Dash
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I dont want to discuss these two here but 25 years in development of a plane, by the time mk2 comes out its going to be 35 years since the the plane was started. Hence, the platform will already be obsolete.
same goes for arjun.
In the field of defense, i don't think nations the have time and precious taxpayers money JUST TO LEARN LESSONS specially when they have enemies sitting on two of their borders. The government is wasting money on learning lessons while half of your population is dying of hunger? would you call that moral? how many other countries have spent so much time learning just lessons?
Hi Wali87 -
When you look at things related to defense research in India, you are correct in saying that LCA and Arjun took decades to meterialize. However i will not talk about teh real time taken by the LCA and Arjun as facts are given in net and it will be off topic if we start discusing the "ACTUAL" timelines of these machines.
In the field of defense, i don't think nations the have time and precious taxpayers money JUST TO LEARN LESSONS specially when they have enemies sitting on two of their borders.
if you wont use Tax payers money then whose money you will use anyway?...
Its not about tax payers money or the enemy sitting at the borders, we were always capable of nutralizing the enemy and everybody knows that there was no full scale war happening.
Do you iknow that total LCA developement costs only 600 million?, and it was taxpayers money. Buying 126 multirole advanced fighter will cost around 50-60 billion if we take life time maintainance and weapons etc into considerations. And That is also Tax payers money
So which one will you prefer?
US, Russia, Israel can give us weapons of our choice for sure. and you would not be surprized to know that :-
"This is the only reason we invest so much in so called learning lessons, Because for the very reason that we know that we can buy anything we want, anytime!!!
and we thank Russia, Israel and even you in US for giving us the peace of mind