It is increasingly obvious to me that in the majority of instances (may be all), hal is blamed unfairly for others' mistakes and delays. Best example is tejas, till date there is order of only 40 jets, 24 of these receiving clearance only in January 2019, and they get ALL the blame for delays.
I wonder why media ALWAYS writes misleading articles, possibly to sway public opinion against hal. Maybe another foreign lobby job.
No doubt about it. People drag HAL’s name
Through the mud over LCA because of the delays which is explicitly nothing to do with HAL. LCA is not a HAL product, they are just the production agency. Development and validation are all the responsibility of ADA and CEMILC. Has it ever been reported that that delays in LCA are due to inferior quality of HAL’s work? On the contrary not a single airframe loss and the fact that LCA has been able to achieve every target (which includes a naval fighter) speaks to the high QC now found at HAL.
Then they complain about the slow pace of delivery but when you only have 40 committed to orders what’s kind of fool do you have to be to expect HAL to ramp up production beyond 5-8/year? IAF has no problem throwing $4-5bn at Boeing for 10 C17 or looking for 126-189 jets in one go but when it comes to LCA they order 20+20? To this day IAF still haven’t ordered those 83 MK.1A, no doubt in a few years idiots will start blaming HAL for not having delivered the mk1A on time.
Then there’s the price issue. Order so few and then Complain at the higher prices of individual units. I don’t know if these esteemed babus and generals are true morons or have never studied even basic economic theory such as cost amortisation and economies of scale. You have the F16 that has been produced in the 10000s compared to the LCA that hasn’t even touched 40 units yet. The same stupid games were played with the Arjun. DRDO said they needed 500 unit order to bring prices down on par with modern MBTs and to localise spares. What does IA do? Orders 124 units and then complains years later that spares are still being imported. And uses this as a justification to order 400+ T-90.
It seems to me the entire system is set up to deter indigenous development and favour imports.
Line up all these babus and senior military’s leadership, empty their pockets and use them as target practice. They are the worst kind of traitors.
Lemme clear you sir,
LCH is a fine platform , But all of them playing with its ATGM procrument, the planned PARS L3 and Mistral ATGM and still they discussing as of now LCH is compatible of firing Mistral AAM and its 20mm chin gun, for get HELINA SANT or whatever DRDO develops , Don't kill the LCH with such stupidity
DAC and MoD can clear the same LSP for million times, but who will allocate funds, who will pay, HAL, MoD, or the User ( IAF, IA ) They all busy in discussing of gold plated Apache procrument only
So for the next few years no one will talk about LCH, we might see the first 15 LSP varients around 2025 or later
It is clearly the ATGM issue that is being used to stall LCH procurement as of now. HELINA should be ready by the end of this year but now SANT is under trails who wants to bet that IAF/IA will demand SANT is operational before accepting LCH?
2025 is silly. HAL is already making the 15 LSP as of now. They’ll all be ready be the middle of
Next year it’s just that IA and IAF haven’t actually ordered them yet because of this ATGM issue.
