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There are many special provisions with Ireland given previous political union status (and remnant of it in case of Northern Ireland). All Irish citizens for example are free to join and serve in the British military immediately. There is freedom of movement for citizens of both countries I...

Welcome sis ☺ Nice to have you at this new and growing quality hangout spot....(y)

Kraut finished his 3 part Turkey series with final upload (final current one I am still working through). Here are all of them in order: It has been a very informative series for me thus far, good to watch to get some interesting details on Turkey's history (especially for the non-Turk)...

Great to see, lets hope there is sustained recovery moving forward.

https://eurasiantimes.com/drdo-accelerates-work-on-laser-weapons-but-where-does-india-stand-against-china-russia-the-us/ India’s premier R&D agency, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) announced earlier this month that it is planning a national programme to develop DEWs in...

Yeah, with us it seem to be mostly heavy water related in that period of time. Pakistan case was all kind of technology they got from Germany: https://www.wisconsinproject.org/asias-nuclear-nightmare-the-german-connection/ Most likely to set up precision gas centrifuge tech (we never did...

Got the message buddy. Take care my friend and good luck. Gechmish olsoon.

Yeah they're just following the names 1:1 of the earlier Nilgiri class which were improved leanders built at MDL...way back when. One of those is my DP at another forum (postage stamp with it).

The Yamato class combat issue https://defencehub.live/threads/engineering-stuff.1343/#post-9253

The interesting approach with Yamato was the incorporation lived lessons/experience from such classes as Fuso and Nagato . This shows in the boilerwork and funnel plumbing for it...given the severe issues that arose from the earlier classes not designing this as a priority but rather side by...

As for why the Krivaks had hull in Russia and Engine in Ukraine, its Soviet Legacy. An Azeri friend of mine, his dad is/was in marine design profession, he studied at Odessa in Soviet days. Maybe some members know about that kind of thing.

Basically the argument forwarded was capability acquisition w.r.t shipyard capacity. Most of India's heavy shipyards (like MDL) are all full/commited to existing classes and future classes. Thus because of UKR/RUS conflict that occured some years back that lead to their failling out, the...

https://www.businessinsider.com/marine-corps-rethinks-asia-troop-locations-to-take-on-china-2020-9 The Marine Corps will reexamine where it's postured in the Asia-Pacific region as the service prepares for possible conflict with China, the commandant said this week. Tens of thousands of...

This article itself is a summary of how the strategic thought of Australia (after the grievous imminent threat to it in WW2 i.e Japan that most shaped the downstream psyche) was first geared towards Indonesia in the post WW2 scenario, and how it has now transitioned to PRC in the last couple...

Yes this about sums it up for me too. I will wait for dust to settle, right now there is intense fog of war + psy-ops information war being played out that just depend on who's side feeds and media you follow more and trust etc. There is apparently 100s of KIA by now on both sides and...

Very sad, RIP.

Beautiful, I am very used to the traditional rendering of Arirang (a beautiful song it must be said). This modern interpretation was very good (I still prefer traditional one aesthetically, I just got too used to it I think). The singer has an exceptional talent here.

Yes I agree, I wasn't implying anything negative about this, but something India will transition away from (just like any other country) over a larger period of time as the politics of it become more self-assured etc...and immediate remaining frontiers within easy reach slowly reduce too...

Everyone owes it to themselves (if they haven't already) knowing the basics of semiconductor solar technology, given it is going to be a huge increasing part of electricity generation profile in the years to come. This video does a very good job in laying out the basics: It reminds me quite...