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  1. Nilgiri

    TR Casual Discussion Çay Bahçesi

    Yes Tamil is basically one language. You can say different regions have dialects. Anyone that knows one dialect can follow another one without too much difficulty. There is lot of options to go to a "Standard/written/official" language too to make things easier too...as these are defined and...
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    TR Casual Discussion Çay Bahçesi

    Interesting, I suppose all turkic languages are agglutinative due to sharing same proto-ancestor that defined this core feature (i.e putting many word shortforms/bits to make one larger word to convey meaning..."morphemes" as they are known). This features heavily in my mother tongue Tamil as...
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    Historical Combat, War, Geopolitics History and Analysis

    750k deaths in wehrmacht in just 3 (summer) months of 1944. About 150k in normandy area and 600k in Eastern Front (operation bagration). Near unimaginable today for todays major armies in today's world. But this scale even relative to ww2 is immense....especially given the continued...
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    TR Casual Discussion Çay Bahçesi

    Got a question for you folks here given Azerbaijan has been in the news a lot lately... How much Azeri (language) can the average Turk understand? How much of AZ population were fluent in Azeri in USSR compared to now? (My Azeri friend knows little, his mother tongue is effectively Russian)...
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    India Coffee House

    @Joe Shearer Don't be a prima donna, be cognizant of the reality and scope of a support role:
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    Pakistan may not get $2 bn rollover from Saudi Arabia

    https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/741712-pakistan-may-not-get-2-bn-rollover-from-saudi-arabia ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has indicated that it might refuse a rollover of $2 billion to Pakistan. Islamabad has already started exploring options to manage the amount from other avenues to avert the...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    https://www.livemint.com/news/business-of-life/india-s-quest-for-its-own-spacex-hits-a-milestone-11604846316393.html The successful test of Skyroot’s rocket engine augurs well for Indian startups building small-satellite launch vehicles Skyroot’s test validated the use of new material and...
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    India India - China Relations

    Bulk of forces remain over winter, we should not let our guard down for a second.
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    India Coffee House

    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bihar-election-results-2020-live-updates-amit-shah-speaks-to-nitish-kumar-as-nda-maintains-lead/liveblog/79139544.cms The BJP put up a winning performance in the Bihar Assembly polls leading the ruling NDA to obtain majority. The Election Commission of...
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    India Army Armoured Vehicles

    Thread for all armour related news of IA. https://www.defenseworld.net/news/28288/OshoCorp_to_Supply_Auxiliary_Power_Units_for_Indian_T_72__T_90_Tanks OshoCorp Global is selected by Indian Army for development & supply of Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) of Russian origin T-72 and T-90 Tanks. The...
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    Bangladesh Navy Bangladesh Navy

    https://navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2020/november/9249-bangladesh-and-us-navies-conduct-a-naval-exercise-in-the-bay-of-bengal.html Ships from the Bangladesh Navy meet with USNS Millinocket (T-EPF 3) in the Bay of Bengal as part of the sea phase of Cooperation Afloat...
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    Canada Navy Surface Combatant (CSC) Program

    http://www.canadiandefencereview.com/news?news/3007 From humanitarian assistance to high-intensity conflicts, the Royal Canada Navy's future fleet will perform a wide range of missions requiring advanced technology and multi-role versatility. Lockheed Martin's latest generation SPY-7 radar and...
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    India Navy Nuclear Submarines (SSBN & SSN)

    Most of the Electronics, Sensors (incl sonar, antenna etc), CMS etc are done by BEL, the local DPSU that undertakes this stuff generally. Either indigenized from single source, multi source and/or reverse engineered/developed into a new product. One of my uncles made his lifelong career at this...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    Yeah I put it in ISRO thread earlier.
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    Azerbaijan Armenia Relations News

    An idea of how its being reported in western Media:
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    Azerbaijan Armenia Relations News

    Bingo.
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    India Economy + Infra Archive

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/exports-show-signs-of-improvement-up-22-47-during-november-1-7-official/articleshow/79144326.cms
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    TR Marine Istanbul Strait and Military Ships

    Really interesting thread, I'm going to enjoy watching this one. I remember picture that made headlines in late 90s or early 2000s (I cannot remember) with Varyag aircraft carrier being towed through bosphorus for delivery to China. I remember the cover story was it was to be turned into a...
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    Japan offers to export warships to Indonesia

    A connected thread on same topic: https://defencehub.live/threads/japan-plans-first-export-of-destroyers.2609/
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    Azerbaijan Armenia Relations News

    I thought russian peacekeepers are only going to be in NK zone and also lachin corridor. All other parts of occupied-Azerbaijan are to be handed back to full AZ control at successive stages this year right?

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