India, Oct. 27 -- Start with the scorecard. Indigenisation measured as a single percentage flattens two claims that deserve separate evidence: source code ownership, which can be verified through auditable repositories or escrow, and assembly content, which is a supply chain documentation question. Procurement should ask for both, and ask for them separately. Contracts should buy surge capacity rather than units alone, with milestone payments tied to a demonstrated ability to go from hundreds to thousands inside ninety days. And the certification pipeline deserves to be treated as a defence bottleneck rather than an administrative step, since a queue measured in years is a production ceiling regardless of what capacity sits behind it. None ...