Is Reverse engineering a Good Option for India?

[gpit]

Yes, you are right. But unlike China India has the option to buy from the Western world. If India goes for reverse eng, that will be a black mark and subsequently restricted from the buying option.

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Yours is a downright valid point.

The problem is that if you buy, buy, buy, then
1) you will never have short-cut, and will always be lagging behind. (BTW, you know who loves this best. It will never be India of course.)

2) you have surplus of labors, including educated labors. They can’t get market within India. You have huge amount of unprivileged mass. They are badly in need of the resources. But you channel the valuable resources into West, and you can’t keep your talents in your country.

 

[Ruag]

Friend, please enjoy the following slaps on your high-moral-ground ugly face:

Sorry to be rude, but what the hell was that? Are you a 13 year old kid? Mind your language.

All the links and information you posted were related to reverse engineering in information technology, pharmaceuticals etc. None of them were explicitly dedicated to reverse engineering in military industry.

Next time, post information regarding India's attempts to reverse engineer foreign military technology since the late 1970s.

 

[gambit]

It is not as easy to 'reverse engineer' as it sounds. People should stop throwing the phrase around so casually...

http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2007/April%202007/0407peg.aspx

For more than a decade, until just before the November 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall, a secret Air Force aggressor unit flew Soviet MiGs in more than 15,000 sorties against US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots.

In one instance, the brakes on the MIGs wore out from use. The USAF sent out, under great secrecy, MIG brake assemblies to civilian manufacturors for reproduction. The civilian manufacturors did a great job at 'reverse engineering', except that they reproduced their products EXACTLY at the worn out conditions, rendering their products useless. We all had a few good laughs over a lot of money wasted.

If you want a car, you have two options...Either buy the car...Or buy the car you want and methodically reproduce EVERY part of that car AFTER you had spent a lot of time studying the role of every part in that car. Defense cannot afford that time luxury, hence why so many countries ended up buying their defense from suppliers like the US, the Soviets or Europe. For example...If the fly-by-wire system originally measured to hundredths of volt/ampere/wattage but your tools is only good to the tenths, do you really want to 'reverse engineer' the system instead of buying? Especially when you have hostile neighbors? Reverse engineering is good only if you have the time and resources to develop your own systems but that certain semi-emergencies compelled you to buy instead of natively develop weapons systems yourself. But if your tools can only measure to the tenths instead of the thousandths then you are chasing a dream.

 

[applesauce]

^^ lol'ed at the breaks issue