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I understand where you coming from. But there's a reality we got from nature of birthing Bangladesh in first place....it goes to before Pakistan came into existence if you trace careers of Suhrawardy etc, what was Mujib role in all that. That's what I meant by certain dysfunctional intensity...

Yeah 212CD is what I meant earlier by just "212".... anyway lets see what materialises in end like you say.

Not really a logistical nightmare. The capital machinery is pretty much all the same in end with some updates maybe (that will need to happen anyway).... there may be some new addendums of worker training and new manufacturing IP, but largely its always get what you pay for in this realm anyway...

Obviously since the SSBN program and following SSN program will not be a ToT collab in first place. There was some Russian consultancy involved, thats it. That was the whole point of that particular shipyard to begin with too....along with specific capacity allotted there and whatever future...

MDL? Yeah, pretty much only one in India. They made two U-209's (and the follow on 2 if executed, but they were cancelled due to corruption case back then) under earlier ToT with HDW (HDW made the first two in Germany) and 6 Scorpenes after it with DCN ToT. They are trying to finalise an...

Yah, supposedly with some updates to the design with U-212 features. Have to wait and see. @Anmdt any thoughts?

Looks like the Germans and Mazagon have won the tender: https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/indian-navy-approves-mazagon-dock-build-6-submarines-german-collaboration-2580737-2024-08-12

Yes I hope India - Morocco relations continue to expand and deepen, defence and otherwise!

Really interesting deep dive into INSAS, cant wait for the upcoming part 3 (INSAS potential upgrade program): https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/indian-army-plans-to-upgrade-the-insas-rifle-part-1-history-44815417...

you have to give props to Chinese, they know how to set up defence production infra. I think Morocco will do well hedging with India and Israel too here. I found this pretty interesting article on Chinese production in Iraq of all places...

Hope you stick around and give us the deeper dives on things as you would like. I am enjoying your contribution to AMCA thread so far (y)

The watermark removes itself once the pic is hosted in-line with the post itself. See for yourself: https://defencehub.live/attachments/1723049057708-jpeg.69992/ etc. It (watermark during attachment process) is artifact from earlier issue on forum.