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Brain Drain, Imports, and 26 Lost Years: Why India Still Lags Behind F-35, Su-57 and J-20

In my previous blog post, I had highlighted the burden of personnel costs—65% of the defense budget—strangling India’s military modernization India’s Defense Dilemma: The High Cost of Staying Behind in the Fifth-Generation Jet Race. But that’s not the only problem that has kept the Indian defense industry restrained. In this post, I uncover another reason that…

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Rafale Deal sums up India’s journey from “Marut” to “Tejas”

Finally, after four years Indian National Congress highlighted something which is above caste-religion-vote-bank politics. I am indebted to them for their concern about Rafale deal. India produces approximately 1.5 million engineers every year, hypothetically if all of them form a separate country, that hypothetical country will  have a population greater than 82 countries of the…