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    India Missiles and Guided Munitions

    It started out as a JV and still is. "Brah" refers to the river Brahmaputra while "Mos" refers to river Moskva. DRDO is working on increasing the indigenous content in the missile. They might as well spin out a completely indigenous supersonic AShCM India Test Fires BrahMos Supersonic Missile...
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    India Defence Industry, R&D and Procurements

    Why don't we create a specific section to track all missile developments since "Strategic Forces" is too broad. Given DRDO's involvement in multiple missile projects and armed forces reducing their dependency on imports, we can create specific threads under the "missiles" section for ICBM...
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    Video of plane wreckage sparks rumours of Chinese fighter being downed by Taiwan

    I created one, they deleted it right away
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    India Army Indian Army

    PSUs will now face the heat since they had to compete with the competent private sector firms both in terms of timely delivery and quality
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    India India - China Relations

    Kinda kiddish imo. While I agree with Nilgiri's comment, there's no reason to pull outta an exercise which we've been participating for years. Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak ... PA has always sent SSG for these exercises while we sent some regular unit. Though...
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    India Defence Exports and Relations

    When the Prime Minister said to go ‘vocal for local’, he also meant that products be made competitive vis-a-vis global brands. Tata Motors - India’s leading auto brand - seems to have solidified the brand’s stance for the ‘Vocal for Local’ initiative, by manufacturing high-end military support...
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    India Air-Force Indian Air Force

    Frankly, Turkey did a great job in terms of developing it's indigenous arms industry. TAI's new office building and composite materials plant show they're able to imbibe corporate culture which should be the way forward. Though there are some struggles, your ground and rotary wing platforms have...
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    India Air-Force Indian Air Force

    15% stake of HAL is nothing imo unless specific manufacturing/technological units are completely handed over to the private sector. If 15% on a whole, these govt babus wouldn't let the private sector folks take any concrete decisions, would oppose to organizational and operational reforms since...
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    India Air-Force Indian Air Force

    The government will sell up to 15 per cent stake in state-run aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) through an offer for sale (OFS), at a floor price of Rs 1,001 per share. The offer could fetch the exchequer around Rs 5,020 crore. Through the OFS, the government proposes to...

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