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A bit of throwback time (old archive footage, varying pitch tape reel and everything) of a venerable design. Leander Frigates (Nilgiri class :) ) A crucial earlier program to getting Indian warship local design and production capacity where it is today: 6 were made with increasing local...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/navy-to-get-aircraft-carrier-vikrant-missile-destroyer-visakhapatnam-in-2021-101619498533809.html Indian Navy is expected to get delivery of 45,000-tonne indigenous INS Vikrant aircraft carrier and 7,500-tonne Visakhapatnam class stealth guided missile...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40383/russian-cruise-missile-spins-out-of-control-before-crashing-into-sea-near-launching-destroyer video has emerged showing a test launch of a Kalibr cruise missile from a Russian Navy Project 1155 Udaloy class destroyer going spectacularly wrong. The...

Placing my marker here so I get updates. Hope everything IDEF related goes well.

Seeing how IA selects and imports foreign maal first thing, I think these should be at least as good? Tonbo has won a number of export orders from western countries (and others) if I'm not mistaken too...

Admins can decide if previous thread (regarding the coup and progression of it afterward) should be merged into this one: https://defencehub.live/threads/there-was-a-coup-in-myanmar.4814/

The interview I posted earlier said it can cost up to 200 million USD (IIRC) to raise/salvage the nanggala. The Aussie expert said that money is better used on the living (i.e current fleet of sub safety program etc) and leave nangalla to be as memorial....and designate the spot as such. What...

Since India has been brought in (on what seems to be some border skirmish/tensions totally unrelated to our relations with both countries involved), time to set the record straight. We share good relations with both countries. Kyrgyzstan recently sent their special forces to train in India...

I believe UK Q.E carrier group will be having some exercises with IN soon (in May-June somewhere): https://defencehub.live/threads/uk-carrier-strike-group-will-sail-to-india-on-its-maiden-deployment.6725/ Other than that, I think thats it for UK, France (European blue water navies) for 2021...

If you have any source that says there were "100s of thousands" of rickshaw pullers in 2017, lets see it. As for cycle rickshaws (vis a vis motor rickshaws), anyone can google "Pakistan cycle rickshaws" regarding this whole matter. There is even a whole tribune.pk article on one such thing...I...

Yah but it also involves internal development + competencies + advances....while asset numbers stay overall relatively fixed. Fiscal means and priorities to shape up (more visible) asset expansion takes time and pressure. I saw similar situation in lot of areas when India military budget was...

Wrong. There are just a handful left (if that) in only Kolkata, mostly by a "legacy" inertia. International labour statistics has the following as output per worker i.e productivity w.r.t large population countries in South Asia: https://ilostat.ilo.org/topics/labour-productivity/ Bangladesh...

The conversation covers the recent tragic loss, many salient points brought up in this thread and then shifts to more geopolitics, Indonesia relations with PRC, ASEAN, India, Australia and "QUAD" more specifically and other current+related affairs of relevance (Natuna island w.r.t PRC etc). It...

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He has been a bit less active lately, so I let it slide this time. But the forum policy is forum policy....i.e new-thread for negative news of another country (to your own) is for the global section. i.e use existing thread if want to post in country subforum. If he keeps it up like before...