What do you achieve by making the job harder of OSINT? Even good OSINT folks, do their own research and do conclusions using official posters. Rather than rely on unreliable data.
I remember an instance when my company received a project of topographical matching of seabed from DRDO/IN. Its in the public domain now, so I can talk about it. During the initial days of operationalizing Arihant, they found the problem with using INS-only navigation, as it caused drift over time. And recalibration meant to surface the boat. So IN decided, to develop a system where they are able to know the locations using distinctive seafloor features. They hired survey ships to map the seafloor for that, and that's the reason that DRDO now ordered their own survey ships.
Even though the US and UK ships always used to follow our own, we were like we shouldn't talk about this in public that we developing this. There are certain things indeed that shouldn't come out in open, but this disease of excessive secrecy creates a further problem, where think tanks point out the problems that Forces missed. And they miss a lot of things and sometimes try to cover their incompetence using such secrecy.
