HAL has bunch of Candelabras in need of candles, there is one sitting in the dirt in advanced airbase, Sir your suggestion takes the thriftiness cake.
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Excellent thread on how IAF ended up where it is today:
One of the handful of decent Indian military commentators. Pravin Swahney is another.
One of the handful of decent Indian military commentators. Pravin Swahney is another.
Man that’s truly refreshing to see from Indian commentators.
If only they actually done the work for the core components, instead of effing around with the Kaveri, as well as leverage their knowledge base in pro-semabling and operating Russian engines, we might have had more to talk about on this thread.
They gonna skip a generation now?
If the Indians join the project. With Seedance 2.0, I am sure the new concept video will be cinematic. The PPTs will become very colourful and they will have excel spreadsheets with more stats sheets than a 10 years long ongoing DnD game.
Honestly we should hire Indian engineers from HAL to get together a new table top game, it will probably have a better chance of actually be launch into production.
Yes for sure ... likely just some wet-gras!
Looks like the tweet has been deleted. Did anyone saved it by any chance?
It was a fairly long thread that boiled down to the poster lambasting the short-sightedness of the last few decades of Indian military procurement. He observed that skilled personnel cannot be retained without continual contracts, and so the choice to abandon projects that didn't immediately deliver to expectations in favor of foreign products whose supply could be considered unreliable at best (he used the F414 fiasco as an example) led to hamstringing of Indian domesticization efforts and a dearth of qualified engineering and manufacturing talent, making it very difficult to start any new efforts.
Neglecting domestically developed projects, especially engines, relying on foreign fighter, depending on GE for all domestic fighter jet projects, leading to being blackmailed by the United States, are all old refrains.