Javelin, Raytheon, Indian Bureaucracy, the Omnishambles of it All.

'E carried me away
To where a dooli lay,
An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.
'E put me safe inside,
An' just before 'e died,
"I 'ope you liked your drink" sez Gunga Din.

Why Terry Gilliam called his Epic Anti-Bureaucracy Film"Brazil" and not "India" is a mystery what with Britain's history with the Raj and all but there it is Indian Leviathan feeds on itself. Never a done deal. Probably only because eMagin is tangentially involved. And the Strategic context makes it all the weirder as the Taliban is withdrawing as well from Afghan to Kashmir, it's going to get very hot in there very soon. Pakistan will encourage them as surrogates. How bright a red is that on the Pentagon's Digital Map?

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The fallout from the AgustaWestland case can also be seen in the services’ procurement plans. In April the MoD delayed the army’s plans to spend 150 billion rupee ($2.3 billion) on Rafael Spike non-line-of-sight anti-tank missiles because of sensitivities at sole-sourcing such a big contract.
It is also impeding recent attempts by the U.S. to kick start the military-industrial relationship with Delhi. The Pentagon – in the form of outgoing Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter – has promised to co-develop at least two systems with India: a successor to the Javelin anti-tank guided missile and the next-generation EMALS catapult for launching aircraft off carriers.
The chances of either of these joint developments getting off the ground are severely compromised by India’s inability to sort out its basic procurement relationships with foreign vendors, as the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) noted in a September letter to the Pentagon that was provided to IHS Jane’s.
The USIBC letter complained that India was imposing "unfeasible delays" on signing defense contracts and that foreign defense companies had little post-delivery liability protection. It pointed to the M777 deal as a key example of the problems being faced."
http://thediplomat.com/2013/10/27/indias-defense-procurement-bungles-2/