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Baby rhino recently born in Aussie zoo.

RIP to our CRPF fallen. Apparently up to 30 naxalites were killed in this encounter too. Over the coming days, we will get more details. There will be an investigation into what the mistakes in this operation were. Though it has been a heartening overall trend w.r.t decrease if you look at the...

There would be some interoperability in secure domain. Its not fully incompatible, as exercises and cooperation has been going for nearly 2 decades now....so there are likely exercise modules for both side datalinks. But limited till India and NATO countries find more common ground standards...

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https://www.financialexpress.com/defence/french-naval-exercise-la-perouse-india-joins-to-make-it-full-quad/2226137/ By Milind Kulshreshtha French multinational Naval exercise La Perouse (named after the eighteenth century French Naval explorer) is scheduled from 05th to 07thApril 2021 in the...

This drop in space of just one year (2017 - 2018 I believe) is unprecedented on any population with more than 100,000 members. One can look at the birth rate charts for any population (incl China as a whole), there has never been a 33% - 50% drop in matter of 1 year or 2...

Really appreciate the effort you put into your plane spotting video hobby @MUC-Spotter Danke schön and keep them coming! I subbed to your YT channel too.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/military-exports-malaysian-team-to-visit-soon-for-lca-trial/articleshow/81881074.cms?utm_source=twitter_pwa&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharebuttons&from=mdr A Malaysian Air Force team is expected to visit India soon to assess the...

Have to wait and see. It kind of further confirms that China did invest time and effort into Suu Kyi/NLD to balance more with junta (who are not that pro-China really if you look at the history). ...i.e China is wary (esp behind scenes) if junta rule re-establishes strongly. Russia just...

Archiving up to early March 2021 completed. A few archive names were amended/broadened (eg. Infra added to economy). As usual any requests, errors, suggestions may be given to my inbox etc. Have a happy April everyone.

Yah I know, its just there is always this huge lag period (in India) between when the product is matured and ready to go and the production line of scale....of the lucky projects that actually get commited to. There is this long poke toes in the lukewarm water that seem to be babu time filler...

http://www.canadiandefencereview.com/news?news/3126 Airbus has been qualified by the Canadian government as a bidder for the Strategic Tanker Transport Capability (STTC) project. It now moves to the next stage of the call for tender, with a draft request for proposal (RFP) expected in Q3 2021...

Now we need someone to give kick up butt to place actual commited order for these like with Tejas. Guess it will come after the "initial batch" stuff. Sigh....

At least 50 dead so far....Rest in Peace :( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56612248 At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a train carrying nearly 500 crashed and then derailed in a tunnel in Taiwan. The eight-carriage train reportedly hit a construction...

Litening pod also in the pic:

Delayed+extended fiscal consequence from the 2010 decade in general.....a lot of economic potential was not realised w.r.t how things were going in 2000 - 2010 (i.e 2008 economic crisis)....so this has especially taken its toll on scope for military foreign acquisitions. But at least strong...

Honestly "gunboat" gives me total different image to what I would call "Warship" (for laypeople that dont know differences between destroyer, frigate, corvette etc) tbh heh. PT boat, now thats a gunboat. Anyway let us see what Indonesia goes for in the end....

Yah I had a look at SIPRI just to see what the numbers were: As you can see there has been considerable drop for India in last few years (average around 1 billion a year) from the peak of 2010 - 2013 (where it averaged around 3 billion a year). China's peak was around 2000 - 2006 (I made a...