KnottyCaptain

Unabashed nationalist, Donned the pristine whites for 3 decades. Shillong connection.Retweets are not endorsement.

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@UapisUfo @GalaxEye Heartiest Congratulations Team @GalaxEye on the successful launch of the OptoSAR satellite.
Kudos to the entire team and the ecosystem for this stupendous achievement.
Wishing you many more launches.

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@cfs_telangana
We can help OEMs protect brands against fakes.
#TaSeShield protects business against fakes.

https://t.co/cYjxIqr5vl

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@MeluhaMaritime @Manmeet4689 Eloquently expressed Nihan interspeesed with vivid memories of growing in the pristine white environs.
All the very best Noor for an equally awesome second innings.

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

Awaiting your response to my concern @IndiGo6E

[IndiGo @IndiGo6E]

@My_Rhaps Hi, we kindly request you to please share your PNR details via DM so we may assist you further. ~Deepika
https://t.co/xcJPAig2qK

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@IndiGo6E @IndiGo6E DM Sent.

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

Kind attention @MoCA_GoI
@IndiGo6E refund policy is not in alignment with the recently promulgated by GoI.

@IndiGo6E please refund cancelled tickets in accordance with GoI regulations

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@realkaypius
The risk of accidents/ incident is perhaps the highest in #AviationDomain
leading to fire.

It's high time for a fire safety audit of all existing airfields and helipads be undertaken.

[अमित सिंह (वराह)𝒜𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝒮𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒽 @flyingamit]

Fire tender on the tabletop. Aircraft burning below.

We saw this in Mangalore. We saw it again in Calicut. And now Baramati.

This is not “bad luck” — it is a repeatable failure of airport rescue planning, access routes, training, and accountability. Fix the system, not the headlines.
@MoCA_GoI @DGCAIndia #BaramatiCrash @CMOMaharashtra

[अमित सिंह (वराह)𝒜𝓂𝒾𝓉 𝒮𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒽 @flyingamit]

Fire tender on the tabletop. Aircraft burning below.

We saw this in Mangalore. We saw it again in Calicut. And now Baramati.

This is not “bad luck” — it is a repeatable failure of airport rescue planning, access routes, training, and accountability. Fix the system, not the headlines.
@MoCA_GoI @DGCAIndia #BaramatiCrash @CMOMaharashtra

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

Replenishing Missiles at sea whilst underway is challenging.

Loading a fully armed Msl inside the canister or Silos is challenging and necessitates Heavy lift drones and precision positioning to load the missiles.

Options: Modular design of components with mating onboard

[Adm. Arun Prakash @arunp2810]

In 2025 the US Navy withdrew from the Red Sea fight after its destroyers ran out of missiles. The rag-tag Houthi rebels simply outlasted the ships’ magazines. A way will have to found to replenish missiles or replace VLS cells at sea.

[Viren Rasquinha @virenrasquinha]

14 yrs ago, Prakash Sir suggested that OGQ support an amazing 10 yo. His name-Lakshya Sen.

3 yrs ago, he recommended we support another 11 yo. Her name-Tanvi Patri. Today, at age 14, she becomes possibly the youngest player to reach the final of the Sr. Natl. Badminton CShip

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@indiannavy @SpokespersonMoD @DefenceMinIndia @MIB_India @PIB_India @DDNewslive @IndiannavyMedia @HQ_IDS_India @PTI_News @DefProdnIndia @airnewsalerts Heartiest congratulations Adm Iftekhar. Wishing you health and success in your endeavours.

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@mahindraesuvs @MahindraRacing @FIAFormulaE #MahindraElectricOriginSUVs
Electric Vehicle fire is a reality. https://t.co/9i06rLoYsD is keen to offer a EV fire solution using specialised nozzles. Kindly DM. @AdisanSystems

[Sameer Saxena @NwcSam]

Many delightful& inspirational stories. Here’s one.
Vishesh Kumar from Muzaffarnagar, #UP born to a simple, farming family learnt the values of #discipline & #perseverance. He joined as a sailor, then selected for commissioning; latest achievements -
the PGM & SLT’s stripes!

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

India needs more companies like Ultraviolette.

More concerned with tech/innovation than sales.

Handmade, like luxury Italian automotive brands.

No mass production. Rigorous quality control.

Similar story to Ather, but more globally oriented.

[Arun Golaya @Arun_Golaya]

Lots of thoughts came to mind when I saw this. Not sure if I should say all of them publicly, but can’t help saying the main ones (I say this as someone who handled innovation for the Navy under #NIIO and is involved with multiple startups post premature retirement). Let’s debate:-

1) Cost competitiveness is a given in a system built around ‘L1’. The profit margins are laser thin. This price too is further bargained down by the CNC. Many people complain that Indian firms do not invest much in R&D. Time we examined the reasons for that as well. Where is the ‘surplus’ for R&D?

2) When the users are “left in the lurch”, the startups are too! Can’t be a us versus them. Have to work together…succeed together - and yes - fail together. If a project ‘fails’, the users are justifiably disappointed. The startup founder may actually go bankrupt. He / She has more at stake.

3) The difference between ‘innovation’ and ‘indigenisation’ must be understood by everyone…including the users. In a novel product, in cutting edge technology, in R&D…there WILL be time delays and failures. That is the nature of the beast. “Ginti-se” Innovation does not work. The first flight by the Wright brothers was repeatedly delayed due to props getting sheared and non availability of a light-weight engine. When it *did* take off, the ‘flight’ lasted 3 seconds! If it was R&D funded by the Indian ‘taxpayers money’, the project would have possibly been foreclosed there itself.

4) Speaking of the Wright brothers, they made bicycles before they made planes. Even the bicycles they made were mostly “assembled” with not a single part being *manufactured* by them. The design was theirs. IP matters.

In one conference (I was serving then) someone from the MoD said (and I quote), “the industry must pull up its socks”. My retort there itself was that our defence industry is in a very nascent stage. They are taking baby steps. When a child is small the parents don’t tell them to pull up the socks but actually make them wear the socks…till they learn to do so themselves.

The industry needs handholding and support. Not criticism. The odds are stacked against them as it is.

My view. I may be wrong.

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

@HyperM0nkey1 Based on his confirmed start at Honda in 2003, he is estimated to be in his mid-to-late 40s or early 50s.
Hairstyle is Killer

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

#wildlife
Breakfast of a Fruit Bat

[KnottyCaptain @My_Rhaps]

#wildlifephotography
Bat enjoying Breakfast 😊

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Ghodbunder Rd %hane

SOA 4km/hr