abhik wrote:Sanku wrote:HAL does not need financial justification. It is a DPSU fully working off MoD. It can make the necessary investments through MoD.
This "necessary investment" is an IAF order via the MoD.
There is already an IAF order through MoD for necessary investement for LSP.
But high capacity production line will take years to build and ramp up.
This is the problem, not the firm orders part. With a LSP line ready, why should HAL need years to build and ramp up? The whole idea of LSP is the ramping up the knowledge base of large scale production.
Once LSPs are made, a minimum lag time should be needed to produce firm orders
There's really no guarantee that the IAF won't do an Arjun on on HAL.
Oh please, apart from getting into another heated comparison, there is no reason to assume that all projects have same trajectory. Was Dhruv not accepted? Was Pinaka not accepted?
A program lives or dies by its merit, not because of some far fetched reasons which are nothing but aspersions on the forces.
And the MoD biggest failure has been its inability or unwillingness to force down a 1000 Arjuns down IA throat or a few 100 LCAs down the IAF's.
The above is pure circular reasoning, why should MoD force down a product which is not ready in the first place. Sure let them force down 10000000000000000 of whatever, how will that ensure that Avadi and HAL actually make more than ZERO (0) of these merely because orders are given ?
In any case if the whole approach is to force down products which are not present in the first place, I think the forces should be disbanded anyway. The DPSUs employees can be sent with lathis on the border next time there is a conflict. (Which is like every other week in Indian context)