sancho
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Invest $10 Billion in DRDO+ADA+M&M+TATA Joint venture over next 6 years, for making transport aircraft which can carry atleast 40 tons payload.
MTA as a joint development, with huge commonality to IL 76 is said to be ready only by 2015, so how on earth should we develop an transport aircraft from the scratch in the heavy class, in just 6 year?
Besides that $10 billions? Are you aware that we could buy at least 50 x C17, or even 200 x IL 76 for that money? But the need of such heavy aircrafts are maybe only around 30 aircrafts.
India won't get anything by begging to Russia or USA. You will get it when you start doing yourself.
Where do you see us begging for anything? Actually they are offering us anything, even without us asking for it!
LCA is the perfect example of what happen when we do it on our own without experience, or knowledge, but if we use co-developments instead, we get these, faster induction and more export chances. Co-developments are a huge chance for our industry to improve in those fields, where we can't offer comparable techs, that's why co-developments, especially with western countries would be great for us!
This co-development with Ukraine would not be a good idea, because we already went with the Russians for a replacement of Hawker Siddeleys and AN 32 and there is only a need for some few lighter aircrafts between MTA and Saras. Why should we invest that much money into it then? Also the export chances are not that good anyway, because the west has the Airbus C 235, C-295, or the Alenia C-27J and even the Russians will field the Ilyushin Il-112 in this field below C 130 and MTA.
Who should buy it if Europeans, Americans (C-27J has high commonality to C130) and the Russians have alternatives?
Also why not simply convert NALs RTA into a transport varient, that fits between Saras and C130/MTA?