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F18 is still dual engine. Two F404 would still work in Catobar or stobar config. Would still carry lot of fuel and weapons in stobar config. But single engine with stobar would be still an tough call. For Indian tender, F18 was tested in stobar configuration and they found it can still lift 80%...

Koreans are pretty good “businessmen” if anyone asks me. They won the Malaysian tender without the officials visiting other aircraft facilities or test flying them. In fact it was so open, that their RFP was more than the max tender value Malaysian MoF has planned, and their MoD requested more...

Indian Navy rejected Naval Tejas with F404 due to bulked up increased MTOW which limits the radius and weapons capacity. It also finished landing and take off tests from aircraft carriers. From the results, Navy also rejected F414 engine upgrade seeing it still would carry low capacity and...

India cancelled optional 3 more buy in 2016 of Scorpenes. India should continue building scorpenes in batches of 3, with more indigenous in each batch till we call it own Indian design. Like the Koreans.

It is good Pralay is getting deployed. I had initial doubts whether Indian armed forces were taking this missile seriously. In one instance they took an actual missile and it was stuck in a country for 2 days without any supervision after all Indian personnel have returned. Shaurya is another...

70 years ago, no one had any inkling China would become such an threat to world peace, it once said it will strive to destroy. No one in East Asia believed Japan can leave its militarism, barbariness when WW2 got over. US became so unpredictable during Trump Era. Same goes for India. We don’t...

You are requesting for an world with even more risks of nuclear war and most importantly it’s misuse. US and Probably Russia has probably 100’s of incidents where their nuclear weapons were at risks. Pakistan ran an business with Libya and NK. Now imagine countries with poor defence spending...

Going much ahead of ourselves aren’t we? Having nuclear bomb is just one part of the problem. Having an effective mechanism in place so as not letting rogue elements taking control of the stockpile, delivery systems development, proliferation etc costs huge amount of money and resources. Many...

It’s not an FDI company doing R&D in another country. Nuclear bombs gives out shock waves which are now detectable. Depending upon the ground formation the shock waves generated can be less or more. But such an operation cannot be kept secret. Plus there is Russia that keeps an huge interest in...

Very stupid decision for an very low number… 3B for 30 is already expensive. This will increase the price. India has no EO system manufacturers. Maybe SAR radar, but it’s integration cost money. US is not giving access to its platform to integrate foreign systems. No Indian munitions. Body...

ASW Corvette is 16. 8 from GRW and 8 from CSL. One more Kalvari has been delivered today. Nuke subs numbers are not officially given out. I think follow on to ins avnesh is being made…. Survey vessels are more important I think for our future submarines…

I think this is user trials by SFC from their own inventory. They don’t test new stuffs. But to be honest, I am disappointed over lack of cover over Agni 6 or K5 SLBM. While range of A6 won’t differ much, it is supposed to be MIRV. In fact our range has been static since 2012 when we first...

Guess finishing up the year end quota of budget through launch exercises 😂😁

Tata could hopefully use the Gujarat plant and leverage it’s advantages with Airbus to start A320 manufacturing in India and exports from India. Could be an game changer.

Will end up more than 140+ for sure. Need replacing An32 of IAF of which we ordered 120+ and still have 105 remain. MoD needs to make sure by ordering more samples to bring down the costs. R&D should begin today to use local components for the IAF order

Another stupid procurement decision from MoD. The original requirement was 24. We ordered 12, then 4, first 12 then reduced to 8 and proceeding. We could have saved more than an billion dollars by ordering 24 of them in a single go. 6 Apaches costed 900m dollars instead of placing them with the...

How big was the Indian team over there? India really needs to concentrate on sales on few countries. Vietnam can be a good partner and we do need to take real test samples next time.

But Even steam catapults require huge amount of power, meaning adding more turbines and boilers. It also does not make sense to have 2 sets of fighters for this purpose. Technically the same aircraft can work in both stobar and catapult but fatigue, stress, mtbf would be unpredictable as...

Same stobar. If it’s Catobar, then it’s not IAC1 copy. As of now, no design work is involved, just order one more, only manufacturing is involved.

I don’t know how challenging or true it would be. If true it would still be an good idea to integrate this with TEDBF as Rafale M engines also have similar performance. But we don’t know about the reliability and the sustainability of this engine. This engine can attain 80kn but has vibrational...