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Somebody else's fault now. BahHumBug... This is so ridiculous and unfunny...

Faulty planning causing MiG crashes: Rakesh TNN | Nov 28, 2011

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 898541.cms

"AHMEDABAD: First Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma on Sunday blamed faulty planning in defence public sector units for MIG crashes. He was speaking at the annual confluence of Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad.

PSUs like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) are being run like political and bureaucratic fiefdom, said Sharma.

"The PSUs have the infrastructure but they do not have the expertise," he said. He proposed public-private partnership (PPP) model with Indian companies in these sectors.

As a test pilot with the HAL, Sharma said he would send back fighter planes to the laboratories if he detected snags in their parts. But he soon found out that instead of doing research and development on these parts, the laboratories fitted the parts in another fighter plane. "The parts used to keep repeating the full circle consuming time and energy without any result," he said. The HAL does not even have an in-house test-pilot team, he said...."

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I really should have used the Rolling Eyes

in my post re doing away with simulators and trainers.. its really an eye-opener and quite shameful the attitude the top brass exhibited laying the blame on the pilots.

No F-35 for India. They're already working with Russia on a stealth fighter. They will sell the tech to Russia in trade for stealth fighters they can't build them on their own. NO DEAL ! BAD IDEA ! Plus Bill-ery Clinton is for this deal. I'm against everything she is for. Like the globle gun ban!

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Indian Analyst recommends dumping Eurocanards for F-35.