Rakesh wrote: ↑28 Nov 2023 20:22
https://x.com/rajatpTOI/status/1729009992722964858?s=20 ---> Indigenous Tejas fighter flying high! Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd needs to majorly step-up its annual production rate — from the existing 8 jets to 16 and then 24 per year — in double quick time while ensuring proper quality control. Edit in @timesofindia
https://x.com/Indrani1_Roy/status/17293 ... 69354?s=20 ---> This is not that difficult to understand. But I have heard it repeated for decades.
Increasing production rate come at *significant* upfront cost. Unless, you can amortize that cost over long runs, your per aircraft cost will be exorbitantly high.
https://x.com/Indrani1_Roy/status/17293 ... 24?s=20---> Here are some thumb rules.
1. Nobody sets up a line which will have an production run of less than 8 aircraft per year and 5 years at that rate. Nobody.
2. It takes at least 2-3 years to stabilize a line and deliver first aircrafts.
So, does it make sense to have a production rate of 24 aircrafts/year?
https://x.com/Indrani1_Roy/status/17293 ... 17832?s=20 ---> It's only us who;
1. Order 20 aircraft
2. Expect a world-class assembly line to produce 8 aircraft year
3. Let the line run dry
4. Then order 20 more aircraft
5. Then let the line run dry
6. Then order 84 aircraft
7. Expect 3 lines producing 8 aircraft each.
https://x.com/Indrani1_Roy/status/17293 ... 71128?s=20 ---> And the funny thing is that HAL agrees!
I have yet to see picture of high exec with a straight back in front of the mai-baaps.
Ridiculous timelines and production rates follow.
Whose-fathers-what-goes?
https://x.com/Indrani1_Roy/status/17293 ... 80355?s=20 ---> And it is not just for LCA. Look at our submarines, look at our destroyers, aircraft carriers, tanks, artillery guns.
Is there any technically intensive project sans this bane?
How do we dream to keep the Chinese at bay who keep pumping out ships and aircrafts like hot cakes.