Twinblade
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Things move at their own pace, like every organisation, most of the defence labs vie for budget and not every lab gets the budget they want. What would you rather prefer, Brahmos-2 in product testing phase by 2016 (hypothetical) and international partnerships of civilian organisations with ISRO on scramjet or a national scramjet lab by 2016 followed by years of datbase building and both DRDO and ISRO products in testing by 2025 ? Prioritisation of budget and pragmatism is call for the day and not and Indian version of Juche' in science and technology.but you will agree that its not one time project. it will take atleast a decade from now to complete it and induct it. moreover its a weapon delivery system which reusable at the same time.
so at most a dozen of it will be made and delivered to sfc and the constant research in it is expected so that technology matures and better platforms are given out to force because china wont be sitting idle in the meantime.
having a hypersonic wind tunnel like CIAM of russia is a long term investment.