Muje bhi explain kardo bhaiya
Gridbots developed Titan. Whom would they give it for testing?
Obviously Indian users.
But back in 2017, when TheMis was ordered, Titan was no where in picture. So to get a first hand experience of UGV warfare, IA needed a platform. So, in that case, there were two courses to follow. First to seek similar platform from indigenous developer and wait for 4 to 5 years for a prototype to come up with no guarantee on numbers of even order. Second, to go for a already existing platform to form a test case for future war doctrine.
IA opted for the second case and IMO a right decision keeping in mind that we had no existing platform of our own. But here too while opting for a foreign system, there are two approaches. First, go through the whole AON, AFI, RFP/RFQ and do a tender or to go with a off the shelf purchase. Here TheMis has been purchased off the shelf by MoD instead of IA. No formal request or procedure has been put forward by IA for that with Milrem. If you visit the Milrem site, you would observe that they had not made any official announcement of any sale to IA. So this purchase could be from US army stock too instead of Milrem.
So, opposed to the RR done by many members here, IA has not opted for or ordered for Milrem TheMis by overlooking Gridbots offering.