I would disagree with the Gen here. It’s not a circular argument coz we don’t come back to same results if we go ahead in any manner. It’s rather a linear one with clear bifurcation and binary choices on whether we create a plan to be self dependent,with some support from.. https://twitter.com/bsdhanoa/status/1290522048951812097
..exports to maintain adequate Defence and offence capabilities and options of emergency buying when needed. On the other hand, we end up and contiue being a very import oriented country with long purchases, scams, always a step behind foreign tech situation. We have to find a..
..sweet spot here. We definitely cannot lower the GSQRs as was suggested earlier and neither can we wish the OFBs away. But we can ask army to be accepting a little more of what we produce and on the other hand overhaul the R&D and Production majorly by corporatising it and ..
Patterning with private players.
Defence production and exports are apex of country’s defence capabilities. You can sell decades of sugarcane and it’ll still pale in front on one defence export. Plus the amount of r&d capabilities it gives boost to which translate into..
Other sectors as well.
We definitely need to boost indigenous production based on realistic demands by Armeed forces. It’s easy to wish the moon but a balance has to maintained in what we can create, and what’s required too, plus fitting it all in time and budget. It’s not ..
..that difficult.Many other countries did it. Self reliance is important now while world is shaping up in new lobbies.If we want to play with the big boys,we can’t keep doing that on borrowed goods.Coz the day they deny us, for whatever reasons,we suddenly will have nowhere to go
Quick steps :
1. Realistic GSQR
2. Include private players
3. Include Field commanders in decision making at all stages. Not in the end when product is made and it’s either waste of billions and decade or forced down the throat
4. Corporatization of OFB
5. A streamlined and..
..focused approach to R&D. Start nurturing defence product and tech interested engineers and scientists at college level and from them by exposing them to real requirements. We have massive talent.
6. Export oriented approach. A seeets store owner doesn’t eat everything it makes
We don’t have to develop and provide everything for in house use. It’ll give amazing boost to economy, employment and R&D.
7. Time to reverse the brain drain. Let’s invite scientists from abroad to come and work here.
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