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What about upgrading existing passenger tracks to HSR? Is that financially viable? (When you said "lay high speed dedicated passenger tracks", did you mean new tracks, or upgrading the existing ones?)

I added a postscript above, that I'm not talking about the reasonableness of the price itself. Just bemused at the govt's claim that they saved 4 billion dollars.

I didn't say that at all. If that was the case, 12 billion for 126 jets would have become 3.4 billion for 36, plus a little more due to less economy of scale. The point is that this story of "Dassault asked for 12, but we brought it down to 8" is hard to believe, and is only coming from the...

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This reminds me of a joke I read in "Tinkle" magazine a long time ago: A man and his son are walking home. The man signals a transport bus to stop, and asks the conductor how much it would cost for him and his son to travel home. The bus conductor says five rupees. The man says that is too...

Unless there will be a large number of follow on orders, preferably with local manufacturing, it doesn't make sense to spend so much money for so few jets. It doesn't make sense to purchase this few jets at all. So I really hope there would be additional orders of a 100+. All those recent...

Rafale Jet Deal Finalised By India And France For 7.8 Billion Euros All India | Edited by Abhinav Bhatt | Updated: April 15, 2016 20:01 IST Rafale Jet Deal Finalised By India And France For 7.8 Billion Euros The first Rafale fighter jets will take at least 18 months to arrive in India New...

I will (and do) dismiss the claim that he is a veteran of air combat. And as I said before, that calls into question the credibility of that article - it is the article and its writer than I am dismissing. And that's just one. That website is a known hack. As I mentioned, another story they...

Having access to the IAF doesn't make him a veteran of air combat analysis either. Since you insist that he is a veteran of air combat analysis, although not of air combat itself, could you please link me to a few of the veteran's analyses? Maybe a thesis he has made about air combat? Erudite...

"Definitely"? How do you know that so definitively? How do you know that at all? Please don't allege wild theories like this. BTW if this is true, why would the same IAF bosses demand Rafales? The "IAF bosses" became bosses after a long, professional career. They are not armchair warriors who...

That's not true. Try to find the figures to support that claim, and you will realize that it is far from true. Especially since 2005, the IAF's crash rate is pretty much the same as western air forces. (Despite the geriatric age of half the fleet.)

Unlikely. These exercises and foreign deployments cost a lot of money. Both sides do the exercises to test themselves, to learn. They would try to make every penny spent worth spending. Sending MKIs and pilots and ground crew to the UK, and holding exercises, all for a token gesture from either...

Right, and we know close to zilch about what the exercise was about, what was being tested, what the rules were etc. They could have been simulating a very specific scenario in which the MKIs had a big advantage. (WVR itself is one such scenario.)

I agree with your posts on this thread. It would be unbecoming of anybody in the military to trot out these feel good stories. I myself winced at reading some of the language in the posted articles. For example: If anybody in the IAF says something like that to the media, he will find himself...

First of all, I do not accept your self proclaimed spokesperson-ship of all muslims, so this constant "we muslims" bit doesn't really fly. Your proclamation that "we muslims" will keep fighting in Kashmir is as invalid as your previous proclamation that "we muslims" always hate hindus. On that...

Is my negative going to stand, and is the troller not going to get one? If you can see the deleted posts, I'm sure you realize how ludicrous that is. I won't ask again, if that's just how things work here.

I am denying your ludicrous assertion that Kashmiris pelted stones during the Pathankot attack. If you don't even know whether major cities like Pathankot are in Kashmir or not, I don't think you should be speaking on behalf of Kashmiris. Separatism in Kashmir has seen its crux, and it was 20...

That's an extraordinary feat, considering that the distance between Pathankot and Kashmir is over 150 kilometers. Did they run all the way with stones in their hands? Must have been quite a spectacle on the NH-1-A. People who can't locate Kashmir on a map, and can't tell if a city is in...

That's what I thought. Tejas has not been integrated with any American missiles - I don't think any aircraft in the IAF has been. I know, my mistake.

Sheesh, is that so? I don't know if its worth the trouble - the ratings there say more about the rater than the rated. Could you or @MilSpec please do that? I'm not sure how to go to the GHQ section, I think only senior members can do that.