Tag: HAL Tejas

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

    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…

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

    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…