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No. 1 chess personality too: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Real friendly easy going personality. His chess apex was some years ago though.

Confirmed it will be the longer range block: https://www.aninews.in/news/national/general-news/indian-army-air-force-to-get-800-km-strike-range-brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missiles20250324212325/

the sailor inhaler as me and buddies called it frequently.

About 1100? F-35 have been produced so far? The total order the US alone wants is about 2456 aircraft and this is expected to take till 2044 to acquire (with block upgrades along the way). This has its intersection with this 6th gen program own further RnD and production commencement....so...

Wasn't really a political decision, this was expected overall by simple (final) integrator capacity at hand currently (purely on military side), given what is and will occupy LM and NG capacities (NG transferred/ended large amount of their production capacity in the 90s to begin with further...

Indian navy Heron drone spotted (rare):

Yah its long story. In the end "guns vs butter" getting lumped together as "guns AND butter" in one entity has its effects from the issue baked into "vs" to begin with. For military ("guns" side), it has long been (in some ways since the Bronze age, but definitely in modern era even more so)...

To some degree yes, but not so relevant as one would assume. The pedigree of Boeing "military" (OG Boeing1 + NAA + Rockwell + Rocketdyne + MD1 et al.) is almost perfectly disjointed away from "civilian" (OG Boeing2 + MD2), even in the corporate top layer to this day....and then the set of...

Makes sense in the "rotation" LM will be busy with F-35 for some time to come....and NG will have B-21 to contend with. So Boeing being picked is not a surprise here at all.

I would imagine from deduction and (from page 5 - 6 of following doc), substantial parts of the integrated fire control are still imported, since there is unlikely to be follow on order (defence acquisition wants to move to TGS gun for next round which they want <15 tons in weight i.e about 3.5...

Govt is attempting to bring the current procurement process length from ~ 2 years to 6 months.....let us see how it goes https://www.business-standard.com/external-affairs-defence-security/news/govt-approves-faster-defence-procurement-guidelines-atags-for-army-125032001231_1.html

There is mention of AoN for NETRA AEWC here, overdue lets hope for best:

7000 crore INR ~ 820 million USD (about 2.7 mil USD per gun + towing vehicle) https://theprint.in/defence/finally-atags-deal-worth-rs-7000-cr-set-to-be-signed-next-week-armys-focus-shifts-to-tgs/2556134/ 60% of the contract, which involves 307 howitzers and 327 towing vehicles, will go to...