India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes
India Is Still Throwing Good Money at Hopeless Military Programmes The government persists in throwing good money after bad in its enduring albeit elusive decades-long bid for materiel self-sufficiency. The GTRE GTX-35VS Engine on its testbed. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Security15/Dec/2020 Chandigarh: The government’s Atmanirbhar Bharat, or self-sufficient India, initiative with regard to military equipment is littered with the remains of incomplete and ad hoc projects, on whose continuing development vast sums of money are being wasted. Many such ambitious programmes, under the patronage of...