Sir, I had pointed this out in early 2010s when everyone was fawning over the Indian Navy as some paragon of desi development. The entire nlca drama was a fiasco that that was nonchalantly discarded by a few words in the press by the chief, ex chief and random experts.Now this is an issue Prem that you can squarely blame on the service itself. This tit-for-tat exchange is indeed what is going on.....
If anybody was serious about anything local, and this includes the ADA, they should've come out with a twin engine design based on lca mk1 to manage Navy and mrca needs. Circa 2008. This is how the Russians, the Chinese and even the French/brits did it. When you can't build powerful engines, build platforms that use two engines and continue to develop your baseline engines. But for God's sake, get it into production.
When something as obvious as this possibility is missed, it becomes clear that no one is actually serious. Better to just stop screwing ourselves and buy vanilla phoren products at decent prices instead of doing 30 year tamasha that cost tax payers massive amounts and puts the nations security at risk.
At least it buys India more leverage strategically. self reliance can be built around strategic arsenal...
Statistics: Posted by Cain Marko — 19 Sep 2024 04:06