Only silver lining I see of F-18 or Rafale-M is that TEDBF is then clearly a non-starter and all those guys can instead be sent to MWF program and/or AMCA and (hopefully) accelerate those instead.
India has so many things in so many baskets, we dont have the money to acquire/commit to all...
Let us wait and see what this drone deal even includes in any fine print that comes later.
I agree that it likely includes some comms related stuff I was mentioning earlier too.
That is probably why the taiwanese price was also jacked up to effectively 150 mil a drone....about 5 times the per...
It is plainly obvious you rely on furious googling and getting a 10% rudimentary top layer of some subject to use for your ulterior agenda here.
So please, if you do not actually understand where the PPP theory was developed and which countries specifically illustrated its need and why (all of...
Yeah because from what I understand, the F404 is to power the initial batches of Hurjet, but they leave it open after that...I guess depending on how the local engine development (f110 derivative) goes at large.
This is important especially for further ecosystem of this category (hurjet class)...
interview meandered into many various topics, quite an interesting one to me though.
@Joe Shearer et al. would like to hear any of your thoughts/comments etc...
I'll get to this later maybe.... India has bigger worthier things to focus on...than spend sweet precious time convincing every last person online from whichever place and agenda about whatever.
People can cherry pick and be anecdotal about literally anything with huge countries....and India is...
Yes getting 1 -2 phalcons also would have made zero difference at the time...given what was forked out for them.
The whole point was NETRA downstream...by what LRDE could learn, develop with help from having phalcon on hand.
Same thing with Green pine (arm and a leg expense for what we are...
When you have nationalism and chauvinism or whatever degree of it in the individual, the individual is often forced to defend and take cue from his country's dispensation/history to some level in a "no matter what" kind of way. This is something that extends worldwide, but takes on specific...
Few graphs for reference:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDS.TOTL.CD?locations=TR-PK-IN
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BN.CAB.XOKA.CD?locations=TR-PK-IN
i.e the basic average CAD pressure (over the last 5 years or so) for the three countries (w.r.t savings) are something like...
Its being looked into:
Past the bureaucracy, problem with India is eggs split into many baskets etc, rather than target/prioritise (by taking educated guess etc) a few key programs and sections within these programs....to get the vertical breakout.
This then gets its own inertia feed back...
I mostly gather info a bit more specifically, a couple forums (unfortunately its all in chinese etc) and also a few contacts in the know.
But pitching in one that might be of interest in this category:
http://china-defense.blogspot.com/
@Paro might know some more, I think he was one that gave...
Latest reapers are more like 30 - 40 million each (for internal US military), and thats barebones iirc (no weapons)...and excl. infra + training cost thats already sunk in much earlier.
For foreign sales, here is Taiwan getting 4 for 600 million bucks recently...
Same kind of tier of Pakistan would need basic things in India to involve same amount of people as the national population of Pakistan (220 million people) when we talk about its aggregate in Pakistan.
Definitely same kind of tier obviously:
How did things look in 1991 (the year of the Indian...
seems by total overall + quality wise (FDI), its dutch:
https://santandertrade.com/en/portal/establish-overseas/turkey/foreign-investment?url_de_la_page=%2Fen%2Fportal%2Festablish-overseas%2Fturkey%2Fforeign-investment&&actualiser_id_banque=oui&id_banque=0&memoriser_choix=memoriser...
https://www.carandbike.com/news/maruti-suzuki-exports-cross-2-million-milestone-2379797
India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, has exported its two millionth car from the Mundra Port in Gujarat. A batch of Maruti Suzuki cars comprising S-Presso, Swift and Vitara Brezza left for South Africa...