can I play the devils advocate here
If the chiniese have developed so much in the relem of aerospace it is because they threw caution to the wind and copied / modified
which has given them the ecosystem to make planes of their own
do you know that the early Russian jets were actually powered by the same RR nane engines that equipped our vampires or the fact that engine was won off in a simple billiards game or that Russians got the know how of the meterials from espenioage that was carried on by the menthod of simply walking in the RR factory with a
sticky soled shoe !
all the Jet tech that the west and Russians have was looted from the defeated germans who were lightyears ahead in jet or fighter technology
India also had this opertunity but we squandered it by playing the Holier of the Holiest in fact the way I see it india had two butiful chances
- we could have made Prof Kurt tank our Jet program incharge and incentived him to bring in more german technical Know How but we didn't we allowed him to close shop after the marut program
- after the colaspe of the USSR we could have again incentivized their technical experts to come and setup shop here in India but again we squadred it
the Basis of the Chinies Combat Jet Program was laid by their serial production of the MiG-21F13 which was later modified as the J7 and exported as the F-7 Skybolt we have also lisince produced the MiG-21P and FP's why didn't we take that route not because we couldn't but we wouldn't because we are the most holiest of all
power and prestige is not give to us on a platter we have earn it
but no we are busy slinging mud on a guy who is trying to change us we have to note that change takes time this is not some T20cricket match people so we should sucjk up and work so that we can beat the chinies at their onw game