Azaad
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Did you even read what I've written or the various links I've attached or am I wasting my time here especially after you insisted that I stated the Mk-2 is flying only to shift goalposts now ? The project director of the Saras program is on record saying the shopfloor drawings would be completed in a year's time after which it'd be time to assemble the various components required to build a prototype.When did I say they must run for funds before cdr
I said they make themselves jokers by giving timelines which they have never achieved
It might be their own fault or govt or any institutions fault point is they have failed and they are responsible
Saras mk2 and RTA funding is not provided till prototype it's provided till cdr post cdr they will receive funds for prototype
Now I don't know who is speaking about clarity
And which specifically aircraft are u speaking whose cdr us completed even for saras mk2 it's timeline is end of 2023
They haven't completed cdr of neither mk2 nor RTA
Especially RTA is at very nascent stage although being officially planned since 2000s
There is no point to bring Russia or Soviet Union as we lost time or trust blah blah
These guys were believing Russians for RTA in 2000s shows their seriousness
Point is they haven't completed saras mk1 successfully neither received 15 nos order nor 140 anticipated nos
Mk2 haven't completed cdr so no prototype building until then
RTA both 70 and 90 seater version still in nascent stage
Put in dummy language he means the CDR is over , shopfloor drawings are under progress post which component shopping or fabrication would commence during which time NAL would approach the GoI for funds to build & test the prototypes. Is that too difficult to understand even by your standards ?
What's the CDR of the RTA got to do with anything ? Besides whoever said anything of the CDR of the RTA ? It's still in the proposal stages where NAL has briefed the media around the time of the AI-2023 about it's proposal to the GoI where NAL projected a budget of in excess of 1 billion USD for it to get the entire program of the RTA off the ground.
Whether they can do it single handedly or the GoI has the requisite confidence in NAL to pull off a project of this nature is a different topic of discussion altogether & remains to be seen .
As far as getting Russia to JV for the RTA clearly you've no clue as to our relations with the west then or even our economy do you ? This is the the early 2000s I'm talking about where we were still under a technology embargo for dual usage technology by the US & thus the whole west as also for high tech civilian technology , while China was busy indulging in industrial espionage what it couldn't wrest thru it's COERCIVE JVs in China with foreign OEMs like France for the Airbus assembling line in Tianjin. Who else was prepared to partner us then ? You don't know much about anything do you ?
As far as not productionizing Mk-1 goes isn't it clear it was some sort of a TD on the lines of the LCA Mk-1 or the AMCA Mk-1 when it materializes & that the Mk-2 is the definitive version .