Prof. Prodyut Das 2

  The AMCA – a review 2022/4                                                                                                Prof. Prodyut Das Introduction If the way the DRDO is going about the development of the Flight Refueller program is not a flash in the pan then it is cause for cautious optimism. By utilizing Covid surplus airframes and hiring consultants where required DRDO is displaying precisely the “mend and make do” enterprise that is needed for successful programmes. It is unfortunate that ADA, another DRDO organization, has consistently lacked the same kind of spirit. This does not augur well for the AMCA programme. Given the closer Government monitoring and the fact that the Customer has been taken on board means that there will not be any of the major blunders that was seen in the Tejas programme-blunders that required long and painful correction and even now the product is not “production worthy”. This is a sharp contrast to its later contemporary, the ALH program