{"id":3703,"date":"2021-07-24T20:18:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2024-12-27T15:58:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:28:22","slug":"pot-pourri-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/07\/24\/pot-pourri-2\/","title":{"rendered":"157: POT POURRI &#8211; 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><u>All in a Day\u2019s Thoughts<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">1.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Those Close air combat days with gun tactics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0I miss those wild air combat sorties \u2013 throwing the aircraft around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/07\/24\/pot-pourri-2\/gun-sight\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3704\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3704\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gun-sight-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gun-sight-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gun-sight-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gun-sight-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gun-sight.jpg 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><u>Puzzle solving: SUDOKU<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Interesting one called KROPI<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rules<\/span><\/em>: All pairs of touching squares which contain consecutive values (such as 2 &amp; 3 or 6 &amp; 7) are marked with a white circle. Also, all pairs of touching squares which contain values where one number is exactly twice the value of the other (such as 2 &amp; 4, or 4 &amp; 8) are marked with a black circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/07\/24\/pot-pourri-2\/kropi-sudoku\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3705 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kropi-sudoku-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kropi-sudoku-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kropi-sudoku-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kropi-sudoku-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/kropi-sudoku.png 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Read an article in The Telegraph about migrant workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>\u201cURBAN NOMADS\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Is the term that came to the mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><u>India &amp; Russia Plan to Extended Range of Brahmos Missile<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">India and Russia plan to collaborate on improving the strike range of the Brahmos missile. The upgraded Brahmos will have a range of 800 kilometers (497 miles) compared to the present 280 kilometers (155 miles). The improved version of the Indo-Russian supersonic missile will also have a lot of new features.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\">The Brahmos is developed and produced by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India\u2019s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russia\u2019s Mashinostroyenia.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">At Mach 2.8, the Brahmos is the world\u2019s fastest cruise missile.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Its land and ship-based versions carry a payload of up to 200 kilograms (441 pounds), while the air version can carry a warhead of up to 300 kilograms (661 pounds).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003366;\">India is integrating the Brahmos on Sukhoi Su- 30MKI fighters.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>https:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1315847<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u0924\u0942 \u091c\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0917\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u091c\u0940,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u0909\u0938\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u091d\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u094b\u0936\u093f\u0936 \u0928\u093e \u0915\u0930\u0964<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u0915\u0941\u091b \u092c\u093e\u0924\u0947 \u0930\u092c \u092a\u0930 \u091b\u094b\u0921\u093c \u0926\u0947, \u0938\u092c \u0915\u0941\u091b \u0916\u0941\u0926<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u0938\u0941\u0932\u091d\u093e\u0928\u0947 \u0915\u0940 \u0915\u094b\u0936\u093f\u0936 \u0928 \u0915\u0930&#8230;.!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Comments and value additions are most welcome<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">For regular updates please register here &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All in a Day\u2019s Thoughts 1. Those Close air combat days with gun tactics. \u00a0I miss those wild air combat sorties \u2013 throwing the aircraft around. &nbsp; &nbsp; 2. Puzzle solving: SUDOKU Interesting one called KROPI Rules: All pairs of touching squares which contain consecutive values (such as 2 &amp; 3 or 6 &amp; 7) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/07\/24\/pot-pourri-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;157: POT POURRI &#8211; 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,1],"tags":[6,47,38,52,30,60,50],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airpower","category-article","category-uncategorized","tag-airpower","tag-defence-services","tag-indian-air-force","tag-strategic-thinking","tag-technology","tag-warfare","tag-working-environment"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8649,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/8649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}