Aditya_V wrote:shiv Bhaskar wrote:
Apologies if posted already
Junk weapons in defence fleet
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/vide ... 835093.cms
Thanks for posting - I just missed the item on live news
The report disses the Harpy, Popeye and Sea Eagle, apart from an unspecified Russian ARM and some Indian stuff.
The report actually makes me elated - I am happy to see people being open to recognizing and stating faults.
Shiv, the article seems to be a bit porly researched i.e.. Harpy missile not UAV. It dishes all weapons from all countries including India. Stufflike no compents for sea eagle, i Think everbody knows we are phasing these out. etc and yadda, yadda ........ and so on.
and this was the reporter who in the Vizag , sub converted museam and pretending it was the ATV.
The only aim of the article is that we need weapons, we should buy from Khan inspite of strings conditions, inspections etc... no matter what
No - I'm not saying the report is right - but I see two separate issues coming out of any media report.
One is what the people who need to know, know about the real state of affairs.
The second is what the aam junta and DDM read from the report. Most reports that I have seen over the last decade and a half are squarely aimed at dissing anything Indian, an act that automatically gets Indians saying "Look at the Israelis - such a small nation - just see their mijjiles" or "Why not buy American XYZ that we know work well - proven against NoKo and Vietnam"
For a change this news item is undiscriminating and disses Israeli, British, Russian and Indian ("Sitaphal" cluster bombs
presumably with some imported content)