Damn, that’s the sixth person who asked here. In Belgium we sometimes refer to the swiss as the Helvetic republic, but mostly only in comics. I did not know it wasn’t a well known name for Switzerland.
Why would a modern nation use a stupid Latin name, Latin is like the most useless language to use RN cause no one even understands it (dispite me spend 3 years learning it)
Because they have 4 national languages that all refer in a slightly different way to their nation in their tongues. Latin has been a neutral ground for over 500 years over there, why change the name now?
3 Likes
Helvetic Republic come from republic idea by France during Napoleonics wars afaik.
Yeah, it’s the short lived swiss stuff from the 1700s
Why does India not have a Latin name, :D, they have 22 official languages.
They use English instead, as that was their ‘neutral’ language, ISO may standardize, but it’s still majorly influenced by culture and customs.
Belgium, like almost all other western nations used french internationally at first, then English after the second world war only at international meetings, then trilingual after the ‘language conflict’ aka de taalstrijd aka Question communautaire en Belgique aka Flämisch-wallonischer Konflikt (yes, all these names for it are the mostly official ones, even if they don’t translate the same into English). Luckily the country first three letters are the same in all three languages haha.
België
Belgique
Belgien
2 Likes
Why has India not gotten rid of HAL yet, like literally every plane they made or fixed suffers mechanical failure now or then, they’ve downed 10 times more jets than Pakistan air force LOL.
I mean, comparing absolute numbers is useless anyway, these nations don’t have the same population and undoubtedly also not the same size commercial air fleets?
Anyway, I personally hope Indian stuff would go to Russia, especially their russian based equipment.
1 Like
Not commercial, military planes, over 1700 planes fixed or constructed at HAL crashed due to mechanical failure thus why France rejected them Rafael self construction liscence.
They did? It must be pretty bad for the french to do that, they really need foreign money to help keep their defence industries up to date, the US gets a stupendous amount in comparison, the french have been gathering Indian money for years now
Oof
Rafale*
Nah, he means the painter. Jk
Not the tennis player ?
The whole lot. XD
2 Likes
Well look at Mig29, no one buys them now cause India crashed so many， India crashed 400 mig 21s and 5 of the 45 Mig 29s they bought, 13 Su30s out of like 500 they bought.
1 Like
Their track record is indeed famously bad, for their mechanics and for their procurement industries. HAL really might be ‘too big to fail’ aka a couple dozen accidents won’t scratch them at all to be more cautious, but that’s more conspiracy anyway.
Luckily in WT vehicles don’t need to care about mechanical failures or succes rates of munitions at all. ;)
2 Likes
I mean Indian government said they are ‘confident about the future of Mig21s’ because they only take up 1/6 of the total crashes.
I was wrong, that was from 1980, the total fixed wing aircrafts crashed is now 2800.
1 Like
