I wish for once RST was original , came up with his own bon mots & stopped aping me in an attempt to insult me. It dilutes whatever little effect his intended barbs have which is more like a tooth pick pricking your gums.
Imitation may be the ultimate form of flattery & compliment & I do realise RST is complimenting me by aping me as he has been doing since forever but I sincerely urge him to grow up & cultivate a more sophisticated sense of humour.
Reading is essential for it & I can recommend quite a few authors.
Actually this funding is the crux of the issue . Even now we seem to be spending something like around 80 billion USD per annum on infrastructure . And these massive costs sunk into infrastructure building isn't a the first time we're doing so . We've been doing it consistently for the past 2 years at least. Yet how much are we spending on defence CAPEX ?
Is it affordability which is the issue or something else whatever that something else is ? It's not as if we can't afford the 114 Rafales even today either thru imports or thru MII or a mix of both AND run those indigenous programs but the important part is we aren't . Why ? I've no clue.
If this is the present state of affairs why even look to the future when the maximum threat we'd be facing will manifest itself before the end of this decade or thereabouts. By the same time next decade we should be out of it , in what shape God alone knows but what are we going to do spending all that money on prime defence equipment then ? It'd be like shutting the door after the horse has bolted.
This has been precisely what Hellfire has been flagging since a few years now. The Agniveer scheme is also part of the same thought process as is the fact that we've still not separated the Rashtriya Rifles which is primarily an organisation involved in intensive CI from the main body - the IA leaving the latter to focus on augmenting its war fighting abilities leading many critics to declare that the IA since the past 3 decades is now a fine CI force not a conventional army in the strict sense of how one goes about defining an army .
One doubts whether this government ever considered this move for it's been a decade since it's been in power & never once have we seen anything remotely said leave aside done on those lines. And the Congress has been no better in this regard . All this talk of budgeting past present or future should be seen purely from that PoV not the kind of fanciful statements of our economy a decade hence will mirror what China was a decade earlier & all that blah.
I've explained plenty of times in the past this penchant of RST of passing off his idiosyncrasies as official government policies & then stubbornly defending it as if this is the hill he wishes to die on instead of being matured enough to declare it as his suppositions going by the evidence in hand .
The IAF not going in for the entire quantum of 114 Rafales in 2012 or 2016 or even today is not part of some great brainwave the IAF may have had . It's simply a function of events , the IAF & the government of the day not being on the same page & plain misfortune.
Hence all these huge paragraphs of knowledge RST is inflicting us with is both juvenile thinking & quite unnecessary .
The tweet on MTA was included so as to quote the person in toto. As of now , I'm not particularly bothered on what the government's thinking is on this matter when the more pressing issues of Fighter Aircraft procurement which in itself is the life blood of any AF , particularly ours , at a critical juncture in its journey like it is in the present is being ignored . I mean in the light of all this , who gives a phuck to the MTA.
Having said that the fact that we didn't get into any JVs then or now nor are we supporting indigenous ventures like the NAL's present one for the RTA on the table since AI 23 at the very least & which is since languishing is particularly galling.
The Chinese launched their ventures in civilian airliners when their economy was about our size nearly 2 decades ago & the results are there for everyone to see . The C-919 which was initiated in 2008 now has an order book of in excess of 1000 nos . Ditto for the ARJ21 which is the equivalent of our proposed RTA which began its development journey in 2002 when the Chinese GDP was ~ 2 trillion USD.
Imitation may be the ultimate form of flattery & compliment & I do realise RST is complimenting me by aping me as he has been doing since forever but I sincerely urge him to grow up & cultivate a more sophisticated sense of humour.
Reading is essential for it & I can recommend quite a few authors.
Actually this funding is the crux of the issue . Even now we seem to be spending something like around 80 billion USD per annum on infrastructure . And these massive costs sunk into infrastructure building isn't a the first time we're doing so . We've been doing it consistently for the past 2 years at least. Yet how much are we spending on defence CAPEX ?
Is it affordability which is the issue or something else whatever that something else is ? It's not as if we can't afford the 114 Rafales even today either thru imports or thru MII or a mix of both AND run those indigenous programs but the important part is we aren't . Why ? I've no clue.
If this is the present state of affairs why even look to the future when the maximum threat we'd be facing will manifest itself before the end of this decade or thereabouts. By the same time next decade we should be out of it , in what shape God alone knows but what are we going to do spending all that money on prime defence equipment then ? It'd be like shutting the door after the horse has bolted.
This has been precisely what Hellfire has been flagging since a few years now. The Agniveer scheme is also part of the same thought process as is the fact that we've still not separated the Rashtriya Rifles which is primarily an organisation involved in intensive CI from the main body - the IA leaving the latter to focus on augmenting its war fighting abilities leading many critics to declare that the IA since the past 3 decades is now a fine CI force not a conventional army in the strict sense of how one goes about defining an army .
One doubts whether this government ever considered this move for it's been a decade since it's been in power & never once have we seen anything remotely said leave aside done on those lines. And the Congress has been no better in this regard . All this talk of budgeting past present or future should be seen purely from that PoV not the kind of fanciful statements of our economy a decade hence will mirror what China was a decade earlier & all that blah.
I've explained plenty of times in the past this penchant of RST of passing off his idiosyncrasies as official government policies & then stubbornly defending it as if this is the hill he wishes to die on instead of being matured enough to declare it as his suppositions going by the evidence in hand .
The IAF not going in for the entire quantum of 114 Rafales in 2012 or 2016 or even today is not part of some great brainwave the IAF may have had . It's simply a function of events , the IAF & the government of the day not being on the same page & plain misfortune.
Hence all these huge paragraphs of knowledge RST is inflicting us with is both juvenile thinking & quite unnecessary .
The tweet on MTA was included so as to quote the person in toto. As of now , I'm not particularly bothered on what the government's thinking is on this matter when the more pressing issues of Fighter Aircraft procurement which in itself is the life blood of any AF , particularly ours , at a critical juncture in its journey like it is in the present is being ignored . I mean in the light of all this , who gives a phuck to the MTA.
Having said that the fact that we didn't get into any JVs then or now nor are we supporting indigenous ventures like the NAL's present one for the RTA on the table since AI 23 at the very least & which is since languishing is particularly galling.
The Chinese launched their ventures in civilian airliners when their economy was about our size nearly 2 decades ago & the results are there for everyone to see . The C-919 which was initiated in 2008 now has an order book of in excess of 1000 nos . Ditto for the ARJ21 which is the equivalent of our proposed RTA which began its development journey in 2002 when the Chinese GDP was ~ 2 trillion USD.
. What say?
