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The only party ready to start a world war is Putin. Whatever, the Europeans are determined to defend a democracy on their doorstop from vanishing, to be replaced by an aggressive totalitarian regime. The EU+UK economy dwarfs the Russian economy. Russia will run out of resources long before the...

I wonder how long it will take to switch from Mk1A assembly to Su assembly at Nashik, build 12 x Su then switch back to Mk1A assembly. I also wonder how many unused GE 404 there are in India and the current delivery rate from GE. I know that GE is raising the delivery rate to 20 per year but...

I think that Ukraine is also lowering conscription age from 27 to 25. I wonder how many 25/26 year old men there are in Ukraine.

No, in this asymmetric conflict Russia has the intention of capturing Ukraine's capital while Ukraine has no desire to capture Russia's capital. When US weapons arrive i think the course of the war will be different (until/unless the US cuts munitions supplies again). F-16's and possibly more...

Starved of US weapons for months, Ukraine has been losing. What would any rational person expect to happen? What would any rational person expect to happen as US weapons supply is resumed?

How is the first frame to fly progressing with flight testing> Is it flying>

Replying to myself, Janes reported 2 days before the first Mk1A was due for delivery that HAL announced the delivery schedule would not be met. Q2 2024 now? Q3 for first delivery to IAF? It will be interesting to see if HAL can catch up on the delivery schedule by the end of the 2024/2025...

I think there is a bit of creative PR where military aid is concerned. Suppose country A is replacing a defence system that originally cost a billion dollars to buy. Instead of scrapping the old system, country A sends it to Ukraine. Country A will announce it is giving Ukraine a billion...

I do not think that normal investors bought Truth Social stock in the hope of financial gain. Trump enthusiasts bought much of the stock for non-commercial reasons. Similar to Aston Martin in England - a large number of Aston Martin enthusiasts bought the stock when the company was floated on...

I did not look. What is your objective in publishing such things?

I read/heard that over 300 missiles/drones were launched against Israel but only 3 got through.

Sure, it was not just Israel shooting drones down. Israel has a lot of fighters. I wonder how many drones would have got through without the participation of 4 foreign air forces. In any event, if missiles were used to down the drones, the strike was very effective in cost terms. I guess the...

@Gary I asked a question about state airspace violation, not about Islam.

Interesting choice of words. Both Israel and Iran are religious states. Only one entity - the Islamic entity - fired so far. As you predicted, the sky was full of missiles and falling debris. No doubt there was damage caused by drones and missiles being shot down en route from Iran to Israel...

I think you got your timeline wrong. Russia withdrew from Kherson north of the Dnipro and similarly retreated from a great deal of territory in the east of Ukraine summer/autumn 2022.

Oh dear-my reply go lost somewhere.

Another futile sacrifice in the offing then. Should Iran initiate such a pointless exercise to avenge the attack on the consulate, will that help bolster support for Israel or weaken it? I would say that Israel has lost a great deal of sympathy from the people of western Europe due to its...

I would be surprised if Russia were not dominating on the ground, given Ukraine's shortage of weapons and ammunition.

I don't think that India will be prepared to pay the price required to develop a modern 110kN engine. I imagine a figure in excess of US$10 billion will be required to include: - cost of training and equipping Indian industrial partner to be able to use technologies transferred - cost of...