Reinventing a proven indigenous missile??..

Article by Ashok Parthasarathi and Raman Puri from "The Hindu"...

Reinventing a proven indigenous missile?

About the authors...
(Ashok Parthasarathi was Science and Technology Adviser to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for nine years in two spells in the 1970s and the early 1980s. He has been closely involved with India’s air defence system, overseen and directed as it was even then by the Radar & Communication Board chaired by the Prime Minister. Vice-Admiral Raman Puri retired as Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman, Committee of Defence Service Chiefs and was deeply associated with the inter-services weapons procurement process from October 2003 to February 2006.)

well as i said that i agree with you that india should have gone ahead & bought the S-400, simply because at rs 10,000-crore they would have a ADS which can track & engage targets 400km away, whereas in the israeli system they will have to be satisfied with 120km.

if any ADS is to be bought from the israelis then it should be the SPYDER ADS for short-range & mobile platform

you are right , while the russians are providing us with already proven technologies, india is more keen to re-invent the wheel so as to say

but what to do ??? in india weapon systems are chosen not on the basis of merit but What "revenues" they would generate for the deal-makers & politicians