SinoSoldier
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This looks like a private effort from a smaller company rather than a government-sanctioned program. If India wanted to expedite a capable UCAV, if could've easily funded an armed variant of the BH-201 or Drishti-10.
Aatmanirbhar Bharat. Jai Hind!
Indian Army to stop importing ammunition by the next financial year. Finally! Jai Hind!
LOL! I don't know if India dares to continue exporting ammunition to Ukraine. What would Russia have to say about that?This is actually very good progress. They are not only becoming self-sufficient in ammunition production but are also exporting to Ukraine. This puts them ahead of many NATO states.
It's just geoeconomics and geopolitics. There's no time for morality in great power competition, never had been and never will be.LOL! I don't know if India dares to continue exporting ammunition to Ukraine. What would Russia have to say about that?
But India will have no qualms about exporting ammunition to Israel. Adani is already in a JV with Elbit to produce Hermes 900 drones and then exporting some back to Israel.
Ukraine, Gaza, and Armenia. India has been busy trying to profit from these hotspots. So much for being a "peace-loving country" as Rajnath Singh once said.
There is no Indian shipyard with a basin that fits ships bigger than VikrantJAI HIND! JAI ABSO-FVCKING-LUTELY HIND!
From actual (retired) senior military officials, no less.
Talking big is very easy, especially when the Indian Navy doesn't even have enough AEGIS-equivalent DDGs and FFGs to support the formation of that many CSG/CBGs, let alone the intricate systems required to support the operations of such scale.
The Tejas programme can be put in two phases i.e. 1983- 2008 when problems were allowed to be created & concretized, and the period 2014 onwards when the problems are being rectified but the effort constrained because it is difficult to rectify a mistake once created into hardware [....] the programme can be summarized by imagining a situation where a very experienced group of designers were asked the question: What needs to be done to set back Indian fighter development by decades, wasting money and importantly time so that in the end they HAVE to import? Their recommendation would have been:
1. Shut down the existing design bureau and prevent it from bidding for the new project
2. Set up a new organization with no previous experience.
3. Introduce FBW as a must-have feature and make no effort to develop in parallel that unknown technology on an existing airframe e.g. Hunter or Marut or even in a Biz Jet.
4. Choose the most difficult, most “sensitive” basic configuration to develop: the tail-less FBW controlled Ultra Low Aspect ratio (>2) Delta.
5. To further reduce chances of success, shut out everyone including the customer and his painstaking inputs when designing the prototype.
6. Go in for a 65% (by surface area) use of carbon- carbon composites right at the beginning. Composites are more difficult to effect changes in. It will be remembered there was no carbon- carbon fabrication facility in India at that time. This decision was probably on the basis that one of the sister organizations had built a Rutan Design homebuilt using foam and s- Glass composites.
7. Keep reinforcing failures. The first flight date of April 1990 is missed. Instead of making management changes the then DRDO Leadership strongly supported the failure and its continuity.
8. When the first funds (equivalent to about 70 tons of gold) are run through the programme is massively re-funded.
9. It is only around 2011, when the mistakes have been cast into stone, that the IAF and others are brought in to rectify the mess.
10. Maintain a sustained media campaign to rewrite history about shortage of funds, lack of facilities, state of development of the Indian industry, lack of co-operation from everybody and even the start date of the project. Given the lack of interest and knowledge in aerospace matters it helps to a great extent in distorting responsibilities.