[chajin]

The Tata of fighters?

[Tea Party Terrorist]

I have made a few Indian friends who are hoteliers/business owners. What they say about the corruption in India may boggle your mind.

One built a hotel back in India and swears he will never do business again there.

[Scythian_Reborn]

[rjsimmon]

Hindustran Aeronautics Limited 

HAL?

[Snowybear]

Considering the quality of the work I’ve seen with software out sourced to India I am SO not surprised.

[central_va]

Here is the prototype

[butlerweave]

The INSAS Assault Rifle is also junk

[Zathras]

Indian engineers...
One good one for every 50 bad ones

[AnotherUnixGeek]

So why not just buy the FA-18 from the US and be done with it? Apparently Boeing is offering to manufacture the jet in India which would create jobs for India as well as the US, India could pick up valuable know-how about military aircraft manufacture and it would tie India to the most powerful military system in the world. Trying to do it all themselves is obviously not working, and while they try to get it right, they fall further and further behind China.