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An interesting video to watch @Joe Shearer The Swedes have set up quite the qualitative "combined arms" at the battalion level itself (and doing an overall 1:1 mix between tanks and mech infantry). This contrasted with our more division level approach w.r.t RAPID (in a 2:1 mix at brigade...

Good to see you bud, hope all is going ok on your end. Drop by more and check in when you can!

https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/isro-to-launch-data-relay-satellite-to-track-gaganyaan-1794804-2021-04-25 The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a data relay satellite that will help maintain contact with the Gagangyaan mission throughout after the launch, sources said. The...

As stated, Ex Varuna commences now, and (pics etc) can be updated to this thread might as well. I will change title of thread to reflect it. The 19th edition of the Indian and French Navy bilateral exercise ‘VARUNA-2021’ from 25th to 27th April 2021. From the Indian Navy’s side, destroyer...

Been following twitter myself, its lot of extra coverage from massive journalist and indian media groups there (on top of indian citizens themselves)....so really the reporting by BBC/NYT/CNN or whomever else in the typical media cabal worldwide....I really have lost trust on a good long time as...

Yes you must learn from the drastic situation India is facing on ground right now, the 2nd wave timing is about the same for Pakistan overall....so just prevent the unneeded gatherings and shield all elderly as much as possible.....and have abudance of testing as possible. The good news is that...

NYT has always been into extreme tragedy porn for a long time....to get as much clickbait sensationalism/paranoia for later. While the situation is a dire one (and should not be underplayed), they have cherrypicked (anecdotes mostly) the worst of it and presented it as the entire situation...

Pretty much every country to some degree has (herd immunity) given the time it took to get vaccines vis-a-vis the basic economic consequence of a total lockdown etc (thus you basically submit to herd immunity strategy when you open up with adequate safeguards given as much as possible to...

Interesting thing to watch out for this year:

There is now some movement from US (I suspect from the mounting pressure + "diplomacy" in backdoor channels) regarding the requests made for a while now: Let us see how it goes.

Well you wouldn't catch me (or I suspect most people) training+volunteering to go high-pressure underwater in a tin can on regular basis to begin with....let me put it that way. I'm a landlubber (though with a taste for reading about Capt Nemo from young age) that likes a swim now and then...

Vaccine hesitancy is a big problem worldwide....but yes always start with your loved ones and work outwards from that to do your bit to help with the crisis. In fact India it is overall less the case (Shekhar gupta had good episode on it with some data). It is extremely strong here in North...

I lifted that particular line verbatim from retired submariner (my buddy who served in RCN). They are aware of what can go wrong in something most ppl above surface think is routine/mundane. Everything is designed as best as possible to stop a catastrophe cascade from happening (if a failure...

Submariners are a cut above all else in military....let me tell you why. The main danger in torpedo firing isn’t a faulty weapon, it’s that you’re opening a great big hole in the people tank. No other operation in the military is done like this, and so frequently and routinely (with this...