Superior military here =Combined military might of european countries plus military might projected by US on european continent.
Its not a wonder weapon, it will be another assembly line job for India which will help them cut cost of their expensive thrash. After software services India is now going to become the cheap factory destination to cut costs. But unlike china they know corrupt India can never out compete with them.
We will be payed, thats what more important than Javelin or anyother assembly line. Even goi plolicy is to become a manufacturing hub for defense equipment. So this assembly line is aligning with goi's policy well.
drones are more efficient killing machines and the results are immediate. Not just military even terrorists will take to drones just like they took to AK 47. The side which can churn out cheap reliable drones will gain upper hand in a sustained long war.
Rubbish , europeans are not doing it , why only India ? bcos it has literally zero value addition. We should put our technical manpower to good use not assemble junk weapons. Let them buy our weapons instead. It will add more cash to our economy.
Zero value addition or not, money addition is there. It matters.
We have all kind of people from different parts of population pyramid sir..who need job..if we don't have industry in some sector already..no harm in having it..when it will mature and evolve to the point they will be used for some "good use" work..till then it's all part of process and journey...and even if we have industry I think we have more than enough people for the job.
A laser weapon aka DEW with firing rate of machine guns and AI for precision.
It's the same pattern the IA followed with AK-203 + SiG 716. One for bulk use, the front-on frontline units. Mainly because of the cost factor. But after Kalyani entered into a JV with Rafael for producing Spike among other things, I must say Javelin was a bolt out of the blue. Esp since it had already failed IA trials some years back.
I won't say it's a mess. The infantry is more or less standardized on Milan-2T and Konkurs-M on the common FLAME launcher.
cheap money from US will take best of your ppl and put them into low value jobs. There are enuf ppl yes, but best & brightest will go after cheap money US companies throws leaving 2nd class talent for the rest of the critical jobs that require them.
I am not understanding what do you mean by "cheap money". Indians have shown what they are capable of seeing indian origin CEOs and innovators, industrialist business leaders...so if brightest agree for low value job---->either job is not low value or they are not brightest and if they are brightest they will have better job to do----->because who will get/do what job will be decided by demand and supply play..anyway this is not important and not my main argument...my argument is ..we already have too many talent/people(for low mid and high end job) (and that's why Companies creating their GCC here) so there will always be someone to replace if one goes...so it should not be problematic...India as a nation has not been able to create business friendly environment --> not enough business--->not enough job wrt no of people. So any business indian or foreign of whatever kind(low,mid or high end) should be welcome provided it doesn't threaten our national security.
that mentality works only for the normal jobs. For the jobs in the critical & specialty sector, we need to nurture & grow talent, who will take it forward to next 2 or 3 decades. You cant simply replace or get ppl whenever you want. "cheap money" US prints money at will and buys your services and obviously even the best talent will work for more money which competes & starves your industry of required talent. If you have hired ppl you will know what I am talking of.
What about ecosystem, if ecosystem for certain things don't even exist why will people specializing in that area stay. Ik a very talented Indian cyber warfare guy who said there isn't much focus on cyber warfare or defence at all in India, so what can he do by staying lol. In another case, AI ecosystem is not there, they use models from other countries to build LLMs.
Thats where leadership & strategic vision comes into play. If the monkeys at the top dont care ppl will leave. They need to go out pay competitive salary and show them future growth...etc . These are called starting troubles and it will be tough as the govt lacks credibility. But thats what they need to build. Unless you pay them top salary and promise the future , ppl will not come and eco system will not grow.
For that you need to compete, throw your best money and make more money. Economic growth does not come from selling same banians/vests that bangladesh/sri lanka sells. They will drag you to the bottom of the cost ladder. We need to cut down our biggest expenses that is buying billion ticket items that can only happen if you can build them at home and also export it.
Not every one in the western cntries or developed cntries work on high tech and make more money. Its just 5-10% of the population which works on niche sector which makes more money. This averages out and helps rest of the 90% population bcos it helps to keep its currency stable. What you need is more money to invest in the poor areas and that will happen only when we cut down imports , stabilize the currency which will help the rest of the poor buy goods & services at a affordable cost.
