Not quite Mr Kondiker- for instance the DRDO's brief has been to develop a Tejas LCV- it wants to even design the G suit and the helmet for the pilot,and the engine and the weapons and the software whereas in several areas the DRDO has the option to go for existing top of the line off the shelf products but it causes cost over runs and delays by insisting on developing everything inhouse- which is not what their brief is. The brief is to get a plane,who designs the pilots helmet and g suit is not in the brief and the Eventually they had to go in for an external engine as they could not develop one in house, some practical steps help. For LCV( or Tejas) v1 they should have looked at as much as they could in house and then looked at increasing indigenisation in v2, if they had taken that approach Tejasv1 would have been inducted and v2 would have been in advanced stage of development, instead we sit waiting for something to come out of the blackbox called DRDO-not too sure that by the time the aircraft comes out if it would meet the requirements or even the specifications it was designed for.
