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The Australian Army is an Expeditionary Force with 16k active soldiers while you have to arm and feed 1 million soldiers. Do the math. India can equip some of its regiments with Modern Western Kits but not all of them.
The only country that can equip its troops with standardized modern western kit at a million number is the US, but they have a defence budget of $700 billion.
We have to be practical in what we do.
So if we talk about the soldiers facing action like the SF and RR plus the infantry units facing the LOC then we would have round about 1 lac troops.
So the cost comes arounf 14-15 thousand crores which if divide by 5 years come to around 3000 crores a year.
I think its affordable if we can be practical.