According to some estimates, India is projected to be the world's

>>31927723
>largest economy
>largest amount of street vendors and people peddling shit on corners really
>"economy"
INSAS for 1,000 years!

>>31927723
>expecting intelligent discussion on 3rd world countries on /k/

>>31927723
Indians are not made for leadership. Chinks are numerous, organized and smart, Indians are just numerous.

Indian influence in Asia is weak, they only cares about Pakistan and Kashmir

>what does a superpower India look like in terms of global force projection and military technology?
About as paper-tigery as a Chinese superpower. You know those issues that people associate with Chinese military tech to do with QC? India has that in spades with an added helping of weird cultural hangups that mean that everything is shit quality and nobody cares. Remeber, the Chinese are shit because they are corrupt and cheap, the Indians are shit because they are simply that incompetent.

>the battle of endor will actually happen
>indians wear those flat top hats

>>31927765

Say what you want, but having the Andaman Islands gives them a shot at being to the Strait of Malacca what Europe was to the Suez Canal.

I'm interested in whether Indian-Iranian friendship goes anywhere, or if China and Russia will always be more valuable of allies to a regional contender like that?

>>31927767
China seems to be focusing on developing defense in depth with land-based systems and the world's most heavily armed coastguard. But India has expressed interest in controlling the Indian Ocean.

Here's a question, do you think India will keep buying arms from Russia and others as they get more wealthy and powerful, or will they try to focus more on indigenous arms production?

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>>31927847

http://swarajyamag.com/defence/blueprint-to-bluewater-the-indian-navys-journey-from-carriers-to-supercarriers

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>>31927723
Hmmm....what have we got here?

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>>31928633
Let's take a closer look, shall we....

>>31928643
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/INSAS_LMG.JPG
>Oh.....you mean that's actually their official picture? Oh my....let's play spot the poo.

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>>31928643
>>31927723

Put it this way, I remember reading an article where India had launched a rocket with the intentions of it landing on Venus iirc.
It dropped off radar and they said everything was fine.
Later it started to broadcast whale song.
After much supposedly dancing and singing, they announced having found whales on Venus.
The US then told them.that the rocket had in fact, landed in the ocean.
Tldr, ask them to drive a taxi or run a shop, everything is golden, ask them to do technical, everything is hilarious.

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>>31929410
You mean this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCATSAT-1

>>31927723

I'm not buying it: for India to do that, it would have to sustain its current pace of progress for almost a lifetime; how do they keep their ecnomy chugging for that long?

>>31927847
Indigenous arms production means well developed and wide range of industrialized manufacturing capability, both heavy and consumer industry.

If you are short on that, your country is doomed to fail at being a super power. The British Empire became a super power because they initialized the industrialization revolution, but they got trouble recovering from WWII because they played too much financial games and started their de-industrialization before the WWII. Also the Soviet Union, they had OK heavy industry, but really short on consumer industry. China is better off, but still struggling on certain front of manufacturing technology, because they their industry modernization started too late, as from 1980.

Yes, any normal county can buy most things in such a globalized world. But you really have to be fully self-sufficient to be come a stable super power. Just like the United States for the past 100 years.

India really has to do something about this. A large GDP is only one aspect of the power of a country. If shit hit the fan, everybody starts to pointing guns at each other. Being the factory of the world is much better off than being office of the world. In certain periods of history, several countries were given the title of "World's Factory" as either compliment or insult, if not both. They were UK, Germany, US, Japan and China. Go figure.

>>31928958
Seriously, I wonder how common where rivers are like in this photo in India.
This has to be a isolated case, right? Otherwise, how could 1.3 billion people live in India?
This has to be some anti-indian propaganda.

>>31929670
http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictures/filthy-india-photos-chinese-netizen-reactions.html
Even the chinks have a hard time swallowing the curry...

>>31927847
>Indian-Iranian
Not going to happen. Pakistan playing the nuclear cocktease