PAFAce
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I am sure you need to be enlightened with how much of a scale LCA is a "FOREIGNER" Design! be it the air frame, avionics, engine, radar, armament, AC design are infact 90-99% foreigener made.
LM, Boeing, Sukio, Mig, Dassualt, design their aircraft indeginously and they do not need help. Incase of LCA, yes it is a foreign AC. same with JF-17 which is a Chinese product.
You may be right about the LCA being foreign, but let me clear some things for you. Design and construction are two different things altogether. You can go out and buy batteries, microcontrollers, metal, plastic etc. from the shops and build your own robot. It will be your design, even though you didn't make any of the parts yourself. That is what is meant by indigenous design.
Secondly, Lockheed, Boeing, Sukhoi, MiG, Dassault etc. do not make aircrafts from scratch and completely on their own. They may design it indigenously, but even that is true only if the technology is really new (ex. F-35). If you saw one of ACM Ahmed's interview, he stated that nobody builds aircrafts all on their own anymore. That is not how engineers work. Engineers and inventors are different. An inventor always wants to build new things. An engineer will avoid making something new unless he absolutely has to.