tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post4526714234357744234..comments2024-03-24T12:52:31.153+05:30Comments on Shadow Warrior: Promoting Swadeshi in DefenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-79121220244083776512014-06-27T12:13:38.011+05:302014-06-27T12:13:38.011+05:30No denying on the importance of self-reliance. Un...No denying on the importance of self-reliance. Universities should be involved in certain focus areas (not the entire weapons system, but specific areas like Flight Control Software etc). China has been using its PhD programs with great success and this is one area where the LCA program failed miserably.<br /><br />The other thing we badly need is to prune DRDO and HAL to less than half their current size. Only after a few decades of such indigenous efforts can we expect results. For now, the Defense Minister's task is anything but easy.Paganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04230663534687606842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-38165669161976216662014-06-27T08:22:47.399+05:302014-06-27T08:22:47.399+05:30Is this all a BJP government means?
Indigenisatio...Is this all a BJP government means?<br /><br />Indigenisation of western weapons platforms, and western weapons systems?<br /><br />How is that going help the Indian/Hindu civilization stand up to current world hegemons when the situation arises?<br /><br />Why doesn't any Indian policymaker think of funding weapons research that would conceptualize, design, fabricate, and, ultimately, deploy weapons platforms & systems not developed in the west, but a lot more effective than them?<br /><br />The weapons systems need not even be original ones. We need only to look our Itihasa to come up with weapons systems that will both neutralize the west's trillion dollar systems, and empower Indian armed forces at the same time.<br /><br />In the recent past, the truly powerful, and frightening, weapons, & weapons systems mentioned in the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana, have been interpreted for us only by movie makers, and directors of TV serials, not by Indian technical experts in weapons systems, with a solid grounding in our Itihasa, especially the Yuddha Sastra(s) part. (Forgive my ignorance here, if I have not used the right term)<br /><br />Perhaps there are Sanskrit texts describing Indian weapons systems of the past, just waiting to be discovered, dusted off, and put to use again. Perhaps not.<br /><br />Don't we owe it to ourselves to spend atleast a few million dollars, or a bit more, every year, depending on how the research progresses, on such research?<br /><br />Or, are we all just a bunch of phoneys, who in our heart of hearts truly believe in the western interpretation of our Itihasa as just ancient mythology?Sujeevhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402691376506983995noreply@blogger.com