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After the Vikramaditya fiasco and other program delays and cost overruns you should minimize your dealings with the Russians on anything defence-related. Better keep building your own, they'll in all probability be delayed and vastly exceed their cost estimates as well but at least you'll be...

Censorship is almost never acceptable.

Wouldn't the Dhruv be appropriate?

So 2018 then.

Governments shouldn't prohibit products on religious grounds. Let those who want to buy do so, and let those who are opposed do not. If some Pakistanis want to be bad Muslims, well it's their choice.

According to wiki the GSLV has a payload to LEO of only five tons. You'll have to wait for the -3.

When's the GSLV-III's maiden flight?

What can I say: For The New Lunar Republic! :D

By the end of the war the Indian Army was the largest volunteer force in history. It fought with distinction in Burma, North Africa and Italy.

I'm sure the hundreds of thousands in North Korean slave labor camps will appreciate this. Probably with a bayonet to their back.

I thought Kim il-Sung was Great Leader and his son Dear Leader.

Yep, it's not like a full-scale war between two billion+ population nuclear powers could ever result in tens of millions of casualties or immense economic destruction. I suppose it's all worth it so long as you're teaching some uppity Indians their rightful place.

I suppose we've got to pay down that debt somehow. Diu Europa!

Okay, I was exxagerating a bit. I'm sure the F-35 will turn out to be a capable aircraft when it finally enters service, better than any 4 or 4.5 gen aircraft in American or foreign service. Problem is it's had so many delays and cost overruns (I doubt the -B will even enter service) that, for...

The F-35 is such a piece of **** you should be glad you aren't buying it.

This whole race thing is bullshit anyway.. we're all human.

And the structure of the atom, radioactivity and the theory of fission had no practical result either, right? You seem to have forgotten the big explodey things your two countries threaten each other with, nor those scary power plants.

If there's on thing holding the developing world back, it's pessimism and acceptance of the current order (corruption, poverty) as the way things always will be. I see the same here in Bulgaria (we don't have widepread hunger or illiteracy, but being the poorest member of the EU isn't fun)...

Totally supportive. BTW, WTF does the poll have to do with the thread? There's majority support for same-sex marriage in basically every Western European nation, that doesn't mean that >50% of their population is gay.....

I think the only way to get Africa out of foreign influence is to give it economic clout of its own. Pity when you're as poor as the DRC 50 years of 10 percent economic growth won't be enough.... South Africa's doing pretty well, though.