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I was at a UK company where that video was shown. It was only done once. However, it showed how USA managers are encouraged to view their workers. Unions are both good and bad, the UK record from the 1970's and Thatcherite anti-union laws showed both of those sides in action. That all said, sometimes technology overtakes the problem and makes it redundant - there is an ongoing dispute here about having guards on trains while at the same time Thales is rolling out driverless train systems - https://www.thalesgroup.com/en... Amazon workers do have valid issues about working conditions that unionizing might help with, but equally Amazon could just automate all of its warehouses and just get rid of all of the workers too. Then what ?

Why the 'well it sucks and cant be used for anything yet, but we are going to try it' attitude?

That sounds like an accurate assessment of the usefulness of 3D printers. I'm not sure where you see that in the article, though. Maybe you're reading a different article.

Well, I work for a major satellite manufacturer and they sure are intending to use structural (metal) 3D-printed parts...

Which is to say: Its all been subcontracted out.

Thales is responsible for the electrical system. GS Yuasa makes the batteries. There's probably no one left at Boeing Commercial Aircraft that has a handle on what's going on beyond contract management.

I have used Ada professionally. I was working at Thales Alenia Space. I have mostly done software testing, the (satellite) software was in Ada, the tests I wrote were not in Ada (but in a shitty specific language...) but I worked a lot with developers to identify the bugs. I have worked a few months as a developer, where I have directly used Ada. But a lot of the Ada features are disabled on the embedded software for performance. (stuff like range checking and so)

I'm no more at Thales, but I am working in a satellite operator company, and a lot of our spacecraft use Ada. (but I don't see any code in my current job ;-) ) These GEO plateform use Ada: Thales (ex Alcatel) SpaceBus, Astrium Eurostar, Boeing (ex Hugues) 601/702. I'm not sure for the others.

...and linear proton accelerators. Vacuum tubes are still used for particle accelerators.

India's military relationship with the US has not always been very good. For example, when India supported the Bangladeshis during their Liberation War, Nixon's response was to send in a carrier battle group to support Pakistan, despite evidence of genocide by the West Pakistani army. Given India's closeness to the USSR, the US was always somewhat wary of military ties. Operation Smiling Buddha and Operation Shakthi didn't help very much either, but the US rather quickly learned that economic sanctions against India didn't really prove effective and withdrew them in a few years.

The IAF also has a relatively long history of using fighter aircraft and helos of French origin. The French are not shy about sharing technology either, such as the Master AP system that's integrated into India's Ballistic Missle Defence network, or SAGEM's numerous avionics subsystems that are part of the HAL Tejas.

Bottom line, then, is that while I'm sure US support of Pakistan would have had some influence, many other factors (much of it historical) contributed to the final decision.

all is in the title, indeed... capable of working both the normal GSM way and with various levels of encryption...
Various evolutions and models since then, like for instance
http://www.thalesgroup.com/Press_Releases/Markets/Security/2011/Thales_launches_Every_Talk,_the_first_ruggedized_high-speed_smartphone_for_security_forces/?pid=15928

Ah, no: http://www.aerosonde.com/ http://www.thalesgroup.com/

Seeing that a major builder of GPS clients is owned by one of the companies building Galileo I would say you are right about that.