Good article (which I have inserted into first post of this thread as well) by @Gessler :
https://defencehub.live/threads/a-brief-history-of-indian-orbital-rockets.8461/
Great article. I will tag a few more (from memory) that may be interested to read it:
@Anmdt @Fuzuli NL @AlphaMike @Kartal1 @MisterLike @Milspec @Gautam @Rajaraja Chola @guest12 @Combat-Master @Gautam @RadarGudumluMuhimmat @Joe Shearer
and I will also post link in Indian space thread for...
I suppose lot of producer prices are linked to (inelastic) imports from other countries....thus steady and high Lira depreciation gives the base amount of inflation producers (who add their value-addition onto these imports) see.
Such things like this show consumer price index intrinsic...
Throwback time to 1948 commissioning of HMIS Delhi later INS Delhi (Leander class light cruiser):
All courtesy of @spokespersonNavy (twitter):
The first avatar of #INSDelhi was handed over to Sh VK Krishna Menon, High Commissioner
@HCI_London
Capt HS Brown was her first Commanding...
Either extreme is faulty that suddenly some platform is made "garbage" or another version of it is fully "insular".
Combat master has made a good post earlier....things factor in and counter-factor in w.r.t wielder and opponent when opponent gets closer look at stuff than he otherwise would...
Thread merged with India-Pakistan relations thread archive.
Posting memes and ad-hominem pictures is flamebait and not allowed in this forum in regular threads (there is a specific meme thread for memes).
I did not issue warnings this time since there was a more light-hearted moment in the...
Yah this is more long term RFI for Indian providers (IP/ToT + Assembly driven till local RnD expertise develops more) to produce the longer term scale needed should threat evolve to that level. It will take longer time for sure.
The Israel one here is more G2G (IAI, Elta etc are effectively...
All it really takes is commited aggressor training....i.e you need two distinct platforms (Qatar has rafale and earlier mirage 2000 itself....and could furthermore base other a/c from any allies in exercises), and you design the core BFM envelopes and then layer the tactical exercises above it...
It is unfortunate France elected for this w.r.t Qatar...but I guess the money on offer was just too big to forego.
If India did go for 126 or 200 sized commitment (the numbers floated in MRCA and MRCA+ last decade), it could have had counter-bargaining power entrenched in French state on this...
As promised, a dedicated thread (on HSTDV and scramjet science+RnD) is now in Indian section for interested readers:
https://defencehub.live/threads/indian-scramjet-and-hypersonic-programs.8379/
Drop a reply or hit "watch" option etc if you want alerts/sub-feed to it.
Yes, there was a hover-drone attack on Kashmiri air base recently opening up a new chapter (in unconventional realm) there.
India will buy these systems for immediate requirement while it analyses what the more persistent scale of threat is.
An interesting convo and I learned quite a bit from last couple pages.
A request though:
Folks can we leave the text colouring to be default pls (as much as possible).
Default works with both regular and dark mode automatically (i.e it is black for regular and auto changes to white for dark...