[sagar]

India (any sovereign country) needs to get its own manufacturing up. By this, I do not mean sweatshop, no skill, slave labor manufacturing.

India does not manufacture anything of importance or quality. Until then, it will be a consumer of 25-year old tech from the US, Russia, France, and Israel. Relying on the US in particular for parts is risky because the US sanctions heavily depending on the political wind directions. Good luck getting those parts when things get ugly against pukestan.

[wetphoenix]

I think India is moving in that direction actively and I wish them luck.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

India does not manufacture anything of importance or quality. Until then, it will be a consumer of 25-year old tech from the US, Russia, France, and Israel.

And to avoid becoming a captive market for one of those exporters, they're buying military systems from all of them. Compatibility and inter-operability of all these foreign-procured systems in a single military must be a nightmare.