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SPADEX was successfully launched, the docking experiment will happen in the coming days, hope that is all done successfully too

Well Kaveri was already separated from its major end-use (Tejas) in 2008 or so as it missed some crucial parameters. This preceded Modi coming to power, there was some impetus from one defence minister he had (w.r.t Tejas, but again Kaveri was already disjointed from it)....but the larger issue...

Doubtful, this program has been given very low priority for so many years now and its suffered....as seen by this long space of time between the first flying test bed tests with Russians earlier being ~ 10 years etc. With catch up need (of larger jet engine propulsion ecosystem) and also...

https://manufacturing.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/aerospace-defence/kaveri-engine-approved-for-inflight-testing-a-breakthrough-in-indian-aerospace/116615602

Indeed. I expect many more "Mig 25" moments coming up w.r.t PRC. Whatever comprehensively establishes and deploys remains to be seen and measured in way say SpaceX "90% of worlds mass to orbit " has now shown downstream to its genesis....compared to say continued NASA statist arc which would...

The issue for PRC is its way behind in AI development (if one looks into the current IP flow and investment rates of where they ought to be) and AI will be critical for 6th gen....and will remain so as the CCP is distrustful of LLM scaling and so on. So the early hardware is largely posturing...

Excellent finds. This is great to see.

Interesting look into radars and related systems w.r.t BEL. These are crucial components and systems to produce in numbers in coming years, for use in larger systems and networks and the associated continued scaling of the underlying technologies in India's defence capabilities.

Nope. They never will give permission for that even w.r.t PRC and kokang and shan....as powerful as PRC is (and considered distant ethnic kin both ways). At times Burmese military has even done air strikes on Chinese territory on kokang forces. PRC essentially does bribes to coerce its way...

It is going to be cool as hell to see the first HLVM3 set up for Gaganyaan G1 (uncrewed coming up early 2025 it seems - launch date unconfirmed still). The special crew module up there instead of the regular fairing...

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/2-indigenously-built-warships-nilgiri-and-surat-delivered-to-navy-7296773

~950 mil USD for 100.

Yeah I hear ya, so many regular folks get shortchanged by the system so badly. Obamacare was supposed to fix that by globbing on more federal expansion in DC, it just made it worse tbh. The solution always lay in keeping politicians, bureaucrats and corporations in manageable chunks (i.e the...