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Effective and decisive leadership matters. Whilst most IDDM projects are held hostage to the same winding babu ladder and red tapism countries like Russia, Turkey, SK etc who have clear targets and threat matrixes just get on with it. it’s 2022 and they only just have the LCA MK.2 CCS sanction...

It's something India is actively working on and the HSTDV has proven much of the elements are in place

+SSN (not to be pedantic but actually it's a big difference from a SSBN and requires plenty of additional capabilities) HGV

Autocorrect on my phone. I typed Erdogan.

Rhetoric. let’s stick to the facts. Without engines a plane is scrap metal.

Development of the Hurjet is ongoing at the same time as the TFX though so it’s not like they are building on expertise but learning as they go- not the best formula for success. I’m sure Turkey will get there as the will is there to the very top but add 6-10 years onto the final timeline IMHO...

HAL isn’t the development agency for LCA or AMCA

Nothing is finalised yet, GoI is talking to both RR and Safran for the 110KN engine JV

It will be fascinating watching the TFX project, personally I have little faith that they will be even close to maintaining their timelines- to date all aerospace projects undertaken by Turkey have had European/US handholding (T129- Agusta Westland, T625- Airbus/CASA, F-16- Lockhead Martin)...