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Nah, in the guise of giving a solution, he is still perpetuating the old system of the gormint being the mai-baap and doing everything with the exchequer's money without the exchequer getting anything in return. If they want money, they can issue bonds and let people voluntarily lend money to...

No tech was transferred between any PSU to any private company. Baba Kalyani figured out the metallurgy for the gun barrel himself.

The gormint has an obligation to cultivate alternate capability and award contracts to the lowest bidders to safeguard public money. Allowing a PSU monopoly to create a single bidder scenario doesn't get us the lowest bidder. There is no technology that was funded by taxpayer money which is...

Private sector isn't a mad scientist like Tony Stark with unlimited money who will build an Iron Man suit out of their spare time and money. They are contractual manufacturers. You tell them to make scissors, springs, ball bearings, suspension, engines they'll make that and put it together for...

The PSUs had like 70 years to become whatever they wished to become. The country has only recently started asking them questions about how the exchequer's money was spent and produced nothing significant all these years and let the country fall behind in the defense tech race. Even the...

Russia has been selling us weapons for 2 decades without being in a constant state of war except the post-2015 squabble with the US. Ukraine has been selling us Tatra trucks and Anotov planes, and they weren't at war either. Jaruri thodi na hai khud use karna hai. Bana bana ke dusro ko becho...

Reminds me of Doval's line "...it amuses me not because what they are saying is right..it's about how wrongly the right can be portrayed". Just the rumor of a stake sake bumped up the valuation of the PSU by 30%. Imagine what would happen if (when) the gormint goes about accomplishing its...

Artillery never becomes obsolescent. The fire control unit is a small computer which can be replaced at will, at minimum cost, the rest of the gun remains the same for decades. Bofors FH77 is a cold war era gun, designed in 1978, it is still relevant with minor electronic enhancements. The OFB...

No one is trying to force the Army to fight with hands tied at the back, but abhi kar toh li import Sig Sauer, M777, ATHOS, AK103, Tavor, Samsung K9. The babus have taken a step in good faith and given in to import demands on a priority basis for immediate security requirements, why not the...

@Bhadra So many Indian scientists in NASA and other military-industrial complex are Indian expats. How come the end user in the US is not having any problems using weapons made by them? how come end user here (aka Indian Army and IAF) always have problems using weapons made by Indians. The US...

The political brass cannot revolt against its subordinate organization. The infantry sees one dimension of the battlefield. The policy makers have other sources of intelligence to keep them posted about other dimensions. The cost of giving in to import demands is that indigenous industry will...

The govt has ordered the procurement of K9, M777, ATAGS, Dhanush in their first tenure itself. What seems to be the issue here?

Indigenization is an issue of policy making. The best machinery need not be the most politically expedient purchase. In an event like Kargil where the US had imposed an embargo on us, if you are left without spares in a future conflict, then Allah help us. Dependence on foreign imports affects...