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I entirely agree. That was always what I have suggested for some time now given the stretched resources and priority matrix I foresee.

For transient foreign platform (i.e these 2), I would say F-18 is looking more likely at this point. It is not officially chosen yet though. India intends to have its own TEDBF as the "final" selection for use in its carrier program, but that is well after say F-18 is acquired.

The way I see the situation, I would imagine Indian navy logisticians/analysts have factored in such things as: - 2 years off the bat simply to get the new drydock (at CSL) online at this size (310 m and 65,000 ton DWT). There is no other drydock currently to handle this size and type of ship...

What's this, Indonesia casanova competition in warkop lol.

Happy birthday. 🎂 🎉 FWIW lot of your posts make me chuckle....so I'm glad you are here.

India for first time voted against Russia at UNSC over the Ukraine matter. Russia wanted to stop Zelensky tele-conference to UN.....and India voted in favour to allow Zelensky his address....along with rest of UNSC members (except for Russia and China). Russia of course voted against and China...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/navy-pushes-for-third-aircraft-carrier-after-ins-vikrant-to-retain-edge-over-china-in-ior/articleshow/93784560.cms NEW DELHI/KOCHI: With China aggressively building new aircraft carriers and a blue-water navy to counter the US and project power around...

A nice change of pace @T-123456 et al:

Russia claims they hacked HIMARS Yeah I'll take "things that never happened" for 800 please trebek. https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a40958633/russia-claims-it-hacked-himars-rocket-launchers/

No blisk purely refers to it being permanently integrally made (i.e blades + disk in one entire piece at the end, i.e the blades can no longer be individually removed). If you slot blades in (and you can remove them separately afterwards too for say maintenance), that is just a regular...

https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/drdo-and-indian-navy-successfully-flight-test-vl-srsam-off-odisha-coast-122082300727_1.html DRDO and Indian Navy successfully flight-test VL-SRSAM off Odisha coast Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy on...

For those interested, watching this video in this thread will clearly illustrate exactly what Russia has plainly lacked in logistics and support (using the US as reference point to compare) ...... things that need heavy investment and solid accounting + feedback process from the inside out...

Battle Order put out another high quality ORBAT video, an interesting look at ORBAT dynamics when you move back to divisional force structure basis from brigade level. @AlphaMike @Paro @UkroTurk et al.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/us-demand-to-lift-indias-lab-made-diamond-exports-to-8-billion/articleshow/93713052.cms https://www.mobilityoutlook.com/news/indian-auto-component-industry-reports-highest-ever-revenue/

There is often a large amount of (qualitative and quantitative) man hours invested into all kind of things in the "lower tiers" of RnD that are not so hot topic to talk about like apex stuff people sometimes assume is the only frontier or hindrance. The pyramid apex and total height is not the...

India will need to see a serious concrete plan from the West on how it intends to move supply chains they have invested into China....either to India or back to the west (these amount to 100s of billions of investment and trillions of production) Otherwise continued tokenism (to look past...

My original intention was to move it since I clearly could see it derailing fast. I gave some leeway for the member (Afif) being new to this forum etc as well. I also left the convo chain up here for a while in case any member wanted to re-rail it back from a Turkish foreign policy angle or...