One of the biggest criticisms of Arab states armies is they just buy whatever expensive western stuff they think is fancy and leave it at that. They never bother to understand whats behind it, how to use it effectively, how the strategy and methods change around it and just expect the tools to do the work. Thats why they have poor performance in wars.
I feel like even though India thinks its above that, in reality its not much different from that mentality. Like they just buy whatever western or Russian crap and expect it to do all the work.
Arabs don't have domestic alternatives.
Indians have this story of supposedly domestic alternatives. But from what we've seen those are either too expensive since they are often are composed of majority foreign parts and/or they are simply not good enough.
This "lack of confidence" story feels like phony breastbeating to make themselves feel better that their stuff is actually "good" if only they had "confidence." No, they simply don't have the industrial base for this stuff.
Seriously, they have no electronics industry. Why would they have suddenly have competent radars or EW equipment appearing out of nowhere?