I literally just said this. We are solving our solutions by adopting third parties developed components and hardware. We can't produce anything indigenously. What I've seen is we mostly hiding behind this argument that we don't have funds. You don't need funds for basic R&D brav. The problem here is a lack of leadership, planning, enthusiasm to make from scratch and a strong approach to make something entirely our own few factors name a few. As I said before we are good in integrations.
For me, if you really want to achieve anything (very specific about the future / next 10 - 20 years) in the spectrum of military technology, you have to build your own stuff. The market is very competitive and costly. R&D is MUST. We always dependent on others that what history tells us. JF17 story is literally a crap when someone says hey this is entirely our own thingy. That fucking statement went to flush when you can't even do anything on your own with respect to V3 and went to Chinese for adding big-bore piston into your machine which you claim "indigenously" / "Independent".
We hardly show or produced any constructive, practical and productive "Future" military hardware. Everyone has missiles, MRLS, fighters, etc the only winner is who is LEADING the industry, who is developing things entirely on their own, who are more into R&D for developing future technology. These radars, surveillance systems are highly sophisticated things, we are good in driving but we hardly know ****** about what's inside that.
I know about how we actually repaired SAAB. I have seen that damage thingy myself. Trust me we haven't been able to repair until foreign instructions, interference, and help. We might spend years to repair that.
I hope you get my point.