India Lifts Veil on Army as Modi Prepares to Spend $150 Billion

[Allen Iverson]

isreal merkava tank?

No other country in the world manufactures no other weapons system, that starts and ends with the name Merkava.. So I guess it should be Israeli..

 

[Genghis khan1]

we most sell some time buy and some get for free from usa
what we cant mae our self like atack plane submerine we buy what we can make ourself we dont buy and what we can get for free is free

Like Pakistan. Pakistan also like it free, or half price atleast.

My father says he's ready to buy 1000 Merkavas.

That's blasphemy. How dare you bring up Merkava in the presence of might Arjun.

 

[Śakra]

Merkavas?? That too a Thousand?? Trust me dear, India has crossed over the idea of Main battle tanks.. Apart from Arjun there will be no more tank projects undertaken.. Nor a new Platform will be bought any more..

I convinced him otherwise!

isreal merkava tank?

Yup!

That's blasphemy. How dare you bring up Merkava in the presence of might Arjun.

Arjun is sooo last season.

 

[Genghis khan1]

I don't think India is struggling for $10 billion, India's forex reserve is itself near $400 billion. India buy defence equipment like vegetable. India bargain on and on until the opposite person gives up . Rafale are sure to join IAF.

Those $400 billion are the property of 1.2 billions waiting for a better day in their life.

Arjun is sooo last season.

Noo Waaay... Arjun is the future. Even American and Russians are trying to emulate the success and technology of Arjun.

 

[John Reese]

India is struggling to manage $10 billion to save its face on decade long Rafael negotiations where is Modi going to get 150 billion?

Pakistani posters

Still making 2 air craft carrier

Cost 5 billion. Each

Nevertheless 110 contract worth
17 billion $ already signed this fiscal year

Funds Already cleared by DAC
For purchase

101 other contract worth
36 .05 billion $ are in pipeline and inked within year end

Go through for analysis
https://defence.pk/threads/mod-transforming-india-key-accomplishments-july-2016.441627/#post-8514382

 

[Allen Iverson]

I convinced him otherwise!

You seem to have.. But that guy is an epic poster.. He trusts everything people say..

 

[Skull and Bones]

I don't think India is struggling for $10 billion, India's forex reserve is itself near $400 billion. India buy defence equipment like vegetable. India bargain on and on until the opposite person gives up . Rafale are sure to join IAF.

Bargaining is the first lesson taught from the book to Chanakya to every evil Hindu Baniya.

 

[Pandora]

Just one moment while I contact my father Defence Minister Parrikar and tell him to buy Israeli instead of American.

Parrikar is your daddy

 

[dray]

Great move!

 

[Abingdonboy]

Looking beyond the headline-grabbing figure (which is actually very very conservative), THIS is what everyone should be paying attention to:

Earlier this month, more than 200 representatives of defense companies -- big and small, local and foreign -- got unprecedented access to India’s secretive military. At two events in the western city of Ahmednagar, they crawled inside tanks, learned about the army’s equipment needs and spoke with troops on the front lines in Kashmir, a region also claimed by main rival Pakistan.

“We’ve seen the army open up under this current leadership," said Jayant D. Patil, a senior vice-president with Larsen & Toubro Ltd., which makes parts for everything from missiles to submarines. “The army is trying to build a relationship with the private sector. They’re communicating what their real needs are and want us to know what kind of problems they see in their day to day life -- and then industry can build solutions."

All attendees had to be Indian nationals, vetted and approved by the army. The invitations to small-and-medium-sized defense firms were a first in a sector that prizes scale and a country that tends to favor conglomerates.

said the military went beyond merely talking about its equipment: Army officials, who wanted a new engine design, actually gave six Russian-made infantry combat vehicles to two private companies.

-Private sector now directly interacting with the IA
-The needs of the IA being directly communicated
-Private sector being given the oppourtunity to study the requirements of the users first hand
-MSMEs (and not just "big business") are also being brought into the fold

It's a step in the right direction and a rebutal to all those trolls who like to defame the IA and brandish it has a "phoren maal" loving force. It is going to take a long long time for the fruits to be visible but there is finally some movement.


@Water Car Engineer @PARIKRAMA @anant_s @acetophenol @Levina @Stephen Cohen @Ankit Kumar 002 @Koovie @MilSpec @Omega007 @Nilgiri @noksss @ito @hellfire @GURU DUTT

 

[Nilgiri]

Looking beyond the headline-grabbing figure (which is actually very very conservative), THIS is what everyone should be paying attention to:









-Private sector now directly interacting with the IA
-The needs of the IA being directly communicated
-Private sector being given the oppourtunity to study the requirements of the users first hand
-MSMEs (and not just "big business") are also being brought into the fold

It's a step in the right direction and a rebutal to all those trolls who like to defame the IA and brandish it has a "phoren maal" loving force. It is going to take a long long time for the fruits to be visible but there is finally some movement.


@Water Car Engineer @PARIKRAMA @anant_s @acetophenol @Levina @Stephen Cohen @Ankit Kumar 002 @Koovie @MilSpec @Omega007 @Nilgiri @noksss @ito @hellfire @GURU DUTT

Its long time overdue, this should have been done in the 90s, 20 years or so late! But better late than never at least.