In episode 661 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta looked at India's recent Rs 48,000-crore Tejas deal and also delved into the IAF's misadventures with indigenous fighter aircraft.
New aircraft comes with 4 major capability enhancements — mid-air refuelling, Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar, Electronic Warfare suite & Beyond Visual Range missile.
The defence ministry said procurement of the Mk1A version of Tejas aircraft, to be manufactured by HAL, will be a major boost to the 'Make in India' campaign.
In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.
If we can be so successful in space technology, which needs expertise in so many different fields, why have we not been equally successful in technologies to build various defense requirements?
The obvious reason is it was not allowed and encouraged, even today we are not out of that mind set when we continue to quote chequered history of indigenization. Remind it we must but push for it as well.
All this happened because it was possible to buy that with hefty commissions unlike the space and nuclear technology . That reminder is more important than the chequered history of indigenization
How come since 2014 the DRDO and Indian private sector has suddenly become active? So many new products and almost a daily test of new missiles, they were not developed over-night, but just not allowed to surface because of the entrenched vested interests.
It is a well researched presentation both here and on the Youtube. Can you explain why India is unable to come up with rapid design and development of combat aircrafts, when in the West, even private companies seem to have the capability to manufacture combat aircrafts, and they do so quite rapidly. They don’t take 38 years to develop one combat aircraft. Apart from the problem of technology denial, there must be scores of problems prevailing in HAL, NAL, Aeronautica Development Agency, Gas Turbine Research Institute, IAF, not to speak of Aeronautics Departments in dozen IITs and IISC in Bengaluru.
Why is the cut the clutter being removed from youtube?
If the Tejas uses a General Electric engine, it gets my guarded vote.
If we can be so successful in space technology, which needs expertise in so many different fields, why have we not been equally successful in technologies to build various defense requirements?
The obvious reason is it was not allowed and encouraged, even today we are not out of that mind set when we continue to quote chequered history of indigenization. Remind it we must but push for it as well.
All this happened because it was possible to buy that with hefty commissions unlike the space and nuclear technology . That reminder is more important than the chequered history of indigenization
How come since 2014 the DRDO and Indian private sector has suddenly become active? So many new products and almost a daily test of new missiles, they were not developed over-night, but just not allowed to surface because of the entrenched vested interests.
It is a well researched presentation both here and on the Youtube. Can you explain why India is unable to come up with rapid design and development of combat aircrafts, when in the West, even private companies seem to have the capability to manufacture combat aircrafts, and they do so quite rapidly. They don’t take 38 years to develop one combat aircraft. Apart from the problem of technology denial, there must be scores of problems prevailing in HAL, NAL, Aeronautica Development Agency, Gas Turbine Research Institute, IAF, not to speak of Aeronautics Departments in dozen IITs and IISC in Bengaluru.