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I would have never scrapped the Carbine deal. There are plenty of opportunities for the Gvt to seriously back local companies/products or just loudly boast their credentials while withholding orders - whichever they prefer (where are the LCH's, LCA's and Arjuns?) But sending troops to war...

Are they supposed to be made exclusively by local companies from scratch? Or will they be allowed to tie up with foreign companies to locally produce foreign, proven systems (like the Korean K9)?

India should've considered a massive package deal (maybe with the Israelis) to carry out mass local production of a family of firearms - with a decent quality standard issue rifle for most of the infantrymen. It would have made more sense than these piecemeal purchases, and would've been less...