Bangalore: When doubts are being raised over the future of Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), designing the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA), senior scientist and architect of the LCA programme, and consultant with Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Kota Harinarayana said: “ADA has enough work for the next 15 years. We have enormous workload for LCA project itself and beyond LCA, too. ADA is here to stay.”
Doubts have arisen in the light of LCA taking 25 years to fruition and massive Rs 25,000-crore spend. LCA is poised to secure its Initial Operational Clearance-II (IOC) at Bangalore’s HAL airport three days from now and many scientists see this as a sign that LCA will achieve the Final Operational Clearance (FOC) by 2015 and eventually be inducted by Indian Air Force (IAF). A section of scientists has asked what after LCA for ADA? What will it do?
They say there has been no definitive answer. They say knowledge-base acquired during LCA effort has not been built upon, that national teams put together from different organisations have dispersed and that R&D institutions are losing bright and highly motivated talent to private aeropace MNCs.
16/12/13 Prashanth G N/Deccan Herald
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Doubts have arisen in the light of LCA taking 25 years to fruition and massive Rs 25,000-crore spend. LCA is poised to secure its Initial Operational Clearance-II (IOC) at Bangalore’s HAL airport three days from now and many scientists see this as a sign that LCA will achieve the Final Operational Clearance (FOC) by 2015 and eventually be inducted by Indian Air Force (IAF). A section of scientists has asked what after LCA for ADA? What will it do?
They say there has been no definitive answer. They say knowledge-base acquired during LCA effort has not been built upon, that national teams put together from different organisations have dispersed and that R&D institutions are losing bright and highly motivated talent to private aeropace MNCs.
16/12/13 Prashanth G N/Deccan Herald
