Bit silly, your argument. The decision to develop these things in-house was not DRDO's decision - it's government policy. DRDO was simply charged with developing technology, a lot of which it was not equipped to do. Agreed, DRDO's had a large number of failures along with its successes, but suppose I charge you with making a car, from scratch, with only sketchy drawings of existing foreign technology, and tell you to develop this car using only the engineering and design talent available in your family, how high do you think your success rate is going to be? Blame does have to go somewhere, but it must go to successive governments who wanted Made in India tags on every piece of military equipment. Come to think of it, was that even such a bad idea? Its execution was poor, not the concept itself, and the stubbornness with which they stuck to this principle. If they'd swallowed their pride once in a while, it may have been easier. DRDO had very little to do with this. Please don't write sensationalist headlines - get to the truth instead.
