This post actually shows that you know little about the Indian sector & that you really don’t have objective criteria for evaluating its progress. If you had, you would never have made this statement “DRDO, HAL and the like don’t have anywhere near a steady track record in delivering outside of the ballistic missile programme”..etc.
First mistake is to compare DRDO and HAL and put them in the same group. They are not. DRDO is a design & development agency with limited production capabilities. HAL is basically a manufacturing shop which has been gradually building up R&D capabilities but has a long way to go.
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Needless to say Teer an excellent post by you. I mean for all those who loathe DRDO, and her sister organization for being late or not upto “world standards”(whatever that means) all I know that there are set of requirements by user, one needs to meet them. And any international Big Bang organization will definitely fail to meet its goals, if Goal posts are shifted consistently by user. Even If DRDO produces Brahmastra, and if the user doesn’t want it, the product will be marketed as failure.
I think India needs to go China way :D, publish only when you are successful with project or just give out spy shots and keep the whole world guessing while keeping problems under the carpet.
A good methodology is being employed by DRDO in Missile development sector. Because one only hears about testing of Prithvi missiles and failure of Prithvi missiles (and we used to crib why only we have been testing Prithvi in 21st century). They only declare actual new missile once they fairly confident about success.
Publishing about failures is good for academics, but usually the Media uses that tool as propaganda material. And sadly its not only international media which does this. Its our own Media which indulges in this kind of misplaced sensationalism. Sometimes I really wonder whom they actually bat for?
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