Local Production of Defence Equipment

Rajnath Singh is well placed, as a political heavyweight, to push through some serious reform in India’s armed forces, to enable India to play the bigger strategic role that the world expects of us. India has to modernise its weaponry across the board, prepare against cyber and hybrid warfare, give the navy true blue-water capability and create true inter-service coordination and cooperation, so that the armed forces work as one coherent unit, rather than as three separate services, each of which sees the other two as rival claimants to the limited budgetary allocation for defence as a whole. Localising a good part of defence production is one way to get a bigger bang for the buck in defence procurement and also to give Indian manufacturing a big leg up.Read More…