Nice try but India is not building something that has not been done before with Tejas or anything else and we have not done anything original in over atleast 700 years. If result is the only thing that matters and it does in a war then this pace is unacceptable, so many technology transfers, partnerships and so on and still we do not have a competetive product in any defence related area from small arms to ammunition to tanks to aircrafts that stands on features vs cost even for our own consumption forget about exports. Even take software, we called ourself IT superpower but there is not a single world class product out in the market from India. Its all useless tedious back office work or services....You can sugarcoat it all you want and it is certainly not lack of talent.....this is utter selfishness from ones own parents to all the way to PM. One has to take pride and work hard to get results.....
With congress era of decades the energy after independence was not channeled properly but with Modi I think we are seeing somethings like actually deploying our own things into combat and let them shine or sink so we can address short comings.
Apologies for OT, this will be my last reply on this topic. It started with Hawk AJT and ended up here.
That's just western propaganda, saying India has not innovated in the last 700 years, and often repeated by India's enemies to put it down. The west rewrote India's history to make it seem that India has not innovated, and people educated in the western system eat it up. The fact is that any one of these design teams from F-35 to B-2 bomber is filled with Indian engineers and software experts. In fact the B-2 bomber's stealth features were designed by an Indian. Most of the software and hardware that you are using to write these posts was created by Indians.
So the problem is systematic, and not due to a lack of hard-working Indians, no matter what the foreign agents say.
The best engineers and scientists will go wherever they can make a good living for their families. If you want the best talent, you have to invest the money to pay them well as well as on research and development resources.
No country is going to hand out their state of the art intellectual property no matter what you pay. You have to develop a military industrial complex that supports innovation, there are no shortcuts to this. The US has invested trillions of dollars to get where it's today. India's enemies are threatened by its weapons research and development, so now their agents have started targeting DRDO, HAL, etc. The fact is that Indian agencies have succeeded in developing many weapons such as Tejas, Astra, Akash, Agni series missiles, satellites, radars, missile defence, India's nuclear arsenal, nuclear submarines, etc on a very tight budget. And India's enemies are threatened by this, so their new ploy is to attack government agencies like DRDO and HAL. But it will not work, and India will succeed in developing a military industrial complex in collaboration with its private industry.