What India gains and loses by buying weapons from many suppliers

Is India's practice of buying military equipment from many countries a strength or a weakness?

Both: varied purchases offer comparative knowledge, while integration and logistics become substantially more complicated.

Equipment from different suppliers provides information about alternative designs and approaches. India's interest in developing its own systems gives that comparative experience a possible use. The difficulty is making the varied equipment work together. The assessment is that the logistics structure has become unusually complicated, with an explicit comparison to the Royal Navy's diverse Second World War inventory. Working out a coherent system will take time.