F-35 supply chains are well established. The program isn't that into infancy like Su-30 Or in Mid Life for Indian Companies to get into that ecosystem. IAF for all flaws extensively modified jets. It's unlikely that they would be willing to invest in 100s of F-35 given that there is zero chance...
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Some of the technologies in Jet Engine and how far DRDO has come-
Single Crystal Blades: India’s DRDL developed DMS3 SC in 2003, but it wasn’t up to the high-performance standards required for advanced turbine engines...
This restart capability is for ADMIRE Program to demonstrate VTVL.
On a broader note, it seems the Indian Space Industry unlike the MIC doesn't suffer from any penny pinching or short-term band aid solutions. The first steps were hard, but moving on and on akin to a snowball effect their...
I wonder would this docking be rudimentary compared to pressurised Vehicle docking like we seen in Crewed Modules? Or is it something depends entirely on Module itself?
The French seem to have used Rafale prototype itself as flying test bed. Obviously the engines are closely coupled hence even if one fails the other would be enough to make it back to base. RR seems to use 747. GE also uses 747. Russia and China uses the Illyushin il-78. The problem with French...
Its flying test bed. Its not something that can be built casually like a Ground based Wind tunnel facility. You need a 4-Engine plane to fly that thing. The inner circle talk is that no one is coming forward to give that. You only have 3 companies able to do that now- Boeing, Airbus and...
It's a problem of larger system. You can't simply fire a Government Employee. The Indian Judiciary which often lives in Ivory Towers sides with David even if he is wrong.
Cut the bureaucracy and for the poor level of Manufacturing and lack of ancillary ecosystem we have now 4 SSBNs and the next...
There’s been some debate about the missile recently tested by DRDO, so let me break it down. Specifically, I’m focusing on how the second stage of such missiles works. There are two main types of second-stage propulsion:
Unpropelled – Where the second stage simply coasts.
Propelled – Where the...
Nope, that's a very very depressed trajectory to reach its range at 5000-Km. Otherwise it would add few thousand Kilometers easily and hence the weird thing in the sky. Everyone knows it can reach 8000-Km and MoD would always like to downplay its range not to irk "Garden People".
He is asking about SAM system SAMAR vs AKASH and not GAURAV Glide Bomb.
SAMAR is about Desi Jugaad'fying the copious amounts of Russian AAM Missiles in our inventory. SAMAR similar to NASAMs or SPYDER is about using AAMs as Short Range Mobile SAM System. Since, simply dumping them in graveyard...
