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  1. Nilgiri

    News France offers the Jean Bart and Latouche-Tréville frigates to Greece

    It sound too pricey, yes I just looked these ships were laid down in the mid 80s. Greece GDP is now 200 billion USD roughly (from the 2008 peak of 350 billion in those older dollars too), their finances are still very precarious.... they would need to extract maximum economy out of every pricey...
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    UK army, navy and RAF all to be cut back, defence review confirms

    typhoon esp looks like a ripe rational picking for BD.... estimated total airframe life is 6000 hours It seem they get about (21,000/136) ~ 150 hours per year per airframe in RAF service: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/typhoon_flying_hours Assuming say a 14 year old bird (I think...
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    UK army, navy and RAF all to be cut back, defence review confirms

    His hands are tied fiscally. Right wing or left wing or centre doesnt matter much here if you look at certain key numbers that are spooking british establishment esp after brexit. No country outside the US has their version of the fed and 110 trillion "assumed" "delayed emperor new clothes"...
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    News France offers the Jean Bart and Latouche-Tréville frigates to Greece

    How many years are forseeably left on these two for Greece to operate?
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/static-test-of-first-stage-solid-motor-of-indias-mini-rocket-sslv-unsuccessful/articleshow/81653164.cms The static test of first stage solid motor (SS1) of ISRO's Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) -- a new-generation compact rocket -- was...
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    India Navy Aircraft Carriers

    The TDV is also captured in this pic...
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    India Navy Aircraft Carriers

    The TDV is also captured in this pic...
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    India Special Forces

    Thank you for starting thread on it. Depending on activity/interest I might pin it later. Pic of Garuds:
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    China throws EU trade deal to the wolf warriors

    https://www.politico.eu/article/china-throws-eu-trade-deal-to-the-wolf-warriors-sanctions-investment-pact/ EU-China relations have nose-dived in a showdown over sanctions. China's double-barreled sanctions attack on the EU on Monday means the landmark Beijing-Brussels trade deal is now on...
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    Casual Discussion Music

    lmao honest abe called it out earlier:
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    TR Economy & Updates

    Hmmm yah I missed that news, I assumed Turk Central bank already increase to 19% from 17% earlier in year....because of this reform package that was released: "Price stability" ...."targets inflation" I thought some sense was arriving....it was just deception smoke and mirrors in the end. I...
  12. Nilgiri

    Is Turkey turning into the next Iran?

    To get comparable equivalencies for comparison, you need some similar initial conditions and major perturbations of note. Ataturk's system w.r.t Turkey has faced ups and downs (incl current one, whatever your perspective is on it)....but it has persevered aligned to the aegis of that setup...
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    India Space Indian Space Program

    https://www.isro.gov.in/update/22-mar-2021/isro-makes-breakthrough-demonstration-of-free-space-quantum-key-distribution-qkd For the first time in the country, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully demonstrated free-space Quantum Communication over a distance of 300 m. A...
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    India India - Pakistan Relations

    There is definitely a military/tactical angle to it driving it...especially in the short term. I am just operating with assumption that any notable diminishment of that noise/surface waves succeeds for sake of argument....so both populations (esp the much smaller one) can take a gander at the...
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    China has world's strongest military; India at number four: Military Direct's study

    With larger populations come (arguably exponentially) larger historical inertias....somewhat hard to gauge at first (esp removed) glance. Like to project 1.2 billion on yourself also would need context of such things as scaled size of taiping civil war to that population (upstream) too (and all...
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    TR Economy & Updates

    Insult to injury is the 10% overnight depreciation happened without any interest rate change (or policy change) at all. This is all latency in the underlying trust acting for nothing and for "free" at the 19% interest setting....essentially an early advance for expected interest rate decreases...
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    TR Economy & Updates

    A simple track of what was supposed to be delivered by now, compared to what has happened already says it own story. Then there is also the fundamental question of what is the validity of the two models: A) Build factories first with what you have and what you can save (to earn forex and...
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    A-darter missile for JF-17?

    It has long been gamed into our threat analysis as far back as the 90s itself with the darter (BVR) offered by RSA to what was then known as the "super - 7" project....and integrated now I believe. So the WVR darter would have been analysed around that period since RSA made itself known as...

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