Right but your Vedic ancestors used to make spaceships and laser weapons...
Rig Vedas do talk about the ancient people and the Heavens.
All these equipment could be build in India on the condition that the technology of transfer took place. How many of these weapons are Indian designed?
There is a thread that he Arjun tank has been scrapped. The INSAS is obsolete and army is desperately looking for a new gun which for a change is reliable and works. Carl Gustave is not India and neither is the AK 630 and T-90.
All these equipments are made in India since many years and Technology transfers are like joint programmes in which money and expertises are involved.
DRDO has identified areas such as ammunition for tanks and artillery guns where indigenisation would be carried out in a big way. "We have attained total indigenisation in sonars and radars,"
DRDO sold the technology to manufacture an Explosive Detection Kit in the US to an American company.
India has exported only assault rifles, a few helicopters along with some naval vessels to friendly foreign countries.
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‘Gear up to meet surge in demand for defence equipment’ - The Hindu
Updated: June 20, 2015 05:43 IST
Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister G. Sateesh Reddy and Chairman and Managing Director of Electronics Corporation of India Limited Dr.P. Sudhakar arriving at NFC Day celebration in Hyderabad on Friday.— Photo: Mohammed Yousuf
India needs a material policy, says Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister
Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister G. Sateesh Reddy on Friday called upon the government-run research and development organisations like the Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC) to gear up to meet the quantum surge in demand for defence equipment and material in the next few years.
Participating in the NFC Day celebrations here on Friday, Mr. Reddy, also the Director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI), who recently took over as the Scientific Advisor, felt that research institutions like NFC and others in India need to learn to supply their indigenously-developed materials and products abroad.
“If the defence manufacturing industry in India has to survive, then we have to learn to supply world class products abroad. We have to plan for 10 to 15 years ahead or else our institutions will continue to play catch-up with the technology developed by the U.S., Europe and China-based companies,” Dr. Sateesh Reddy said. The Scientific Advisor also felt that India needs a material policy.
“We need to identify what are our material requirements for the next 100 years and then plan accordingly. We have to identify all our natural reserves and find out how we can able use them in defence research and also identify and amount reserves that have to be imported from other countries. The U.S. and China have already done it, but we are still lagging behind,” Dr. Sateesh Reddy felt.
The Chairman and Chief Executive, NFC, N Saibaba, said the complex has seen a record production of nuclear fuel.
“Thanks to our innovation, we have managed to produce 1,252 metric tonnes of nuclear fuel, which is the largest in the world. We only had the capacity to produce just 850 metric tonnes. We are prepared to meet any kind of demands in the near future in the defence sector,” Dr. Saibaba said.
esearch institutions in India need to learn to supply their indigenously-developed materials and products abroad
– G. Sateesh Reddy
Scientific Advisor to Defence Minister