Games are being constantly played by the DRDO and bureaucrats while the soldiers feel uncomfortable holding an unreliable INSAS. Armed forces are still using 60 year-old 9mm Sterling Carbines that have become unreliable due to numerous repairs and are deadlier for the soldier who carried than the enemy. In comparision the forces under MHA are much smarted since they procure small arms and equipment off-the-shelf and are now better armed than the armed forces.
Making us there buyers forever is exactly what these foreign armament lobbies want and fill the pockets of Defece procurement commitees and Defence minstry beaureaucrats and to counter this this move is necessary that's why technological requirements for weapons change at the last moment and the whole deal have to wait for further more years while at the same time denying our establishment the necessary funding they need (This does not mean our R&D agencies are without fault infact HAL has played equally wicked role in stalling the development of Tejas for reason unkown but understandable. This is the right way to deny our corrupt babus and officers the kickbacks they keep waiting for.
If we cannot produce even assault rifle how we can become independent. Shame for DRDO scientists and others. What Govt. had been doing from the last 67 years.
I thing under Modi Army official could not make a deal else they would have accepted any product in which they receive good kickback.
When armed force officials will be free form swinging/swapping and sodomizing poor soldiers, and usurping land in the name of war widows; they will have time to fix reasonable specifications.
Re: Ha ha ha...
by rathi raj on Dec 02, 2015 11:15 AM
Are you crazy? Army does not buy weapons but just merely recommend based on trials. The deals are done at Defence Ministry where no armymen are present. BTW where did you get the reports that you claim of misconducts? You might be talking about Pak army.
As per report in wikipedia the excalibur field trials were successful. Are you sure you are not doing the bidding of foreign suppliers ?.
The performance of the DRDO-designed 'Excalibur' assault rifle in trials last month at the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) in Pune has further enthused the Army. The Excalibur had only two stoppages (where the bullet gets stuck in the breech) after 24,000 rounds were fired, close to the Army's specifications of only one stoppage.
