Aircraft production quality has often been in question. The case in point is the manufacture of MiG series, Jaguar and Su-30 MKI fighters Avro and Dornier light transport aircraft and Chetak and Cheetah helicopters. In aviation India ias little more than a foreign licensed-production house. Yet seven decades later India imports around 70 per cent of its military hardware. India’s DRDO, Ordnance Factories (OFs) and Defence Public Sector Undertakings (DPSUs) like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) were in place in initial years after independence. Private industry was pussy-footing their entry because of high investments coupled with uncertainty. The Russia led Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) and Medium Multi-role Transport Aircraft (MTA) joint programs faced delays and unacceptable design and development cost escalations. Aviation specific: LCA is over thirty years behind schedule Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) has serious technical problems Basic Trainer Aircraft (BTA) is not even on drawing board. Low investment in R&D socialistic workforce with low productivity generalist bureaucracy controlling and deciding technical activities grown from the ranks and often fatigued PSU higher management and lack of initiative and drive to achieve results. Apparently reliable sources provide notably divergent estimates for a variety of high-visibility aircraft.īy 2015, India was in a dismal state in defense production. ![]() ![]() The exact number of aircraft in service with the Indian Air Force cannot be determined with precision from open sources.
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