Sarkari BABUS at DRDO (DR DO littles) and HAL final deliver baby after 32 years.
Indira Gandhi was prime minister in 1982 when the project started and Ìndia changed 9 prime ministers during the course of the the project.
Nobody can calculate the total amount spent on the project since last 32 years,
Read cost and try to compound it to today:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Tejas
In 1983, IAF realised the need for development of an Indian combat aircraft for two primary purposes. The principal and most obvious goal was the development of a replacement aircraft for India's ageing MiG-21 fighters. The MiG-21 has been the mainstay of the Indian Air Force since the 1970s. The "Long Term Re-Equipment Plan 1981" noted that the MiG-21s would be approaching the end of their service lives by the mid-1990s, and that by 1995, the IAF would lack 40% of the aircraft needed to fill its projected force structure requirements.
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