WS15 is an unproven, unreliable engine.
True. Even to this day we still don’t know how the Chinese infiltrated behind our lines which such ease in 1962. People still buy the rubbish “CoNsCrIpT ArMY dId fRoNtaL cHaRgEs” shit when in reality they used entirely different tactics in 1962 than IA ever saw.
PLA I believe were battle hardened too - I think they fought the Korean War and took bloody casualties. Plus they had momentum from militarily annexing Tibet which our stupid politicians did not think of as a threat due to the Panchsheel doctrine. The reality is India’s entire strategic apparatus failed due to lack of foresight and naïveté.
I agree with your point that Chinese have more R&D funds and that we have much stronger diplomatic ties with other nations so we are not in dire straits the way Chinese are when it comes to technology. We can substitute weaker domestic tech with foreign tech and still match or even exceed Chinese technology on the field.
I never claimed that WS 15 was production ready. But its close since its already flying.
Maybe Offtopic but ..
Yep, we can. Theoretically. But there could be some issues like the afterburner instability we encountered during the test phase in Kaveri engine. So its really hard to say for sure until the engineering is already done, but right now, at least theoretically, we could say its within our capabilities. In fact, Al-31 was being built by HAL from raw material stage if I remember right.
Thanks for this education. It always feels like there is a connection between versions like in software.Like I said they are generally ahead in R&D including advanced aircraft systems including the capability to put together a commercial passenger jet body. But how, if at all, these technologies affect our national security and if we need to follow them on every tech stream they develop is not clear at all. maybe we should focus on building powerful unmanned, reliable aerial vehicles with in-house designed engines engines as a real deterrent and not invest in piloted air force technology, where we just buy and assemble from the west. Maybe we just focus on hypersonic flight and building MOAB or TsarBomba style mega bombs and procure long range bombers. Maybe we focus on EW and CEW weapons. Maybe we focus on having the best AI driven network warfare. The Chinese cannot focus on everything. Not even the US can. That is why NASA flew its astronauts in Soyuz spacecrafts to service the ISS. What we need to do is to put down a list of 5 critical weapons tech we want to develop and go all out in developing that. Spreading ourselves too thin with the limited resources and talent we have is not an option at this stage.
I agree. We need to focus on certain core areas instead of trying to match the enemy pound for pound, as far as national projects are concerned. Maybe we should have a separate thread for this topic: A list of technologies that need to be pursued as National Missions.
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Probably cause he studies the other subject in his free time and had interest in the other subject.
When the word"At leat" is used, it is obviously not Meticulous. You are a poor reader.
Do you live under a rock? What will an IITian or infact any engineering graduate do when there are almost no jobs in their specialized fields? India doesn't have much industries to employ all graduates in core disciplines, that's why most (including me) work in a different field than my subject.
If we go by that logic
We don't need Chinese members in DFI anymore.
beating a dead horse at this point. but what is there to know ?
Except we don’t know anything about their tech other than it is generally still behind the leading tech nations of the world. We have not seen it in action in international exercises, have not been deployed by any nation in a war, not proven that it is something India cannot match by getting the tech from our developed partners or developing in-house at some point in time, etc. There are some very critical tech they are working on so they don’t have to rely on the rest of the world for those. The question is do those tech affect our national security? Let’s say they develop the latest gen wafer technology-does that affect our defense equipment development which mostly require simpler chips. Despite all the boasts, Chinese space tech is behind SpaceX now. And they are still reliant on Americans for a lot of tech. Notice what happened to huawei after the Americans turned off access to their chip making tech. Huawei pretty much collapsed. Let them actually prove that they have the tech. It is one thing to write propaganda articles and even research papers on the latest and greatest tech. It is another thing to become a world leader in it. China is far away from being a world leader in any critical tech. And others are NOT sitting still. The US , Germany and Japan are significantly increasing their R&D spend to develop next gen tech. We are still too poor to play the big R&D game. But by 2025-2026 we can do so much more. Sab Bhagwan ki kripa hai. Kadham kadham badathe jha.
You said the key word that is “getting tech from our developed partners”. It requires years of R&D or purchase but not steal like Chi**a. The gap could be bridged. Our exports have to catch to $500 to$800 in next few years to spend a lot of money in R&D.
When a Chemical engineer gets a job both as a chemical engineer in a MNC and also as a finance analyst ,I feel he should always opt for the chemical engineer job because he /she has spent precious years of life in learning the subject.
I am not very sure. A good number of his batchmates ,even in other streams opted for companies like Bain ,McKinsey and others.
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