you are right Tinwing, the extent of scrap steel recovered has come down from 30 mil tons to 3 mil tons. perhaps in a few decades the ecological damage will be undone by the forces of nature on that 50km of coast.

Bager, keep your clemenceau at home. the shipyard workers have enough work breaking the worlds ships in Alang and they are dying not due to starvation but accidents & pollution. Alang beaches and sea are a environmental disaster zone.

the whole business there needs to be cleaned up and regularized. but unfortunately lot of vested interests want it as cheap as possible. construction industry lifts a lot of steel rods from the melted scrap steel in small smelters there. foreign shipowners and govts want someplace out of range to dump their crap. and the local “leaders” are ofcourse in bed with the scrapyard owners.

Israel selectively decided to compete in missiles, avionics, EW/ECM, radars, C3I, UAV and upgrade market. after 20+ yrs of effort they have reached world class levels in all of these.

they have avoided cost intensive products like 5th gen airplanes and engines. they are happy to import engines from US for aircraft and germany for tanks (GDLS license makes the MTU engine for merkava to utilize the US funding I guess).

in ships also they purchased the Saar corvette design from US and submarines from germany.

for a small country with limited resources they play a very smart game. can now compete head to head with US and EU products in their chosen niches.

israeli LGB kits for instance were sold to india lot cheaper than the french offered. we are happy to get “american quality at israeli price” 🙂

Israel since early 1980s has invested heavily in areas like embedded electronics and DSP. they have hundreds of niche and very capable cos in these areas. the flow of experienced ussr scientists post 1991 would also have helped. israel has per capita the highest number of MS/Phd types iirc.

believe it is from defencenews. they already have the large but inflexible armat , maybe something better is in the works.

India Prepares To Shop for Escort Jammers
By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI, NEW DELHI

The Indian Defence Ministry shortly will float a limited global tender for procurement of sophisticated escort jamming systems for its Air Force’s Jaguar combat fleet, allowing the British-made aircraft to suppress enemy strategic air defense systems and protect itself during deep penetration missions.

A senior Defence Ministry official said the $50 million tender will be floated in September, inviting overseas defense firms — including Israel’s Elbit and Israel Aircraft Industries, France’s Thales and Britain’s BAE SYSTEMS — to supply escort jammers for one squadron of 18 Jaguar aircraft.

Once these systems are mounted, the Jaguar aircraft will be able to jam enemy radar and, using anti-radiation missiles likely to be procured in the future, destroy ground radar stations.

Escort jammers also would enable the Jaguars to detect incoming beyond-visual-range missiles and effectively jam an enemy’s early warning radar and C4I systems