India's military-industrial drama: from "buying, buying, buying" to "making", what did you create in the end?
In other words, India, since it was kicked open by the British Empire, has always cherished the dream of a great power. This dream is not so easy to realize, you have to engage in military industry and complete equipment, but this Indian brother always wants to buy ready-made, but he ends up buying a bunch of "foreign garbage" and goes home.
Let's talk about the 1980s, India fell in love with a Swedish howitzer, this gun, to be honest, was already an outdated product at the time, but India just took a fancy to it, and had to buy it. You said you would buy it, and there was a bunch of moths. India asked Sweden to issue a Swiss invoice, but the Swedes honestly went to Switzerland to open an invoice and came back, but they didn't give any kickbacks or benefits. This made India angry and directly pulled Sweden into the blacklist.
After buying the gun, India found that the range of the gun was too short to hit people, so it decided to transform it by itself. This transformation has been transformed for more than ten years, from 1999 to 2010 when the transformation plan was proposed. During this period, India found that it could not do this, that could not do it, and could not even produce the parts needed for the transformation. In the end, I had to turn to my old friend Germany and buy a bunch of parts back.
Finally, in 2018, India's first "purely domestic" artillery was born. This artillery, to be honest, is a "half-breed" with German parts, Swedish artillery and an Indian assembly. You said that this Indian brother has been tossing around for so many years, and finally made this thing.
It's really funny to talk about. India's military industry is like a dou who can't be supported, buying a bunch of rags and coming back, but the transformation is unsuccessful. In the end, you have to rely on the help of others to make something decent. This dream of a great country, it seems that we have to work harder.
In general, this Indian military industry is a big show, starting from buying, buying, buying, to the end of manufacturing, and finally? Created a four-like. This tells us a truth: we still have to have dreams, but we have to be down-to-earth to realize them. Don't keep thinking about taking shortcuts and buying ready-made, which will only end up putting yourself in an embarrassing situation.