Guys a bit of a unpopular opinion but hear me out.
We can never have enough land vehicles as such we can incorporate both Stryker and WhAP. This is possibly the least disruptive procurement, we win some and we lose some.
Some more gyan from the twitterverse to ponder [Courtesy BR]
VIDEO:
View: https://x.com/wartrophy_414/status/1892240487416991791 ---> COAS when asked about Stryker & stuff, to be honest it's depressing that COAS of the country thinks we can have foreign collaboration to get the technology in a faster timeline as he says. Does the COAS not realize WHAP is already a system of just the kind he described? And is already getting exported.
All tweets below are in response to the video above...
View: https://x.com/cvkrishnan/status/1892253882644090933 ---> For too long we’ve romanticizes “soldiers’ general” far more compared to Cerebral thinking generals to our own detriment. Too many infantry officers at the top. Less knowledge and time to think about about mechanization, industrial capacity, ecosystems, future capability building!
View: https://x.com/EkNashwar/status/1892339132313035095 ---> Transfer Of Officers (TOO) may be more practical in IA than ToT. Discouraging display of institutional blindness towards technical independence and excellence. Institutional apartheid towards Indigenous platforms. No platform becomes proven until inducted.
View: https://x.com/AdithyaKM_/status/1892281811054842206 ---> ToT, ToT, ToT. That's all our senior defence officials seem to know. Or atleast say in public every other day. Not sure if they believe in it.
https://x.com/OpinionGalaxy20/status/18 ... 9072069796 ---> Total illiterate about the technology. Technology evolves with the number of iterations. Even a 200 line data structure requires at least 10 iterations to get it crisp and accurate, but these buffoons need foreign "proven" maal.
View: https://x.com/AdithyaKM_/status/1892279131707994168 ---> So COAS himself can't spell out a convincing case for Stryker, uses buzzwords: "integrated", "visualization", "firepower", FCS. All these are chassis agnostic & available in India. WhAP is a proper IFV and modular (a buzzword he missed). Note
: Army had ordered only IPMV
* variant, an APC
*.
*IMPV: Infantry Protected Mobility Vehicle
*APC: Armoured Personnel Carrier
https://x.com/fishy_bong/status/1892554613351743991 ---> Look what I found. I always knew the import negative list was more or less a fraud list.
"Wheeled Armored Fighting Vehicle" is prohibited from import. Add to this where is a tender for comparative trials for all possible vehicle available in the market? So what actually is the Stryker? It is wheeled, it's a fighting vehicle and my hunch is that these guys will play around with the definition of armour to get this import done without falling into legal battle. It's a scam through and through. @INCIndia make good use of your existence take this issue up. Open to correct the interpretation of the document if mistakes on my side.
Link to List:
https://static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadData ... %20MOD.pdf
