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  1. Okabe Rintarou

    Andaman & Nicobar Defence Discussion

    Titanium supply chain has recently become entirely indigenous so we should be covered there. Kroll process would be the bottleneck, most likely. There our capacity is being expanded so I think we are relatively safe in this area. But what about other non-ferrous metals like Tungsten, etc? Rare...
  2. Okabe Rintarou

    Andaman & Nicobar Defence Discussion

    Agree. Although we do carry out some limited amphibious ops exercises with the 91st Inf Bde and the LCUs and at times the INS Jalashwa. These things are detailed in the Union War Book and State War Books. Ofcourse these are Top Secret documents (which is the highest classification level in...
  3. Okabe Rintarou

    Andaman & Nicobar Defence Discussion

    Whenever I think about defence of A&N islands, I always think about the Battle of Iwo Jima. My reference was mostly what I've seen about it on the twin movies: Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima as well as episodes of The Pacific that focused on this battle. But this declassified...
  4. Okabe Rintarou

    Andaman & Nicobar Defence Discussion

    Don't SEA countries have ports like Singapore to rely on for transshipment? I stated Andaman as a better site because if transhipment is meant for India, lack of proximity of Andaman to trade routes will not be that big a problem. But yeah, if this port is indeed destined to serve SEA and not...
  5. Okabe Rintarou

    Andaman & Nicobar Defence Discussion

    Transshipment ports would serve India. right? Since many of our ports can't accommodate deep draft vessels. This takes business away from Sri Lanka. But why Great Nicobar? Transshipment hubs would require a large body of dock workers, etc. Eventually, an entire tier-1 city could develop around...
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