Starting off with an ad-hominem, I can already see where this is going.
And what has pakistan indended?
You keep indicating to these ambiguous successes, and likewise all anyone can see is you lot pointing to the ether and claiming you have achieved something.
AK is nothing more than the Chinese VT1, what HIT does for AK we have been doing with the OFB manufactured T-90s and more, yet you don't see us calling T-90s an Indian product.
We now make the ECU, APU and even the V92S2 engines of T-90 in India.
Other components of T-90.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/recent-indigenization-of-the-t-90.189461/
All these developments have led to the R&D of segregated indigenous subsystems like the individual underwater breathing apparatus (IUWBA), for T-90s.
So do give specifics of what you lot have actually reaped otherwise it's just hot air.
Also, you rhetorically asking me if I am privy to pakistani projects proves zilch, as the onus is on you to prove what exactly has the pakistani industry reaped(since you claimed pakistan always "reaps something"), not on me to disprove something that doesn't even exist. You are just shifting the burden of proof.
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I don't see why you are pretending like indigenous production is not the eventual goal.
You can "source" as much as you like but the fact remains that those are not yours and pakistan gains nothing from importing whereas India gains a boat load from even attempting an indigenous subsystem.
You can call anything to be yours, but it won't really make it your own.
If other countries suddenly stop giving pakistan all the parts necessary for making AK, will pakistan suddenly come out the next day with a 100% indigenous AK?
If you have the gall to say pakistan reaps more than India in its tank project then have the confidence to name the said subsystems you have indigenized, and if by "reap" you hypocritically only mean sticker-screwdriver tech then don't compare Arjun with AK as pakistan has nothing on the level of Arjun, compare AK with T-90 Bhishm as both are more or less foreign products.
At what cost, you ask.
At the cost of crores and years of R&D for the purpose of self sufficiency(which we always achieve) as compared to being always dependent on a sugar daddy.
You are under the wrong impression here, but what can one expect when one inundates oneself with only a certain type of news.
If you look at similar international programs, the cost of R&D in India is always lower, yes sometimes it takes more time but never does it cost more than most countries out there and we always induct and use the said product to its utmost, always.
So pray tell, what are these so called failed and half completed projects that you know of that we don't?
That's easy, more money.
It is indeed a T-90 beater, it is but empirically proven now, there are specific records of how Arjun upstaged T-90s and in which categories, there's no denying it.
As for why isn't India replacing T-90s with Arjun.
IA has been using T-90s a 3 man system for way too long and it is a lighter tank, which can be used relatively well in the softer agricultural grounds on both sides of the India-pakistan border.
Arjun otoh is more akin to Western heavy tanks which is why the arjun armoured regiments are concentrated near Rajasthan.
IA does not use Arjun exclusively for the very same reason PA rejected the Abrams in the 80s and only recently chose the lighter Chinese VT-4 instead of the heavier Turkish Altay, and exclusively uses tanks under 50 tonnes.
Why even talk about the world, Arjun isn't really available for exports.
Enough with that pretentious concern-trolling already.
India will become self sufficient in tanks and jets just like we became self sufficient in Missiles and Space and that happened only coz we took huge risks, faced sanctions and "wasted billions and failed initially".
Whereas you lot can pretend that you never fail and all your relatively conservative projects(all imported, with no scope of indigenization) "reap benefits" always.
It's people like me who put pressure on our R&D organizations to get it right, but you wouldn't know that considering how pakistan has next to nil capability for indigenization while the fanboys give excuses for pak basically sticker-screwdriving completely foreign weapons and giving them bombastic urdu names.
