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Fusion power is seen as an important part of India’s long-term energy supply. The government hopes to build domestic demonstrators by mid-century. Saurav Jha reports In January 2020 India’s first Tokamak, the Aditya, completed 30 years of safe operation. Those thirty years saw India making...

This Europe tour has 2 main points: > There is evidence of diplomatic rapprochement with Germany now that Merkel is gone. Relations with Schmidt & Kohl were warm, strategic even. Things went cold since Merkel came to power (~2005) for reasons that aren't completely clear to me (Chinese...

I copied this over to a doc file, don't even remember where from...take with pinch of salt: BEL is making it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharat_Electronics

Looks like MT30 it is.

OneWeb, the satellite company part-owned by the UK government, has done a deal to use Indian rockets. The arrangement will supplement the contract the London-headquartered firm has with American rival and rocket operator SpaceX of California. The new deal was announced as UK Prime Minister...

Rudram-III air to surface missile: Based on the diagram, Kuntal Biswas came up with this amazing 3D model:

What 'phase' of the universe after the Big Bang each megaproject studies/seeks to recreate. Note: the graphic only shows those programs that the Indian govt. is directly invested in as a partner, there are several other, smaller scale programs across the world that study each of the 'phases' so...

IRST meant for Tejas Mk-2

The 6th and last Kalvari-class (Scorpene) SSK has been launched at MDL Mumbai

~$670 billion total exports

Unfortunately the gratitude will last all of 2 months.

On paper its not much, but it will be significant in the real world - especially due to the effects being compounded by every ton of useful payload/fuel you add.

There is a major difference though - US no longer desperately needs Pakistan in Afg, and there are going to be major differences in their attitude toward Pakistan's relationship with China going forward.

There has long been a saying: Pakistan is run by three As Army Allah America It has been proven true yet again. In some ways the developments have been pretty positive for both US & India - they get to consolidate a military leadership they're willing to work with vis-a-vis Afghanistan or...

The same is the problem with the subs contracted for Pakistan. They were supposed to be equipped with MTU diesels but Germany later backed out - now they're going with lower quality Chinese ones.

Currently they are inducting PL-15E from China - which is a dual-pulse solid rocket missile (similar in concept to India's under development Astra Mk-II) for achieving long range, but no Ramjet program in the works as far as I know, so can't be compared to this SFDR or Meteor. At some point I...

Being a user of Hexa for last ~4 years I can say this is no longer the case.

I'm pretty confident all Indian-origin missiles & PGMs can be integrated without any issue...the only exception would be BrahMos NG because of Russian components.

I think that for a STOBAR application where the burden of takeoff is going to be completely on the plane's own engines, I'd rather put my money on the 2 x F414s than the 2 x M88s...414s are just more powerful is all, which should translate into a higher overall payload capacity for F/A-18 flying...

Sat pics December 2021 - via IISS https://www.iiss.org/blogs/military-balance/2022/01/assessing-indias-nascent-nuclear-triad