India is progressing by all leap and bounds and so does our tejas, India's sole home grown fighter plane on which we are working for so many years. Some calls it our pride, some calls it pure crab, other calls it our future, some call it dead, but whatever you call it, Tejas will always remain very close to the heart of every Indian defence enthusiast who only start his day by praying for its own Fighter.
Tejas is a very big moral booster not only for Indian but even for it prime enemy "Pakistan", shocked... just go to any defence forum of pakistan, the moment you mention LCA , they get full energised, they take its delay as a excuse to convince themselves about the incapability's of its big neighbour. For them India is a shit country that cannot create anything except some call center executives. For them India is just a bubble of over hype created by Indians only. Whereas for India the response is a mixed one, some call it a pure waste of Tax payer money because they personally believe India can't make such a niche technology by its own, they just forget that somebody has to start at some point to be able to make it possible. Some think we can make it but surely it will take time due to sophisticated technology involved which are further severed by Indian Political intervention.
But really looking at the strategic level its a must and a well rewarding beginning for the future super power in the making. Experts truly believe, Tejas has opened all shortfalls and negatives in the Indian Legacy system of R&d projects of government. Though the project is delayed but it has helped India to push it out of the bound of old management style of handling complex and technology niche projects. Now the Government talks of Time lines, quality, within budget and all those jargon's which were alien in the past. and this is called a mark shift in the approach. I am my self always being a technology person and have worked on various complex projects and i truly believed every thing is achieve able just require a right approach and a will to do it. Many of us just get afraid of thinking about Americans bombs and missile and use to think we can never be like them but see now even china with a development phase of two decade has reached to the level of challenging US. Though every body know china will never succeed, reason is simple, they are going all alone against the world with just a glimpse of success. Just by testing few bombs and missile , they are wondering they can easily take on the world. Just have you ever seen how they treat India in defence as if we don't exist or we are like a small country like Nigeria or Syria which will finish in a day of invasion. But strategically speaking , India is more power full reason being able to have a friendly relation with all major countries and its success in able to project itself as a counter to china . But the time will tell whether china achieve anything out of this ferocious and insane madness of strength showing. But i strongly believe , china will never be able to be make itself as a leader of the world like the USA because of there 3rd class attitude towards other.
See India has not become the 2nd contender of "super power" tittle without any reason , after the nuclear test of 1998 , under the sanction of the world which mainly aimed at containing India by stoping all cooperative programs and that also include LCA . Lockheed Martin , the maker of F-22 Raptor and F-16 was jointly doing the testing of the air frame for lca with India completely dependent on there modesty to share the know how. But after sanction every thing was stopped. the engineers working there in USA were paraded outside the LM complex and all there equipments and designs were seized by there Government. But then one person, dont want to name him, pledged that we will do it on our own . We didn't have the infrastructure to do the basic test or even the development but the will of that person made all odds in too India's favour. We developed the whole infrastructure , all tools and kits. What you see US and Russian plane taking flight so easily is not just one manufacturing marvel, its just a product of their being in the field for 80 years. For instance US has 65 years of ( infrastructure + Tools+ testing facility+ domain knowledge and experience ). they now just have to repackage with some more R&d and modification to bring out a new niche product and you know what , in the last 2 decades we were leveling that gap. Now what you people see today is only the delays of 20 years but you don't see now we have ( infrastructure+tools + testing facility along with most important thing experience people). The world have realised that India can do on its own. Just see the attitude change of the foreign defence firms , they are now ready to partner also along with sharing of technology. Those who believe that just because of money India have, these company are ready to partner, they are wrong. There are many countries which have money like Arabs, UAE, Australia , these companies are ready to provide them weapons but know how of there development secrets - never. Today Boeing and LM are fighting with there US government bosses to allow them to go for full technology transfer for there 126 MMRCA contract with the reason that if they don't provide it also then anyway they will be able to develop them by themselves. See this is more like a report card of India's achievement for there efforts to go indigenous.
Isn't you also feel that LCA is also among various reason that has paid us in many other forms to make India a new rising star. Please comment on what you think about it. Jai Hind
From
Prashant Singhal
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