The Tejas delay was a perfect storm of DRDO's risk-aversion, HAL's production bottlenecks, and the Air Force constantly moving the goalposts—it became a project designed by committee, not by pilots. The Kaveri engine failed because we tried to leapfrog from basic metallurgy to cutting-edge thrust without the testbed culture that powers like GE built over decades. My reporting taught me that timelines in defence are political promises, not engineering realities. I see this from my own village: the new bridge sanctioned when I was a girl only got built when my son drove on it—our *sarkar* always runs on *susegad* time, whether for concrete or composites!
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