Commercial ventures are free to produce whatever they want on our soil. Creating spare capacity isn't a bad idea apart from having own. Also Hammer is not a missile, it is a guidance kit for dumb bombs.
The reality is that India despite having free access to international markets, still fails to assemble a guidance kit. I used to admire Indian IT engineers who had almost once conquered microsoft company. But as it seems, India does not care about indigenous programs which forces Indian scientists to leave the country. That is pathetic and a sign of huge corruption inside the country.
You speak of Iran. While this news says that India fails to make a guidance kit for guiding a dumb bomb without French help.
Iran develops a guidance kit for unguided rockets of Hezbollah enabling them to have 150,000 guided rockets :
The Iranian Army unveiled what appeared to be a new guidance upgrade called the Labeik that converts existing artillery rockets into surface-to-surface missiles on 3...
www.janes.com
The Iranian military has unveiled what it claims is a conversion kit that converts artillery rockets into surface-to-surface missiles – technology that Israel has accused Tehran of trying to delive…
nypost.com
Take a look into this one:
en.wikipedia.org
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Defense Ministry unveiled a number of new smart and precision-guided bombs, developed by the local experts.
www.tasnimnews.com
Speaking of fighter jet, Iran does not buy American engines, Israeli avionics, Russian weapons system to integrate them into so called HAL Tejas.
We have local plans for fighter jets but as of now Iran has been able to lonely counter NATO in Iraq, Syria, Israel and their assets in Qatar, Kuwait, KSA and other Arab kinglets.
India compared to Iran in the military field is a sad joke.
