or were over cautious to think big and design bigger rockets from scratc...

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How is this ever going to work?

By pumping more oil into market..it will have a spirallind downward effect on price which will hurt all exporters of oil.

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Why will a company (Dassault in this case) agree to provide guarantees on work done by third party? Especially, when the company has no control over the third party in any possible manner. I can understand buyer making Dassault liable for delay(s) by HAL because of issue(s) at Dassault's end but wh...

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With due respect, this is a worn out line of argument and should be thrown out pronto. Did Reliance have any experience in building oil refineries before it built one of the world's largest in record time which is run with world-beating efficiency? DRDO can also set up even bigger refinery in recor...

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A nuclear submarine is more noisy when not moving because of the aux. machinery running..where as in conventional one it is mostly battery power.

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Sea cluuter is as difficult to segregate as ground clutter and worse in rough seas

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