that would be my thinking too , but unfortunately we are not in the decision-making circuits of the IAF
all these IAF decision making are not just MBA quality but actually they are PHD quality , so far ahead of me that i just can't figure out what they are doing ...they should be writing case studys for complicated decision making on any harvard business school mba program or other top usa university
they are far too talented to be in a mere air force ?
...and yet our main problems are from china ( army and airforce ) and similarly with Pakistan it is the air force and army which are more important....but we keep Navy at the fore-front .....again i think these folks who make such decisions are too good for india .....they should be doctorate decision makers teaching at usa univs ...not just any ol uni , but only at the very very best
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I read sometime back that we are working with the Russians on 3D thrust vectoring to be used in any engine of Indian make or with TOT.
Heh heh frustrated, exasperated, confounded. Just like me. But its not just about the IAF. IAF is merely the most visible, most expensive, most stupid manifestion of a phenomena that is, to some extent or the other, exhibited by everybody around us. IAF is not an organization in the current context when I say the aforesaid. IAF is the IAF brass. Because it is the Brass that decides what should be done and why it should be done by IAF. IOW, the IAF brass is not a leadership, instead its a Soch. Like the way Congress ek Soch hai. Kale Angrez ek Soch hain. And all three of them - the Congress, the Kale Angrez and the IAF brass came from within us, Indians. All three of them would much rather not be an Indian. They do not want to bet on India. They do not want to admit the truth to the Indians. They would rather live and advocate like a foreigner. Merely holding the Indian passport and a cushy positions in the hierarchy of the ruling class is the main attraction of life and the only thing more exciting would be the belief in the hindu concept of re-birth when hopefully they would live with the foreigners. But till then…..
What has over the years bewildered me is the way we Indians have been and still are taken for a ride. If you see closely the recent assembly elections in Delhi, you will get a hang of the template used to befool us. The day the ‘Royal Indian XYZ’ became the ‘Indian XYZ’ without any goddamned change in kathani-karni, achar-vichar-sanskaar, is the day the people of India, should have asked if it was all a ruse to exploit the veerta and paurush of the lower echelons of the armed forces to sustain a bunch of people who select their own types to propagate their own foreign roots.
For much of our lives we have been told that Indian armed forces are suffering a paucity of Officers. I mean, come on man, how come not one Indian took these sorry sobs to task for saying that. Cannot people see that the human resource that runs the world is being told that they are not good enough to decide how they should be protecting themselves.
Many a times I have asked myself how and why did the idea of LCA came up in the first place. Was it not obvious to the people in earlier times that larger airframes will give more room to experiment and have a larger margin of safety. Or was it the exact thing that was sought to be a prevented from falling into the hands of the Garib-Kala people of India. If a poorer country like Russia with a much larger strategic footprint could understand all that then how come our people went in for ‘small is beautiful’. For whom was it beautiful? Was it beautiful for the country that needed to protect itself or was it beautiful for the people who could burn resources in ‘miniaturizing’ technologies. Are we better served by miniaturization or by rationalization of technology. And how will the AMCA escape the fate that befell LCA. When the LCA was mooted it was supposed to have nearly everything indigenous. After 20+ years of ‘interest being shown by stakeholders’ we get (not yet) a mongrel. Now after LCA perhaps our people could have thought of the heavier fighters or of starting with an available engine or of starting with a High Marginal Safety Naval Version. But noooooo sir, we get something else which is supposed to be the latest greatest and for which we should be thankful again. While the powers that be, decide what to import and under what pretense.
Today our people celebrate importing of a second hand RCS testing facility without even asking if it was really absolutely necessary. Today we have people within the establishment are planting stories that our Indian guidance systems do not cut it. And all this while the funding is always hogged by the same set of unmoving, unrepentant, unanswerable, irresponsible bosses who have the galls to tell the Supreme Court of the land that they have their own ‘Succession Plan’ and go on to to recommend to the Parliament that the acquisitions and imports should be decided by this set of Succession Planned Officer Class. WT_, are we a stupid Arab country or a Subverted Zika-Virused Latin country where a bought off bumbling idiot will decide what needs to be done.
Do you ever find yourself wondering if it’s a plan to have all the rotary wings hollered inside the IAF so they can always act like Captain America. Damn the idea of developing capacity for our own disaster relief agencies. Whose agenda has this served?
Do you ever wonder that if a country like China could set itself free from the infiltration of these western shopkeepers, ultimately designing and developing its own weapons and then going on to fight with its own weapons. Or that if a country like Russia that has a smaller economic capacity than ours can design its own weapons, what stops us from bettering these countries. Hell even a two bit refugee usurper country like Israel, nearly 150 times smaller than our population is doing its own weapons. How come our armed forces brass knows with such certainty that we Indians cannot do it for ourselves.
I think we have to change ourselves first before we ask this Succession Planned Top Brass to change its ways. First we must ask if this is the best we deserve. Unless we do that our people will always find themselves importing weapons, importing technology, importing manufacturing, importing the fcuking swipe-phones, importing stuff because we do not ourselves do it.
First indigenize the human resource then we can begin to think of doing the rest. Sardar Patel had put forth a very valid question when he asked if the Muslims of India who had voted for Pakistan suddenly became patriotic when on August 15, 1947 they decided to stay put in India. But I guess Sardar was not courageous enough to have questioned similarly the armed forces brass who were just doing their job for the ‘King and the Empire’ till August 14, 1947 and then suddenly became patriotic on August 15, 1947.
As I said this is not limited to merely IAF brass. Even the Indian Navy, admittedly the most localized of forces, has its own warts and moles. And that is why I request you not to accuse the IAF, when the problem is with the Brass. IAF (the working operational part of it) is as much a used and abused entity, as you and me, perhaps several times more so. Hum to kose ke alag ho jayenge, unko to bhugatna padta hai.
