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sheen

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why are those side skirts that thicc? Those don't look like ERA blocks (at least not to me). They planning for it to float in some river?
 
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Stealthflanker

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sheen said:
why are those side skirts that thicc? Those don't look like ERA blocks (at least not to me). They planning for it to float in some river?
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Yeah it looks to me more like a floating kit rather than Armored sideskirt, also notice the apparent water jet exhaust below the main exhaust. This tank seems to operate more like Russian Sprut-SD.

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Mt1701d said:
Something to that effect, the Indian military have a really bad habit of always asking for news things and changing specifications mid project.

I always like to view it as the Indians trying to apply software programming logic to hardware development and manufacturing as if any spec change would just mean a few more strokes on the drawing board.

The Tejas and Arjun were great examples of this. The designs had to be changed multiple times to fit the military’s increasingly complex requirements, all the while nothing is actually manufactured, and even when something is approved the procurement numbers are pitiful making the project seem like a complete failure. Most importantly, without realising that the failure was of their own making.
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"[T]he Indian military have a really bad habit of always asking for news things and changing specifications mid project."

"The Tejas and Arjun were great examples of this. The designs had to be changed multiple times to fit the military’s increasingly complex requirements ...."

I've heard the theory that this is intentional, that there are pro-import higher-ups in the Indian military who sabotage indigenous projects through this goalpost-moving.
 
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Mt1701d

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Rank Amateur said:
"[T]he Indian military have a really bad habit of always asking for news things and changing specifications mid project."

"The Tejas and Arjun were great examples of this. The designs had to be changed multiple times to fit the military’s increasingly complex requirements ...."

I've heard the theory that this is intentional, that there are pro-import higher-ups in the Indian military who sabotage indigenous projects through this goalpost-moving.
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Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised, there are probably some under-the-table deal involved between the arms companies and the officials involved. After all indigenous projects would have established people overseeing it and would be difficult to get something out of it.
 
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Deino said:
but why is the author in your opinion „cunning at that a good one“? IMO the whole report is pure nonsense
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Cunning in Indian fashion by being fascinatingly blind to reality?

I mean he took a situation where both India and China had ToT of the Flanker decades ago and he gives us the narrative "Let's see what happens in the future."

When the J-11B, J-11BS, J-16, J-16D, J-15, J-15B, J-15S and J-15D had already happened and India is still producing just the MKI they started with. It takes cunning to deliberately make people see you as blind and crazy for some unknown advantage known only to Indians!
 
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