Very Simple, to charge the Jingos like US. Enjoy!!!!!
And who told you that each and every projects are announced in development phase? Who knows there may be lots of secret projects may be going on like K15.
Every conventional platform is always mentioned. Sudarshan, this, Arjun, Tejas, and dozens of others are mentioned by our PSUs when the project is nowhere near completion.
Which product of these strategic platforms is inducted to completion and en masse, so far you tell me?
-Arjun still in limbo with Army citing stupid reasons,
-Tejas is desperate to come out,
-Arihant is still only in the headlines,
-Vikrant II is still 4 years away,
-AMCA is frozen,
-LCH is still a year away despite 3 years in the making and testing.
-Astra is still not inducted.
-Nirbhay is still not inducted.
-License-built Scorpenes are still not even started, forget half way in India.
-NAL Saras is frozen, which was supposed to replace Dorniers. Instead we had to renew our license agreement for newer version of Dornier with Germans.
-Rafale license building facility has not even made it to the headlines as the deal is still in 'negotiations', while young IAF pilots are dying in 50 year old jets.
- HTT-40 has got a nod only now.
- IJT-36 Sitara is nowhere to be seen despite having been supposed to be inducted in IAF last year.
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Anything that we have wasted so much bandwidth on, of any value been inducted other than some nuke capable missiles?