As if India don't produce foreign military hardware locally with TOT. Our Ordinance guys are regularly producing the required weapons locally and non have been rejected yet. So nothing to brag about that.
Obviously, because the design was done by some western genius and the rifles are all field tested and proven. Your ordinance factories are merely reproducing them, so there is no question of your army rejecting them back-to-back. LOL
Neither are our military hardware produced under license rejected by our army, got the point ??
The one rejected by IA was designed and developed under 6 months time period, so there is still room for improvement. Until about a year ago, the Army wanted a 5.56mm category of rifles, the same class as the INSAS. However, with changing threat perceptions and increasing terrorism and other factors, the doctrine has changed and they now require a '
shoot-to-kill' weapon, something that can kill and not just incapacitate enemies as earlier.
You should remember the story of
The Tortoise and the Hare. How smart and fast the Hare may run, it is the Tortoise that won, likewise our perseverance will eventually pay off. How much the world may ridicule us, ultimately we will come up with some world class defense products, just wait and see.
Moreover, if you are not aware we have exported USD 300 Million worth military hardware in 2016 alone. Which is way too high than you can imagine about us.
https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/india-exported-330-million-worth-military-hardware-in-2015.445744/
http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/0...orth-of-defence-equipments-by-201_a_21646447/
Hopefully it will be $ 2 billion by the end of this decade.