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  1. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    Kirloskar diesel engines are smaller engines. India currently makes Steam Turbine engine in BHEL, Gas Turbine engine of 12MW from Kaveri and small diesel engines of 500KW-3MW from Kirloskar. The higher rated engines of 5MW-10MW does not exist in India. Lack of orders is not correct as these...
  2. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    Unless it is manufactured in India, the engine is still an import. Assembly is not good enough. Can't DRDO reverse engineer a Diesel engine and get India its o2n indigenous engine?
  3. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    War is all about making sacrifice. I don't think there needs to be a rule for sacrifice. The problem comes generally in this part itself. But under extreme times, that becomes non issue
  4. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    Tonbo imaging does an excellent job. But I would not say that DRDO won't be able to replicate that with heavy government funding. Nevertheless, TONBO is an exception of the latest generation people. Older generation people ruled companies don't take much risk. The lead time nowadays are...
  5. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    We already have lot of technology to mine and other heavy machinery. India even has been exporting heavy machines lately. India will also need one most important thing- Coal Liquefaction Unit to substitute petroleum imports. This is a WW2 technology (Hitler used it as Germany oil supply was cut)...
  6. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    Actually, you are not getting my point - India needs technology to manufacture defence items. The technology is everything, not scale. If you have technology to make 10 items per day, then that can be expanded to make 1000 items per day by setting up more plants. What is crucial is technology...
  7. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    I don't think you understand how MIC works. Russian MIC or Chinese MIC is fully government owned. Similarly, there is no need for private companies in India either, Private companies in India are only for improving efficiency and not part of development. Development will be done mostly by DRDO...
  8. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    What is leap engine? Can you explain?
  9. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    No research can be perform or perish. Research is a non profit activity and is highly speculative and based on chance. No private companies have ever made any big research and development in defence on their own money. Making medicine and drugs is one thing while making arms is another. Also...
  10. Kshithij

    Indian defence industry exports watch

    We don't import 70%. We import 50% as of now and that is going to go down severely by 2025. We import heavily because of traitorous people in the politics funded by foreign government which has now been taken care of. Our scientists have developed a lot of things against all odds and severe...
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