Dillinger
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Do you know where do you stand?
With you its argumentum ad logicam type.
Critical engine tech does not equal know everything about an engine possible. A country like Iran acquiring simple maraging steel formulations from Ukraine is and has always been considered critical missile tech so is a rolling frame machine transferred from China to Pakistan, doesn't mean that the source has been churning missiles left right and center.
What you fail to understand is the complexity of gas turbine engine development, nor are you cognizant of the engineering involved as evidenced by your inability to answer the technical questions posed by me.
Should India have gone to the Ukrainians? Yes we should have. Do the Ukrainians have what we needed? Yes they did. What did they have? Production engineering expertise gleaned from the Soviets, detailed data on precursors of present day TBCs which would have cut our own YSZ research by near a decade. These things matter to us and to nations like China, for Ukraine it is simply knowledge which they do not have the capacity to use and for the western nations its knowledge that they already possess and deem to valuable to part with.
The problem occurs when you cannot even comprehend how big a deal it is if we can cut down on fundamental R&D lead times for materials research. How important it is if we can just take a decade long leap. Till the day you understand the details involved and the science behind it you will continue to ponder as to what exactly any could offer us.
China is a communist country and u don't expect reuters to know shit about their military.
Whats out has their nod,other stuff no one will ever know.
And for a change do some research before harping on the same stupid assertions.
And lasty don't try to be cocky here,its a defence forum.contribute or shut up
Actually they can be surprisingly forthright about certain things. They just do not like to publicize under development projects till they have something to actually show for it, something we could learn from them.
And there in lies the difference, where you were as obdurate you did your research on the technical angle, as in the hardcore technology involved instead of generic statements from some source or another.
As for the babus. Till we get to the point where we have an integrated MOD and CDS with uniforms working along with, under and above the babus things will continue to stay the same. Till non lapse-able funding which is considered planned expenditure (both R&D and military acquisition expenditure are not treated as planned expenditures currently by the GOI) is provided for R&D things will not get better. Till a strategic review is not generated to pin point planned trajectories and the way to go about it things will not change.
@Oscar Care to contribute.
The colonial mindset continues here too, even in the military, in the very culture. While civilian control of our military is to be lauded and despite wanting to suppress reports from my own observations it seems that certain lessons have been learned and corrective measures undertaken, the gap between what is and what is required still remains significant.
Although I've always wondered, when it comes to lessons learnt why does the myth that the surrender in 71 was cowardly continue..shouldn't the albatross be hung around whoever was leading the battle in the west given that the defence of East Pakistan lay in the west as per then military wisdom?
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