India to spend $200 bn on defence systems by 2022

[jha]

Personal attacks are never good my friend read history and see the state of americas finances today.Anyway the only rogue nation to actually use nuclear weapons is US.

a little debatable comment dont you think...???

true that US used nuke ,, but it also brought the WW-2 to an end...having said that i truly believe that this incident could well be avoided (actually should have been avoided)..but again japan was going great guns those days and could have caused considerable damage to AMRIKA..plus they were on the wrong side..

 

[Imperial]

I think you guys are mistaking defense spending overall with defense spending on defense system's. India's current budget allocation is around 36 billion but around only half or even less is spent on actual acquisition's since we need to pay the armed forces as well as other maintainance issue's.

So in the end in 2022 the defense budget will still be 3% that is around 150 million but also our liabilities would have increased due to previous acquisitions and hence the most portion would go there.

Also lets not forget it is just a speculation and policy dictates that every country gives a lower amount for defense spendings.

 

[karan.1970]

$200 Billion !!! Thats a Huge Huge sum.

close to 10 billion a year on inflation adjusted value. That's less than 1% of GDP..

 

[kashith]

If it is just 200 billion we are finished as a nation.This piddly sum is only 16-17 billion per annum which we can afford even today. By 2020 when our ecconomy is around 5 trillion dollars our defence budget would be around 150-170 billion dollars.The number has to be somewhere near 500 Billion in todays dollars to be just normal.The way things are going where we have to face most of the gulf countries, china , US along with minor irritations should be 1 trillion dollars to become strong and independent.

Koi to country rehne dete ....Middle east countries have friendly relations with India,India does not have a policy to think of every country as a potential enemy.....we have to just keep a deterrent against China and Pakistan.,WE do not wish to win over China or Pakistan ...This is it,

We have to spend money on our people,And i hope This amount will be sufficient to maintain a credible deterrent

 

[manish123]

Any comments on the friendly state of Saudi Arabia Friend Kasith and indigenous spending helps boost the economy.Read about history and military industrial complex.Indias spending should be in the range of 5% assuming lower corruption and better tax to gdp ratio in the next ten years.

 

[DesiGuy]

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Why spend such a huge amount on defence where millions of peoples are below poverty line

Nice Post!

 

[manish123]

Desi guy such spending will automatically reduce poverty by boosting GDP and adding muscle to india.The problem of poverty is not money which is already nicely allocated but is directly linked to corruption. SARCASM ON Well meaning friends like u india can do without, since people like u have only one unifocal agenda ie to reduce indias defence spending and bleed it by a thousand cuts if all out war is not possible to win.SARCAM OFF

 

[DesiGuy]

Desi guy such spending will automatically reduce poverty by boosting GDP and adding muscle to india.The problem of poverty is not money which is already nicely allocated but is directly linked to corruption. SARCASM ON Well meaning friends like u india can do without, since people like u have only one unifocal agenda ie to reduce indias defence spending and bleed it by a thousand cuts if all out war is not possible to win.SARCAM OFF

If our government spent money wisely on military, than even with less money, India can be great military power in Asia, Since all the superpower are ready to sell advance weapons to India and that includes USA, Russia, European countries and Israel.

However, it's not good, if government just keep giving weapons to military with cash they have and some of these guys don't know completely, how to use it.


So i am saying is that, even if government has a lot of money, that does NOT mean, they should just keep buying weapons and give to army and others, instead they should check first, what kind of weapons the army need AND how can they use it.

 

[faithfulguy]

If it is just 200 billion we are finished as a nation.This piddly sum is only 16-17 billion per annum which we can afford even today. By 2020 when our ecconomy is around 5 trillion dollars our defence budget would be around 150-170 billion dollars.The number has to be somewhere near 500 Billion in todays dollars to be just normal.The way things are going where we have to face most of the gulf countries, china , US along with minor irritations should be 1 trillion dollars to become strong and independent.

So I guess you put china and US in the same sentence as enemies of India. I am wondering if US politicians are making the right decision by selling arms to India if there are Indians who think like you. US have recently been friendly toward India but it appear that India still count itself as part of the Russian camp.

 

[manish123]

India was, is and will be partners of russia.I wish all the friendship of usa for u.Look at its partners like pakistan, this sort of frienship we can very well leave. As for the previous statements, yes all countries sell arms to india and not transfer technology. Technology has to be built indigenously only. No country is going to part with it. Ask your chinese friends, they have also chosen indigenous paths, reverse engineering etc. has not helped them at all

 

[faithfulguy]

India was, is and will be partners of russia.I wish all the friendship of usa for u.Look at its partners like pakistan, this sort of frienship we can very well leave. As for the previous statements, yes all countries sell arms to india and not transfer technology. Technology has to be built indigenously only. No country is going to part with it. Ask your chinese friends, they have also chosen indigenous paths, reverse engineering etc. has not helped them at all

When Russia provide TOT to India, that is transfer of technology. So Russia do indeed transfer tech to India. So do Europeans. The issue is that most of the technology transfer are either outdated technology or partial technology transfer. Not all the components are transfered.

 

[manish123]

Absolutely correct

 

[Rank]

Man its good.... spending money on Defence thats pretty good! even if any country have 300 bn i think go for spending money on State of the Art... Spending money on Defence good as compare to put all money into pockets and country Army Airforce suffer!

 

[conworldus]

Desi guy such spending will automatically reduce poverty by boosting GDP and adding muscle to india.The problem of poverty is not money which is already nicely allocated but is directly linked to corruption. SARCASM ON Well meaning friends like u india can do without, since people like u have only one unifocal agenda ie to reduce indias defence spending and bleed it by a thousand cuts if all out war is not possible to win.SARCAM OFF

Haha tell that to the former soviet government and see what happened when they spent so much in the arms race....

 

[manish123]

Keep your HAHA to yourself.Soviet union collapsed because of collapse in the prices of all commodities including oil.Go read history.Indias growth has barely started and is much more balanced than even your chinese backstabbing brothers. Such a problem would only occur when indias ecoonomy crosses 20 trillion or so in todays dollars which is far away.Anyway by that time indias defence spending would have started to reduce since it would be so massive that HAHA's like u would be crying in a corner.