Developing weapons in-house can be more costly, complex and time consuming compared to buying proven weapon systems from abroad. Generally speaking that is.
You are absolutely wrong buddy.
Developing weapons indigenously is NOT more costly.....it is only more time consuming.
Infact, it is more cost-effective than importing.
And the pros hugely outweighs the cons.
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Apparently It might seem that to develop weapons, initially huge funds are required for R&D and we could avoid this cost by buying from others.
But just think, the countries which we are importing from, has also invested in R&D and
they include their R&D cost in the selling price of the final product.
selling price= cost of production( R&D cost + manufacturing cost) + profit.
[So what we are gaining actually...NOTHING....the R&D cost which we think we have avoided....we are actually ending up bearing the R&D cost....and
painfully in this case, we are bearing the R&D cost of other countries....
so they are advancing and developing technologically and we are paying for it.]
And what we are loosing in the process.....
1. Our technological advancement slows down.....considering that we are paying for other country's R&D instead of our's.
2. We become dependent on other countries for spare parts,maintenance etc.
3. If we are able to develop the weapon indigenously then the per unit cost of production decreases rapidly due to mass production, whereas the price of imported weapons always tend to increase.
4. We can export this developed item and recover our R&D cost and also make profit.(so we make profit and also develop and advance technologically).
5. Our politicians gain one more tool for corruption (the kick-backs from foreign deals are well known)....If you want to have detailed information then you may go through post
#125 from the below link..........
http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-...ter-indian-territory-dismantle-bunkers-9.html
(note:the above link is not related to the thread...I have posted it just to prove point no. 5
)
So the bottomline is, in the short-run, it may seem that we can gain technological advantage quickly by importing high-tech stuff, but in the long-run we will see that we actually gained NO advantage technologically....and the country suffers hugely.
So your own perceptions,,,, thats great!!!! Now we are speechless......
