Not sure if I am a fan of this development. They are not doing this on their own. They are "tying up" with General Atomics. So basically, it will be foreign technology repackaged as Indian. The Americans will control the technology and most Indians will live under the false sense of pride and achievement that comes with being an American vassal.
This is USA's new tactic. They tried to deny India technology, but when they did, India just went and created its own technology (Cryogenic Rocket Engines, Nukes, ASAT, Hypersonics, etc). So now USA plans to use this new move where they will "tie-up" with Indian baniyas who only care about profits and sell us this product as a "Joint Venture". Since General Atomics is ahead of DRDO in railgun research, they can always pitch a better product than DRDO can. Now this "Made in India" tag will be provided by Kalyani and the dumb netas, public and even Indian Armed Forces will go for the "better and cheaper" Kalyani product rather than going for DRDO product.
This will lead to a situation where DRDO gets called "useless" a lot more by idiots who don't know $hit and by presstitutes paid by the US of A, because DRDO products won't be able to compete with US products "in an open competition". In time, this will lead to a demand from all quarters to shut-down DRDO because they are "incompetent". Comparisons will be drawn with (by then) the long defunct OFB.
Result: USA gets to shut down India's only Defence R&D hub (DRDO) thereby shutting off any chance India has of competing with USA or having strategic autonomy, gets to make profit by selling us their product, gets to control the technological level of Indian Armed Forces.
Maybe this government is capable of realizing the reality of this, but surely once this government is out of office, no other check and balance on the system will exist to prevent this from happening, because the end user (Indian Armed Forces) have a personal axe to grind against DRDO.And Babus and any other netas can simply be bought off.
Some people might be amused as to why I am writing obituaries for DRDO and that "it might not be so bad", but trust me, this $hit is dangerous and needs to be constantly guarded against. Always assume the worst case scenario and work to prevent it from occurring. USA is not giving us all this technology out of benevolence, rather malevolence. They are killing two birds with one stone by arming India with its own technology: China (death by Murican weapons) and India (death of indigenous industry by smothering Indian technology). I sincerely hope that people realize the importance of DRDO and core research sooner rather than when it becomes too late. And I sincerely hope this baniya mentality of Indian conglomorates dies out (I highly doubt it will).
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Besides, I would like to have a word with whichever idiot runs this "Alpha Defence" news site, because he just called DRDO a "DPSU".