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India army chief says leak of his letter is 'treason' Why would the leak of the letter be treason if its not true. BBC News - India army chief says leak of his letter is 'treason'

The only thing I said was. "Dont lose heart as you say, denial is the best solution when your up the proverbial creek with out a paddle, the rest is a news article. The Trouble With India's Military | The Diplomat troubling reality

Re: India russian pakfa problems Wonder what universe this guy lives in.???? The Trouble With India's Military SecuritySouth AsiaIndia April 26, 2012 By Nitin Gokhale The letter by India's Army chief last month blasting the state of the armed forces reflected a troubling reality – India's...

Re: India russian pakfa problems India has decided to to equip its Perspective Multirole Fighter (PMF) variant of the Russian T-50 fifth-generation combat aircraft with avionics similar to Russia's version of the plane. The future plane (PMF) will have not only the same airframe, but also an...

India russian pakfa problems The new stripped down version of the Mig 29 being sold to India has already been designed by Russia. In years gone by, the post USSR era, the penury stricken Russian arms industry was looking for buyers. It found few. India sanctioned by the USA plopped down...

Will be a common occurance with a plane going through midlevel testing. I am not critical of the T50 or PAK FA as much as I am skeptical of the technological/industrial/research ability of Russia to build advanced aircraft or even support with quality spare parts the ones they have now. A...

It has been recognized since the time of ancient Greece that people have a tendency to react badly to a person who delivers bad news, especially when the person who actually caused the unwanted event is not accessible or when the calamity is a natural occurrence. "shooting the messenger" is...

f-22 raptor crash landing - YouTube F22 losses are fairly normal for a new aircraft. Did you know that the B-52 had a higher accident rate of 22.4% before it ever saw service.

Indian Air Force lost 30 fighter aircraft, 10 choppers in three years Track record so far not so good. Indian Air Force lost 30 fighter aircraft, 10 choppers in three years Indian Air Force (IAF) has lost a total 30 plus fighter aircraft and 10 helicopters in crashes in last three years...

The Russian aircraft industry's key problem, according to the experts, is the low technical culture. In addition to outdated equipment, the Russian production facilities entirely fail to comply with technical regulations. The fact that discipline and process compliance are hardly Russia's...

Yuri Zaitsev is academic consultant with the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences

The current situation in the Russian aircraft industry is as follows: military and civil airplanes are produced at 13 specialized plants. Their average volume does not exceed 35% of capacity, while the equipment and technology remain at 1970s levels. The active part of their fixed assets (about...

Best I can tell the F35 was never offered to India and never requested by India, it was more like if Indian requests the F35 we will consider it. There is a number of reasons that the F35 was never requested, 1. Its too expensive 2. India would no get access to much of the technology...

That has been brought to my attention a number of times.

None are so ignorant as those that dont face reality. There are currently two Russian engines being built for recent fighter aircraft designs. The $3.5 million AL-31 (for the Su-27/30 and the Chinese J-11 and J-10) and the $2.5 million RD-33/93 for the MiG-29 and the Chinese JF-17 (a F-16...

I learned to face reality a long time ago. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ~Sigmund Freud

Mail Online - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Do you have any idea why a on line news with 105 million subscribers would lie. Its part of the dailymail.co.uk

The problem is that India does not have a robust industrial/technology base to build their own modern 4th generation fighters. In fact there are major technical/project management issues encountered by HAL even in the assembly of Russian provided kits. (Nor does Russians to build a 5th...

The Bharati defense industry is in a quandary. It has been unable to make the parts for its Russian defense equipment. Russian supply chain has proven to be totally unreliable. Bharat tried to make parts for its Mig 19s and Mig 21s. The Russians blamed the shoddy quality of the local parts on...

Russian and India technology level is not that far apart......Technology index statistics - countries compared - NationMaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending India spends about 36 billion a year on research and development,,, Russia about 26.