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Here's what i would buy if i had the power of the RM for a term between 2020 & 2025.For sake of ease I've calculated the defence budget at 2.5% of GDP and purchase budget at 30% of defence budget once for each 5 yr term. 2020-2025 GDP(nominal)-3.5$ tr/annum defence budget-87.5$bil/annum purchase...

@vayuu1 - the Indian economy is poised to expand to 6 trillion$ by 2025, we should become the third largest global defence spender starting 2022 at least. Considering a stable 2.5% of GDP spent on defence the budget at that point should rise to $150billion/annum (interestingly around a third of...

The Cheapness factor is truly an USP , the KORA class corvettes cost us only 36$ million each. That's dirt cheap for something that carrier 16 Klubs. Pity we stopped construction at only 4 examples,we should look at building 20-30 more improved KORA's at a price point of around 50-60$ million/unit.

@tarunraju interesting list there, why the tarantula though? We can go for some next gen stealth killers instead.

True, we will need domestic capability in the long term. The 16 skjolds i mention can only be a stopgap measure for ten odd years. As the PLAN transitions into a force with more than double the high value assests of the IN we shall and should adopt the same tactics the PLAN employs vis a vis...

I totally agree with you on the creation of a domestic MIC however that does not mean that we spend resources to develop from scratch what can easily be acquired by our private manufacturers via JV's . My entire list of items is spaced to provide space for both domestically developed products...

Why?We could make these but as i mentioned it makes no sense to spend sparse funds developing non strategic platforms from scratch when we can just buy the tech. We can wait to develop our own ekranoplanes Until we have developed all the strategic platforms we want. Because these babies are a...

@roma - While I agree with your suggestion that we should spend more on strategic programs. I'd also point out that in various cases in order to build up numbers quickly we shall still need to buy various items from any manufacturer we can get.

One change to the above I humbly withdraw the proposal for 16 hamina class missile boats and add 16 skjold class missile corvettes instead. Cost remains unchanged.

134 out of 238 million Americans pay income tax, the figure in the peoples republic of China is around 8% of the population. While there are losses that we need to stem urgently. We also have a clear need to increase the population paying tax to at least a quarter of our population.

First we need a level playing ground here . I see some people with shopping lists of multiple hundred billion$ while others are content with only a few billion$ . I propose a fixed spend of only 25 billion$ each year. This amount is easily attainable as its only about 1.25 % of the GDP. The...

Re: What military equipment would YOU like to see in the Indian Armed The only thing we really need right now is to give each one of our million strong army the best body armor, communication equipment ,night vision goggles , helmets, all terrain boots and personal firearms(everything from...

given the chance i would try to equip at least two-thirds of India's infantry to the level and quality of equipment of the British F.I.ST program.