abingdonboy
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Not really sure what your point is, celebrate what? Mediocrity? Whilst your adversary is building up at unprecedented rates these geniuses are ordering low single digit numbers of critically required equipment and leaving 60+ year old designs in serviceSee, there are always mistakes and shortcomings to be pointed out. If you always lament about what is not happening and never celebrate what is happening, you become a copium addict, and copium addicts are always looking for anything depressing for the excuse of taking another sniff.
Yes, and this is likely to be followed up by more orders. This is just the LSP series. Also, good thing is private transport industry has shown interest in acquiring LUH.
I am very hopeful about LCH, and both Airforce and Army have shown strong commitment towards it. HAL has aggressively set up factories to produce LCH and it will likely to see larger orders in future.
HAL is yet to start production of 83 Mk1A, they even delayed in Mk1 numbers. Give some time to HAL for their supply chain to mature. Also, IAF has made it clear they are looking forward to LCA Mk2 as its backbone. It is pretty possible we will see follow-up orders of Mk1A in the coming years if IAF is satisfied with its performance.
everything with these guys is ‘maybe tomorrow’, what about today? Only when they get their backsides whooped do they wake up and then it’s a rush to import under emergency procurement powers
it’s not like buying toys in a store. These things have HUGE lead times and require massive capital if you want any kind of meaningful capacity. Do they want HAL/private sector to build decent capacity based on 6/10 unit orders?
if I’m being kind I’ll say they only know how to buy from abroad where foreign OEMs have already built up thanks to support from their domestic users, if I’m being cynical I’d say the best way to kill domestic products and keep the door open for imports is to make IDDM uncompetitive (both on cost and delivery timelines). Remember all the drama around the costs of the Arjun? There are multiple articles out there calling the Arjun the most expensive MBT in the world, well DRDO asked for a minimum order of 500 to localise production and cut unit cost in half.
These clowns ordered 124 units and then 1000s of T90s that are now being obliterated by rag tag militias in Ukraine. With users like this no wonder you don’t have world class MIC