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Sergi this "cut" I keep seeing people harping on about doesn't exist. In absolute terms the defence budget for FY2013-14 is MORE than it was in FY2012-13 whatever way you look at it. Yes the year-year increase in percentage terms is less than Indians may be used to but in no ways is it a "cut". This "cut" was pure hype by the media who were stipulating the defence budget for FY2013-14 would be less in absolute terms than the year before and this was repeated across the defence media but turned out to be 100% BS as the defence budget for this year is more than last year- END OF STORY.
What happened in the last quarter of 2012-13 was $2 BN USD that had been allocated for defence spending was not released to the MoD as special circumstances stipulated that emergency measures needed to be taken for that quarter and thus these funds were kept in the treasury and not spent in the military. This was a ONE OFF and $2 BN split 3 ways (IAF,IA,IN) isn't all that much relative to India's entire defence budget.
Wrt the APC deal being "killed"- no such action has taken place. And the FICV is still ongoing but deliveres will not begin until later this decade.
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Sergi, these will be coming in through F-INSAS starting nest year (2014).