https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/military-exports-malaysian-team-to-visit-soon-for-lca-trial/articleshow/81881074.cms?utm_source=twitter_pwa&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharebuttons&from=mdr
A Malaysian Air Force team is expected to visit India soon to assess the...
Have to wait and see.
It kind of further confirms that China did invest time and effort into Suu Kyi/NLD to balance more with junta (who are not that pro-China really if you look at the history). ...i.e China is wary (esp behind scenes) if junta rule re-establishes strongly.
Russia just...
Archiving up to early March 2021 completed.
A few archive names were amended/broadened (eg. Infra added to economy).
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Have a happy April everyone.
Yah I know, its just there is always this huge lag period (in India) between when the product is matured and ready to go and the production line of scale....of the lucky projects that actually get commited to. There is this long poke toes in the lukewarm water that seem to be babu time filler...
http://www.canadiandefencereview.com/news?news/3126
Airbus has been qualified by the Canadian government as a bidder for the Strategic Tanker Transport Capability (STTC) project. It now moves to the next stage of the call for tender, with a draft request for proposal (RFP) expected in Q3 2021...
Now we need someone to give kick up butt to place actual commited order for these like with Tejas. Guess it will come after the "initial batch" stuff. Sigh....
At least 50 dead so far....Rest in Peace :(
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56612248
At least 50 people have been killed and dozens more injured after a train carrying nearly 500 crashed and then derailed in a tunnel in Taiwan.
The eight-carriage train reportedly hit a construction...
Delayed+extended fiscal consequence from the 2010 decade in general.....a lot of economic potential was not realised w.r.t how things were going in 2000 - 2010 (i.e 2008 economic crisis)....so this has especially taken its toll on scope for military foreign acquisitions.
But at least strong...
Honestly "gunboat" gives me total different image to what I would call "Warship" (for laypeople that dont know differences between destroyer, frigate, corvette etc) tbh heh.
PT boat, now thats a gunboat.
Anyway let us see what Indonesia goes for in the end....
Yah I had a look at SIPRI just to see what the numbers were:
As you can see there has been considerable drop for India in last few years (average around 1 billion a year) from the peak of 2010 - 2013 (where it averaged around 3 billion a year).
China's peak was around 2000 - 2006 (I made a...
Relatively new channel worth keeping an eye on, some interesting analysis and history already released:
https://www.youtube.com/c/BattleOrder/videos
@Kartal1 @Test7 @UkroTurk 🚬 @anmdt @Vergennes @VCheng @MisterLike et al.
It would have been way I would have personally gone....and it make sense with Indian own BMD+SAM layering heritage (initial BMD seeding tech was israeli i.e elta green pine etc and barak/MRSAM has impressed lot in Indian military too) that has now grown substantially with the PDV etc.
But I...
As of now it is at 36.
Plans/ambitions to add more are always there....but nothing official has been said yet.
Hopefully we do get more....I think we need at least 10 squadrons to be in good position....but at least 6 squadrons are needed imo.