MF-STAR on INS Vikrant installed recently. INS Anvesh (BMD + Missile instrumentation ship) can be seen in the background.
There also seems to be fitting out of the Barak 8 VLS cells on the carrier too.
Its a pledge, a "MOU". Means little, there is no supra-authority above nationstate govts to enforce these things.
These 3 also want to balance relations with Russia (including with ongoing and future nuclear energy technology) and are wary about any signalling and the joint working groups...
Its a complicated emerging field since about the 1970s (DS oxide composites).
You could technically use non-eutectic oxides and make DS. One would save cost and QC needs in the early production stage but severely increase them in the later stage (along with performance loss, I am unsure of the...
They don't think in such useful ways. That's the whole root problem in a great many messes in India.
There isn't actual rational effective thinking when someone has come into some role of power and responsibility, the squandering we see in more visible apex continue in the less visible layers...
They are an anti-intellectual regime and doubling down on it. Story of Abdus Salam is just one example though a notable one.
It has metastasized to all kind of things now, while their peon keyboardwarrior equivalents spend millions of man hours typing up a storm attacking India in whichever...
That's like saying India should abandon the path of becoming more like South Korea and Japan (and the US/West), just because North Korea GDP PPP "is getting better" in some very nominal way past the sanctions and their own regime foolhardiness.
More economic sanction pain commensurately grows...
Yeah its essentially ATAGS v2.0 (a lighter ATAGS variant, <15 tons) or barring that the Israeli ATHOS (or variant) likely will be licence produced under some JV since it already is less than 15 tons. IA is firm about this weight requirement.
Have to wait for details of this TGS program to shake...
There is thread for Indian engines for discussion/analysis...better place for any interested members so we don't go off topic in this thread.
https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-jet-engine-and-gas-turbine-archive.8414/
I generally judge on deliverables. There is lot of things up in the air...
Yes it is in the 5th slide of that thread summary. I suppose it hinges on how the cooperation goes with US..an extra if you will as segue after the Indian space station (there is commonality in docking standards after all in international space, so might as well leverage off US economy of scale...
Another long presentation that I will be looking at later when I have more time @Marlii @Rodeo @Gessler et al.
The slides start around 2h 25 mark.
The slide summary is on twitter thread too where I first found it just earlier: