The lines I particularly enjoyed were India has left the world leaders in missile technology far behind
.and We are the leader in speed, precision and delivery
And this is not coming from a regular guy, but from the one of the best of Indias cognitive elites. The IQ and moral reflected are just blowing you away.
Leave the much more sophisticated topics of Speed and precision aside for a moment, just a casual pick on this delivery. Well, India could be shining, incredible , colourful, vibrant to all senses, not particularly bright in frontal lobe department,
but delivery? excuse me but I struggle to recall when was the last time India has delivered, in, well, just about anything. Anyone volunteer here to remind me?
delivery? whatever that is.
Secondly, let alone the core technologies of missiles, namely guidance system and optic lense tech, together with advanced basic sciences, material science and advanced manufacturing technologies, etc. which separate a missle to a pile of wasted iron block, India is no where near even the third league (say the European level) on each of above category, India can NOT even make the plain SHELL of the high speed missiles such as Agni V and Brahmos without shipping from Russia ready-made high tech shell pieces.
I am not exaggerating here. The high-temp super hard shell of Agni V, for instance, is made of 2 different materials. The 1st stage and 2nd stage shell of Agni V is made of carbon fibre, a basic technology that even 3-tier industrial countries like Brazil knew how to make long ago, which India only knew a couple of years ago due to a foreign joint venture. The other is special fibre above T300 level, more likely T700 which is at least 2 generations ahead of the best of what India knows currently.
On these special material technologies, only countries like US, Japan (the first league currently) , and Russia, China, the EU (the second league) know how to make it. As a result, both the 3rd stage shell of Agni V and the whole shell of Brahmos have to be and must be imported as a full piece from either Russia or France, likely the former though. I don´t even have to look for a source to prove this because it is common knowledge!
So let alone core missile technologies of laser guidance, optic lenss, and super hard high temp alloys, India is far from having enough technologies to make the plain shell of any high speed missile even.
India missile technology is generally 40 to 50 years behind US and Russia ( the top league in my book), about 40 years behind China (closely and the fast moving second league), and about 30-40 years behind the EU(France, UK , Germany).
The OP Indian intellectual gloat is like pointing to a German-engined Tata Nano with German transmission system and foreign electronics and claiming India has left world auto leaders of Ferrari, Porsche, Merc, BMW, Toyota, GM etc far behind, and Tata Nano is the world leader in `speed`, `precision` and `delivery`.
Indian missile technologies ? We are talking about paint jobs here, quite figuratively and literally.