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Long prolonged budget cuts + low spending on the important training and capital. Many NATO countries only now are ramping from like 1% to 4%+ of GDP levels. It will take time for old stalwarts of naval domain to bulk up.

France pitches processing partnership for India's rare earth ambitions French official says India should invest in rare earth processing and refining before domestic mines start production, while expanding technology, financing and research partnerships...

Australia, India strike deal on uranium exports during Modi visit https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/indias-modi-meet-australias-albanese-with-uranium-defence-agenda-2026-07-08/ ===============

Little alteration needed for samurai to turkic infantry lul. Altaic Turanic empire stronk!

Felton recently did a deeper dive into it: It bears some similarity with the iwo jima US flag story.

Some more convo here: https://defencehub.live/threads/defence-exports-and-relations.15630/page-16#post-395030

From my pessimistic ex-RCN friend: It’s unfortunate, but the project goes on. Hopefully it’ll get cancelled before it destroys the rest of the defence budget in general and the RCN in particular. 1) single largest project in Canadian military history. Potential for massive blowouts on top of...

Absolute bonkers game. You just never can count Argentina out at any point. Argentine bull just knows how to get out of hole it dug itself and let loose in china shop in dying minutes. Damn. Hope to see a ARG vs FRA final....should be excellent game like last time

If it opens up astra ecosystem to Indonesia, they potentially could want a later block for their KF-21 too. That would need Korean support on integration though.

Issue is how the vanguard assertions form in geopolitics to begin with. There is no good reason to get lost in weeds with Turks on this matter....when Indian democratic, secular and repulican/institutionalism credentials meant very little to the US in cold war....in the level it armed/backed...

It was driven much more by Gandhi seeing a political expediency with various muslim league factions inside India at time (post ww1 regd their views/desires on ottoman sultan i.e caliph to be kept going rather than what came about in treaty of sevres)....rather than much to do on anything with...

It seems to have all started from some pie in the sky thing with C-17 being produced in India downstream. Way too early to count those chickens before they hatch.... eggs not even laid yet on it. If US restarts main facility, I doubt Indian order of like 10 - 20 more is going to be enough to...

There is fundamentally not enough investment ratio in Pakistan. Its like ~ 10% of GDP for several decades now....when developing countries path needs breakout to 30% region or better consistently.

~5.5 billion USD worth

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/indian-navy-foils-piracy-bid-in-gulf-of-aden-marcos-secure-cargo-ship-carrying-critical-consignment-for-india/articleshow/132130773.cms