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India's To Be or Not to Be Aircraft Carrier
Joined August 2022
Carrier critics: Aircraft Carriers (which move) are "sitting ducks" in today's ISR saturated, precision strike environment Also carrier critics: Shore-based air (which operates from static airfields) is the solution.
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What about your reputation as a "PRC hawk"-long on rhetoric, short on actual think through? Trump made some rather dove-ish remarks on PRC and Xi during the joint Q&A. Will you be glossing over them in your trademark style that lacks rigor?
Modi's U.S. visit was intended to help restore the bilateral relationship, which during Biden's presidency came under strain. The outcome suggests the trip was a good start. As for Trump, he lived up to his reputation of being a wily businessman who seeks to drive a hard bargain.
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Why is IDS preparing this plan? As the "theater boss" it is CINCAN staff's job to project capabilities and sort out its force design. IDS at best a conduit to "service bosses" who must meet the demand signal from the "theater boss". Which in reality will always have a gap
A project study team from #CDM_IDS led by Maj Gen Harsh Chhibber Commandant, interacted with Air Marshal Saju Balakrishnan, CINCAN and his core team to prepare the 'Integrated Capability Plan' for ANC. Discussions held on strategic significance of Andaman & Nicobar Islands to India's national security architecture. The team visited AF Station Carnic, INS Baaz at Campbell Bay & Indira Point and also interacted with civil administration for analysing holistic capability building. @DefenceMinIndia
@SethSanjayMP
@SpokespersonMoD
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Or you could just name Pannun and ask a more pointed question? Of course the reply might puncture the BFF narrative...
To my question on Khalistani elements in the US working against India, President Donald Trump said: India did not have a good relationship with the Biden administration. We are giving a violent man (Tahawwur Rana) to India, & more to follow. We work with India on crime and we want to make it good for India @in_today_global
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"Panamian-flagged". Let the conspiracy theories be unleashed...
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Always amusing to see Euro-bashing by Europeans a. Free-riding on the US for security: Asians more than Europeans b. But US MIC has been happy with this as well. US remains the only nation to invoke Art 5. And drag Europe into two failed wars in Asia c. NATO in Europe has worked
Assessing Hegseth’s comments beyond panic & hysteria. 1. On NATO- Fair & clear that this was coming. Not the end of NATO but end of European free riding. 2. On Ukraine - much worse news but Europeans CAN & MUST act for UA & for ourselves 🧵
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When Boeing had first pitched the P-8I to India, it has projected a fleet of 30 eventually. UAVs are partial substitutes but not perfect. For perspective, at its peak the JMSDF operated around 100 plus P-3s variants.
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JP and ROK do, Poland-extended deterrence from France. A reminder that India struck a major blow against the US-led RBIO by taking on the NPT. And now as Trump accelerates the RBIO's demise, India must make sure PRC does not gain massively, even though it is a shared goal
Japan, South Korea, and Poland all need nuclear weapons immediately.
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Sure. But we won't read a critique of the Stryker deal-an awful move, and a critique of the acquisition process-AoNs can be buried/revived on a whim like P8I,here, will we?
You read about the revival of the procurement of 6 additional #P8I aircraft as well as the co-production of #Stryker infantry combat vehicles & #Javelin anti-tank guided missiles in @timesofindia here #IndiaUSDefenceDeals
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Guess who Elon Musk met with today (virtually), not long before his meeting in Washington with Modi? Muhammad Yunus. They discussed bringing Starlink to Bangladesh.
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RT @EconomicTimes: India and the US issued a joint statement after the meeting of President Donald Trump and PM Narendra Modi 🇮🇳Modi 🇺🇸U…
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"I hope that China, India, Russia, US and all of us can get along..." -DJT A visionary, a man of peace. Hope he builds the world's largest statue of himself at his Gaza resort.
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My goodness, one of the oldest tricks in the playbook, what will the PRC think of next? Maybs, a blockade that is far more flexible around the escalation continuum? Do you know what is the footprint snd signal of launching an "amphibious invasion"?
“We’re very close to that [point] where on a daily basis the fig leaf of an exercise could very well hide operational warning.” —U.S. Navy ADM Paparo The PLA has "significantly increased activity around Taiwan in recent years, leaving it more difficult to distinguish between large-scale exercises and actual preparations for an attack." (via @Dimi) “Their aggressive manoeuvres around Taiwan right now are not exercises as they call them, they are rehearsals. They are rehearsals for the forced unification of Taiwan to the mainland,” Paparo said. Source: Financial Times
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Carrier USS HARRY S TRUMAN CVN75 has been in collision with merchant bulker BESIKTAS-M in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt, US Navy said ca 1130 EST 13 Feb. No word on extent of damage but no reports of flooding or damage and propulsion plants are unaffected
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Both chaps love a Nazi salute...sort of.
🔴Watch #LIVE | PM Modi meets Tesla CEO Elon Musk at Blair House #PMModiInUS
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