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Ever been invited into the cockpit of one of these? They are so awesome....had the crew explain a whole bunch to me they even had a HUD display in the upgraded ones RCAF (Canada) operates.

Read the article, especially the economics and contemplate why the admiral quoted hasn't suggested convoys as a solution. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67938290 The only economic option is to take the fight to the opponents stockpiles and logistic infra nodes....as he WANTS you to...

That's apples and oranges. That's like comparing NASA or SpaceX with ISRO and saying ISRO doesnt spend enough (when obviously ISRO has produced results)...especially in USD conversions. Especially given RR massive commercial arm, not to mention IP acquisition budget from university research...

Convoys would play into the houthis intent as then they can ramp up costs even more given what the drones (and spamming) cost versus interception. i.e they want more navies to have high operating cost in this area. While ramping up costs of commercial traffic since they need to then do this...

It is easier to do AoR (area of responsibility) coordination with other navies given the sheer volume of shipping versus few naval ships on hand.

We will have to see. Only folks with detailed inside knowledge of the project situation would know the answer to the latter.... how much of a role it played in stalling the maturation of first Kaveri with the below par test results. Likely the whole hot section is a subpar result currently, the...

Expression of interest, i.e getting price quotes etc Yes its production of design already frozen since this is the LPT stuff....and a number of companies (PTC, Midhani) have invested in forging and other capital machinery from safran et al. HPT and afterburner etc we will have to give some...

Looks like it was INS Vishakapatnam (destroyer) that responded: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/india-bound-merchant-vessel-attacked-by-drone-879009

Don't think so. This industrial cooperation is probably going to involve some feedback from the GE, Safran and RR ecosystem developing. We have to see how this latest effort progresses in the 2 year timeframe mentioned here.

Yes, coincidentally as you wrote that, this got posted just earlier:

big boi knows he's big @Ryder