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Apparently in development for about two decades already; requirements can change quite a bit meanwhile. So can available technologies. One could of course counter that it has taken a similar amount of time to seek and field a replacement for the T-38 but that program, at least, materialized in one way or another several viable candidates in far less time. Slightly curious about the effort as a whole. Indian aerospace projects, while sometimes tardy, can also be very frugal in ways that wouldn't necessarily occur to other organizations.

[QUOTE="UpForce, post: 508979, member: 6994"] Apparently in development for about two decades already; requirements can change quite a bit meanwhile. So can available technologies. One could of course counter that it has taken a similar amount of time to seek and field a replacement for the T-38 but that program, at least, materialized in one way or another several viable candidates in far less time. Slightly curious about the effort as a whole. Indian aerospace projects, while sometimes tardy, can also be very frugal in ways that wouldn't necessarily occur to other organizations. [/QUOTE]

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