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    India Army Small Arms

    SSS Defence's own take on the AR-15 platform: Seen here fitted with Vortex Optics UH-1 holosight & a Tonbo Imaging EK thermal imager combo
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    India Jet Engines and Gas Turbines

    the Dry Kaveri (non-afterburning) variant intended for large UCAVs
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    India Navy Naval Aviation

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    India Navy Indian Navy

    The effect of sanctions is often overstated to the extreme. Even if sanctions do occur at some point in the future, it doesn't mean all US hardware drops dead like a fly. Even after CAATSA, the upkeep of F-16s for the Turkish air force hasn't stopped. Iran had been under sanctions for 40 years...
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    India Navy Indian Navy

    Slides from a Boeing presentation recently... Interesting that MQ-25 and US-Australian MQ-28 'Ghost Bat' seem to be among the offers. Always thought MQ-25 would be a 'natural' offer to India eventually considering the STOBAR carriers...would rather use a drone instead of a fighter for...
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    India Navy Frigates

    3rd P-17A FFG
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    Navy FINCANTIERI: DRY DOCK WORKS START ON THE LPD FOR QATAR IN PALERMO

    Will be similar to the Kalaat Beni Abbes sold to Algeria
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    India Missiles and Guided Munitions

    NASM-SR test fired for first time
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    India India - Pakistan Relations

    This shows a certain disconnect with reality. A coherent state is always capable of posing a far greater threat to another country than an incoherent state riddled with civil war. I would argue its in India's interest to devolve Pakistan to a state of civil war, as that would totally eradicate...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    Human-rated version of S200 solid rocket booster, called HS200 has been tested: The S200 is the 3rd largest SRB in the world after the Space Shuttle's boosters & that of Ariane 5, and is the largest in Asia.
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    India Civil Nuclear Program

    Fusion power is seen as an important part of India’s long-term energy supply. The government hopes to build domestic demonstrators by mid-century. Saurav Jha reports In January 2020 India’s first Tokamak, the Aditya, completed 30 years of safe operation. Those thirty years saw India making...
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    India Coffee House

    This Europe tour has 2 main points: > There is evidence of diplomatic rapprochement with Germany now that Merkel is gone. Relations with Schmidt & Kohl were warm, strategic even. Things went cold since Merkel came to power (~2005) for reasons that aren't completely clear to me (Chinese...
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    India HAL Tejas Program

    I copied this over to a doc file, don't even remember where from...take with pinch of salt: BEL is making it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Electronics
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    India Navy Indian Navy

    Looks like MT30 it is.
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    Space OneWeb: UK satellite firm does deal to use Indian rockets

    OneWeb, the satellite company part-owned by the UK government, has done a deal to use Indian rockets. The arrangement will supplement the contract the London-headquartered firm has with American rival and rocket operator SpaceX of California. The new deal was announced as UK Prime Minister...
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    India Missiles and Guided Munitions

    Rudram-III air to surface missile: Based on the diagram, Kuntal Biswas came up with this amazing 3D model:
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    Breakthrough sciences and technologies

    What 'phase' of the universe after the Big Bang each megaproject studies/seeks to recreate. Note: the graphic only shows those programs that the Indian govt. is directly invested in as a partner, there are several other, smaller scale programs across the world that study each of the 'phases' so...
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    India HAL Tejas Program

    IRST meant for Tejas Mk-2
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    India Navy SSK Submarines

    The 6th and last Kalvari-class (Scorpene) SSK has been launched at MDL Mumbai

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