First off, you are doing a great job cataloguing the various programs and projects on this thread. Really interesting and takes, time and effort. Kudos.
I am not sure of this at all, because Defence Research is a huge domain and there are many many areas where we have to yet make a mark. We will have to go the JV route, and that will still help us.
You have me on a bad day really sick .
As you your self said what i do takes lot of effort and time , conversely it also means i have considerable insight into the realities much of which are unknown. My info comes not from pressititudes or their crappy news reports but scientific journals and papers etc that is straight from the source.
I take offense that you implied i follow PSK , IMO i consider him to be a mullah and hence not be trusted. Except for the pics.
What i described in my previous post was the earlier days when drdo was not in a position to enter JV on equal terms.
What you described was the following years when drdo gained the necessary expertise to enter JV on equal terms.
This is a lot of difference when it comes to symantics eg porkies have JV with Chinese on jf17 which is a JV on name only. A feel good lie.
Do you think drdo is like them ?
Technology is always a step by step process , no short cuts .
Initially when drdo did not have the expertise they got some of the tech , they worked on it , what they got is " know how " also known as ToT, what they developed from the " know how " is " know why " which meant they now had complete mastery over the product development
Later on drdo leveraged this indigenous " know why " to negotiate with the polish to enter into JV so that drdo got acess to tech in exchange of corresponding transfer of drdo tech to the polish which they wanted or lacked.
The product the JV developed had both drdo and polish tech for superior capabilities.
The Israelis shared much more than you wrote , regarding BMD the Israelis themselves got help from the Americans on which they worked on to develop their own.
DRDO did the same , they got the tech which they wanted from the Israelis on which they worked on to develop the same. This included radar C3I etc .
The kinetic aspect of drdo BMD is completely indigenous though.
The foreigners mocking us for buying from foreigners or we needlessly sweating over it , which one is more hilarious bro ?
Let me end this here by saying developing a product by R&D is hard enough when one does not have any experience on the same and productionising the said product is even harder when one does not have the expertise on the same. and this is where india has lacked and continues to lack , though some progress has been make.
Eg insas rifle as a lab prototype was a excellent product but when it entered production , that is mass production started from factories , it started showing problems . Why ?
Lack of quality production process, state of the art toolings and machinery , QC process through our production cycle etc .
All those ToT and JVs are mostly drdo attempts to get production technologies one way or the other , something which no country wants to share or give
As for the 5 years comment , that was said by the current drdo chief .
As for the routes and steps drdo took to gain competency , it was a deliberate choice given the lack of time , lack of desired budget , lack of government support in the earlier and intervening years , political sabotage etc
So i think what happened did happen for good.
