India faces a whole range of complex challenges in its defence modernization aspirations, which are aimed at containing the threats that it perceives to be having severe implications for its national security.
Looking into the current capacities of India’s defence industry, it is not hard to say that many observers remain dismissive of the same and have proposed a number of reforms aimed at bolstering India’s defence production capabilities thereby achieving self-reliance in building such capabilities, and streamlining India’s defence procurement procedures for lesser procedural delays in acquiring advanced weapons system.
As India is one of the largest importers of arms & ammunitions in the world, its over-dependency on other countries for sophisticated weapons system for the services of the armed forces is likely to negatively affect India’s aspirations of becoming a great power as it is widely believed that great powers are supposed to have great arms industries.
The challenges that plague India’s defence industry today in terms of producing and procuring advanced weapons system to fulfill the requirements of the services of the armed forces are immense, which needs critical examination.
