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I am not undermining Pakisstan' achievement to prepare itself for eventuality. Pakitani scientists and policy makers did enough to give the country a defence against much bigger and more resourceful neighbour. But, you must agree nuclear research or missiles are top secret matters for both countries and very limited people have access to those information. For third world countries like ours the path is very long. There must be hundreds of barriers and failures if we have to be at per with USA, Russia, UK, France or even China or Israel in terms of technology. DRDO had hundreds of failures and those are not surprising. They took more than two decades to built to bring an aircraft. But is it really surprising? Today an American company can take such project and produce such aircraft in no time. But in reality they have five-six decades of experience behind this "no time". I am happy that DRDO dose not try to cover up any failure. If a missile test fails it is the DRDO source, we come to know about it. They could have easily cover such failures. Nobody has the authority to go and check them unless it is sent to customer for operation clearance.
Now, answer honestly- have you ever heard off any failures in experiments regarding missiles in China or Pakistan? Do you think zero failure is possible in such critical areas. I am not undermining the capability of Pak or Chinese scientists but I must say things are not transparent to common people as it is in case of DRDO. May be media has more freedom here or may be some governments have the policy not to hurt public morale. But we, as sensible citizens should avoid from discussing something which is mere speculation. Because one need to be in very important post in a government or in Army establishment just to know how many warheades they have forget other things.
Yes I agree that it will take time & lots Of development for us to be at par with the countries you have mentioned
But if there is a will there is a way
But by the way in case of Pakistan we have a Policy of MINIMUM DETERRENCE and that is ofcourse from the very threat India & if you want to make a point that "If Minimum deterrence then why bigger nuke arsenal?" then please have a search about indian ambitions & its Military buildup which is certainly unnecessary&destablizing the military balance in southasia.To cover that balance we chose the option of strong nuke arsenal to keep the enemy at bay.
About failures I think there is a "Diffrence of approach in both countries"
You feel proud in disclosing your failures & we feel proud in disclosing our successes
Now tell me honestly What you have got after disclosing DrDo's failures???
"Another Multi Billion dollar deal after failure of every Indignous Program".
And when we look at the Bribe Scandals of Indian politicians in those Deals then I think that certainly mean something
And you Think that it is a right decision For a small country like us to disclose failures?
Yes there must be failures happened in those developments
But do you think that you people will leave those failures easily & will not make a hell out of them if we disclose them?
Will indians be saying the same thing that "failures are integral part of a development",
"Atleast you try it". ???
Considering the Population of Indians on whole internet,Bashing Pakistan i dont that this will be the case
Thanks to US for effectively propagating our successes to world so that no one will never ever think about any Misadventure