MarquezRazor

Since Indian Pvt concerns are more into assembling and not manufacturing or R&D,how about inviting foreign defence Cos to set up shop here?I mean they must be interested..for eg..LockMartin and Boeing are saying they will invest a lot into India.Maybe they are given the requirements by the services and they could come up with products suited to Indian needs and in India itself.The money for the R&D could come partly from the services and partly the Cos themselves.And since those Cos already have a world market to sell their products,they wont also be too hesitant to invest some money on their own,unlike the Indian pvt cos who has to depend mostly on the services to sell their products and the services are most of the time so very finicky...so its understandable from their PoV.And for the various components and subsystems ,the Indian cos can be involved...and that also takes care of the offsets factor.And then the point remains of indigenization...maybe some amount of ToT to Indian Cos could be done.