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I just had to comment on this, because for the longest time, given the close cooperation between Pakistan and China, the external similarities between the two nation's missiles continuously gave rise to accusations from Indians about "Pakistan building Chinese clones". Just the wheel coming full circle, with us pointing out the collaborative efforts of India with various countries and similarities between products.
On the issue of "indigenous" - most of India's recent breakthroughs have come about after close cooperation with the Israelis (the LRTR and other technology used in its ABM systems) as well as the successful collaboration with the Russians in producing the Yukhont clone (Brahmmos), which probably was instrumental in honing the "ramjet technology" and related guidance systems.
There is nothing about "underestimating your opponent" - that the Indian organizations benefited from cooperation with the Israelis and Russians to advance their "tactical missile program" does not take anything away from the fact that they possess those missiles, but this whole "indigenous" business needs to be dropped. The linkage between various collaborative projects and the "sudden success" (after 25 years in some cases) is pretty obvious.
Agnostic,
Akash SAM uses the Rajendra radar and the 3D-CAR radar. Both these radars have been developed COMPLETELY inhouse and you can find their history and development easily. In Akash, its not even the case of 'help' from other countries like Russia or Israel.
Infact the Rajendra had an offspin also, the WLR that IA has bought is based on the Rajendra-2 radar.