Leasing can undoubtedly be a cost-effective tool for augmenting military capabilities but may not be suitable in all cases. Leasing as a mode of procurement only aims at striking a balance between the operational requirement of the Services...
Despite a large DIB and a huge captive defence market, India has not been able to enhance domestic production capabilities till date. The need of the hour is providing competitive environment to the Government-owned defence manufacturing units and...
The outbreak of the Coronavirus presents an alarming human health crisis and has a significant commercial impact, thus, posing challenges necessitating focus on sectors like health and infrastructure and monetary measures to revive economy. As a fallout Defence...
The draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP)- 2020 has been released by the Defence Ministry that aims at further increasing indigenous manufacturing and reducing timelines for procurement of military hardware/equipment strengthening the defence preparedness of the country. The Article...
Though India has taken the ATGM development programme and have made limited headway in some of the technologies to develop ATGM comparable with the world-class systems, however, due to limitations in some of the critical technologies the project has not fully met the defence specifications.
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The Indian Army soldiers deployed on the high altitude areas are facing critical shortfall of Extreme Cold Climate (ECC) Clothing and Equipment deployed on the high altitude areas; there is a need to overcome the deficiencies at the earliest coupled with equipping the soldiers with global...
Seeking to bolster its armoured capabilities during wars, the Indian Army is moving ahead with some development for buying APCs, which provide safety to troops from small arms firing in the battlefield, however these are being progressed at a snail's pace.
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The existing fleet of the helicopters with the Indian Armed Forces is facing issues of deficiency in the inventory coupled with poor age profile of helicopters which impacts on effective operations. Though procurement programmes have been undertaken but these need to be fast tracked.
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