Correcting DRDO’s duality Prof. Prodyut Das Why is DRDO is a formidably powerful organization when it comes to stopping imports become a limp weakling when it comes to pushing what it itself has developed? It’s authority over the process of Weapons development and procurement gives it total control over the re-equipment plans of the Armed Forces, all in the interest of promoting local development. However, DRDO has used power asymmetrically. It zealously vetoes imports -even when it has nothing immediate to offer- but does not use the powers to fo...
Posts
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
Drain the Swamp- a review of the air fleet situation Prof. Prodyut Das Iss 4 16/11 2024 The Americans, who have enviable mastery over colourful language have an expression “When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remember what you had actually started out to do was to drain the swamp”. Translated into English it suggests that the pressure of immediate problems (alligators up to your arse), often as an adverse reaction to your initiatives (draining the swamp) hinder the long-term solutions. We are at this moment in a crisis with regards to Air Power. The crisis is that due to the (planned?) failures of the ADA programmes; the IAF strength is at an all time low. The pressure is to re-equip massively by importing. Given the present situation, re-equipping with ADA offerings wil...
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
A pause before Balaclava? Prof. Prodyut Das The AMCA project We are organizationally in such a situation that to get in to the development of the AMCA at the present level of preparation is a recipe for certain failure. The situation is: i) We do not have the resources to create the classical 5 th generation. Attempts to do so will lead to un-correctable, cascading failure. ii) ...