There was a flare up on the "Technology Day" between the Defence R&D Organization and the services high ups in the presence of the prime minister and the defence minister.This has been a on-going feud. I remember it so vividly from the time I was part of DRDO.
On the one hand was bad management of DRDO projects. I sincerely believe the main problem was project management. That's how we have these horror stories of never ending projects like the main battle tank. some of the missile programmes and so on. Many a times the technology proposed would be comparatively old. There was always the risk of our enemies being technologically advanced.
On the other hand we had the problem of faith in the indigenous technology by the armed forces. Beside, there was this lure of getting trained abroad when technology was imported. There were obviously some added considerations too when such technology purchases are decided. All in all it used to like, DRDO cannot deliver anything worthwhile! Things changed somewhat recently when at least some meaningful systems were delivered to the forces and they got inducted.
Until DRDO is able to deliver comparable technology to what's available in US, Europe etc. this feud will remain. I also have a strong feeling that, unless the R&D model follows what US and European countries do, is followed, the devlopments would not meet the world standards.
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