I have flown Supersonics and I can tell you that India cannot manufacture a 5th generation fighter jet. Similarly, India does not have the technology nor the money to back R & D to manufacturing bullet trains. It actually boils down to politics and that is the bane of India as a democracy of the west minister type selected by Nehru and Gandhi is not relevant to the Indian context.
The basic components are the avionics and the power plant which have to be tested in a wind tunnel. India just has no expertise in this field and even if India starts now it will be at least two decades behind China and Japan and the technology which we will produce will be obsolete.
The problem with India is that in 1948 India had a more advanced basic industry than China where not even a bicycle was made but China by building infrastructure and basic ingredients of science has taken a lead and the bullet train and the fifth generation Fighter the Chengdu is Chinese achievement. India will have to thank Pandit Nehru for being the laggard in the world. What next?
The advent of Narendra Modi made a difference but then we all know that the Augeon Stables cannot be cleaned and Modi has a real task on his hands.
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