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Official Top 20 'Buyorities' for Indian Armed Forces
Over the last 10 days, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley has been busy receiving a flurry of briefings from the Indian armed forces chiefs as well as senior leadership on the various priorities for each force, and the guidance they require from the new man in the hot seat. Priorities have ranged from modernisation, administrative, operational, planning and human resources. At each meeting, Jaitley is understood to have assured his briefers that their presentations would be the touchstone for how the MoD would conduct affairs, a heartening touch for the anxious military. Through conversations with top officers at the armed forces and MoD, SP's has compiled an official list of the Top 20 military weapons modernisation priorities for the armed forces — five each of the Army, IAF, Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard. It is on this definitive priority list that the MoD is expected to show movement.
INDIAN ARMY
- F-INSAS + INFANTRY & SPECIAL FORCES WEAPONS (ASSAULT RIFLE, SNIPER RIFLE, CARBINE, PISTOL, LMG, shoulder launched ATGM, NVequipment, MAV)
- FIELD ARTILLERY (TOWED, SELF-PROPELLED, TRACKED, ULTRA-LIGHT)
- RECONNAISSANCE & SURVEILLANCE HELICOPTERS (RSH) -133
- AIR DEFENCE WEAPONRY (SELF-PROPELLED AND TOWED 30-MM & INTEGRATED AD-GUNS+SAM SYSTEMS)
- AMMUNITION FOR MAIN BATTLE TANKS
INDIAN AIR FORCE
- MEDIUM MULTIROLE COMBAT AIRCRAFT
- RECONNAISSANCE & SURVEILLANCE HELICOPTERS (RSH) + ATTACK HELICOPTERS
- LOGISTICE & TRANSPORT: HEAVYLIFT HELICOPTERS + DECISION ON MORE C-17s
- FLIGHT REFUELLING TANKERS
- TRAINER AIRCRAFT (BASIC & INTERMEDIATE)
INDIAN NAVY
- NEW GENERATION CONVENTIONAL SUBMARINES (PROJECT 75I)
- ROTOR WING: MULTIROLE HELICOPTERS (MRH) + N-MRH + NAVAL UTILITY HELICOPTER + ROTORY WING UAV FOR SHIPS
- ARMAMENT: TORPEDOES, DECK WEAPONS, AIR DEFENCE
- VESSELS: MINE COUNTER-MEASURE VESSELS, DIVING SUPPORT VESSELS, DSRV, OPVs
- FIXED WING: MEDIUM-RANGE MARITIME RECONNAISSANCE (MRMR) AIRCRAFT + MALE UAV
INDIAN COAST GUARD
- FIXED WING SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT + MULTI-MISSION MARITIME AIRCRAFT
- 14 ADVANCED CSAR HELICOPTERS
- 16 SHIPBORNE MULTIROLE HELICOPTERSE
- AOPV, FAST PATROL CRAFT, HOVERCRAFT, IPV, POLLUTION CONTROL VESSELS, INTERCEPTOR BOATS
- MARINE GUNS (12.7mm, 20mm, 30mm & 40mm GUNS)
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