The suppliers will only know how much bribe they had to shell out to the defence personnel (purchases) for procuring the order,supplying and receiving the payment for the supplies.
"A MAJOR MILITARY AVIATION MILESTONE, INDIA'S HOME GROWN LCA - with American Engine and 30 years of research. Recently we saw a picture of F -22 American Fighter Aircraft costing $ around $ 6 Billion. I am not blaming our scientists, but our shameless politicians.
Re: AirCraft
by n pramod on Jan 13, 2011 05:19 AM
do we have such kind of money? US spends more than 500 billion just on research. 50% of national budget.
Re: 23 years it took....
by Indian on Jan 12, 2011 04:43 PM
it will go on and on and on before it is actually used for some useful purpose like flying the President of India.
Re: A small mistake
by Bhushan Damle on Jan 11, 2011 10:47 AM
Dear "Ramdev Baba",
I think you are forgetting that this is not a heavy or multirole aircraft, hence wont't have much space for Ammo (read missiles and bombs), it will only have fixed ammunition i.e. cannons and some air to air missiles.
Re: LCA- Late Coming Aircraft
by Bhushan Damle on Jan 11, 2011 11:05 AM
Dear Ravi,
It might be late, but at least we will be having our own indeginiously designed aircrafts unlike most other developing countries, especially Pakistan. Also, this will highly counter the regional threat from both China & Pakistan. It was delayed because of the sanctions that US had put on us.
This is the tendency to deprecae Indian efforts.In the seventies people were sceptical about Indian built Gnat fighters. But because of its light weight the Gnats comprehensively defeated American built,then latest Pakistani aircrafts in the 1971 war.This was unexpected by our own airforce at that time.
