I am aware of all the infos you have mentioned, still I don't find the need for the newer jet. Instead they should have doubled down on developing the existing projects like Tejas MK2 or AMCA both which has been delayed by few yrs or if we wanted to challenge ourselves we should have gone for...
We already have two trainers in development HJT 36 Sitara(Stage 2 trainer) and HTT 40(Stage 1 Trainer). We already have Hawk for Stage 3 and we were already developing Tejas LIFT variant for Stage. Now what is the use of this completely new variant. Why not just improve upon the existing planes...
PDF has much more international members and more or less treat's everyone equally. That's the reason I am here, to get the perspective from different viewpoints, else if everyone is from the same country/region it becomes an eco-chamber.
Nope India should never do that. We did one misadventure in Sri Lanka once, shouldn't repeat again. We should support then with capital and other means, but never try to become like USA to bring democracy. We are too poor a nation to do such misadventures
Its the country's leader or the administration fault that even after knowing projects impracticability they went on to participate in it. China will of course try to secure projects by all means, it up to the administration to accept or deny it!!
I think most countries are under heavy debt because most of these are vanity projects with not much ROI. Countries and China didn't do proper research on the feasibility of the projects and they end up loosing money in the long term. China wanted its massive labor, equipment and money to be...
Both countries will greatly benefit if the waterways become a major source of transportation wherein Bangladesh intermediate transit between North East India and Gangetic Plains/east coastal India. Can't comment about the economic sphere/influence of Bangladesh in future, since it could be other...
Even today Bengal has excellent geographical position as well as educated mass to grow into one of richest states of India. They don't just use it wisely due to various reasons!
That was a bad example. Kerala while has very good social indicators, it is economically "backward" as most of it is based of massive debts. Its major source income is remittances from gulf states and tourism. It dosen't have industrial base or is software hub. All in all Even though it is a...
Unlike UP/Bihar/MP and Rajasthan, Bengal has everything to grow on par with western or southern states. Hell it was one of the richest province for centuries. The only region it stopped growing is because of communism sickness and politics!!
Even our armed forces are ineffiencient and visionless like our bureaucracy, its a well known fact. Else we wouldn't require us to run for emergency purchases whenver any skirmishes happens.
Economically the Southern and Western States are much better that rest of India. The Gangetic plain states(UP, Bihar) are poor. And no there is no segregation between Boys and Girsl in any kind of school be it govt or private nor is there caste segregation among them. Caste becomes an issue when...
Defense budget is same as last year if we take inflation into account. Moreover more than 50% goes to pension, 25% to salaries. Not much for acquisition