Though these questions have been asked/answered a no. of times here, i would like to answer these one by one, hopefully i could be of help
I would like to ask Indians some questions.
Most important is why is there such huge spending on defence, I think you are going over the top, like 2-3 AC, so many different jets and massive spending when you have enough deterrence and not an upcoming war..... Instead of buying so so much if you spend some of that on the poor it can help like build like a massive housing project for poor, like hundreds of modern flats will cost you like 1/10 of even one AC.
Firstly, Indian defence budget is not huge, it's just around 2% of the GDP (while world average, which consists of more poorer countries than rich, is 2.5%). Many armed force personnel, think tanks, defence experts, leaders, etc. have insisted time & again that GOI should increase it to atleast 2.5% of GDP (in consonance with the world average) if not more. Compare this to the spending of both Pakistan & China, which spends atleast 3.5% of GDP on defence. So the so called massive figures which turns out to be around $ 45 billion dollars on military expenditure in India is actually due to large Indian economy while the percentage spending on defence is still less than the world average.
Secondly, I always find this argument totally flawed that we should spend less on defence & more on socially beneficial schemes, no one is questioning schemes which benefits the poor but not at the cost of defence of a country, I mean if there will be no country remaining (if one does not spend on defence, & our enemy win a war with us) than what can a govt. do for the poor?? so in my opinion, defence of a country comes first than anything else, Thus all the social schemes should be run in parallel & not on transferred military funds. If there is one country that needs to boost up it's defence capability in the world, than it's India, since India has been attacked by outside powers since the time of Alexander. Britishers colonized India because of it's weak defence & drain out the entire wealth of the one time "Golden Bird" which resulted in the present day poverty, the very thing u are talking about, was actually because of the weak defence of India. After Independence we have been victims of 5 aggression by our neighbors, even then if we don't learn something from it & don't ramp up our defenses than world will only call us fools.
Thirdly, war doesn't comes with a 1 month notice so that India can be prepared for it, any country has to remain prepared for any contingency each second. Yes, in current scenario possibility of a war looks bleak when every nation is connected (globalization) to every other nation & wants economic prosperity through it, war is the thing they will never want, but that doesn't mean that we can remain complacent. History has shown that every time a country was attacked when the aggressor thought the country was in it's weakest position & victory will be just around the corner. To be seen as weak is the last thing India can afford.
Second is why is their buying so unorganised, you have so many different jets it looks very unorganised like soon rafale, Russian SU jets, Russian migs, Indian new jet coming up, New PAKFA, harrier, jaguar etcccc already counted so many instead why don't you have like 3 that can do many roles.
Buying is not unorganized, every thing/procurement is pre-planned at the highest levels of defence establishment of India, it's the way we look at the things. Since u raised the IAF procurement issue, than let me be clear, every nation's desire is to make it's air force complete in itself & ready for any contingency, this basically demands fighter a/c in 3 categories:
Heavy weight - fulfilled by su-30, FGFA (in future).
Medium weight - fulfilled by Rafale (in future), mirage 2000, mig 29, jaguar.
Light weight - mig-21, tejas (in future).
along with this various force multipliers like AWACS, refuellers, transport planes, etc. which makes any Air Force a modern day air force. It is with this respect that these procurement should be seen since IAF soon wants to be become the world's top AF with all modern weaponry.
Also I read that you will get 100 ships by 2017 is that serious? By ships do you mean everything even coast guards and little things or just big, if it's true I think that just mad spending to show off, we have a word ayagn yorganina göre uzat which mean do appropriate spending.
Thanks
No, the count is not 100 ships till 2017, actually 49 ships are currently being constructed in various shipyards, with a further order for 45 more in the coming years, so IN will induct some 100 ships in a decade or so & not 5 years time as you said. By ships it can be anything from as large as an AC, to as small a coastal patrol ship. This is again NOT mad spending, if India wants to become a power to reckon with than it has to have control at sea, since every world/super power had controlled oceans to have a control at land (eg. Great Britain, US), so India should not lose on this count (to reiterate, this spending is also included in our defence budget which is 2% of GDP).
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