They have the meteor a supposedly more superior misile, and then what? Do they have the tech base requird to digest the technology? Just as ASML said, even if we gave China the blueprints for the EUV, you still wouldn't be able to build it. But they were wrong because we have the industrial base for it.
The Kashmir conflict 2025.
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This conversation is going nowhere. Will probably need a few more days for things to settle.
Assuming this ceasefire lasts.
Assuming this ceasefire lasts.
It occurred all way close to the border with China. Unlikely to have been downed by air defence systems, also you can see some pictures of the crash site - doesn't look like it was downed.
Additionally, it was a civilian helicopter and heli services have been active there for years. A weather alert too was issued there, so I can confidently say no.
There have been accidents there before as shared by @xyz4321 .
I was actually quite concerned that the Spectra EWsuite which was touted as making the Rafale an equal to full 5th gen jets like F22/F35 and of course the Chinese J20.It's sales pitch to the Indians was akin to buying a Romulan Cloaking Device which will make the IAF all but invincible and shoot down PAF/PLAAF jets like swatting flies-apparently the damn thing didn't even get activated and IAF"Godzilla -3"only saw his wingman explode into a fireball before he knew it,Wow,well done China(and PAF)-imagine a flight of same number of full-house J20's with PLAAF PL15's/PL12's in that aerial battle-the slaughter would be immense.Hopefully now Modi would be more reasonable and less bellicose.
I don't understand the whole hype about Rafale's EW suite. How can it be any more advanced compared to the many AN/ALQ variants that the US Teen series have? There is a whole plethora of these US origin EW self protection systems that have been continuously updated for decades and I doubt they are less capable than the Spectra. As a matter of fact, I would prefer the more recent AN/ALQ systems of the F-16 and F-15 above the Spectra any time of the day.
Talk about overhyped PR nonsense.
Talk about overhyped PR nonsense.
SPECTRA is supposed to work like noise cancellation headset, by sending out waves to cancel incoming radar waves. I think Indians bought into the marketing as if its some wunderwaffe.
The accident i shared is the same one, from last Thursday. Civilian helicopter flying near NOTAM restricted areas is senseless precisely for this reason - it can be shot down accidentally. I saw for couple days that there are a few civilian helis flying in the region where all other air traffic is restricted and wondered wtf they were doing. Just by curiosity I searched it up ("Dehradun / Uttarakhand helicopter") and sure enough the first results were of a helicopter crash.
Dehradun isn't too far from the war-active sites. And being closer to China would further give weight to the suspicion of the accident being shot down.
Simple: Rafale's EW suit is already the best thing Europe can manufacture.
And to be fair, even though it might no the best, it still pretty good.
Dude might be in a coma due to the