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Sriram

@sriramthg

2 years

A rundown on the planned massive increase in IAF's airborne surveillance capabilities in the near future.

Delhi Defence Review

@delhidefence

2 years

An update on India's development plans for airborne surveillance platforms. New Netra Mk1a, AEW&C Mk2.

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Sriram

@sriramthg

23 days

After telling DRDO AND the private sector to develop a 8-wheeler transport vehicle and indenting only 200, turning around to indent 500 Strykers is a national betrayal. There's no other way to put it. Asking for a 600HP engine (& being ready to pay for it) to be put into it to

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@sriramthg

10 months

And we have a flat nozzle!

ANI

@ANI

10 months

#WATCH | DRDO has successfully demonstrated the flight trial of Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, an indigenous high-speed flying wing UAV from the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga in Karnataka. With this flight in the tailless configuration, India has

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2 years

As if fucking up ISRO lauch telecasts wasn't enough, we now have private guys launch telecasts also being wrecked. In 360p.

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@sriramthg

3 years

Russia has used ⚡Attack helicopters ⚡Artillery ⚡Troop carriers ⚡SRBMs of the 70km & 400 km varieties. ⚡LRCMs. None of which we have ordered Indian in meaningful numbers. Tibet does.

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@sriramthg

1 year

PM Modi inaugurated a Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant in Vishakapatnam on May 13. The plant will produce 3 tons/yr of SmCo permanent magnets from Rare Earth chlorides. IREL produces these chlorides at their Monazite plant in Orissa which began in 2015.

PIB India

@PIB_India

1 year

PM @narendramodi dedicates the Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Plant, Visakhapatnam The facility has been established based on indigenous technology and using indigenous Rare Earth material extracted from indigenous resources. With this facility, India will join a select group of

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Sriram

@sriramthg

8 months

Pakistan just got a new awacs from SAAB last month. But we're supposed to cut off ties with Russia to keep these same Europeans happy?

Ian Hall

@DrIanHall

8 months

Hard to say how this was received by a Raisina audience packed with Europeans, many from the east. I’m also a little surprised this line is still being pursued, notwithstanding Delhi’s acute anxiety about Russia becoming a Chinese dependency. Could be tactical.

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@sriramthg

1 year

Such ego & distrust over a proven platform. And people wonder why we want the LCA to made in the hundreds.

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@sriramthg

1 year

First Look at DRDO/IRDE indigenous IRST for Tejas Mk-2. Things are in progress. Nothing more for now.

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@sriramthg

1 year

Fuck around for 9 years playing tt between US, UK & France for engine. Decade later find out that your next gen fighters programs are now at the risk of being stalled as they all want their pound of flesh.

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@sriramthg

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After Blinken's statements, the fact that we have given our proverbial balls to the Americans with engines for nearly 400 aircraft seems like a giant liability cost compared to funding & running our own engine program doesn't it? If you don't listen, you'll learn from experience

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@sriramthg

4 years

How to keep up International relations 🤷‍♂️

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@sriramthg

2 years

We must be the only idiots in the world who exchange sweets with guys sending drugs and arms across the border on drones.

ANI

@ANI

2 years

Amritsar, Punjab | BSF (Border Security Force) and Pakistan Rangers exchange sweets at Attari-Wagah border on the occasion of #EidAlAdha

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@sriramthg

6 months

SHARP wants to build a current gen display fab in India. Needs partners & about 1000 acres of land. Might well be India's first display fab if this gets through. Hope it does 🤞

Japan’s Sharp plans multibillion-dollar display fab unit in India

Sharp Corporation plans to set up a display fab unit in India, potentially the largest outside Japan, seeking partnerships and land.

www.thehindubusinessline.com

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@sriramthg

3 months

Industrial, defence policy is far too important to be left to be dictated or run by generals. Atmanirbharta is the way. Bend the knee.

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@sriramthg

3 years

We had 15 years to order a mass of Arjuns. Instead we have ordered hundreds of T-90s with the Army actively backing the T90 against the Arjun. Strategy, top level analysis is all for nought if you don't do bread&butter decisions but given in to lobbies and possibly corruption.

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@sriramthg

2 years

From the IAF video, MICA-IR on our M2Ks?

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@sriramthg

4 months

Keep crying about assured jobs and livelihoods. The barbarian at the gates only licks his lips at the cracks within. When both sides can throw bodies at the problem & remember they've done this successfully against Khan 7 decades back, we are fighting from a position of weakness.

Jesus Roman

@jesusfroman

4 months

An unidentified air-explosive guided munitions appeared in a CCTV video during a🇨🇳PLAGF live-fire shooting drill w/155mm PLC-181 vehicle-mounted howitzer. The ammunition hit the target w/a proximity fuze&detonated in the air near the ground w/ directional fragments.电波震长空XYY

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@sriramthg

1 year

Worth it. It's the first Osat setup in the country by any major player. US is imposing sanctions over all semicon companies preventing them from upgrading their Chinese Fabs anymore. This is our time. Strategic investments cannot be pennypinched the way our idiots tend to do.

Suhasini Haidar

@suhasinih

1 year

Govt will provide 70% of the setting up cost for Micron plant in Gujarat, no tech transfer expected on semi conductors

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@sriramthg

2 years

NASM-MR under the belly. @delhidefence As for why 3 and not 4 hardpoints under the fuselage, the answer we got was landing gear volume meant no room for 2x2 tandem configuration or 4 abreast.

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@sriramthg

2 years

Somebody gonna get hurt real bad.

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@sriramthg

1 year

PLI scheme is working. India has started manufacturing 38 APIs in past 1.5 years

India has started manufacturing 38 APIs in past 1.5 years: Mansukh Mandaviya

Mansukh Mandaviya said that the 2017 border standoff with China at Doklam triggered India to rethink its self-reliant strategy regarding active pharma components as it was dependent on just one...

economictimes.indiatimes.com

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@sriramthg

2 years

Might be an unpopular opinion but in this day and age, if you are not 400% behind an Indian product, you have no business being Chief and should be let go. Even one Arjun was too high a price to pay. No more.

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@sriramthg

3 years

We are a battered, bruised, dismembered civilization. But we are still here. And this is why.

ANI

@ANI

3 years

#WATCH | Tamil Nadu: Locals shower flower petals as ambulances carrying the mortal remains of CDS Bipin Rawat, his wife and other personnel who died in the Coonoor Helicopter Crash, leave for Sulur airbase from Madras Regimental Centre in Nilgiris district

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@sriramthg

1 year

Twin Astra carriage on MB hardpoint was found to be feasible. They're really going to turn that Mk2 into a bloody truck at this rate by giving in to all of IAF's dreams/wishlists😂 Can't wait

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@sriramthg

2 years

Interesting. PLA is using Oxygen concentrators for their troops to operate in the rarified atmosphere where they need to fight Indian troops. Also interesting is widespread NVG usage (atleast in propaganda films). Most curious is one guy carrying fruits for everyone(??)

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@sriramthg

3 years

Tejas Banao. Desh Bachao.

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@sriramthg

2 years

These guys have done 1 stint at SBTF and put out a good video. NLCA practically lived there and no such thing. Whatever we got was due to Deb Rana's interest. Also note presence of USN personnel for what is a Boeing pitch to sell their fighters. That's what we need.

Boeing India

@Boeing_In

2 years

Our F/A-18 #SuperHornet successfully demonstrated the ability to safely operate from @indiannavy aircraft carriers during operational tests at INS Hansa, Goa. #FIA2022

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@sriramthg

3 years

Yeah. And India is the reluctant, unreliable, shaky-ground, vulnerable QUAD partner ?

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@sriramthg

4 years

Tejas Mk-2 will be a ~1000 TRMM AESA radar wielding BEAST of an aircraft. Watch our intv with the Project Director Tejas Mk-2 at #AeroIndia2021

Saurav Jha

@SJha1618

4 years

Right, here is @delhidefence 's Tejas Mk2 special from Aero India 2021.

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@sriramthg

2 months

So we have now 3 fronts.

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@sriramthg

3 years

Don't spend on your own r&d. Cry that drdo eats up crores. Constantly deride any indigenous effort in a severely constrained civilian space. Then cry that other nations don't give you tech that you demand. Sums up strategic affairs & defence analysis in this country.

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@sriramthg

3 years

32nd launch of the year! And they're planning 40 this year. Long March 2,3,4 all launched within 3 days. We're struggling to launch 3. Like defence, ISRO needs a massive bump in $$. As do startups in this field.

People's Daily, China

@PDChina

3 years

China sent a new Earth observation #satellite via a Long March-4C rocket into its planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province Tuesday.

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@sriramthg

2 years

The US has sanctioned Half a Billion Dollars to a terrorist state. To sustain their F-16 fleet, that engaged in offensive action against India. Supposedly a QUAD partner upholding freedom, democracy and what-not. F-16s are PAF's nuke delivery platforms.

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@sriramthg

1 year

A follow-on 100 Mk1A order which includes a gift of 50 to Armenia at friendship prices might be a good move?

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@sriramthg

2 years

Every single day theres somebody jumping up and down asking for Mk2 to be cancelled. Sure. AMCA will take 10 years. What will hal do until 2032? Rent out their hangars for weddings?

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@sriramthg

20 days

Nation's sovereignty is guarded by a bunch of composite tubes and refined elements. Some on the road and some in a tub in the ocean. But we have a "We want proven platforms onlee or we will import" brigade whining like little children.

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@sriramthg

2 years

The day has finally arrived.

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@sriramthg

2 years

Poverty porn peddling wins Pulitzers.

Reuters

@Reuters

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The Pulitzer Prize for feature photography is awarded to Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave and the late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters for the coverage of COVID in India

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@sriramthg

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"we should have the best weapons" No. That's how children think. Best weapons are the ones that let you fight your battles. A war of attrition with China will not be possible if you import systems wholesale. Why is this so hard to understand? Our own post-independence war history

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@sriramthg

11 months

DRDO has been asking for funds to setup one for years now. Just ₹800 Cr for a CoE. Zero progress. So ADA & HAL now have to forge it in 3 pieces and weld them together. Maybe we could ask the Chinese to forge AMCA & TEDBF bulkheads. We could get it done at a cheap rate.

Prasad Satya

@PrasadSatya10

11 months

@sakthivel_cit93 Are these available for sale ?

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@sriramthg

4 months

Buying Strykers under any name would be a monumental betrayal of Atmanirbharta and everyone working towards self-reliance for India. There is no other pov on this.

Adithya Krishna Menon

@AdithyaKM_

4 months

"The US is hard-selling the Strykers" 🇺🇸 offers to demonstrate mobility & firepower in high altitude regions in 🇮🇳 MoD examining three phase plan: Limited purchase under FMS - Joint production - Co-development of future variants, if Stryker meets requirements & ToT is substantial

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@sriramthg

6 months

Have missile. Will import. Have radar. Will import. Have vehicle. Will import.

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@sriramthg

23 days

match the WhAP is just up there with standing on one leg to get the ATHOS instead of buying the Atags. National security isn't what gun you have. It is about spending finite money for the best results, not shopping like a kid in ToysRUs with dad's credit card.

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@sriramthg

2 years

AMCA FSED funding file gathering dust in some corner of PMO.

Sankalan Chattopadhyay

@VinodDX9

2 years

1) 🇨🇳 J-20 under production 2) 🇨🇳 FC-31 project going on, naval J-35 conducted flight 3) 🇷🇺 Su-57 under production, improved variant conducted first flight 4) 🇰🇷 KF-21 atleast four prototypes, two proto conducted first flight 5) 🇹🇷 TF-X proto enters for final assembly

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@sriramthg

2 years

Aero India 2023 is just a month away!

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@sriramthg

2 years

Manik-integrated-Cruise missile test scheduled for early next week. Let's hope that the engine works, as a nice Deepavali gift for everyone and production can begin!

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@sriramthg

2 years

Has the Amy failed to develop UGVs? Why was there any need to import UGVs? What trials were these put through? When? Who approved these imports? Why did the army run all those startups through the desert when they were going to import anyway?

Game-Changer: India procures Estonian unmanned ground vehicle THeMIS

The THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) by Milrem Robotics has been proven effective in various exercises, experiments, and even the Operation Barkhane mission in Mali.

www.financialexpress.com

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@sriramthg

2 months

We'll see a Chinese nuke sub popup in sight of Vizag beach in <5 years. Then everyone will cry and run for the nearest P8 or Predator or P75-I acquisition file. We could've flooded BoB with our own DE subs in the last 10 years if we'd begun our own design instead of faffing about

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@detresfa_

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The Indian Ocean Region continues to witness the presence of Chinese research vessels with new units recently deployed, this graphic illustrates the paths taken during their current surveys

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@sriramthg

3 years

In 20 years Americans have just eradicated the Northern Alliance and spent trillions doing it. Without touching Pakistan's influence in Afghanistan and given them some F-16s, P-3Cs and AMRAAMs presumably to target the Al-Qaeda & Taliban. The only AMRAAMs they used were against us

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@sriramthg

1 year

India has indicated to Russia that India aims to increase indigenous content in the AL-31FP engines that power the Su-30 MKI according to IAF sources. India already has the capability to manufacture these engines from raw material stage. #IAFDay23

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@sriramthg

2 years

Meanwhile, a lonely wishlist item sulks in a corner.

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@sriramthg

8 months

Kid's got ice water in his veins! Whatay quick thinking boy!

Divya Gandotra Tandon

@divya_gandotra

8 months

In a remarkable display of presence of mind, 12-year-old Mohit Ahire in Malegaon locked a leopard inside an office cabin until help arrived. He promptly informed his father, a security guard, about trapping the leopard in the office.

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@sriramthg

11 months

97 LCA Mk1A 156 LCH Su-30 MKI upgrades (radar, ew, avionics etc) ₹ 1.1 lac crores being ploughed into the Indian economy.

Delhi Defence Review

@delhidefence

11 months

NEWS: The Defence Acquisition Council of the Ministry of Defence has granted Acceptance of Necessity for •97 additional Tejas Mk1A •156 Light Combat Helicopter "Prachand" With a cumulative valuation of: INR 1.10 lakh crore. DAC has also cleared the Su-30MKI Upgrade programme

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@sriramthg

3 years

She's big!

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@sriramthg

2 years

And a high-resolution capture of ejector-launched Astra Mk2 BVR missile from an IAF Su-30 MKI.

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@sriramthg

3 years

Come on Jeff. India buying arms from the Soviets & then the Russians is in no way comparable to American largesse to Pakistan. Russian arms helped defend India. American arms were used to attack India. In all their wars. No point bringing in anti-China help here.

Jeff M. Smith

@Cold_Peace_

3 years

"Just as India has gradually come to accept the tens of billions of dollars of arms and aid the US has provided rival Pakistan isn’t designed to disadvantage India, America can acknowledge the historical and pragmatic underpinnings of the Russia-India relationship."

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@sriramthg

2 years

Oh Please. Forget weapons. US has used FOOD as a bargaining chip with India. Nehru asked for food aid in the 1940s and food was asked to be used as a strategic lever by US Congress to ensure India supported Korean War that the US was waging. Same happened with PL-480 later.

Sameer P. Lalwani

@splalwani

2 years

Claims the US/West denied defense equipment to India seem unfair & incomplete. All parties made choices. Price & tech leakage were factors, as were political strategies. The USSR sought to foil Indian diversification to keep it on the hook & Delhi sought to appease Moscow. A 🧵1/

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@sriramthg

3 years

Atmanirbhar in Light Helicopters. LUH prototypes sandwiched between LCH TDs in the apron in Yelahanka.

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@sriramthg

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This isn't geopolitical jizya either. This is just straight up hamstringing your own capability. L&T and TASL would kill to come up with an unnamed turret if the army wants one with a 500 unit order. They're doing it for a measley light tank order. Live today to lose tomorrow?

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@sriramthg

10 months

ALH done. LCH & LCA are ramping up. MKI sanctioned. Next are NUH & LUH orders. I wouldn't care if HAL did avarebele mela stalls 🤷

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@sriramthg

2 years

Additional P-15B orders with Indian radars and armament, frigates, submarines and the next bloody carrier need to be planned and organised right now. Carrier construction has to start pronto. A PLAN CBG in the IOR is a definite reality in 5 years time & they're furiously at work.

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@sriramthg

2 years

Birth today. Birth tomorrow. Vorwärts.

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@sriramthg

1 year

Couple of years and "you can't takeoff with meaningful loads from Tibetan airfields" will no longer be as true.

@Rupprecht_A

@RupprechtDeino

1 year

Another YY-20A tanker confirmed ... this time serial number 20845. (Image via @SEN BAI from JetPhotos)

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@sriramthg

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This program has moved very fast. Ability to bring missiles with dual pulse motors to flight testing this quickly is a testament to the capability of the Hyd group - RCI, DRDL etc. 1 yr more for dev trials. 3 for user trials with a 1000 objections thrown in. Maybe orders after 7?

Delhi Defence Review

@delhidefence

2 years

Two succesful back to back tests of the Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) (MANPAD) missile was carried out earlier today, 27 September 2022 from a ground-based portable launcher at the Integrated Test Range ( #ITR ) Chandipur, off the Odisha coast

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@sriramthg

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Brick by brick. One step at a time.

Gorilla glass maker Corning doubles down on India, eyes semiconductor, aerospace & defence indust...

Next year, Corning will begin making cover glasses for mobile at its Chennai facility and vials for injections at its Hyderabad unit. It is also in talks with companies in the semiconductor industry...

www.moneycontrol.com

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@sriramthg

3 years

Wing Cmdr (Retd) Anil Bhambhani, Sr Test Pilot (HAL) giving our man @DDRNewDelhi a walk through of the Coast Guard ALH cockpit. @delhidefence

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@sriramthg

2 years

I wish we were as bloody-minded as these guys are.

卤印良品

@jackzhuanglia

2 years

⭕️ 运20B近照 #China

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@sriramthg

2 years

C-390. C-295. Now MC-X. We've sat here twiddling our thumbs buying up C-17s, Il-76s, C-130s, C-295s and god knows what else in the future. Zero vision.

Junsupreme

@RyszardJonski

2 years

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) and the United Arab Emirates government signed a $3.2 billion MOU for joint cargo aircraft development on 15 January 2023 during a bilateral meeting in which UAE announced it'll invest $30 billion in South Korea.

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@sriramthg

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Is replete with instances of winning with supposedly inferior platforms. Make your own, keep the money within the country, give people business & give them feedback & let them grow & create better products. Do the Russians and Chinese and Americans go out to import ?

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@sriramthg

6 months

Nearly 5 years later, we have glorious news of an additional 97 units being processed. Nearly every subsystem & 2nd+ tier vendor had the same reply to our 'can you scale production?' - "we don't know if GoI is actually serious about making more Tejas & variants." That's solved.

Sriram

@sriramthg

6 years

Afa Tejas is concerned, not even the 83 Mk1A deal is signed yet. Unless IAF-HAL agree on a cost-production rate target, why would HAL make 24/year? It is a red herring. Just like the Arjun.

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@sriramthg

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Formal announcement of MIRV capability on the Agni-V ballistic missile by the PM. A not so subtle hint at the K-4's capability? Not everyday there is a PM-level announcement about nuclear capable delivery platforms.

Narendra Modi

@narendramodi

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Proud of our DRDO scientists for Mission Divyastra, the first flight test of indigenously developed Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology.

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Anybody would be buying boatloads of the NAMICA and the SR-UAV and fill them with MP-ATGMs. But here we are with higher ups buying emergency procurement levels of a rebadged renamed license produced vehicle and then exhorting MSMEs to do their bit.

Defence Decode®

@DefenceDecode

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#DRDO 's NAG Missile System ( #NAMIS ) in action.

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@sriramthg

8 months

The shoulders that carry our civilization. 🙏

Sundar Subbiah

@SundarSubbiah

8 months

An elderly couple who ran on railway tracks in dead of night to stop a fast approaching express train after a truck fell on railway track near Bhagavathipuram railway station near Sengottai. @THChennai

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@sriramthg

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So we're doing emergency imports again. Our friends would gladly sell us items at accelerated schedules, even from within their own AF stocks, overnight in C-17s. At an emergency price of course. Meanwhile Nag, Helina, Arjun, ATAGS, LCA Mk1A, LCH, rifles, AFVs all wait outside.

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@sriramthg

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Sir MRFA. MRFA? MRFA. Sir MRFA? Dump that program and pour money into the engine & AMCA programs ffs! So many things need to be built for it and GoI will not give one Paisa more than minimum. IAF can't go shopping and ask for a domestic program. We're not China!

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@sriramthg

2 years

Somebody SHUT that bloody commentator up please! Atleast while radio calls are being sent out. Why can't DD do a single launch telecast professionally?

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@sriramthg

2 years

This will most likely kill the 110kN engine program. No meaningful "tech transfer" will happen other than screwdrivergiri. Everyone will proclaim themselves as buddhijeevis and all will be happy& merry. While we continue to import engines for 30 years.

Jeff M. Smith

@Cold_Peace_

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"GE Aerospace has applied for an export license for jet engine production and phased tech transfer in India, according to a senior administration official." “This is going to be a transformational opportunity for multiple aircraft..."

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@sriramthg

5 months

People are ready to throw fists when Thousand Talents program is brought up but we gotta remember that PRC fixed their Tier-1 cities along with these talent retention and return programs and setup a first class industrial economy. We only keep crying on twitter.

Krishnan

@cvkrishnan

5 months

The best of talent leaving India is in the best interests of the talent. Wins International Olympiad Gold Medal. Gets MIT admit. Joins Open AI after MI BS CS. Builds Chat GPT 4o!

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@sriramthg

23 days

Why we seem hell bent on importing Stryker & Javelin is beyond any normal understanding.

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@sriramthg

3 years

55 launches this calendar year for China. We've not done even 5. Even if you believe the quality over quantity, there is a minimum quantity needed to even compare. We've got to do better faster sooner.

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@sriramthg

3 years

In the time that India has tried 3 times unsuccessfully to buy refuellers, China has built a brand new transport aircraft & a refueler variant of it.

East Pendulum

@HenriKenhmann

3 years

Le prototype numéro 787 de la version ravitailleur de Y-20. Deux pods de ravitaillement sous la voilure, et accessoirement un autre sous la rampe.

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@sriramthg

4 years

Dr K Harinarayana said today in a webinar: The Su30MKI is flying w/ analog systems! Why aren't we doing a wholesale upgrade with composites, digital fbw etc! We have great experience in both today and it should be doable. Where is the vision in the IAF ?

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@sriramthg

8 months

We might finally see one set up boys & girls.

Sriram

@sriramthg

11 months

DRDO has been asking for funds to setup one for years now. Just ₹800 Cr for a CoE. Zero progress. So ADA & HAL now have to forge it in 3 pieces and weld them together. Maybe we could ask the Chinese to forge AMCA & TEDBF bulkheads. We could get it done at a cheap rate.

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@sriramthg

1 year

Infrajeets. 5 minutes in and VB is already leagues better than Shatabdi. No wonder then that people like it and "people" don't.

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@sriramthg

11 months

"DRDO can only make missiles". Spelling & capitalisation mistakes can be excused but the entire article reads like a school essay written at the last minute. So many tired old tropes here like the 30 year Tejas delay. "Disdained by Indian pilots" is straight up nonsense.

Shashank Joshi

@shashj

11 months

🧵 This week I wrote an assessment of India's military modernisation. I look at the post-Galwan pivot from Pakistan to China, the reforms to command & recruitment and promising signs on the role of technology. For all that, the gap with China remains wide.

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@sriramthg

3 years

Lets wait 3 more years. PLA will wait for us.

Delhi Defence Review

@delhidefence

3 years

In response to RFP for 15 Light Combat Helicopter(LCH) LSP received from MoD on 22nd Dec 2017, HAL submitted its quote on 14th March 2018. The bid submitted was negotiated, and contract is under final stage of approval with GoI.

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@sriramthg

4 years

Seriously @isro and @DDNewslive you guys can't do a simple launch live telecast without making it look like a 1990 video? Pixellated AF! And please don't blame Corona for this.

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@sriramthg

8 months

"Design and develop indigenously a high supersonic to hypersonic propulsion system for fixed wing flying objects e.g. missiles, aircraft etc" Navy wants a DMRJ to be built for missiles, aircraft etc (which one?!) For Rs 50 Cr. By a startup. In India. ISRO doesn't have one yet.

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@sriramthg

1 month

Onwards to putting heavier stuff into LEO with methalox! On to ISRO now to get it done within 10 years.

Press Trust of India

@PTI_News

1 month

Cabinet nod to heavy-lift Next Generation Launch Vehicle to place 30-tonne payloads in Low Earth Orbit

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@sriramthg

2 years

Like a Klingon bird of prey.

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@sriramthg

11 months

You know drug business has a lot of money when BSF shoots down multiple $3-4000 DJI drones daily.

BSF PUNJAB FRONTIER

@BSF_Punjab

11 months

𝐏𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐒𝐅 While conducting area domination ahead of the Border Fencing, #AlertBSF troops recovered a Pakistani drone (DJI Mavic 3 Classic - Made in China) from Village Wan, District Tarn Taran, #Punjab BSF continues to thwart

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@sriramthg

1 year

"PLAAF fighters can't takeoff from Tibetan airfields with meaningful loads" getting kiboshed by Chinese industrial capability. Our Medium/Large transport programs meanwhile are in isro's cryogenic tanks.

Saurav Jha

@SJha1618

1 year

This is a picture that should be of concern to us here in India. It is of a PLAAF YY-20 refueling a J-10 variant around mid-April 2023. Source:

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@sriramthg

1 month

Only airborne, subsurface, alien, ut, aut, aucrt left before files are moved and we end up buying 8 of them.

DRDO

@DRDO_India

1 month

First phase of developmental field firing trails of Indian Light Tank successfully conducted. The field trials have successfully met the intended objectives in desert terrain. During trials the tank demonstrated required accuracy on the intended targets. @DefenceMinIndia

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@sriramthg

2 years

More german equipment. Fascinating that we don't have our own CNC machine makers.

Delhi Defence Review

@delhidefence

2 years

President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate HAL’s state-of-the-art Integrated Cryogenic Engine Manufacturing Facility (ICMF) in Bengaluru on September 27, 2022.

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@sriramthg

6 months

We need indigenous missile orders in the billions. We need satellite orders. We need drone orders. We need radar orders. We need AV orders. Not renamed, rebadged, acquired, CBD'd ones. We need proper R&D.

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@sriramthg

4 years

The MoD should be breaking down Air India's doors to snap up this aircraft for a flying test bed.

Ajay Awtaney

@LiveFromALounge

4 years

Exclusive: Air India's 747s to retire mid-March 2021 : #AirIndia #Boeing by Ajay

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@sriramthg

2 years

In the 90s when people didn't know better it would've been ok. Now? Everybody has seen SpaceX and Blue Origin and how fantastic their launches are broadcast. This is a shitshow with some dude droning on for 15 minutes now at shit-tier video quality.

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@sriramthg

9 months

If 20 is the limit, then Mk1A delivery will be rate limited too. If you keep importing subsystems and products and not developing your own you can't even make enough of what you have.

Adithya Krishna Menon

@AdithyaKM_

9 months

F404 supply for Tejas Mk1A: "restarted production line in past 18 months which has been challenging due to the supply chain crisis. We are ramping up to produce as many as 20 a year. The first engine will be delivered later this year and then we will ramp it up to go up by 2026"

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@sriramthg

2 years

Pretty sure MRFA isn't moving forward because PMO is sitting on top of LCA Mk-II intent on taking it forward as a grand Make In India showpiece. Listen to the PD explain -

Delhi Defence Review

@delhidefence

2 years

Is this why GoI going slow on MRFA? When will LCA Tejas Mark-II be ready for induction? What aerospace infrastructure does India still lack today and how does it affect her programs? Watch

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@sriramthg

1 year

CNC machines, CMM, lasers, 3d printers - all the machines that build the things you want. We've not even scratched the surface of these areas. As India industrialises, it must make all these 'building blocks' ¬ be beholden to Europeans & Koreans & Americans. Defly not Chinese.

Kaushik Mudda

@MuddaKaushik

1 year

A gentle reminder on why India’s borders can’t be defended without CNC technology

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