Problem is you jokers lack any ability to understand any engineering efforts. CAG calculates the entire proportion of non indian raw material by value/LRU count, assigns it a proportion and then declares it non indigenous, more often the former than the latter. Typical bean counting behavior from accountants who don;t even understand the bare basics of technology.
If a mission computer is made using Intel chips and Hynix memory – both commercially available, then CAG says the computer is “imported”. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence or domain understanding would realize OTOH that ADAs note that its Indian is more accurate since putting those COTS items together into a functioning set up, with a local software program with multiple functions on top of a suitably modified RTOS is a non trivial, uniquely customized task and hence Indian.
CAG which can’t tell a screw from a screwdriver will harp on the “imported chip”, never mind that for every chip in the LCA to be locally produced would require India to set up a fab with a budget dwarfing the LCA ! No country assesses its local contribution the way the dunderheads at CAG and people like you do.
The Litening is trademarked to Rafael, its optics are from Carl Zeiss, its memory modules from Asia, its processors from worldwide suppliers – the entire IPR lies in stitching the entire item together & the imaging processing that makes it a leader. Of course, according to CAG it would be 80% imported.
Further CAG expects that indigenization would magically ensue even when low rate production without even confirmed orders for beyond 40 airframes at the time (and actually 20) would ensure local suppliers would not commit to investing in capex for such low order rates.
The Navy is facing much the same problem with its low build rates & perforce ends up having to import many items despite its relative success in indigenization.
Oh BTW, if you seek to rebut using that hoary, if I run out of missiles I will use my guns & hence STR is important – please don’t even bother. As things stand the CCM chosen for the LCA, the Python-5 with an IIR seeker is practically unjammable until laser based DIRCMs are introduced a decade from now on fighters. In the unlikely situation a LCA pilot sacrifices his long reach, Derby-ERs and then his CCMs his Python-5s, he is best advised to disengage, the same any true delta winged fighter unless he chooses to get into a STR based fight which would be silly. That’s pretty much the same lesson for the 7/7.5G JSF variants or the 7.5G F/A-18 or for that matter even the latest F-XX, because in close gun combat everyone dies at the same rate per multiple studies and an unknown/unseen opponent is often credited with the kill. No wonder then the IAF is insisting on a state of the art weapons fit on the LCA above and beyond what is on any of its fighters including the Su-30. The much vaunted F-22 even has to make do without HMS and Aim-9x, so much for comments about these painstaking integrations being mere add-ons. The LCA team is bending over backwards to accomodate everything the IAF needs. Meawnhile IAF is busy requesting Russia to even fix basic issues with existing items.
http://bharatkarnad.com/2016/01/13/watch-out-for-the-tejas-sakhir/
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Also, as Saurav Jha pointed out few months ago: importance of IP cannot be overstated.
You can take even "70% imported" to 10 on your own time & will.
Think about the hassle we went to installing even a/c in t90ms.
People should understand above brigade officer level there are lot of chutiyas. An officer commanding 5000 men would have only 200 counterparts in IA. So it's only few dozen men at top who need to be 'corrupted'.
Obviously not all are but, it shows you. Even this 8 to 9g thing. Tejas is a sick aircraft, just the video at Aero India Bangalore last year, turns Nri khalistanis into patriots. What more to say?
