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Oh boy. Project Dir (Prithvi) unleashed an all-barrels broadside during the materials seminar.
What NC-NC? Add another NC - No Chance
What NC-NC? Add another NC - No Chance
"If the govt really means it, let them put up the money. And put up a common board to oversee the program."
{meanwhile dry kaveri is going to ciam
but hey 30 years saar yuvaar naat producing yinjin saar}
{meanwhile dry kaveri is going to ciam
but hey 30 years saar yuvaar naat producing yinjin saar}
Just one word to describe it - Aadhangam
In fact @nawegate made the point again that we need a 35-45 ton forge in the country and still don't have it. Critical materials policy was kick-started under late RM Parrikar & still hasn't been implemented. So when people point fingers at gtre for failing to develop an F414
Equivalent engine and use that as an excuse to denigrate the entire defence r&d setup in the country & therefore the scientific/tech capabilities of the country itself you know they are being dishonest. When you don't even setup a forge, a high altitude test facility how will you
Develop a bloody engine? How long has the need of an aircraft to fight test engines existed? Why hasn't nothing been done in that regard? Why hasn't materials research been massively funded? Tons of my friends have done their masters/phd in materials in the US. Why haven't they
Seen the opportunity to come back like some others in other fields have? Pointing fingers is easy. Heck it is a convenient punching bag of an excuse. The real reason when exposed will bring to light what needs to be done. And vested interests never want that. Just like isro has
A capability building office, there needs to be one for defence. Otherwise you'll have teams stuck for 6 months waiting for clearance to fly to Canada to do Glow discharge Mass Spectrometry 
or continue to suffer inadequacy of your armor piercing round inadequacy and import.
or continue to suffer inadequacy of your armor piercing round inadequacy and import.
A start-up that wanted to test some equipment was given the run around to even get the platform on which their system was to be mounted. They got an outdated out of service starten to test out their product. How can you expect indian products and world beating companies with this
Approach.
