Bilal Khan (Quwa)
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To even 'take' and 'improve' upon a NGFA, you still need experts and capacity to take on that work. This lack of capacity is a huge reason why we don't see Pakistan simply pick-up projects from abroad (e.g., South Africa, Ukraine, etc) and improve them, and why we always end up with off-the-shelf solutions.What are some of the main issues those individuals pointed out working on the Azm Project? If this project is ground up and running into hurdles can't they just take the FC-31 V2 and improve upon it?
Basically, we're now feeling the burn up our rears for not investing enough in R&D for the past 30-40 years. We've been too poor to negotiate for offsets, and too corrupt (leadership wise) to work on the economy. It's all coming back full circle.
@JamD though the IAF has given shade to HAL, we have to credit India's decision makers for at least putting up with HAL and DRDO for so long. If not for that tolerance (read: vision), then HAL wouldn't have developed all that R&D capacity it has today.
The teething problems were going to come, no way would PAC avoid it. But as long as AHQ maintains seriousness, and gives PAC both the time and 'reasonable discipline' (not gutting them, but not being oblivious either), PAC can get there.
It can go either way. It looks like the PA gave up on HIT and POF, but the PN didn't give up on MTC and NRDI. So, let's hope that something at AHQ and PAC turns around, though let's keep our expectations low and not hold our breath.
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