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
RE:The military failed DRDO not the other way round
by commander hans on Jan 18, 2008 08:29 PM Permalink
appanjee you obviously werent in the army...or navy or air force...so i really dont think ur opinion counts have you even bothered to chk what the drdo has done or shall i say not done...
RE:The military failed DRDO not the other way round
by aesthetic guy on Jan 16, 2008 04:30 PM Permalink
Mr. Verma is absolutely correct. The point is not to point fingers, but to learn from mistakes. DRDO has failed miserably in all fronts - thats the hard truth - People must realize that. Not a single world class war-ready product emerged from DRDO's labs over the years (should I say decades?). They have to take a hard look at the way they operate and must be very agile and opportunistic with a single minded ambition to deliver.
RE:The military failed DRDO not the other way round
by venkat on Jan 16, 2008 04:42 PM Permalink
Please tell me which foreign powers would have helped India with missile technology from 1980. US? China? Please understand that these super powers were prime architects of curbing India's technology by sanctions during 1980 and Cold War.
RE:The military failed DRDO not the other way round
by on Jan 16, 2008 06:31 PM Permalink
India got the Missile technology from the Soviet Union and Russia, who have supplied everything India needed. Nothing was developed by India, but due to Kalam and his team India had the big ego that it can do reverse engineering and develop all avionics, related IT etc, but DRDO failed both in the case of Sukhoy and the missles and wasted a number of years. DRDO claimed that it could develop all computer programs for Sukhoy, but after 7 years it had admitted that it could not do it. I guess except for the raw manpower DRDO did nothing for Brahmos at all. It could not fit nuclear weapons on missiles. That was the reason India could do little during Kargill invasion against Pakistan.
