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India for first time voted against Russia at UNSC over the Ukraine matter. Russia wanted to stop Zelensky tele-conference to UN.....and India voted in favour to allow Zelensky his address....along with rest of UNSC members (except for Russia and China). Russia of course voted against and China...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/navy-pushes-for-third-aircraft-carrier-after-ins-vikrant-to-retain-edge-over-china-in-ior/articleshow/93784560.cms NEW DELHI/KOCHI: With China aggressively building new aircraft carriers and a blue-water navy to counter the US and project power around...

A nice change of pace @T-123456 et al:

Russia claims they hacked HIMARS Yeah I'll take "things that never happened" for 800 please trebek. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a40958633/russia-claims-it-hacked-himars-rocket-launchers/

No blisk purely refers to it being permanently integrally made (i.e blades + disk in one entire piece at the end, i.e the blades can no longer be individually removed). If you slot blades in (and you can remove them separately afterwards too for say maintenance), that is just a regular...

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/drdo-and-indian-navy-successfully-flight-test-vl-srsam-off-odisha-coast-122082300727_1.html DRDO and Indian Navy successfully flight-test VL-SRSAM off Odisha coast Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy on...

For those interested, watching this video in this thread will clearly illustrate exactly what Russia has plainly lacked in logistics and support (using the US as reference point to compare) ...... things that need heavy investment and solid accounting + feedback process from the inside out...

Battle Order put out another high quality ORBAT video, an interesting look at ORBAT dynamics when you move back to divisional force structure basis from brigade level. @AlphaMike @Paro @UkroTurk et al.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/us-demand-to-lift-indias-lab-made-diamond-exports-to-8-billion/articleshow/93713052.cms https://www.mobilityoutlook.com/news/indian-auto-component-industry-reports-highest-ever-revenue/

There is often a large amount of (qualitative and quantitative) man hours invested into all kind of things in the "lower tiers" of RnD that are not so hot topic to talk about like apex stuff people sometimes assume is the only frontier or hindrance. The pyramid apex and total height is not the...

India will need to see a serious concrete plan from the West on how it intends to move supply chains they have invested into China....either to India or back to the west (these amount to 100s of billions of investment and trillions of production) Otherwise continued tokenism (to look past...

My original intention was to move it since I clearly could see it derailing fast. I gave some leeway for the member (Afif) being new to this forum etc as well. I also left the convo chain up here for a while in case any member wanted to re-rail it back from a Turkish foreign policy angle or...

First few minutes of this feature vid, brings up how they (Bharat Forge) basically moved a whole (RUAG) production plant from Switzerland to India for artillery production....and then optimised it for local production and further innovation. Swiss have strong defence industry that hopefully...

Interesting archival and ongoing footage....

You have to consider the full cost of the system and other contextual factors. A) The time and cost of training of pilots (since I doubt a USAF mercenary system will/can be used given escalation dynamic) on completely new different system. B) The significant infrastructure needed for...

A-10s were to deal with mass soviet tank formations optimally during the blitz of such war (before it turns nuclear if it did)....specifically how they would be channeled into a few corridors in German topography iirc. Present situation in Ukraine is one where artillery and bunker nodes are...

Lot of Indians often say Russia has been some extremely reliable partner in defence tech. But Russia also played games with India @Ecderha @UkroTurk et al., only solution is to establish and develop as much capacity by oneself. Especially with Russia and China coming together in stronger...