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What kind of environment ? How is it different from the environment that other IAF aircrafts fly in ?

That's exactly what I meant. IAF or HAL needs no certificates of character (here, competency) from someone representing a foreign aviation company. What bothers me is the Jaguar crash rate...AFAIK, it is as bad as the Mig's, right ? What causes are attributed to it ? Good old "Human Error" ...

Was it Dassault chief himself who expressed his reservations on the air that he does not trust the HAL's tooling & machining facilities to be able to integrate/assemble Rafale within the set timelines ? I think we should take such admiration/condemnation with a pinch of salt because these guys...

Well, not the Mig's alone. Despite the maintenance-intensive engine & smoke-trail issues, Mig 29's crash-rate is substantially lower than the rest (only Mirage2K better its). It is a separate matter, than Mig29's availability (& sortie-generation rate) is constrained from time to time due to...

Sir, if you remember, in an IAF thread you posted that T-90 is lot more indigenous components that Arjun & similarly MKI is lot more indigenous than LCA. Here, you are saying that LCA & Arjun as over 70% indigenous. By that logic, T-90 & MKI should be 80% - 100% indigenous (& we know for a...

So, Air Marshal Goel is quite true in the sense that the Mirage-2000H fleet have experienced somewhat lower accident rate when compared to the rest, so HAL should take some part of the blame for doing less than what is needed.

Sir, I did not get this completely. I am reasonably ok with Sanskrit. So, could you please elaborate on this ? This sounds quite interesting. Any details available anywhere ?

You have simply nailed it, Sir. For good. Even if IN sources foreign subsystems for its platforms, at least it makes an effort to indigenous & on top of that, it has been pretty successful in that endeavor. In that respect, IN is the best among the three arms.

So, history is only repeating itself in case of LCA...

The Indian story is one of if's & but's. A nation of infinite possibilities but :-)

So, this implies that everyone is equally culpable for state of affairs but our successive govt. are primarily at fault. By this logic, it is us, people of India, who have inexorably failed themselves with a remarkable consistency (by electing incompetent parliamentarians), since independence...

Is it that IAF leadership (& IA, as well, in most cases) does not know about the basics of project-management (like, having something called "freezing of requirements"), which sounds quite improbable. The other possibility is that they consider themselves to be somehow entitled to loot the...

Sir, this sounds very convincing & makes sense. However, not being an insider & relying on filtered reports/viewpoints has kept me completely confused regarding our indigenization efforts. Indicting Armed forces leadership as bribe-hungry folks in all discussions & omnipresent sweeping...

You have a point..

But Sir, the MMRCA requirement & evaluation was a genuine one, right ? HAL could not have offered the platform with capabilities that IAF needs, in a reasonable timeframe...