{"id":203304,"date":"2022-09-02T20:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=203304"},"modified":"2022-09-03T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T04:36:42","slug":"making-at-home-vikrants-commissioning-plans-to-build-fifth-generation-fighters-must-speed-up-defence-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/making-at-home-vikrants-commissioning-plans-to-build-fifth-generation-fighters-must-speed-up-defence-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Making at home: Vikrant\u2019s commissioning & plans to build fifth generation fighters must speed up defence self-reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cMaking at home: Vikrant\u2019s commissioning & plans to build fifth generation fighters must speed up defence self-reliance\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a02nd<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Defence technologies \u2013 Indigenization of technology<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: This article discusses the advantages of indigenization.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) recently cleared the project to develop Tejas Mark-2. It is an upgraded version of the indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas Mark-1. Another project of Rs 15,000-plus crore to build a fifth-generation advanced medium combat aircraft will be cleared in the next few months. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tejas Mark-1 will replace the ageing MiG-21s while Tejas Mark-2 will gradually substitute Mirage-2000s, Jaguars and the MiG-29s. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Another good news is commissioning of INS Vikrant. More than 75% of the ship\u2019s components have been procured domestically. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Why indigenization in defense is necessary?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geopolitical environment <\/strong>\u2013 It has become more complex and India can no longer rely on Russia which is now China\u2019s \u201climitless\u201d ally.<\/p>\n

Cost<\/strong> \u2013 Most hi-tech foreign purchases will be costlier than their domestically manufactured counterparts.<\/p>\n

Advantage for Indian industry<\/strong> \u2013 Made in India arms and defence systems will be a big boost for Indian industry.<\/p>\n

Why are imports still a necessity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The import content for the indigenous Tejas fighter continues to be around 50%.<\/p>\n

The key reason for reliance on foreign aero engines is that domestic Kaveri engine project failed.<\/p>\n

Big private sector companies should be invited for joint research and development to make import dependency minimum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cMaking at home: Vikrant\u2019s commissioning & plans to build fifth generation fighters must speed up defence self-reliance\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a02nd September 2022. Syllabus: GS 3 \u2013 Defence technologies \u2013 Indigenization of technology News: This article discusses the advantages of indigenization. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) recently… Continue reading Making at home: Vikrant\u2019s commissioning & plans to build fifth generation fighters must speed up defence self-reliance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10496],"class_list":["post-203304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902252},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}