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Lethe said:

Welcome to the board. Unfortunately, discussions about India on SDF tend to be squeezed between widespread mockery and even racialised hatred on the one hand, and the occasional delusional defense of the indefensible on the other. Some of us try to comment and reflect on the many serious problems within India's defence-industrial apparatus in a non-prejudicial manner, but it's a narrow path that tends not to satisfy either side. SDF on India is not SDF at its best, I guess is what I'm saying. Good luck!

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Thanks so much for the warm welcome and for your balanced perspective. I really appreciate your honesty that it was difficult to discuss India on this forum. I would say that it's uplifting to see people like you striving for a more nuanced and respectful approach amidst such extremes. I fully agree with you, that only respectful, fact-based discussions can enlighten the complexities of any country's challenges in terms of its defense and industries. Although sometimes(consider it to be 90% for me) tricky to handle the atmosphere at SDF, I do hope, with good participative sense, we could do something toward developing a better and constructive debate. Thanks again for your thoughtfulness and perception, I am glad to meet and discuss topics i am interested in with people like you.

A lot of the threads outside of the big ones (J-20, J-36, Type 003, etc..) suffer from this problem. Users joke and flame US/India/Taiwan and so on. SDF has it's own obvious biases and it's shown most in these outer threads.

It's a time issue for India. I'm personally optimistic and won't look down on India and programs like the AMCA because it's a matter of survival. If the country cannot get projects like that across the finish line, it's a negative signal about the country as a whole not just it's MIC.