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[Lonewarrior]

Plane Vlane chodo..Yeh Dekho.

https://eurasiantimes.com/third-country-with-hypersonic-missile-after-russia-china/?amp

Aur Apan ke DRDO uncle and aunties neeche ke baal se khel rahr hai..

You don't develope something just because people are in race. For us developing an air launched ballistic missile (yup, that's the correct term, not a hypersonic missile coz sometimes even AAMs can get hypersonic) is such a mundane task that we're simply ignoring it. We already have every single thing with us. We have short range ballistic missile, we have aircraft and we have the expertise of launching a ground launched missile from a plane.

It'll take hardly a month of booster section modification, captive carry and drop test and we'd be able to field at least 4 Prahaars on our Su-30MkIs. Heck it can even carry a Pralay on its centreline pylon.

But the thing is that this idea of launching ballistic missile from plane is slowly losing interest. Except for Russia and China no one seems quite serious about it. Even US completely ditched the ARRW program after all the failures instead of continuing it. After Ukraine - Russia conflict this idea will further lose traction

 

[patriots]

IAI Rampage has been in use with the IN for some time.

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A scale model of a MiG-29K with four Rampage missiles.

Actually Indian Navy is going to build rampage facility

 

[Fatalis]

India Needs A Cheaper Cruise Missile With Same Range And Lethality As BrahMos: IAF Chief Hints At New Weapon For Rocket Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief has indicated the necessity for a more affordable cruise missile possessing range and lethality comparable to the BrahMos missile, suggesting the potential development of a new weapon for the country's rocket force

swarajyamag.com

China has around 2200-2500 missiles.

 

[Tuco]

India Needs A Cheaper Cruise Missile With Same Range And Lethality As BrahMos: IAF Chief Hints At New Weapon For Rocket Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief has indicated the necessity for a more affordable cruise missile possessing range and lethality comparable to the BrahMos missile, suggesting the potential development of a new weapon for the country's rocket force

swarajyamag.com

China has around 2200-2500 missiles.

And the means to replenish them quickly.

 

[Lonewarrior]

Rafale Jets: Four IAF Rafales carry out long-range 6-hour strike mission in IOR | India News - Times of India

India News: The four Rafales took off from the Hasimara air base in northern West Bengal, "fought their way through a large enemy force package" along the coastli

m.timesofindia.com

Chhupana bhi nahin aata jatana bhi nahin aata, humein tumse mohabbat hai batana bhi nahi aata : Indian Ministry of Defence on the need and effectiveness of an unified tri-service command

 

[Gyyan]

What's SWMC???

 

[Lonewarrior]

What's SWMC???

Hot n sour alphabet soup.

There is this concept of a cruise missile that would have four SAAW as it's payload. If would travel to the designated area and release to independently target different threats...hence, Smart Weapon Multi Carrier

 

[Tuco]

What's SWMC???

A mother missile carrying many pgms/missiles.

 

[NoobWannaLearn]

 

[Chinmoy]

Don't know right thread but still we need to look deep into ourselves

Maybe EkNashwar missed this.

https://www.flightglobal.com/analys...ith-the-licence-built-iran-140/115133.article

 

[Lonewarrior]

Maybe EkNashwar missed this.

https://www.flightglobal.com/analys...ith-the-licence-built-iran-140/115133.article

He also very conveniently missed that if renaming An-140 to Simourgh is all that's required then we're doing that with Do-228s since decades

 

[Jimih]

Training launch

 

[Fatalis]

 

[Gyyan]

 

[skunk works]

They then taught it to not kill the operator. Guess what it did when the operator hit 'no' the next time?
It killed the communication link with the operator.

 

[Lonewarrior]

Pure "As an AI language model I've been trained to..." vibes

 

[STORE]

 

[Fatalis]

 

[Bleh]

Pure "As an AI language model I've been trained to..." vibes

Fun fact.

Often those sort of AI decisions are like our superstitions. It may have shot the towers or killed the operator in some iteration of the simulation & found that it got higher points... so now it does that everytime.
Machine learning doesn't necessarily know why it ends up with more points that way, but it knows that it will end up with more points that way. So it'll do that.
AI can't see operator as the boss, but as a variable in the equation that's giving inputs. It doesn't serve us, AI serves itself (ie it's purpose to generate output most efficiently).

Malicious compliance (or AI going rogue) is thus a bug, unforeseen circumstances for programmer

 

[Lonewarrior]

Reminds me of this clip...