Recent content by vikan

Which posts? Every one has said the same thing over and over, AMCA wont come before 2035.

I think you are confusing corruption with efficiency. Private companies can be highly corrupt in their practices of getting gov contracts, this is highly evident in defence dealings.

I read some time ago an article written either a former IAF officer or someone with an inside knowledge of the IAF, but the jist of it was this - IAF pilots loved the mig 21 because they could push it to the extreme and then some more. But it was alao equally punishing, slightest of errors and...

I noticed that in a lot of his posts.

Go back and re read my posts, i also said if the OEM is OK with it, then third partt weapons can be integrated. Russian weapons are not integrated with western planes because of their historically not so friendly relations with Russia. India is not Russia, integrating Indian weapons on Rafaels...

By that logic why are American weapons integrated on Rafale, why are french weapons integrated on Eurofighter Typhoon? Becase they provide a versatility for the end user to mix and match weapons. So when the buyer looks at a plane they also look at the range of weapons they can use, the more the...

Begani shaadi mein Abdul deewana.

What are you talking about? What displaced people? If its not a secret do you have any proof to back it up?

I donno dude, from my interactions and the time i spent in the city, there are tensions between the communities but no real threat to national unity. Sure the occasional anti India voice is heard but in the grand scheme of things there is no real anti India sentiment. And there are always many...

I am a Hyderabadi, lived all my life in the city. Have a ton of friends in old city, i can tell you with certainity there was never any real public support for Hyderabad state to join Pakistan. Even the majority local muslims who stayed back during partition gave no support to the Nizam's...

Against the whishes of what people?

Its the associated costs that most likely prevented them putting it on the rover, the cost to send it to the moon coupled with this being a mix of a technology demonstrator and experimental rover, there was probably not enough justification for added costs coming from putting on the unit.

I believe so, just read an article while researching RTG costs and it seems Cassini mission used an RTG.

Right, because the only cost is the purchase cost, dont count the design cost, and more importantly the costs to send it to the moon. These RHU can weight several kilograms, and the cost to send that weight alone will run into millions. Subscription article, dont know what the rest of the...

Not BS, from what i have read those radioisotope heater units cost in the millions, so a significant increase in project costs if they had taken that route.