Ok now coming to the continuous crying of Pakistanis & many people like you who point out to Tejas & India’s failure. Fighter jets, battle tanks, Jet Engines need timely servicing & spare part replacement.
The Indian armed forces is one of the most corrupt establishment. The problem is due to patriotic reasons, nobody will question the corruption in these establishments. Tejas was successful & ready 2 decades ago.
Did you Know - Global meetings between scientists were forbidden (to Indian scientists), commercial and committed orders were cancelled and professors from our academies were denied visas to attend scientific conferences and political pressures were applied to cancel the projects and programmes.”
Post the 1974 Nuclear test & just after experiencing severe losses from the 1965 & 71 war due to Pakistan's procession of superior fighters & the west not willing to deliver spares or engine, India was very weak & in a panicky situation if China attacked.
In 1983, IAF realised the need for an Indian combat aircraft to replace the Mig 21. In 1984, the Indian government chose to establish the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) to manage the LCA programme. The IAF's Air Staff Requirement for the LCA were not finalised until October 1985. Everything was moving in a very confused delaying pace. However, it also gave the ADA time to better marshal national R&D and industrial resources, recruit personnel, create infrastructure, and to gain a clearer perspective of which advanced technologies could be developed locally and which would need to be imported.
A review committee was formed in May 1989, which reported that infrastructure, facilities and technologies in India had advanced sufficiently in most areas and that the project could be undertaken. Only in 1990, the design was finalised as a small tailless delta winged machine with relaxed static stability (RSS) and control-configuration for enhanced maneuverability. This is also the time India's internal insurgency problems started to gain pace from Khalistan, Maoists, Naxalites, North East, LTTE, etc. To make matter worse in 1991 India faced economic crisis with Balance of payment issues & Soviet Union collapsed.
Between 1996 and 1997, CABS converted the surviving HAL/HS-748M Airborne Surveillance Post (ASP) into a testbed for the LCA's avionics and radar. In 1998 we again face sanctions for critical part imports due to our second nuclear test which again delayed the first flight. The NAL's CLAW team completed integration of the flight control laws by themselves, with the FCS software performing flawlessly for over 50 hours of pilot testing on TD-1, resulting in the aircraft being cleared for flight in January 2001. The automatic flight control system (AFCS) has been praised by all test pilots, one of whom remarked that he found the LCA easier to take off in than in a Mirage 2000. This alarmed the west especially the Russians seeing the sudden progress & increasing pace in the Tejas induction. The Russian friendship which bloomed after the 1971 for their support in BD war made Indians succumb to accept all the terms & conny arrangements of Russians. This is when the exploitation of politicians & Military officials was started by Russia & the west.
Inspite of all the obstacles & hiccups In March 2005, the IAF placed an order for 20 aircraft, with a similar purchase of another 20 aircraft to follow. All 40 were to be equipped with the F404-GE-IN20 engine. In December 2006, a 14-member "LCA Induction Team" was formed at Bangalore to prepare the Tejas for service and assist with its induction into service. But the rejections from the Armed forces started to stall all the progress made by Tejas. With the economy in boom & the Russians who had become so dependent on our money, they had no choice but to buy out all our Military top officials to stop the FOC of Tejas. They even pointed out the faults for the officials to reject. The top officials also got so used to getting kickbacks & huge commissions for pushing deals through, the whole west started exploiting this weakness for all other products imported just to the utter helplessness of HAL/ ADA/ DRDO & even the Gov.t. Russia was taking undue advantage of our loyalty & faithfulness for its selfishness & even blackmailing of selling fighters & arms to Pakistan. Losing Russian friendship kept our previous Gov.t's to stay with Russia.
After Narendra Modi took over as PM, he is trying to put a clamp on all these illegal practices, though it's not easy to get the whole Military under the full control & observation of the Gov.t. He has even took the bold decision of moving away from total Russia's dependency. If not for all these corruption & obstacles, we should not only have completed Tejas deployment but also developed the Tejas MK2 & exporting it by now. Infact we would have developed the AMCA & doing the final tests to clear it for production. Better late than never.
“Wherever we have worked without the option of import --- be it on strategic missiles, nuclear weapons, atomic energy or the space programme --- we have achieved self-reliance. In the super-secret world of electronic warfare, where import is not an option, we have built world-class systems. We should ourselves ban imports, and we will indigenise. Necessity is the mother of invention.”
India is far ahead in Missile technology & will be 100% self sufficient in every part of Missile technology by 2020. India just had a break through in complex seeker technology of Missile.
India produces the world’s best engineers, doctors and innovators, but the problem was the opportunities available here. For instance the number of jobless engineers in India is more than the total population of Sweden. This is the reason most people migrate & the other reason is definitely greener pastures & fatter pay packages, where we lose our best brains.
India produces the 4th highest number of PhD graduates every year.
India is ranked 6th among countries producing most engineers every year, even above China.
Space
Indian space research (ISRO) is the 3rd best in the world.
ISRO unbelievably launched a rocket with 104 satellites on it, highest in the world, While China’s record on this is only 20.
India is the 4th country to put its flag on Moon
India is the 6th country to have it’s own GPS Regional Navigation system
India is ranked 6th among countries with most Military satellites
India is only nation to reach Mars orbit on its 1st attempt. Even China & Japan failed
The IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) system is the largest constellation of remote sensing satellites for civilian use in operation today in the world, with 11 operational satellites.
Pharma
India is the top destination for medical tourism for all high-end surgeries.
India is world's 2nd largest exporter of herbal medicines in the world
India is the largest provider of generic drugs globally with the Indian generics accounting for 20 per cent of global exports in terms of volume.
Automobile –
India is the 4th largest two wheeler exporter in the world.
India is the 5th largest car manufacturer in the world
India in 2015 exported $15.4 Billion worth goods compared to China’s $12.5 Billion despite China producing six times more cars than India.
1. India is going to have the world's 1st advanced thorium nuclear reactor soon. India's nuclear scientists have completed an experimental fast breeder nuclear reactor in Kalpakkam. Our brilliant scientists made use of Thorium instead of Uranium (Uranium 238) as fuel and surprised the whole world. India Leads The World In Thorium Research.
2. India is ranked 4th on our list of 8 countries that produce the most wind energy in the world.
3. World's largest solar plant & park is in India.
4. Worlds largest recycling system of waste materials is in India.
5. India is the world's premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India.
6. India ranks 2nd with top Start-ups worldwide behind US.
7. World's 2nd biggest dam is in India.
