India Hands Over 679 Military, Rescue Vehicles to TPDF

[lilaspr]

INDIA has handed over 679 vehicles to the government of Tanzania under an agreement signed between the two countries in January last year.

The vehicles -- to be used for military purposes, rescue and peace keeping operations -- were purchased from Ashok Leyland through the Exim Bank of India on a credit issued by the Indian government. Source>>

 

[Tshering22]

Doesn't state what kind of transport vehicles did they buy.

Armoured trucks? MPVs?

But the development is good.

We need to further our cooperation with African countries in defence.

The focus should be on trade mainly but defence should be the next level for cooperation.

African regimes are rife with civil wars and brutal terrorism. Our UNPKF missions also have been attacked in places like Congo.

European diamond and other corporations have ruined African countries into a madhouse with stability of day-to-day life having become a gift rather than what should be obvious.

It is time we help them set things right in whatever limited ways we can.

While we can reap rich benefits of trading with them, we should also help them as friendly countries.

After all, India was also under colonial rule and know what it feels to be like a second hand person in own country.

 

[navtrek]

 

[Manindra]

Doesn't state what kind of transport vehicles did they buy.

Armoured trucks? MPVs?

But the development is good.

We need to further our cooperation with African countries in defence.

The focus should be on trade mainly but defence should be the next level for cooperation.

African regimes are rife with civil wars and brutal terrorism. Our UNPKF missions also have been attacked in places like Congo.

European diamond and other corporations have ruined African countries into a madhouse with stability of day-to-day life having become a gift rather than what should be obvious.

It is time we help them set things right in whatever limited ways we can.

While we can reap rich benefits of trading with them, we should also help them as friendly countries.

After all, India was also under colonial rule and know what it feels to be like a second hand person in own country.

I think its Ashok Leyland Stallion 4X4 5.5 ton category.

 

[Assault Rifle]

Good move by India.

 

[errant]

European diamond and other corporations have ruined African countries into a madhouse with stability of day-to-day life having become a gift rather than what should be obvious.

It is time we help them set things right in whatever limited ways we can.

While we can reap rich benefits of trading with them, we should also help them as friendly countries.

After all, India was also under colonial rule and know what it feels to be like a second hand person in own country.[/QUOTE]

I think that what India is doing is a commendable effort in assisting African countries in stabilizing their countries and, hopefully, also lifting them out from poverty.

I take issue with this glib statement above without providing any sources for your comments.
Tanzania, after independence, embraced socialism and went the way of many a socialist state, strong on rhetoric but woefully weak on managing their countries. Tanzania saw its economy plummet as investors shunned the country. It had minimal concentration of precious stones and was not being exploited by any country. It fell way back in comparison to Kenya, an adjacent neighbouring country. When Tanzania's president, Julius Nyerere, left office poverty was rife. In his defence, he never personally looted the country. He used a cycle to get to work!!
The country is slowly improving its economic performance as the chains of socialism are being cast off.
I agree with you about the evils of colonialism but do not use that excuse as a fig leaf for the incompetence that the country exhibited, post independence, in managing the its economy.

 

[IND151]

Doesn't state what kind of transport vehicles did they buy.

Armoured trucks? MPVs?

But the development is good.

We need to further our cooperation with African countries in defence.

The focus should be on trade mainly but defence should be the next level for cooperation.

African regimes are rife with civil wars and brutal terrorism. Our UNPKF missions also have been attacked in places like Congo.

European diamond and other corporations have ruined African countries into a madhouse with stability of day-to-day life having become a gift rather than what should be obvious.

It is time we help them set things right in whatever limited ways we can.

While we can reap rich benefits of trading with them, we should also help them as friendly countries.

After all, India was also under colonial rule and know what it feels to be like a second hand person in own country.

Agreed

Such cooperation will be beneficial to both parties

It will be even better if african nations become client of Indian arms(Jeeps, Trucks, mortars, Prahar, nag etc.)

If these nations use our weapons in war, they will get tag of "proven in war", and many other nations may get interested in Indian weapons

However such decision should be taken with careful calculation

 

[Tshering22]

Agreed

Such cooperation will be beneficial to both parties

It will be even better if african nations become client of Indian arms(Jeeps, Trucks, mortars, Prahar, nag etc.)

If these nations use our weapons in war, they will get tag of "proven in war", and many other nations may get interested in Indian weapons

However such decision should be taken with careful calculation

For exporting weapons, we also need to be able to manufacture weapons in time and right quantity.

Sarkari manufacturing SUCKS.

Bureaucracy and massaging each other's egos is of priority there.

Tell me something:

14 countries want to buy BrahMos.

And we're nowhere near even filling our own military's requirements.

How do we get clients then?

These government babus don't think all this.

 

[Gessler]

I think its Ashok Leyland Stallion 4X4 5.5 ton category.

Nice acquisition. They should have a look at the new Super Stallion variant as well, for future use.

 

[Abingdonboy]

The IA has some 15,000+ Stallions that they will be phasing out over the next decade. I wonder if India will find a buyer for these second hand workhorses?

 

[patentneer]

Af-Pak comes to mind, read between the lines.

 

[Whiplash]

The IA has some 15,000+ Stallions that they will be phasing out over the next decade. I wonder if India will find a buyer for these second hand workhorses?

According to this, the IA has over 60k stallions.
15k is surely far too low a number. There's a cantonment near my university, and I see hundreds of stallions there.

 

[kaykay]

The IA has some 15,000+ Stallions that they will be phasing out over the next decade. I wonder if India will find a buyer for these second hand workhorses?

I am sure you are talking about 'Shaktimaan' trucks and not stallions. We have more than 60,000 stallions and 10-11000 shaktimaans in service and we are replacing those shaktimaans with stallions.
PS: once we had more than 70,000 shaktimaan trucks in service, majorty replaced with stallions.

 

[Abingdonboy]

According to this, the IA has over 60k stallions.
15k is surely far too low a number. There's a cantonment near my university, and I see hundreds of stallions there.

Sorry, I've checked and the figure is closer to 75,000 now.