HAL geniuses kept delaying the F404 engine orders repeatedly, up until recently. It's almost as if they had a childish understanding of production lines, supply chain management, and the like. Someone should really spoon-feed them the basics – in high-tech industries with long lead times, scaling up or down requires massive investment and time. You can't just throw orders around on a whim and expect deliveries of 'x' units per year. It’s not like a roadside pakoda vendor bringing in his wife to scale up production!GE F404 still facing mystery delays?
Looks like the Jernails will start pushing for F16 emergency procurements over any Tejas variants
HAL geniuses kept delaying the F404 engine orders repeatedly, up until recently. It's almost as if they had a childish understanding of production lines, supply chain management, and the like. Someone should really spoon-feed them the basics – in high-tech industries with long lead times, scaling up or down requires massive investment and time. You can't just throw orders around on a whim and expect deliveries of 'x' units per year. It’s not like a roadside pakoda vendor bringing in his wife to scale up production!
The blame also lies equally on HAL for blindly trusting companies like GE with their delivery timelines. Every business out there promises the moon from roadside Samosa guy to GE, and it’s HAL’s responsibility to carefully evaluate those timelines before relying on them.Yes but the problem is that they couldn't start ordering the engines until the GoI ponied up the money and approve the purchase so the blame really lies with GoI and MoD and their myopic way of procuring weapons.
The blame also lies equally on HAL for blindly trusting companies like GE with their delivery timelines. Every business out there promises the moon from roadside Samosa guy to GE, and it’s HAL’s responsibility to carefully evaluate those timelines before relying on them.
MoD took 3 long yrs just to negotiate price of tejas with a PSU under them. We can't hope a company to place this big orders without the money on the tableHAL geniuses kept delaying the F404 engine orders repeatedly, up until recently. It's almost as if they had a childish understanding of production lines, supply chain management, and the like. Someone should really spoon-feed them the basics – in high-tech industries with long lead times, scaling up or down requires massive investment and time. You can't just throw orders around on a whim and expect deliveries of 'x' units per year. It’s not like a roadside pakoda vendor bringing in his wife to scale up production!
I recall reading that in 2021 GE accepted the order for the engines for the 83 Kk1A but informed HAL that it could not guarantee delivery as indicated to HAL. At the time Covid-19 was rampant, I think, affecting GE and suppliers.The blame also lies equally on HAL for blindly trusting companies like GE with their delivery timelines. Every business out there promises the moon from roadside Samosa guy to GE, and it’s HAL’s responsibility to carefully evaluate those timelines before relying on them.