Yes. Kaveri was a good program which i wonder got mismanaged somehow. The India seems to try reviving it by cooperation with France.
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Yes. Kaveri was a good program which i wonder got mismanaged somehow. The India seems to try reviving it by cooperation with France.
Calling it a good program is an overstatement, AFAIK it took them 3 decades and in the end it failed to deliver the expected thrust.
In terms of initiative is good. It's always the execution and apparently ever-increasing demand that seems to let down India.
If initiating things was all it took then India would be the mightiest military in the universe
On full auto this could last what, 10 seconds?
I'm guessing it's an anti drone set up, and its not a bad idea. But don't see the point if you're going to use magazines...
Lethe
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Admiral (ret.) Arun Prakash, former Chief of Naval Staff for the Indian Navy, puts his finger on the issue here: India's reluctance to do the long, hard work over years and decades of persisting with and incrementally improving upon an inferior indigenous product:
Note that this is from 2014. And I'm pretty sure he meant F-35, not J-35.
The legions of Dalit ammo carriers were just out of shot
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It took China 30 years to build a world class armaments industry through that process (or forty, if you count 1979 as the starting point).Admiral (ret.) Arun Prakash, former Chief of Naval Staff for the Indian Navy, puts his finger on the issue here: India's reluctance to do the long, hard work over years and decades of persisting with and incrementally improving upon an inferior indigenous product:
Note that this is from 2014. And I'm pretty sure he meant F-35, not J-35.
India should have undertaken the same thing, since they have nukes as the ultimate security guarantee, but there are too many constituents (civilian and military) to impose that condition on the Indian military and made it stick.