I have no doubt that there are good folks at IE but the con jobs done by Aroor and Ranjan and now this need to be remembered!
Can the INDIAN EXPRESS edits make it any more clear whose side they are batting upon:
The politics of anti-missile missile systems, however, is already positive. Monday’s tests put an end to India’s prolonged hypocrisy on missile defence. Although it badly needed missile defence to guard against Pakistani nuclear blackmail and to complicate the Chinese nuclear calculus, New Delhi feigned opposition. When Jaswant Singh dropped the pretence for a moment in May 2001, when he was minister for defence and external affairs, there was political outrage both within and outside the government. Opposing the Bush administration’s plans for missile defence was considered more important than India staying close to military technological development elsewhere in the world. Since then India repeatedly spurned the US’s offer to cooperate on missile defence.
OMG...so bloody funny...the GOI at the time supported Bush over BMD..but this is not enough for Shekhar Gupta! Nothing less than total obedience will do!
And India must and should have the US offer (hello- what about *Indian interests*- leave it to GOI and DRDO to decide whom to cooperate with shall we! Who gives us TOT and source codes will be the winner!)
Given the most likely involvement of the sophisticated Israeli radar, which India bought a few years ago, in Monday’s missile test, DRDO has wisely not made the claim that the system was indigenous. Given the scale and complexity of the technologies involved, India must now stop being coy about cooperating with America on missile defence. For India, missile defence is surely the way to go. The quickest way of getting there is through open international collaboration.
More mealy mouthed platitudes.
Since the DRDO cannot be targetted on the test success, now use the "indigenous" issue to target it!
This test was not 100% indigenous, yada yada yada!
Waah saab waah!
So if the missile etc are locally derived, who cares.
Anyone can tell DRDO is using foreign assistance as and when required but keeping the all-important C3I and software close to its heart, as it should be.
And for the radar, what will you do when a local one replaces it?
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