Elbit chuna hi toh lagayegi. These specially abled people managed to prove that all trials for indie products with no orders but foreign weapons are holy grail with no need of trials. Seriously, chal kya rha h iss desh m. Scientific and logical reasoning thrown into the gutter?
I doubt we will ever be able to compete with China. Here forces guys are above criticism while simping for foreign maal. Only Indian Navy seems to work towards self reliance, slowly but surely. Maybe dissolve IA and IAF and make Indian Navy Ground forces and Indian Navy Air forces. The line that IN funded the LRAshM, shows that it's a force with an idea and vision in its mind and working towards it. While IAF and IA are like clueless guys who don't even know what they want, floating RFI after RFI, and just willing to purchase the gucchi gear.
Emergency procurement came out to be hope for Chandigarh lobby afterall. Emergency procurement ke naam par
To be honest, with the level of firearm training and no magnifier optics being provided, our IA is simply not deserving of SIG 716i, just give them desi battle rifle, that's good enough for them. When they atleast succeed to provide basic modern gear to each soldier after 1 million years then maybe comeback and ask for muh rifle and muh jetpack, robodog and robo- Carolina and Natasha.
I don't care even if our weapons are even 60% of the requirement. Just shove them down thier throats and do iterative improvements. Better induct and improve.
I don't care if BHIM T6 was not as optimal for a tracked system design with all ammo in its turret. But still it was ahead in automation than the current K9 thunder where charge has to put manually, in BHIM T6 both charges and round were fed automatically. We got ATAGS AND AMAGS, we need ATSPH. Bring back BHIM with ATAGS gun, enough of this screwdrivering and calling muh Korean K9 90+% indigenous saar.