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India's defence drive attracts global suppliers

India's defence drive attracts global suppliers​

Posted: 30 August 2009 1702 hrs


NEW DELHI: India's drive to protect itself after last year's Mumbai attacks is attracting interest from some of the world's biggest companies who see opportunities in the push for improved homeland security.

The government, after shunning the private sector for decades, is embracing it as an ally in the quest for new security strategies and technologies following the Mumbai bloodbath last November that left 166 people dead.

"Indian companies right now don't have the capability, but they are acquiring it through overseas joint ventures as the opportunity is huge in the homeland security domain," says Amit Singh from the Confederation of Indian Industry.

"Public sector enterprises cannot meet this demand."

India plans to spend 30 billion dollars on military contracts by 2014, while junior defence minister Pallam Raju announced last week a separate 10 billion dollar homeland security upgrade to be completed before 2016.

"There are significant opportunities for the private industry to partner in the homeland security and sub-conventional warfare space," Raju told a military meeting earlier this month.

India began opening up its defence industry to the private sector in 2001 and allowed foreign firms to own 26 per cent of local ventures, although a surfeit of red tape put off many companies.

Seeking to encourage investment in Indian industry, Raju said New Delhi would acquire up to 70 per cent of its homeland security hardware from the domestic private sector.

US-based Raytheon and Boeing, Germany's Carl Walther, Britain's BAE Systems and France's Thales are among the scores of firms now seeking a piece of the pie.

Along with the traditional defence suppliers, interest is coming from non-military firms, such as software giant Microsoft, IT company Cisco and Motorola, the US telephony group.

"We are working extensively with various agencies in India to make technology which will help you concentrate on your mission," Subodh Vardhan, head of Motorola India told the military meeting.

India had previously focused defence spending on its conventional military, but the Mumbai raids exposed poor communication, outdated equipment and weak border controls, and led to a reappraisal of priorities.

Like other countries, India realised that it needed new strategies to fight threats from militant groups, both homegrown and external.

The country plans to arm its paramilitary police with new weaponry, anti-mine trucks, drones and body armour, as well as acquire the latest security surveillance gear, communications and software.

India's 29 states have already begun upgrading their police forces, with plans to take on 150,000 new recruits.

To source its hardware, India had previously ignored the Indian private sector because of its total dependence on the Soviet Union for weapons imports.

But within a decade of the Communist bloc's breakup, bickering with Russia over costs and delivery prompted the government to crank up domestic production.

According to retired Lieutenant General Vinay Shankar, Indian industrial houses staking claims in the sector include Larsen & Toubro, Tata, Mahindra & Mahindra, Godrej Boyce and Bharat Forge.

"Following them, are a large number of second and third tier companies covering a wide range of technologies," he wrote in the latest edition of India Defence Weekly military magazine.

In a recent address to an internal security summit attended by state chief ministers, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh cited "credible information" that militants in Pakistan were plotting new attacks on India.

New Delhi blames Pakistani "official agencies" for abetting the militant attack in Mumbai.

India also faces myriad internal security threats, including insurgencies in seven of its northeastern states and a rebellion by Islamic separatists in disputed Kashmir.

Bomb blasts last year rocked the cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Guwahati, Jaipur and the capital Delhi, and Maoist rebels are now active in more than half of the country's 29 states, particularly in the east.

A previously little-known defence think tank, the Group for Forecasting and Analysis of Systems – or G-Fast – has grouped together military scientists to advise New Delhi on its security policies.

"In sub-conventional warfare the challenges are quite a few because technologies are emerging and terrorists are adopting them," G-Fast director Manik Mukherjee said.

"We need to re-look and re-engineer existing technologies to meet the challenges," he said, urging companies to participate in areas spanning military communications, computer software, manufacturing and research.

Foreign and domestic groups are set to be out in force at India's first-ever homeland security exhibition – Indesec – to be held in October in New Delhi.

It has already drawn 130 private firms from 20 countries, with the largest contingent of 20 firms from Israel.

 

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Indian Army flouting guidelines on sexual harassment?- Hindustan Times

The Indian Army goes by the Army Act while probing allegations of sexual abuse. But in the process it may be blatantly overlooking guidelines issued by the Supreme Court on sexual harassment at workplace, say activists.

"We do not go by the Supreme Court's guidelines. The army officers first come under the Army Act and we take serious note of sexual allegations," a senior Indian Army official told IANS requesting anonymity.

Former judge advocate general of Indian Army Maj. Gen. Neelendra Kumar said: "The army has a standing policy that every case of serious nature invariably goes to the military court. The Supreme Court guidelines are not applicable as we have the Army Act."

The apex court had issued guidelines for conducting inquiries into cases of sexual harassment at workplace in an August 1997 judgment and these are meant to be applicable in the absence of any specific legislation.

"In the absence of legislation to provide for guarantee against sexual harassment and abuse, particularly at workplace, the Supreme Court has laid down guidelines and norms for due observance at all workplaces or other institutions in India, until legislation is enacted for the purpose," K.P.S. Satheesh, chairman of NGO The Guardian Foundation, told IANS.

The Army Act 1950, which was formulated for men when women had not been inducted into the forces, does not have specific provisions dealing with cases of sexual abuse. The allegations are generally clubbed with "unbecoming conduct" on the part of officers.

"The army's argument that its personnel are under the Army Act cannot be accepted since the act was meant only for men. So in the absence of any specific rules, procedures or norms in the Army Act for solving sexual harassment at workplace, the apex court guidelines are very well applicable to the army as well," Satheesh said.

According to Defence Minister A.K. Antony, during the last five years, 11 cases of sexual harassment have been reported in the armed forces, where the strength of women officers remains minuscule.

Currently, 5,137 women officers serve in the armed forces. They include 4,101 in the army, 784 in the air force and 252 in the navy.

A recent example is the case of Captain Poonam Kaur of the Army Supply Corps (ASC). In July 2008, she alleged that three officers of her unit had mentally and sexually harassed her and confined her illegally when she resisted their advances.

The army then constituted a court of inquiry whereby all three officers denied the allegations and she was found guilty on at least 20 counts, including levelling false charges against her senior officers.

The apex court has succinctly laid down that any inquiry team investigating a sexual harassment case should be headed by a woman, more than half the members should be women and there should be third party participation in the inquiry like that of a non-profit organisation.

However, the inquiry into Kaur's allegations was presided over by Brigadier R.P. Attri of the army's Western Command headquarters. Among the three members of the inquiry, only one was female and there was no representative from an NGO in the panel.

The Guardian Foundation has moved an application on the army in the National Commission for Women against "violation of guidelines and norms prescribed by the Supreme Court while dealing with cases of sexual harassment at workplace".

 

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Gen Kapoor is new head of Armed Forces Chiefs panel - Yahoo! India News

New Delhi, Aug 31 (PTI) Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, the senior most armed forces chief, today took over as the next Chairman of the Cheifs of Staff Committee (COSC). Gen Kapoor took over from outgoing Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta, who held the post for over two years since early 2007.

Gen Kapoor in his role as the Chairman of COSC will be the pointsperson for ensuring jointness in the functioning of the three Integrated Headquarters of the Army, Navy and Air Force in the Defence Ministry. He will also be the principal adviser to Defence Minister A K Antony on military matters.

The post of Chairman of COSC rotates among the three services chiefs and the senior most four-star officer at any given point of time will head the committee that takes care of all operational and administrative matters relating to the tri-services.

 

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Mobile service launched at Siachen base

Mobile service launched at Siachen base

STAFF WRITER 19:21 HRS IST
Anil Bhat

Leh (J&K), Aug 31 (PTI) State-run BSNL today connected the base camp of world's highest, coldest and costliest battlefield with the rest of world through its mobile service in Siachen.

Now soldiers serving the glacier sector can talk to their families without waiting in queues at the STD booths setup for them at the base camp high altitude Partappur.

"One tower has been installed a few days back near the base camp and mobile service has been activated there. The tower is aways from the Siachen glacier and has been installed at the snot of glacier due to security reasons", Telecom District Manager (TDM), Ladakh, Sharad Trivadi told PTI on phone from Leh.

However, due to security reason no tower could be installed in the 21,000 feet high Siachen glacier itself.

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Generals in charge of China border head for Beijing — and Lhasa


In an effort to achieve some confidence building amid growing suspicion of a military build-up on the Sino-Indian border, Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen V K Singh is leading a high-level military delegation to China on a weeklong “goodwill visit” that would include a rare stop in Lhasa. The Eastern Army Command is responsible for deployment in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.

It is learnt that Commander of Leh-based 14 Corps Lt Gen S K Singh, who is responsible for forces facing the Chinese on the Ladakh border, is also part of the delegation along with a senior official from the Lucknow-based Central Command that oversees deployment along the Uttarakhand border.

While senior Indian military officials — the last being the Central Army Commander in 2006-07 — have visited China, this visit draws its significance from the fact that it includes all senior officials in-charge of Army deployment along the India-China border. The plan, sources said, had been in the works but dates could only be finalised now


The delegation will not only meet senior officials from the PLA in Beijing but will also travel to Lhasa and the Chengdu province to meet some of their military counterparts. The visit comes at a time when there is increased suspicion among militaries on both sides, particularly in the Eastern Sector where China has suddenly become more active after staking claim to the Finger Area, the northernmost tip of Sikkim.

Just last week, sources said, junior military officials from the Chinese side wanted to cross into the area claiming that it was their territory. Indian troops blocked them, leading to a heated exchange of words with local commanders finally being able to resolve the issue through persuasion. Such incidents have become more routine than before.

The visit by the high-level military delegation is a move to ensure some confidence building at a time when Beijing has resented Indian moves to set up a division in Arunachal Pradesh. India has also converted the Tezpur air base to a Sukhoi base, revived airfields that had been defunct for a long time along the China border and even moved mechanized forces near the Finger Area. This build-up follows similar strengthening of Chinese ground forces in Chengdu and Tibet Autonomous Region.

The recently-concluded boundary talks between Special Representatives NSA M K Narayanan and Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo also did not make much headway on the boundary issue. While the two sides agreed to elevate the talks into a strategic dialogue, there was hardly any substantial movement on the boundary issue.

It is learnt that India suggested to jointly delineate the Line of Actual Control so that it becomes easier to address issues of misperception but the Chinese side continued to stress on picking up sector-by-sector for discussions while again emphasizing their claim on Arunachal Pradesh.

The whole idea behind the SR-level mechanism, sources said, was to move beyond the “sector approach” and address the issue from a political perspective — the subtext of the arrangement being to explore the possibility of reaching a settlement through minimum disturbance to settled population by way of bilateral political concessions across sectors. The Middle Sector, comprising Sikkim, was considered largely settled but Beijing provoked angry reactions in India after staking claim to Finger Area.

 

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Pakistan's Ceasefire Violations

Jawan killed in firing along LoC
PTI 1 September 2009, 01:08pm IST


JAMMU: In a ceasefire violation, Pakistani troops on Tuesday fired on Indian army personnel along the LoC in Balnoi area in Poonch district. One jawan was killed in the firing.

"Pakistan violated ceasefire this morning when they opened fire on our troops deployed on a forward post at 1030 hours," Brig General Staff (BGS) Gurdeep Singh of 16 Corps said.

In the firing, Lance Naik Dug Bahadur Gurung of 2nd Gorkha Rifles received bullet injuries and later died, he said.

On taking up the matter with Pakistan, Singh said, "The issue of ceasefire violation will be taken up with the Pakistani authorities and a protest will be lodged."

The Indian troops maintained restraint, firing only 2-3 rounds in retaliation, he said, adding the situation is not tense in the area, about 230 km from here

Jawan killed in firing along LoC - India - NEWS - The Times of India

 

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Silicone limbs impress Army Chief - Express India

Pune From a partial hand, cosmetic finger and thumb to a carbon reinforced foot, the Artificial Limb Centre (ALC) of the Indian Armed Forces now uses silicone solutions to suit the injured soldier’s needs. The implants have been tailor-made to suit the needs of Army and civilian personnel with deformities. On Wednesday, it was the turn of Indian Army Chief Gen Deepak Kapoor to spend time with convalescing patients at ALC.
“They are doing a wonderful job here,” Gen Kapoor said as he wrote about his experience in the visitors’ book. Gen Kapoor also visited the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). Silicones are largely inert, man-made solutions with a wide variety of forms and uses. They are polymers that include silicon together with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and sometimes other elements. The silicone restoration lab, added to the ALC in October 2008, has till date seen the technicians and prosthetists devise 42 cosmetic fingers, 11 cosmetic hands and 10 cosmetic feet.

Initially set up at a cost of Rs 50 lakh, the laboratory apart from importing the silicone material, the Silicone Restoration Lab provides life-like cosmetic replacement for various limb losses, said Brig M K Mukherjee, Commandant of the Artificial Limb Centre (ALC).

Original research is in hand to develop customised pressure-relieving silicone insoles that will help reduce the need for amputations such as in diabetics. Collaboration is also on with leading organisations to explore the vast field of rehabilitation engineering, he said.

Col A K Saxena, commanding officer the ALC workshop, said silicone material is imported from the UK. A partial hand costs Rs 16,965, while a cosmetic finger costs Rs 1,615, a thumb Rs 2,065 and a foot Rs 21,680. These are sold to patients but the cost is half of that in a private hospital, said Col Saxena.

Although the centre was raised with the primary objective of providing artificial limbs to the vast casualties of the two World Wars, the facilities were extended to the dependents of Armed Forces personnel and civilians in 1951. The patients, coming from all over India and its neighbouring countries, has grown to over 50,000, many of them going back to the World War II era while many are veterans of the 1962, 1965 and 1971 wars.

 

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IGNOU to tie up with Indian army

New Delhi, Sep 2 (PTI) IGNOU will soon tie up with Indian army to set up community colleges in its cantonments and other defence establishments to impart education in market-driven courses and soft skill programmes.

"The courses will be for army personnel and their family members to help the unemployed members secure employment," varsity officials said, adding the programmes will also be useful for those personnel who are looking to start a new career after retirement.

The faculty will comprise teachers from IGNOU as well as from the defence forces.

Other details of the project and the funds are being worked out, they said.

IGNOU had recently started 100 community colleges in various parts of the country with an aim to help the underprivileged avail quality education, besides targeting drop outs

 

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http://www.dnaindia.com/india/repor...istan-going-beyond-nuclear-deterrence_1287228

Army chief says Pakistan going 'beyond nuclear deterrence'

New Delhi: Pakistan is "going beyond nuclear deterrence" if reports of it having a large stockpile of nuclear missiles with India specific delivery system are true, Army chief general Deepak Kapoor said today.

"It is a matter of concern for us," Kapoor said reacting to an article published in the latest issue of 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist' about enhanced nuclear arsenal of Pakistan.

"There were certain degrees of deterrence and the figure of 70-90 nuclear warheads directed against a country certainly goes beyond the concept of deterrence," the army chief said.

In the article, US experts Robert S Norris and Hans Kristensen estimate that Pakistan's nuclear stockpile has jumped to an estimated 70-90 warheads from a previous figure of 60.

"A new nuclear-capable ballistic missile is being readied for deployment, and two nuclear capable cruise missiles are under development. Two new plutonium production reactors and a second chemical separation facility also are under construction," they wrote.

On the Chinese incursions along the border, the army chief said there was no cause for "alarm".

"The level of incursions was the same as it was last year," he said adding that Indian troops also carry out patrolling along the border which "could be perceived differently".

"The basic issue is to resolve the border dispute" Gen Kapoor, who was on a visit to the Artificial Limb Centre of Southern Command here, said noting incursions happened because of that.

Asked about China's denial of Indian air space violation, the army chief said he had already expressed his views on the issue and now he had "no comments" to offer.

 

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Indian Army chief's warning to Pakistan

 

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Why cant we join all the paramilitary forces under one command, give them proper training and deploy them to the ares where there is problems and so that Army dont have to deplyed when ever there is a problem arised internaly...just my thoughts..its beter for the Army that they wont be involved in both the internal and external matters..

 

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Why cant we join all the paramilitary forces under one command, give them proper training and deploy them to the ares where there is problems and so that Army dont have to deplyed when ever there is a problem arised internaly...just my thoughts..its beter for the Army that they wont be involved in both the internal and external matters..

all paramilitary forces work under ministry of home affairs.some work in coordination with army and some with civilian law and order agencies like the state police.different forces-different tasks.

 

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Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism: SM Krishna

Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism: SM Krishna

After Army chief's warning to Pakistan on ceasefire violations, Foreign Minister SM Krishna on Saturday hit out at Pakistan for dragging its feet on taking action against the 26/11 perpetrators.

"Pakistan is the epicentre of terrorism," Krishna said, adding that Pakistan was serious then the time to take action is now.

Speaking at an interaction with the media in Bangalore Krishna said India's dossier has enough evidence against Hafiz Saeed -- the alleged mastermind behind the Mumbai attacks.

He also said that Pakistan is to blame for the suspension of the composite dialogue, adding that the dialogue process cannot resume till Islamabad takes action.

Speaking on the issue of attack on two Indian priests in Kathmandu, the Foreign Minister said that India strongly objects to it and that the Indian government is in touch with the Nepal government.

Two newly appointed priests in the famous Pashupatinath Temple were thrashed by workers of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists on Friday.

 

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IGNOU to tie up with Indian army to set up community colleges in defence establishments

IGNOU, Kerala


New Delhi, Sep 2 (PTI) The Indira Gandhi National Open University [IGNOU] will soon tie up with Indian army to set up community colleges in its cantonments and other defence establishments to impart education in market-driven courses and soft skill programmes.

"The courses will be for army personnel and their family members to help the unemployed members secure employment," varsity officials said, adding the programmes will also be useful for those personnel who are looking to start a new career after retirement.

The faculty will comprise teachers from IGNOU as well as from the defence forces.

Other details of the project and the funds are being worked out, they said.

IGNOU had recently started 100 community colleges in various parts of the country with an aim to help the underprivileged avail quality education, as well as targeting high-school and college drop outs.


http://www.ptinews.com/news/260987_IGNOU-to-tie-up-with-Indian-army

 

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May have to revisit nuclear no-first use policy: Army chief - India - NEWS - The Times of India

May have to revisit nuclear no-first use policy: Army chief
TNN 6 September 2009, 01:18am IST

NEW DELHI: Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor may have opened a fresh discussion on India's nuclear posture and preparedness with his recent remarks that if reports of Pakistan's expanded arsenal are correct, then New Delhi may well have to reconsider its strategic stance.

The Army chief's latest remarks with regard to a report by Federation of American Scientists which said the Pakistani arsenal could be as large as 70-90 warheads — he had earlier said if true this went beyond deterrence — has further spurred the debate in the strategic community.

Kapoor's implied suggestion that India could have to revisit its no-first use policy in case the strength of Pakistan’s nuclear was close to what had been claimed, will challenge a long held position. The need to think afresh is also linked to Pakistan deliberately blurring its red lines to maintain a nebulous doctrine.

Security expert Brahma Chellaney feels there there is need to review India’s “deterrence posture” while another analyst Bharat Karnad says no-first-use is not a substantive declaration. But they agree there is a need to plug gaps in India’s posture with regard to both Pakistan and China.

Though India’s doctrine has been touted as an indication of New Delhi’s peaceful intentions, Pakistan’s aggressive nuclearisation may mean that India needs to take a second look at its doctrine.

A number of eminent scientists in the past few weeks have made a case for India strengthening its nuclear capabilities and Kapoor’s remark that ‘‘India shall take a look at its stance’’ has added to the growing perception that the Indian nuclear arsenal needs refurbishing, if not the need to carry out more tests, to maintain its nuclear programme’s cutting edge.

The FAS claim is further buttressed by a report of the US Congressional Research Services, an independent bipartisan research wing of Congress, which has now said that Pakistan is not just making ‘‘qualitative and quantitative’’ improvement to its nuclear arsenal but has also added to the list of circumstances under which it would be willing to use them against India.

It said the number of warheads Pakistan had could be much more than the official figure of 60 and that this had been indicated to CRS by none other than the US government.

 

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http://www.ptinews.com/news/267147_Spurt-in-infiltration-from-across-LoC-in-J-K

Spurt in infiltration from across LoC in J&K

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New Delhi, Sept 6 (PTI) With winter not far away, Pakistan has increased attempts to push maximum number of militants across the Line of Control (LoC) into Jammu and Kashmir with 12 incidents recorded in July and August this year.

"There has been a spurt in the number of infiltration incidents in the last two months, with a dozen incidents recorded in July and August alone along the LoC," Army officers said.

Combined with a couple of ceasefire violations reported during the period, the Army sees a pattern in the attempts by militant groups to push in their operatives into the state bordering Pakistan before winter.

"In these incidents, about 20-odd militants from Pakistan have sneaked into Jammu and Kashmir in the two months," officers said.

During the same period last year, there were not a single incident of infiltration reported, though there were a few attempts, they said.

 

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BSF to deploy women staff on Indo-Pak border​

Jalandhar: Punjab Frontier of Border Security Force (BSF) is all set to deploy women constables at the highly sensitive Indo-Pak Border, as first batch of the Battalion would be deployed within a week. "First batch of 178 women constables was recently passed out and accordingly an initial training was imparted to them and within a week they will be deployed on Indo-Pak border", Himmat Singh, Inspector General (IG) of BSF told reporters in Jalandhar.

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Saddled with Insas, Army wants new AK-47s IDRW.ORG

The indigenous 5.56×45mm Insas (Indian National Small Arms System) rifle has been the standard assault weapon for the Indian Army since



the late 1990s. However, the jawans using it in counter-insurgency operations find it ineffective.

As part of the new Army doctrine, the gun is meant to incapacitate the enemy, rather than kill. Insas has a smaller calibre, which means it has less power. This is because — and it’s the official view — injuring an enemy can lead to enemy soldiers getting engaged in tending the wounded, thus yielding a tactical battlefield advantage.
The technocrats who interacted with soldiers in the forward areas were told that this theory does not work with terrorists who, apart from attacking in small numbers, are never bothered about evacuating their injured. Hence, the soldiers say, they want to shoot to kill, rather than maim.

The soldiers also spoke about practical difficulties in using Insas. It’s accurate but not as rugged as the AK-47 used by terrorists, they say. Also, its sling often snaps while firing, making it fall during manoeuvres. The sling also obstructs the rifle’s sight. But most of all, the size of the sling never took into account the bullet proof jacket worn by jawans. As a result, it falls short and is uncomfortable to hold. This hampers quick reaction. Insas also does not have a rapid fire feature; it shoots only three rounds in a single burst.

‘‘The barrel overheats with continuous firing. The magazine cracks even on falling, which is common during action. Oil spillage while firing is also major trouble,’’ said a source quoting soldiers. ‘‘Zeroing (adjusting the sight for aim) has to be done each time the rifle is opened to clean or for any other reason. Lack of proper zeroing hampers the working of night vision device,’’ said the same source.

The total additional weight — around 40 kg with bulletproof jacket and signalling equipment — that a soldier carries is also a matter of concern, as is the colour of the rifle: they want it in brown which offers better camouflaging. On the positive side, Insas’s transparent magazine helps soldiers keep a count of bullets.

Former director general of infantry, Lt general Shanker Prasad, said Insas is antiquated and the Infantry needs a modern rifle. The Army has repeatedly asked for new assault weapons, but nothing has moved. It’s learnt that forces are now expecting new indigenously developed AK-47 rifle said to be an improvement on the original.

 

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DRDO came in way of acquiring key radars before Kargil: Malik

BY : The Indian Express
Former Army chief V P Malik, who led the army during the 1999 Kargil war, has said casualties in the conflict could have been reduced had DRDO “not come in the way” in the acquisition of weapon-locating radars.
“We had one or two incidents particularly on the weapon locating radar. If the DRDO had not come in the way we would have got them before the Kargil war and that would have definitely reduced our casualties,” he told Karan Thapar during a show.
Asked whether DRDO was “slight boastful” in claims over developing weapons, Malik said “well that has been our (armed forces’) experience over the development of weapons and equipment the DRDO has delivered or not delivered.”
On asked if A P J Abdul Kalam, during his stint as the Director-General of the DRDO, overestimated the country’s capacity and ability, Malik said “I do not want to go more into that.”

DRDO came in way of acquiring key radars before Kargil: Malik IDRW.ORG

 

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India warns Pak against ceasefire violations

BY : Headlines Today
Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor on Friday warned Pakistani forces to refrain from the frequent ceasefire violations along the line of control (LoC) or face action.
Gen Kapoor said India’s patience was running out and if the ceasefire violations by Pakistan and intrusions in Jammu and Kashmir did not end, India would be forced to take action.
Just a few days ago, India had lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over the ceasefire violation by its troops along the LoC in Poonch. An Indian Army jawan was killed in the incident.
The army chief said infiltration was on the rise. He said before the snow blocked the passes, Pakistan was making desperate efforts to push in terrorists.
Security forces have been asked to remain vigilant round the clock along the borders in view of the increase in infiltration attempts.


India warns Pak against ceasefire violations IDRW.ORG