South Korea, a country with a massive and high quality ship building industrial base had the plan to progressively indigenise the Type -209 and within a decade started building its own sub with its own design modifications.
India, that didn’t have the industrial base, had to do
India, that didn’t have the industrial base, had to do
https://twitter.com/sandeepunnithan/status/1403036464695312384
all this and apart from that had to take the extra effort to develop the shipbuilding mfg ecosystem from a low quality low output to a modern 21st century high quality thriving ecosystem. So it was a triple whammy for us in a sense. While have to be accelerating faster than peers
to catch up, we not only slowed down, by not having a plan to progressively indigenise but also stopped from running itself, by shunning what was to be learnt from the HDW. All this, while we were behind the starting point of So Ko in the first place in the 80s.
The difference essentially figuratively is, in this race, South Korea that already started ahead of us, moved from a Maruti 800 to Mercedes to a Ferrari while we keep changing from one Maruti 800 to another. So we are not just falling behind but we are slower than So Ko.
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