They have 80 million people.
Because we can triangulate India between Turkey and China
China represents vast human resource and organization India can only dream of.
Turkey with 80 million simply represents superior strategy and people intelligence, India has a ceiling in terms of what it can deliver and even potentially absorb.
Right now India should be a major seller of military aircraft to the third world, it is Pakistan who holds that position instead.
So let's not assess India relative to others, let's just all agree they have a big GDP and are Powerful...no further questions please
Can India and Turkey develop excellent military turbofan engines? I don't know.
The Chinese adhere to a concept: "Pressure equals motivation." The greater the pressure, the greater the motivation; the less the pressure, the less the motivation.
When we urgently need something but cannot purchase it, the motivation for independent research and development increases infinitely. Conversely, if we can easily purchase it, the motivation for independent research and development decreases infinitely.
In the 1990s, the "Galaxy Incident" led to China's urgent need for a satellite navigation system. Europe's "Galileo Project" humiliated China again. Thus, the BeiDou satellite navigation program was born.
The emergence of the American F-22 made it impossible for the Chinese military to achieve the "eight fighter jets for one firing opportunity." Thus, the J-20 fighter jet project emerged.
There are many such examples...
However, there are also many negative examples.
Regardless of the struggle between China and the US, the US has not prohibited Microsoft from providing the Windows operating system to China. Therefore, although China has developed many domestically produced PC operating systems, none of them have achieved widespread market adoption. Android remains widely popular in China to this day. HarmonyOS only began to be promoted after the US sanctioned Huawei. Even now, many application software vendors still refuse to adapt to HarmonyOS. As for PC operating systems, the number of vendors adapting to its ecosystem is even smaller. ------ This is a classic case of insufficient pressure.
India and Turkey face the same problem.
If their pressure is insufficient, their own engine-like plans cannot succeed. Or rather, their success depends on the amount of pressure they face.
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The Development Process of China's Military Turbofan Engines:
Initially, it was handled independently by the engine research institutions under various aircraft manufacturers. For example, CAC, SAC, and XAC each had independent turbofan engine research and manufacturing institutions. However, none of these institutions achieved significant results. At that time, we could purchase relatively good turbofan engines from Russia/Ukraine, etc. This meant we didn't face much pressure.
Later, with the continuous decline of Russia/Ukraine and their technological lag, while the US and Europe continued to advance, the gap widened. China urgently needed better products. But Russia was unwilling to share. We also couldn't purchase advanced turbofan engines from the US and Europe. The pressure increased dramatically.
Therefore, China reorganized all the scattered turbofan engine-related institutions, establishing AECC. AECC coordinated and managed all affairs. This greatly increased our capabilities. The result was a continuous emergence of many new technologies…
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The May 7th air battle between India and Pakistan was originally an excellent opportunity to increase industrial pressure and stimulate industrial development. By publicizing this "humiliating event," the entire nation and people would be mobilized to fully support the rise of India's independent military industry. This intense pressure would provide the entire Indian military industry with massive R&D resources (funding, talent, etc.).
However, Indian politicians used the opposite propaganda...
