TOT is part of that learning curve and by getting TOT and producing arms in India help us in creating infrastructure for our defence industry....As far producing quality product are concern for that our defence industry need to mature and that can only be possible if they produce arms in large...
Reducing dependence on foriegn arms for our defence needs is very important for our national security...So in short Make in India is very important part of our National Security....
You should have gone through entire article before jumping into the debate.Your country ranked 13th out of the 17 countries assessed in the Govt defence index 2015.
You seriously need to stop bunking your economic classes ...
and who told you that you need to be G8 member to be seventh largest economy in the world....
1948 Indo-pak who started It by sending tribal militia to Kashmir
Ans-Pakistan
1965 Indo-Pak war who started it by ordering Operation Gibralter
Ans-Pakistan
1971 Indo-Pak war India was forced to act because of refuge crises...and who forced the common people to leave their own land to save...
Ouch it looks like " The Hindu" forgot to mention is that US defence budget is around 600 Billion$ ours is around 50 Billion Dollars...and
Secondly this wooping 55 Billion Dollars will be invested into their own economy on the other hand by going for Rafale we will be exporting our precious...
Why don't you make a habbit of going through the entire article before speaking anything...
But FYI according to this article currently Lca Tejas turn around time is around 20 minutes.....
All this cost over run and delay could have been avoided If our Govt had accepted french offer of tranferring Mirage 2000 production line to India not only that we could have saved alot of money on Mirage 2000 upgrade also...
Sorry to disagree with you as per other projections Indian population will peak by 2060 at around 1.7 Billion after it will start declining....
India's population will peak at 1.7bn in 2060: UN study - The Times of India
Because firstly amreeki are not going to give the source code for their Aesa..
Secondly you need to keep giving them present status of their weapons in our inventory...