It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Accepting 10 – 15% below the ideal is a luxury the armed forces cannot afford. They face Pakistan to the west, its military capabilities augmented, sometimes fused, by China. On the northern frontier, a PLA that benchmarks itself to the Pentagon.
More of the typical sab chalta hai attitude. 10-15% can be the difference between life and death for a pilot and victory and defeat for the nation.
Accepting 10 – 15% below the ideal is a luxury the armed forces cannot afford. They face Pakistan to the west, its military capabilities augmented, sometimes fused, by China. On the northern frontier, a PLA that benchmarks itself to the Pentagon.