I agree that most critical equipments have to be imported and that is where the major part of the money will go into. What I meant was that besides that, infrastructure, labour and transportation costs in India will be far lower than in western countries, especially if we delegate all these functions to Indian contractors. And that figure of 6 billion equal to 24-30 billion is just hypothetical and meant to show cost ratio of work done in India vs West. And anyway, it doesn't mean that HAL will not spend more if it is essentially required.
they may have a fair bit of idea about infrastructure materials may be built in india over a period of 10 years may be with some collab + some imports.
since hal is making european and russian planes there might be less to add for the infrastructure unless for major changes as ramping up production for 300 planes, helicopters, tejas mark 2 (2 years), sitara(1-2 years), airliner(gradually over 7 years) may nd up with robotics for major things and procure from private companies the less important ones hence any development will be incremental and hence less cost since competing with indian companies will not give any price advantage.
small companies simply cannot stand the monopoly of hal, so any advancements will be in very much needed areas only and on seeing other private manufacturers and their area of expertise there may be no redundant areas. As such engine manufacturing may be a new area where foreign manufacturers will not be wishing to give any support at all.
since americans dosent want indian products after the offsets and europe being immune to military gadgets every move may be incremental and the fate may be bad for these companies after offset season and may end up joining hal for the indian projects.
hence 6 billions may just be enough.when private companies want their part of cake why hal should build every thing.
