India plans to modernize its military for a whopping $100 billion, and the LCA Tejas will be entirely indigenous.

 

Rajnath Singh, the Indian defense minister, has declared that during the next five to ten years, domestic military companies will receive orders totaling more than $100 billion.

 

India intends to fully indigenously produce the LCA Tejas and will spend $100 billion modernizing its military.

Rajnath Singh, the defense minister of India, has said that India intends to invest more than $100 billion in military modernization during the following five to ten years. 

The announcement was made on March 6 during the Navy Commanders' Conference held onboard INS Vikrant, India's first indigenous aircraft carrier.

 

Singh underlined the link between economic success and security, and how the military industry has grown into a big demand generator that supports the economy and ensures the growth of the nation. He continued by saying that the defense industry is poised to take off and will fundamentally alter the economic landscape of the nation.

A gradual import restriction on weapons slated for indigenization over the next five to six years has been imposed by the Modi administration, which has been publishing "Negative Lists" of defense equipment and supporting the indigenization of their manufacturing. The four lists, which were made public in August 2020, May 2021, April 2022, and October 2022, include 411 different types of weapons and platforms, as well as tens of thousands of weapon sub-systems and parts found in fighter jets, helicopters, submarines, tanks, infantry combat vehicles, electronic warfare systems, missiles, smart ammunition, rockets, and bombs.

 

Around 2,700 items have been locally produced as of August 2022, according to the Indian Ministry of Defense, and the remaining components are expected to be produced in India in stages between December 2022 and December 2028.

According to sources, the third list, which includes complicated principal weapons and equipment such as lightweight tanks, naval utility helicopters, missiles, and artillery gun systems, will be the most difficult for the domestic defense sector to produce.

 

For the past three years, the Modi administration has steadily raised the proportion of domestic purchases in the capital acquisition budget for the Indian military. The government earmarked 75% of the defense capital procurement budget, or around 1,00,000 crores, for the domestic industry in this year's budget.

Since 2020, the Indian government has set out more than 3,000 crores towards the domestic defense sector. In different categories of capital procurement, the government has given the acceptance of Need (AoN) to 163 bids totaling $2,46,989.38 crores.

 

The government should give priority to things like airplanes, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), tanks, troop carriers, subsystems, ammunition, long-, medium-, and short-range missiles, and artillery, according to Indian aerospace analyst Girish Linganna. The Tejas Variants, Twin Engine Deck Based Fighter (TEDBF), Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA), transport aircraft like the Dornier and The Airbus C295 and trainers are also mentioned as possible aircraft.

He clarifies that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a new category with quicker deployments and shorter development timeframes. Beyond-visual-range missiles, anti-radiation missiles, anti-tank, anti-drone systems, guided bombs, and anti-airfield weapons are only a few examples of possible munition types. More induction may be seen for Brahmos and Pralay with the short- and medium-range missiles.

 

Rajnath Singh alluded to a "fifth positive indigenization list" during the five-day Aero India-2023 airshow that took place at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru last month. The industry anticipates more information on this in the upcoming months, but he did not define what will be on the list.

India's ambitious goal to invest $100 billion in military modernization over the next five to ten years is a big step towards the country becoming a defense giant. Government efforts to increase domestic output

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