Save the IAF-Revive the Marut Prof. Prodyut Das 24/01/ 2025 There are now two distinct opinions about the Tejas programme. The first is that the Tejas is brilliant aeroplane “a pearl” one worthy famously quoted about two decades ago ( if nothing, shows how long we have waited for irresponsible promises to be fulfilled!) , whose success now the perfidious Americans are trying to sabotage by delaying the supplies of engine, The second view is that the Mk1is a bit of a joke and all subsequent proposals, Mk1A, Mk2 TEBDF etc are ...
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1. The GTRE engine presentation at the 27th Subroto Memorial lectures Prof. Prodyut Das 15 /01/2025 “See how the Winter of our discontent is made Glorious by the Sun of York" That the present Government is making efforts to clean the Augean stables of our “Weapons Development” is like the Sun in Winter. Most, rather than much, remains to be done. Recently a Conference was held under the aegis of the Society for Aerospace Studies and the statements of the Air Chief Marshal and the Defense Secretary. the Customer and the Banker respectively were like a breath of fresh air. They showed that at least two of the pillars of our archaic Socialist state- controlled and inefficient weapons development edifice publicly acknowledge that problems exist. It is a small but important first step because without acknowledgment of the problem there can be no solutions. It rema...