Several of above posts are a compelling argument to make a case for mass manufacturing of our weapons and systems soon. That needs an expansion unlike ever seen in India.
Get the pvt players, build the factories, churn out Nirbhayas, UAVs, ASTRA, Interceptors .. everything.
I remember discussing about it with you
@marich01 about the difficulty of managing big inventory and hence the limited scale of production.
But do you think that the time is nigh to increase our production capacity by multiple times? For every thing.
We also discussed why US finds itself at backfoot wrt China despite having superior technology. It's pure economics. They are having hard time scaling the production.
Given the scenario.. it's okay if GOI allows 80-20/100-0 foreign subsidiaries to be set up in India.. only to cater to their own & export demands. If you can safeguard indigineous innovation while increasing productivity through foreign subsidiaries.. it would be like how China became the manufacturing hub in 90s.