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I can only speculate as to the US perspective in this, the others will work with it if they see common cause: Keep strategic Chinese investments & facilities out of Israel & UAE/GCC (like the terminal at Port of Haifa owned by CCP that's causing heartburn in DC) Keep China from supplanting the...

Hi, can anyone tell me about the status of Indonesia's submarine acquisition program? A while ago I heard that Indonesia was looking to acquire 4 Scorpene-class boats (alongside Rafale aircraft), what is the status of this deal?

Not really - all you need to understand the characteristics of stealth aircraft is a good RCS test facility, both of an indoor variety where you can place both sub-scale as well as full-scale aircraft model inside an anechoic chamber to study the return from all angles & measuring how well the...

The "Anti-Stealth" part. Radars are not pro-stealth or anti-stealth. The particular frequency & wavelength of a radar depends on distance/range that its required to scan. If you wish for a long-range radar, you will automatically have to go with a low-frequency, long-wavelength as...

Space is always hard. But try, try & you will succeed.

Anybody can detect stealth jets. The Chain Home radar system used in WW2 can detect stealth jets. Yugoslav systems could detect F-117. Detecting stealth aircraft is not the point. Any long-wavelength, low-frequency system can manage that. India has several radars of that sort. The current crop...

I have a good laugh whenever China claims it has defeated stealth, but then builds stealth aircraft. Claims to has defeated carriers with ASBMs, but then builds carriers.

The full spectrum of anti-satellite capabilities are likely to be developed. That includes direct-ascent (already tested) & co-orbital weapons. All in due time.

"Turkish president Erdogan’s overweening ambitions, alienation of Israel and moderate Arabs, growing conflict with Greece and alignment with Pakistan presents India with opportunity to widen outreach to west of the Subcontinent."...

Replying here with regard to something I referenced in the QUAD thread, specifically: "...Any further tests that seek to validate new technologies (such as a Multi-Kill Vehicle rumored to be in development by DRDO) can be done so using Point-In-Space testing..." The original post is available...

The date & coordinates though :unsure:

Negatively. But it was inevitable though. Iran is firmly in the Chinese fold. They don't have the option of relying on the US/West, so it's not like they had a realistic choice in deciding to join up with China. That said, Iran had been constantly creating roadblocks for any meaningful Indian...

"Detected" a Submarine that was snorkeling....Okay. By the way, they shouldn't confuse EEZ with Territorial waters. Exactly. Only reason it would snorkel at that point of time is if it wants you to know that its there.

This also needs to be looked at through the lens of the proposed Arab-Mediterranean Trade Corridor proposed by India some years ago, but until the Abraham Accords were signed, it didn't seem practical - but now it seems to be the most pragmatic thing around...

Another good piece on the developments following 4 Foreign Ministers' summit: https://theprint.in/opinion/global-print/why-us-and-india-are-taking-on-china-with-a-middle-eastern-quad/752775/ 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 🇮🇱🇦🇪

In May 2019, two Kolkata-class destroyers of Indian Navy conducted their first Joint Taskforce Coordination (JTC) exercise where the JTC mode on the CMS-15A Combat Management System (built by Tata Power SED) was validated. JTC is the Indian equivalent of what is known in Western navies as...

Indian Navy Tupolev Tu-142MK-E (NATO name: Bear-F), the Tu-142 is a maritime patrol version of the Tu-95 strategic bomber. India was the only non-Soviet country to have operated any variant of the Bear. The Indian Tu-142s (8 of them) were acquired in the 80s and retired a few years ago, replaced...

QUAD-West :)

Keeping all the above developments & growing technological and strategic convergence in mind, this is purely something that I'm proposing of my own accord... With the QUAD nations cooperating in the three critical domains of Space, Technology & Climate Change - here's something that falls right...