If I would have been in place of IAF, I too won’t spend a penny on such a useless company either. Better talk to someone who can deliver what they promise. I will keep this rotten organisation at an arms length. This is the company who is assembling planes since WW1 and burning Govt money in the name of TOnTi from UK/USSR/Russia/Germany/US and nothings of their own to even show off after all these TOnTis.Yes , why don't they try order of 1000.
HAL doesn't produce most of the components. It's outsources them to MSMEs (So does GE etc), And your MSME are not LM OR BOEING , they could go bankrupt or shut down due to small or no order. Happen's with GE's suppliers too, especially during covid. Now imagine our MSME which are nowhere as well oiled as US - Xhinese MSME.
You should go spend some time to learn how these things happen instead of blabbering without knowledge. Btw Order of 40 was not in single tranche.
Rest other companies do risk-analysis and risk-mitigation unlike this taxpayers funded babudom. Single trench or not, it took them eternity to deliver even that measly numbers.
And its never the fault of beHAL. Blame US/Russia/France/Isreal/Belgium/Nepal/Bhutan/Congo/Somaliya but not HAL
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