SIPRI report shows India no longer world's biggest arms importer, says its imports from Russia fell to 58 per cent in 2014–18 from 76 per cent in 2009–13.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
Russia is a failed state which earns only from arms sales and natural resources. It’s weapon qualities are low and it only sells old models to lazy Indians who cannot get their R&D act together to manufacture weapons themselves. Russian meanwhile buys few enters weapons, re-engineers it and improves it and sells it and also spies on western nations for new weapons. Indian spies are only in Pak and India is afraid to spy China.
Russia is a failed state which earns only from arms sales and natural resources. It’s weapon qualities are low and it only sells old models to lazy Indians who cannot get their R&D act together to manufacture weapons themselves. Russian meanwhile buys few enters weapons, re-engineers it and improves it and sells it and also spies on western nations for new weapons. Indian spies are only in Pak and India is afraid to spy China.
I may humbly point out that this acquisition was made by IGA route and there was no sovereign guarantee as well as no offset.
Very reassuring. One cannot picture the United States leasing out an Ohio class submarine to India.