Matt, send a email to CVC, I am sure they can hold up the deal for a decade.

What was that in reply to? the price of the C-130J or the MMRCA?

anyway with congress in power, if it is a system needed by the defense force i am sure it will be held up until the next government atleast

good its getting into service, its real development can now began, the fraca stage is over.. sooner the first battery is inducted and the IAF can do some ware games with it the sooner they can start working out the gremlins in the system and understand it.

Bring back people like Fernandes whose mineons openly take bribes even from journalists disguised as arms agents right in the ministers own house.

If there was so much evidence against him why is he not languishing in a jail cell specially after his most passionate enimies came to power?

Congress didnt like him and made all the trouble for him because in the time he was in power he un did all the work congress had done on the behest of the US to cripple India, just like they are doing now.

India needs to stop voting for people based on dynastic prowess or fame.

need to get rid of the indira ghandi chain from indian politics all together it needs new fresh philosopher king type leadership not this week and troubled one.
I am suprised that sonia ghandhi has the guts to go around contesting elections after steping down as indias pm she has already betrayed the people once.

anyways some more news, were arent the only ones to notice complete failure of the current defense ministry.

Defence funds remain unspent under shadow of past scams
25 Dec 2007, 1701 hrs IST,PTI
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NEW DELHI: Modernisation of the Armed forces suffered as Rs 21,000 crore remained unspent in the past five years with procurement deals slowed down by past controversies about defence kickbacks.

Defence contracts in the pipeline have also been held up as returned funds lapse from the Defence Budget at the fiscal end and fresh proposals are required, officials and defence analysts say.

A senior Defence Procurement Department official admitted there are “slippages” in finalising contracts and acquisition plans which in turn lead to surrender of funds.

“Sometimes we face the problem of spacing out expenditure because of time needed for finalising procurement procedures,” he said.

Former Army Chief General V P Malik said unspent money returning to the Finance Ministry after March 31 “has been happening for a long time. A wide gap exists between project planning and execution because of which defence forces are suffering”.

Sometimes the procurement procedure gets delayed because of “fear of being accused of accepting kickbacks”, former Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis director Jasjit Singh said.

The report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence this year says despite introduction of the Defence Procurement Policy in 2006 to bring transparency and lay down parameters for speedy clearance of defence proposals, the Ministry of Defence has not been able to increase the pace of expenditure.

We only have the words of the Russians to go by unless we ourselves walk into or fly into syria and find out what systems they do or do not exactly have.

For me if i was the russians and my ad network had been, to use a colloquialism, b$t$h slapped i for one would like to deny it ever being in place in the first instance. Not because it would show a weekness in the AD network of Russia but more because it meant less greenbacks coming into russia to help it help it rise faster to be a super power again.

http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/aw/dti1107/index.php

This publication on page 28 claims the attack was more to do with testing Israels ECM capabilities vis-a-vis Iran as Iran has several of the pantsyr systems and may even have been to test the S-300

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Is it not risky to have rajendra as the radar for everything? I mean if a chink in its system is found that means the whole integrated defence system including the BMD is under threat.

Also under what conditions were the test conducted in? Have they been done in a simulated battle mode (excuse the non technical non fashionable terms) or did the radar ops know from which direction the lakshya etc were coming?

99% sucess rate from two tests that were virtually LAB tests does not mean that the missiles will perform the same over there life times.

What were the conditions (weather) on the day of the trials? etc etc…