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May want to come up with some original sarcasm...what you state has been stated by many other visiting Indians...on a related note, if you can't post anything of substance then better not post or else get used to edits. Sarcasm only goes so far.
Biggest cost to manufacture any thing is a labor cost one of the reason most Western aircrafts is expensive cause average worker in defense manufacturing makes $30/hour plus benefits that adds up to $50/hr so when you purchase that jet you have to pay for it in JF_17 case we are not paying that kind of money so the cost is lot less then Western air craft.=trueindian;140053]Seriously JF17 is a good fighter plane.
and what can one buy for so less money?
i hope Army is not getting 10% commission from china..
Yours is bigger then ours country that is get your head out of gutter.India is spending 22 billion $ on defense.
pakistan should also spend 10 billion
Biggest cost to manufacture any thing is a labor cost one of the reason most Western aircrafts is expensive cause average worker in defense manufacturing makes $30/hour plus benefits that adds up to $50/hr so when you purchase that jet you have to pay for it in JF_17 case we are not paying that kind of money so the cost is lot less then Western air craft.
just as most software companies hire Indian programmers over there Western counter parts as in west programmers pay starts at $75000/yr and up compare to Indians doing it for $12000/yr are you telling me Indians suck thats why they are doing it for less.
How many failed projects by DRDO who was taking commission on that i bet ya it was lot more then 10% as they have nothing to show for.
Yours is bigger then ours country that is get your head out of gutter.
Most of our scientist don't have the option to fail so they actually produce results.in that case we can produce it for lot cheaper then buying so if we were to spend billion compare to buying from west for 5 we will have the same results.
Hi,
PAF knows that it has a limited amount of money to spend on the JF 17. But what it gains in the acquisition of the F 17 is way beyond what IAF could get in the purchase of a foreign aircraft.
IAF will have to learn a new technology if it choses to buy american or european planes. Learning a new technology from scratch is not an easy thing. The indians will have to turn their heads 180*---and the biggest problem they will face will that be of a 'MENTAL BLOCK' in understanding and accepting different technological setups.
The brain is a fascinating thing---it does not like change---it likes to do things the easy way---it likes the things to be done the way they were done---it has a tendency to intentionally damage something new which is not fixed the way the old thing was fixed. The learning curve would be the biggest problems that the IAF is going to face. Once they get over it, that will be their starting point.
PAF on the other hand, is partners in manufacturing this plane---which means that they are way ahead in accepting and maintaining this plane in their ranks as compared to IAF.
The very moment the plane is going through the production line, the builders and technicians are being trained to manufacture the bird and keep it in uptodate flying condition. So, for PAF, for all practical purposes this is a locally assembled plane---they have been involved since day one.
Another important factor is the price tag of the fighter---@ 30 to 35 million for the most well equipped sample---a great great price as compared to 80---100 million for the upcoming indian birds per piece. The IAF will get a great plane for that money, no doubt about it, no second thought about it---but PAF can buy two to three to one---also with the present day technology---bigger is not neccessarily better---it is always what comes alongwith the total package and total air combat support group---technology has been the greatest equalizer of the 20th century---where small can compete with the big on close to equal basis.
just a quick point...most aircraft manufacture is not automated. parts yes. actual building is done by humans.
Malang--pakistani scientists do fail---they are not perfect---but they fail less often---