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[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@cvkrishnan Sir….enakkum oru ride venum

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@tirumuru_87 @BJP4TamilNadu WTL? Seriously? Why would u trust that guy who is hopping political allegiances like a corporate guy jumps early in their career?

I feel that KA betrayed a lot of people and there is a lot of bad blood with right wingers…

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@avataram @Puyangan5 Whats the future of the right wing cause in India? @avataram

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@Chandudgr8 This is more than enough for us to win a few more elections🤣….

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@elonmusk @memorable_90s @elonmusk India’s Geopolitical nuances are as diverse as the country is.

Can you ensure full compliance with the government of the day?

Irrespective of the govts, regionalists and anti nationals have tried hurting India. the central govt has to deal with an iron fist.

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@LuharQA This is very informative!

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@TheShivaJatt Cardamom

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@ThatsAarthi There isn’t any

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@Shetty_nhl Coorg is a waste of a weekend. there is nothing except for a few plantation walks to enjoy. go to Ooty / Kodaikanal, thank me later.

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@marinebharat Keralam is blessed with Water wells in every household reducing dependancy on tapped drinking water

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@Malay4Product the traction technology in VB is precisely built to solve for providing traction throughout unlike older generation of train sets. This VB will be hit for sure.

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@Indicfederr0d foundational logic! DFC is to Bring goods from the mainland to the coastland for shipping with the lowest transportation charges. TN is gifted with two high throughput ports does not require A DFC as ports are available in all directions within 300km. go to school!

[Chennai Updates @UpdatesChennai]

No other state has seen so many infra projects derailed by NGO led campaigns to the extent Tamil Nadu has. It has cost the state valuable opportunities, deprived countless young Tamilians of jobs and opportunities. Full support to PM Modi and the Govt on this...🙌🙏

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@krishnabgowda Harlur Main road is not walkable at all! please develop this neighbourhood!

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@DealsDhamaka As part of Meta, one of the core KPIs Kunal will have to perform would be the same metric he is worried about 😅.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Our rural school Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam, which provides completely free education to rural children, faced delays getting approvals from the previous government. Of course, significant money was demanded and we were told that was the only way, even if it is a completely free school.

After @TVKVijayHQ came to power, approvals have happened quickly and automatically.

I am very happy to appreciate this positive development in our state. Thank you Thiru Vijay Avl for this refreshing change🙏

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@cvkrishnan Yaaru avaru? Enakke pakkanam pola irukku

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The sidelining of the HAL HF-24 Marut by the Indian govt is 1 of the most frustrating chapters in our defense history. It was not sidelined because the design was bad; it was sidelined because the airframe was a magnificent, world-class sports car that the govt forced to run on a 3 cylinder auto-rickshaw engine.

Kurt Tank designed the Marut’s gorgeous, area-ruled, swept-wing fuselage specifically to achieve Mach 2. Yet, it lived & died w/o ever fulfilling its true aerodynamic potential. The program was systematically starved & eventually abandoned due to a toxic mixture of internal short-sightedness, bureaucratic failure & brutal international arm-twisting.

When building a fighter jet, we normally pick a proven engine & design the plane around it. India did the exact opposite: we designed a flawless Mach 2 airframe 1st & assumed we could buy/build an engine later. HAL initially pinned its hopes on the British manufacturer Rolls-Royce to develop an upgraded, high-thrust version of their Orpheus engine (the Orpheus 12). Rolls-Royce offered to co-develop it with India for a development cost of about £3 million.

The Indian bureaucracy, suffering from extreme penny-wisdom, rejected the offer as too expensive. India then tried to collaborate with Egypt, which was developing a promising engine called the Brandner E-300 for their own fighter project. India even sent a Marut airframe to Egypt to test it. But following the disastrous 1967 Six Day War & subsequent political shifts, the Egyptian engine program imploded.

Left with absolutely no options, the govt ordered HAL to fit the Marut with twin Bristol Siddeley Orpheus 703 engines. This was the exact same engine used in the tiny Folland Gnat fighter. It was entirely un-reheated (no afterburners) & grossly underpowered. The Marut’s frame was designed to handle immense supersonic forces, but its engines could barely push it past Mach 1 in a steep dive.

The Indian Air Force found itself operating a cutting-edge interceptor that was functionally obsolete in top speed the day it rolled out. While India was struggling to find an engine for the Marut, the Soviet Union walked into New Delhi with a highly seductive, ready-made solution: the MiG-21.

The Soviets offered a full domestic license-production agreement with tech transfers in local currencies (rupee-ruble trade). For a govt facing severe economic strains & immediate military threats from neighbors, the temptation was too high. Why pour millions of rupees and a decade of painful research into stabilizing a homegrown, underpowered plane when the Soviets could hand you a mass-produced, Mach 2 capable interceptor right now?

The Ministry of Defence shifted its priority, funding & focus toward compiling the massive MiG-21 ecosystem, quietly leaving the Marut to starve in the background. The final nail in the Marut’s coffin was geopolitical. In 1974, India conducted its 1st peaceful nuclear test (Smiling Buddha) in Pokhran. The Western world reacted with instant fury, slapping India with strict, sweeping embargoes on dual-use technologies, aerospace components & specialized alloys.

The Marut, despite being "indigenous," still relied on critical British spares & components for its basic Orpheus engines. Overnight, sourcing parts to maintain even the existing fleet became a diplomatic nightmare. Any lingering hopes of importing a Western engine to upgrade the Marut to its true Mach 2 state were permanently vaporized by international sanctions.

The most tragic element of the Marut's demise was a complete lack of long-term vision within the defense establishment. Despite being heavily underpowered, the Marut was an absolute beast at low altitudes. During the 1971 Indo-Pak War, it flew over 300 combat sorties, hitting enemy positions relentlessly. Because of its brilliant aerodynamic design, it was incredibly stable & resilient; several Maruts returned to base safely after taking heavy anti-aircraft fire & having 1 entire engine blown completely apart.

Yet, the decision-makers at the time failed to realize that building an indigenous aerospace industry requires absorbing massive structural failures & investing consistently through the iterations. Instead of viewing the engine crisis as a challenge to conquer by setting up an indigenous jet engine development lab right then, the program was quietly capped at just 147 units & phased out entirely by 1990.

By stopping the Marut program instead of fixing its propulsion bugs, India effectively caused a 30 yr systemic gap in its indigenous design memory. When we finally started the LCA Tejas program in the late 1980s, we had to relearn the entire physics of fighter jet design from scratch & we faced the exact same bottleneck again: the lack of a homegrown engine :((

[Gokul @Gokulramanan96]

@AravSrinivas @AravSrinivas did this take off?

[AIN @Tejusurya_]

Maruti officials set to replace its iconic 1.2L K-Series engine with a sugarcane juice extractor to ensure full E100 compatibility in future cars.