The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pro-actively pursued India’s agenda of modernizing and indigenizing its defense sector by clearing several long-pending demands of the Indian military for equipment.
India’s rapidly-obsolescing military hardware has made this push imperative—the ageing of the hardware has been prominently highlighted by a string of naval accidents in the last two years and the rapidly depleting strength of the air force squadron, with the de-induction of old aircraft and delays in inducting replacements.