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Its not like it has not happened before. US lost its basing at subic bay after marcos (dad of current guy) departure and original acquino coming to power...and the PH then demanding about 1 billion or so per year for continued US operations there (that the US didn't see as a fair price and...

Rest of it concerns with if you have X amount of total shipyard capacity for say a forseen chunk of 10 years dictating current production run dynamics etc.... how much do you allot to wartime vs peacetime needs.....a distillation of the threat analysis (to then debate within that context). If...

The OPVs IN (or CG) have will be nowhere near a wartime theatre, they will be sanitised/corraled away from the operational spaces foreseen along with regular (peacetime) shipping traffic.....i.e the body public of shipping they are tasked with being around to begin with for ROI of...

Glad Tessy Thomas was assigned here, her guidance hopefully will produce more fruit soon

OPV is not meant for wartime though. They are peacetime security operation, but you are right these should maybe be allocated to CG instead. The endurance requirements are what determine their major design driver in India's case along with the coastal sensor network post 2008 Mumbai attacks...

Bharat dynamics limited (BDL) Facility walkthrough. They got some very interesting close up footage that was surprisingly allowed (kind of thing impossible not too long ago IMO) @Gessler @Zapper @Afif @TR_123456 et al.

Excellent, they were having some problems with this last year....looks like its been resolved now and more development on this program can proceed.

That's actually something I didn't know. Very interesting. Hopefully we all see the day when relations are normalised entirely between Armenia and Turkiye + Azerbaijan. I saw some travel vlogs to Armenia by Turkish tourists too recently....I was quite surprised this is happening, but its good...

We will have to see, NASA has a huge RnD budget and massive capital (both physical and human) that is frontloaded on it (so it brings the costs up). But this pays dividends strategically for the US to create spaceX et al commercial ecosystem downroad as well to begin with. Govt agency vs...

Should we make this the dedicated US Space News thread (i.e not just SpaceX but also NASA et al.)? Here is recent IG report on NASA findings (problems/issues) with the Artemis program, that gives larger indication of the challenges in general in this larger frontier of endeavour...

Behind the scenes footage released a few months later after it was filmed @Gessler @Zapper et al. 3 SWiFTs, 2 HAPS prototypes, 1 Rustom-1/Archer NG, and one TAPAS with ELINT payload

Then we have things like this going on too....