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There are around 50 Su 35s with RUaf and more on order.Cheenis have ordered 2 squadrons.Bakis may order as well.Highly unlikely that all this will happen without a production ready Radar and Missile. The Novator is 300k plus range so wont go to Plaaf or Paf. As per Wiki, they have just about manage...

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Amoghvarsha wrote:Isnt the Su 35 radar supposed to be super duper and likely to be combined with Novator?

It's not that Su35s are operating in large numbers with RuAF..the Novator missile and the super duper radar (IRBIS E which BTW is a PESA) are far from being production ready!!

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A very noob question. Does the Rafale have the better radar in terms of range, track while scanning as compared to the su30 and its Chinese siblings? Well it depends. If it is the AESA RBE2, it is likely to have a very good overall performance compared to the BARS because of AESA and newer electron...

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Posting some quotes from the transcripts of an interview with MP in May...don't know if it was posted earlier so apologies in advance. The interview can be found here: Interview with Manohar Parrikar NG: The new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) that you brought in and has been implemented from 1s...

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Can't agree more on having multiple parallel programs for RnD to pave way for future. One reason why Unkil is so much more ahead of all is precisely this reason. On a completely different note - and I don't mean to digress. I was upset on Twitter by an Indian Express news item that counted the cost...

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This is why we need to have our own programs, and not spend 8B on 36 airplanes, which by the way will at best start coming in from 2019 :shock: Indranil sir, I have someone very close in the family who is deeply embedded in India's R&D ecosystem. Based on my discussions with him, I think we hav...

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Thanks folks for bringing an important part of my life back! Thanks for the great effort and wish you all a very happy independence day!

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First station modernization bid out. Is Habibganj an important station? 450 crores sounds a bit high. Habibganj used to be a small station just at the outskirts of Bhopal main station (about 7km) close to BHEL in the 80s and 90s. With the development of new Bhopal, this has become a very important ...

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v367txnwtlg This has all the details. This is an amazing testimony to IAF's support for the Tejas program - the AF chief wouldn't have flown in it! The clip also mentions that the ACM simulated A2A and A2G attacks which means he must have checked the avionic capability himself and just imagine, wit...

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Is it true Itarsi alu bondas are the best?i I frequent that route vsunderji, have been travelling that route since my childhood to my town of birth - Jabalpur and that stretch on the Bagra Tawa is absolutely amazing. I always wish the train slows down in that stretch (they usually do due to single ...

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Any idea of how many Su30 suppliers are from Pune-Nashik area? I suspect majority of those are also India wide (probably even south based)..? Aero suppliers are very hard to certify and finalize. Karan, Dynamatic Technologies has been producing air frame parts for the Su 30 since 2010 - here's the ...

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Make LCA in Pune and make Pawar/Kalmadi richer...no way :twisted: Jokes apart AbhiJ ...you better stop this line of thinking Pune companies in the auto sector have zero experience in manufacturing aerospace grade components...unless you think the Indica or Bajaj Pulsar flies :rotfl: This entire argu...

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If you are aware: What are the plans for acquiring a flying test bed? Last mentioned was securing a Su 30 off HAL production line(?). Are there other test beds required but not available? Deejay sir, from AI 2015 when I interacted with a gent from GTRE, they had completed 3K hours of static testing...

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Amazing pics Sanjeev, thank you very much for your efforts!

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X posting from the Economy thread, Kakkaji thanks for sharing this: Kakkaji wrote: Polavaram is reaping the Jan Dhan benefit Quote: National impact Not just Andhra Pradesh, but the PMJDY numbers are stunning nationally. About 20.20 crore people across the country have opened accounts under the schem...

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Sir, I am bolding some of the key parts and also cross posting it in achievements thread - this is HUGE! Polavaram is reaping the Jan Dhan benefit National impact Not just Andhra Pradesh, but the PMJDY numbers are stunning nationally. About 20.20 crore people across the country have opened accounts ...

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Looks like classic speculation from DDM. Kaveri program was never stopped IMHO, the funds had dried up during the UPA sarkaar days. When I spoke to GTRE folks at AI 2015, they were pretty much going ahead with the testing. Kaveri had by then done 3000+ hours of ground testing (also including flight ...

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Folks, On one hand Nilesh and Indranil are trying to bring in very high quality discussion to the table, may I request others who are a bit frustrated with the pace of things / lack of decision making to lay off this thread. Even if statements like The issue is of ego - but the ego of the PMO to pla...

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Sir ...limited budget so we need more missiles instead for the same money, more bang for the buck and will keep the enemies from thinking about a tank battle!

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In my understanding, the GOI has done two things: Committed to only 36 aircraft for now, citing budget issues (which are real) but through offsets, created an opportunity for Dassault for selling additional aircraft to the IAF through the local assembly by an meet their export commitments through ad...

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Thanks Karan, as we connect all the reports together, it is clear that India is doing what we jingos really want and most importantly, they are being funded! Let's see how the execution happens from here on, although I am pretty confident we will finally see a lot of success in the years to come! On...

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^ Agree but at least the building blocks are in place and funding is being provided - UPA 2 did not even do that!

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Sir posting that article in full, has a lot of interesting nuggets: NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government is set to give the green light to a Rs 3,000 crore plan to develop Ghatak, a new engine that will power India's first unmanned combat aircraft, or drones capable of delivering bombs as well a...

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Happy Diwali folks, may this Diwali bring happiness to all.

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A good interview with Devendra Fadanvis Key points: The Jalyukt Shivar scheme of water conservation. When we came to power there was a drought in 24,000 villages. This year, there is a drought in 14,000 villages. Of late, climate change has become a phenomenon... days of rainfall becoming fewer, wit...

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ET Awards 2015: Piyush Goyal wins Business Reformer award Goyal saw opportunity in mass cancellation of coal mining licences to introduce a transparent auction process and followed it up with path-breaking reforms that were pending for a decade. He broke the 40-year-old state monopoly to allow priv...

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A very good interview with Nitin Gadkari, has lots of data to track: Link I am quoting some excerpts: After roads, the ports sector has now shown some signs of revival. Can you talk about it? For the first time all our ports and corporations are in profit. The combined profit will be around Rs 4,000...

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SohamM - We are discussing this article dissing the LCA by the worthy Sanjeev Miglani- I have edited my post to provide the context.

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Folks, While we are discussing this article by Sanjeev Miglani dissing the LCA, it looks like a classic hit job by the #Presstitutes - Look at Sanjeev Miglani's other articles on Reuters: India plans new townships to resettle Hindus in Muslim-majority Kashmir Indian opposition politicians criticize ...

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Check this link Considering the technologies involved, it (LCA Mk II) will be a MiG 21 + + aircraft and it will render yeoman service to the IAF LCA Mk II is the journalist's own interpretation. And this statement was made in 2011 . LCA was no where near where it is today, the IOC was not done so we...

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Vivek K sir, rest assured I want the LCA in IAF as much as anybody here on the forum but I must say, let's not be unfair to IAF for criticizing the program. I think IAF has had its own problems with the LCA as well documented by Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar. But that is the past. And even that had a ...

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Actually the article has the details: Parrikar said between January 2013 and December 2014 the IAF had recorded technical problems with 35 Saturn AL-31FP engines that power the licence-built Su-30MKIs. The problems were related to faulty bearings and low-pressure oil. He said metal fatigue caused th...

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That is DDM Rajat Pandit. Read this article in details The Indian Air Force's (IAF's) Su-30MKI multirole fighter fleet is plagued by frequent "engine failure-in-air and engine-related problems" and poor operational serviceability, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told parliament on 17 Mar...

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Thanks uddu, that's as clear a support for LCA as one can hope to see! I think casting aspersions on ACM for supporting imports, to put it mildly, is extremely unfair! He has clearly articulated that he needs the numbers and those numbers will come from BOTH the Tejas and something that will come fr...

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Cross posting from Achievement's Thread: India becomes the top FDI Destination India has emerged on top of the foreign direct investment league table, overtaking China and the United States, according to the FT data service A ranking of the top destinations for greenfield investment (measured by est...

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India becomes the top FDI Destination India has emerged on top of the foreign direct investment league table, overtaking China and the United States, according to the FT data service A ranking of the top destinations for greenfield investment (measured by estimated capital expenditure) in the first ...

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An interesting take on Economic recovery: The mystery of the Indian economic recovery The official pitch is that the Indian economy is in the first stages of an economic recovery. But there are lots of doubts about this claim. It is not hard to come across businessmen, investors and ordinary citizen...

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Operation Smile: Nineteen thousand boys and girls rescued by a special initiative of the Union home ministry have similar stories: From being pushed into prostitution and bonded labor to ill-treatment by parents. Codenamed 'Operation Smile,' the drive pioneered by home minister Rajnath Singh has se...

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Congrats to ISRO!! Man, after Uncle Sam's delaying tactics in the 90s, we have come a long way!!! Thank you ISRO.

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Farewell to one of India's greatest and most loved sons. Kalam sir, you will inspire Indians for ever!

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