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Интересная статья про индийские оборонные расходы
Суть:
индийское правительство обсуждает возможность увеличения оборонных расходов на 1% ВВП, что даст прибавку в 50 млрд. долл. в течение 5 лет.
Далее идет перечисленние планов по закупкам, характерно, что планируют взять ДРЛО, стелс-фрегаты.
Обсуждается вопрос и с советским/российскими вооружениями, модернизация которых стоит 20 млрд. долл, в том числе и их полная замена на западные образцы, но полагают, что это нерально
India May Increase Defense Spending As Percent of GDP
By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI
defensenews
NEW DELHI — The Indian govern¬ment is debating whether to in¬crease its $21.8 billion defense budget from 2.2 percent of gross domestic product to 3 percent, which would mean another $50 billion over the next five years.
India, whose overall economy is growing at 9 percent per year, wants to maintain its position as a big regional power, said Nitin Mehta, a New Delhi-based de¬fense analyst. It will need to spend more on weapons to counter China, which is building its own military and supplying nuclear-capable weapons to Pak¬istan, Mehta said.
Indian Defence Ministry sources said defense planners are watch¬ing China, whose defense spend¬ing is growing along with an econ¬omy that has expanded in double-digit percentages for more than 16 years.
One senior Indian Defence Min¬istry official said New Delhi would have to match Chinese spending.
Over five years, the services’ purchase plans include:
å Air Force: buy about 200 combat aircraft, including 126 Medium Multi-Role Combat Air¬craft worth $10 billion, additional AWACS, about 150 medium and multirole helicopters, rotary and fixed-wing UAVs, precision-guided missiles and air defense systems.
å Navy: acquire 30 warships over the same time, including stealth frigates, two more aircraft carriers, which includes the refit of the Russian carrier Admiral Gorshokov, and the homegrown Air Defence Ship.
å Army: buy 200 helicopters, UAVs, air defense systems, 155mm howitzers, multibarrel rocket launchers and infantry equipment.
All services are planning major C4I programs.
The Defence Ministry has quick¬ened its spending on anti-ballistic missile systems to be developed at home with Israeli help, and also on nuclear-capable cruise and ballis¬tic missiles.
Dealing With Russian Arsenal
The military needs to replace or upgrade most of the Soviet weaponry bought in the 1960s and 1970s. Upgrading it would cost about $20 billion, the ministry of¬ficial said. Some planners want to replace the Russian weapons and equipment with Western equip¬ment, but that would be a slap to India’s long-standing No. 1 arms provider.
But some sources in the Defence Ministry said there is no alterna¬tive to replacing the Russian weaponry. å