Although i do not like to see your words..but you makes lot of sense...DRDO is just an white elephant...If countries are very small can produce basic weapns which DRDO can not provide.....
We Got Independence In 1947, funding for weapons related Tech (Serious Funding) started in Late 70's or 80's..The Bureaucratic set up and political decision making process was set up in such a way that, everything and anything was dead slow and Funding priority was given to basic industrial and civilian infrastructure building and not defence..Not unitll 1980's the real focus was shifted to defence build up..
Back then we had sanctions, we had funding limitations to set up infrastructure on our own, we had parliamentary restrictions that any considerable amount of funding for defence infrastructure was not given majority in parliament and thus no substantiate funding was done when it was required.
Those countries such as Japan, Singapore or any other developed country for that matter hadn't had these many diversities or these many obstacles before getting a project done..They were all small countries, with educated masses and very few legal restrictions to tackle with, where as in India A humongously large country with extremely different ethnic groups all trying to co exist, without restricting their own freedom of speech and existence and also have such varied harsh climates and extremely sensitive religious groups, it was almost an impossible task to unite them as one and rule them and make some progress bringing all of these people together without curbing their freedom and rights provided by constitution..
Sitting in the developed country such as USA and talking something about India is very easy for you but the fact is such developments gained after so much struggles and delays are also very laudable and commendable for us common Indians..
As we do lack in quick decision making, the governance has to be changed, defence PSUs need to be overhauled, pace need to be accelerated..But that doesn't mean that,the so called PSUs have got nothing for the country as of now...
It is because of the so called PSUs the country have gained strategically game changing Nuclear weapons..Nobody gave us the tech know how..It is because of the so called PSUs we are a space giant now and generating millions of revenue launching satellites of other countries and also self sufficient all communications.
First we should ask, do we have a rifle/pistol with latest technology that DRDO can provide? Then we can go for rest of the high end stuff..[/Quote]
When the basic rifles and pistols were available centuries before we even got independence, what is the point in developing them from scratch..We got licence built rifle versions, based on which we are developing our own versions..What is wrong in that which is also financially more economic.. when your country has millions of poor who do not have three meals to eat, we do not have the luxury of investing millions, in just a rifle tech build up..
Where as other critical techs such as Ballsitic missiles, SLVs, Nuclear reactors were all developed byt he same country..
Now you tell me with your American mind, is that difficult for a country to develop a Rifle/ Pistol which already haven atleast dozens of Balllistic and cruise missiles developed indigenously???
So is India looking to go war with Pakistan? since your new PM has come we didn't even heard anything.
Is that what you want?? You want to hear Indian PM to talk about War with Pakistan all the time??
