Anything this critical system wise....India will make as sanction proof as possible.
It will be in contract how much spares, rotatables, LRUs etc will be stockpiled and/or made in India....if F-18 (or any foreign platform) is to proceed.
I don't like the gas block being exposed as it is especially.....especially when they know their SOF operators already use shroud there to place hands if needed.
The age old (AK) issue of wiggle tolerance on free float there crops up again as well.
Cost cuttings skimping on easy stuff.... (yet...
tbh tho, one could see that coming given the internal propaganda need and super easy edit on offer.
If you can filter/prevent the original video from enough eyes.... its super cheap smut to pass around essentially.
He goes into the noticeable bad choices (even though Russia had capacity to go differently) in this video fairly well:
@RhythmoftheRain0601 @MisterLike @trishna_amrta @Exorcist @Hexciter et al.
Some of same issues will definitely plague the Ak-203 production series India is going for too...
Author starts with mentioning some other neighbours for comparison.
Those neighbours don't occupy Indian territory to begin with, have not promoted terror attacks on Indian soil (and shelter its perpetrators) and have much better relations with India as result.
So, no there will be no measure...
On May 13th the Israeli airforce struck a Syrian AD base. Reports in Israeli media now that Russian S-300 batteries opened up on the Israeli fighters during the strike, for the first time. IDF not commenting.
@500 anything to add? (by time you read this)
It shocked me initially (I was making my way back to uni from summer break and it was all over the airport news etc iirc), but at the time I soon felt it made more sense that way (something smaller + unpredictable) compared to what people thought would be "likelier" with something lot bigger...
wish metallica ended this song a lot better in a more non-thrashy way and referencing the initial (almost symphonic) opening riff melody more/better
that ending clashes too much with the phenomenal start and middle.
still an excellent song, one of their best IMO.
Metallica has frustratingly...
A pretty good summarised look into PRC politics and geopolitics in the current timeframe.
Will be interesting to see who wins the political tussle internally. @Paro et al.
Yah here , Canadian wilderness is quite close to me....in the environs I now know fairly well when I am no longer on "human turf" and rather another apex predator's turf....and to be wary/careful of the boundaries for this.
Yup you are right about the salties and nileys.
I miss Steve Irwin...
UAF has literally explained what it actually is a bunch of times now (a collective image):
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-admits-ghost-kyiv-isnt-real-wartime-myth-russia-rcna26867
But still people who are angry at how badly Russia has done in this war so far.... will keep saying...