Right that seems reasonable enough, it’s just that it seems to be a fine line between what the passing ship can claim is critical to movement and what is being surreptitiously left on that maybe shouldn’t be.

Well of course, you wouldn’t want a foreign ship to collide into a reef passing through your territorial waters and setting off an international incident because you didn’t allow them to use any of their navigational tools.

So say if a Chinese ship were to pass through Sri Lankan/Indian territorial waters under F0N, all the spinning radar instruments etc would be seen to be at a standstill at that point of time?

Ah right, I see what you mean. Still, the thought of a mystical Red Bull Mclaren F1 super team would be something incredible indeed, if only to imagine the awkward reunions - Ron with Adrian, Prodromou with Christian.

The worst I’ve ever heard was a guy in first class fart so loud on a flight I could hear him at the second bulkhead of coach, and this wasn’t even on one of those dreamliners.

Gutted to have missed the coverage of this race what with the rugby world cup and the Tyne Wear derby, just seen a small clip of shenanigans from yesterday. Hear the racing was great, how does the race compare to Hungary this year (that was a high water mark for me)? I’ll still watch full highlights.

Yeah it’s been fascinating. In fact I only joined the comment boards to have discussions like this. Lately however it tires me when I find it becoming 300-400 variations of Boo Obama, Boo Putin etc etc.

Right, while the software dye pack is an interesting solution to a problem mainly on the suppliers end, the hypothetical scenario you mentioned still raises unease if you are the customer. If India were to be attacked, having to ring up tech support essentially in the US to unlock full functionality of your jets kind…

Never occurred to me radar needed cooling before you mentioned it. Another one to log in Today-I-Learnt

Again all interesting points. I found it particularly elegant how you raised the issue of the change in thinking of the leadership not keeping pace with the ground reality.

Oh it makes sense when you look at it that way. At the same time I’ll still say that even with so many firms blacklisted under the previous govt, you only need to look at the interest being shown by defence firms that the potential money on offer outweighs whatever perceived cons there might be.

Nissan is part of the Renault alliance. Renault bosses curiously decided to use the Red Bull machines as a billboard to increase awareness in Nissan’s Infiniti subsidiary. It’s kind of like if umm Honda got the side of the Mclaren cars to say Acura even though the engines are theirs.

Red Bull Mclaren Honda?! I find that a very curious suggestion. Even if it just remained a thought, the idea of a company as brazen and edgy as Red Bull being title sponsor for probably the most stoic F1 team led by a man who probably hasn’t ever cracked a joke in his life, is very amusing indeed. If something this…

I think you’ve gone off on a tangent here. I don’t think the IAF would have the gumption to claim preeminence over the RAF (however hollowed out the latters capabilities are going into the next decade). That being said what you state about the reporting of such exercises is true. I doubt the general public ever gets…

I’ll agree on quite a few points but let me ask you this, do you think arms firms will choose principle over the pragmatism of chasing the largesse on offer in the subcontinent over the following decade at least?

Oh. Speaking of radar cooling I’m guessing radar units on jets need similar cooling or do they not due to being a lot smaller?

I wonder where this disdain for India comes from. Anyway, the MMRCA deal is as good as dead. Hopefully a new tender is being put together to deal with the chronic lack of airframes. The MMRCA deal fell through not because of an issue over IP, but instead over who liability would lie with in case of an issue, which…

You’re correct. There are nowhere near the inflated numbers AmateurHour claims that are attributable to the Sukhoi. Instead it is due to aging Mig’s. As for the reliability of the Su-30, yes, there are reports of maintenance issues that primarily result from the complexity of the myriad systems it has built…

I figure these are the radar units. Kinda interesting how they curve outwards as opposed to the flat octagon shape units found on US destroyers.

Alright, $700bln was the figure I was familiar with. And totally agree, I just assumed the wars and the appeasement handouts so to speak wouldn’t drain it that rapidly. But if it is, I don’t see why they’re so energetically going ahead with a costly military campaign. I can’t remember any time the Kingdom pursued such…