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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/24/russia-says-no-choice-but-war-after-trump-u-turn-on-ukraine It is not true that Russia has “no alternative” but to continue waging war. Putin may have no alternative but to continue waging war to ensure his own interests (his survival as president). I...

RUSSIA'S ASTRAKHAN GAS PROCESSING PLANT HALTS OPERATIONS Perhaps just another bit of western propaganda like the report of Estonian airspace being violated by Russian fighters.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/22/russia-accuses-estonia-of-airspace-incursion-falsity-to-stoke-tensions Always good for a laugh is Russia. PS When I think of it, there would be no problem in NATO fighters based in Estonia shooting down Russian military aircraft violating Estonian...

OK, wet thrust is comparatively unimportant. I recall Brahmos being 'called in' to handle the afterburner. Is it doing that? One never knows with Indian development: things are announced then disappear never to be seen again or they are announced and remain work in progress for what seems an...

Mk2 rollout probably H1 2026? FF probably H2 2026/H1 2027? Testing complete 2029/2030? I wonder where the Mk2 will be assembled. In 2030 the 2 HAL plants in Bengaluru will be busy assembling Mk1A. Nashik will be busy assembling Mk1A and possibly Su-30MKI. Will there be a gap of a year or two...

I have no idea if this is true or if it is false but it is plausible, given Ukraine's strikes on Russia's oil industry... https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-close-cutting-oil-output-due-drone-attacks-sources-say-2025-09-16/ Who is lying? Who is not? Somebody is.

Me neither but nothing I see suggests that Russia is not heading closer and closer to the end of the rope. PS I agree with JP Morgan's view in 2022 that Russia was heading for economic collapse. I think it still is.

I am interested to see what happens if several can be reached by Flamingo with a 1 tonne+ warhead. In addition the distribution network in Russia is vulnerable. I guess there are hundreds of pumping stations pushing crude or fuel from A to B. With limited air defence resources Russia cannot...

Western observers and analysts greatly overestimated the effect sanctions would have on the ability of the Russian economy to keep functioning. Many predicted that the Russian economy would quickly descend into chaos with sectors relying on western tech more or less ceasing to function. They...

Too many approvals needed for anything to progress. Indian bureaucracy is a millstone around the neck of Indian fighter projects. If the Astra/Tejas Mk1A combination now works, the aircraft should be delivered, not languish in hangars waiting for bureaucrats to clear it for delivery. It might...

Sorry, if you do not believe that Russia is subject to economic attrition, I would just advise you to read / listen to what economists and analysts worldwide are reporting and saying about the Russian economy. The info is there. I read it. I suggest you give it a try, too.

Yes, it is a ridiculous hypothesis. I used it to illustrate how absurd are the claims of great progress by Russian apologists when Russian troops take 2 sq km or 3 sq km after an assault possibly lasting weeks. I don't know when Ukraine is likely to run out of military manpower. Could be 6...

Russia today occupies about 120,000 sq km of the territory it recognised officially as Ukrainian, That leaves about 480,000 sq km still under Ukrainian control. If Russia occupies a further 4,800 sq km of Ukraine each year it will take another 100 years to occupy all of Ukraine. How fast is...

Don't understand what you are saying

Today I hear that a Russian port used to load crude into tankers was attacked! Either Ukraine read my post or it is just a coincidence. I suspect a coincidence. Keep hitting those facilities used to load tankers! According to the video (Ukrainian, I think, so beware) crude shipped from this...

Russia running short of fuel here and there, it seems. I assume there has been a lot of damage to Russian refineries/fuel stocks/fuel distribution infrastructure due to Ukrainian action. Just as Ukraine cannot stop all attacks on its infrastructure, Russia cannot stop all attacks on its oil...

Sounds like production of the LCA - for which Kaveri was intended - will finish before a usable Kaveri-based engine becomes available. Perhaps it will be there in time to replace F404 engines that have reached the end of their service lives?

News regarding progress towards an engine for the trinational 6G GCAP project... https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/gcap-engine-team-makes-progress-demonstrator

You are very well informed about jet engines by all accounts. How long would you guess it would take for India to realise a 50kN dry and 75kN wet thrust engine for Tejas MK1A?