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LM is strengthening its position too (leveraging the existing super hercs in IAF service): https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/eyeing-iafs-transport-aircraft-deal-lockheed-martin-plans-to-set-up-co-production-facility-for-c-130j-planes-in-india/articleshow/125869680.cms?from=mdr...

There is no hard and fast upper limit as the exact RFP (request for proposal) has not been released (it likely comes out next year). The "18 - 30" ton guideline pertains to the earlier RFI (request for information) and the media chatter has since focused more on the C-130 and C-390 being in...

Relief effort continues

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indias-tata-signs-up-intel-first-major-customer-14-billion-chip-foray-2025-12-08/ https://wccftech.com/intel-has-secured-a-massive-14-billion-deal-with-india-tata/

Another flare up it looks like though: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/07/asia/thailand-cambodia-border-clashes-december-intl-hnk https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7l0rjz05eo

India’s private space sector is scaling faster than ever, and the new battleground is Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Once the exclusive domain of ISRO, LEO is now where startups are designing satellites, building rockets, and creating data infrastructure in space. In this ground report, ThePrint’s...

He goes into it in really good detail:

@urban mine More 🇰🇷 🤝 🇮🇳 https://www.financialexpress.com/business/news/hd-hyundai-picks-tamil-nadu-for-first-india-shipyard/4068821/

Growing up in HK, I took jetfoil (Boeing iirc) to macau a few times....yeah its very niche. USN had lot off issues with hydrofoil design that was supposed to give cheaper patrolling/interdiction for vietnam war and then coastguard. It was in one of my first tech encyclopedias I had as kid, with...

I merged the newer thread with the older pinned thread. ====================================================== https://winnipegsun.com/news/leaked-f-35-scorecard-sparks-political-turbulence-in-ottawa The internal chart shows the U.S.-built F-35 significantly outperforming Sweden’s Gripen...

There are pros and cons to all (functional) wing designs. It depends on the main design drivers and compromises/balances of factors and issues. It is easier to explain with diagram I made just now and using the extreme cases of backward and forward sweep at each end and then look at YF-23 vs...