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@he-man @Omega007 Design rationalization, the lack of it, cannot be explained, not by me. I have no idea as to what we are unwilling to emulate global practices in this regard, it is not a matter of technology, that is for sure, at least not to a great extent.

Spot another navy for me which somehow wants to operate 3 different submarines, from three different OEMs concurrently (and yes the Kilos will serve for quite some time side by side with the Scorpene given that vessels of the class have been undergoing upgrades in the late 2000s). We...

Lol, the Type 209 thing was a somewhat genuine case of ToT, even today we have the right to produce more. But since we discontinued the line we lost most of the fabricating and floor level expertise, which we are now trying to reattain with the scorpenes (which is another story altogether, with...

Phir wahi savaal! Know how is present even when one is fabricating cabins for the helos, it is present when HAL builds the Sukhoi's engines etc. AND IT MEANS NOTHING! There is nothing called ToT, not in the terms that you are imagining it to be. Whenever you here ToT in our context (be it the...

Lol, Penguin has been observing navies evolve for some time now, when we get impatient he tends to get exasperated, so he said that we should think on terms of decades rather than a few years.:p:

SM. LAUNCH MODULE (16 NOS) 2 SET CANNOT BE TAKEN TO MEAN 16 CELLS DIVIDED INTO TO TWO BANKS OF 8 CELLS. Why? It is known that the primary munitions cells number 16, this much is verified and corroborated. These 16 cells for the AShMs have been represented as "BR. LAUNCH MODULE (8 NOS) 2 SET"...

There is that, once the ideals of freedom of expression and speech have been embedded into the society they cannot be removed or curbed. On the other hand, I do not think this is an issue which revolves around the said ideals or notions. This is the result of the administration inability to...

The British administration has plenty of blame to shoulder indeed, letting people like Anjem role about freely without even taking a serious look at the actual material he was dealing with in his speeches, this wasn't a bloke who was criticizing British policies in the middle east or Britain's...

Honestly, I think it would be constructive if you could take out some time and try and populate the thread with your own experience in dealing with this issue, do try. @waz and @Oscar seem to find some merit in the article while @Chak Bamu and @Armstrong tend to find some faults, although Chak...

What do you reckon is the way forward? Could you perhaps provide some details, context, instances, examples and experiences to populate the above article and to substantiate/complement the information present within?