Countering Chinese might - Indian way

HariPrasad-1

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Some time back when an article of Chinese computer adjudged fastest in the world was posted on Pakistan defense forum, Chinese folks were over jubilant. I complemented them and wrote that you guys can enjoy that for some time until our 138 exa flop computer come in 2017. And that was a blasphemy. Chinese members collectively attacked and bullied not only me but insulted India like they always do. They called me illiterate, big mouth, etc. They posted Abdul kalam sir’s statement that India shall become a super power in 2015. One Chinese member calculated that it will require 7600 MW electricity to operate this super computer.

China with their hyper nationalism adopted the way of beg, borrow and steal strategy to rise in the field of science and technology. They were very successful also but their success did not go well with international community as whole world see china as imperial power and an unwanted rise of a nation not god for world order and peace. There are two major emerging powers in the world today. India and china. China with their dictatorial regime collected huge amount of fund and they thought that they can not only surpass india but US also by spending heavily in strategic areas and soon world shall start recognizing them as the competitor of US and subsequently the sole super power of the world. However, Democratic india has her own way to take on china.

Now tomorrow Vijay bhatkar gave a lecture in which he once again mentioned of this 138+ exaflpo super super computer of India. On discussion on PDF, one Indian guy explained how it was made possible by designing different architect of flexible buses rather than fixed buses. This is the frugal India way of innovation. Many things appear to be impossible may be made possible with innovation. India is exactly doing this. When I read this,, many such frugal innovations struck my mind which I want to discuss here in brief.


When whole world was contemplating mars mission just not for exploring Mars but also to project their power, ability and excellence in space science and technology. Many nations tried and got mixed result of success and failure.. They used costly heavy rockets. China used Russian rocket to their mars mission and failed. India too tried but India had a modest rocket of just 1.5 ton capacity. India conceived a unique frugal mission to mars using gravity of earth and reached Mars in its first attempt. Mission which a planned life of 6 months is now been extended for indefinite period.

China started building heavy rockets to establish their superiority in space. India worked on minimizing the launch cost and currently it is just half of any other agency worldwide. As china worked on increased capacity of vehicles, India focused on reusability of their space vehicle. India is working on one stage vehicle for launch and scramjet technology so that cost of launching may be bought down to just 10% of current cost. India also carried multiple orbit launch in one mission and 20 satellites launch in one mission. Now they target 83 satellites launch in one mission. India is working on reusable space shuttle to minimize the cost. ISRO with its tiny budget compared to Chinese space agency or NASA is placed in a very respectable position now. It is because of frugal engineering and innovations of Indians. India beat china with Innovation.

In the area of defense, while china was focusing on the increasing the range of her missiles, India focused on low weight and accuracy. The focus of India was such that they should be able to target enemy positions with conventional warheads. This requires a phenomenal accuracy. Today Indian long range missiles are such accurate that they can be used to target enemy position with single digit accuracy. Indian K4 missile is said to have almost zero error. When china’s SLBM JL2 is said to have 7700 KM range with 700 KG pay load, India’s K4 deliver 2 tons at 4000 KM with almost Zero error. This gave India a power to demolish enemy infrastructure with conventional warhead without using a nuclear bomb. This is a big strategic advantage.

Similarly, India worked on Brhmos missile to make them highly accurate and made them to dive steeply on the target. This made them deadliest of missile which can identify and target enemy position in hidden area behind mountains. This is an Indian innovation which made it possible to use the missile in non-traditional areas where the missiles cannot be use. This also made it deadliest of anti-ship missile virtually impossible to intercept with any present missile defense system existing in the world. When India declared that they will position this on India china border in Arunachala Pradesh, China rightly got annoyed and said that it is more than the security needs of India.

To protect the ships, India took same approach. India with Israel made MR SAM missile. This missile protect indian ships from Hundred KM to half of a KM. China on its Type 52D uses multi layer defense system of long range, medium range missiles but still they are unable to offer the protection which MRSAM provides. All Chinese systems put to gather are not as effective against sea skimming missile as single MRSAM. This is the power of Indian innovation and frugal engineering. .

In nuclear energy when whole world was focusing on making high speed centrifuge to purify uranium to weapon grade or reactor grade, India focused on research of game changing fast breeder technology where the high purity of fuel is not required. You can use relatively less pure fuel and still can achieve a very high burn ratio. The beauty of this technology is that it may generate more fuel than it consume. . Today india can transform her huge thorium reserve into fuel with this technology. India also designed a highly safe passive safety system for her nuclear power plant which will work automatically in the condition of accident to curtail damage. India made maintenance of Rajasthan atomic power station with same frugal engineering by making bamboo semi-automatic robots and made the plant operational once again at a fraction of cost (Less than 5%) which Canada had offered to do maintenance. Today that plant is generating electricity at a cost less than a rupee per unit.

China not only has her hegemonic design in strategic area but also social and political area. India and only india is capable of countering china all these areas. I will discuss about countering china in other areas on some other day.

-Hari Prasad.
 
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Yes and this will give us a computing capability like god. Bloody we shall be able to simulate and calculate bloody any damn thing.
Not only that, we could provide secure access to only the parallel processing framework of our supercomputer to National Universities and Prestigious institutes where hopefully students will use this behemoth and get help in there research work, this would drastically change the way engineering colleges and other domains use tech for research purposes in India. This would fast track innovation in any sort of industry, because as far as I know, our existing supercomputers are only reserved for top scientific research.
 

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Yes and this will give us a computing capability like god. Bloody we shall be able to simulate and calculate bloody any damn thing.
We would be able to produce propulsion system by 100 time better and accurate simulation technique. Not just for military but for commercial aerospace sector of India and ISRO too.
 

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Some time back when an article of Chinese computer adjudged fastest in the world was posted on Pakistan defense forum, Chinese folks were over jubilant. I complemented them and wrote that you guys can enjoy that for some time until our 138 exa flop computer come in 2017. And that was a blasphemy. Chinese members collectively attacked and bullied not only me but insulted India like they always do. They called me illiterate, big mouth, etc. They posted Abdul kalam sir’s statement that India shall become a super power in 2015. One Chinese member calculated that it will require 7600 MW electricity to operate this super computer.

China with their hyper nationalism adopted the way of beg, borrow and steal strategy to rise in the field of science and technology. They were very successful also but their success did not go well with international community as whole world see china as imperial power and an unwanted rise of a nation not god for world order and peace. There are two major emerging powers in the world today. India and china. China with their dictatorial regime collected huge amount of fund and they thought that they can not only surpass india but US also by spending heavily in strategic areas and soon world shall start recognizing them as the competitor of US and subsequently the sole super power of the world. However, Democratic india has her own way to take on china.

Now tomorrow Vijay bhatkar gave a lecture in which he once again mentioned of this 138+ exaflpo super super computer of India. On discussion on PDF, one Indian guy explained how it was made possible by designing different architect of flexible buses rather than fixed buses. This is the frugal India way of innovation. Many things appear to be impossible may be made possible with innovation. India is exactly doing this. When I read this,, many such frugal innovations struck my mind which I want to discuss here in brief.


When whole world was contemplating mars mission just not for exploring Mars but also to project their power, ability and excellence in space science and technology. Many nations tried and got mixed result of success and failure.. They used costly heavy rockets. China used Russian rocket to their mars mission and failed. India too tried but India had a modest rocket of just 1.5 ton capacity. India conceived a unique frugal mission to mars using gravity of earth and reached Mars in its first attempt. Mission which a planned life of 6 months is now been extended for indefinite period.

China started building heavy rockets to establish their superiority in space. India worked on minimizing the launch cost and currently it is just half of any other agency worldwide. As china worked on increased capacity of vehicles, India focused on reusability of their space vehicle. India is working on one stage vehicle for launch and scramjet technology so that cost of launching may be bought down to just 10% of current cost. India also carried multiple orbit launch in one mission and 20 satellites launch in one mission. Now they target 83 satellites launch in one mission. India is working on reusable space shuttle to minimize the cost. ISRO with its tiny budget compared to Chinese space agency or NASA is placed in a very respectable position now. It is because of frugal engineering and innovations of Indians. India beat china with Innovation.

In the area of defense, while china was focusing on the increasing the range of her missiles, India focused on low weight and accuracy. The focus of India was such that they should be able to target enemy positions with conventional warheads. This requires a phenomenal accuracy. Today Indian long range missiles are such accurate that they can be used to target enemy position with single digit accuracy. Indian K4 missile is said to have almost zero error. When china’s SLBM JL2 is said to have 7700 KM range with 700 KG pay load, India’s K4 deliver 2 tons at 4000 KM with almost Zero error. This gave India a power to demolish enemy infrastructure with conventional warhead without using a nuclear bomb. This is a big strategic advantage.

Similarly, India worked on Brhmos missile to make them highly accurate and made them to dive steeply on the target. This made them deadliest of missile which can identify and target enemy position in hidden area behind mountains. This is an Indian innovation which made it possible to use the missile in non-traditional areas where the missiles cannot be use. This also made it deadliest of anti-ship missile virtually impossible to intercept with any present missile defense system existing in the world. When India declared that they will position this on India china border in Arunachala Pradesh, China rightly got annoyed and said that it is more than the security needs of India.

To protect the ships, India took same approach. India with Israel made MR SAM missile. This missile protect indian ships from Hundred KM to half of a KM. China on its Type 52D uses multi layer defense system of long range, medium range missiles but still they are unable to offer the protection which MRSAM provides. All Chinese systems put to gather are not as effective against sea skimming missile as single MRSAM. This is the power of Indian innovation and frugal engineering. .

In nuclear energy when whole world was focusing on making high speed centrifuge to purify uranium to weapon grade or reactor grade, India focused on research of game changing fast breeder technology where the high purity of fuel is not required. You can use relatively less pure fuel and still can achieve a very high burn ratio. The beauty of this technology is that it may generate more fuel than it consume. . Today india can transform her huge thorium reserve into fuel with this technology. India also designed a highly safe passive safety system for her nuclear power plant which will work automatically in the condition of accident to curtail damage. India made maintenance of Rajasthan atomic power station with same frugal engineering by making bamboo semi-automatic robots and made the plant operational once again at a fraction of cost (Less than 5%) which Canada had offered to do maintenance. Today that plant is generating electricity at a cost less than a rupee per unit.

China not only has her hegemonic design in strategic area but also social and political area. India and only india is capable of countering china all these areas. I will discuss about countering china in other areas on some other day.

-Hari Prasad.
Good Article, brother. Keep up the good work.
 

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I don't think we can have an Exflop computer by 2017.
Though, we can close the gap between India and them.
 

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Nice article.

Now dont give too much importance to Chinese whining.Despite their financial power they dont enjoy the respect of the big countries around the world.The kind of attention that USA/USSR/Japan got China has not got that kind of respect and that rankles them.Plus even n their own region India doesnt gives two hoots to their authority.

Now coming to the actual point,the last few decades were the decade of mass production,thats what the Chinese did and succeeded by copying and manufacturing.I believe the coming decades are for innovation,something chinese lack and Indians excel.We have shown the ability to innovate and bring down costs while maintaining acceptable quality.Also Chinese are now rivals to US led West and the habit of the Chinese to steal is something the West will not tolerate too long,their manufacturing boom will stagnate in the next decade.

India with its innovations,increasing ease of business,good record of protecting IP rights,a democracy will attract the world.
 

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Now tomorrow Vijay bhatkar gave a lecture in which he once again mentioned of this 138+ exaflpo super super computer of India. On discussion on PDF, one Indian guy explained how it was made possible by designing different architect of flexible buses rather than fixed buses. This is the frugal India way of innovation. Many things appear to be impossible may be made possible with innovation. India is exactly doing this. When I read this,, many such frugal innovations struck my mind which I want to discuss here in brief.
Very informative article !! It shows we have lot of potential in terms of innovation and adopting frugal methods to make stuffs cheaper and affordable. It was demonstrated through various examples that we can match Chinese might, if not exceed, by adopting several innovative ideas in case of Super computing, Space exploration, and Defense. All these points are appreciative and should be highlighted in appropriate platform to instill pride among Indian fora.
I was associated with a scientific organisation and having seen it at work for over 5 years I have my own observations regarding growth of Indian science and technology vis-a-vis China.

1. Talented Manpower: We have a pool of extremely talented and innovative manpower who if given a chance can do wonders and that too working under restrictive govt procedures. ISRO is the prime example which has propelled India to a new height in space technology.
2. Enterprising Traits of Indians: Looking at top CEOs of silicon valley, you can gauge the level of confidence that these big companies put on Indian folks to manage their affairs. What we are seeing right now the emergence of many domestic MSMEs in the field of technology and equipment manufacturing being led by young entrepreneurs and they are trying hard to expand their foot print across the globe. In coming times, we would witness such small companies turning into large enterprises which will bring technological prowess to India as we have seen in Silicon Valley in US.

Now, coming to various lacunae that we need to address to get ahead of China:

1. There is a need to clearly distinguish and establish "Center for Fundamental Sciences" and "Center for Applied Sciences". Former will focus on pure research in physical sciences with extended road maps and the latter will focus on engineering and technological aspects to execute critical projects within well defined timeline. The reason behind this is to provide adequate financial flexibility for developing critical/path-breaking technologies and define a focused mandate for the future works. These two institutions with different yet synchronous mandates and their successful amalgamation will ensure high quality deliverables as in case of NASA et. al. A divergent mandate which encompasses fundamental research to product delivery or project executions with "L1" procurement limitations deliver mediocre results as we are witnessing today in DPSUs etc.

2. Technological innovation should go hand-in-hand with development of manufacturing industry. It's not entirely HAL fault which compels it to do everything ("screw driver tech") ; it's the dearth of precision manufacturing companies which can deal with tolerances less than 1 mm or less with acceptable manufacturing defects. Even though we have well established center for software development but we lack hardware manufacturing of high grade semi-conductors ingots and VLSI which are required for many sensors used in defense industry. There is an urgent need to address manufacturing tech as this only can help us to deliver indigenous state-of-the-art products.

3. We need to rejig our technical and scientific education system and emphasis on building center of excellence in each engineering domain. There should competitive research funding as present in US and we should have our stringent assessment mechanism which ensures quality research output. Development and updation of domestic mechanical/civil design and testing codes comparable with ASME, DIN etc in collaboration with Indian Tech Universities could be one of the step.

It's high time to emphasis on the fundamentals of technological development for the betterment of our country. We have proved to world that with limited means we can achieve great heights whether its space,pharmaceuticals, nuclear tech etc. and now we need to increase our means or resources further to achieve greater heights.
 

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