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[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

This is right kind of advice for Indians overall. Being too invested in things you don't have control over, leads nationalists to bcm bpillers overtime. Boomers anyways will do what they what to do. You'll be much happier if you don't stand for anything in India.

[ChadpreetBallsdeep @goodbroto]

Bhai padhai krlo, you are too invested in things you don't have any control over. That lack of control is what leads most nationalists to become blackpillers over time.
U are having too much faith on boomer men who are only good for sharing their wives, to take decisions that requires having balls.

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

Best way to get famous is to say something negative abt India from a foreign country. RW will make them famous.

[NDTV @ndtv]

Indian Woman Highlights Safety And Freedom While Walking Alone At 4:30 AM In France https://t.co/6KRZB1GuOR

[Spadex95 @spadex950]

#Thread || I've seen endless videos of 🇮🇳 soldiers training to operate FPV drones. Not a single one showing evasion training.

So I dug into what soldiers on the ground actually figured out themselves. Here's what works. 👇

[Izabella Kaminska @izakaminska]

Just 11 years ahead of the conversation. Yes yes. Being too early is just as bad as being wrong.

But the point here is that it was clear as early as 2015 that the world was on the brink of "deglobalisation". This was the trend that opened the door to Trump and Brexit)...

It has taken a further 10 years for the reshoring effect to take hold. Where I was wrong is that I thought this transition would occur more quickly. The mistake I made is that I overlooked the degree to which international capital would seek to protect itself against accumulating "stranded assets" in China.

I have had a recent epithany about why that is more important than people appreciate.

So while it's nice that the Robin Hardings of the world are belatedly recognising the role of "sweat dollars" (and it really is better to call them sweat dollars as they are not unique to China), the sweat dollar effect is colliding into a whole new effect.

More on that soon.

[DefTrac🇮🇳 @DefTRAC_IN]

🔴It's not the Internal bay of AMCA which is small but the Rudram/NGRAM is oversized for the Weapon bays.
Not only the AMCA but no Fifth gen Aircraft has that ability to carry an NGRAM missile.
🟢:external hardpoints can be used but only in the less hostile nature of combat.
#ngram #amca #drdo
@alpha_defense @Defencematrix1 @Tracking_Live @AjayshreeSamby3 @DRDO_India

[@indiainfographics.bsky.social @Deshpacito661]

Another "hidden" area where the United States absolutely dominates the rest of the world, including Western Europe:

wastewater/sewage treatment

Waste water treatment infrastructure is pervasive in the United States. Even a low income area in rural Georgia has a state of the art waste water treatment facility. Western Europe has good coverage, but on a per capita basis, their treatment plants serve a larger population. This indicates they aren't as pervasive as they are in the US.

In contrast, China (even Japan) has sparse coverage despite its large dense population. India's coverage is even lower.

A lot of accounts on twitter incorrectly use examples of impressive skylines (ie Dubai, Shanghai, and now recently Mumbai/Gurgaon/Hyderabad) to show that their region is "developed". However, this is the real indicator of development.

Sewage treatment plants don't make for mediagenic ribbon cutting ceremonies. They don't win you votes. But the long term population health benefits are immense: lower rates of childhood diseases, longer healthief life spans, less stunting (and the associated cognitive and physical deficits associated with it).

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In 1959, the Ministry of Defence wanted to see if India could even comprehend the thermodynamics of a jet engine. They did not build a fancy campus in BLR. Instead, they selected No. 4 Base Repair Depot at the Air Force Station in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

They set up a tiny cell called the Gas Turbine Research Centre (GTRC). The initial team consisted of exactly 8 engineers & scientists, supported by ~20 local Air Force technicians.

Their testing cell was retrofitted into a humid, echoing hangar. They had no advanced digital telemetry & even no imported CFD softwares. Everything had to be calculated manually on paper using slide rules & log tables.

Because they had almost no budget & 0 supply lines for complex aerospace alloys, the team had to innovate using pure scavenged materials.

They took old, decommissioned British Rolls-Royce Derwent & Nene centrifugal compressor parts from scraped Air Force planes, altered the blade profiles by hand-filing the surfaces & completely re-engineered the internal combustion chambers from raw scratch.

A centrifugal jet engine works by slinging air outward using a spinning impeller wheel to build high pressure, catching it in diffusers & blasting it into combustion cans. If a single blade on that compressor wheel is off by a fraction of a mm at 15000 RPM, the entire engine acts like an internal pipe bomb, shredding itself & anyone standing nearby into shrapnel.

Working in the sweltering heat of Kanpur, with nothing but rudimentary safety screens made of sandbags & thick wooden railway ties, this rogue unit cast, balanced & assembled India's 1st completely functional 10 kN thrust centrifugal jet engine.

In late 1961, the team was ready to fire up the system for its definitive full-throttle run. They rigged the jerry-built engine to a primitive mechanical thrust-bed inside the hangar. They had no digital control rooms; engineers stood behind primitive reinforced barricades, holding mechanical clipboards, manually reading dials connected to physical pressure tubes.

When the starter motor cranked, the engine whined, caught fire & stabilized into a deafening, supersonic roar. The exhaust gas temperatures spiked, the fuel pumps held & the needle on the mechanical scale climbed steadily until it hit 10 KN of clean, sustained thrust.

8 engineers in a repair depot in Kanpur had just crossed the ultimate threshold into the supersonic age completely on their own terms.

Immediately after this breakthrough in Nov 1961, the govt realized the project had completely outgrown its makeshift Kanpur garage. The entire unit was institutionalized, packed into crates, brought under the DRDO, renamed the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) & ordered to relocate to BLR.

But during the chaotic transit & the subsequent institutional restructuring over the decades, the original 10 kN centrifugal prototype built out of sweat, slide rules & modified scrap metal was quietly pushed into storage, stripped for parts & completely lost to public memory.

When people look at GTRE today in BLR & critique the delays of the Kaveri/the new Advanced High Thrust engines, they completely forget the 1959 Kanpur digital footprint.

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

@MasterMosaicX @ihailmyindia Similar things I've heard abt Varanasi, who have selected Modiji for 3 times. IT celliyas are degens.

[Historianunkil @SudsG5]

This is pure ahistorical nonsense. Every major Indian state raised armies and paid for them.

The Arthashastra for instance leaves behind detailed records of each level from General down to spies and messengers (paid per Yojana travelled)

The Vijayanagara for instance had two types of armies. One was the standing army of 200,000 in the capital under direct command of the Emperor + 2000 of his personal bodyguards.

These were paid a direct salary once every 4 months. And then frontier armies which were feudal in nature. Each province was managed by a Nayakas who were given the rights to tax farm and they maintained the army there with funds from the taxes collected.

The Imperial Chola had 3 layers

During peacetime soldiers like in ancient Rome (though there it was after service) were granted land parcels which they farmed or sublet to make a living. This was called the Jivitam system.

Commanders in peace time were paid a hefty salary as a retainer and given extensive land holdings that the state maintained and farmed. The income from these went to the generals of the Perunadam rank.

During times of war, they were given again much like Rome a large % of the booty that was captured.

The Gupta were a hybrid model, here entire units were given the tax rights to villages and these then were paid as salaries.

And on it goes.

These weren't just vague "take that village tax income".

On the walls of the Brihadisvara Temple, detailed inscriptions list the names of specific regiments such as the Muriya-Therinda-Val-Valar (The Chosen Swordsmen) and explicitly state the exact amount of paddy (grain measures) and gold allocated out of the temple and state treasuries for their regular upkeep, housing, and fixed compensation. It goes down to the final soldier level accounting.

In Vijaynagara Hundreds of surviving copper plate inscriptions detail the Amaram system. These plates act as literal legal contracts issued by the Rayas (Emperors) to their Amaranayakas (military commanders). The text on these plates explicitly states the exact number of infantry, cavalry, and elephants the commander must maintain, balanced against the exact tax revenue value of the land granted to them to pay those soldiers' fixed wages.

The Damodarpur Copper Plates in the case of the Guptas record the state-regulated transfer of land to administrative and military officers. The inscriptions detail how the income or yield from these specific plots was strictly locked to the recipient as a fixed, recurring payment for their services to the empire, serving as a physical paper trail for non-cash salaries.

D D Kosambi studied 12,000 Mauryan era Pana coins in a very scientific manner and came up with some clear findings.

Kosambi weighed over 12,000 coins to measure their weight loss. He realized that a coin loses a minute, calculable fraction of silver every time it changes hands. Kosambi argued that the only force capable of uniformly injecting millions of highly active, identical small silver coins simultaneously into local markets from Taxila to Mysore was the regular, recurring cash payroll of hundreds of thousands of state employees—predominantly the standing army.

It's stupid to argue that the highly sophisticated Indian states pre mlechha (and even post in some cases) lacked the ability to pay their soldiers a salary

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

@ImperiumHindu He was most combative on defense lobbies during that parliament session in 2020-21 I think. After Gen Rawat's death, he hasn't focused much on defense and it is mostly babu run dept.

[Jay Vardhan Singh @Jayvtweets]

Reminds me of this quote from Durant: "For civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation, and any serious interruption in its financing or its transmission may bring it to an end."

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

Motherhood and apple pie. India hardly has the money to do all this together.

[Platypus perry @observantperry]

My two cents in this fighter aircrafts debate

Import the 114 rafales with ICD and shun every other import going forward,
Restart the su30 line for stopgaps
And fund mk2,amca, plus kaveri engine on mission mode,

Or keep relying on foreign mercy.

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Tawang brigade withdrew without firing a shot. Barring Kaul/Thapar, no other 1/2/3 star suffered any cost. Gen Niranjan Prasad as GOC 4 Div abdicated for all practical purposes, was given command of 15 Div in '65, w/exactly same results (gave Pak its most treasured war trophy)!

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

In 1965, Gen Chaudhury nearly gave up Amritsar (and misadvised LBS on the state of reserves). Thk God Amritsar meant a bit more than tac RE for Gen Harbax. AM Arjan Singh allowed 10-15% of the combat fleet to be destroyed on the grnd despite warnings of war via Op Gibraltar.

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

@SudsG5 @Zoomerjeet 🤣🤣

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

@c_aashish It's Israeli.

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

@AryamanBharat Saar myself from UP wonlee. And there is a yuge gap in MH and UP. I know that you know it.

[Kshitij @ColossalArmin19]

@AryamanBharat Dude, IA is just asking for Israeli certified stuff. Is it so hard for Kalyani to do it. Can't we bring in some Israeli ppl to do NCNC demos and call it Elbit certified and license produced by Kalyani. Kalyani is a failing company. Sad.