AnantS
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Tata , L&T are not foreign companies. You need to understand.. DRDO is slowly moving towards DARPA model where it develops a tech and licenses the tech to Indian private manufacturer and hold hands of private industry via consulting. Regarding getting experience, all Tata & L&T have to do what Elon Musk did with ex Nasa scientists. Lakshya is just one example. The very first nuclear submarine INS Arihant had its hull made by L&T, who also supplied other critical subsystems. This is very good example of joint public private R&D effort.Please look into your own example: DRDO is transferring the production tech not the designing know-how.
Did DRDO give out the knowledge of aerodynamic accumulated in past 3 decades? No!
Did DRDO give out the experience of structural designing in its previous projects? No!
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The list can go on and on. All these are the keys that your Tata need to start developing their own military equipment. All these know-how took DRDO decades to accumulate and cost billions dollars public money.
Without all these knowledge, the best Tata can do is working as production of DRDO.
True there will be resistance by PSU's who traditionally got DRDO's business of mass production. But DRDO will be too happy with this model as it can generate funds for itself via licensing/consulting fees. The only hiccups in private defence R&D are a) how much govt is going to allow private venture into R&D in practice, in what systems and how much monetary effort govt is going to put in to make their R&D viable. b) Will of Private Industry to commit in real R&D.
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