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    India Coffee House

    He was indeed appointed. I'm not entirely convinced he had links with Islamists, Tata Group is a huge $314 billion conglomerate and I refuse to believe they would appoint CEO of such a prestigious project like the revived Air India without conducting a thorough background check. However there...
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    Ukraine Analysis Why Russia will lose this war

    Not entirely - Kharkiv & Kiev for example will be facing just that. Kharkiv is already facing it as we speak: While the rest of the country may see maneuvers avoiding population centres (like Mariupol for example), Kiev will be the exception as the Ukrainian leadership will be entrenched and...
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    Ukraine Analysis Why Russia will lose this war

    Agreed. Unless there is a direct intervention by Western forces using airpower, its a matter of time before Kiev falls. It's increasingly becoming a prestige issue for Putin and that means they'll start taking off the gloves wrt leveling cities. They'll throw everything they have and Kiev is...
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    India Missiles and Guided Munitions

    On this topic, I'll quote from my post elsewhere on internet: "...Recently, there were back-to-back tests of a new version of the BrahMos cruise missile platform from both ship (VLS launch from recently-commissioned P-15B DDG) & land (triple-tube ground launcher). The official releases...
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    India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

    As I said, its unclear at the moment. The highest envelop that the M88 core can be pushed currently is 95-105kN for the M88-4E (ECO) variant. But that's only the theoretical maximum, far as I know the ECO demonstrator only pushed up to ~90kN AB. So unless there were some major breakthroughs in...
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    India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

    India and France are close to concluding a deal, likely in the next couple of months, for the joint development of a 125KN engine for the indigenous fifth generation Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) under development, according to defence officials. The collaboration is between the Defence...
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    India Defence Industry, R&D and Procurements

    TATA Aerospace & Defence production line for Pilatus PC-12NG aircraft: Factory tour: The finished components (fuselage, wings etc) are shipped to Switzerland for final assembly.
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    India Coffee House

    Wish this was available in higher res:
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    India Indian Automobile Industry: News & Updates

    Tata Motors' new Kaziranga Edition variants introduced for all 4 of its current SUV models:
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    India Quad Archive

    Latest news: India-US Deal For 30 Armed Predator Drones At Advanced Stages: Report India and the United States have intensified the discussions and increased the number of such drones to be sold to India from 10 to 30 - 10 each for navy, air force and army. These state-of-the-art Predator...
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    India Missiles and Guided Munitions

    NASM-SR and NASM-MR (bottom-right) via Godofparadoxes MR appears to be a fundamentally different missile system with a different propulsion setup. Seems to be a derivative of Nirbhay (if the pic is correct). Makes sense...SR is mostly intended for air-launched applications from naval...
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    India Quad Archive

    What I'm taking away from statements made from official figures so far is that they're being very measured & calculated wrt India. Yes, the immediate crisis is Russia and this will last the next few news cycles, so focus is there right now. But there's no indication that the larger aim of Asia...
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    Head of Russian space agency appears to threaten to drop ISS on India or China??

    ISS is now in its last decade of operation, even as per original plan it was to be deorbited in next 9 years. Russia was made part of the program because at the time relations were better + US manned spaceflight was spotty, having to rely on Russian Soyuz launches. Today that's no longer the...
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    India Nuclear Weapons Program

    @Paro @Nilgiri @Rajaraja Chola According to a few French members (retired professionals) on another forum, India got access to this facility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_M%C3%A9gajoule
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    Poland will buy Abrams tanks

    What's wrong with the Leopards?
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    India Navy Indian Navy

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    UAE Halcon unveils swarm drone

    This form factor seems popular for compact swarming drones. ALFA-S developed in India by NewSpace (pvt company), part of the Combat Air Teaming System (CATS) program: First flown sometime last year
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    India Navy Nuclear Submarines (SSBN & SSN)

    What appears to be (to my untrained eye), a new submarine building dock (actually two docks side-by-side) well into construction a short distance north of the first one at SBC Vizag (which popped out S2, S3 & S4 and is now building S4*): At approx ~185 meters long, its big enough to...
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    India Nuclear Weapons Program

    Keeping in mind the fact that the S-5 class SSBN will probably have 12 missile tubes storing K-5 or K-6 intercontinental SLBMs (which will most definitely have Multiple Independently-targeted Re-entry Vehicles or MIRVs)....each S-5 boat, even if we assume a relatively modest MIRV capacity of 3...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    Actually this is the first time I'm hearing about it - thanks for sharing! As of NaVIC in commercial applications, I know that Garmin released handheld navigation with it:

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