{"id":191559,"date":"2009-07-26T05:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/26\/woah-this-has-failure-written-all-over-it\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T10:33:00","slug":"woah-this-has-failure-written-all-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/26\/woah-this-has-failure-written-all-over-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Woah&#8230;This Has Failure Written All Over It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Defense (or is Defen<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">c<\/span>e) Ministry has <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4200500&amp;c=ASI&amp;s=TOP\">initiated a project to create a &#8220;digital soldier&#8221;<\/a>, called Futuristic Infantry Soldier-As-A-System (F-INSAS), and it seems to be analogous to the Pentagon&#8217;s recently <del>canceled<\/del> suspended &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Land_Warrior\">Land Warrior<\/a>&#8221; system.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this ambitious system in juxtaposed with the Indian Defense R&amp;D programs, which have taken more than 30 years to take a tank and an aircraft from concept to operational deployment, and <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/seriously-indian-defense-establishment.html\">22 years to develop an anti-tank missile<\/a>, so I see this as very likely being another complete cluster f$#@.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why Indian defense R&amp;D is so completely fracked, but they have our own Pentagon beat on this, which must be scary for the Indian soldier and taxpayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Defense (or is Defence) Ministry has initiated a project to create a &#8220;digital soldier&#8221;, called Futuristic Infantry Soldier-As-A-System (F-INSAS), and it seems to be analogous to the Pentagon&#8217;s recently canceled suspended &#8220;Land Warrior&#8221; system. Of course, this ambitious system in juxtaposed with the Indian Defense R&amp;D programs, which have taken more than 30 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1006,1151,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-military","category-south-asia","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}