Mr. Bharat Verma and other friends here crying hoarse, first of all check the basic facts before venturing to view biased opinions as the biblical truth. Why was the DRDO set up and by whom? Has the DRDO failed the policy makers? Have the policy makers had the foresight and vision to ask for a clear deliverable from DRDO in any of the projects so far? Is it not a bitter fact, the end user be it the army, navy or the air force keeps changing the goal post i.e., changing the requirements and specifications midway during the development. Is it not a bitter fact, the higher ups in the defence forces dance to the tunes of the Ministry of Defence bureaucrats and insist on importing items even though they are untested and unproved. Is it not a bitter fact, for ages no component could be procured from any of the western bloc countries because of their suspicion of the indian nuclear capability and later after the nuclear test in 1998 even academic institutions that were helping out DRDO with some basic inputs were put under ban. It is easy for arm chair critics like mr. verma to write reams and reams but the bitter truth is but for DFRL and CFTRI in mysore our soldiers would be facing far more food related problems in siachen. Finally people like Mr. Verma should stop fooling the masses when he compares the armaments and men in pakistan with that of the indian armed forces. Today a bunch of terrorists have overrun a garrison in wazirstan in pakistan. If pakistan has such ver
