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[Raj Malhotra]

Some important updates from latest IAH (19.2.2022) by Saurav Jha:

1. No Arjun MK2 unveiling in this year's Defence Expo. Only ground display of Arjun mk1A latest iteration.

2. T-90 is 70 % indegenized (as per Parliamentary reports). However HVF Avadhi can produce a fully indegenous T-90 from scratch. Engine is fully indegenized.

3. NSTL lab of DRDO has designed a conventional SSK and shown it to the Navy. This design was cold-sholdered by Navy, who wanted to pursue P-75i programme.
Currently, this programme is on the verge of collapse, with multiple players pulling out. So the indegenous SSK design might be looked again.

4. SJ says TEDBF first flight is in 2029.

5. Contigency plans are in place for Tejas programme, in case US pulls up the CAATSA card and stop exporting GE engines.

pls post link

 

[FalconSlayers]

Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) CE-20 Cryogenic engine (Via @DefenceDecode)

 

[Apollyon]

There r 3 steps or objectives to achieve:

1.We need industrial robots with high accuracy and speed. Even Chinese just before global lockdown bought 2nd hand Japanese machines.
After chene gandumasti Japan and US blocked all the manuals and ban on Chinese semiconductor companies, so basically the machines r rotting in the chene warehouse.
We import all the robots even for car production.

2. Etching techniques, laser and lenses. I guess we have some experience at least WRT defence application.
The lens design will be extremely complicated.

3. The most important. ECAD/computational lithography.

ECAD is electronics Computer aided designing is the software through which chips r designed.
Examples r Siemens, autodesk, ansys, synopsis.

Computational lithography was pioneered by an ASML subsidiary.

complete western dominance

AMD’s world-beating new chips have Indian engineers at their core

Their processors are running data centres and the world’s fastest supercomputers

www.gadgetsnow.com

 

[THESIS THORON]

AMD’s world-beating new chips have Indian engineers at their core

Their processors are running data centres and the world’s fastest supercomputers

www.gadgetsnow.com

and here no one is trying to design chips.

imo someone should have invested in risc v and photonic computing

 

[not so dravidian]

AMD’s world-beating new chips have Indian engineers at their core

Their processors are running data centres and the world’s fastest supercomputers

www.gadgetsnow.com

This is design department. India has Nvidia and Intel design department too in india

Everyone knows that Indians hold high position in silicon valley.
Raja koduri, Intel's chief graphic designer is also indian, so is his right hand man. Many more in intel and AMD too.

We need indian company

All the above r foreign companies not indian.
We need to try our best to pouch talent pool in the long run and create at least a SML(Chinese semiconductor company)

 

[Vamsi]

Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) CE-20 Cryogenic engine (Via @DefenceDecode)
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We have full IPR for this engine. This engine is fully indigenously "Designed, Developed,Tested & Manufactured" by us. This engine shows how a true indigenous product looks like.

MoD should use this engine as a benchmark to define the actual meaning of " Indigenous Product".

 

[not so dravidian]

and here no one is trying to design chips.

imo someone should have invested in risc v and photonic computing

As for photonic computing, there is an drdo supercomputer with photonic processor.

Of course with the help of the Americans (a certain American company)
@fire starter Bhai posted about it waay back

 

[Tridev123]

There r 3 steps or objectives to achieve:

1.We need industrial robots with high accuracy and speed. Even Chinese just before global lockdown bought 2nd hand Japanese machines.
After chene gandumasti Japan and US blocked all the manuals and ban on Chinese semiconductor companies, so basically the machines r rotting in the chene warehouse.
We import all the robots even for car production.

2. Etching techniques, laser and lenses. I guess we have some experience at least WRT defence application.
The lens design will be extremely complicated.

3. The most important. ECAD/computational lithography.

ECAD is electronics Computer aided designing is the software through which chips r designed.
Examples r Siemens, autodesk, ansys, synopsis.

Computational lithography was pioneered by an ASML subsidiary.

complete western dominance

Yes, sadly the West led by the United States has almost an stranglehold on several niche high technology areas. State of the art semiconductors being one.
Even if many Indian origin scientists and engineers are in high positions in high technology companies, I doubt whether they will be allowed to help India by sharing their expertise. Also there are reports in several media that non white Americans are not allowed to occupy key managerial positions in companies that do cutting edge high technology research and development. So they may not be knowledgeable of the entire technology process and their role is restricted to certain sectors.

So how do we break this Western monopoly in the strategic high technology areas.
Probably by transforming our entire educational infrastructure.
By empowering our students from the school level itself to think out of the box and put equal emphasis on the practical as well as the theoretical as far as science education is concerned. Can every College and University at least reach IIT or IISc levels of excellence. Merit should be recognised and rewarded. The educational sector must be adequately funded. Money should not be a problem. Leading corporates should establish top class Science and Engineering colleges. Meritorious students from economically poor backgrounds should also get full scholarship to pursue their education. Profit alone should not be the motive.

However much we detest the Chinese, they have managed to greatly increase the level of excellence of their colleges and Universities. Many Chinese universities have found a place in the top 100 list of educational institutions in the world. Of course they have gained enormously by sending their students to the elite colleges in the US and Europe. These returning students have acted as catalysts for transforming their Higher Education institutions.

I like many Indians hate the Chinese Communist Government and its PLA, but one truth has to be recognised. Already the Chinese are steadily beginning to challenge Western (read US) supremacy in several areas including 5g technology.
The Chinese are trying to break down the US companies monopoly of software for smartphones. By providing an alternative to the Android OS. Next target could be the Windows OS for Laptops and Desktops. Just one example.

Whether they will succeed is to be seen.
As China becomes an even greater threat to the US especially in high technology areas,the US will be forced to empower India. Allow India access to chip fabrication technologies. And if Chinese jet engines reach the performance and reliability levels of the West and start becoming an alternative, I expect India to get access to the forbidden high temperature(TET) hot engine /core engine technology so far denied to us.

There is no doubt that the Chinese are a threat to India in Asia. But unfortunately the reality is that as Beijing begins to seriously threaten US dominance in the world, India will become a beneficiary. We need to play our cards wisely and take advantage of the situation. India is too big to become an lapdog of the US. But an equal partnership is possible.

 

[Shashank Nayak]

Brahmos corp. is even bigger bullshitter than HAL. Brahmos-2 will be come when Russia develop an export version of Zircon.

That article is from 2013..

 

[Aditya Ballal]

OFB-Elbit 12.7x99mm RCWS on INS Kamorta.

 

[Aditya Ballal]

Apologies if it’s already been posted before.

 

[Haldilal]

Ya'll Nibbiars @HariPrasad-1 going to the Defence Expo 2022?. If any one going please DM me.

 

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[flanker99]

Can anyone see the image of the demonstrator? mine isnt loading for reason
Pl post here

 

[Nationalist Manasvi Papa]

Can anyone see the image of the demonstrator? mine isnt loading for reason
Pl post here

 

[arnabmit]

Can anyone see the image of the demonstrator? mine isnt loading for reason
Pl post here

 

[arnabmit]

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OFB-Elbit 12.7x99mm RCWS on INS Kamorta.

A very underappreciated system behind the RCWS.

 

[Akula]

A very underappreciated system behind the RCWS.

Kavach

 

[fire starter]

 

[fire starter]