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ID:
135643
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Agents are omnipresent in all trade transactions the world over. They perform many useful functions, like bringing buyers and sellers together; assisting in negotiations; and providing post-contract services. However, their role in defence deals has been a subject of intense debate in India for the last four decades now. Interestingly, with the sole exception of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), all other government departments in India have been regularly dealing through agents, with their functioning duly regulated.
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ID:
135604
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some years ago, the following snippet of conversation was heard while walking the halls of one of the great international defence bazaars. When are we going to get back tgo normal procurement? what do you mean, normal? oh you know, the good old days when the customer had money for everything.
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ID:
136036
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Going by the dismal record of acquisitions it is a moot question whether the service and the country were better off without the DPP
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ID:
135620
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A key improvement that has taken place across some of the newest acquisitions by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Indian Navy (IN) has been the substantially improved aircraft on tarmac availability.
The biggest change has been the willingness of both services to pay for Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance and service support packages which guarantee aircraft readiness rates instead of merely providing the required spares and maintenance support. Such an approach also allows the economies of scale to be leveraged across a worldwide spares support base and clear forecasting of spares requirements based on the manufacturer and user data. This is a far cry from the Eighties and Nineties when brand new aircraft inducted from the erstwhile Soviet Union had poor flight line availability, with the manufacturers not being held accountable for significant shortfalls in aircraft reliability and excessive consumption of spare parts.
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ID:
136022
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The polish minister of national defence (MND) armaments inspectorate is expected, by year end, to issue in invitation to tender to Wisla, the top tier of the shield of Poland (Tarcza Polski) layered air-defence programme
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ID:
136458
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In times of war, the routes to innovation are often brutally radical instead of starry-eyed and fantastical. Still, compared with all the hype and hoopla about revolutionary technologies, little scholarly ink has been spilled over these “low-end” military innovations. “Field mods,” as they are often called, are not the sexy computerized drones and robotic sensations we associate with military innovation. This article recovers the process by which one such military innovation was created and argues that the seemingly bottom-up process of Gun Truck development was in fact a dialectical outcome that emerged from two different suborganization types: a learning organization and a bureaucratic stasis model. The findings from the case carry implications for innovation theory, our understanding of the nature of military organizations in war, and the challenge of technological change in wartime.
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ID:
135636
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In a move to expedite procurements for the central armed police forces (CAPF), the ministry of home affairs (MHA) had increased the delegated financial powers of the director general (DG). According to the new guidelines, each can now spend up to Rs. 20 Crore for machinery and equipment’s.
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ID:
135561
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The article focuses on the South African Air Force (SAAF) plans and procurement and highlights the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). Topics discussed include terms proposed by the South African Defence Review such as maritime reconnaissance capabilities, pending approval of the Defence Review by the country's parliament, and need of tactical and strategic airlift acknowledged by SAAF.
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ID:
135644
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The Israeli Rafael Spike Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) has finally been selected as the new generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) for the Indian Army. In a decision taken by the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) led by defence minister Arun Jaitley last month, it was decided to proceed with the procurement of 8,356 Spike ATGMs at a cost of Rs 3,200 crore (USD 530 million). Rafael will also supply 321 launchers as part of the order and arrange for Transfer of Technology (ToT) to Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) for manufacture of additional ATGMs under license. An estimated 2,000 Spike launchers and 24,000 Spike missiles are to be produced by BDL to meet the requirements for the Indian Army across its infantry and mechanised regiments.
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