Integration is largely complete, with the missile paired with the Bars radar and indigenous data links. DRDO is expanding the range of the Astra Mark-2 missile to over 200 km.
IAF will procure 700 missiles for Su-30MKI and Tejas Mk1A fleet.
Astra Mark-2 will be superior to Pakistan's PL-15E (145 km) and comparable to China's PL-15 (200-300 km).
"Four US Presidents invested years in pulling India closer to America. But now India has been totally rejected by the Trump administration. We have picked Pakistan over India," says former US Ambassador Rahm Emanuel ripping into Trump's foreign policy
President Trump gets a laugh after he calls his McDonald's delivery to the Oval Office "a little tacky."
"They come up with these crazy ideas like McDonald's...the garbage truck...we do these things in politics, they're a little embarrassing."
The Jensen Huang episode.
0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains?
0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute?
0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler?
0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China?
1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia make multiple different chip architectures?
Look up Dwarkesh Podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. Enjoy!
PSA: you can now get good Indian food at SFO!
Air India just opened a Maharaja lounge. It’s tiny but the best lounge at SFO, and free for star alliance gold members.
problem: it’s in the A gates. You can go airside but it’s a really long walk if coming from United terminals (G/3/2)
🚨 Going viral in Lebanon: a Hezbollah operative trying to run away with his family, gets a call from the Israeli intelligence that they are following him. He gets out of the car, runs to the bushes and is targeted there.
If that's indeed the story here - WOW!
The Soviet N1 was a massive, five-stage super-heavy launch vehicle developed to take cosmonauts to the Moon, acting as the USSR's rival to the US Saturn V. Designed by OKB-1, it stood 105 meters tall and featured 30 engines on its first stage (Block A). All four test launches (1969–1972) failed, leading to the program's cancellation.