Except that our CoS left a few weeks
AFTER the election but ok, let's say!
It still doesn't answer why the GoI won't
finally equip its armies & which you of all
people never got
( Aashish and Abingdon did )
that I'd rather see India pick any plane
at this point because it needs to dearly.
Man buy the Thunder if necess... huh ...
actually, that's an idea, and a swell one
at that - Buy more JF-17s than Pakistan,
who cares, 
'll be making money 
,
copy the Chinese and so the plane itself!?
Then move on to the F-35 and PAK_FA and
make the AMCA better than either or a View attachment 459545,
I don't care but for Pete's sake and yours,
in Nike's immortal words : JUST DO IT! *
GL, Tay.
* Nike the goddess; I ain't sure the corp is!
In the last 4 years, since Modi, we purchased 22 Apaches, 10 Chinooks, 36 Rafales, 700 new T-90s, 7 P-17A frigates, 4 Krivak III frigates, 6 SSNs, multiple Akash squadrons, and more recently the soon-to-be-signed S-400. This is not counting paying for all the stuff we are taking deliveries right now, like the Arihant and her sisters, Brahmos, the 4 new destroyers, Scorpenes, MKIs, SPYDER SAMs, stuff signed by the previous govt. That's not counting all the indigenous strategic stuff that you won't find in the media, like the expansion of the production lines for ballistic missiles, expansion and construction of new naval bases, like INS Rambali for our nuclear submarines, military oriented space programs etc.
Our modernization requirement is merely bigger than what we can pay for, but it is happening regardless.
As for fighter planes, we continue to get MKIs, 25 are pending, we have started receiving LCAs, and we will soon get Rafales. So, on the fighter front, we have aircraft incoming even though the tender itself is delayed. 2019-20 will see a new contract for 36 more Rafales. Regardless, right now we have pending deliveries of 101 fighter aircraft over the next 4 years. That's 25 jets a year. Too much is being made of nothing.
The criticism right now is a response to the "smaller than
expected" rise in the defence budget this year, nothing else. Not that the rise in the budget was actually small, the capital budget did grow by 9%. Any shortfall will either be solved by the mid of this year or in the next years's budget.
- why are they so confused ?
