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.
RE:Missing the point
by Red Pascal on Jan 16, 2008 03:54 PM Permalink
Not quite Mr Kondiker- for instance the DRDO's brief has been to develop a Tejas LCV- it wants to even design the G suit and the helmet for the pilot,and the engine and the weapons and the software whereas in several areas the DRDO has the option to go for existing top of the line off the shelf products but it causes cost over runs and delays by insisting on developing everything inhouse- which is not what their brief is. The brief is to get a plane,who designs the pilots helmet and g suit is not in the brief and the Eventually they had to go in for an external engine as they could not develop one in house, some practical steps help. For LCV( or Tejas) v1 they should have looked at as much as they could in house and then looked at increasing indigenisation in v2, if they had taken that approach Tejasv1 would have been inducted and v2 would have been in advanced stage of development, instead we sit waiting for something to come out of the blackbox called DRDO-not too sure that by the time the aircraft comes out if it would meet the requirements or even the specifications it was designed for.
RE:Missing the point
by Red Pascal on Jan 16, 2008 03:58 PM Permalink
The Arjun MBT apart from the decade delays and flaws in weight, size and accuracy of gun had a huge deficinecy- it was too wide for transport by train ! Something that they should have figured out in 20 years of development of the tank ? And at the end the product's user has decided to buy tanks from outside rather than look at inducting this faulty piece. DRDO needs to step up and deliver on time and within cost and to the specs they promise- they never do.
RE:Missing the point
by ankur kulshrestha on Jan 22, 2008 07:00 PM Permalink
actually what drdo did was built a world class factory for building the single car first. then a dozen or so beautiful conference rooms with lovely landscaping and imported furniture. by this time the deadline was over and budget was overshot by 200% so the project was shelved as tata launched nano only for a lakh.
