Indian general called national air defense obsolete

Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces of India, General Vijay Kumar Singh (Vijay Kumar Singh) in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohanu Singh said the disastrous condition of the Indian army. On this Wednesday, 28 March, reports lenta.ru with reference DNA.

In a letter dated March 12 to the media, General Singh stated that India ran out of ammunition for tankselite units lacking weapons, and almost 97 percent of air defense weapons are outdated. In addition, according to the general, servicemen are poorly equipped with night-vision equipment.

Vijay Kumar Singh's letter caused a great resonance in the ruling circles of India. According to DNA, the general has already addressed similar questions to the Minister of Defense of the country, Arakaparambil Kurian Anthony, but received no reaction.

Earlier, General Singh became a party to the corruption scandal. According to Singh himself, retired Lieutenant-General Tejinder Singh offered him a bribe in the amount of 140 million rupees (2,8 million dollars). Tejinder Singh, in turn, accused the chief of staff of SV in defamation.

As previously reported, in the 2012-2013 of the fiscal year, the Indian government allocated almost 40 billions of dollars in defense needs, which is 17 percent more than last year’s military budget. In this case, the budget of the Navy increased by 74 percent.

Comments

[domokl]

Showdown at the top of the Indian army .. Now you can wait and desa and full-fledged secret information, said in the heat and anger ...

[YARY]

SW Alexander, here you are, and India has the same sores, but they only buy weapons and, moreover, new!
And where there is a lot of money, there is a lot of temptations!

[Slayer]

Even I xs, on the tanks of the same T-90, India has more than ours, most likely I just wanted to cut down the dough from the state))

[Sergh]

Well, what a conversation, to Russia, running with money for ammunition, buy-not good!

[older]

The fact that any purchased equipment and weapons will not be known to anyone in advance ... And the general just saves his ass ... No more ... So he said nothing new ...

[Норд]

Quote: "General Singh said India ran out of ammunition for tanks, elite units were short of weapons."
And the general himself has run out of money, there is not enough money for kumar, "kickbacks" are over ...

[Vladimir75]

If the information is true, then our military-industrial complex, if adhered to, can compete for additional contracts.

[755962]

It looks like a call to increase the military budget. The recipe is old. Despite the fact that the budget is not small anyway .. He wants something .. "but not bread."

[Artur09-75]

They have the chief of the general staff - we have the chief of the general staff. Don't they look alike? In the sense of utterances.

[patriot2]

Who knows their Indians? But ours from the military-industrial complex should be asked to have ears on top of the head and sell them everything they need for their air defense. We are partners.

[B_KypTke]

Our air defense systems do not have any worthy competitors in the world, except perhaps the IJIS, although it is not a fact that the Americans will sell them at least a pre-production time. So we will fight for the Indian market.

[bad]

If the Indians with their T-90s and constant purchases of our latest weapons are outdated, then what can we say about our army?)))))))

[Ty3uk]

Very good news!
We would have to renew their air defense under this business, where our defense industry has been working for 10 for years!

[VadimSt]

Quote: Ty3uk

We would have to renew their air defense under this business, where our defense industry has been working for 10 for years!

Not buddy! Taking into account the international situation and its possible development, as well as the tasks of modernizing the Russian army, the defense industry cannot quickly implement internal orders, which is why the talk about the construction of new factories has come. Here it is necessary according to the principle - "First myself, then, I will give to others."

[Odinplys]

Yes ... not armed now only ... lazy ...
Where Mother Earth is heading ...