Exactly that I am hinting at. "Nach Na jane Aangan Teda". DRDO is only a designing agency then why are they worried about the orders from Indian Army. They pass on their design to production agency. Talk about Arjun and then they talk about CVRD. But DRDO bosses goes on defending Arjun day in and out.
Arjun is a superior design and it is not being defended only by DRDO bosses but from army ranks too. Unfortunately serving ranks of army can't go public contradicting their superior's opinions say like ex DGMO Bhardwaj but when they retire they do speak their mind. And lately we all heard from three armored core officers what they had to tell public about their first hand experience with Arjun.
How do you know there are no kickbacks and corrupt practices when Indian Army takes Mal from PSUs. Particularly when the cost of foreign mal and that supplied by PSUs is almost the same with no comparison between the protect. The difference is that when PSU make mal DRDO also takes a cut.
Why would PSUs pay kickbacks to corrupt section of army, may be for not buying their products? Or you are actually referring to a particular incident where a PSU actually acted as an agent of foreign vendor and used a senior serving army officer as lobbyist in office no less than that of CoAS?
in 1857 there was a mutiny on the issue of cartridges being supplied to Indian Army? who faced that mutiny ? The producers or the generals?
And the point is? Wait, you already know, if Army goes to war with DRDO developed products, it will face negative consequences?
Regarding mutiny, well 1857 mutiny had much broader reasons than just a case of introduction of particular type of cartridge"¦"¦ Mutiny could escalate so fast so deep only because there were outstanding issues between
Gora officers and tanned sepoys; issues that were related to inhumane and unequal treatment and that apart from many. Cartridge issue was only sudden blow to already smoking fire which would have got flames regardless.
And by the way that single charge-bullet cartridge was an excellent feat of military engineering and only god telling how much it helped
Goras in suppressing 1857 mutiny and its consequent mass revolt.
You are too naive on military affairs. War is a collective national affair. But the victory or defeat belongs to the Generals and leadership, never the DODOs.
Victory or defeat in War brings glory and sorrow to entire nation no matter how differently. For example, German participation in WW1 and defeat brought Treaty of Versailles and greater economic crises as a consequence of it and made entire Germany pay. When France walked into SAARLAND (as a consequence of combined failure of German leadership and military), it was common Germans who suffered most, it was coal miners (to be particular) who apart from rest of local residents got French boots right to their asses, not just those who lead and commanded it to defeat in WW1. May be more Germans died because of consequences of defeat in WW1 than those during war.
Now I wonder to whom victory or defeat actually belongs in real and practical sense? And what is importance of symbolic notion in real world? May I reiterate the fact that military is very part of a nation and its actions affects rest of the nation as much as theirs affects it.
And thanks for calling me naïve. Even though I never forget, it refreshed very fact that person should never let hunger for more knowledge reduce till death comes. That's the only way which can save someone from slipping into delusion of being expert. That, as evident, failed in at least one case.
DODOs have to function in commercial and competitive world.
DRDO only needs to pass its additional weight to whosoever competent enough (PSU or/and private) and get to its originally conceived role which always was high end military specific R&D.
you all blame all your failures firstly on Army and may when cornered on PSUs. Unfortunately none of you take it as constructively and react like a Labour Union.
Nobody is putting blame on one or other as whole, we are only talking about individual contribution to overall problem. But of course we are opposing people who apparently see DRDO as sum of all evils and want to use it as a blame-bin.
That is why I personally call you guys DODOs.
I am thinking of 'Moti' as return favor, may be 'Sheru' is a better choice.