Again, what I said just went over your head. So let me try to explain what I was saying.
India's enemy is India alone. For example: Our Jugad mentality. Or Chalta hai. We indians are known to find fixes things in indigenous ways. Most Indians are proud of it. No issues with that. However, Innovation doesn't work in environments like that. Take any R&D projects in universities. The push is to "finish" the things. Way is always less important.
Our military R&D projects. We try. We fail. We buy. Innovation never happened. Save for the IGMDP project. A true feather in our cap. You don't see any Pakistani or Chinese calling on it. They cant. They wont.
So fine. Innovation is one way to go. The other way is swallow your pride and just get things done in any other way. Thats what chinese did. Look at their J-20. They grabbed whatever they can from wherever and mixed it with their experience. They have a "5th" gen now. Fanbois were triggered. Look at the new AESA radar they developed. Pakistanis were triggered. India failed there also. How? I was talking about our LCA project. Trust me. The jet is a gem. JF 17 has no game on it. The Chinese know it. So do the prospective buyers they had for the JF. But no, our own AF wants something else. Over engineering is a real issue in R&D. There is a reason why the terms Marks, Tranches, Sprints, Blocks are used in engineering projects. No one will yell at you for delivering a product that doesn't do 100% at the get go. Except for Indian armed forces.
Modi, another joker in the making soon. He came in all guns blazing. Good that the oil prices are down. Indians biggest commodity import is oil. He can afford to do stuff. Still instead of pushing things down the armed forces, still going with phoren mall. Still new LWF tenders. Still new T90. We Indians never get it. We are always out of loop.
And Others will laugh all their way to the bank.