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Yes South Korea and Brazil are progressing here. They both want a domestic engine in this class for UAVs and small aircraft....that will serve to take things to next tiers just like Turkiye envisages too. India has its HTFE-25 engine in this class as well for same purpose. Iran program here...

Parts I agree with, other parts are simplistic take given China's vast difference to the USSR. Even if there was full transmission of Mao type leadership ideology post-Mao (i.e no economic reform arc like happened) and PRC evolved into some larger version of North Korea (though not as extreme...

Add: Canada Germany India Japan Going by just manufacturing alone, the list increases more actually given licensed production.

Congrats. The team involved have every right to be mightily pleased. Does Turkiye have a flying test bed planned?

Both show up for Raisina dialogue conference regularly as well. Things can get awkward (especially in some interviews) but they are kept apart to reduce the chance of real friction etc. Its nothing these days compared to US and Russia still going on like nothing happened in the International...

I was looking at some numbers a bit earlier: F-22, 2xF-119 = 232kN Using gross weight (roughly halfway between empty and MTOW) of 29.4 tons and dry thrust only gives T/W of 232/(29.4x9.81) = 0.8 Equiv numbers for supercruise capable a/c: Rafale ~ 0.68 EF ~ 0.76 Su-57 ~0.72 Gripen E/F ~ 0.82...

According to source talking to Jane's: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is preparing the first two units of the improved Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Mk 1A for delivery to the Indian Air Force (IAF) in March. A source in HAL told Janes that the company aims to deliver the first two...

I think it has evolved out of the trench warfare situation that is found now there. i.e Close proximity of EW defences etc and more saturation of those compared to hard kill. So maybe have a bunch of these in the 2nd trench line and operate within some tethered parameters for tactical sensing...

Kyrgyz guys at special forces training school in India @Kartal1

Some offtopic posts (US - ROK relationship etc) have now been moved to more appropriate thread: https://defencehub.live/threads/foreign-defence-cooperation.567/#post-318986 Please continue on that subject there.

A trip down memory lane @Fatman17

https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2024/03/04/del120-tn-pm-2ndld-nuclear.amp.html Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu), Mar 4 (PTI) India is a step away from entering the second stage of its nuclear programme with the initiation of core loading at the home-built 500 MWe Prototype Fast Breeder...

The production rate and delivery rate to IAF has to first be proven at ~24 per year at least (3 production lines at 8 per year each)....before this can be increased to 4th production line capacity with say exports in mind.

Looks like nothing happened regarding the earlier speculation: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/mq9-b-drone-sales-to-india-enters-next-step-as-congressional-notification-completes-30-days/articleshow/108183941.cms