Mars Orbiter, first attempt success.

[Aupmanyav]

India became the fourth country in the world to do this. At 7.45 am today Indian Mars orbiter, Mangalyan, was powered into its highly elliptical orbit.

 

[Bunyip]

An astonishing acheivement.

Congratulations to the Indian Space Agency. Claiming to be working towards a high tech economy is clearly just. Fantastic to see what other wonders this emerging economic, cultural and scientific superpower will bring.

 

[Amechania]

About time India did its part in moving the human race forward. My god Indians are the smartest people on the planet. Where's my warp drive India?

 

[Ouroboros]

Nice! Well done India.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Cost us 450 m USD (11% of the cost of US Maven. Of course, that might have been designed for more functions).
Thanks, bros. Evidently we are very happy.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Meh, I'm not impressed. If you want me to be impressed, ya shoulda nailed it on the FIRST attempt.

Oh crap, you did?! Well...bravo then!

:clap

 

[Aupmanyav]

Well, we had our failures too.
Part of the game.
Till now, we are a big failure on defense production. The Jet Aircrafts and the Main Battle Tank. Fairly good in missiles.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Well, we had our failures too.
Part of the game.
Till now, we are a big failure on defense production. The Jet aircrafts and the Main battle tank.

You could take the Austalian way of spending on defence. We pay other countries to have failures, and then pay to correct them as well. But at least at the end we get some mediocre equipment...

You ever want a laugh, try this...
Collins-class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Aupmanyav]

We have been more successful in ship building, having made our own 40,000 tonnes aircraft carrier - Vikrant, with GE gas turbines; and 6000 tonnes nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine - Arihant. BrahMos (India-Russia), a short range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land (range 300-500 kms); and Barak 8 (India-Israel), surface-to-air missile designed to defend against aircraft, anti-ship missiles, UAVs and supersonic cruise missiles (range 70 kms).

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Congrats, India.

 

[Aupmanyav]

Cost correction: It cost us 75 m USD (wrongly mentioned 450 m USD in a previous post)

 

[Bunyip]

You could take the Austalian way of spending on defence. We pay other countries to have failures, and then pay to correct them as well. But at least at the end we get some mediocre equipment...

You ever want a laugh, try this...
Collins-class submarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Let's not mention those Sea Sprite helicopters, or the joint strike fighter that will be obsolete before it is delivered either, Collins was embarassing enough.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Let's not mention those Sea Sprite helicopters, or the joint strike fighter that will be obsolete before it is delivered either, Collins was embarassing enough.

I thought this way too, mate, but I've found a more optimistic way of thinking as follows;

1) Collins class subs aren't silent underwater killers. They are, in fact, weapons of intimidation. Line up a bunch and the noise they'll make will scare ANYONE!

2) The Joint Strike Fighter should henceforth be known as the Joint STEALTH Fighter. It's amazingly stealthy. I've never seen one.

3) Sea Sprite helicopters are in fact...ummm...well...we on-sold some to the Kiwis. So...they were kinda like...
Nah, I got nothing on the Sea Sprites...