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Yes I largely agree. Hence Indonesia needs a large commitment to Navy going forward. Out of interest what was the breakup in Indonesia military spending for 2019 (or a recent year) among army, AF and Navy? I think a useful starting point. i.e is split like 40/20/40 or 40/30/30 etc currently.

Brutally to the point. "what" cuts through the BS and just lets you know what's what (y)

Yes but I am saying you also have to consider the distance from centre of mass. In other axis, for an aircraft carrier, an irregular shaped runway already imposes huge design constraints on the ships innards placement and ballast tank penalty needed (to balance the whole thing). Not from the...

Supposed is the key operative word. Pakistan has a storied history of nurture, unleash and blowback on itself....w.r.t the why's and hows of the objective resolutions (euphemism to carry water for islamism of the draconian majoritarian variety) done after the founding father died (when he and a...

Dratted aerial projectiles! Form a Testudo! Steady march men!

If you size this motor, you will find the problem. Have to take into account where you want to place the heaviest stuff found on ship in the free body moment diagram. You can get away with it somewhat more on a submarine, as the whole thing submerges and you can size/place the ballast tanks to...

Cuz lots of ching chong wumao apps out there..... gotta thump them back to where they came from!

Yes, trust nothing that govt (or media proxy or corporate shill) puts out on this. I have looked at underlying data for the investment (over last 10 years) needed to do such a thing, and its very lacking to do such a thing...especially in just few years time. TR needs to get its investment...

Out of interest....wonder if we can have a discussion of macro allocation defence wise INA has done in recent times and for forseeable future. i.e what is the % split between army, AF and navy w.r.t total defence budget in following years: 1990 (or as far back as you want to go) 2000 2010...

The issue seems to have pre-existed within ANA as well. US tried an approach of clean slate + stitching this stuff together and it failed pretty spectacularly in the end. Similar to approach they took with disbanding Iraqi army completely and what those (now unemployed) folks went on to form...

This dude seems on point....any idea what became of him in the Pak political scene? https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/79107/I-d-do-the-same-as-terror-suspects-says-Imran-Khan

First half of vid concerns myanmar civil war impacting on indian border areas

In my opinion....there’s little chance at Canada joining a larger SSN program without a suitable large carrot and/or stick from the US. But maybe the US will provide that extra impetus going forward, we shall see. First a better mechanism needs to be squared away regarding the whole arctic...

Interesting paper to read from 2019: https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/290/405/305/hlibchuk.pdf It is the references/bibliography of such that I tend to find more interesting when I delve into such topics in earlier years. Alas, time is increasingly short for me to do so recently.

TIFWIW: The structure, pooling and experience charted by NATO makes such a (standalone) capability increasingly redundant within NATO (my opinion, formed by various interaction with those in the know + research). In the force structure "Tier A" countries (nuclear capable + marine capable...

Seems little interest in picking this up here. I will give the tl;dr conclusion from purely technical + rational + "cultural" standpoint. The researched, deployed and proven HEU cycle of the USN (and RN given the UK heavily borrowed/cooperated from it) requires about a 30 year frequency for a...

Broad category wise In 2019, TR imported around 38 billion USD and exported around 29 billion USD. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/tur

I believe ballistic re-entry w.r.t conventional warhead designs (i.e high water mark of materials, geometries, economy etc) put the max apogee (for say an ICBM) around 1500 km mark (i.e so the thing doesnt basically burn up). Hence the swordfish upgrade to around that mark AFAIK for max range...

You don't understand because you coming at it rationally. But there is an irrational divide in the anglo-saxon head. Out of dozen or so "WASPS" I have had to deal with in higher tier stuff....for every good+fair minded one there is a foul minded one when certain push come to shove things are...

Any general missile/guided munition (like anti tank etc) goes in general missile thread (or you can just make a new thread on it if you want simple and it gets archived later). Dedicated separate threads for now so far are: cruise, ballistic, scramjet I believe.