It is not just feasible in a world to be isolationist where globalised trade is the norm in all verticals, including weapons and weapon systems
INDIA, ACCORDING TO THE Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is the world’s largest importer of arms at 14 percent for the five-year period 2011-15, despite the Narendra Modi ‘offensive’ of ‘Make in India’. This trend is likely to continue for some more years to come. Why? The obvious answer is that no foreign original equipment manufacturer (OEM) would want to transfer high-end technology which they have created and developed with substantive investments in terms of money, time and research and development efforts. The second reason why this scenario is unlikely to change in the immediate future is that India is not ready yet to grasp these high-end technologies, despite the ‘indigenous push’. These are technologies created over long periods of intensive research and development and are not easily transferable.
NASCENT DEFENCE INDUSTRIAL BASE
While the ‘Make in India’ initiative is laudable, the defence industrial base is too nascent to even think of such high end technologies that the foreign OEMs have patented. And the armed forces, in many an instance, has insisted that there should be no compromise on quality of weapons and weapon systems, thus leaving no option but to import. The armed forces, rightly or wrongly, do not want weapons from Indian firms that have no track record in defence manufacturing. Every effort should be made to ‘indigenise technologies’ but to say that India will want to ‘indigenise’ all the technologies is not only far-fetched but also impossible. The approach then has to be a mix of import and domestic production with latter to be scaled up as the defence industrial ecosystem falls in place.
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