This is the transcript of 'Cut The Clutter' Episode 1817, examining the staggering cost of US aviation and radar losses in the Gulf, the myths of electronic invincibility, and the sobering reality of modern, high-intensity combat.
The J-35 and J-35A are portrayed as a turning point in China’s pursuit of air dominance. They serve as symbols of national confidence and mastery over technologies once monopolised by the West.
A team of engineers from UK deployed at Thiruvanathapuram airport will now assess whether the F-35B can be repaired on site or if it will need to be dismantled & transported back.
The episode underlines broader delays, sustainment issues flagged in US oversight reports. A large team has been flown in from the UK. to assess & service the grounded fighter.
On the face of it, the joint statement on defence ticks all the right boxes. However, the two-decade-long India-US defence cooperation has promised much and delivered too little.
We are throwing money at imports while slipping behind competitors—China, certainly, but also Iran, South Korea, and Turkey—in technologies like stealth fighters, drones, and hypersonic missiles.
France, Russia & Sweden are vying for a contract for 114 Medium Role Fighter Aircraft with India, which now looks like a long shot. Trump offered the potential sale of F-35 jets to India.
Charleston air force base puts out appeal asking people to reach out if they have information on aircraft’s whereabouts. Jet went missing in South Carolina after pilot ejected safely.
The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
Trump mandated Gulf War between US -Israel combine and Iran could at best be described as the “Self goal” for him. What else could explain such a colossal damage to its military paraphernalia apart from loss of its global image the world over. Sadly yet strangely, he still refuses to admit the folly of him having invaded Iran, an independent nation, on the fallacious plea of preventing it from making the Atom Bomb, sans any authority under any international laws.
But what about some rouge nation like Pakistan, a well known terrorism sponsoring state apart from having a plenty of nuclear bombs? Why such double standards? Trump seems to be a man virtually lost in transit, as of now. He could perhaps be sailing on the same boat as that of Russian President Putin, who also grossly mis-calculated the ‘fighting spirit’ of Ukraine and the results whereof are already before us all.
Trump mandated Gulf War between US -Israel combine and Iran could at best be described as the “Self goal” for him. What else could explain such a colossal damage to its military paraphernalia apart from loss of its global image the world over. Sadly yet strangely, he still refuses to admit the folly of him having invaded Iran, an independent nation, on the fallacious plea of preventing it from making the Atom Bomb, sans any authority under any international laws.
But what about some rouge nation like Pakistan, a well known terrorism sponsoring state apart from having a plenty of nuclear bombs? Why such double standards? Trump seems to be a man virtually lost in transit, as of now. He could perhaps be sailing on the same boat as that of Russian President Putin, who also grossly mis-calculated the ‘fighting spirit’ of Ukraine and the results whereof are already before us all.