Donatello
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Well,ADA has to rely on whatever experience they have got from the LCA project and some measly amount of funds cleared by the GoI.
I wish that was the case,but as things stand today,we've missed that train.
That's the problem........you didn't gain any experience from LCA other than structures and electronics........the main component...a reliable high thrust engine is still a far thing in the future for India. If you would've managed to get the engine sorted for LCA, you might have improved upon the core. But you didn't. So the reality is, unless India develops it's own powerplant, it will be same old story....engine imported and then electronics modified and copied here and there.
Do you know of any country that went into 5th Gen development without fully mastering 3rd or 4th gen? Nope.
Even European nations realized that........and these are those that built the Concorde in 1960s....with no modern CAD....no advanced calculators.