interview meandered into many various topics, quite an interesting one to me though.
@Joe Shearer et al. would like to hear any of your thoughts/comments etc...
I'll get to this later maybe.... India has bigger worthier things to focus on...than spend sweet precious time convincing every last person online from whichever place and agenda about whatever.
People can cherry pick and be anecdotal about literally anything with huge countries....and India is...
Yes getting 1 -2 phalcons also would have made zero difference at the time...given what was forked out for them.
The whole point was NETRA downstream...by what LRDE could learn, develop with help from having phalcon on hand.
Same thing with Green pine (arm and a leg expense for what we are...
When you have nationalism and chauvinism or whatever degree of it in the individual, the individual is often forced to defend and take cue from his country's dispensation/history to some level in a "no matter what" kind of way. This is something that extends worldwide, but takes on specific...
Few graphs for reference:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDS.TOTL.CD?locations=TR-PK-IN
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BN.CAB.XOKA.CD?locations=TR-PK-IN
i.e the basic average CAD pressure (over the last 5 years or so) for the three countries (w.r.t savings) are something like...
Its being looked into:
Past the bureaucracy, problem with India is eggs split into many baskets etc, rather than target/prioritise (by taking educated guess etc) a few key programs and sections within these programs....to get the vertical breakout.
This then gets its own inertia feed back...
I mostly gather info a bit more specifically, a couple forums (unfortunately its all in chinese etc) and also a few contacts in the know.
But pitching in one that might be of interest in this category:
http://china-defense.blogspot.com/
@Paro might know some more, I think he was one that gave...
Latest reapers are more like 30 - 40 million each (for internal US military), and thats barebones iirc (no weapons)...and excl. infra + training cost thats already sunk in much earlier.
For foreign sales, here is Taiwan getting 4 for 600 million bucks recently...
Same kind of tier of Pakistan would need basic things in India to involve same amount of people as the national population of Pakistan (220 million people) when we talk about its aggregate in Pakistan.
Definitely same kind of tier obviously:
How did things look in 1991 (the year of the Indian...
seems by total overall + quality wise (FDI), its dutch:
https://santandertrade.com/en/portal/establish-overseas/turkey/foreign-investment?url_de_la_page=%2Fen%2Fportal%2Festablish-overseas%2Fturkey%2Fforeign-investment&&actualiser_id_banque=oui&id_banque=0&memoriser_choix=memoriser...
https://www.carandbike.com/news/maruti-suzuki-exports-cross-2-million-milestone-2379797
India's largest carmaker, Maruti Suzuki, has exported its two millionth car from the Mundra Port in Gujarat. A batch of Maruti Suzuki cars comprising S-Presso, Swift and Vitara Brezza left for South Africa...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/world/canada/32-rescued-ship-nova-scotia.html
A scallop trawler from Nova Scotia was hit by fire, then lost power and began taking on water in stormy seas. Rescue teams from Canada and the United States mounted a joint operation to save the crew.
OTTAWA — The...
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-army-to-receive-8000-new-pistols
The Canadian Forces is hoping to have the first of 8,000 pistols in the hands of army personnel by next year.
Requirements for the new pistols are contained in a recently released draft bid package...
I literally started out referencing one of the best economists on the subject ever. He was instrumental to the development of the ICP matrix and PPP model used by a number of your quoted international organisations.
So try again maybe? It is not my "pet theory".
A reference's relevance to an...
Probably (officially) the weapons package + ground station architecture + life support costs etc.
Let us see what is included.
Like you say, US probably charges top dollar knowing India's interest, capability and that it will have a deep poke inside and not be a long term (non-NATO) return...
In many ways the stalingrad-equivalent of the more naval-inclined pacific campaign (i.e parallels in logistical and replenishment force pressures and assurance and of course the objective w.r.t significant commitments and consequence downstream w.r.t strategic initiative transfer)
One notices...
MQ-1B MTOW is about 1000 kg on similar sized platform.
It has 2 hardpoints (can carry 2x hellfire).
I suppose India+Israel can look to do similar on the heron platforms India has in ISTAR only...i.e retrofit a couple hardpoints (maybe even 3 or 4), have them carry nag/helina or hellfire...
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/gisat-1-launch-likely-by-early-april-satellite-can-aid-military-ops/articleshow/81378415.cms
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) will make a second attempt to give India its first state-of-the art earth observation satellite, by...