HAL Delivers Light Combat Helicopters to Indian Armed Forces for Evaluation and Potential Production Deal

[desigandu]

IAF and AAC must realize that Prachand and AH64Es are different classes and thus will have different capabilities...It is good to improve and add more firepower but we need to be realistic...Things I have read - Indian Armed Forces tend to have unreasonable requirements that no one in the world has (a mix of capabilities that always need tradeoffs) and thus domestic capabilities don't come up to the mark, while we then tend to buy expensive foreign equipment that still does not meet the original/revised expectations...First we must develop our military-industrial base, ensure private players are involved, develop scale and then go world class...It is okay to be 5-10 years behind cutting edge as long as it is domestic, reliable and reasonably priced as compared to failing with delays, cost overruns and lack of capability...Currently we don't need all our equipment at cutting edge but very expensive...mostly we will be fine with slightly older but reliable equipment that are developed domestically...Something to think about...Just look at American R&D and even NASA and compare that with SpaceX, Tesla, NVIDIA, etc.