George Frideric Handel Zadok the Priest
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Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Peter, Paul and Mary - Leaving on a Jet Plane
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Symphony No. 9 Finale "Ode to Joy" (Beethoven). Best version, played and sung by thousands.
Navy Hymn for Submariners (variation on Eternal Father, Strong to Save).
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Have a Merry Christmas, Mid-Summer or Mid-Winter break.
Pete
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A few more apt songs for the political squatter occupying Kirribilli House.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/23/australian-teens-turn-to-tiktok-to-mock-pm-over-hawaii-holiday-during-fire-crisis
Billy Joel's 'we didn't start the fire' is so apt...it would have been funny in normal times, but considering the thousands of baby koala, wallabies and joeys burnt in the horrible fires, it is anything but...
I touched joeys, baby koalas during my visit to Melbourne and Sydney in September this year. It is all so visceral to me and the vicious callousness of these mccormack (i refuse to capitalize the names of these cretins) like drongos makes me think...this entire squalid lot in Canberra should be made to firefight or face long penal terms for wanton lying.
Hi Pete,
Something for Australia, Swedish_SSN :)
/Kjell
Merry Christmas
Hi Ghalibkabir [at December 23, 2019 at 4:44 PM]
I think the only solution to Australia's and India's political ills is a Prime Ministerial swap. Modi for Morrison for 3 years. Democratic! an What could go wrong?
Actually I can see 5 or 6 "wild" Kangaroos through my (new house) kitchen window each morning. They are so adapted to hot weather that even in Summer they obtain 90% though metabolising the grass they eat.
Cheers
Pete
Hi /Kjell [at December 23, 2019 at 9:15 PM]
Amazing that Sweden considered building SSNs ( http://www.hisutton.com/Swedish_SSN.html ) and building nuclear weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_program
Even Israel had a lot of financial and technical help building its nuclear weapons. Sweden was contemplating developing its own nuclear weapons.
And, I think, nuclear reactors to propel SSNs are more expensive and difficult to perfect than nuclear weapons.
Regards
Pete
Thanks Unknown [at December 25, 2019 at 10:56 AM]
Have a Happy New Year/Decade
Pete
I think I will keep Modi over the Kirribilli House squatter any day. Whatever his detractors say, the man has kept government corruption free for 6 years at the top. Not a whiff of a scam. (this is one of the reasons why the drongo gandhi family attacks on his financial probity backfired so spectacularly in the 2019 polls...). Every time the opposition has cried foul about 'bigotry' etc.., the Supreme Court has slapped them down as it was not provable.
On the sub front, it looks like the design phase of the new Indian SSN program is well and truly under way and it seems SSBN Arighat has begun harbour static trials.. If Modi can leave office with one or two SSN at least laid down, that will be fantastic. Looks like the Akula from Russia will be joining the IN in 2023. Some more tests of the K series SLBMs are also scheduled in 2020...
Hi Pete,
Maybe this video https://youtu.be/PZBQzLfCKpw about manufacturing lithium-ion polymer batteries for iPhone can be of interest.
/Kjell
Hi Ghalibkabir [your December 30, 2019 at 9:36 AM]...
As I've never seen clear photos or drawings of INS Arihant and Arighat, I hold some beliefn their designs are heavily influenced by Russian Akula SSNs. India has had years to study the Chakra II Akula SSN while that sub was being updated for India's 10 year lease - and in years since the lease.
India would not totally develop its homebuild SSN from scratch. India is in good position to model (or baseline) its homebuild SSNs on Russia's latest Akula SSN modernisations (including the Akula from Russia 2023- ) and INS Chakra II.
Also for money and political relations Russian information/advisors would have assisted with the Agni series (MRBMs to ICBMs) and K series SLBMs.
Cheers
Pete
Thanks /Kjell [your January 7, 2020 at 6:11 AM]
I'll use the video https://youtu.be/PZBQzLfCKpw you provided - about China manufacturing lithium-ion polymer batteries - this week in an article.
Regards
Pete
There is some debate as to what sub model was used as a base. Since India started with SSN, people say the Papa class SSN was used as a base for consultancy and owing to mid-course shift to prioritizing SSBNs, Delta-III then became the basis for consulting. Interestingly both the Papa class and the Deltas used VM series reactors that finally became the basis to make the land based prototype at Kalpakkam.
Again for the SSNs, I think the Russkies will let India dirty its hands and learn to make a power demand intensive 'ramp up ramp down' kind reactor. While India will not make a reactor from scratch (foolish to do so), the SSBN pattern of limited Russian support, letting Indians do most of the heavy lifting is likely to continue.
Hence the longish lead time to an actual locally made SSN. Will India use the VM-4 (OK-700A) from Delta-III or 177 MWt VM-5 from Papa or the bigger 190 MWt OK-650 from the Akula I/II as the basis for a locally made SSN reactor? That is where the challenge is...the Russians as I have consistently maintained did not simply hand over their 'family jewels' as some western sources have claimed... they have made India struggle every inch of the way in return for colossal payments...nothing as they say is freely or easily handed over...
Hi Ghalibkabir [your January 14, 2020 at 5:21 PM]
There would be debate indeed about India using the 60 year old (only one-off!?) K-222 "Papa" class https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-222 as a SSN reference model. With reliance on noisy speed of 45 knots instead of stealth the "Papa" was an outmoded concept once Russia launched the stealthy Akula SSN.
The Yankee and Delta classes may have heavily influenced the Arihant class. Perhaps to cut costs many Arihant traits may carry over to India's future SSNs.
But I think it more likely and obvious India leased the Akula (INS Chakra "II) ex Nerpa) as a much more moodern, much stealthier, reference model. India could reverse engineer some parts and perhaps Russia gave or leaked Akula plans as part of the Chakra II deal?
With India's rapidly growing economy (vs Russia's cash strapped DoD) the Indian DoD and Defence nuclear sector could unofficiallly pass large $sums to Russia for designs (know how and show how) as well as training and advisors to expedite the "190 MWt OK-650 from the Akula I/II as the basis for a locally made SSN reactor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-650_reactor
As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK-650_reactor was developed in the 1970s this is far short of Russia surrendering strategic advantage and national security entailed in selling a much more modern reactor to India (eg. the one(s) powering the Yasens). Russia would not want to see its latest reactor plans passed to the US via India...
Cheers
Pete
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