tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post5964929262860456197..comments2024-03-28T05:22:10.255-07:00Comments on Broadsword by Ajai Shukla - Strategy. Economics. Defence.: India’s offset advantage: high-technology transfersBroadswordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13076780076240598482noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8726844009873922462.post-64361427439404176032007-04-19T12:10:00.000-07:002007-04-19T12:10:00.000-07:00Hello Mr. Ajai Shukla. In my view, no foreign vend...Hello Mr. Ajai Shukla. In my view, no foreign vendor shall transfer sensitive technology to India. Often, rights to licence-manufacture is mistaken for technology transfer.<BR/><BR/>Thus, India may not recieve ToT for crucial and highly sensitive systems like AESA radar, thrust vectoring technology, etc because these are "Druid's formula" or trade-secrets, that have been accomplished only upon expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of man-years of research. Their value is (currently) "priceless".<BR/><BR/>At the most only licence manufacturing rights for a few peripheral components may be given to India. <BR/>The vendors have reservations about the offset policy because they may not need that much worth of cheap ancillary components and/or raw-material.<BR/>Again, the capital, raw-materials, labour, resources etc. from Indian partner-companies for servicing the western vendors, may be more prudently utilized for R&D and to service indigenous defence requirements.<BR/><BR/>Thus, in my view this offset policy is not beneficial neither to India nor to foreign vendors.<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Abhimanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13725190272782358248noreply@blogger.com