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    India Space Indian Space Program

    Full interview is out now @Gessler et al. Isro Chairman S Somanath, in an exclusive interview to TOI’s Chethan Kumar on March 12, spoke about multiple Space projects India is currently implementing and gave a sneak peek into what may lie ahead. From when the selection of the second batch of...
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    India Defence Industry

    ~375 mln USD
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    India Breaking News Arabian Sea Operations

    Seems a team of MARCOS were para-dropped by C-17 @Kartal1 @Zapper Indian Navy commandos forced the pirate ship to stop through calibrated actions which were augmented by INS Subhadra, HALE RPA, P8I maritime patrol aircraft & MARCOS PRAHARs air-dropped by C-17 aircraft...
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    India Helicopter Programs

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    SpaceX USA

    Truly the Saturn V of our age, but even bigger!
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    USA Space Programs & Discussions

    Truly the Saturn V of our age, but even bigger!
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    India Navy Corvettes

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    TR Casual Discussion Çay Bahçesi

    @Ryder , I remember this from last year or earlier and it popped up again.... I still cant get over how massive this lion is....thats a well fed lion in its prime damn....
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    India Navy Aircraft Carriers

    Video footage of the dual carrier ops:
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    India HAL Tejas Program

    Will have to wait for the official report to come later. The pilot was apparently saying there were engine problems before this emergency landing....it could be any number of things that required an ejection that was going on at the time, we can't tell from the footage.
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    Yes South Korea and Brazil are progressing here. They both want a domestic engine in this class for UAVs and small aircraft....that will serve to take things to next tiers just like Turkiye envisages too. India has its HTFE-25 engine in this class as well for same purpose. Iran program here...
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    Breaking News China-US War?

    Parts I agree with, other parts are simplistic take given China's vast difference to the USSR. Even if there was full transmission of Mao type leadership ideology post-Mao (i.e no economic reform arc like happened) and PRC evolved into some larger version of North Korea (though not as extreme...
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    Add: Canada Germany India Japan Going by just manufacturing alone, the list increases more actually given licensed production.
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    TR Propulsion Systems

    Congrats. The team involved have every right to be mightily pleased. Does Turkiye have a flying test bed planned?
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    India Navy Indian Navy

    Both show up for Raisina dialogue conference regularly as well. Things can get awkward (especially in some interviews) but they are kept apart to reduce the chance of real friction etc. Its nothing these days compared to US and Russia still going on like nothing happened in the International...
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    India AMCA Program

    I was looking at some numbers a bit earlier: F-22, 2xF-119 = 232kN Using gross weight (roughly halfway between empty and MTOW) of 29.4 tons and dry thrust only gives T/W of 232/(29.4x9.81) = 0.8 Equiv numbers for supercruise capable a/c: Rafale ~ 0.68 EF ~ 0.76 Su-57 ~0.72 Gripen E/F ~ 0.82...
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    India HAL Tejas Program

    According to source talking to Jane's: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is preparing the first two units of the improved Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk 1A for delivery to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in March. A source in HAL told Janes that the company aims to deliver the first two...

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