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Will have to do better than a decimation (technically). A decimation is just 1 in 10. Taiwan will have to find a way to sense and interdict a large majority of Chinese vessels to make landing attempts as painful as possible. i.e any landings have to be like Dieppe. PLA cannot be allowed to...

Yes broadly the biggest influences regarding shipyard investments etc were (post independence): 50s- 60s British (inertia from British Raj era) 60s - 90s Soviet and Russian (especially close cooperation promoted by folks like Admiral Sergey Gorshkov, especially after Indo-USSR strategic...

Yes there are various less optimal trajectories available depending on sea state, weather etc.... these will be chosen before launch. Radars have to pay attention to weather as well :P

Broadest current number of various (pre-service) stages of IN vessels launched/under-construction/fitting-out/sea-trial etc: SSBN (Arihant) - 3 SSK (Kalvari) - 2 Destroyer (Vizag) - 2 Frigate (Nilgiri) - 7 Frigate (Talwar) - 4 Corvette (ASW-SWC) - 9 Survey Vessels (GRSE) - 4 Multi purpose...

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/ins-mormugao-launch-today-5-things-to-know-about-guided-missile-destroyer-ship-11671344484658.html INS Mormugao launch today. 5 things to know about guided missile destroyer ship 1 min read . Updated: 18 Dec 2022, 12:39 PM IST A historic day for the Indian...

Maybe @Gessler knows more about it. Last I heard it was being field tested.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/india-test-fires-agni-v-ballistic-missile-8326983/ INDIA on Thursday carried out a successful night time flight test of the long-range surface-to-surface Nuclear Capable Ballistic missile, Agni-5 amidst increased tension with China following the...

Yes the basis of the terminal stage kinematics are similar to yakhont/oniks: https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/ss-n-26/ When approaching the target, the missile descends to a 10 – 15 m altitude to avoid detection. At low/terminal altitudes, the missile’s maximum speed is 680m/s (Mach 2)...

I will come to these interesting and informative posts you have made when I have a bit more time (unfortunately I will be quite occupied till after new years). Please do find and post these papers in the interim if possible.

@Anmdt :ROFLMAO:

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Feels bad, they had so many excellent chances this game, but the luck didn't drop their way. They fought to the end and can hold their heads high....this was outsized WC performance by them.....they have won many admirers as result. Great tenacious spirit by giant-humbler is best kind of...

I'll let other mods and admins decide on that I guess. I didn't realise this was in TR section to begin with. BTW, I'll leave this here regarding the massive debacle and failure that the F-16 turned out to be, the problems in its genesis just kept compounding clearly...

Welcome to the internet :LOL: It would be deja vu if we had the internet ecosystem for all the troubles the F-16 faced in the 70s and 80s during its early days. In fact I would say pretty much hand in glove identical if it could be done. Folks want reductive takes on something (confirmation...

Nice prediction bro 🤭 *runs*

please upgrade your potato bro ;) But thanks for all you have contributed so far to this thread. (y)