Recent content by Rajendra Chola

Impressive. IN will have 23 Frigates by end of 2028. And except 3, every frigate avg life would be less than 10 years. On Destroyers front, we have less no than S Korea & Japan.

Got confirmed today by Indonesian MoD for the first time. Final sign expected in 2-3 months. Follow on offer for Philippines expected in the next 1-2 years.

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-says-it-has-entered-agreement-with-india-procure-brahmos-missiles-2026-03-09/

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indonesia-says-it-has-entered-agreement-with-india-procure-brahmos-missiles-2026-03-09/

4 Boomers before 2030. With capacity for 24 K4/5 SLBM. Hopefully we have 500kt bombs to go with it.

Don’t think so. Our merchandise exports have plateaued. Since oil prices went down, our refinery exports have gone down in value. Thanks to IPhone exports, our overall exports haven’t contracted. Other sectors have faired poorly like textiles, leather & steel products. Automobiles & engineering...

With respect to Hyperclova, they released 32B parameter version last year. Not sure if they had released advanced versions. So far US, China and France are ahead of Sarvam. At the same time, Sarvam team worked with Nvidia to ultilize their H100 GPU and some libraries for their efficiency which...

Europe is building their supply lines in India.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/upstart-sarvam-unveils-ai-model-customized-for-india-market?embedded-checkout=true

Their text conversation and voice conversations into various Indian languages were awesome. Hope Indian govt utilize their services. Language issues among Indian states will be long gone.

Indian AI lab Sarvam on Tuesday unveiled a new generation of large language models, as it bets that smaller, efficient open source AI models will be able to grab some market share away from more expensive systems offered by its much larger U.S. and Chinese rivals. The launch, announced at the...

Venezuela crude makes sense only if India gets deep discounts. Or else the transit doesn’t make sense especially for reselling. Maybe good for domestic uses. Pakistan did pretty ok business textiles wise even before US Tariffs on India. It was BD who literally won the competition with the LDC...

Hopefully Indian Industry makes use of the FTA. Indian states also needs to offer their own incentives other than land to make export story a success.

Then why IAF not taken delivery is the question. Maybe waiting for dual pylon Asram test? Hopefully by June, which is the latest update given by HAL, some 10 fighters are ready to be delivered. GE has delivered 6 engines. Promised 2 per month to make up for the delay. I hope another 6 by May.

Armenia ordered items which had completed development but awaiting final orders from Indian Army. IA takes its own sweet time to order stuff even after development is done. During Galwan we had Nirbhay with Russian engine. But that programme has been suspended in favour of missile with Manik...