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I've read plenty: Does this look healthy and sustainable to you?

From the article: And according to the IMF: Saudi Arabia could be bankrupt within five years, IMF predicts | Middle East | News | The Independent I fail to see how the Saudis can maintain expenditures for '170 years' as was claimed.

How can this be? Foreign reserves dropped $90 billion in a year, and can only continue on current depletion rate for another 5 years.

PakFA's future is unclear. HAL should just continue development on Tejas Mk2 and AMCA, and just ignore the FGFA redesign. Russian engines can't compete with Western designs, and I am starting to doubt if they have the cash to make a clean-sheet design like they claim. If it means getting...

Technology from US and Israeli drones will no doubt be incorporated into the project until it is completed, so procuring such fancy tech India doesn't currently have ability to make right now would be a huge advantage for the indigenous programs. It would be much more worrying if there were no...

Future aircraft for a future platform. Sounds about right. I do believe that it will carry some US aircraft in exchange for the valuable, cutting-edge EMALS tech being incorporated though. No way Pentagon would allow such technology to be transferred without some kind of compensation deal for an...

You've missed the point entirely. China is deliberately trying to avoid confrontations and incursions to avoid bringing US and India together for defense deals and technology. Why? Because they know they are no match for US. Not for another 10-20 years that is. Within that 10-20 year time...

Space Shuttle was designed for human flights and scientific experiments, not for launching satellites. Furthermore, the costs were not cheap as the Solid Rocket Booster stages fell into the ocean and had to be retrieved and the main fuel tank was discarded entirely. Additionally, it was using...

That's it? If I were to write a similar write up on Islamic terrorism in the same time frame, it would take a minimum of 100 pages and encompass the deaths of several hundreds of thousands. Nobody in the world except a few Mullahs and Madrasa goers like yourself even know who the RSS even is...

X'tians have committed far more genocides and violence than any other religion on the planet. If there is intolerance in this world, it is because X'tians still walk on it.

They are just utilitarian rectangles. Not really Victorian or Gothic at all. It is called Modern Design. Everybody does it, because it is the most efficient design. If you go to the 'Old European' towns and cities and compare it to the newer industrial centers built in the last 50 years you will...

Russia would respond in kind with Nukes and turn Turkey into the world's largest parking lot. I hope you realize that the NATO qualification becomes useless the moment you become aggressors and attack Russia. It doesn't work that way.

FCIV program is worth $10 billion I believe. If it goes to a TATA with a variant of the Kestrel program, then that would be the huge big ticket item for private Indian players to start competing and exporting mechanized combat vehicles like they already do with jeeps, trucks, and other ground...

I have no idea. Some kind of forum glitch. All the previous posts were deleted and truncated into mine somehow. restored my original post.

Partially false: HAL unveils engine for Trainers, Biz Jets. The HTFE-25. These planes are meant to last decades, they will be outdated before they are even released. HAL has comparable technology, but at not enough thrust for an MTA. Other option is to have HAL update the Russian MTA with...

Didn't realize people in China have CNN or youtube, let alone watch US primary debates.

I don't see this rationale being any meaningfully different than the US offer on join terrorism. Especially the bolded, with regards to US defence aid. Being pro-active doesn't mean joining some foreign group with different interests than your own. This isn't about ISIS. While ISIS was...

2016 can't come soon enough. This buffoon Obama needs to go, his foreign policy has been an unmitigated disaster.

Congress didn't bring any jobs at all. Services were the only area where private companies could actually prosper and not get brought down by corruption and excess bureaucracy. Manufacturing never grew thanks to the failures of government policy, corruption, and excess bureaucracy. Else it could...

Can they call a joint session immediately after the Winter Session and just pass the damn thing? GST needs to be passed this fiscal.