jai jaganath
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I don't want to sound pro American or pro RussianWhile 100% reliability and performance cannot be guaranteed for any weapon system, nonetheless the matter should be investigated.
But a single test firing cannot be used to arrive at a conclusion.
Important to find out out what is the failure percentage. Whether it matches the manufacturer's promised performance parameters.
I assume that all the missiles were well within the stipulated expiry dates.
Both Russian and Western weapons cannot guarantee 100% reliability.
Same rule applies for indigenous weapons also.
But there is a very big advantage of using indigenously designed, developed and manufactured weapons.
Since the entire system is made in India including the hardware and software it becomes much more easier to trouble shoot. We can identify the anamoly and initiate remedial measures. Not wait for the OEM to come and solve the problem.
It will be very very unlikely that the makers of imported weapons especially high tech weapons will have transferred a complete 100% of the technical data about the weapons. Usually some of the key component parts will be fully imported without India being allowed to make it.
We need both WVR and BVR air to air missiles of indigenous make.
If certain classes of Air to Air missiles need to be imported for more effective defence against aerial threats, we also need to ensure that every IAF fighter aircraft carries a mixture of fully indigenous AAM's and imported AAM's.
It maybe possible that our own fully indigenous AAM's could become our last line of defence if the high cost imported missiles fail to function as promised.
But today both the r-73 i.e from tejas and samar failed to hit the target
I know no weapon guarantees 100% success but consecutively failing to strike the target raises some question and especially against same sort of drone
Infact during rehearsal samar did hit the target
I think they will release some info regarding it