I am not sad it is imported, what bugs me is that. We have built modern trainers at home, we have built combat planes at home also light helis and now have experience in combat planes. We have also developed industrial partners and international joint ventures for avionics and sub compenents and many things now are manufactured in India including AESA radars.
But everything is undertesting is poised to stay under testing forever. Their testing effing never ends, if it ends then ends in a failure or change of requirements by the user. Its like a vicious circle. Going on since I was 5 yrs old.
the problem we are facing is good research scientist ,most of the DRDO are average scientist .most of them don't have any idea or exposer about the product they are making ,sometinme they come up with so basic design it's laughable .even if we buy latest weapon with TOT it's difficult for us to work on them
Making Copy is todays mantra buy weapon we need from grey market reverse engineer and come up with new name .
Cheap and reliable and don't worry about sanction.