To me none of these looks like hot section of gas turbine tech given to only elves by the gods. Probably 100s of such things we import because it is easy and cheap just as bulk pharma API from cheen hurt us — but tech base can do it to protect our supply
But needs govt to get everyone- vendors, labs, equipment makers under one roof, make master plans & work in mission mode under program managers like missiles or even darpa or israel does for intel ops. Scattered efforts may not work as every “have” is out to save its own skin
These situations can be wake up call and push us to adapt and evolve to next level
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India is going to need a centrally funded and run FEMA type agency to maintain strategic stockpiles of everything needed in a world where borders are harder , travel is dying and global supply chains iffy, plus state govts a mixed bag. NDRF is not it as its disaster relief... 1/5
Desi FEMA will need people from various manufacturing, IT, operations research, supply chain, finance , pure science and logistics .. maybe as a bigger adjunct to the proposed tri service joint logistics command 2/5
Needless to say ias cannot run the show in this. PM having to chair meetings on oxygen supply yesterday shows how things allowed to drift,lack of initiative at normal level. A few superstars/sage-kings cannot do, need process in all things to reduce the modi/napolean need 3/5
Sorry to sound like a revered “youthful” leader but fighting naxals is far beyond simplistic drone/iaf/sf approaches being demanded and is more “structural” 🙄1/n
If there is no legitimate economic activity like in old nagaland, like nscn the naxals will live on extortion from civil officials and forest timber/poaching/mining stealing plus foreign donations and benami investments 2/n
If there is new economic acitivity like new roads and railways, naxals will feed on this too via extortion and ogw workers fronting local businesses 3/n
Article in greek media about jf17. I have used yandex translator. Goog translate failed on the long text. Fascinating insights in operarional exp of jf17
Pakistan specifically envisioned acquiring a fighter jet, comparable to the Su-30MKI, Mig-29 and Mirage-2000. China even said it would import the aircraft because of its superior capabilities. However, the aircraft is far from its designed capabilities,
as it is a low-cost fighter developed with low-quality Chinese avionics and weapons.
two towers sauron & sarumaan have now joined w/ pakistan officially starting to offer pieces of strategic real estate(gwader, skardu) to stay solvent. Rough est of sino-pak frontage 4500km. Only nato-warsaw pact such a huge hostile land border. Let that sink in 😂 athens-narvik
On left side of line were essentially 3 of the top5 usa uk france backed by germany italy spain lowcountries in a combined lashkar .. unimaginable military power.. right side was 55000 tanks and 100,000 sams and 10,000 tactical fighters. India will have to run this fight alone
Clearly no form of imports will equip us for the next phase. We need numbers massive numbers of decent enough kit - in every silo. All dalals ought to be locked up in a desert island and new clean admin setup needed
by choosing to hide and lie about few dozen casualties of a comparatively small fight, cheen has shown weakness and some peculiar facets of their society. the recruits carrying the emperors sword were surely not the upper middle class kids of the coast but rural folks ... 1/n
rural lads who in any country tend to be hardy and up for any fight. india or usa do not shy away from fairly reporting casualties quite quickly, unpleasant as the news is - the govt is trusted on this, and media is open ... 2/n
this despite the US per capita being a very rich country but militarized social attitudes and deep state and while there is truimphalist/exceptionalist rhetoric they do not downplay their enemies infact up-play it. ..India is anyway very modest even about strengths .. 3/n