You are completely right, and I completely agree. And these are the thoughts I have tried to convey in my posts. But people are mistaking the availability of AR design with the ability to produce cutting edge weapons. Any new weapon should not be merely a clone of some old design. Let us all agree on this.
Now, you are going to look at modern designs for your shiny new rifle. Let us see what is happening in the world of patents. I invite people on this thread -
@Zarvan @Ahmet Pasha I am looking at you - to go to patents.google.com and search (~patent/WO1999005467A1) including the brackets. These are the top two results that come up:
The mechanism comprises a main frame ( 1 ) and its extension ( 1 ′), which accommodate a barrel ( 21 ) with fixed mounting, a mobile bolt ( 22 ) and its guiding pin ensemble ( 66 ) and main spring ( 67 ) moving in the main frame ( 1 ), a mobile mass ( 34 ) and its assembly of guiding pin ( 60 )...
patents.google.com
A magazine well for a firearm having an angled spine receiving portion. A charging handle for a firearm having latch that extends below a bottom surface of a crossbar. A bolt carrier for a firearm having a pair of vent holes disposed in the indented portion and at least one additional vent hole...
patents.google.com
These were patented in 2008 and 2016. Since patents apply anywhere from 15 to 20 years, these are still applicable. Even before you can design your own rifle, you will need to do an exhaustive literature survey across the US, the EU, Australia, Japan, literally most of the first world.
Now suppose you get a new design somehow and even patent it. You now have to defend that patent. This is what will happen. Some company holding thousands of patents will sue you for having violated their patents, whereas in fact you haven't violated any. But the judge doesn't know that. It will now be your responsibility to prove that you actually haven't violated those thousands of patents. This will be a law suite that takes many years. So many years that most of the useful life of your 'patent' will have expired.
You guys thing you are some super genius people who can sit on your desk and throw about opinion about major Pakistani enterprises like POF and HIT when you don't know anything about what you are talking about. Please grow up and acquire more knowledge before you open your big mouths on subjects that don't fall within the purvey of your expertise.
Patent/IP or No patent/IP I don't care.
My main point is innovation, ingenuity, product catalog/business development strategies which is severely lacking in POF.
Last 2 decades they change length of G3 and it is supposed to be a miracle like Apple changing screen size every year and giving it a new name.
How do you need patent to develop a NEW rifle? If that really was the case then no one would develop a new rifle.
China is copying so much Western tech, and actively stealing IP through their spies. No one can touch em. I do not encourage this. It is quite despicable tbh.
But stop hiding behind excuses like the mighty lumber 1 force doesn't need advance equipment, requirement nai hai, paise nai hain, economies of scale nai hai, wagera wagera. Stop using these excuses for complacency and incompetency.
2 decades HIT has failed to deliver a potent wheeled IFV/AFV.
They finally managed to make Dragoon. Wow a moujiza. Which isn't really adopted. So far it's only been with ASF and it's not clear how it has been performing.
It wasn't really needed for the military at large. PakMil needed more of a 8x8 or 6x6 a la Italian puma or something like Pars 8x8. What they got was Dragoon 4x4.
In MRAP scene Hamza family of armored vehicles surfaced but it is not known if it has been scrapped or not. Before that they made that monstrosity based on Hino light 6x4 truck which was supposed to be a copy of IMI Wildcat. Looked more like a 1980s pixelated version of IMI Wildcat.
For tanks 2 decades and they were making AK below the capacity (granted it was financial problems bcz of Zardari). Even after that there were rumors of Turks presenting them advanced turret design and subsystems along the lines of Altay/Leopard. Don't know if HIT signed on or ran to the arms of plastic brother himalya se oonchi and samandron se gehri.
HIT shortcomings are forcing us to buy from China on installments!!!
So this is very telling. It's not just me and Zarvan being picky. The incompetence, arrogance, dang tapaooo "we'll get it from Iron brother on installments lets just finish this tenure and retire to DHA and Cantt golf course" attitude speaks for itself.
Imagine the billions we would have saved if HIT and POF would do their job properly. The billions we would have earned if we sold our products to countries in Far East, Central Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe Africa and MENA habibis. Like the JF17 is expected to be. There is market share to be had. Question is do HIT and POF uncles want to actually do something or whine about patents, economies of scale, funding or whatever excuse pops into their head.
Yes Zardari era was sucking the whole country dry. But since Nawaz came to power the military seemed to have a lot of influence though there was a lot of friction between Nawaz gainda and military. But military did seem to have an upper hand/influence.
Also post Zardari no one was stopping them from forming JVs with South Korea for hummvees, Turkey(which has an awesome catalog of products on offer and they were keen on making us partners on several ventures), South Africans(primarily missile and missile defence programs), Eastern European countries that had rifles and sight systems on offer etc etc. But no such solid JVs materialised.
If PAC can spare a few hundred millions or 2-3 billion we could easily acquire majority stake or partnership in Embraer it's ripe for taking. It has good AWACS/MPA programs and is an established player in business jet and regional jet markets. It also has the KC390 cargo jet program which has been orphaned by Boeing pulling out. We won't have to beg for used C-130s anymore from gora.(But this is for Air Force section; topic for another thread on another day).
PakMil does have options out there in the world, a bit of creativity is needed. Instead of running behind rich white gora nations.
Try doing business with developing nations that actually do want customers. Not the big sharks that squeeze for the last billion for a dozen shiny toys.
Example Bell sold us 12 helicopter and supporting arms, services and iiiikkkipment(love how Pakistani generals say this word cracks me up) for $1 billion.
We signed the deal with Turkey for 30-40 T-129s for $1.5 billion. And the good relations and participation in heavier ATAK and future TAI helo programs is even more worthy of a deal in my eyes.
