LCA Tejas Mk1 & Mk1A - News and discussions

[Speedster1]

Baba Kalyani who has said on record said the 7 year procurement cycle is unsustainable for pvt sector players

As for the small procurement cycle, that's only because orders are small today, that will change with indigenous systems

He was talking A 7 year time gap between RfP, trials, commercial bidding, multiple approvals,etc in the context of the IAs artillery acquisition plan. We all know that piecemeal orders kill economies of scale, and affect margins.

That's just dependent on India's increasing funds

When was the last time the armed forces returned unspent acquisition funds to the govt at the close of a given financial year? More money is not the answer. It's all about planning requirements long-term, defining timelines, and assuring minimum order quantities (just like farmers insist on MSP for their produce)

 

[randomradio]

He was talking A 7 year time gap between RfP, trials, commercial bidding, multiple approvals,etc in the context of the IAs artillery acquisition plan. We all know that piecemeal orders kill economies of scale, and affect margins.

Welcome to the defense industry. Very complex programs, very large timescales and particularly when speaking about Kalyani and ATAGS, not actually following IA's requirements to the letter and pretending they know better than the army.

When you have a 15T limit bridge and you build an 18T weapon, you know you are dead in the water. Same thing happend to WhAP. These guys just think IA's requirements are guidelines that can be trampled underfoot.

This is what happened to the LCA program too. ATAGS took time because it kept failing trials. Being the "most tested" before introduction isn't a badge of honor.

When was the last time the armed forces returned unspent acquisition funds to the govt at the close of a given financial year? More money is not the answer. It's all about planning requirements long-term, defining timelines, and assuring minimum order quantities (just like farmers insist on MSP for their produce)

It's all specific to the requirement. If you want 30 destroyers instead of 8, then you need funds. But the best we could do before this was just 3-4 at a time.

It's due to lack of funds that we are going for a batch of 2 SSNs with each order. The Chinese can build that much every 6 months. If the IN's budget jumps up from $7B a year to $30B, they will still return funds, but you can imagine all the things they will be able to do with their new budget. In 10 years we could reach that level. Then even we can build 2 SSNs a year, going all the way to 20 or 30 per class like the Americans.

 

[Sathya]

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