00:00Coincidence. That is damage control.
00:07Tejas was designed around India's indigenous Kaveri engine.
00:13That engine failed.
00:15To salvage the program, India forced in the American GEF-404 engine,
00:22reshaping aerodynamics, structural balance, and flight control laws.
00:27Tejas became a patchwork jet.
00:30Indian airframe, American engine, Israeli avionics, Russian and Western weapons.
00:37Systems never designed to work together.
00:40The result? Unstable flight behavior, incomplete weapons integration,
00:46fragile electronic warfare capability.
00:49Even after 17 prototypes, Tejas is still not combat mature.
00:56Over 16 billion dollars of public power.
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