And India reinvented the wheel did it. All of Indian defence products are product of 'acquired' technology mostly from Russia, Israel and increasing US that is 'sexed' up and tagged Indian.
Who said anything about re-inventing the wheel. Once you buy a wheel that you lost track of how to do....obviously you take it further.
It is telling that both Iran and North Korea under far more extreme sanctions and self-imposed insularity....are able to convert BM tech to sounding rockets and then much more.
Pakistan is literally the only country that sits on it stuck-fast....with few to deeply query it.
Saqrkh has produced quite a good reply to read that you might want to re-read.
He seems to have an engineering background and understands the importance of good delegation and keeping production lines and process flow well set up, active and warm.
This is the essence in the end for any nation-state's progress and capability.
A good coordination between the powerful and intelligent (since these rarely intersect) that it has in fairly relative scarce numbers to start out in its first 50 - 100 years or so.
A good coordination between those that philosophize and those that are practical also follow this (since those also rarely intersect).
Instead what has Pakistan done by its very formation process and objectives resolution?...and much more after it to hold it all up?
The results bear out.
Sometimes it comes quite directly like when the Ahmadi general making significant inroads in chamb was peculiarly and curiously replaced by that paragon of competence and virtue that was Yahya Khan....because something about ahmadis just doesnt sit right with the nationstate's vaunted first principles.
Other times its a longer process with the final resting legacy of those like Abdus Salam or how every other large scientific/technical mind (of any dissonance which is important in the larger process) gets harried and squelched in some fashion.
This extends to sectors requiring competence in general. The ability to not just acquire but take things further.
Anyone can learn the basic rules of chess you see. But how do you get better at it?
Persia and India have (just like the BM---> space rocket stuff)....whats the hold up with the countries in between them that have the same raw earlier legacy surely? Afghanistan has a pretty large excuse, but surely not the other one too?
The DHA much prefers creating, indulging and playing love-hate nurture-abandon patty cake cycles with such as:
- the talented MQM singer and his many variants spread in other areas
- the circus parade of hyper-religious beardos who all hate some large portion of other people (local and foreign)...all with some abc name like TTP, TLP, LEJ, PMQ etc etc etc...
- the running patrician ensemble of bhutto, sharif and now khan when khaki default gets too much accumulated flak
You see in the end DHA has a complex not all that different conceptually to yours (just directed differently).
While you have issues with (geographic-cultural) gangu-origin pakistanis like AQ Khan, Musharraf and even your founding father Jinnah.
....their issue lies with another delineation on religion (since thats what the system has set up) and all that inevitably involves.
It is really only the Bengalis that had enough counter weight and distance to pull away from its suffocation...especially after the final outburst.
The rest have to suffer it and make do with it....and a number form further conspiracies and theories to account for it.
This gets in the way of pretty much everything that needs cleaner mental acumen setting.
Don't believe me, see where everything stands another 10 years from now....and then 10 years after that. Simple.
