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Having the TOT of a proven and functional platform means a tremendous head start for a serious engineering project. Based on that you can incorporate your ideas step by step in a linear fashion till you own it 100%, and you're in a position to modify and modulate it at your will.....I find the concept of "indigenize" to make little sense. It's looking at things from a counterproductive reverse perspective.
You create a strong environment of professionals & experts for R&D who give you evolving technology as per your needs.
Not take technology and try to indigenize it - that will always keep you backwards because you rely on copying others' work rather than independently innovating and designing.
I think what you are talking about it is actually taking place under the JF-17 PFX program - can't verify anything for certain though
The entire Turkish industrial complex is built on the fundamental TOTs of the basic platforms. Once they fathomed the fundamentals no dearth of innovations from them now.....
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