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India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes
Analysis : India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes Security. The government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
By Rahul Bedi
The GTRE GTX-35VS Engine on its testbed. Chandigarh: The government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, or self-sufficient India, initiative with regard to military equipment is littered with the remains of incomplete and ad hoc projects, on whose continuing development vast sums of money are being wasted.Many such ambitious programmes, under the patronage of the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) and the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), include the development of an aircraft engine, military transport and intermediate multi-purpose civilian aircraft and intermediate jet trainers or IJTs.All these programmes are either nowhere near completion, continue to be technologically hobbled or have simply become redundant in times of financial crisis, compounded in recent months by the economic calamity spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic.Other inept and futile DRDO programmes include decades-old endeavours in designing assault rifles, sub-machine guns and sniper rifles which continue desultorily, but at enormous cost. But instead of gamely admitting failure and formally scrapping these projects, and diverting the funds they continue to soak up for gainful employment elsewhere, they remain on the DRDO’s and HALs ‘active’ list.More in Security :Chinese Communist Party Members 'Infiltrated' Powerful Global Agencies: ReportKabul's Deputy Governor Killed in a Bomb Blast in AfghanistanChhattisgarh: CoBRA Officer Injured in Sukma IED Blast DiesINS Viraat Can Still Be Saved'DDC Polls Are for Development; Nothing to Do With Kashmir Conflict': Budgam Candidate2020 Gave India a Sharp Lesson on the Chinese Military. When Will Indian Generals Take Heed?In short, the government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
Also read: INS Viraat Can Still Be Saved
Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and DRDO advisor Lieutenant General J.P. Singh said the DRDO needs to stop chasing old technology and to opt for the new. “The DRDO,” he said, “lags behind advanced countries by at least two technology cycles, pursuing this knowhow without the users support or with any meaningful understanding of the requirement to build military capability.” He advises the DRDO to ‘ walk quietly away’ from several of its unviable projects to keep pace with the revolution in military affairs (RMA) at a time when the cash-strapped government’s avowed goal was atmanirbhata.
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Analysis : India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes Security. The government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
By Rahul Bedi
The GTRE GTX-35VS Engine on its testbed. Chandigarh: The government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, or self-sufficient India, initiative with regard to military equipment is littered with the remains of incomplete and ad hoc projects, on whose continuing development vast sums of money are being wasted.Many such ambitious programmes, under the patronage of the government-run Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) and the public sector Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), include the development of an aircraft engine, military transport and intermediate multi-purpose civilian aircraft and intermediate jet trainers or IJTs.All these programmes are either nowhere near completion, continue to be technologically hobbled or have simply become redundant in times of financial crisis, compounded in recent months by the economic calamity spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic.Other inept and futile DRDO programmes include decades-old endeavours in designing assault rifles, sub-machine guns and sniper rifles which continue desultorily, but at enormous cost. But instead of gamely admitting failure and formally scrapping these projects, and diverting the funds they continue to soak up for gainful employment elsewhere, they remain on the DRDO’s and HALs ‘active’ list.More in Security :Chinese Communist Party Members 'Infiltrated' Powerful Global Agencies: ReportKabul's Deputy Governor Killed in a Bomb Blast in AfghanistanChhattisgarh: CoBRA Officer Injured in Sukma IED Blast DiesINS Viraat Can Still Be Saved'DDC Polls Are for Development; Nothing to Do With Kashmir Conflict': Budgam Candidate2020 Gave India a Sharp Lesson on the Chinese Military. When Will Indian Generals Take Heed?In short, the government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
Also read: INS Viraat Can Still Be Saved
Former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and DRDO advisor Lieutenant General J.P. Singh said the DRDO needs to stop chasing old technology and to opt for the new. “The DRDO,” he said, “lags behind advanced countries by at least two technology cycles, pursuing this knowhow without the users support or with any meaningful understanding of the requirement to build military capability.” He advises the DRDO to ‘ walk quietly away’ from several of its unviable projects to keep pace with the revolution in military affairs (RMA) at a time when the cash-strapped government’s avowed goal was atmanirbhata.
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India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes
The government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency.
