Japan is bound by constitution not to export military hardware anywhere, hence previously US-2 deal was stuck on these conditions. Japan has not modified any part of its constitution , hence this news could be glorious ‘fake news’.
This has been kept on hold by India instead of Japan. So there is technically no objection on behalf of Japan if deal goes through.
Well!! that would come into effect I guess..
I'm tired of these ridiculous headlines. How will we become an aviation hub by manufacturing 12 niche aircrafts??
HAL tried after Marut. There were several, several designs they wanted to produce, but MIG21 route was taken killing anything Marut gained. You should see some of the designs they wanted to produce then.
I once heard an interview in Malayalam of former ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair, about how they developed a ecosystem of suppliers of critical engineering solutions for the launch systems. Many of these suppliers, both private and PSU, were not even interested in making the key engineering and technological leap, but ISRO's perseverance by providing them design, training their personnel on key machining skills, training their mgmt in quality control, all eventually paid off. HAL could take a leaf out of ISRO's vast experience and profit from it.
Maybe they will do it internally, or maybe it's the private sector that will force that change, we'll see. But HAL trajectory is going up, not down. That's my opinion.
All Mahindra and Tata will get is to assemble parts of foreign fighter jets it will give them business not expertise. And if we instead put our money on domestic jets lca mwf AMCA we can outsource manufacturing to private sector providing them both business and real manufacturing experience.
No probs with Japs. They are genuine people and have transferred tech actually from metro rails and doing same for bullet train. I love Japs!
I agree with @IndianHawk . Making an engine manufacturing unit for just 6 planes appear to be ridiculous. Moreover, India already has made 14 seater plane and is progressing on 19 seater ones. India has no real need for 19 seater ones from Japan. India is aiming for 70-100 seater plane which can be doubled as cargo plane. Why would Japan propose a 19 seater plane? What purpose can such a small plane serve in terms of strategic needs?
No, it is Japanese reluctannce. @Hari Sud is correct here. Japanese Constitution, made under USA pressure after WW2, prohibits Japan from exporting arms
They are opportunities to make money without doing any meaningful work and without taking any risk. It is privatising the profits by socialising the costs. Government will pay entire money for building infrastructure and factory while all profit will go to private sector.
The context of it all is our limited defense spending. Any foreign fighter deal will cost upwards 20billion USD !
I am confident most of these private sector companies will quickly go up the supply chain into producing DRDO IP/Lead integration work, into producing their own designs/IP. As far as having them produce Indian works, HAL is still sucking up all the lead integration works anyway, so let them produce F21s,Gripens,Airbus cargos, etc. HAL is taking all the main works as of now.
19 seater planes don't have much demand. It is used in limited numbers as chartered planes. No country will eagerly buy Indian 19 seater plane just like that. There is limited use for it for any country in the world, not just India
At present level of technology we are not really far behind of Saab. LM is in different league but then their products are sanctions prone. Dassault is already here with reliance.
