Those block 10/15 are ancient by today's standard and will cost a lot of money if one decides to upgrade/refurbish them given that these F 16's are not just 2nd hand but retired
(Remember Danes are donating their active F16's to Ukraine, so no chance of Argentina getting those modern ones).
I...
SLV was more of a technology demonstrator, what were we going to do by launching 40kg to space the payload was not meaningful enough.
Also it had just 4 launches
2 were successes and 2 were failures.
SSLV is being made with a different goal in mind, it is more of a launch on demand rocket to...
There is no official data on its combat radius, heck there is no official data on its ferry range or fuel carrying capacity either, all the information regarding it's range and combat radius comes from unverified media reports and we all know how unreliable Indian media is.
one can only make a...
Yeah, we will talk about US losing the space race when any other country makes a starship equivalent.
Eff that, show me a single Chinese space company that can send cargo to space as cheaply as US, or has a reusable rocket.
A private American company SpaceX has sent more people to space than...
Am I the only person who wants us to go full throttle with our chandrayaan misson,
Duck Aditya L1, I want india bringing back moon rocks from the lunar south pole and sending a man on the moon with the help of American Artemis program
Paisa Babu bhaiya Paisa, mk2 would cost more, would need more maintenance and would be an overall strain on the budget. It would not make sense to field such an expensive (relatively speaking) aircraft against PAF fighters like JF 17 in such large numbers.
Think about it this way, would you...
The only reason I am bringing JF 17 is because it's going to be the backbone of PAF for coming decades and mk1a being a fighter of the same class is formidable counter to it.
I am not saying we don't need mk2, I am saying we don't need mk2 for countering PAF, mk1a can do that job easily, more...
Even after 20-30 years PAF is still going to have their JF 17's and these Tejas mk1a's will be their main adversary smoking their arses even then.
Our mk1a is more upgradable than their JF 17's.
We need these mk1a's to free up our other assets for the Eastern front.
In 20 years UCAV's like...
Even I was questioning this order size but after digging deeper I can confidently say that it's the right decision.
Current PAF inventory
138 JF 17 Block 1 and 2 (no match for even the mk1)
50 JF Thunder Block 3 (formidable opponent against mk1a)
36 J 10 CE (mk1a would not be upto the task...
Right now you are not sounding very different from some of my fellow Indians who just gloat about past glory and Achievements.
What has SUPARCO done of any significance in the 21st century.
Astra mk2's range is 180km (heard during a Defence Expo 22 interview that under the most favourable conditions mk2 can travel upto 180km, however a more cautious approach is being used to test out the missiles capabilities and we will see revisions in the range of the missile similar to how...
SCE 200 can only be throttled to about 60% (initial estimates) for a reusable vehicle we will need something that can be throttled to 40% so no SCE 200 based NGLV
1. In the Lunar South Pole, the sun is always near the horizon, which make it difficult to charge solar panels as compared to other regions of the moon.
2. South pole is in general darker than any other part of the moon because of its topography and sun's position, (Lunar mountains cast huge...
Akash NG seems to be a crucial part of India's integrated battle Group Concept.
I remember reading about armed forces using MRSAM as a 2nd layer of air defense for protecting moving armoured columns, during an excercise of the integrated battle group.
So now we have 2 dedicated SAM systems for...