Your misconceptions are the root cause of your anger.
India maybe the fourth largest military but when comes to (exportable) defense production, it does not feature even in the top 25. Holding large amount of obsolete weapons and recruiting large conscript army means little when comes to effectiveness. India has to keep up with its potential enemies both qualitatively and quantitatively.
India may be is the fifth largest economy but its per capita income ranks among the lowest in the world. It has a very long way to go before catching up to economically advanced and technologically developed nations such as Israel.
While India is doing so, it is justified to import necessary equipment and technology to keep the defenses intact.
Completely O/T but To give you perspective
1. By and large most militaries in the world are in the same state as India.
a) when the US military first invaded Astan and Iraq it was falling apart at the seams, Your equipment was breaking down, infantry was buying kit with their own money etc - 18 years and trillions of dollars has rectified it
b) China - outside the propoganda pictures the bulk of the PLA - (army / AF / Navy ) is still more obsolete if not as much as india's
c) same with Russia above
d) today most of the German Tanks are non operational, Most of UKs and Frances Navy cant be put to sea.
(NO NATO Country or ALL of NATO can go to war without America. And i mean including with ANYBODY. not one of them can go to war with Iran, for example today)
e) Israel / South Korea / Japan are probably the most uniformly up to date militaries - and they all heavily Rely on Uncle Sam for protection and they all have TINY populations
LASTLY - This ragtag, bhuka, Nanga (starving / naked - which i assume is what you passed off by saying conscipt) country saved Whitey Arse twice in WWI and WWII easily establishing themselves as some of the best soldiers in the commonwealth.
2) 5th Largest Economy with Low GDP per capita
- Give us time sir. in 1947 we were one of the poorest countries on the planet in absolute GDP sense, in 1971 we had a National Emergency crises because of famine and bankruptcy as a country.
In under a Century we are a Top 5 economy and for a $1500 GDP per capita country the quality of institutions we have set up are unparalleled in Human History
- RBI
- Election commission
- Supreme court
- Federal, Multi Party Democracy for a 1.3bn people with more lanquages, religions and ethnicities than all of europe combined
We did ALL of the above with ZERO help from anybody. While China/Japan/Israel over the decades has been pumped with capital by the rest of the world we did it ourselves. We did it with an inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy, we did with with Partisan, Communal Politics and everything that comes with it.
We are far from perfect. But If we could achieve SO MUCH with SO little in such a short period of time imagine what we can achieve in the next 50 years.
So while we have a long way to go. I am willing to bet we will do it in the shortest amount of time. We have a unique ability to master the learning curve
(and unlike the Chinese we wont do it with the barrell of a Gun pointed at our own population)