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In surge ops, the IAF demonstrated almost cent per cent serviceability, high dispatch rates. Credit for this hoes to the troika of IAF, MOD, HAL and of course, the late RM Mr Parrikar who pushed for HAL to maintain spares stockpiles to raise Su-30 readiness rates. (2/n)

Constable who risked his life to save a drowning girl will receive a cash reward of massive Rs 1,000 by the Area Commissioner.

this is pretty obv...nonbrown/non-hindu friends have asked me why leftists seem to hate hindus so much. idk, not a leftist. but they are on the hit-list

India will never produce an NVIDIA, and it has nothing to do with talent. R&D is the purest form of investment, and the central bank has spent decades making investment the dumbest thing you can do with a rupee. I've been surfing the semiconductor wave for a while now, reading 10-Ks for fun. Spent last month in the Bay Area and the gap between India and the US is not a gap; it's a different universe. Conversations about agentic AI and the next decade of hardware, with my boomer relatives Waymo-ing around SF and self-driving home on Tesla FSD like it's normal. Nobody there thinks any of this is remarkable; they already live in the future. NVIDIA spends nearly twice as much on R&D as every listed company in India combined. Silicon Motion, the world's leading maker of NAND flash controllers and around since 1995, ploughs 29.7% of revenue back into R&D. Micron runs 10.2%, NVIDIA 9.9%, on revenue bases that dwarf anything we have. India Inc? 0.85% of turnover, and half our listed companies report zero R&D at all. The easy move is to lambast our promoters and the dhandomaxxing capitalist class, or the foreign MNCs running India as a glorified offshoring unit, or the babus who fund nothing useful. Satisfying. But Wrong. The reason no rational Indian founder pours money into frontier R&D is that there is genuinely no payoff at the end of it. Why? 1. R&D compounds, and compounding punishes laggards. At the edge of science a 1-2% gain is a moat; Intel spent 20+ years performing impossible physics every 24 months because Moore's Law was the business model, and that consistency makes them one of the goated companies of all time even after they got mogged recently. NVIDIA lives the same way today: invent at the limit or cease to exist. If you're 50% behind, no quantum of innovation closes that. You never touch the high end. You stay a mass-market producer of things that already exist. India is precisely there. 2. The supply side is the real thesis, and it's monetary. Two decades of high inflation, high money-printing, high nominal rates. That regime subsidises consumption and taxes patience. R&D is the longest-duration, highest-variance bet on the board; it is the first thing a 8% risk-free rate kills. Frontier R&D only ever gets funded two ways: a psychopathically risk-tolerant capitalist with cheap capital, or a state with Stalin-grade control. The USSR took agrarian peasants to the first man in space in 20 years; China built its own version. India has neither the state capacity, the political will, nor the balance sheet to do that. So nobody does it. Talent was never the bottleneck. Capital structure was. If you want a SpaceX or a TSMC born here, you need an environment where a conglomerate can deploy $10B and sleep at night: a low-rate regime that makes long-duration investment rational, IP and patent courts that actually function, and policy that doesn't get rewritten every 2-3 years on a minister's whim. Stability is the input. Innovation is the output. Bay Area versus Bombay, we are several universes apart, and you cannot print your way across that distance; you can only compound your way there, and we've spent years optimising for the opposite. The gap won't be bridged. With luck, it narrows.

🇷🇺Russia is the ONLY Major Country Sincerely Arming India into a Military Superpower 🇮🇳 🇮🇳4th squadron of S-400 ‘starts arriving in India from Russia, to be deployed soon. 🇷🇺Russia accounts for roughly 50-60% of India’s overall military inventory. 🇷🇺Russia offers india full tech transfer + joint production with zero sanctions! 🔥

Turkey Foreign Minister: We really would like to have excellent relations with India. We don't have a border with India. We don't have a bad history with India. We aren't the only country that has good relations with Pakistan and historic solidarity with it on some issues.

Lovkesh Bajaj, co-owner of Hotel Flourish Stays, arrested by the Delhi Police in connection with Malviya Nagar fire incident. A massive fire broke out at the hotel, claiming the lives of 21 people. (Pic: Delhi Police)

Karuvi update: these are the major issues that come up in power tools design. At 11000+ rpm, does it overheat, does it vibrate too much and does it produce too much noise? We have to find parts that work well and are also price competitive. Low end Chinese power tools won't pass all the tests but they are very cheap. We decided we have to pass all the tests the Japanese and German tools would pass. Finally we have the product that meets that quality bar shipping to trial customers locally. Tooling costs are another major issue. We are planning a tool room. All this has taught us a lot of lessons. We will roll out a full line of tools later this year. To build anything that truly lasts, it takes time!

White people will lose their minds if they ever find out what Gurkha means.

Like us Japan too faces an increasingly dense maritime challenge in the East China Sea due to china.. So here is Japan's Next-Gen Anti-Ship Duo SSM and what we can learn 🧵 1/3 ​ 📸 One shows The Type 12 (Modified) 🌟 ​The first two pics showcase the upgraded Type 12 SSM (recently entered service as the Type 25 SSM). So Instead of designing a brand new system from scratch, Japan took its proven coastal defense design and modified ➡️ They lengthened the body, stuffed it with a significantly larger fuel tank, and attached an efficient turbofan jet engine. 🌟 RESULT was it helped them ➡️ extending the range to 1,000+ km, so Type 12 was mostly a basic coastal defense weapon but Type 25 became almost a strategic counter-strike asset...

Thread on the fate of an Iranian Tabas SAM system in the city of Karaj during the 39-day war. It was first hit by two FPVs which hit the Taer missiles seeker and the system radar reflector. 1/3