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The point is, Turkey is raking in money despite being on a so-called economic spiral. They have a defence budget of $22 billion and yet are able to fund dozens of modern defence projects with ease using private industry as well as national defence budgets for R&D. This is just the UAV part - I...

Not even close. This is much smaller than the Bayraktar TB-2 which has 2.5x the payload capacity for weapons. The Ukrainian TB-2s were armed with tri-pylons to arm each side with six bombs and missiles that wreaked havoc on Chechen tank columns. Turks are way ahead in the drone game. There is...

Getting predators at this stage is a death blow to our Rustom program. The CCS should have taken cognizance of the latest stages of the Rustom MALE drone development & struck this deal down long ago. India has its own NavIC program, drones in the making + a robust, enthusiastic startup...

Our government also has to be such that they are interested in the defence of the nation. If the population has the power to elect people and cannot distinguish between a battle tank and a water tank, you get a nation like India. Defence is a casualty of this excessive freedom.

Definitely not a good option. They need to invest in rapidly making a domestic alternative. 6 UCAVs would do squat. We need dozens of them in case the stand-off goes into a run-in.

We need something that launches missiles and drops bombs prepared indigenously. Where the hell is Dodo with the Rustom versions?