Why not buy arms companies instead of importing arms

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Why not buy Bofors instead of their guns? Why not buy Dussault instead of Rafale? Why not buy Sevmash instead of Gorshkov.
That way we learn how to make arms properly. We can export to others and we are not at the mercy and impotence of DRDO and it's chief Saraswat
 

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Why not buy Bofors instead of their guns? Why not buy Dussault instead of Rafale? Why not buy Sevmash instead of Gorshkov.
That way we learn how to make arms properly. We can export to others and we are not at the mercy and impotence of DRDO and it's chief Saraswat
Its a good idea to buy some arms companies to get the knowledge but We already built an aircraft carrier by our own. Its needs more fitment.

 

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Countries have rules and regulations about sale of sensitive companies like arms companies.

No matter how rich you get, you cannot buy Lockheed Martin. If Tata, Ambani, Birla, Mittal - all of them pool their wealth and assets and try to buy out Lockheed, the US government will not allow the sale to happen. That is US law.

Let alone sale of the company - even weapons cannot be sold without governmental authorization. That is how US can impose "sanctions". Left to themselves, Lockheed, Raytheon, etc. would love to sell to anyone who pays. The US government prevents them.
 

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Nice idea. But the problem is who will be ready to sell their company, if they have a good technology? And those who are ready to sell their company wont have a good technology no?
 

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Nice idea. But the problem is who will be ready to sell their company, if they have a good technology? And those who are ready to sell their company wont have a good technology no?
Its not that simple. It is never about technology alone. IBM sold PC division to Lenovo. Perot Systems was bought by Dell. HP bought Compaq which had bought Digital earlier. JDA purchased i2 technologies.

All these companies that were bought out were great companies. World beaters, among the best in the world at what they did. Yet, they were sold because of a multitude of factors. Business is never that straight. :sad:
 

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Take the case of Tetra. We can't even copy a truck in 40 years. Why not buy Tetra itself?
Sevmarsh was bankrupt till we revived them with the Gorshkov order. Why not buy a controlling stake in Sevmarsh. Same with Dassault.

Look at what the Chineese do.
They have the world's largest deposits of rare earths(Used in gyroscopes). The Chineese bought the US company that made guidance systems. Learnt the technology. Developed a clone factory in Shangai and put curbs on exporting rare-earths to the US.

But all this requires balls. Something the so called PM doesn't have
 

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^^ Like I said, absolutely nothing to do with the "PMs balls". No country will allow you to buy their arms companies. Maybe a few small ones, with difficulty - nothing significant.

And don't tell me you expect the PM to go around buying companies. We should push for private participation in defence production. Things will iron themselves automatically. Expecting the government to go around taking over companies is just perpetuating NehruGandhi socialism. The government will never get that right, it is NehruGandhi socialist conditioning that makes Indians still look towards the government for everything. :sad:

Allow private military industrial complex to come up in India. Things will change within 15 years.
 

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People remember the hoopla raised by the Frenchies during the sale of Arcelor to Mittal ? If that was the case for a steel company think about the companies that deal with technologies vital to national security.
 

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People remember the hoopla raised by the Frenchies during the sale of Arcelor to Mittal ? If that was the case for a steel company think about the companies that deal with technologies vital to national security.
Exactly. Not just "hoopla" this time - like I said, almost all countries have clear cut legislation prohibiting such sale.

LOL - Americans apply "sanctions" at the drop of a hat, preventing all their companies from CRAY to Lockheed, from doing any business with the sanctioned nation. And they will allow some foreign nation to buy out these symbols of American power - really? :lol:
 

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This DRDO monopoly should end. Having the head of DRDO as scientific advisor is a clear conflict of interest.
Btw Dassault is a publicly traded company.
 

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This DRDO monopoly should end. Having the head of DRDO as scientific advisor is a clear conflict of interest.
Btw Dassault is a publicly traded company.
Agreed - DRDO monopoly should end. Campaign for a military industrial complex in India. That is the only way forward. :thumb:

Dassault is publicly traded - so? Didn't get the relevance of this point to the discussion here. :(
 
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Dassauly is publicly traded - so? Didn't get the relevance of this point to the discussion here. :([/QUOTE]

So it is easier to get a majority stake.
 

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So it is easier to get a majority stake.
For Indians? How exactly will that happen? Through the open market, clandestinely? The securities boards of the nations are not going to let you do it openly, see - and even if you do it clandestinely, then? How will it help getting technology, knowhow, blueprints?

The only way one can get their tech is buy actually buying them openly, and transferring it to Indian ownership. Have Indian eyes and brains work over the data and tech.

No way the French will allow that.
 

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Well you can never buy a defence company because as mentioned earlier by a member none of these companies are in the market for sale, instead what we can do is buy (I think employ would be a better word) the people who work there...that we get the knowhow.
 

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For Indians? How exactly will that happen? Through the open market, clandestinely? The securities boards of the nations are not going to let you do it openly, see - and even if you do it clandestinely, then? How will it help getting technology, knowhow, blueprints?

The only way one can get their tech is buy actually buying them openly, and transferring it to Indian ownership. Have Indian eyes and brains work over the data and tech.


No way the French will allow that.
The biggest problem is that Indian eyes and brains don't have good trainers. Unless we have their scientists train ours, we will flounder.
We need to tell France, we'll buy your reactors if you also let us buy Dassault. Money is the carrot and the stick.
 

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The biggest problem is that Indian eyes and brains don't have good trainers. Unless we have their scientists train ours, we will flounder.
We need to tell France, we'll buy your reactors if you also let us buy Dassault. Money is the carrot and the stick.
I am sorry however you are totally wrong on the point that we don't have good trainers...we do have, you can say that the human resource in our country is not utilised properly, i shall agree with that, but when you say that we don't have good trainers then you are totally wrong.
 

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This DRDO monopoly should end. Having the head of DRDO as scientific advisor is a clear conflict of interest.
Btw Dassault is a publicly traded company.
DRDO is just a research organisation...there is no monopoly over here....everyone is free to do research...regarding funding to do the same, then you should have the necessary capabilities to carry out the research in the first place or you should have a solid project on whose basis you or your company might receive the funding
 

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Well you can never buy a defence company because as mentioned earlier by a member none of these companies are in the market for sale, instead what we can do is buy (I think employ would be a better word) the people who work there...that we get the knowhow.
Now, that's a workable plan. Give them expat status in India, pay them insanely well.

Oh wait - the PSUs will not be able to do that. They just cannot execute such a plan. :(

So it comes back to - allow private participation in defence production. The private companies like Reliance, Tatas, Mahindra etc. will automatically poach people from the well known defence firms worldwide - they need no advice in doing such things. :)
 

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I am sorry however you are totally wrong on the point that we don't have good trainers...we do have, you can say that the human resource in our country is not utilised properly, i shall agree with that, but when you say that we don't have good trainers then you are totally wrong.
I have interacted with the clowns in DRDO. I know that more than 80% of their scientists are fools, bordering on retarded.
 

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DRDO is just a research organisation...there is no monopoly over here....everyone is free to do research...regarding funding to do the same, then you should have the necessary capabilities to carry out the research in the first place or you should have a solid project on whose basis you or your company might receive the funding
Look how long, defense procurement takes. Which private company will wait so long for a return on their investment?
Will you invest Billions of dollars while Antony scratches his bald head for 5 years?
 

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