Correction, the coal is there just off shore, PRC is refusing to complete the transaction....coz its "tariffed" now.
Talk about cutting nose to spite face:
https://defencehub.live/threads/australia-china-tensions.3058/page-3#post-36589
Sure CCP did a great job indeed, just have to take their word on it, just like everything else (famines, purges, glorious revolutions, tianenmen google results till google banned, winnie the pooh till winnie the pooh banned etc etc)...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/india-state-led-payment-network-150328524.html
A surge in e-commerce and declining cash usage during the COVID-19 pandemic have boosted India’s state-led shared payments infrastructure.
According to the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), the nation...
Worse still, its irrelevant.
Whole thing is a ponzi scam, thats all you get in the end with a 7% savings rate (and trust rate by the people) in the country.
There is a key reason Chinese put their hands in pockets and start whistling looking at the sky if you ask about actual factories and...
Collect and discuss all articles and analysis here regarding Indian SSN program.
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http://forceindia.net/guest-column/time-to-get-real/
Guest Column | Time to Get Real
The Indian Navy should be more realistic about its plan to build nuclear attack submarines
Capt...
China Australia tensions are at an all time high, after Australia called for an independent investigation into the origin of the coronavirus. Chinese foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian famously tweeted a fake image of an Australia soldier doing something not nice, tying in to an...
A rotor and stator cutaway diagram ( I forgot to add):
Source (good reading): https://www.flight-mechanic.com/gas-turbine-engines-axial-flow-compressors/
I'm talking within the class of engine we are talking about. F-18s pretty brutally put two together that Tejas uses one of. So you are naturally going to get lot more payload and range by doing that.
Making a single engine lot larger and thrusty is different to what I'm getting at. Yes F-35...
Jet Engine + Gas Turbine discussion has been moved here given larger interest/scope:
https://defencehub.live/threads/jet-engine-gas-turbine-tech-thread.3916/
No (many parts inside are indeed adjustable/variable during operation), let me tell you why, hopefully without confusing.
I might as well input the time now to save time later (as I figure lot of people in this forum are interested in this subject and can have a future reference to use).
First...
I see black lagoon being mentioned a few times.
Worthy one....I've always enjoyed that part of the world too (Bangkok/Thailand, which iirc was being imitated for the overall locale)...throw in bunch of misfits into a PT boat....good stuff. Liked their approach to that whole russian syndicate...
That is all linked to it being single engined in the end.
It again comes down to do you want to go local MIC and build up more that way mid and long term...or same ole I need the best-est thing out there and keep doing that forking arm and a leg each time and foregoing funding and dev to...
https://pg-intel.com/defense/indian-navy-to-get-bigger-improved-and-better-armed-ssbn-ins-arighat-early-next-year/
The larger, improved and better-armed Arighat is within the last phases of sea trials and is more likely to be commissioned into service early subsequent yr. After teething...
https://www.livefistdefence.com/2020/12/12-years-after-pitch-to-indian-navy-boeing-ski-jumps-super-hornet.html
It was in 2008 that Boeing officially communicated to the Indian Navy that F/A-18 Super Hornet fighters could operate off the (then under refurbishment) Admiral Gorshkov aircraft...
IAC-1 will hit active duty in 2022 sometime. Right now basin trials is finished and 2021 will be final fitting out and sea trials.
Navy is not interested in N-LCA...it very likely will not be bought. The idea was to further develop it into Twin engine model (TEDBF) that Navy wants...it looks...
Too much talk here about lesser shows...there is really only one that matters at all...
There's even a resident Saiyan on this forum *mindblown*....too OP!