India to provide Afghanistan with troop carriers, spares for tanks, and rocket systems

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani with PM Narendra Modi (Photo: Reuters)
In a major push to spread its influence in the neighborhood, India has decided to supply weapons and equipment to friendly foreign countries, including Afghanistan.

And, for the first time, India is likely to provide Afghanistan with troop carriers, spares for tanks, and rocket systems that are used in counter-insurgency operations.

Top sources have told India Today that the Defence Ministry has asked the three services to draw-up a list of weapon systems that they can spare.

Sources said New Delhi wants to give Afghanistan the Indian Army's excess stocks.

The Afghan National Army is comfortable handling Russian-origin platforms, which comprise at least 60 per cent of India's arsenal.

Apart from this, India is also looking to procure weapon systems from the erstwhile Soviet Block.

"We will be providing them improved and strengthened weapons systems and platforms needed for effective counter-insurgency operations," top sources told India Today.

Sources indicated that India is likely to provide four more helicopters, besides repairing and refurbishing helicopters it had gifted Afghanistan earlier.

India will be providing friendly foreign countries "improved and strengthened weapon systems that we can spare besides sourcing from former Soviet-Bloc countries," a top Defence Ministry source told India Today.

Breaking from the past of not supplying lethal platforms to counties like Afghanistan, the Modi-led NDA government had supplied four Russian made Mi-25 helicopters to Afghanistan.

The helicopters were to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan National Army to fight the Taliban. These helicopters are, however, grounded and need to be overhauled.

"We will overhaul and provide spares to make them operational again," a top source told India Today.

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PAKISTAN FACTOR

Till recently, keeping in mind the sensitivities of Pakistan, India had confined itself to providing training and non-lethal supplies to Afghanistan.

As well, New Delhi was worried about the risks of providing lethal platforms.

Indian facilities have been attacked in Afghanistan by Pakistan backed terror groups to deter closer ties between New Delhi and Kabul. Pakistan considers Afghanistan to be under its sphere of influence, despite its deep cultural and historic ties with India.

Apart from directing terror attacks on Indian installations in Afghanistan, Pakistan has protested the presence of Indian consulates there.



https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...ndia-afghanistan-relations-1218646-2018-04-23

 

[hussain0216]

India cant provide itself with these things

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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New Delhi has so far failed to successfully mass-produce an indigenously developed modern main battle tank.

By Franz-Stefan Gady
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The majority of India’s indigenously developed third generation Arjun main battle tanks have been grounded due to technical issues and missing spare parts, Defense News reported last week.


https://thediplomat.com/2015/05/breakdown-whats-happening-with-indias-tank-force/

After Both Tanks Break Down, India Knocked Out Of International Drill
All India Written by Vishnu Som
Nineteen teams in total participated in the exercises with the top four entering the final. In the past, India had participated in these games using T-72 tanks provided by the Russian hosts.
Updated : August 11, 2017 22:17 IST

An Indian Army T-90 Tank similar to the ones which participated in International Tank Biathlon.

Story Highlights

• Indian Army knocked out of International Tank Biathlon in Russia
• Army chose Russian designed T-90 Tank instead of indigenous Arjun tank

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/aft...ernational-drill-1736699?amp=1&akamai-rum=off

 

[BATMAN]

Give them Arjunk and TEJA.

 

[Khanate]

Give them Arjunk and TEJA.

Guaranteed way to lose a war.

 

[El Sidd]

Orgasm

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

The helicopters were to bolster the capabilities of the Afghan National Army to fight the Taliban. These helicopters are, however, grounded and need to be overhauled.

What I find amusing about these declarations from India (and/or Indian media) is how they somehow think that 'Indian military support' (which with all of these declarations still amounts to peanuts) will be some kind of a game changer, despite the fact that US/NATO countries have spent billions of dollars on quantitatively and qualitatively better training and equipment (since 2001) on the Afghan security forces, and yet the Afghan security forces are still the shambles that we see.

 

[GumNaam]

baycharay afghani...ab gaye kaam say, bachi kuchi kasar zang alood indian spare parts poori kar dein gey!

 

[Crystal-Clear]

ye wahi indian parts ha na jo achey khasey su-30 ko gira detey ?

 

[truthseeker2010]

First at least provide food to your soldiers......

 

[kingQamaR]

Your entire Indian army of million can not do stop or do anything in Regarding Pakistan policies

So your giving a few death trap troop carriers to poor afghanis in the land of the Taliban control.

What are you expecting them to do amazing Normandy landings ?

 

[alphapak]

Pak should give some deadly IED's to Afgan Talibs, that should
sort the Hashish Army out.

 

[Yaseen1]

india will act as intermediary and actually provision of weapon is made by u.s

 

[somebozo]

Story Highlights

• Indian Army knocked out of International Tank Biathlon in Russia
• Army chose Russian designed T-90 Tank instead of indigenous Arjun tank

T90 is one tough tank..I am surprised Indian managed to fail it as well!

What I find amusing about these declarations from India (and/or Indian media) is how they somehow think that 'Indian military support' (which with all of these declarations still amounts to peanuts) will be some kind of a game changer, despite the fact that US/NATO countries have spent billions of dollars on quantitatively and qualitatively better training and equipment (since 2001) on the Afghan security forces, and yet the Afghan security forces are still the shambles that we see.

US does not want Russian or Russia deisgned weapons in inventories of countries where it is taking action..recent example if how US forced Iraqi army to discard AK47 in favour of M-16. With trump announcement of aggressive overseas weapon sales...the Indian move is not well timed..it would end up as waste of money..the equipment will end up in scrap yards..

 

[Arsalan 345]

Pakistan should arm freedom fighters if India decides to give weapons to Afghanistan.india thinks that we can stay silent and India will continue to arm afghans on the border against us.this is not going to happen. if they provide weapons,moral obligation will be over.

 

[pakdefender]

these are vedic troop carries that can carry troops back and forth in time at speed of light , don't believe me just search on google "vedic time travel"