@Afif @Ryder I will get to you guys replies hopefully next weekend. A bit pressed for time, and I would like to see if anyone else has something to share in interim anyway.
Hey fellas, the off topic convo (ad hominem, personal or on countries/people and convo quoting it) has been deleted.
Please keep your criticism specific to the defence fair exhibits/technology etc.
Anything broader than that, if you can keep it within rules is better suited for teahouse or...
https://eurasiantimes.com/french-engines-unlikely-to-power-indias-amca-us-uk-entangled/
BySakshi Tiwari
February 18, 2023
In a significant boost to the ‘Make in India’ initiative, India’s private industry player TATA signed multiple big-ticket deals last year for manufacturing western...
Turkish ambassador gives information like ~1500 civilians so far treated in the field hospital set up by India in Hatay province.
Overall NDRF mission to Turkiye is explored.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indigo-orders-500-aircrafts-allies-with-turkish-airlines-to-expand-in-europe-101676692832585.html
The deal to acquire 500 aircrafts was made with Airbus and Boeing which will allows the airline to fly to around 27 destinations in the continent.
In...
Contains a lot to do with Ukraine war deeper layers. Kraut's own summary was:
The war in Ukraine is overly "depoliticised". That meaning, people exclusively look at it from a geopolitical lense. Often refusing to acknowledge internal political developments within Ukraine, and mainly applying...
The larger topic/debate can be continued here for those members interested, I'd be interested to hear any views from my reply here that contains a good analysis this time from a geopolitical (rather than economic) premise...
"Kraut" somewhat uncannily and coincidentally (one day after I made this larger post from which I quote) gave this quite in-depth analysis on the same phenomenon I summarised, but from a geopolitical international relations sense (rather than economic that I premised mine on).
Suffice to say...
This encapsulates what I have tried (and often failed) to explain to people (who have turned anti-capitalist in some reactionary way) over many years w.r.t proper capitalism vs rampant.
(In fact IMO, the rampant form stops being capitalism altogether)
i.e there is an important reason why...
I don't think its a serious offer as the S-400 is being deployed (there is no turning that around, India made it clear).
Lot of jets come to participate in this air show in the past, doesn't mean they will be offered or accepted by India.