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5 rounds of emergency procurements (4 finalised, 5th close to finalised) totalling almost $3bn USD, anyone have a definitive list of all the items inked under EP? It’s about 150 separate contracts...

Infer for yourself. there will be a lot of overlap also look up Raytheon’s Sentinal- almost exactly what ISTAR was meant to be with US handholding

Yeah the Gulfstream and Airbus are for 2 different ISR projects- SCA and ISTAR, I believe SCA has emerged because ISTAR is a JV between India and US but these projects are convoluted and may never lead to any tangible system so SCA is a desi system that can overlap with some of the ISTAR...

Read Livefist’s amended tweet on the topic 6xNETRA MK1(A?) (repeat order of 6) will be on ERJ-145s 6x NETRA MK.2 will be on A321s (currently parked up at Hindon but can see a few of them have been flying recently) 3X SCA on A319 platform 3x ISTAR on gulfstreams (this seems like the most long...

ISTAR is a separate project https://x.com/livefist/status/1625319523959324672?s=46&t=8QPJecNQmmoeL0BRyMQdjg

https://x.com/livefist/status/1625319523959324672?s=46&t=8QPJecNQmmoeL0BRyMQdjg DRDO’s special missions planes are very interesting and genuinely game changers in terms of moving up the value chain for India- being able to convert green aircraft into these specialised platforms is a pretty niche...

Gave up giving traffic to inbreds a while ago

A319, product name is SCA

The additional Mk.1s should’ve been ordered 3-4 years ago to cover the gap to the Mk.2s, neither more Mk.1s nor Mk.2s have actually been ordered to date and these aren’t off the shelf procurements- they’ll require quite complicated conversion work even once they are contracted for

The more times goes on the more I start to agree with @BON PLAN’s assertions that most of these capability revolutions are marketing terms pushed primarily by American OEMs that become normalised in the industry dominated by them because of the disproportionate spending of the US govt on...

And then we will argue about the hull/turret/engine. If even the user is this clueless everything that follows will be confused and sub-optimal the kind of haphazard solutions we see emerging from DRDO and PSUs over time is not merely their fault for design/manufacturing shortcomings but the...

I never said the tank was dead or that the LT wouldn’t have utility beyond a tank killer (this in fact seems like its most unlikely feature) but the way the LT has been framed has been as a direct result of the PL-15 and to ‘counter’ it in the high altitude deployments I’ve also never seen...

We are seemingly having more of an in-depth discussion on role than the IA did before they floated this requirement ‘Light tank’ implies a Hunter-killer application against MBT as a primary role. Mobile fire support is obviously a more logical role for this kind of platform but it seems...

Cough cough, FRCV IA has got that covered already

And it quickly becomes apparent the IA haven’t got a freaking clue what they are doing or why they want a light tank other than 1) PLA rolled something called a light tank out 2) they saw another opportunity to float a global RFI and become the blue eyed boys of arms dealers the world over...

For the prize of just 1regiment? DRDO is at least playing the game IA have forced them into- IA was probably hoping DRDO would spend the next 15 years trying to do everything in-house (aka Early days of LCA) and use the delays as justification for a direct import as usual. make what you can...

Plug and play is how every major OEM works these days, can anyone fault DRDO/Indian private industry for not having niche tech considering near 100% of the armoured fighting vehicles thus far have been sourced from abroad? Even the attempts to indigenise (Arjun) were thwarted. To localise much...

I didn’t say it was, only it would be amusing to watch the reaction

‘Over’ is not particularly accurate. Their ISR assets don’t have to be in Indian airspace to monitor such things similarly they have plenty of sea and land based assets in the area. Afaik USAF Joint rivets are routinely flying in BoB during certain Indian missile tests it’s not illegal or even...

I’d like this to be true just to watch the epic meltdowns from the West and particularly the Ukrainian flag waving leftists. I do wonder how Russia could meet the requirements for this given the issues with meeting their own demands plus this would be another 5+ year drain on CAPEX for IAF