If you have taken Turkey in to consideration, we are behind them in many fields, the irony is that Turkish economy is a peanut compares to India.
Turkish economy isn't exactly miniscule compared to us since their GDP is around $745bn. The recent F35-S400 debacle made em focus on their domestic defence industry and to reduce self- reliance.
I doubt,Turks basically are loudmouths except drone warfare they don't have seemingly better defence industry,they've only have assembled f16s and other stuff when we talk about aircrafts,and dreaming to make TFX by 2023.
They do have pretty decent EW equipment, a working maritime radar, a working cruise missile etc. I am not telling that they were ahead if us in all sectors, but they are in few crucial areas, drone technology is one of them.
We usually develop a weapon system 20 years after others deploy it. Long story short, nothing changed.
Thank the Israelis for that. Also they don't even have an engine to power there drones and use a Austrian engine. What they have done well is invest drone munitions which we are getting close to with samho and sant missile. Our drones only need a sanction for getting mass produced. Capability wise they aren't far behind..
USN is under order to shoot down aircrafts,Drones or boats that approach US navy ships following sulaimani killings. If USN detected it, they would have shot it down anyway, especially after Iran shooting down US drone over the strait. Comparing it to south China sea situation is a joke.
Only bureaucracy is stopping us,import lobby is pretty strong.
Engine is one part of a flying machine. Your undermining turkish advancement for not having a Turkish engine is absurd ,its like pakistanis ridiculing LCA for its GE engine.
There may be hundreds of reasons behind it, but at the end of the day we don't have a solid drone industry base in India and a peanut economy does have & more worrying is any military technology development in Turkey will end up with pakistanis.
Since we have the lethal G2A firepower... UAVs for the Indian armed forces have a different set of requirements compared to UAVs of other countries. Our requirement mainly towards longer endurance, autonomous, satellite-linked, high-altitude operation etc, and these benchmarks created considering best in class UAVs from the USA, Israeli. So to build the same we need time and money.
I'm not. Their electronics capabilities are pretty decent but they are still nowhere close to any of the big players like Israel or U.S. From what I've read the Turkish drones are incapable of using satellite communications to perform normal sorties. The main reason rustom is failing is because we ourselves haven't been able to figure out nlos communication. The IA wants a complete project while the Turks have already invested and working on it. I would say the overall design of the tb2 and other Turkish drones are pretty good comparitively.
In case you're wondering, there's a thread for Funny Stuff as well.
When a question is asked on how to shorten a 1 foot long line, there is a difference between answering it as erasing it a bit and drawing a bigger line next to it. That said, we can't always have more offensive systems to tackle our enemies. There will be circumstances when are doing catch up (almost in all areas), we need to focus on technologies to defend from these weapons, before we start outmaneuver them. Classic example is how our Indian Army did it from May - August in the current conflict. We matched / mirrored the PLA deployment to defend our territory and stop the PLA's advance. Then when the opportunity presented itself, we outflanked and outmaneuvered them on August 30th to capture those heights of the Kailash range. So while we develop our TAPAS and AURA, we are also focusing on Anti Drone technologies to defend our men & material from the Chinese Drones. Mr. Pravin has a point and I accept the superiority of Chinese in this domain. Possessing a technology and using the technology are 2 different things. There used to a cool ad on TUMS (Antacid pills). Do you want the heartburn now or later and China chose later, in spite of possessing overwhelming superiority against India and has the latest 5th generation warfare technologies as well. To have and to use are 2 different ball games.
