Author: Lt Gen Prakash Katoch PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SC (Retd)
We need to acknowledge that countries producing modern defence systems have done so through private industry, not through DRDO-like set ups where the latter should mainly focus on R&D particularly futuristic technologies.

Author: Dr Laxman K Behera
The trust factor with the private sector is perhaps best amplified in government’s recent decision to allow L&T to sign a Licensing Agreement for Transfer of Technology (LAToT) with the DRDO for upgraded digital version of the Pilotless Target Aircraft (PTA), Lakshya. This is the first time that technology of a high value product developed by the DRDO was given to private sector for license production.

Author: Air Marshal Dhiraj Kukreja PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC (Retd)
Aerospace industry uses high technology and is a high-risk industry, which consequently results in high costs. The time has come for the DPSUs to take the private sector as a partner and not as competitor, with generous financial and technical support from the GoI, for leaving them entirely on their own can be detrimental to the entire aerospace industry and the nation.

Author: Sanjay Soni
We need to be economically and militarily strong, as global agreements happen in the form of treaties, which are best done by negotiating from a position of strength via diplomacy which is meaningful only when backed with raw military strength and deterrence closely intertwined with the nation’s geopolitical and economic/business strategy and objectives.