Recent content by Nilgiri

I read this all in details many years ago as I work with CATIA quite frequently. The dumbest mistake was trusting the Americans/Reagan/GE in the 80s with powerplant selection...given a) 1971/Nixon/Kissinger (and India inflicting a deep hurt on them that Carter could not/did not reverse that...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/q1-gdp-grows-7-8-as-service-investment-support-economy-14018988.html https://www.ft.com/content/88447c72-5510-4847-9908-cf630acfcc1f?syn-25a6b1a6=1 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/31/india-economy-gdp-energy-el-nino.html

Mahindra Airbus partnership continues to advance.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indian-navy-commissions-deep-sea-diving-vessel-ins-nipun/article71409836.ece

Congrats! Best of luck on everything.

Some pics not hotlinking correctly. Anyway the gallery is here: https://www.isro.gov.in/Mission_GSLVF17_gallery.html

Looks into the Nilgiri class (around 26 min mark) w.r.t mostly the context of mission sets relative to other frigate classes of the world.

Merged the 2 threads. Happy Victory day to the Turkish republic.

Sept 4th announced. 🙏 all goes well. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/isro-to-return-to-launchpad-with-gisat-1a-lift-off-likely-on-sept-4/articleshow/133577468.cms

India US Javelin missiles https://theprint.in/defence/india-and-us-sign-deal-for-javelin-missiles-the-plan-eventually-is-co-production/3027507/

https://www.naval-technology.com/news/indian-navy-takes-delivery-of-first-indigenous-multi-purpose-vessel/

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/defence/news/nepal-floods-from-rescue-to-relief-indias-armed-forces-spring-to-action/articleshow/133557646.cms

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/odisha/two-rescued-chinese-crew-members-brought-to-odishas-paradip-days-after-sinking-of-panama-flagged-vessel/article71395450.ece

There are challenges for sure, but there is lot of RnD going on so we shall see what comes of it. These same type of challenges and some pessimism (in say the 80s) existed regd technologies in today's turbofan that are now matured and taken for granted. Also when we talk military domain, there...