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  1. Gessler

    India Quad Archive

    Simply put, no. To be an ally, at some level you have to become subservient to the US strategically. This will not be acceptable to India, and not doing it won't be acceptable to the US. However, this doesn't mean that there can't or won't be a strategic convergence of interests, which is what...
  2. Gessler

    India Quad Archive

    Washington, Dec 9 (PTI) India, which has a unique strategic character, will not be an ally of the US, but another great power, a top White House official has said, asserting there is no other bilateral relationship that is being “deepened and strengthened” more rapidly than between the two...
  3. Gessler

    India Air-Force Indian Air Force

    This is just what I've heard: A delta wing like the LCA may not be the best platform for training.
  4. Gessler

    India Air-Force Indian Air Force

    So HLFT-42 is not LCA SPORT, but a whole new airframe @Nilgiri
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    India Navy Aircraft Carriers

  6. Gessler

    India Navy Aircraft Carriers

    As some expected, the Navy may not want to lose the carrier-building experience accrued by CSL waiting for IAC-2. A repeat order of Vikrant is now plausible...
  7. Gessler

    India Navy Aircraft Carriers

    Vikrant conducts at-sea replenishment with INS Deepak
  8. Gessler

    TR Air Defence Programs

    Barak-8 uses its own proprietary VLS designed by Israel's IAI (which I think is a development of the earlier Barak-1 VLS). Not sure what its called, as it is not sold/marketed separately from the missile system. BrahMos uses a larger, domestically-built system called UVLM made by L&T Defence...
  9. Gessler

    India Radar, Sensors and Electronic Warfare Archive

    DRDO Photonic Radar concept with Photonic Transceivers and Photonics Distribution Network (PDN) via Varun Karthikeyan on Twitter
  10. Gessler

    India Space Indian Space Program

    The mission parameters & tech-demonstration objectives appear broadly similar with that of Skylark-L: https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/skylark-l.htm
  11. Gessler

    India Indian Automobile Industry: News & Updates

    Royal Enfield at EICMA-22 Hunter (HNTR in West) was also released in international markets: Lookers, both of them...
  12. Gessler

    India Space Indian Space Program

    Launch time revised
  13. Gessler

    India Defence Exports and Relations

    I meant it as a reference to the scale of their purchases compared to their annual defence spending. Of course it will be spread over multiple years. For the longest while Armenia could only afford to get Russian hand-me-downs (which are cheap to begin with), now something has changed. The...
  14. Gessler

    India Defence Exports and Relations

    By the way...an observation: Armenia has spent over $400 million over the last couple months purchasing weapons in India alone ($250 million for MBRLs, ATGMs and now this $155 million). That's over half of their entire defence budget (about ~$750 million). I don't know what else they're buying...
  15. Gessler

    India Defence Exports and Relations

    It appears previous reports were slightly incorrect...the item being sold is not the Bharat-52 155mm, 52-cal towed howitzer, but instead its the MaRG 155-BR, a 155mm 39-cal self-propelled howitzer mounted on 4x4 high mobility vehicle. https://www.kssl.in/our-business-artillery
  16. Gessler

    India Defence Exports and Relations

    Rumor has it the customer is Saudi Arabia
  17. Gessler

    India Defence Industry, R&D and Procurements

    Kalyani Group has secured a $155 million contract to export its Bharat-52 howitzer (155mm, 52-cal) to an undisclosed foreign customer. The numbers are believed (not yet confirmed) to be in the region of 50-75 units based on the typical price of a 155mm gun...and the customer is speculated to be...
  18. Gessler

    India Space Indian Space Program

    Agnikul Cosmos tests India's first Privately-developed Semi-Cryogenic Engine The hot test was conducted by firing the Agnilet Engine for 15 seconds on November 4 at ISRO's Vertical Test Facility. In Short The test was part of the memorandum signed between ISRO and Agnikul Cosmos The hot...

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