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This is a good example of ‘sequential improvement project management’. A project in which all players have a buy in towards the success of the project. Hence they have approx 7 squadrons op and a healthy rate of production. Contrast this with our Tejas where the players have no https://twitter.com/atul1617_/status/1281861168030572544
Buy in. If the project fails so be it , no sweat off my back, I will import. There is no joint accountability. Even now In Tejas IAF buy in is peripheral, with changing goalposts they are always planning to actually buy the next model which is still on the drawing bd.
Also known as ‘ somehow putting it off’. Aka with IA and it’s handling of MBT Arjun project. Never heard of any army in armour production history asking for reduction in weight of a designed and proven tank. We are the first. Just like the first ones to ask for a multi cal
Rifle. Going indigenous has to be joint responsibility. Look at running helter skelter to buy arms once the Chinese came knocking. These are simple systems that our industry can very well produce. It req we can collaborate for tech with other countries. Our dependence on imports
is adversely affecting our national security and we cannot take on a class 1 adversary based on imports of basic weaponry. We will fight better with swords cast in our own foundries, and not bank on the foreign sword Maker. The Indian Khanda has the cutting power have faith.
