Turkey is in process of developing, growing and refining some potent ecosystems. It has developed lot of good capacities and capabilities already.
I do not see it going "obsolete", there might be some diminishment (readiness of squadrons etc) during transition change into next generations of...
Like I mentioned in a previous thread, the re-export component (LHTEC engine) sanction in this regard was more on the end-user (w.r.t Pakistan) than on the manufacturer (Turkey) itself. But that got mixed in with the growing sanction regime coming from US I suppose.
Past the politics w.r.t US...
Indonesia will prevail, but it will be kind of persistent thing to some level for long time as this area is sufficiently far away (from "hearth" both distance and culture wise etc - even accounting for INA great diversity in its hearth), logistics are not great...and this area is very big and...
There is persistent problem even in regular years of insufficient cremation of corpse and they (isolated or in numbers) end up in the river in this sorry state from time to time.....accounting for say even if 1% of very large population slips through the normal procedures for cremation rites...
Its literally why I mentioned per capita. Not total tests (which is like 50 - 100 times more).
So you would have to question Pakistans 10X more on same logic simply....and probably more than that given relative state of its own media.
We hold our institutions to a far higher standard, far...
Meanwhile we have region outside of India with 10X less testing per capita and 10X more repressed media.
Who knows what the situation actually is over there (the discussions/leaks in social media sure aren't good to look at), I guess it will all show up in the census in the end....if they even...
EDIT: Pic for reference
It is worth remembering the possible two technology streams available to India w.r.t scramjet in a future system:
- Domestic HSTDV confirmed + commited, and has been tested and sustained to about 20 seconds of 2km/s speed (around mach 6 - 7 at altitude of ~30 km)
-...
It is basically a progression of the early concepts first established by IIT-DRDO cooperation.
In fact there is earlier basic arena setting estabished even in 90s:
https://www.ias.ac.in/public/Volumes/sadh/020/05/0815-0850.pdf
Back then in this era (90s - 2000s w.r.t India) it was mostly...
More an "M" than a Bond. Big credit to him.
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NEW DELHI: He wasn’t the classical spy who would go behind enemy lines but knew how to get the job done. Many would know RN Kao as the man who founded R&AW, India’s external intelligence agency, but that’s just one of the achievements of...
Sent all replies from "Science and Engineering" thread that was in hobby section to this thread to make a mega thread (effectively merging them).
Should be even more interesting read + interaction now hopefully.