Indian Defense Projects

Posted on 10 March 2010.

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The Delhi Dud Report video. The delay in Bharati (aka Indian) defense projects is legendary, and puts the “manyana” and “malish” to shame. The CAG Report on Indian duds video. The Bharati defense establishment is more concerned in filling their own pockets and the wallets of the corrupt politicians than manufacturing good equipment for Bharat. Unmitigated failure: Indian Tejas scrapped. New Snecma plane? Almost all Bharati defense programs have either been abject failures, or have been delayed beyond living memory. Carrier without plans. Planes without ship: Desperate India rebuffed on Su-33s now seeks untested F-35s

The Admiral Gorshkov ripoff. Every time Bharati defense planners fail, the civilians jump in to purchase Russian equimpemt with heavy kickbacks. Even the mighty Nehru family has not been able to keep itself from reaching into the tilly. Indira, Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi were deeply involved in the Bofar scandal. However the establishment is able to push this sort of corruption under the rug. President Putin’s visit to Russia will be a sales trip, where he will try to pressure the Bharatis into rejecting American equipment and going for the US planes. Delhi Duds: The fiasco of the IAFs Mig 29s

Russia tests PAKFA Su T-50–before joint design with Delhi. The Bharati politicians will be able to fill their pockets by purchasing foreign equipment while 75% of the Bharati population lives under $2 per day, and half the populations of Delhi, Mumbai, Benares, Kolkota, Lucknow and other cities live on, procreate on, and die on the sidewalks (and the city charges the residents fee for the privilege of sleeping on the government sidewalk).

Ajay Banerjee of the Tribune News Service has written this short script on the delays, and he reports from the Lok Sabha, where with typical cunning and craftiness the corrupt politicians told bold face lies.

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Even as several key defence projects are running behind schedule by years, the Ministry of Defence, in a written reply to a question in Parliament today declared “…there are no setbacks in the modernisation programme of Armed Forces”. In the same reply, however, it has admitted that delay occurs over several reasons.

The Ministry added “(modernisation) is a continuous process based on threat perception, technological changes and available resources”. This was in response to a question posed by three Lok Sabha MPs. The modernisation is undertaken through procurement of defence equipment/ platforms in accordance with the provisions of Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), the Ministry said.

Contrary to the reply, stark realities are that Indian Army’s artillery gun purchase is running behind schedule by a decade. The Army air defence is straddled with vintage guns while network-centric operations of the Indian Army are yet to be implemented. The Battlefield Surveillance System (BSS) is yet to mature. The Navy warship building programme is running behind schedule.

The schedule for building submarines is so slow that the Comptroller and Auditor-General had to intervene last year to point out the slow movement. The sea-borne aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov is behind schedule by five years. The upgradation of fighter planes of the Indian Airforce is also running behind schedule and so is the medium load transport plane.