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F-35 has much higher MTOW and thus much larger mass-range (MTOW - empty weight) to play with. i.e F35-A: MTOW = 31.7 tons Empty weight = 13.3 tons Fuel capacity = 8.3 tons Don't let the raw volumetric size of aircrafts fool you. About 45% of that range is max internal fuel i.e 8.3/ (31.7 -...

Yes I said all powerful western countries are hypocrites on the matter at large to begin with. In case of us the developing countries, we have to keep scholarly studies, political pressure and so on It in the end boils down to amount of soft power you grow to get your voice heard across enough...

They (Russia) have apparently (at least partially) insinuated that TNW mobilisation is fair game. It is probably an exploratory feint (among many threats/insinuations they have been doing a while now) as there is no evidence of such mobilisation so far (i.e actual GUMO team activity with say...

Fascinating (1915) footage: Location: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Shipbuilding_and_Engineering The actual "boring" scene occupies (in the middle somewhere) very little of the footage time but probably the most engineering intensive part (For the time and today as well in getting...

Russians saber rattling with TNW's is not helping though.

It's like a buffet....you want as many choices as possible. You want to have as wide spread of possibilities as possible to have most mission capability at hand....especially since a 5th gen a/c is a very large sunk in cost.

Many of us are attuned to the lip service and hypocrisy from these Westerners. However each small step is still welcome one....here in Canada we have uighur community that is quite vocal about the suffering their family members experience. So (past the undeniable satellite evidence of the...

https://thediplomat.com/2022/01/the-strategic-logic-behind-indias-sale-of-brahmos-missiles-to-the-philippines/

you mean Stanton's genocide watch (regd the rwanda genocide that they have extrapolated with much criticism from others regd not sharing their methodology*)? Stepping aside for a moment all the genocides they have not predicted...(that they dont talk about)... ....What have they said (many...

yes thats what i mean, F-35 can handle it (and being integrated now) as it was expected to early on enough (given larger NATO basis for F-35 and meteor as known program by then) Whereas its too big to retrofit into F-22 (which was not designed for NATO anyway and preceded meteor...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indian-navy-hones-anti-submarine-warfare-skills-in-exercise-sea-dragon/article38300399.ece#:~:text=Sea%20Dragon%20is%20an%20annual,hosted%20by%20the%20U.S.%20Navy.&text=Sea%20Dragon%2D22%2C%20primarily%20centering,U.S.%20Navy%20submarine%2C%20the%20US...

OK Mr Admiral, have you brought this up with the german govt and german companies that have and continue to invest billions of dollars into PRC?

Some interesting bits here about the transmittance time of reforms.... The next chunk of years will be interesting to see regarding validation of the earlier reforms done by Modi Admin...given they are not instantaneous effect. This can be part of why we see lot of animal spirits aligning...

Good to see you here bro! India is similarly proceeding along same line in this SLV launcher class (solid-fuel all the way, flex nozzle composite SLV )....in many ways mimicking latest BM families (Agni etc) deployed: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/sslv.htm The SLV will be for smaller...

I forgot to mention meteor volumetric impact goes past just the raw diameter....compared to rocket motor basis like AMRAAM It has sizeable fins and the intake etc. This is why the meteor doesn't fit in main bay in feasible optimised fashion in the F-22 for example (this came up in some paper I...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-parliament-passes-motion-condemning-china-genocide-against-uyghurs-2022-01-20/ PARIS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - France's parliament passed an opposition-led motion asking the government to condemn China for "crimes against humanity and genocide" against its...

You may see a small sampler of the sociopathy/psychosis driving this in this thread and others already. I leave to your own judgement. If the forum was not turkish-run at large, you would see the parallel re-hash in such way on Turks too (like such have provably done and continue to do, and...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/extended-range-brahmos-flight-tested/article38297322.ece There was some speculation on twitter about the range, nothing official other than its "extended" I guess. But twitter noted the area of notice stretched out about 750 km, so maybe this is the 600...

https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-insight/story/why-india-needs-a-dedicated-defence-export-department-1901972-2022-01-19 An export-focused department could help build on export successes like the recent sale of BrahMos missiles to the Philippines Sandeep Unnithan New DelhiJanuary 19...