Indian Missile Systems-Untold Story

[vnomad]

Ok I guess we should define what we all mean by success.....

If you say that the tank is being inducted I will take your word for it. However since the issue at the heart of the thread is regarding the DRDO.

Can any of the "successes" be regarded as such if the deadline for such developments is decades past? And as i was saying there are a number of times when the Indian forces have had to purchase equipment to make up for this shortfall. (T90, Israeli UAV's etc etc).
Now the point is that this would be regarded as grossly negligent in most countries, so how is it that because it is the DRDO it becomes acceptable?

That is the heart of the question........

You have to start somewhere. India never had a capability to manufacture a tank 20 years back. US, UK, Germany, France have all decades of experience with it. Coming up with those products, albeit late, is a success though the armed forces should never have been told to wait for them.