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  1. Nilgiri

    India Space Indian Space Program

    https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2022/11/21/why-isros-launch-of-pslv-c54-carrying-oceansat-3-and-eight-nanosatellites-is-a-major-milestone.html
  2. Nilgiri

    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    No anger here from my end my friend, and no I do not think you are "an idiot". I just think TF-X is (aerodynamically and structurally) a clean sheet design from what I can see and it will have its solutions others in same 5th generation have found as well. The spaced double engine approach is...
  3. Nilgiri

    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    It is not uncommon to see it design philosophy wise when you have two engines The Russians/Soviets being notable in their incorporation of it....though someone correctly mentioned F-14 too, in fact I have a F-14 model sitting on my desk as I write this... You can (potentially) generate a...
  4. Nilgiri

    TR Air-Force TF-X KAAN Fighter Jet

    Some excellent pictures. Congratulations are in order for the Turkish program thus far here. Will be interesting to continue to follow its progress in the years to come.
  5. Nilgiri

    TR Navy Navy|News & Discussions

    @Anmdt thoughts?
  6. Nilgiri

    TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

    I dispute Russia "suddenly" wanting its empire back. They have always wanted to grow it, hold it or want the high water mark back....irredentism (of others perspective) does not factor into it. The liberalism inserted by gorby and then attempted to be continued by yeltsin (till he reversed...
  7. Nilgiri

    India Space Indian Space Program

    https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/nov/19/indias-first-private-rocket-launchpad-gets-ready-2519774.html CHENNAI: While the country is celebrating the successful launch of Vikram-S rocket, India’s first private rocket, another spacetech company from Chennai, Agnikul Cosmos, incubated...
  8. Nilgiri

    TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

    The truly wise will find leading by example and setting an example yourself is the opposite of making an example out of another. The latter (no matter in rare cases it is well intended) will drift to recklessness and actually illustrates you do not believe in vitality of your own progress to...
  9. Nilgiri

    India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

    With resources factored in, you can make a gas turbine....but it will likely be heavy and weight is premium in aviation especially. Then there are reliability issues to factor in too given a gas turbine is used extensively repeatedly compared to a rocket engine in a missile. The material...
  10. Nilgiri

    India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

    Sure. But even without afterburner, the (dry) thrust of GTX 37-14U doubled from orpheus. So obviously there was some exit velocity (and average throughput velocity) increase (at every thrust setting) that would precipitate design changes in the inlet, compressor and combustor inlet vanes (past...
  11. Nilgiri

    TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

    It is getting off topic (this is TR geopolitics thread) so this will be my last post on this matter here, but I disagree. It is demand and supply in the end (and what basis, absolute threadbare requirements and elasticities a country has for those in the end). Countries can (and often do)...
  12. Nilgiri

    India Space Indian Space Program

    https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/vikram-s-indias-first-private-rocket-lifts-off-from-isro-spaceport/article66152534.ece Vikram-S, India’s first private rocket, lifts off from ISRO spaceport The 6-metre tall launch vehicle Vikram-S is named after Vikram Sarabhai, the father of the country’s...
  13. Nilgiri

    India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

    Orpheus was not "reverse-engineered", it was too weak to power the next gen of aircraft that were already appearing and that India had to stay in touch with. The Marut experience would further solidify this reality. The GTX 37-14U (India's first aviation axial gas turbine) was at least twice as...
  14. Nilgiri

    TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

    Of the roughly 66 billion USD Pakistan earned from the world in 2021 (exports and remittance combined in current account), China provided maybe 3 billion of it. i.e about 5% of the total. So I don't think so, especially given what I already mentioned in the new global economic setting of vast...
  15. Nilgiri

    News Istanbul terror attack

    Its quite possible. In which case, a follow up tweet to thank the rest that were a bit later to come... would probably be best (if this is the case).
  16. Nilgiri

    News Istanbul terror attack

    Obviously the administration in question is perfect and has zero chance of making a slip up on a tweet of thanks. Obviously condolences were accepted from: Armenia, Greece, Iran , US etc. (some of which are speculated to be behind the attack itself) But rejected from: Morocco, China...
  17. Nilgiri

    TR Foreign Policy & Geopolitics

    Talk of any country imploding is premature. Relative to Egypt, far more economically sound countries have imploded and far less economically sound ones have not. In current world snapshot for example, if you more than double Egypt's population, halve its GDP, halve its exports and quarter its...

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