It seems RST has taken my criticism to heart & penned a long list of complaints full of passive aggression like a good old cry baby instead of treating what I say as constructive criticism & mending his ways.
I've recently declared that the MRFA is redundant. If it's not coming in time to face up to the single biggest threat to our sovereignty , it's not needed. We've missed the bus. Time to fully focus our attention to domestic alternatives.
It's me being realistic not disillusioned. It's called taking stock of the situation & fighting with what we have rather than what we wish we had. Not surprised in the least RST is sanguine about the whole situation. Must be leading a very sheltered life .
The forces aren't interested in it coz they're not invested in the product development cycle but love imports for reasons we all know but I won't get into here . That's one of the positive developments of this government. They've literally dragged the armed forces to focus on indigenization.
Have been successful with the IN & IAF though the former had a detailed plan since very early on indigenization for a whole host of reasons & went about the path of incremental growth . IAF has just gotten onto the bandwagon. Not much success with the IA though.
IA wants some improvement on them & meanwhile wants some imported stuff ( & we're supposed to take the IA or RST seriously ) whereas Armenia with similar hilly terrain has gone right ahead & bought the very same ATAGS for they've a fire lit under their backsides . Not so with our top brass.
Some existential conflicts are more existential for those facing the enemy as compared to the others back in HQ as we saw in the 1962 conflict.
Yeah , well the Stryker was Jizia to the US & the WhAP been selected by the Moroccan Army over the Chinese offering. This is precisely what gets my goat with RST. This suppression of information ,the peddling of his agenda , selective quoting of facts , obfuscation etc as if he's an interested party in all this with a lot at stake.
Yeah . All one has to do is go to the thread on the HTT-40 & check out pages 1-20 or 25 to see the number of somersaults RST took apart from his favourite activity of goal post shifting.
The issue was always the induction of HTT-40 over the Pilatus & never about the costs ( though that too was a consideration ) or the date of its induction. As usual he assembled all the evidence , came to the wrong conclusions & having pursued a faulty line of argument , got beaten black & blue by various members declaring victory at the end by proclaiming the date of induction would be the mid 2020s which was never the bone of contention to begin with .
You guys ought to take a look at this .
@Gautam ;
@Milspec & everybody else who was present then . Padla tari paay var.
All those projects are delayed for different reasons.
I've news for RST. I'm not on twitter since May 21 when myself & a few others got permabanned for getting into a massive online fight with Khalistanis , essentially overseas ones from Brampton Kaneda where nearly 3-4 dozen of them mass reported a few ids who went head on with them.
RST lost whatever little credibility he enjoyed by quoting The Irish Times , not that he enjoyed much credibility to begin with. Even this forum's resident imbecile - Paddy has never ever quoted that daily or any other publication from Paddyland.
Maolankar isn't wrong. He speaks from bitter experience of 40+ years when RST here was in liquid form . However his being suspicious apart , I don't foresee a problem with the TEDBF . The IN may have put the TEDBF on the backburner just to the see the Rafale M come through but they're committed to it & so is the GoI.
I'm sure we'd see the CCS approval for the TEDBF next year or by 2026. However I've not kept track of this project. No clue if it's completed its CDR.
I hope RST notes the contradiction in his post . OTOH he's alleging the GoI is beholden to big industry here & OTOH he's saying it's curbed imports. Well big industry is always interested in money making , if not by playing commission agents then thru JVs where they get to import products , assemble it here & claim indigenisation. It's an old trick.
As far as the rest of his blah goes , RST talks as if he's privy to all that goes on in the government. Waitaminute , I'm actually referring to a guy who a self declared MPD patient. He actually once posted he had 3 views on a subject - one from the PoV of the developer , one from the PoV of the user & the third being that of a lay person. That's whom we're dealing with here.
Further just because people out here are more realistic or to be more precise don't share RST's insane optimism doesn't mean they're pessimistic.
It started out because back in the day RST used to literally bull sh!t by the tons & he'd do so on every topic under the sun even on ones where he had no knowledge whatsoever to speak of. Beyond a point it got tiresome & somebody had to kick sense into him . There're only so many fairy tales you can listen to before life happens.
I certainly am not fighting to kill time. That's probably what RST does. I live a sad life. Apart from the occasional insomnia , novels , TV shows , movies or web series just don't amuse me . It has to be the real thing for me .
Hence I log on to Strategic Front to be entertained by 3 samples - Paddy , Sweetie & RST. And I'm easily entertained. At the very least the one in the middle has age as an excuse , the other two are just class acts. They live in a world all their own & if Paddy's daft , RST is delusional.
But they provide me with good entertainment otherwise why would I be in a place where the participants in the present are much less than what it started out with .
There's no optimism & realism with RST . It's insane optimism bordering on mania. If I didn't know better I'd say he needs help . Pronto.
The MRFA as it stands now SHOULD be relegated to the bin for reasons I've already offered in so many posts out here in the past few days . Will it ? I've no clue. Then again when has logic ever been a strong point with our armed forces or the government here ?
Hypernationalistic forum? I got banned for tangling with a foreigner . That's how hyper nationalistic this forum is . Perhaps RST should spend time on BRF or Other forum or even Twitter. He'd emerge within a few days severely mauled with the imprints of several footwear on his bottom for his nonsensical views which he'd then conveniently blame on a hypernationalistic audience.
Yeah . We were discussing the tangle between HAL & the IN regarding the NUH . The IA & IAF have already chosen to go ahead with it irrespective of whatever flimsy objections RST raises . The NUH was never meant to be in the IN . Yet it will be .
RN they're undergoing trials followed by LSP & then full production which means good bye Ka -226 or whatever it was the IN was intent on replacing it with . And before RST goes on donning his pedantic avatar like the man child he is I'm referring to the combination of the ALH & NUH or whatever nomenclature the IN has assigned it that the IN plans on inducting.
It's not contrariarinism . It's called a shout for help. I can refer a couple of doctors from NIMHANS - all distant cousins with splendid credentials. No more lobotomy. Things are much more humane nowadays though God knows it's a mistake to have banned lobotomy. Some people can't be cured without it.
I always respect comedians. It's too serious a job to be left to comics. Paddy believes every single word he types to be true. Just like RST.
Besides I always suspected RST was familiar with the anatomy of ONLY one gender ever since that bumming 16 year old girls fiasco. Initially I thought there were just 1 or 2 of that kind here . Now it's confirmed there's a third one . I've nothing against this kind . I'd sincerely request RST to stop hitting on me & focus his attention on Paddy or sweetie.
That UK France symbolism was used only because a Frenchman posed the question. Had anyone else done so obviously my answer would be different.
The key word in that post was maturity. As far as foundation in technical matters go, /bharatiya nagarik sainik has been tearing his hair coming up with the same set of complaints others have previously , in that 6th gen FA thread . Now he's not a regular here nor does he go through every thread to dissect RST's MO yet he's reached the same conclusions.
And he's not the only one . Earlier there was a sophomore here with the user ID /panzerfaust or something similar. He took a shine to RST & beat him black & blue too. It's a recurring theme which repeats itself every once in a year. Some newbie comes in , takes a shine to RST & then proceeds to trash him .
If Bob has a problem with everyone the problem is Bob.
Incidentally BNS's posted SS of RST's answers on the AMCA thread on Other forum where members there are enjoying a good laugh. So if RST chooses to disgrace Other forum with his presence someday as opposed to gracing it , members there wouldn't need an introduction to him . They'd already be acquainted with his shenanigans.
Yup. What's 2+2 ? That's the kind of logic we're used to seeing with RST . And the kind of questions we're used to seeing & answering . What if IUSAV fails ? What if Mk-2 fails ? What if the AMCA series fails ? And on & on...
The F-35 failed coz they combined 3 different aircraft into one to begin with & then complicated things by overloading it with features. Had they followed the principle of incrementalism like the French did with Rafale or the makers of the Eurofighter did in half measures instead of going the whole hog things would've been different.
Conclusion - Just another example of RST not knowing what he's talking about. Why do I get the impression this guy has not worked a professional job at all least of all an engineering company ? He just doesn't know elementary stuff that goes into development or mfg including design philosophies or mfg philosophies.
