Lol how many we actually built? We are waiting for Rutoms in service for years, no induction till date and never will be.
Why numbers matter? It's a test prototype, we are validating its parameters, it is not certified to be operational yet. Get out of the perfectionism ideology, tests fail all the time.
Yeah, we are waiting, because DRDO/ADE is doing a terrible job, but do we have an alternative?
Better merge it with ada , and work in partnership with newspace and new startup .
My fear us ghatak ucav is with ade , hope they don't fuck up royally , also nirbhay is a mess
Arihant was delayed for years because of our psus.
So L$T was stepped in
And now after getting project in right direction because of L$T . Now L$T is kicked out of project
Probably the correct way to preserve ADA/DRDO talent and merging it with the private sector will be to privatize these PSUs, remove the central govt. benefits and job security, change hiring criteria and hire cut-throat managers to lead projects.
Some ppl have some kind of obsession anything of private sector.
Because the private sector works, literally and figuratively.
The fundamental ideology is different. The private sector survives on profit, and profit is achieved if they produce something valuable.
Innovation and excellence are expected, and only the best survives and mediocre people are weeded away.
PSUs & govt. undertakings don't have any such obligations. 90% of people in PSUs have a leisure mentality, growth & promotion periodically fixed, no push for innovation or ethical work culture. Because at last, why would they, if you are not rewarded for excellence and punished for mediocrity, there is no point in working.
I have seen talents from IITs steer away clear from PSUs because of one simple reason, stagnant growth. Exorbitant money, recognition, and work culture will never be a feature of govt. undertaking.
Israeli have DPSU, China have DPSU, France have DPSU led industry.
As we can see from last decade our DPSUs output is great based on our investment.
With shoe string budget distributed among various sectors it's hard to expect state of the art technological innovation from all the field.
As our private sector have no risk takers our government doesn't have other options than investing bigger and bigger ammount in R&D which will happen periodically.
DPSUs themselves are not the problem, but a complex intertwined system of reservation, babu-giri, poor work culture, extreme job safety, flawed hiring system, and a non-existent reward-punishment system present in Indian PSUs.