Who is Bharat Verma? What are his qualifications? When everyone even witness saw the Akash score a direct hit on a ballistic why is he denying it? It is very significant achievement not minor one.
Further when foreign imported items have so many problems, when bofor and T-90 have not yet transferred their technology to us despite the high rates. Despite flaws in design of foriegn goods. Further recently Barak, and past of Bofor that large kickback are involved as to reason the no induction of indigenous goods.
Further when our government has spent only 2000 corers in 25 years for missile program verses spending 10,000 corers on joint venture with Israel, Isn%u2019t the achievement of our scientist that we have the Agni III, a missile defense, NBC warfare, radars, electronic warfare, helicopters, jets, tanks,sonors, torpedos,secure communication system, munitions etc on a shoe string budget.
Beside MTCR which denies us the technology for advance missile system, we have broke through sanction and develop technology that whole nation can be proud, and whole world understands the significance of our scientific development that we are being pursued by several countries, French, America, Russians, Israel, Brazil, South America etc for joint development, and even China, Britain have agreed that we should have a permanent seat in UN security council, besides, Russia, and France.
Last history states that foreign missile can become duds, if the missile manufacture give the sec