ok then why are DRDO and OFB guys are paid so much thiose dodo's dint help when we needed
whats stoped them in developing light and powerfull arty guns they kept sleeping on bofors blueprints for two decades
heck a small nation like singapore and israel can develop a full range of small arms which are better than the traditional german or american fire arms
then why cant they hadnt we faught 4 regular wars and a constant low intensity war on owr LOC
how difficult is it to make a modular polymor body based bullpup variant of excalibur ?
just look at pakistan a nation that cant develop a 80cc moped engine is making full range of ammo in pakistan
and look at us even with french , israeli , american and russian support where do we stand its utter failure and shmelessness of DRDO & OFB guys
Dear Guru,
How much do you think a scientist of DRDO does get in salary. Compare the same with any of the fresher in IT sector. Lets talk about priorities here. Priorities given by not only GoI, but priorities given by us too. Ask any of the student of today, his ultimate aim would be to get a masters in Business administration or in Engineering and too move over to greener pasture abroad. How many of the students you have came across who want to pursue a course in metallurgy? How many of the students you came across who want to be part of DRDO or OFB or any govt organization? All those who are a part right now, among them too half were there not by choice. Our priority from the start has been in IT and pharma sector and look where we stand in it.
Visit any of those shady area in Bihar and UP. You would come across a lot of people who are busy in making
KATTA's. But could you employ any of those in these organizations? From the day one itself arms and ammunition has never been our concern. As far as formation of DRDO and OFB are concerned, they were mainly concerned with making licensed version of foreign arms. Take the case of INSAS. Kargil paved the way for its induction and there too it came under immediate fire for not performing on par with AK's. Did anyone asked why it happened? Did anyone from Armed services were a part in its designing and preliminary testing? Its easy to point finger on the manufacturer for the flaws, but no one want to shoulder half of the burden. How on earth do you suppose some guys sitting in a room to design a flawless weapon without any input from the field person.
Lets take it in this way, when ever a software is designed, the developer does have a number of session with the customer to brush up he details and after that too a ED or BETA version is launched before the original. Now imagine what would happen with that software if it goes the INSAS way. As far as designing new weapon is concerned, how much do you think is given for R&D? How much our premiere educational institutes have helped the defence sector? We do churn out world class engineers yearly and half of them are serving in Silicon valley and NASA.
Lets find answers to these questions:
Q.1--- Why private sectors has not been promoted in defence sector from day 1?
Q.2--- What is our annual expenditure in defence R&D?
Q.3--- What is the participation of educational institutes in defence sector?
I think we will know what is holding us back if we could answer these questions. Its easy for anyone to point a finger at DRDO and OFB but we should look at other factors too because of which we are at this stage.