तथाकथित घटीया भारतीय हथियार व जहाज

भारतियो को अपनी झूठी तरीफ सुन सुन कर अपने बारे मैं बहुत भ्रांतियां हो गयी हैं . जो लोग अर्जुन टैंक कि कुछ कमियो को लेकर रो रहे हैं वह भूल जाते हैं कि इस देश ने औद्योगिक क्रांती से दूर रहने की अभी पूरी कीमत नहीं चुकायी है . हमें इंजीनियरिंग डिजाईन बहुत कम आता है .इसलिये देश के सबसे प्रसिद्ध Tata कारे विश्व मैं क्या भारत मैं भी नहीं बिक पा रही हैं . ऐसी ही हमारी सेना है .वैसे कौन हमरी सेना ने विश्व विजयी सिकंदर य चंगेज़ खान पैदा करे हैं . हमरी किताबे , फिल्मे , उद्योग , कृषि , सभी तो मध्यम स्तर की ही है . हमरे खिलाडी , चिकित्सक , इंजीनियर, नेता सभी तो मध्यम स्तर के हैं . तो हमाँरे हवाई जहाज या अर्जुन टैंक भी तो हमारे हि हैं . पर कोई और देश हमें अपनी नयी टेक्नोलॉजी नहीं देगा उसे तो हमें ही विकसित करना होगा .
यही समस्या चीन की भी है.परंतु चीन तो अपने घटीया जहाजो के लिये नहीं रो रहा . हमरी अंतरिक्श्यान विश्व के सर्वोत्तम नहीं हैं पर मंगल तक तो पहुंच ही गये .
इतने बडे देश के लिये 500 अर्जुन टैंक बनाना कोइ बडी बात नहीं है . हमें अपनी संस्थाओ को विक्सित अव्श्य करना चहिये परंतु उनको को प्रगती कि रोक नहीं बनने देना चहिये .येह बात दीआर्दीओ य हिंदुस्तान अएरोनौतिक पर भि लागू होति है .वह देश कि मज्बूती हैं कम्जोरी नहीं .इस बात क सदा ख्याल रहे कि सैनिक अप्नी जान व्यर्थ कि संस्थाओन को चलाने के लिये नहीं गंवा सक्ते न ही देश की सुरक्षा को खतरे मैं डाला जा सकता है .
बाबुओं की सोच से ऊपर उठने की आवश्यकता है .

Made in India is costlier; joint development is mere purchase – The Hindu

Time to blow up DRDO, HAL and privatize the whole thing.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/made-in-india-is-costlier-joint-development-is-mere-purchase/article8199677.ece?utm_source=email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter

Made in India is costlier; joint development is mere purchase

What was supposed to be cheaper when made in India is much costlier. What was supposed to be a joint development programme has been reduced to a purchase from abroad. That is among the key findings of internal government audits of major aerospace projects in recent years.

All the aerospace reports accessed by The Hindu are scathing in their indictment of agencies such as the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. over the way they have handled joint development programmes involving foreign partners, or produced aircraft in India under transfer of technology.

Sukhoi-30 MKI fighters

HAL was originally tasked by the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) with undertaking licence production of 140 Sukhoi-30 fighters under transfer of technology from Russia, with conditions including: indigenous manufacture of the aircraft at a cost lower than that of the imported aircraft.

The IAF entered into four different contracts with HAL for supply of the 140 aircraft, and later two contracts for 40 and 42 additional fighters. Thus a total of 222 S-30 MKI were to be assembled by HAL. When HAL began to assemble, however, the story was different. “Contrary to projection in the CCS note, where it was estimated that the indigenous aircraft production cost would be lower than that of the imported aircraft cost… the actual cost of phase IV aircraft has always been higher than that of the imported aircraft,” the report says.

In the production year 2014-15 in phase I, when aircraft was directly imported from Russia, the average cost per fighter was Rs. 270.28 crore. In phase IV, when aircraft is manufactured by HAL from raw material, the cost is Rs. 417.85 crore.

The report also indicts HAL for taking 2-3 times more man-hours than those taken by Russians.

Advanced Light Helicopter

An audit of the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) project of HAL from 2001 to 2009 carried out by the Controller-General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) pointed out: “As against the envisaged indigenisation level of 50 per cent, about 90 per cent of the value of material used in each helicopter is procured from foreign suppliers.”

The audit said that during the production of the helicopter, despite gaining experience of making 90 of them, the labour hours remained almost double of what was prescribed by the consultant.

The Air Marshal Matheswaran report on the aeronautical sector points out that the Shakti engine used in the helicopter “only has an indigenous name with hardly any self-reliance or technology control.”

Missile development

The Matheswaran report points out that in 2003, a decision was taken to allow the services to meet their operational requirements of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), till 2010, by acquiring through the “buy global” route because the development of the indigenous Akash and Trishul missile systems was delayed.

The DRDO stepped in and proposed joint development with Israel. So the DRDO and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) started development of a long-range SAM (LRSAM) for the Navy in 2005. In 2007, they started work on developing a medium-range SAM (MRSAM) for the IAF under a separate contract. “Incidentally, LRSAM & MRSAM is the same missile,” the report says.

In a scathing indictment of the entire project, the report says IAI remains the design authority for the complete system. “IAI is doing the role of supplier and the DRDO is the buyer, which is contrary to the DRDO role of design agency.”

“No transfer of technology (ToT) has been taken as part of the contract. We will remain dependent on IAI for its share,” the report points out, adding that the intellectual property rights (IPRs) remains with the design authority.

Conflict of interests

The report also tears into the Department of Defence Production.

“The DDP, which on behalf of the Services and the MoD would have been the instrument of indigenisation, became primarily a custodian of a large collection of ordnance factories and de-facto owner of shipyards, aircraft factories etc.”

This resulted in a conflict of interest, the report says.

Keywords: Sukhoi-30 MKI fighters, Advanced Light Helicopter, HAL, missile development, DRDO role, aircraft factories, ordnance factories, Cabinet Committee on Security

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