Military Acquisitions, Partnerships & Developments

[Pratyush]

What?

The Germans are ready to sell weapons to a Brahminical government to enable oppression of minorities and delits.

What about the backsliding democracy in India?

What about electoral autocracy in India?

[Aditya_V]

And we still will continue buying thier knowing they will use thier leverage again, funding German Shepard and Dakaits. Smart

[hgupta]

And we still will continue buying thier knowing they will use thier leverage again, funding German Shepard and Dakaits. Smart

GoI should, in response, ban future dealings with German weapon manufacturers and blacklist them.

[srai]

Being the number 1 arms importer, no choice

[Aditya_V]

No 1 arms importer, no 1 in eco system commission into Isle of Man and other accounts, too many generations of gravy train being there, will have to be slowly rooted out.

[Ashokk]

Azerbaijan Warns India, France Against Arming Armenia; Aliyev Says Will Not Sit Back With Folded Arms

In reference to France, India, and Greece coming in aid to Armenia, the Azerbaijani President said: “We cannot sit idly by while France, India, and Greece arm Armenia against us. They are doing this openly and demonstratively, obviously trying to prove something to us in this way. We cannot just sit back with our arms folded.”

India responded to Azerbaijan's dissatisfaction with Armenia-India cooperation in defense sector

India has responded to Azerbaijani criticism over delivery of weapons to Armenia.

“We have good relations with both Armenia and Azerbaijan, but apart from that we have a policy to promote defense exports,” Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India Randhir Jaiswal told a daily briefing.

Earlier, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that his country cannot wait idly while France, India and Greece arm Armenia. According to him, the listed states “do this openly and demonstratively and even try to prove something to Baku this way.”

[hgupta]

Time for unknown men to pay a visit to this joker.

[Rakesh]

Defense companies making cartel to benefit from 'Make in India' scheme, says equity analyst Nitin Mangal
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/busin ... 10853.html
30 April 2024

He says, if a vendor or a manufacturer is buying certain goods from a Indian company then it is classified as indigenous goods and qualified under 'Make in India.'

[Rakesh]

https://x.com/DivaJain2/status/1785117346174038085 ---> Not just long term but guaranteed orders to incentivize R&D and new product development.

[srai]

^^^
Continue to put occasional (every few years) pressure on border areas to create an “emergency” situation. The IA then won’t get out of 300-crore imports.

[Rakesh]

India can't become developed nation without making products: Baba Kalyani
https://www.business-standard.com/exter ... 834_1.html
29 April 2024

[VinodTK]

On The Shop Floor | Bharat Dynamics: Backbone Of Indian Missile Manufacturing

From manufacturing missiles for original equipment manufacturers and working in close collaboration with DRDO, Bharat Dynamics or BDL has gradually moved into R&D and engineering functions to help Indian armed forces acquire a cutting edge for current and future wars.

A miniratna company owned by the government, BDL is poised to enter new avenues of manufacturing covering a wide range of weapon systems across its three manufacturing units.

It now has the capacity to manufacture surface-to-air missiles, air defence systems, heavy weight torpedoes, air-to-air missiles, making it a frontline defence equipment manufacturer in India.

In this episode of 'On the Shop Floor', Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale travels to Hyderabad to speak with the Chairman and Managing Director of BDL, retired Commodore A. Madhavarao.