This 3,200 unit order is for ONE specific role (General Staff Vehicle, GSV), there are many other roles that the Gypsy is used for right now that will be replaced by other vehicles in the near future.
For instance, the light supply vehicle (LSV) for the general military that the Gypsy is...
For all those unable to understand why the world's largest arms importer is wasting its time "reinventing the wheel" by devloping its own systems:
the Americans exported/doled out goods to Pakistan ( AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radars) and sold us ( AN/TPQ-37 ) for a lot more money than both...
You are entirely ignoring the genesis for this anti-Muslim sentiment and pretending as though it is unprovoked. Muslims have been flooding into Europe for decades (if not centuaries) and on the whole were welcomed and treated well, it is only now that Europe has been on the receiving end of...
The Dalai Lama lives in INDIA and meets Indian officals all the time, nothing is going to change that. China and India aren't going to change the status quoe, the border will remain peaceful.
Then you know nothing. What has he done since being PM to substantiate your assertion?
India doesn't...
My Punjabi is fine, I know plenty of them from the Gurdwara and through family and extended family. I've never heard any of them say anything along the lines of what you are saying.
The only Sikhs I have heard talk such cr@p are British born and no one takes them seriously.
+ @livingdead most...
For sure there are plenty of Punjabis/Sikhs going to the UK for economic reasons, many do so illegally also but I've not heard of any cases of Indians posing as Syrian refugees as of yet but I have seen plenty of Afghans and Pakistanis doing so.
As for the persecution part, I know plenty of...
Just from the top of my head:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_Eve_sexual_assaults_in_Germany
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby...
The last refuge of the ultimate victim mentality. There is no such thing as "Islamophobia", Islam isn't a race, it is an ideology.
And besides, a "phobia" is an irrational fear of something, Europe has PLENTY of reasons to have genuine concerns about Islam.
16-19 by 2019/20, can/will be expanded to >24/year with an increase in outsourcing from current target of 60% to 80% of LRUs with no additional infrastructure at HAL.
The intial 6 were troublesome AFAIK but now HAL are into their stride, all SPs up to SP11 are on the jig and work is going on flat out.
SP-5 will be flying in the next few weeks, it should/could be handed over by late March, early April.
Taking something from a prototype/LSP to full production...
There are 20 Mk.1 on order, the MK.1A will fly in 2018, production should commence from mid-2019.
No, the MK.1A is based on the Mk.1 airframe and will have no changes to the airframe, the improvements come in the sensors, electronics and some other additions.
This was the entire purpose of...