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• The bottleneck here is students and universities who don't pursue anything other than CS/IT. And the handful of those that go for things like mech/aero/material gets so poorly valued here that most of them move abroad to pursue PhD or for better jobs. The biggest superpower of American MIC is not their multi-billion companies but rather institutions like MIT and CalTech that fills them.
• The bottleneck here is most of our defence companies who are in the game not because they're passionate about pioneering this field but rather because somehow they got to know that defence and aerospace has an insane margin and they want DhandhoMaxxing. The handful of people who were truly visionary in terms of genuine R&D like Baba Kalyani in artillery never got the encouragement they deserved so they also adopted kind of a nonchalant attitude.
• The bottleneck here is our government owned research/manufacturing facilities who should have gotten unlimited funds to do whatever they wanted like DARPA instead of remaining in a constant fear of strict scrutiny or even budget cuts. And even in most of these facilities, people have the usual SBI counter type lax attitude of making benches instead of a sense of pride and responsibility that they're making supersonic planes. So ultimately this cause and effect cycle keeps on running.
• The bottleneck here is military who for 90% of the times gets entangled in playing the game of catch-up instead of striving for overmatch. An adversary tests something or a conflict happens, we're caught with our pants down, we scramble to do emergency procurement of the most obnoxiously expensive thing and we catch-up. I don't think we've ever even thought of achieving an overmatch that forces our adversary for something like an emergency procurement.
• The bottleneck here is government who has to balance between socialist schemes and defence spendings. End of the day it's socialist schemes that gets priority because this is what ensures your political party will come in power in the next election.
• The bottleneck here is most of our defence companies who are in the game not because they're passionate about pioneering this field but rather because somehow they got to know that defence and aerospace has an insane margin and they want DhandhoMaxxing. The handful of people who were truly visionary in terms of genuine R&D like Baba Kalyani in artillery never got the encouragement they deserved so they also adopted kind of a nonchalant attitude.
• The bottleneck here is our government owned research/manufacturing facilities who should have gotten unlimited funds to do whatever they wanted like DARPA instead of remaining in a constant fear of strict scrutiny or even budget cuts. And even in most of these facilities, people have the usual SBI counter type lax attitude of making benches instead of a sense of pride and responsibility that they're making supersonic planes. So ultimately this cause and effect cycle keeps on running.
• The bottleneck here is military who for 90% of the times gets entangled in playing the game of catch-up instead of striving for overmatch. An adversary tests something or a conflict happens, we're caught with our pants down, we scramble to do emergency procurement of the most obnoxiously expensive thing and we catch-up. I don't think we've ever even thought of achieving an overmatch that forces our adversary for something like an emergency procurement.
• The bottleneck here is government who has to balance between socialist schemes and defence spendings. End of the day it's socialist schemes that gets priority because this is what ensures your political party will come in power in the next election.
ER & VISHNU 🕉 HCM 
