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@Gessler later I will be going through this, within it ISRO's Director for Liquid Propulsion says that the upcoming 'Soorya' rocket will have 32 tons to low earth orbit, ~3x of the capability of LVM3 Around this slide: Around the 52 minute mark: He also said that in "1 or 2 months," they...

Nah, we have enough checks and balances in society to keep this crap under control compared to levels achieved with actual total despots. Even within just this state there is heavy anti-incumbency and two parties jostle in and out (they split from each other and are bitter about that etc)...

yah, total idiot family dynasty in politics (from my state too sadly). The dad had some fascination with stalin and named his kid after him and now we are stuck with this numpty with this barbaric name. Our people are f'kin stupid, its nuts. Anyway when their political radicals blah blah...

Well every language in the end is something of a sprachbund given history and context and absorption rate (into colloquial and then vernacular). Longer it spends in the vernacular phase, the likelihood it gets standardised using the grammar rules. This is seen in Tamil (and all our Dravidian...

Recent convo I had on agglutination with some Turkish friends: Me: its pretty fascinating to compare tamil and turkish for their agglutination. its the same order and everything. Konusuyorum (konusu + yor + um) vs pesukiren (pesu +kir + en) for i am speaking (english which has limited...

At around the 22 minute mark, the backstory of K9 thunder in Indian SPH requirement is explored.

L&T, a construction giant with a long history, came into the defence business only at the turn of the 21st century, thanks to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam who roped in companies like the Tatas and L&T to build some parts in the Integrated Guided Missile Programme in the 1980s. At the beginning of this...

Good looking, handsome.... these are all meanings of Sudarsh from Sudarshan. Sanskrit words (past the many contextual meanings in sanskrit they can have).... have regular meanings too through the use of Prakrits in the first place (and then how the Prakrits evolved with time themselves)...

Looks like it was an ALBM test: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/iaf-successfully-tests-air-launched-ballistic-missile-in-andamans-significantly-boosts-stand-off-capabilities/articleshow/109538609.cms?from=mdr

W.r.t Iranian bomb, It is not simple matter of bringing enrichment from the 80% "hold" currently done in its stockpile and centrifuge series to say 90%+ (for a bomb). There is the significant extra step of then changing the cooled HEU hexafluoride to uranium metal again and then processing of...

"Easier to produce". There are significant QC, materials RnD and production methods that are of great interest to China in anything to do with gas turbines. Jet engines are nowhere near the complete apex, there is significant overlap with the gas turbine field (and other gas turbines have...