I've said this before and say it again.
This is only a time-pass work generation project for HAL/ADA/MoD babooze
IAF is not interested in Tejas/Tejas Mk2 or AMCA
They only want French maal now and American 5th gen Wunderwaffe in the future.
Which results in absolute non-serious execution of this project at every step of the chain.
In other news the Admirals have started construction on an XLUUV of their own design, nobody seems to know such a thing was in development

but it's getting built now, this is aside from 16 ASW-SWC and 7x Nilgiris which will be inducted in next 2 years
Halol: Krishna Defence and Allied Industries Ltd (KDAIL) hosted a ceremonial plate-cutting event on June 10th, 2025, at their facility in Halol to mark the
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Admirals have got their French maal's order placed,
they have pushed through the aforementioned bulk orders of ships,
they have designed their own ships( no muh ADA DRDO bad )
they get said ships built via lazy PSU shipyards by being in management ( no muh HAL hasn't delivered from 2011 )
they have had collaborations with the PSUs to get shit done
they have managed to push through Impoorts via

for things they need badly, like that Atlas towed array sonar
Collaborations with Private Sector also to get shit done.
OTOH you have this on the other side of the fence ADA/HAL/MoD babooze/UN Airforce genrols/Mudi being chindi etc etc
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