India to buy 70,000 assault rifles from Russia thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
1361 Halting affair: Delay in modernisation hampers operational efficiency of the defence forces, which can compromise security. Reuters
Amit Cowshish and Rahul Bedi
Ex-Financial Adviser (Acquisition), MoD and Senior journalist
The Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) interminable deadlines in concluding procurements of urgently-needed materiel is not at all surprising in a country that prides itself on timelessness and where the word for today and tomorrow kal is paradoxically the same.
The equally enigmatic timelines of parson and tarson the day after or the third day or thereabouts remain similarly nebulous when it concerns the MoD’s snail pace in concluding pressing defence equipment buys. This, in turn, adversely impinges on the military’s operational efficiency and its long-postponed modernisation.
India s Russian Deals To Build Assault Rifles and Light Utility Helicopters in Jeopardy – Indian Defence Research Wing idrw.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from idrw.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
India s Russian Deals To Build Assault Rifles and Light Utility Helicopters in Jeopardy
Indiaâs two much-hyped joint ventures (JVs) with Russia are floundering over costs, flawed planning and overreach on achieving atmanirbharta in the military sector.
An Indian army soldier keeps guard from a bunker near the border with Pakistan in Abdullian, southwest of Jammu. Representative image. Photo: Reuters/Mukesh Gupta/File Photo
Security19/Dec/2020
Chandigarh: Indiaâs two much-hyped joint ventures (JVs) with Russia to licence-build assault rifles and light utility helicopters (LUH) are floundering over costs, flawed planning and overreach on achieving
atmanirbharta or domestic self-sufficiency in the military sector.