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India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes
The government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
The GTRE GTX-35VS Engine on its testbed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Security15/Dec/2020
Chandigarh: The government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, or self-sufficient India, initiative with regard to military equipment is littered with the remains of incomplete and
ad hoc projects, on whose continuing development vast sums of money are being wasted.
Many such ambitious programmes, under the patronage of the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisationâs (DRDO) and the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), include the development of an aircraft engine, military transport and intermediate multi-purpose civilian aircraft and intermediate jet trainers or IJTs.