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Hope it all moves with little delay, comes to about USD 850 million in total and USD 2 mil per gun... 400 guns that will then serve as arc for the 800+ remaining after it.

My favourite generic music for parliament brawls....and brawls/circus slugging in general (parliament ones are just funniest to see I guess):

Happy independence day to Indonesia! One of my favourite anthems aesthetically for sure!

Part 3 dropped: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/indian-army-plans-to-upgrade-insas-rifle-part-3-the-future-44815489

Yah 8% sounds way too small for a production line. Indonesia likely gets first dibs on production blocks and options in production schedule in South Korea (compared to outsiders interested in KF-21 with no equity at all). But production line would need heavy equity....doesn't seem like Indonesia...

So all in all, reduction in final equity from about 20% to about 8% in the end by Indonesia.

Launch was complete success! Excellent work by ISRO. A crucial entry to the existing stable given the turnaround time vs capacity ratio found in SSLV compared to bigger guys...

About 2.5 billion USD and 7.5 billion USD respectively. Thoughts @Gessler et al?

Some reading I got into about some background details: https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/195361/an-unlikely-partnership-bangabandhu-and https://www.jamhoor.org/read/2018/5/25/mao-lana-bhashani-maoism-and-the-unmaking-of-pakistan

BD didnt get the period of time to invest in sound neutral+professional institutionalism (to be its own inertia versus sociopolitical currents and executive overreach etc). It is long conversation I had in past with Bosnian friend here too....he saw just what frayed in Yugoslavia in 1980s once...

Thanks for the time you invested in this long detailed reply!

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/eye-on-china-pakistan-india-fast-tracks-deal-for-31-us-hunter-killer-drones/articleshow/112505123.cms

Type -218 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible-class_submarine

https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/boeing-partners-with-aiesl-to-service-indian-navy-s-p-8i-aircraft-124081301219_1.html US aerospace giant Boeing has partnered with India's AI Engineering Services Ltd to provide overhaul services to the Indian Navy's fleet of 12 P-8I...

I understand where you coming from. But there's a reality we got from nature of birthing Bangladesh in first place....it goes to before Pakistan came into existence if you trace careers of Suhrawardy etc, what was Mujib role in all that. That's what I meant by certain dysfunctional intensity...