Update:
https://stratnewsglobal.com/neighbours/sri-lanka/indian-credit-line-for-oil-indias-exim-bank-submits-documents/
The Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of India has handed over documentation related to a request by Sri Lanka for an urgent line of credit, valued at $500 million, to the respective...
I explain the current reluctance and "Wait and see" approach here....rest of thread provides decent context too:
https://defencehub.live/threads/uk-army-chief-visits-jammu-kashmir-meets-indian-officers.10521/#post-135743
I think thats the philosophy PN in general (and maybe armed forces with time more broadly) is and will be following.
Get a Turkish spearhead system, fill it with whatever can be done from the west subsystem wise. Expand it forwards to local capacity as possible.
TR is likely the only plank...
Yup PRC shipyard capacity and economy of scale.
I wish PRC was far less totalitarian-authoritarian setup + (ongoing) consequence and was on good relations with India...
Too bad, this (industrial capacity + inertia for next few decades by what is there now alone) is going to be quite the...
It is not that common. We are fairly reserved past own immediate family and social circles etc.
I think Modi just genuinely enjoys being in the position he has gotten to and kind of genuinely interested in foreign leaders (how they go about handling themselves and their internal dynamics in...
French twitter guy doesnt understand how inflation works and is factored into the cost estimates in todays dollars.
Also it was aussie own anti-nuclear approach that cause them to go for SSK (shortfin) to begin with (and earlier candidates with downselection).
That anti-nuclear lobby still has...
Yes I agree. Taiwan should be the major focused step in process now given what resides within it.
Past the security gesturing like you mention, there is something even bigger: working with Taiwan in more meaningful economic ways....India has not done enough to grow ties there.
The pesky troll got dealt with.
I was joking with a friend just recently this is why PLAN submarines stick out so easily, they likely have political commissars like this fella inside them making quite a din all the time...
https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/indias-first-manned-ocean-mission-samudrayan-launched/2359887/
India’s first manned ocean mission ‘Samudrayan’ was launched here on Friday by Union Minister Jitendra Singh and with this the nation joined an elite club of nations having such...
The first user trial of Agni-5, India's first intercontinental ballistic missile, has been successful. It comes amidst the Ladakh standoff; the missile has a range of over 5000 km, which means it can cover the whole of China. On 'The Gist', StratNews Global Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale is in...
http://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2021/10/pakistan-navys-first-type-054ap-ffg.html
A well armed ship for its size, any additional thoughts? @Bilal Khan(Quwa) @Anmdt @AlphaMike et al.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/hal-delivers-the-200th-gun-bay-door-for-boeing-f-a-18-super-hornet-121102900456_1.html
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has delivered the 200th gun bay door for Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet.
Bengaluru-headquartered HAL said it has been...
Well IMO, it is something more broader than just air power.
In the modern era, there has been noticeably one major power that has demonstrably been the largest factor for the decline and eventual end of the Ottoman era....by series of wars and warfare it imposed on the Turks.
It made decision...
We sent doval to meet the holiness too?
lmao...
Maybe there is something to the vatican conspiracies (in geopolitical illuminati power structures etc etc) after all....