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So the IAF should have done nothing as Deepaks were falling out of the skies and taking the lives of budding pilots with them? Is this what you are saying?
It's very easy to blame the IAF but they are professionals and do their job with what they have. There was no (and STILL is no) home-grown BTT in India and thus they HAD to go for the PC-7. All this time and HAL is still yet to even fabricate the HTT-40, if it was up to them the IAF would STILL have NO BTT. The significance of this omission cannot be overstated- it would have CRIPPLED the IAF.
You still haven't rebuked my points on the economics of operating two different BTT types for the same role brother, I understand the ideology behind what you are saying and in an ideal world I would agree but this is the real world and one has to be pragmatic. Blind nationalism would have seen many more young pilots killed or crippled to date.
The same applies to the Navy. They could have easily replaced their ageing Soviet and British era warships with Imported weapons, instead they chose to work closely with the shipyards and made them deliver. Why cant the Army or the IAF work closely with the Indian Industry?