Joe Shearer
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I honestly don't know why the IAF is so opposed to the Tejas, when literally every other air force that observed them in action is impressed with them. Unfortunately, corruption, cronyism, and bureaucracy have taken its toll on the IAF.
Fortunately, the Army, Navy, and Coast guard have been mostly free of these problems.
Not the Army.
Essentially, it is just the Navy and the Coast Guard that set out to build their own decades ago and are getting solid results now. The next step they need to take is to increase capacity (to build) and to increase the rate of production. They are already in a good position on corvettes, frigates and destroyers (good position in the sense that their capacity is being used to the fullest extent, and they are now ready to absorb more output); now they need to inch up to the next level.
There is also some serious thought needed to develop our own weapons systems; we already have good design and development capacity in missiles, now that needs to be streamed towards naval objectives, without sacrificing the interests of other constituencies.
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