Come on. This is the worst logic I ever heard. Satelite is a more complex object and is put in orbit thousands of Kms above earth with accurate precision. A few inches of digression can change the orbit altogether. Do you want me to believe Mars mission was less complex thing than making a tank. The actual reason is that we lived in total tech denial in case of satelites and missiles, but foreign options are available in case of tanks, aircrafts etc. Therefore forces are not tied to buy indegenious products only.
A DRDO official put it succinctly... Why does a country which possess tech to create SSBNs,ICBMs, BMD, Mangalyaan, SLV have to import measly 9mm pistol, Rifles, Personnel carriers etc...
Reason .... SSBNs,ICBMs, BMDs, SLV tech and other dual technology are not on market...meaning no money to be made on the sly by middlemen, no money to grease the palms of bureaucrats to deploy red tapes....hence no sabotage or subversion required through their henchmen in MSM, government and MOD
Tanks, aircraft, art, Troop carriers etc are on market and hence their indigenous counterparts are subject to sabotage (Arjun), derision (Tejas), bad mouthing (Insas 1b1) through paid article by MSM and red tap-ism by MOD... A plan is hatched and as if on cue from a hidden hand an entire machinery is activated with the objective of herding the country towards buying foreign maal...... MSM is deployed to undermine indigenous products, raise hue and cry on shortage of arms & ammo, exhorting the preeminence of foreign maal over indigenous product ... we don't see the hidden puppeteers but can see the manifestation of their actions on the ground.....
We in recent past witnessed the never ending circus of the purported single engine fighter tender that was going around for years..... But you have to give it to the effort of well oiled machinery salivating at the money to be lapped up..... man o man these puppeteers are very very good in shaping the narrative by positioning well written articles in MSM and twitter feeds quoting these informed sources....they are so good in shaping the narrative that even our informed members were in a tizzy for couple of years filling this forum with their well intentioned anguish despite assertions of few members who correctly pointed out to the absence of EOI or RFI or RFP from MOD
Lot of good indigenous products has been junked for substandard foreign maal and remember india is not alone, remember Israeli Lavi, the recent Jap X2 nipped in the bud to ensure no counterpart in the western world for F35.. wont be surprised for Korean/Indonesia KF-X to go the same way