Beg, borrow or steal: IAF chief's advice to defence scientists

[nitesh]

The only problem was Army and IAF's top brass. With them always dying for foreign maal, nothing was practically possible in terms of modernization. Look at how IN managed everything far far better than other two forces and came out as the leading icon in our tri-services. Army is still the worst in that terms. IAF is now getting worse in that sense.

Wish Naik had continued as ACM for one more term.

Well Tshering, things change, although not at the speed as we wish. From Maik's sir time IAF has become appreciative of home grown system. IA will take time as the organization inertia is more. What we need to understand is that in R&D we can not deal in absolute terms. Institutions are not perfect, we only can make it better, step by step

 

[ace009]

Indian R&D needs to come of age. In India everyone has the mentality of "Jugaad" - which is helpful in crisis situations, but you cannot run a country on crisis mode all the time. Well defined process and protocols create quality and quality products are needed. Process will beat Jugaad any time, which is why in 60 years India still cannot make a quality tank or aircraft engine while the Israelis are doing better than India - they have better process. For such a small country, they pack an enormous punch - because they believe in quality, derived from actual processes.

In India "process" means bureaucracy and mindless paperwork - not scientific or engineering process - unfortunately.