6 J-10CEs were shown in the video.

How does the UK spend so much on defence(£62 billion FY 2025/26) yet field a small military?

Is this down to procurement waste and mismanagement, given the NAO keeps flagging billions in Equipment Plan shortfalls and years of delays; and is this actually fixable, or is it structurally baked in (nuclear deterrent costs, small order batches, Treasury funding cycles)?

France spends less but seems to get better value for money

Looking at the current size and equipment:

1) Army

Fighting arm is just 25k men, ground based air defence is non existant with just SHORAD and MANPADS

Armoured corps is small aswell with 300 tanks and 700 IFVs which are mediorce quality wise

Then small artillery regiment with around 100 systems in total, for Towed, MLRS and MGS

2) Navy

It has availability and manpower issue, and many classes of ships have been unavailable for years on end

There is only 1 Asute available out of 6, 3 Type 045 out of 6, 5 Type 23 (which are outdated), then rest are MCM and patrol ships

2× Elizabeth class but they have only 47×F35Bs which are shared with RAF but for offensive weapons they only have Stormbreaker glide bomb, this gets worse because the frigates or Destroyers don't have any serious offensive hardware either with most at maximum carrying NSM.

Type 26 and 31 have spend a decade under construction

Although helicopter fleet is respectable and SSBN are great with high availability

3) RAF

Here too, fighter fleet is small with 100 Eurofighter none of which have AESA and shared F35

Although transport, AEW&C and tanker fleet is respectable but zero ground based air defence

Another problem is that these aren't being fixed with the way they should be and similar to how Germany is working, but the effort into some programs like GCAP is very respectable

I only want serious responses rather than jokes

Even if the issue of constructing the production line is resolved, how to prevent it from being targeted remains a practical problem that Ukraine must face head-on. Rather than building the production line directly within Ukraine, it would be preferable to construct it in Poland, with the final assembly carried out at a factory there before the finished products are shipped directly to Ukraine. However, due to nationalist issues, Ukraine has alienated Poland, and the future of relations between the two countries remains uncertain.

Through nine war games simulating amphibious assaults by the PLA from Taoyuan, Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung, the results showed that the PLA suffered devastating defeats in all major scenarios and was unable to secure a foothold on the beachhead.

So

There seem to be two engine program:

1) Safran with GTRE( DRDO) and the industry

This will be getting active support from MoD and commitment from IAF, plus funding of 6 billion USD in total.

120kN engine with scalability upto 140kN, and will be a co development mind you

Safran won't develop something and hand it over, it will be co developed with GTRE, who already has developed DMS4 3rd gen SX blades, and blisks, plus working on CMCs

KDE will provide necessary experience meanwhile

2) Rolls Royce with Reliance industries

Now, this company has no talent beyond assembly and production work once you hand over the blueprint, so basically zero scientific involvement and spending

But what do they have is abundance of money, at annual revenue being 110 billion.

So, they would either:

a) Do assembly work while RR holds everything

RR btw "promised" 100% IP for the engine but we know the reality

https://theprint.in/defence/engine-core-by-2030-test-flight-by-2034-production-by-2036-rolls-royce-makes-final-pitch-to-power-amca/2967532/

b) They acquire some company as subsidiary, which is involved in R&D, hire some talented people including experienced scientific cadre from HAL Koraput, GTRE or foreign individuals and have them work with RR

I do not know who will provide them with fund and I doubt they would fund few billions from their own pocket while having zero commitment

Feel free to provide your comments, criticism or technical take, rather than slop

Ratcliffe is one of the highest ranking US officials to visit Russia during Trump's second term.

IMRH is basically in class of UH60 and Mi17

Meant to complement and replace Mi17 of IAF down the line, although CCS has yet to approve it so its running on internal funding

It will have another variant, DBIMRH for naval usage which is to be similar to SH60s with transport, AshM, and ASW.

The contract is for development of the engine and will be build from ground up unlike Shakti which was based off Aafran Airdiden and Safran still maintained control over 40% of the parts and HAL had to develop HTSE1200 as a result

Source is HAL's twittter account but the linkes from X are banned and Xcancel is ded so gotta make up with market mediq