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https://theprint.in/defence/china-wants-to-cement-status-quo-india-wants-de-escalation-as-14th-round-talks-begin-in-ladakh/800977/

Can only be taken seriously if they do a concrete move like handing over terrorists to face prosecution regarding their role in perpetrating crimes in India.....be it in Kashmir or Mumbai. Otherwise its just another word salad intended to deceive and seek some breathing room from growing...

IIRC, the Italian ones overall have more toughness + protection, especially below the waterline. The watertight integrity in the machinery spaces were some part of its final selection by USN for FFGX....as USN sees this class needing to be more survivable along with high range/endurance for a...

VLS number is fine....given things like armour, suvivability, endurance and accommodations made for future weapon systems, sensors and propulsion. It is trade-off decision depending on the doctrine/role you have picked for your naval assets and navy at large... in a batch of 30+ years or so...

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/indias-nuclear-arsenal-recently-went-up-the-sophistication-curve-11641833370514.html In the final months of 2021, India conducted two major missile tests. The first was the Shaurya hypersonic weapon test, which was conducted in October. The second...

Depends how they opt for the overhaul schedule even with LRU-only approach that will need testing and cert after as well. I would assume it will be a "do everything at once" kinda gig since you are putting the bird into downtime...rather than having to impact their regular MRO times in more...

Nepotism is just one part of what can take shape. The larger thing (that drives nepotism) is unaccountability....since the govt can do no wrong as there is little to no way to hold them (specifically unelected bureaucrat-mass) accountable in suitable detail as political + bureaucratic...

Till there is sea-change of attitude literally, India defence production be it naval or otherwise will continue to suffer Far better capacity + management is being criminally thrown to wayside. ================================================================...

Its probably assembly line max production rate that is 8 (with whatever the stress and strain impact running at 100%) per year. It is the sustained funding, labour + capital availability that will determine what the desired/projected throughput is...rather than simply (max) 8x3. i.e MOD has...

I just use nirbhay as placeholder name for whatever they end up calling the subsonic manik CM....the production variant as you call it. They might as well just keep nirbhay for it.

Parts of this sound quite promising though @Zapper et al: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/light-combat-aircraft-mk-1a-to-take-flight-in-june/article38200517.ece?utm_campaign=socialflow HAL will be delivering the first three aircraft in 2024 and 16 aircraft per year for subsequent five...

brahmos (regular or NG) is supersonic CM...brahmos 2 will be hypersonic Subsonic Nirbhay is more the tomahawk equivalent. Its numbers produced this decade (esp when MANIK engine matures and establishes) remains to be seen, but I would imagine it would be lot higher rate than brahmos family...

They should do a whole lot of things, but nothing changes the fact that IAF is severely squadron-deficit and capacity issues are being entrenched regardless. That effects ability/attractiveness to export. Even if you do export, it then has impact on those airframes not going toward IAF which...

Yah well, India has much to prove on surplus capacity for exports in military domain. This along with number of other things (India is still figuring out + proving) affects impetus that can be given by quick + competitive delivery + support. Consider continued reluctance to involve private...