NEW DELHI (PTI): Facing flak for time slippages in Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas programme, DRDO chief V K Saraswat has attributed the delay to "setbacks" caused by international sanctions and inadequate development of aerospace industry in the country.
Saraswat, who retired on Friday, contended that the DRDO had to start from "scratch" to indigenously develop the fighter aircraft as the manufacturing base in the country was non-existent.
He said these issues have now been addressed to a large extent and other versions of the combat aircraft can be developed in a short time.
"We had to go through the rigours of development from the scratch where we had to develop the whole range of products.
This is not a problem in foreign countries where everything is available whereas we had to develop everything," he told PTI in an interview here.
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