DOES SCI FI HAVE A WINDOW OF POSSIBILITY HERE

DRDO sure is miles away from hitting the same niche that DARPA enjoys in the American Army. What is amazing about DARPA is that a couple of years back when i was scrolling over its site for some passerby knowledge...I ran into a wishlist which had been picked out of sci fi movies and comics to say the least....silent soldiers with telepathy for communication, biological agents being modified for surveillance and exo skeleton and sorts.

what i saw in the same site years later was their prototypes.... HULC exo skeleton, Hummingbird UAV, a beetle with its flight controlled by electric pulses, airborne laser, the rail gun. When ever will the DRDO grow up beyond the orange plastic toy called INSAS and give our dreams their rightful wings. I guess the government should let some serious introspection on this white elephant that has as much velocity towards efficacy as a pregnant snail.

Recruiting established scientists, outsourcing R & D to reputed companies like L & T and Tata Defence Industries based on ground tactical requirements, working on the concept of islands of excellence at the national level to create high profile projects under the umbrella of an efficient, well funded semi- independent agency which takes the DRDO tab only for names sake. The list of ideas is as endless as the possibilities of nurturing a more professional atmosphere at #DRDO where most projects are behind schedule and just an eyewash with no quality or world class technological standards.

where the #DARPA gave the world the Internet and a generation of stealth fighters, DRDO has been only been able to only come up with a few projects from the controversial #INSAS, Arjun to the  indigenous bhut jolokia grenades and Agni series (which just happens to be basically ex import technology with an Indian Tag). If India means business in geopolitics of this dog eat dog world it might as well start by giving some serious priority and finance to this sleeping giant.