Actually Indian Posters should not react like this on any genuine criticize. His post is not offensive. Any Indian member would have made same comment.
Finally a sane Indian poster.
India really needs to get out of this habit of buying foreign weapons just because they are available.
With the successful introduction of the Akash SAM, India has proved that it has the technology to make decent SAMs. While they may not be the best in the world it should be good enough to go up against the Pakistan Navy which is the only threat currently in the Indian Ocean, albeit a small threat.
India should have made its own short and long-range SAMs for use on both land and naval variants. They would be less capable than the systems that India is currently importing but it would be its own weapons and would give India vital experience to build even better weapons in the future.
Without going through the painful process of designing and building its own weapons, India will always be reliant on imports.
Not many countries develop Marine Gas Turbines.Even China uses a Ukrainian design.
SAM is a JV one.
China can fully produce the QC-280 without any assistance from Ukraine. It is based on a Ukrainian engine but it owns all intellectual rights to it.
SAM technology is not being transferred so India has not gainded the know-how to make the SAM by itself.