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Video is a mix of English & Hindi, refer to key details listed out below: Some details on the Astrobase EVEREST FFSC engine: Engine weight: ~700 kg Flow rate: 250 liters/sec Flow speed inside pumps: 0.5 km/sec Turbopumps consume 5 MW of power each. Runs at 30,000 + RPM. ==== Thanks to...

Khagantak-243 has a 140+ km range when dropped from 40,000 ft. It was developed by JSR Dynamics in collaboration with BEL under their Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) project: https://jsrdynamics.in/long-range-glide-bomb-lrgb/ Initial orders (undisclosed numbers) have already been placed...

Assembly pics... The 2.2 ton GISAT-1A (EOS-05 under new naming system) is a very important geostationary Earth Observation satellite with a strategic role. It's widely understood to have a very SBIRS-like ability of detecting ballistic missile launches among other capabilities, all of...

Ah, ok. But all 4 subs will not be available at the same time though, only 1 or at best 2 will be in a ready-to-launch state at any given time. The build rate does get faster as you make more boats, but there's no shortcuts in Sea Acceptance Trials (SATs). The Arihant-class is pretty unique...

2028 is more likely. The fourth boat started sea trials only in December 2025, a minimum of 2 years is a given. So late 2027/early 2028 completion of trials. Commissioning a few months afterward so mid-2028. Lol, no. It'll be a Stretched boat, same as the 3rd one (Aridhaman), so either 8 K4...

Rows of ALAKH Kamikaze Drones lined up for production are more than a striking sight, they represent the scale at which modern unmanned combat systems are being built. ALAKH is designed as a loitering munition, capable of reaching a designated area, remaining airborne while identifying an...

Interesting... I'm wondering if the missile is the DRDO VSHORADS or a different one?

It probably serves to know that IN always wanted a next-gen (read: 5th gen) naval fighter. The only reason they reluctantly 'agreed' for the current 4.5/4++ gen TEDBF was because they were promised a hasty timeline of realization (which became a necessity due to unforeseen operational problems...

What I'm seeing is that unlike most other Indian startups, Astrobase is adopting a very SpaceX-like 'move fast & break things' approach & work culture. It probably helps that one of the founders (Neeraj Khandelwal, seen in this video) is worth at least $300 million 😁 Oh and btw, the other...

Hoverit's been iterating rapidly. They started with the Divyastra Mk-1, a propeller-driven OWA drone similar to Shahed-136 and then graduated to the larger Mk-2 which had a strike range of 2,000-km (also propeller-driven): Now the Mk-3 is a jet-powered version, for which they've tied up...

It's the VEDA after all! Thanks to member 'project igi' on other forums: Looking forward to the first launch...essentially the Indian equivalent of China's Kuaizhou-series 'quick-reaction' launch vehicles:

TASL, NIBE bag ₹1,577-crore ($165 million) Army contracts for Loiter Munitions The Ministry of Defence on Friday (August 14, 2026) signed contracts worth ₹1,577 crore with Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) and NIBE Ltd for the Indian Army. The procurement of 84 loiter munition systems, 840...

^^ That's from a 2019 paper. All these capabilities were achieved before obtaining Final Operational Clearance (FOC). Netra AEW&C during FOC ceremony a couple months ago: Credit in pic.

Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFCs) have been awesome... The economics of freight transport get insanely good when Railways get involved in a big way. In other news... I think we might very narrowly miss the $1 trillion export target of this FY (not TTM), perhaps coming up to $950-970...

I don't think AMCA Mk-1 will get an EOTS. The fact that models of the plane in beast mode always show it with external LDP supports that thesis. But all latest official graphics of AMCA (assuming they're showing the version after systems-level CDR was completed) show an optical sensor of some...