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What's that structure in front of the bridge...is that a...VLS?lol

When times are (economically) tough, these ethnic fault lines become exaggerated and there is a tendency to find someone external (other ethnicity) to blame (a form of xenophobia). This happens everywhere on the planet. Part of the human condition. I am not surprised that this happened. The...

I don't know. Experience has taught me to not be too hopeful.

Basically it was too ambitious. And Pakistani defense orgs suffer from chronic issues that prevented rapid progress even if it wasn't so ambitious. So it was a combination of factors. I don't know if anything was salvaged. Maybe some manpower. But a lot of the original Azm manpower has been...

Dead or most likely in very deep freeze. This happened even before the economy took a turn for the worst. Certainly the economy didn't help. There is a massive reorganization and consolidation going on in the aerospace sector. Hopefully, we will see the fruits of that in several years.

Urm I haven't been working for any Turkish firm. So I am kind of confused here lol.

Walaikumassalam. Urm what? You must be confusing me with someone else.

I haven't had personal interactions but second hand accounts mirror your opinion. This gives me hope.

These last few posts are fun. Above is exactly what Turkey is trying to do. The TAI NESCOM collab I told you about and what our side wanted from it. Yes. But that is more a function of their culture and not their salary. Their salary with the perks is almost decent. None of my friends left...

Yeah I know but I'm just hoping that since it was pushed by the military, they might be thinking that way regardless of the political situation in the country and which politicians are in charge. But yeah I'm not blind to the possibility of what you've said either.

So there's two issues here. One issue is salaries and most importantly pensions - both civilian and military. This is a direct function of our faltering economy that is unable to produce jobs and thus the government takes the easy route of handing out government jobs. You don't need to be an...

How can you forget streethawk:

Abhi batata hoon:p: :disagree: Not my area of expertise and I really don't want to be the gate keeper of technical things lol. I think @Iron Shrappenel has made a logical assessment. Obviously we can't know for sure but it would agree with the design philosophy of the aircraft too.

You and me both friend. urm GIDS is just a marketing front for NESCOM and some other orgs. NESCOM has existed for almost 2 decades. The organizations that make up NESCOM have existed for at least 3-4 decades. Maybe you were wondering whether we have had enough time. So yes, we've had tons of...

I will take a closer look at these numbers but I suspect these are to be taken with a grain of salt. As weird as it sounds the keystone performance metric that allows us to calculate the above numbers at all is the coefficient of drag at various conditions. Everything else can be guesstimated...

Right. When we had money (in relative terms) we should have been building productive capacity. However, we were mostly buying products and making fun of India for trying to build their defense industry. They are and continue to leapfrog us as we lose the ability to buy and have no local capacity...

At the risk of being an annoying nerd, let me say something. Using "traditional" ideas of probability is problematic for rare events such as 1v1 air combat. There's a whole theory of rare-event probabilistics used by insurance companies for modeling this kind of thing. The bottom line is that...

Actually you started your post with exactly the right idea. The problem is that UNQUALIFIED and INCOMPETENT military people are heading organizations or put in leadership roles. And the problem with them is that they are extremely threatened by anyone with talent/ideas. Case in point what...

https://www.aviation24.be/military-aircraft/belgian-air-component/belgian-air-force-puts-c-130-hercules-fleet-on-sale/ They have 9. I wonder if we bought all 9. It would be a nice addition.