Indians For Guns

Pierangelo Tendas (PT-The Italian Commie)on 31 May 2011 at 10:38 pm link comment
Dearest gentlemen, I have to state… STK blacklisted for corruption by the Indian government my a**.

Sorry to use this kind of language, but it’s a well-known fact in the gunwriters and defense analysts sector, as well as within the industry, that the Indian government has an almost unique way to supply the DRDO (Indian Defense Research & Development Organization) and IOF (Indian Ordnance Factories, also known as OFB) with new technologies.

Basically, this is how it works.

When the Indian Armed Forces issue a solicitation for any kind of new product, the company that wins the contract, or whose product is in any other way selected for adoption, will sign agreements with a high-rank, and usually elder, official of the Armed Forces.
As soon as the first batch is delivered, the samples are turned in to the DRDO and IOF/OFB for examination, to see whether the existing technologies in possession of the Indian industries would allow reverse-engineering and local manufacture of the product.
If the thing is feasible, the “corruption scandal” manoeuver starts. The above-mentioned elder official “confesses” to have been paid by the foreign company to “ease” the adoption of their product, and is quickly retired; the foreign company is blacklisted; as per Indian law, the government retains the already-received batches without paying; and the local industry starts unlicensed reverse-engineering and manufacturing.

They did it with the South-African 20mm DENEL NTW anti-matériel rifle (now made by the OFB as the “Widhwansak”), they did it with the Israeli TAVOR (now known in India as the ZITTARA), and they will now do it with a mix of the FN F-2000 and the SAR-21, which will be known as the F-INSAS. I am afraid, and I have told my friends in Beretta about this, that the newly-launched Mx4-Storm sub-machinecarbine, whose first customers will be the Indians, might fall victim of the same curse. The only technologies that still foreign countries can fairly safely export to India without fear of local illicit cloning are those very high-tech products (mostly coming from China and Russia nowadays) for whose manufacture still India has not fully developed capabilities.

jonahpach wrote:Absolutely Fantastisch! What happened to its state of the art INSAS, EXCALIBUR, MINSAS etc.. which cost the exchequer crores of rupees in R&D? Outdated before proper induction already?? tch tch.. shame shame

jonahpach wrote:Absolutely Fantastisch! What happened to its state of the art INSAS, EXCALIBUR, MINSAS etc.. which cost the exchequer crores of rupees in R&D? Outdated before proper induction already?? tch tch.. shame shame

winnie_the_pooh wrote:I just got a photo of the new carbine along with an even shorter version

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eljefe wrote:The3y have 'Najaiz' the PC, generate names randomly