India spent 39 years and over 2000 crore on the Kaveri engine and still cannot hit the thrust a fighter needs.
problem was never funding, GTRE had no access to how Rolls Royce or GE engineers think about single crystal blade metallurgy or combustion instability during flight.
That kind of knowledge sits inside people who have iterated on live programs for decades, You cannot download someone else iteration history. You have to be inside the program to absorb what it teaches
Every country that builds jet engines went through the same ugly loop, Test, fail, retest, discover something that fits nowhere in a textbook.
India had no high altitude test facility for the Kaveri. Had to ship the engine to Russia for every trial run. You cannot absorb the parameters that separate a working hot section from a molten one by reading papers.
That knowledge gets created inside the program itself. Miss the program, miss the knowledge. No workaround exists.
GE will transfer 80% of F414 manufacturing tech to HAL, The remaining 20% is where the real gap lives.
Core metallurgy, turbine cooling geometries, thermal margin tables that took forty years of flight data to build. Safran meanwhile is offering India full hot section know how for the AMCA engine.
Two competing offers from two different countries, both telling India the same story. You can buy the right to assemble, You cannot buy the intuition that shaped the design.
I love yur thought by the way, I watch few weeks Ago reel where he talked about how hard to make just blade :)
Former Nagaland Chief Minister S. C. Jamir, who in his early days served as Parliamentary Secretary to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, offers a unique perspective as Narendra Modi completes 4399 days in office, becoming the longest-serving Prime Minister of India in continuous elected tenure.
Jamir draws an interesting distinction between the two leaders. "Panditji was a philosopher. Modi ji is a practical man. That's the difference," he says.
Jamir points out that PM Modi's approach is marked by him getting involved personally in issues. “Nehru largely worked through officers and institutions, whereas Modi engages directly,” he says. “If you raise an issue with him, he addresses it personally without intermediaries.” This direct approach gives Modi firsthand knowledge of challenges across the country, including in the North East, whereas many concerns during Nehru’s time often did not reach the Prime Minister through layers of administration, says Jamir.
“In those days, we were heavily influenced by British etiquette and administrative culture. Today we have our Indian model, making Prime Minister Modi far more accessible. Modi ji speaks openly and expresses freely, unlike many of his predecessors,” says Jamir.
He also points to the shift in India's economic philosophy. “The Nehru government followed a Russian model of planned economy. Everything was controlled through licences. Therefore we could not develop like we are doing now under PM Modi,” he says. Jamir acknowledges that under PM Modi's leadership, this shift in economic policy is helping India emerge as one of the world's fastest growing major economies.
S.C. Jamir adds, "The Northeast was neglected for far too long. When Modi ji took office, he gave unprecedented attention to this underdeveloped region. The scale of funding and development support we receive today is something we could hardly have imagined earlier. When I was Chief Minister, budgets often ran into just 10-20 crores. But today the investments are on an entirely different scale."
"One of the most significant achievements for Prime Minister Modi's leadership has been the progress in the Naga peace process. For the first time, Naga underground groups agreed to sign two landmark political agreements," says Jamir.
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Calcutta HC played Mahua Moitra. Let her plea (to allow Cow-Slaughter on Eid) be heard for 3 hrs & then calmly told her 'Get Lost'😂
"SLAUGHTER OF COWS NOT PART OF EID CELEBRATIONS"- HC
HC stands with CM .@SuvenduWB Da. Rejects Mahua's plea against Bengal BJP Govt's order banning slaughter of bulls, bullocks, cows, calves & buffalos, even during Eid.
BJP Govt simply didn't provide exemption u/s 12 of the West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control Act to allow Cow Slaughter on Eid. It was so simple to stop Cow Slaughter but Mamata Bano never did it in pursuit of her Appeasement Politics even though it kept hurting Millions of Hindus' feelings.
Two requests-
1. HM .@AmitShah Ji, pls provide him 24*7 Security. Bharat needs more like him.
2. @RahulGandhi , @yadavakhilesh & @MamataOfficial , pls stay away from this video. U won't be able to watch this.
Helle Lyng you shouted at Sibi George within few seconds of your question as he gave context & you ordered him to stay on point.
Gauri simply asked you if you've read any books on India & visited & you simply rambled & gave a word salad for 3 STRAIGHT MINUTES!
Any shame left?
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What TN has shown today, rest of India has been doing for decades. Hindu majority states of Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam, Maharashtra and even Manipur have had Muslim Chief Ministers. Hindu majority Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Kerala have given many Christian Chief ministers. TN is just a new entry to that old club.
But the real question worth probing is: how many Muslim majority or Christian majority states have given any Hindu Chief Minister? Zero.
Forget Chief Minister, how many Hindu MPs or MLAs have ever been elected from a Muslim majority or Christian majority lok sabha or vidhan sabha seats?? Next to Zero.
One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother has provided free treatment to 5.9 million, built 13 million sqft, 95 OT, 101 speciality, 4050 bed hospitals employing 1540 doctors.
The first mother got the Nobel Prize.
In Tamil Nadu, the BJP being in power at the centre has been used by essentially all the parties to demonize them. The DMK made "attack Modi" as their only plank. EdappadiDMK (that is the correct name) would have done the same thing if the Congress had switched over to them. In Tamil, we call this பூச்சாண்டி காட்டுதல் - like my grandmother would tell me as a kid "that tree next to the pond has a ghost that will catch you, so don't go near it" to keep me away from swimming in the pond! Modi is their favorite பூச்சாண்டி.
So when someone parrots the line "we want to keep the BJP out of Tamil Nadu", they are saying "we don't want competition for our cozy duopoly", not some deep principle. The BJP has been in alliance in AP and Pondicherry and those states are doing fine, they are making excellent progress. Yet TN is supposedly "different".
The "difference" was the BJP getting into alliance with these same parties (EDMK or DMK) that want to openly or secretly suppress them in TN.
What is the way ahead? Find good youthful passionate leadership that are willing to fight the good fight long term. Focus on building up the party from the grassroots. Ignore all the பூச்சாண்டி business. Do not align with anyone who claims "TN is different". TN is Bharat. We have to fight this subterranean separatism.
Annamalai was making progress but he needed a lot more time. He was creating a genuine political movement, he invited youth to be active in politics and he had massive engagement.
I would have volunteered for this assignment too (I love building up from zero!) but I am neck deep in tech and Bharat needs deep tech. So not in this life time. To be very clear, I will state my political views (my right to free speech) but I will not be in active politics.
I hope all our educated citizens do engage in this political debate and express their opinions, but let us all do it RESPECTFULLY.
🇮🇳 India's Airbound unveiled their autonomous drone that takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane, and weighs less than a bag of sugar.
It is built from carbon fibre and covers up to 40 km on a single charge.