Yes the situation can look quite dire if you look at this from this angle.
But I believe the ongoing energy revolution will help mitigate and even solve it potentially.
Making energy easily and cheaply available at both the dense and spread tiers......will solve a lot of the other resource...
@crixus @Peace Lover et al. lets hope for the best....
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indigenous-artillery-gun-passes-validation-trials/article65378688.ece
and
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/electronics/meity-to-train-over-85000-engineers-in-chip-design-in-next-5-years/articleshow/91321408.cms
@Rajaraja Chola if you have any more thoughts to add.
Yes I put France as no. 2 (given far larger impact of English language compared to French etc within India and all that carries forward) ....but there is a good case for it to be no. 1 as well.
Depends how you prioritise the military and strategic technology domain in the overall domain...
Russia is lower IMO....and lower than France and potentially other big/impactful EU countries like Germany, Holland and Italy increasingly.
Total (goods) trade with UK in 2021 for India was 17 billion USD worth.
In Russian case it was 12 billion USD (on a population more than twice that of the...
Heh the title kind of implies it as a contest doesn't it?
It was more of just a contextual comparison (how the missing link era during the australopithecene branch took on several different changes compared to our closest ongoing primate branches......especially in our branch eventually...
Otherwise its a matter of a fat ungainly goose resting pretty on how it got fat and ungainly.....
.........trumpeting its goosey goosey gander where shall i wander.... to feel good.
It is better that way. As pragmatic as possible.
When Europe and the US (by way of its "many politicians, experts and newspapers") fully introspect and come clean about such things as:
- the holocaust (something that will not happen in India though it is far poorer + less developed even today)...
The other option is to design (the airframe) with some measure of flexbility for the powerplant's "range" (governing its physical dimensions and thrust).
i.e rather than design for a strict axbxc volume producing X lbf thrust and weighing Y kg (modelled on centroid etc)..... you design for...
During a long drive recently, I listened to this podcast and found it quite contextual to our discussion....well worth a listen/watch when you (and any others interested in the subject) have some time for it:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/02/india-modi-russia-ukraine-europe-germany/
Although the West has bristled at his approach to Ukraine, India’s leader is far from isolated.
By Colm Quinn, the newsletter writer at Foreign Policy.
Modi Meets Scholz in Berlin
Indian Prime Minister Narendra...