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Angad Singh Profile picture
@zone5aviation
Jan 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Standing room only as @JZarif and @SunjoyJ start one of the most awaited sessions of the day. #Raisina2020 Image
Interesting. @JZarif says that the Obama admin slow rolled clearance for @Airbus to sell airliners to Iran after JCPOA for seven months in 2016, while the same clearance was issued to @Boeing in two months.
“Why do you allow the USA to bully you?” @JZarif clearly has no hope with the US and is making an impassioned appeal to Europe to play ball independent of the Americans.
“Europe does not need to tag along [with US actions re: Iran]” says @JZarif.
Who is celebrating Soleimani’s death? “President Trump and Pompeo, and Daesh,” thunders @JZarif. He describes the killed Maj Gen as “the most effective force against Daesh (ISIL).”
“I do not believe in preemptive self defence, I do not believe in preventive self defence” says @JZarif, noting that these make things more dangerous.

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Mar 16, 2022
@JA_Maolankar 'Complete autarky' is not a strawman, it is a narrative with legs in Delhi and among the talking heads around here. And I don't see @pranaykotas advocating the status quo anywhere. He lays out pretty clear actionable policy recommendations, nought to do with 'second class'.
@JA_Maolankar @pranaykotas He highlighted lessons from China — which even the atmanirbharta/vishwaguru absolutists hold in some esteem. Is China, 5x our GDP, second class?
@JA_Maolankar @pranaykotas As I see it, national security is a subset of economic security. Pure, absolute self reliance (vs global linkages) militates against the latter, and thus must affect the former.
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Jun 24, 2021
Profoundly disagree with all but the central thrust of this piece.

1. Theatre commands by themselves cannot force or enforce jointness and integration of the services.
2. Hiving off air defence and maritime commands flies in the face of jointness anyway, and gives the lie to the notion that this is anything other than an exercise in carving up the pie.
3. My opposition to theatre commands aside - the IAF's entire existence is predicated on supporting national objectives on land/at sea. Despite aspirations of power projection, India and its military is essentially defensive. There is literally nothing else for the IAF to do!
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Mar 23, 2021
Not just vigil though! They flew armed.

The Alizé had been modified for Matra SNEB pods (under @arunp2810’s clearance as CO Hansa, IIRC) shortly before they headed to Madurai under Cdr RK Singh. And the rocket pods did see some action! Photo via Cdr (ret.) Arun Kumar.
They took some heat in return too — per Cdr (ret.) DD Naik, “During this period an aircraft flown by Lt JJ Nijhavan was shot at by LMG while on finals to Jaffna. The bullets hit the empty bomb bay and went out of the centre coaming of the canopy. Pilot & Observer unharmed!”
The Madurai detachment started with a tasking of four weeks, ended up running a hair over a year! Madurai barely qualified as an airstrip, and the Cobras operated from tents pitched near the aprons for nearly the entire duration. Incredible stuff.

(Photos via Cdr (R) DD Naik)
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Oct 5, 2020
“Strategic autonomy” finds explicit mention in the official @IAF_MCC video for Air Force day. A few seconds later, international exercises and cooperation.
“Innovate, integrate and intimidate” are the closing words of this years IAF presentation.
IAF Chief ACM RKS Bhadauria notes the Air Force will be key to victory in conflict.
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Sep 30, 2020
Imagine being a bright young 20-something, Bachelor's/Master's in a technical field. Your folks want you to do the conventional thing, get a well paying desk job, settle down, marry, have kids. You have many such opportunities. But you want to do something for national security.
You answer whatever clarion call is in vogue at the time. The Ministry/Service wants XYZ high end mil-tech problem solved. A newcomer to the field, with little to no financial/institutional backing, you make the grade. This is huge. Your life is about to change.
But you quickly find out getting money from the Government is nearly impossible, even when it's committed in black and white. Every rule and reg in the book is thrown at you to justify why they cannot fund your R&D even though they they'd promised to when they suckered you in.
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Jul 29, 2020
Full of devastating quotes from an unimpeachable writer — “over the past 70 years, even the PMs of India haven’t been able to easily remove corrupt IAS officers, leave alone the incompetent ones”
“Our elected politicians have no real powers to deliver their election commitments. Our democracy is thus being choked from within – by the unaccountable and ultra-powerful IAS.”
“... no IAS officer comes even remotely close to the competence of middle-level managers in the Australian government. If the pool of administrative leaders in India is so poor, how can India possibly succeed?”
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