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nemesis8u:
What's the name / link of the Algerian military forum ?

Indian thread : https://forcesdz.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=187

Nigeria thread : https://forcesdz.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=387



But you need to login to see last month pics

Wind tunnel model of a drdo earth penetrator ordinance for defeating underground structures.

Interestingly it has grid/lattice fins. Must be for greater controllability at high AoA

It comes with a FAE warhead at the rear and a super hardened casing at the front to penetrate the maximum possible distance in the soil/ rock/concrete without effecting the rear package.

nemesis8u:
Wind tunnel model of a drdo earth penetrator ordinance for defeating underground structures.

Interestingly it has grid/lattice fins. Must be for greater controllability at high AoA

It comes with a FAE warhead at the rear and a super hardened casing at the front to penetrate the maximum possible distance in the soil/ rock/concrete without effecting the rear package.

I'm interested in your military industrial complex. We already know India is a heavyweight in IT and STEM subjects. Apart from massive investments in R& D, how did you advance your capabilities to quite advanced levels? Plus how much emphasis does India place on acquiring technology transfer.

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OFB MPV

it is certified to resist 15 kg TNT blast under hull

Got its first export orders form a west Asian country.

nemesis8u:
More like a military cottage industry.

Yes I'm not surprised at civilian Indian companies/people carrying out research for other nations. I understand a bit more now on ToT. All good the level of progress considering the steep price to pay for top notch products.

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Meet the pilot after whom Pugachev's Cobra is named

Verba

LTTE suicide submarine

Bad news folks...

Inside the Information Fusion Centre-Ind.. Ocean Region. 1st pic what you see are the ships out there in the IOR. The red dots are the Chinese one. As of now 72,000 ships are being monitored. Merchant vessels. Military vessels are monitored separately at another secret facility .

1st & 2nd pic PBV of US trident d5 SLBM

3rd pic 4th stage of ISRO PSLV space launcher

Only difference is American one has multiple RVs as payloads

While the ISRO one had multiple satellites ( not shown in pic )

What does it imply regarding ind.... capability towards MIRVs ?

Anyways afaik till date 3 MIRV payloads r active , though they use a different arrangement than the one shown in the pic , the one in the pic is suited for > 3 payloads

le Triomphant class FS Le Terrible (S-619) during construction, launch, with missile hatches open & the heart of her propulsion system - 150MW pressurized water nuclear reactor K-15

recovering a helicopter which was stuck in snow at an altitude of 18,000 feet at Siachen Glacier .

ALH on an air maintenance sortie at the 74-km-long Siachen Glacier, developed a snag and had to be landed around a post called Khanda in January this year.

The pilots managed to land safely on soft snow but could not reach the helipad there, Though the chopper landed safely, the overnight snow resulted in its falling sideways.

The attempts were successful in July when the technicians and pilots of the Army ALH squadron 203 in Leh managed to put new parts on the chopper and bring it back safely to the Siachen Glacier base camp

At the extremely low temperatures and height there , lubricants loose temper , exposed metals misbehave etc etc , so repairing and flying back in those harsh conditions and altitude is surely a good job

And if you touch metal with bare hands , u end up gifting a good chunk of skin and flesh

Some of the works done by Ind... scientists in 2018

1. A gel that can protect farmers from toxic pesticides

Most farmers do not wear any protective gear while spraying chemicals in fields, which often leads to pesticide exposure and toxicity. Scientists at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore developed a protective gel—poly-Oxime—that can be applied on skin and can break down toxic chemicals into safe substances, preventing them from going deep into the skin and organs like the brain and the lungs. The research group plans to develop a mask that can deactivate pesticides.

2. World’s thinnest material with novel technique

Pushing the envelope in nanotechnology, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar have developed a material that is 100,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper. They synthesized a two-dimensional material of just one-nanometre in thickness (a human hair is about 80,000 nanometre wide) using Magnesium diboride—a compound of boron. This is said to be the world’s thinnest material. It can find a range of applications—from next-generation batteries to ultraviolet absorbing films.

3. Gene editing applied to banana genome

Using the gene editing technique—CRISPR/Cas9—researchers at the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute, Mohali, edited the banana genome. This is the first such work in any fruit crop in India. Banana is the fourth most important food crop after wheat, rice and corn in terms of gross value of production. Gene editing could be deployed to improve nutritional quality, agronomical important traits as well as pathogen resistance in banana.

4. Discoveries to tackle Zika, dengue, JE and chikungunya

The National Brain Research Centre (NBRC) at Manesar has figured out cellular and molecular mechanisms that show how Zika virus causes microcephaly or small head size in babies. Researchers discovered that envelop protein of Zika virus affects proliferation rates of human neural stem cells and promotes premature but faulty neuron formation. Another study led by scientist at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, Faridabad has identified a key protein which helps dengue as well as Japanese Encephalitis (JE) viruses replicate inside human body by inhibiting anti-viral cytokines. This finding could pave way for development of targeted drugs for dengue and JE. For detecting Chikungunya, a group of researchers from Amity University (Noida), Jamia Millia Islamia University (Delhi) and Maharishi Dayanand University (Rohtak), have developed a biosensor using molybdenum disulphide nanosheets.

5. Faster diagnostic tests for tuberculosis

Scientists at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, have jointly developed highly sensitive and rapid tests for detection of tuberculosis infection in lungs and surrounding membranes. Unlike current tests that use antibodies for detection of bacterial proteins in sputum samples, new tests use Aptamer Linked Immobilized Sorbent Assay (ALISA) and Electrochemical Sensor (ECS) for detection of a bacterial protein in the sputum.

6. New tool developed for autism screening

In many cases, autism is misdiagnosed as mental retardation and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Early identification and interventions may help children with autistic disorders. To help this process, scientists at the Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, have developed an Indian tool for screening children for autism. The Chandigarh Autism Screening Instrument (CASI is designed to help community health workers to carry out initial screening for autism.

7. Hope for Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s patients

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have figured out the way memory deficit develops in early stages, resulting in Alzheimer’s disease. They have found that early breaking down of a protein, fibrillar actin or F-actin, in the brain leads to disruption in communication among nerve cells and consequently memory deficits. This knowledge can be used to develop early diagnosis test in future. In another study done in fruit flies, researchers at Department of Genetics at Delhi University South Campus found that it was possible to restrict the progression of Huntington’s disease by increasing insulin signaling in the brain neuronal cells.

8. Stone Age tools, genetic studies throw new light on early civilisation in India

The Stone Age tools discovered in a village near Chennai suggest that a Middle Palaeolithic culture was present in India around 385,000 years ago—roughly the same time that it is known to have developed in Africa and in Europe. The discovery pushes back the period when populations with a Middle Palaeolithic culture may have inhabited India, and challenges popular theory that the Middle Palaeolithic was brought to India by modern humans dispersing from Africa only around 125,000 years ago or later. In the North, a population genetic study has revealed that the Rors who inhabit modern Haryana came to the Indus Valley when it was flourishing during the Bronze Age and inducted West Eurasian genetic ancestry.

9. Sikkim gets real-time landslide warning system

A real-time landslide warning system has been set up in the Sikkim-Darjeeling belt of north-eastern Himalayas which is highly vulnerable to landslides. The warning system consists of over 200 sensors that can measure geophysical and hydrological parameters like rainfall, pore pressure and seismic activities. The system is capable of warning about 24 hours in advance. It has been deployed by researchers of Kerala-based Amrita University and Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority.

10. Computing capacity for weather forecasting gets a boost

During the year, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) upgraded its computing capacity for weather forecasting and climate monitoring, taking its total high performance computing (HPC) power to as high as 6.8 Petaflop. With this, India rose to the fourth position, next only to United Kingdom, Japan and USA in terms of dedicated capacity for HPC resources for weather and climate proposes.

11. Scientists use silk polymer to develop artificial vertebral disc

Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, developed a silk-based bioartificial disc that may find use in disc replacement therapy in future. The group has developed a fabrication procedure for a silk-based bioartificial disc adopting a “directional freezing technique”. The disc mimics internal intricacy of human disc and its mechanical properties too are similar to those of the native ones. The use of a silk biopolymer to fabricate a biocompatible disc can reduce the cost of artificial discs in future.

12. Transgenic rice with reduced arsenic accumulation, flowering mustard

To address the problem of arsenic accumulation in rice grains, researchers at Lucknow- based CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute developed transgenic rice by inserting a novel fungal gene, which results in reduced arsenic accumulation in rice grain. They cloned Arsenic methyltransferase (WaarsM) gene from a soil fungus and inserted it into rice genome. In another study, TERI School of Advanced Studies has developed an early flowering transgenic variety of mustard.

13. In other significant developments, the Department of Science and Technology launched a national mission on Cyber-Physical Systems with an outlay of Rs 3660 crore for five years. The Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore commissioned India’s first robotic telescope to keep an eye on the dynamic cosmos, while the ambitious India Neutrino Observatory (INO) project got a go ahead from the National Green Tribunal

China's new wing loong 1-D can fly for 35 hours without refueling and has a payload of 400kg.

Vs Val

Sslv

Tongbo smart uncooled thermal sight

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Dhanush finally clears user trials after firing 5000 rounds by 6 pre production standard guns supplied to army .

During internal trials by ofb before user trials another 5000+ rounds were fired.

Tests were conducted at sea level , at desert , at high altitudes , at cold environment , mobility trials , maintenance trials etc

First units to be delivered in February

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBxJ9JQBr6A

Video of First operational launch of Avantgrad HGV done today

In the video the carrier missile launch is only shown

Receiving 155 mm arty! More often than not bladders and bowels loosen!

https://youtu.be/DNwjYg-dKuA

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nemesis8u:
LTTE suicide submarine

Who's the Euro woman?

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At a recent meeting it was revealed that ISRO has begun work on vertical take-off, vertical landing (VTVL) rockets. A test-vehicle called ADMIRE is being developed for technology-demonstration.

The ADMIRE test vehicle, that will have supersonic retro propulsion, special retractable landing legs which will in fact act as steerable grid fins, to guide the rocket back to its launch pad.

The launch vehicle will emulate features similar to those in US-based SpaceX’s Grasshopper and Falcon 9 rockets.

The new ADMIRE test vehicle will demonstrate Isro’s VTVL and recovery of launch vehicle capabilities and is carefully timed. The rocket will be guided by integrated navigation system that will have a laser altimeter and a NavIC receiver.


At the same meeting another important milestone was presented by Dr A K Sood, president INSA and an authority on nano sciences at IISc Bangalore.

He threw light on the latest landmarks achieved in artificial microscale heat engines. Sood discussed the first experiments to develop heat engines that could utilise energy from bacterial activities. He showed the experiments conducted to realise micrometre sized active Sterling heat engine.

Soviet Ka-56 “Osa” (WASP)

a helicopter designed by “Kamov” bureau in 1975 for 671 RTM (Vctor-III) multirole nuclear sub.

The submarine could shoot the helicopter through 533 mm torpedo tube. M~220 kg, payload~110 kg, V~110 km/h, H~1700 m & combat radius~120 km.

Those guys were really innovative

Single crystal and DS blades

20kg IED from Kas/hmir