HAL’s Role to Play in the Future of the IAF

I WAS CLEANING UP THE PC WHEN I STUMBLED UPON THESE TWO ARTICLES WRITTEN BY ME WHAT SEEMS TO BE LIKE A LONG TIME AGO...TWO YEARS AGO, IN FACT.SO HERE ARE MY TWO HIGHLY IDEALISTIC WRITE-UPS; THIS ONE BEING SENT TO THE CHAIRMAN OF HAL AND THE ONE BELOW FAILING TO GET PUBLISHED IN ANY MAGAZINE. THIS ONE WAS MY OWN CREATION AND THE OTHER WAS PARTLY (READ 30-40%) CUT-PASTED.         

The picture below, to many Indians, is the pride of their nation’s defense. However, to me, this image shows me just how weak our Hindustan is at her security. We depend on the other countries like Russia, United Kingdom and Ukraine for our own security. We want to be self-sufficient in our food, self-sufficient in our clothes, and self-sufficient in our culture. Then why not be self sufficient in our defense?

 

 

 

Even as I write now, British Aerospace in Europe is busy building us a shipment of Hawks. In the past, India has had bitter experiences of this policy. Remember when all of our Sea King helicopters had to be grounded due to the shortage of an American-built part that the nation in question refused to supply us?

 

 

And that’s where the HAL comes in. We need indigenous aircraft, missiles and air defense systems to be independent of foreign countries in terms of security. This can only be done by talented staff from our own India.

 

The MiGs, Mirages, Sukhois, etc. cannot do the following that our Swadeshi aircraft can do:

Ø      Invoke a sense of patriotism among our pilots and the general public.

Ø      The manufacturers can carefully evaluate the needs of the Air Force and design planes to suit the needs of it.

Ø      They can also build planes to suit the natural conditions of India.

 

Thus I conclude that the planes built by India for India are better than planes built by someone, somewhere, no matter how technically superior they are.

 

Thank you,

BALAJI.S