In which reality are you living. There is no no-fly zone over Syria at present.

You don’t need real time, since the thing is sitting in one place and you could time a missile flight to coincide with a passing satellite.

There is no fly zone active now on all the areas that Syrian controlled. Nutinyahoo has gone quiet. Russia is going to create the largest fighting army on the ground in Middleast. No one else can resupply so many combatants at same time. A lot of training and sieges simultaneously.

Unless the S-400 is constantly moving around, everybody already knows where it is, making it an easy target.

how every one knows where it is when no overflight allowed over the areas. It’s practical no fly zone now.

you can’t blame garry for his hollywood stuff when people in power has such stupid thinking and not understand military power

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hollande-offers-sharp-critique-of-u-s-policy-1476287400
PARIS—French President François Hollande delivered a sharp critique of the Obama administration in comments published Wednesday, calling Washington afraid to use its power to stop the bloodshed in Syria but too eager to wield its economic might to penalize European companies.

There is some truth to that, but like so many things its not black-and-white. On a military forum, the first thing one thinks about are nukes; but then China had a successful nuke program way back when it wasn’t building or manufacturing anything worthwhile.

China never had a successful nuke programe way back. there is decades of gap between China nuclear bomb and its nuclear power industry (that nuclear industry is complete amalgamation of various countries reactor tech). so its highly likely the China nuke bomb was from stolen or given tech.
only in 2013 China developed own commercial centrifuge tech.

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ENF-China_builds_uranium_enrichment_centrifuge-2502134.html
CNNC said that, “after a long period of painstaking research” at Lanzhou in central Gansu province, it has successfully developed uranium enrichment centrifuges for commercial use.

Meanwhile, you might want to look at the origins of India’s IT industry, an out-and-out success story (you’ll find one Jack Welch and a certain GE involved). Same thing with the automobile industry; used to build two three licensed versions to foreign types two decades ago. Today, local brands are moderately successful while the country exports 6 million cars annually (mostly foreign marques).

I don’t see what is the success in Indian IT industry except all the talented manpower of the country is consumed in producing backend operations for various firms. 6 million car export annually?

Of course, the defence industry is different, primarily because there is no ‘free market’ in the business. That said, there is still an opportunity if they play the govt plays the cards right. The defining factor will be good policies, an efficient bureaucracy and effective leadership. The current state of affairs in the MoD isn’t confidence inspiring but in non-defence sectors the Indian govt has done/is doing a fairly commendable job.

efficient bureaucracy and effective leadership from current Indian system. I would predict once Modi is done. India will be a lot more depended on external flows and expertize.

Full letter here,

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/airbus-helicopters-hits-out-over-misleading-allegat-430214/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Early%20Bird%20Brief%2010.11.2016&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

Crusty points…

Polish MinDef is president of the association of the american foundation “Friends of Poland”. According to Gazeta Wyborcza (http://wyborcza.pl/1,75398,20786556,macierewicz-pomylkowy-prezes-niezwykle-tlumaczenia-amerykanskich.html?disableRedirects=true). Their site is now down (what a surprise…). Opposition at parliament is asking for a formal inquiry commission.

Politics are pushing Airbus to sue Polish governement DGA sent a letter to polish mindef. Polish delegation isn’t anymore an official delegation at Euronaval 2016… (kiddish imho)

Expect more deals to go wary. Partially due to fundung cuts and partially creating bargaining position .
http://m.dw.com/en/italys-pm-renzi-calls-for-funding-cuts-for-eu-states-which-refuse-to-take-in-refugees/a-36026000

you have to look it how inefficient are carriers. months of preparation for pitfull sorties with small bombs/missiles. and many ships tied to protect them in narrow seas like Mediterranean. its better to spend on cruise missile carrying aircraft for round the clock operations.

The French response seems … unusual?

It is too be expected . for some reason French does not go all the way.

IMHO , 5 minutes for all component set up time is grossly underestimate number , didnt the NEBO SVU take over 20 minutes to set up ?.Moreover, to cross networked those SAM batteries together ,you need some sort of link between them. Which either mean electric cable ( not mobile ) or a data link ( which can be detected by RWR ), another problem is that those link are limited by radar horizon , so even those the SAM launched doesn’t have to be at the same place , they cant be positioned very far from each others.

so you are going to find data links on ground connectivity of 5G system. The more you write the less make sense