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IAF to order around 100 more LCA Mark-1A fighter jets for over USD 8 billion https://aninews.in/news/national/general-news/iaf-to-order-around-100-more-lca-mark-1a-fighter-jets-for-over-usd-8-billion20230824185201/

7800 crore ~ 1 billion USD

Should have been done 5 years ago, a return to conventional economics to get ahead of the problem. Turkiye could have been at 1 trillion nominal GDP at least by now. 250 billion in production was essentially squandered away for no reason and this will compound in the opportunity cost...

Judging from the sources listed and the data published, the Koreans are making good strides in underlying materials research. The laboratory capacity is very good to achieve some of the results I can see. That is the only way to mature the whole field from inside-out as possible....as the...

I saw a few memes with Kalam saab smiling from heavens. My mom also mentioned him when I chatted with her just earlier. The boys and girls have all done him very proud. Jai Hind. 🇮🇳 =====================================================

ISRO scripted a big breakthrough Wednesday as its Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed near the Moon’s south pole. In Ep 1296 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta brings in ThePrint’s science wizards — Sandhya Ramesh in Bengaluru and Mohana Basu in Delhi — to understand why the...

I'm using NGAD as a catch all term for the 6th gen ecosystem that the US has by then for selling/working with deemed close enough allies at that point. NGAD itself will likely be in a tier like F-22 and likely not exportable, just like I find it unlikely that India will be eager enough to fork...

Entire landing stream can be found here, it was great watching it live with bated breath! Glad and relieved to see it conclude successfully!

Always found it weird that South Africa is in the grouping right now instead of Indonesia.

Just me thinking. The YF-23 is nice diamond planform and all for a 6th gen basis, but we have long way to go with AMCA maturity first before we can make any valid analysis or projection for India on 6th gen. Also the propulsion advantages you mention it had over F-22 are things more heavily...

Its why I have changed over time from more "centre" to more "right wing" (and some lefties call me "far right" sometimes). Classical liberals and conservatives here warned years ago that the "anti hate speech" stuff the new liberals/ new left would be weaponised in all kind of ways, especially...

I haven't read enough on this particular one to comment fairly on it. BD friend of mine did bring up Teesta issue a few times with me and largely blamed TMC (Mamata) for that.... in that Indian central (UPA2) govt at the time was kind of held hostage by her (and she did same with Modi govt...

Not getting water is not that big of issue here compared to say Mekong (that host gets alarmist upon in making an equivalency). PRC controls maybe around 20% of the water that makes it to the local economic artery of India and BD. This is why it was imperative that India kept and keeps...

Wars are just far easier to get into than get out of. I mean I have had number of convos with close friends over many years about the hypothetical if JFK was not assassinated and if it would have made a drastic enough change to Vietnam arc of the story (and also longer term state welfare...