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2020-01-09 India-Pakistan

India Seeks Local Production of 'Total Kill' Ammunition for Russian-Origin T-72, T-90 Battle Tanks

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Posted by Fred 2020-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 'Local production'. Hyeh !!

Because of the utterly useless nature of the Indian bureaucracy, a procurement process created by politicians for graft, an overstaffed defence ministry, and thoroughly incompetent REMFs hogging policy discussions - unfortunately India is never going to achieve parity with other nations in this regard.

Nobody in the Indian political class trusts the military with direct purchase budgets or even entertains our requests for a fucking meeting about the needs of the fighting arms, unless it's for political posturing. Right, Left, the gummint doesn't matter. Policy is determined by civil servants with no clue about reality. And the entire decision tree is populated by prize assholes and their petty departmental fiefdoms, not one soldier.

Eventually, an engineering firm with no clue about battle or even explosive - all lawyers, accountants and MBAs will purchase a license from the same Russian manufacturer we could directly buy from, and build a facility somewhere in India inflating the costs. They'll also present a nice jingoist AV presentation to the cabinet. And we'll buy it, telling ourselves it's all us. Indian ammo is finally made in India !

Pakis will laugh as they unbox the next shipment of ammo for their Al-Khalid tanks, with 125 mm smoothbore ESR molded cannons. They can fire APFSDS, HEAT-FS, HE-FS, DU ammo all out of the crate; with integrated night fighting and thermal; and integrated battlefield tech. No mods and upgrades necessary.

We'll still slay them in any war of course, that's not the point.

An officer was being felicitated after Kargil by a minister who was eulogizing about Indian hubris. Quite pissed after ten minutes of froth, he said to his face, 'No thanks to you. We don't win wars because we're Indian, we win wars despite being Indian, our boys will fight with sticks and knives and still win'.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-09 10:57|| 2020-01-09 10:57|| Front Page Top

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