Iranians are extremely pragmatic, they'd take the deal. It won't change much on the supply side in the near term, since they have been sending oil to China illicitly for the most part but it'll get them help (investments) to up the supply long-term.
Not out of the blue, Iran is being offered the nuclear deal and Iranian oil is about to enter the market. The entire process got expedited due to the Russian war. They stand to make the most of the situation at the moment, even KSA has suddenly issued a very pliant statement.
So no more Kornet orders? Mig-29 was not happening as it's, I believe. They'd be buying a Western jet for the Naval order. We need to sea how their subsurface and surface fleet is affected by the sanctions, alongside space and tank systems.
US could not even issue a statement against India...
In genuine honesty, I don't think we can compare the Russian/Ukraine war with any wars in the recent past (those were fairly one-sided, with the Western powers enjoying a lop-sided advantage).
Given that Russian armor is facing somewhat modern weaponry at hands of Ukrainians and suffering due...
On a different note, given the sheer number of IFV/MBT losses, even in this war, I wonder if these will change any calculations for us? @iLION12345_1 @PanzerKiel
Every major western news media is reporting RuAF to have failed vs Ukrainian AD. Yet, KA-52s are doing low-level runs over Mariupol. And then there's a bloody 60 km long tank and an arty convoy that continues to travel closer to Kyiv, unabated - almost waltzing to the final destination.
The...
The sheer amount of disinfo in this campaign puts to shame anything we saw in the aftermath of Balakot strikes and SR. This is a whole new level of misinformation.
If our folks at the helm are watching this, I sure as hell hope they watch what happens when a nation loses air superiority over its own skies. And thus allocate funds a tad more judicially. =)
As things stand right now, China itself has been providing rare earths to American defense industry; LM included. While American companies continue to fund research within Chinese universities. All of this still goes on and hasn’t been entirely pulled a plug on.
You do need to see that these...
Think Pakistan is trying to walk a tight rope here. And this point needs to be understood. It's not rich like China where it can force the EU and US to talk to it, or take it seriously. At the same time, it would not want to be treated as an international pariah state like Iran or North Korea...
My takeaway from the events of Balakot and SR is that Indians have seen that a shot-down aircraft gets more eyeballs than any strike on land. They'd want to take a shot at our aircraft, more than wanting to land an SOW in Pak. The idea of revenge seems to be weighing heavily on them.
Gen. Panag - put a number on Indian Army KIAs, in the event of them opening a front to take AJK. In his very words, it’ll cost 4000 men for a 2 Sq km incursion.
While China may not intervene directly, they will use the war to their advantage if it ever happens. China’s first build up in Pangong...